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Originally Posted by catharsis
After a reset before sleep: 92% to 84% in 24 hours of sleep. Not that happy about it...
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What were you getting with the v1 firmware?
Also, if you don't mind me asking, what are your expectations?
The numbers you're getting seem roughly in line with around a 2 week standby battery life (6% would be 16 days until 0 power, 8% is 12 days). That seems to match up with what others have seen, and is fairly typical for similar devices. Do you mean you're not happy because it was significantly better with v1, or you're not happy because you were expecting it to run for longer than 2 weeks on a single charge? I saw a little over 2 weeks with mine originally (with v1). That also included a couple hours reading per day, but I wasn't doing any zooming/panning/etc with v1 obviously.
Because there is not a real "off" mode for the DR800, it's always going to be using some power when not in use. It would be nice if they could add an option in the future for the user to truly power it off, but the trade-off to that is a longer start up time when you want to use it again.
Personally, I'd like a short press of the switch to put it into sleep mode and a long press of the switch to shut it down (rather than just reboot). I've seen some indication from other users that adding a script to the menu that would shut it down might be possible. Haven't seen anybody really looking into it lately though. I may try and play around with that some if I can find the time.