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mos · 01-29-2010, 07:59 AM

I live in Germany and got my Nook the 3rd day now and I was curious.

So last night 22:00 o'clock I put him to sleep

Airplane mode

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wifi : off
Battery: 80%

This morning 7 o'clock it lost exactly 3%. So that makes 3% in 9 hours. Guess that is ok.

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Now, this is realy extremly strange. I went to work this morning. So I wanted to know, how much battery the Nook will use, while he has Wifi turned on. Now, see the suprising result:

Airplane mode: on
Wifi: on
Battery: 74%
Sleep modus

I started this test at 8:45 and ended it at 13:45 so he was exactly for 5 hours asleep. When I woke him up and looked at the battery status it said 73%. Which would mean in 5 hours with wifi on and airplane mode on it used only 1%!!! Which would mean, it uses less than with wifi turned off. That is strange.

I start to think that maybe the 3G network is causing this problem. Over here in Germany I cannot connetc to the AT&T network and I never saw the network sign in the upper corner on my Nook. I know with my iPHone it was the same problem in the beginning. It used a lot of battery power trying to connect all the time to a network. So as long as you stay in the same wifi network the Nook is not busy trying to connect you to a different network. That is at least the only explanation I have for this.

01-29-2010, 07:59 AM	#1
mos Addict Posts: 392 Karma: 2200 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Germany Device: iphone 4, iPad, Nook softrooted	Battery test and big suprise! I live in Germany and got my Nook the 3rd day now and I was curious. So last night 22:00 o'clock I put him to sleep Airplane moden wifi : off Battery: 80% This morning 7 o'clock it lost exactly 3%. So that makes 3% in 9 hours. Guess that is ok. ================================================== ================================================== =============================== Now, this is realy extremly strange. I went to work this morning. So I wanted to know, how much battery the Nook will use, while he has Wifi turned on. Now, see the suprising result: Airplane mode: on Wifi: on Battery: 74% Sleep modus I started this test at 8:45 and ended it at 13:45 so he was exactly for 5 hours asleep. When I woke him up and looked at the battery status it said 73%. Which would mean in 5 hours with wifi on and airplane mode on it used only 1%!!! Which would mean, it uses less than with wifi turned off. That is strange. I start to think that maybe the 3G network is causing this problem. Over here in Germany I cannot connetc to the AT&T network and I never saw the network sign in the upper corner on my Nook. I know with my iPHone it was the same problem in the beginning. It used a lot of battery power trying to connect all the time to a network. So as long as you stay in the same wifi network the Nook is not busy trying to connect you to a different network. That is at least the only explanation I have for this.