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I'm having some severe problems with my N900's battery life. I've messed around installing interesting packages from dev and testing, and now I can't even go a working day on standby. I can't figure out what app it is exactly, I've removed the majority of what I had installed recently but am still facing the same issue.

Can anyone help? I can't see anything different that I'm doing, I've had the device connected to Skype & MSN all day as usual, connected via Vodafone 3g.

Thanks in advance..
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keep removing apps one by one till your battery life improves. Worth a shot.
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Originally Posted by That One Guy View Post
keep removing apps one by one till your battery life improves. Worth a shot.
Already tried that.

Been experiencing this for about 5 days now - first I put it down to the cold weather, but now it only lasts with my normal usage until around 5pm...
 
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Could you perhaps borrow/switch a battery? (friend with 5800?)
It may be a longshot and probably not the cause, but li-ion batteries do lose a lot of capacity in certain conditions, like overheating
Maybe it would be best to uninstall all apps that are not vital and start re-adding
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Turn off all widgets (especially the facebook widget)
Turn down the screen brightness
Check what's hapening with wifi - there's a wifi-disconnect bug that people have reported. Search this forum if you think that could be your trouble.

(If I can find that thread I'll come back and link it)

Try this thread.
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having the same problems, ive turned everything off, no wifi, no gps, no widgets, brightness down to half way and i barely get a full day on standby and about 4 hours average usage, ive even re-installed maemo.

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Lol if all fails.. Try reflash the device, then freshly start with your N900 with the programs that isn't from extras-devel..
 
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Back up, reflash, restore, but don't restore settings. Worked for me with same problem. It doesn't take long to put the settings back in manually - I was surprised how many were preserved.
 
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Try running top, and see if an app is hogging CPU cycles.

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I wish someone would publish the powertop package to the repos. Its on some firmwares not others. There is a thread or two on it but I don't believe anything came of it.
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