How long should the battery last, Really
 

Went out last night around 5:30. It took about 1.5hrs by train. I was using bluetooth headphones. Made a couple of short calls to make sure I was going to the right place. Stayed out about 4hrs took train home again, browsers alittle on the way home while playing more music. Met more freinds on the way home and had a couple more beers. Headphone paired to N900 all night. Walking home and battery totally flat, N900 switched itself off. So really 3hrs ish of music play back, a couple of short calls and 20mins of browsing. Battery life can't really be much worst than this, can it.

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NOrmal use= 8-12 hrs.
Heavy use= 6-8 hrs

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it might be something else running in the background sucking your battery, use battery graph and conky to figure what it is, mine last about 2 days without charging on normal use.

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Actually, although it seems abnormal, you must also remember those bluetooth headsets suck battery...

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Purchased a new case which does not cover 3.5mm socket today. So I'll give it a try in the next few days to see if its the bluetooth sucking the power.

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also,make sure that: Under settings>locations, un-tick the 2 boxes. And remove the: Face-book & weather forecast widgets from the desktop.
this might help you as well in saving some amount of the battery.

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also,make sure that: Under settings>locations, un-tick the 2 boxes. And remove the: Face-book & weather forecast widgets from the desktop.
this might help you as well in saving some amount of the battery.

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I don't have them installed any more, just an app showing CPU and mem.

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mmmmm...how about the wi-fi & Bluetooth. Are they on.
Try avoid any application which try to up-date automatically.

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wi-fi not set to auto connect. Bluetooth was enabled and paired to the headphone and no IM services running. Music player was open but stopped.

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Install swappolube, it'll help with the battery. Also, consider installing conky to see what processes are using CPU.

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if your intrested overclocking might help in a dramtic way
if you find it risky then atleast consider it
am writting a script that will end this battery sucking problem
uploading it tommorw hopefully
my battery usualy last 1 day under mid-heavy use
but now cause of the script am using .i saved upto 50% as it should be flat out empty by now but i still got 50%

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@bakuur
what location will that script be at...... ive got to test that as im a heavy user..... im net wired all day

CN

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incase you need a safe way to OC here

and here is the location of the battery saving script here

please dont use it now as its highly unstable
the stable version will be uploaded tommorow after 18hours exactly ;)

as i said it added 50% to my battery life ;)

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thanks....... ill wait for the stable...... nice going

CN

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still on progress or ready to download?

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If you have ApMeFo or catorize, there's a glitch that makes hildon-desktop -always- take 2% cpu(even after uninstall of the app). This eats through battery significantly; if you notice hildon-desktop showing up via conky all the time, you may want to install this patched version.
Also, putting the phone into airplane mode/offline mode increases battery life a LOT. But, it also removes your ability to receive calls, so...