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Originally Posted by Kent Walters
To return to the DR, I did, for the first time since upgrading to 1.7, unplug mine (fully charged) at about 11:00 AM last Saturday. At about 7:00 PM tonight (Tuesday) I turned it on, and, according to the battery indicator (and I have not had the problems with that that others have reported) it was still fully charged, which I suppose makes the point of this thread moot--at least for anyone staying with 1.7.
I am having the problems with 1.7 that are mentioned on the iRex thread ‘ 1.7 bugs,’ and another problem (with PDFs, and that’s serious, for me) not mentioned there (yet), which I’m investigating. I, as you mentioned somewhere, am not sure about going back to 1.6; that is, I’m not sure which can of worms I prefer. I’m leaning toward staying with 1.7, for the power... Dammit, Shaggy, I would love this thing if it weren’t driving me nuts. |
I could be wrong, but as far as I know there were not any changes in the 1.7 firmware that effected power. They added the tab and "fixed some minor bugs". It's possible that some of those bugs were related to a power drain, but I'm not certain. I'm actually interested in if you're seeing a definite improvement to the power drain with 1.7. That's good information to know.