Thread: Touch Power off vs. Sleep
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Old 08-23-2011, 12:06 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by EMG View Post
It took me some time to figure that one out. The way I had it setup is that I deactivated shutdown mode, had sleep mode on 5 minutes and activated airplane mode. I figured I'd get good battery life, but only got about a week in between charges. I started using shutdown mode about 5 days ago and I'm still almost fully charged (as opposed to nearly drained)!!!

Bottom line is; don't use sleep mode. It may be convenient, but it sucks the life out of your battery.
How often do you read / buy, etc? Staying asleep on Kobo Touch has very low power consumption, should last you more than 5 days.
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