RobMtl007 | # 1 | 2008-02-04, 15:58 | Report

Greetings:

There has been talk about the N800 loosing battery power very quickly with the 2008 OS.

Some people have stated that a swap file in one of the SD Cards is the core of the problem.

If someone has knowledge of how to solve this problem can you post a step by step process.

Regards Robert

Bundyo | # 2 | 2008-02-04, 16:38 | Report

I had a problem with OMWeather automatically trying to connect to internet causing wifi scanning and battery was gone in 2 hours.

L0cutus | # 3 | 2008-02-04, 16:46 | Report

after i have disabled the wifi scan (before was every 10min), battery duration now is ok, i mean about 1.5days of limited use+standby.

rdcinhou | # 4 | 2008-02-04, 17:43 | Report

The RSS reader application can also be trying to make a connection.

Get in the habit of of using the OFFLINE profile when you don't want to be connected (WiFi or Bluetooth) to save battery life.

timepilot84 | # 5 | 2008-02-04, 20:15 | Report

I get about 2 hours of web browsing now as opposed to the 5 hours I used to get. I've shut off the RSS reader and all the other crap and the CPU meter isn't spiking. I thought my battery was just getting used up as Li-Poly batteries do, but this thing is less than a year old. I'm thinking of rolling back to OS2007 to see if it's an OS specific issue.

gowen | # 6 | 2008-02-04, 20:55 | Report

For me uninstalling modest increased the stanby time from 8 hours to over 36

canoehead | # 7 | 2008-02-04, 21:04 | Report

Some people are putting their heads together at the following link to try to find a pattern.

http://tabletblog.com/2008/01/os2008...ery-drain.html

timepilot84 | # 8 | 2008-02-06, 00:50 | Report

I rolled back to OS2007 last night. I browsed for well more than 3.5 hours without any issue. I'll continue the experiment tonight and see just how much more battery life I get with the older OS.

thoughtfix | # 9 | 2008-02-06, 01:24 | Report

I can verify that OS2008 with no 3rd party software installed does not suffer from this. But then - I did have a different memory card in it too.

keypox | # 10 | 2008-02-06, 01:54 | Report

i just started using my n800 about a month ago and have never used os2007, i havent had problems with bat life but would like to know if os2007 is better life