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Originally Posted by ereader25
Has anyone had luck modifying settings to increase battery life? What all can I do to make my battery last longer? I used no frills CPU to set to conservative and noop, but still using battery fast.
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According to the users manual the main trick to preserve the battery is turning the device off
. They say there is no difference in battery usage between wake and sleep mode.
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Is there a way to make it so the backlight does not come on automatically?
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I have the newest firmware installed (1.6.6 from 21st of Jan) and this bug has not been solved.
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Also, I am using a lot of apps that use sync - one note, dropbox, pocket, gmail, ever note, etc. I assume these probably drain the battery too, any way to schedule their activity so its not always running in the background draining battery, but still can keep my files up to date?
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Does that happen even with WiFi off? My impression is the background apps do not drain too much when there is no connectivity enabled (which is my case in most of time).
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Or any battery monitoring apps you recommend?
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GSam Battery Monitor is what I use.