Battery news

[Zorro1]

I'm no engineer, just a logical sort that tries to follow a path to conclusion. My Droid is only a week old, so my battery is probably not yet fully conditioned. But right away, I noticed that in airplane mode--no wifi, gps, bluetooth, phone or 3G at all, it would discharge overnight from 70% or more down to 40%! That's a lot with nothing going on.

So I began playing with power settings to see what it was that was causing the huge use.

It's the email. Now, I don't push my email (yet), so I just turned it off. It worked, since today, I'd lost no more than about 10% overnight. And, my gmail still comes since I'd bought something on the Market, so the gmail kicked in anyway to give me my receipt.

Just FYI for those wondering.

 

[Flyguide83]

interesting...ill have to play around with it some more and see if I can get mine better, I charge every night either way though.

 

[Zorro1]

Just more confirmation. Last night, overnight, no battery use at all! Amazing. I'm not a 24/7 phone's on sort, so don't want to have to charge it every day. Besides, I seem to recall from gps forums that Li-on batteries have x number of charge cycles...just nice to know that it can last if you work with it.