heh,
mine n900 lasts 2,5 days with the following:
- ~ 2 hours a day mp3/flac listening, daily
- ~ 1 hour of wifi usage for RSS, email, porn, whatever; also daily
- ~ 5-10 calls 5 mins each daily
- ~ 5 SMS daily
- ~ 1 hour djvu/pdf reading, daily as well

using autodisconnect/brightness minimum/wifi down when I don`t explicitly need it.

I really find that scenario ok. And don`t having 3g in mine banana republic is became an advantage, hehe

watching porn clips (flash) consumes obscene amounts of battery.

conclusion, i'll never watch porn again ...

:P

It is a fact that N900 battery is very bad, but so are the others'.

http://wiki.maemo.org/N900_Hardware_Power_Consumption

Well take no offence, but I don't care about others. I care about what I bought, the N900.

To me it is not acceptable to have an 8 hour battery life just because I have been browsing 2-3 hours. Honest.

Slender, no personal attack to you, simply that I've grown tired of seeing people being accused of trolling just because telling the pure truth and complaining. You just came accross with your opinion, so I'm sorry If I offended you in a personal way.

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About very frequent complains and whines here from very respected members that label dissapointed people as trolls and suggest buying iphones and the like, I am of course agreeing that this maybe is not the place because this is not a Nokia site. But as someone very wisely said not long ago, people usually go to complain to the most respected site when things go wrong, I may not agree with that conduct but It is part human being.

At the end of the day, If this site is only for very developer or geek-oriented people profile, or complains-free people, why let anyone who writes a username and password to come in..?
</rant>

You know, It's late.. My apologies beforehand to anyone if this rant upsets you.

your post makes no sense to me and you have completely misunderstood what i have just tried to say. Do we speak different language? And have i accused someone being troll? I might have asked clear use cases and detailed descriptions and if possible listing apps. simple things. I do not doubt that someone is having problems with their N900 but if so i would like to help but first you have to be able help yourself. Stating here that i have problem without trying to really open and show any interest debugging system is just big middle finger towards community. Or even worse! Trying to in general say something about device x and when asked to explain or give measurable example answer is "feeling"..wtf? how you can have any conversation after that?

Is it so freaking hard to understand that before we can help we have to measure and describe use cases in a way that its reproducible. no one cares what you experience with your device nor is able to learn from you if you can't do simple task. For example install battery graph. use phone as usual. export pic. edit picture and describe what you have been doing along day besides graph. etc. also try to be as specific as possible. Do not even think that people here have crystal balls or telepathic skills so that they can magically help someone after he has said just that his system is slow or there is battery drainage.

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looks like we should have guide:"How to ask properly help for yourself"

***** moan complain stab jab and all over battery usage. i use the sh1t out of my 900 and YES the battery gets juiced.. sometimes way quicker than I want, but I can also do most anthing i want on it that I an do on my workstation. its a mobil computer, not a smartphone. i know that if i constantly use it, which i do i need to have it on a charger when not in use. not a big deal. i have a wall charger for when i sleep, i have a usb charger for when i work and i have a car charger for when i drive. dont you all tooo? it was no hidden secrect when i bought this device that it had a smaller battery than desired for the amount of computing power and features. really it doesnt bother me. charging is free.

sorry for my unorganoised post. its late and im sick like hell!!

i do have one question though. does the battery have cycle counts like Mac batteries do? if so how can i check what the count is? i drain my battery dead at least twice a week. im sure it cant be a good thing, but batteries aren't too expensive. maybe i should grab another anyways.

no it isn't, it costs time and adds up to the electricity bill

slender is right, its really not that difficult to find the root of the cause of battery drainage. batterygraph helps a lot, and I uninstalled it once I figured out the cause and I am fine ever since.

True you should only care your own device, thus you should work it out yourself.

Spare battery does not hurt you. Look at those iPhone users carrying a solar charging pad around, you'd probably feel better