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Old 01-28-2015, 11:14 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by barryem View Post
I'm not surprised that there's no difference in battery usage in wake and sleep mode since e-ink screens only use power when the page turns. My guess is that it goes into something like sleep mode till you touch the screen again.
I would have assumed that while idling the touchscreen would consume some power, and that the CPU monitoring it and the page-turn buttons would consume some more. Likewise any minor tasks going on in the background (e.g. calculating the current time and battery status) would consume CPU and thus power, etc, etc.

Either the AG2 idles very efficiently, or it sleeps very inefficiently, and I'd tend to suspect the latter.
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