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Old 03-11-2015, 07:15 PM   #1
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Power consumption of "screen off" option

I did the ~ds command in the basic Kindle Touch, 5.6.x.x, to "never show screensaver." Now I have two options. I can leave the most recent page I read displaying (or any page) indefinitely or or I can hold the power button down for ~7 seconds and select "screen off" to get a blank screen. To get the last page back, I push the power button momentarily.

I had thought that no power is consumed merely by the displaying of a page, only a page turn and the drawing of a new page uses power. However it seems that more power is consumed by leaving a page displaying than by clearing the screen to a blank page.

Are there any different behind the scenes operations that the Kindle performs when a page is displaying vs. the blank screen (screen off)? WiFi is always off in both cases. I'm not 100% sure about the different rates of power consumption, but the longer I've been using the "never show screensaver," the more it seems that the "screen off" state uses considerably less power. TIA for any answers.
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