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Originally Posted by cmdahler
I just wonder what on earth the thing is doing in the background that is eating up that battery power to begin with. It takes no battery power to maintain a screen in a static state, so just about the only thing that ought to be operating in the background is the system time. My Sony 505 will sit there static, page displayed, for a week before it uses a bar of battery, so given the level of usage you described, it's disconcerting to me that the DR800 would have even one bar gone by that point. What on earth is it doing?
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One can discuss about timeframes of course. But
EVERY SINGLE ONE of my readers drains battery over time just by maintaining the standby.
Just an assumption: On iRex iLiad (as far as I know), display goes into low consumption mode, as soon as you insert the stylus into the unit, thus suspending the touchscreen.
On iRex 800, you can't insert the stylus. So maybe (just a speculation) it permanently leaves the touchscreen active instead of waiting for you the take the stylus out of the unit.