Battery life & other stuff

cenobyte at dragoncrypt.com cenobyte at dragoncrypt.com
Thu Sep 1 12:29:22 EDT 2011


 On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:17:04 +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 05:12:58PM +0200, Hans Bezemer wrote:
>
>> I use Jlime to watch movies. On an 2GB uSD I get about 8 hours of 
>> content but
>> I get the impression it drains the battery pretty quickly (from the 
>> display).
>> I never shows my battery 100% charged (I get around 80%), but that 
>> may be
>> because I've used it intensively for a year. If I get more reliable 
>> figures,
>> I'll post them here.
>
> I did a video rundown test yesterday, which entailed repeatedly 
> playing a
> 320x240 .ogv file, with the volume turned off, until the battery died 
> down.
>
> I’m leaving on a trip tomorrow, and my Ben NanoNote will be the only
> computing device I’ll carry with me, so I was particularly interested 
> in
> how much use I could expect to squeeze out of a single charge.
>
> The uptime measured was just a few minutes shy of four hours, which 
> is more
> than enough to watch a couple of movies. Guess what I’ll be doing 
> while on
> the plane? ;)


 I forgot to mention to just get some spares on Amazon. Search for Nokia 
 BL-5c's. They can be had for well under 5 USD each, often with free 
 shipping. I have 5 spares, each lasting me a good 50-70% longer than the 
 stock battery.




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