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Originally Posted by MikeS
The same here. If there is any difference at all then it is hard to notice. No matter how many pages I do, the battery meter drops 1 bar per week. As HarryT pointed out, Sony could have done much better since the battery itself can hold for many months (this is what I've learnt from some other thread). It seems that when you switch your reader off then if fact you don't switch it off at all, besides the fact that the screen goes blank. I really don't understand why they decided to do this way.
As far as I understand it 'shutting down' the OS and putting cpu in sleep mode could save lot of energy. Take a look at ACPI and how many different sleep modes ordinary notebook supports. I wish the reader could do at least the basic ones, G2 or G3 
Whereas I'm not a big optimist here, I hope the new firmware will be a step in good direction, in terms of saving energy.
P.S DiabloNL - you did a great job. BTW, it is funny, because once I read some of your posts I thought to myself that possibly we are experiencing the same thing and the problem isn't a bad battery but having the ability (or rather lack of ability) to read 4 or 5 thousand pages in 3-4 weeks.  |
I think that is the problem. So if we want to experience great battery life we have to read more.
