Request Retaining last page when shutting down

I’d like that the last page I am reading stays on the reader after I shut down. This way, before I shut the reader down I could go to the next unread page. I could read this page next time I turn the reader on, while it is booting. I’m impatient and lazy, and therefore I don’t like waiting until the whole machine is booted, than to go again to the library and start reading. It is to many steps and too much waiting. As far as I remember one of the earlier versions of the software just did this.

Just put your edge to sleep, Android can stay on with no issues. I just reboot about once a week to clear the memory.

Originally Posted by cheyennedonna

Just put your edge to sleep, Android can stay on with no issues. I just reboot about once a week to clear the memory.

What do you mean by sleep? The android screen turns off after a while, is that what you mean? I ask because the battery gets very quickly empty in this "sleep".

Originally Posted by mihai@alaphant.nl

What do you mean by sleep? The android screen turns off after a while, is that what you mean? I ask because the battery gets very quickly empty in this "sleep".

I usually lock the screen; then close the edge. It is in a very low power state at that point, the menu button wakes it and a few seconds later it connects to my WiFi. I go all day off and on like that, between classes, and plug in at night to charge.

If you switch off the wi-fi it will last even longer

Originally Posted by Jerry

If you switch off the wi-fi it will last even longer

And you can easily shut off the wifi and lock the screen from the power widget that comes with the eDGe. It is a very easy way to save power.

For some reason my Android phone's battery lasts a lot longer when in a "suspended" or "sleeping" mode. When I first bought my Pocket eDGe last Friday, that night, I thought it would have the same power saving features as my phone does. I kept both devices on, unplugged, and suspended while I slept. In the morning, my phone only went down 5-10%, and the eDGe almost completely drained! This was without any additional software installed.

I found that strange, considering my phone has more radios than the eDGe does, and I do believe I turned off the cell radio putting my phone into Airplane mode to make both devices even when testing out if the suspend feature worked optimally on the eDGe.

There is something running on the eDGe, even after suspended that is consuming power, whereas my phone does not have. The eDGe should be-able to last days without AC in suspend mode, just like my phone, but it doesn't. Don't go and say it's the screen size, as the screen is completely off on both devices in this type of situation, so that does not count to suspend time.

Hopefully enTourage can find out what is causing this and fix it, so that a suspended device can last days just like a Android cell phone can.

This is a function of the hardware used. I'm not sure how many cell phones use the Marvell chip. If yours uses Snapdragon, its capabilities can be quite different. The software side of it no doubt plays a big part, too.

The Marvell chip used in the eDGe has multiple power saving modes. The only one that's currently implemented by enTourage is more a "sleep" mode, and it appears the CPU is still somewhat active, hence the steady battery drain. A true "hibernate" mode (where the device is zero power but can restore within a few seconds) is something enTourage talked about early in the year that required some driver updates from Marvell (the CPU manufacturer). A future patch hopefully will roll out this hibernate capability.