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Originally Posted by tcud03
only problem is that i do not specifically turn it off... it will stay on and drain the battery down to nothing... is there a way to enable a sleep more were after 10 minutes it shuts itself off? thanks
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I bought two from woot for my kids and they never specifically shut them down. There is a setting you can turn on that will put it in sleep mode after an hour.
The only difference between sleep mode and non-sleep mode is that in sleep mode the screen is blanked and the buttons are disabled.
Power consumption is the same. E-ink is a bistable display, once the words are on the screen it doesn't need any power to keep them there.
But if it is not in sleep mode and a button is depressed and constantly inputting a signal then I would assume power usage would be higher.
You can enter sleep mode by using the switch on the top to blank the screen and disable the buttons.
I use a 505 and in the last 17 months I have only shut it down for a minute here and there other than that it has been on or in "sleep mode" the entire 17 months.
The only way I know to shut it down is via the menu. Maybe you can shut it down by prolonged position of a switch I don't know because it is not relevant to the proper care and feeding of either the 505 or the 300.