Re: Seriously disalusioned with phone and battery life...
 

Try this - https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6615#c119

Re: Seriously disalusioned with phone and battery life...
 

My only dissapointment with the N900 has been the battery life as well.

The second firmware update really made a difference, but battery life is still very low. I think a rule of thumb should be that the device should be able to run longer than I can. I think this should indeed be the minimun requirement.

The conversation about Nokia's choice of battery for the phone, well yes, I feel it too that its not powerful enough for the device. However, guess I should've expected this as the phone costs less than other devices from Nokia with equal or worse specs, so the money's always off something else, I presume. Also, I do feel that the N900 is somewhat of an experiment.

Re: Seriously disalusioned with phone and battery life...
 

My orignial battery - BL-5J - that came with the device, only lasts for about half a day.

I thought it was because I didn't let it charge for 24 hours with the phone switched off when I first got it.

So I bought another original Nokia battery, that was fully charged this morning after 24h with the phone turned off (I switched back to my N95 for that), not after I forecly drained it from 34% to 0% (by overloading the CPU with 30 apps open - that was pretty cool actually).

Disconnected the phone from the charger this morning, and guess what, battery drained after 7 hours of medium use.

Luckily I had my N95 with me so it saved me again. But this is not an acceptable scenario. My co-worker with an iPhone has 67% battery (unplugged phone at the same time as me), and my younger brother played games with it's iPhone with 10% battery left, for 2 hours!!

10% battery with n900 lasts for around an hour with no use, or 10 minutes of massive use.

And for whoever is referring to this bug fix, please explain it to me, as I don't want to apply any fixes without understanding what exactly they do, and unfortunatelly I'm no shell script master...

Re: Seriously disalusioned with phone and battery life...
 

My feeling exactly.

Re: Seriously disalusioned with phone and battery life...
 

What is the status on the extended battery for the N900? Surprised there is no options yet.

Re: Seriously disalusioned with phone and battery life...
 

the script, when put in /etc/network/if-post-down.d/, will be called every time a network interface goes up or comes down.

if it wasn't called during a "stop" event, do nothing (exit script).
if the network connection is neither a WLAN infrastructure nor WLAN adhoc, do nothing.

finally, really bring down the interface (ifconfig down).
at this point the interface must be a WLAN being disconnected, because all other possibilities have been ruled out by the two "exit" statements.

Re: Seriously disalusioned with phone and battery life...
 

Some people are blaming it on WLAN but I blame it on 3G - I created a bug report for it here

If you feel you experience the same please kindly add comments to it - and also try to reproduce

Re: Seriously disalusioned with phone and battery life...
 

This has not been my experience at all. It is quite irrational to compare with other devices without stating the settings of your n900 and others - wifi , 3g off/on etc. Be reasonable.

External battery pack
 

Well, for me, since I consider removing the back panel twice a day annoying, I have chosen external battery solution (true, this is relative for now I am hauling another gadget around :eek:). Beware though! Not all batteries work well with N900. For example there are reports that ZAGG Spark doesn't even begin charging (issue related allegedly to lower input voltage as opposed to standard 12V or what). However, PROPORTA'S LINE is reported to work flawlessly and you can find them locally on Amazon. Check out theirs USB TurboCharger 3400 World Pack which I consider the best companion to any N900 out there! No, I don`t work for them, It just works for me :D

Re: Seriously disalusioned with phone and battery life...
 

Thanks may order one of these if mugen's upcoming battery is too thick etc...