Very excited to get the PE off of Woot. I was hoping to replace my nook with it. An e-reader with some android love added on.
I seem to have very short battery life on my PE - it seems to drop suddenly while doing nothing/hibernating. I have only had this a few days, so I'm just going to relate my experiences a bit. I'm also updated to Ermine.
Quote:
Entourage states: You can read books for more than 7 hours if you turn off the
tablet screen. If you are using both screens, the Pocket eDGe battery will last
approximately 4 hours.
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I noticed yesterday the power dropping under 5 hours after an overnight charge and closed/hibernating, but I wasn't tracking it that closely.
Today I had the PE charge overnight till 1pm. Then I read for about 30 minutes and closed it up. I had it in airplane mode with wifi and bluetooth disabled. It showed full charge. When I opened it back up again at 6pm, it was in the orange and demanding I connect my charger.
I connected the charger till 10pm and it said it was charged. The device still has all the wireless disabled. The book I was reading was already on the e-ink screen. I disconnected it from the charger and would read off and on (at work), never activating the tablet side. To pause reading, I would just set the tablet down. The e-ink continues to display the page I was on, but no buttons were being pressed.
A little before 2AM, I got the "please connect your charger" beep. It wasn't quite into the orange, but it was close.
I also notice that the green light next to the charging port remains on constantly (except when the charger is connected, then it blinks). Is this common?
What does Entourage mean when they say "you can read for 7 hours"? Does that mean actively reading/turning pages (perhaps annotating with the stylus)? Or does it mean it can display a page for 7 hours with no other activity?
One other thing I've noticed is that since I connected it to USB two days ago, it has been showing the USB connection in the notification bar. I have disabled USB storage. I also have not been connected to USB for over 24 hours. Perhaps that is draining battery?
I am going to try powering off the PE completely and letting it charge fully today to see if that changes anything, but wanted to get others opinions on this. It seems rather low. My Droid-X doing all manner of wifi/gps/3g/etc can run 2 days without charge. The PE, with using the e-ink screen (and not even the whole time), it gets close to dead within 5 hours.