Thread: First look at DR800SG (video review)
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Old 02-27-2010, 08:44 AM   #97
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Sorry, didn't mean to get jumpy. The topic of iRex battery life has a long and colorful history, it's been a big issue with them until now. It was a knee jerk "here we go again" reaction on my part, sorry about that.
No problem - in the short time that I have been using MobileRead you do seem to have been the consistent champion and staunch defender of iRex - it must get tiresome sometimes!

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It probably keeps the CPU going in order to respond to buttons (although throttled way down) as well as keeping power to the memory in order to maintain the state of the OS and open books, etc. The primary advantage is the recovery time, along with other benefits like resuming where you left off, etc.

Technically it can go "off", but it only does so when the battery gets low in order to prevent it from being fully drained. Under normal conditions when you flip the power switch it's going to be in sleep. If it takes it a couple seconds to start back up, then you know it was in sleep mode. If it does a complete bootup (40 - 50 seconds), including the opening logo, then it was really off.
Thanks - that's the sort of explanation I can understand.


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It would be nice if the user had the option to tell it to shutdown instead of go to sleep for when you know you're not going to be using it for a long time, and accept the trade off of a much slower startup time. There isn't any way to do that currently, at least not that I know of, other than letting it sit long enough where the battery gets to the point that it automatically shuts itself down. Still, I think most people would much rather have it this way, than the previous way where you had to do a shutdown/startup every time you wanted to use the device. At least, that's been the overwhelming feedback in the past.
It would be nice to have the option I guess, but now I understand from your explanation that the battery drain is not just crap power management, but that the power is being used to enhance my experience with the unit I think the trade off is worth it.
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