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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
I now look at it as suspend is only for relatively short periods, like cleaning the screen or getting something to drink. I poweroff when not reading for any more extended period of time.
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Basically, this is the same as my way of using it now. If I know that I would read in very short time (within an hour), I suspend it. If I know that it would probably wait till next day, I shut it off.
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Originally Posted by Frenzie
@Alan_S
Well, you'd have to define "drained". If I leave my device suspended for a week it'll discharge at least a few percent, but that's to be expected. But if you mean e.g. 10% in a night then that means the device didn't actually suspend at all (which is unrelated to whatever message may be drawn on the screen prior to attempting to suspend).
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First to explain my reading pattern.
I usually read in one block of time per day. With, if ever, short pauses (till one hour, usually) within that block. After that, reader is suspended (now shut down) till next day, or in some cases it can wait few days. Then I again read in one block.
Reading time of course depends, but let's say it's 2-3 hours.
Battery readings for older version of koreader (before this change in suspend script and before I started shutting it off) didn't changed while I was reading, or very, very rarely.
Between days it changed 3-5%, but it also depends, there were times with 7-8%.
Now, with shutting it down, it usually changes 1-3%, but basically on lower side of change. And sometimes it can be the same. Also, I sometimes notice even a bit strange thing of having more battery, but it may be just my imagination, or lack of memory what battery status really was. I just ignore it, it's not that important.
Also, at least for my H2O, lower part of battery readings (under 50%) drains faster, which isn't anything alarming, battery reading doesn't have to be linear, so I don't worry about this.
One time when I was putting device in standby it completely drained itself from about 20% or somewhere in that part. I thought I would have at least hour of reading time and didn't put device to charge itself, but when I tried to read, it didn't started. So, this was one time when battery drained in less than day. After that incident I started charging device when battery is under 50%, just to be on safe side and can read.
Also, after that I started shutting device off and stopped trusting standby for longer periods of time.
As I said, this all is for older versions of koreader, now I would need to start use suspend if my version (2015-11-3 stable) has suspend tweaked.