Battery life for Polaris

[taiwanese]

Hi,

How long does it last for you guys? It has been less than a day for me. Is there something wrong?? If I have MSN through HSDPA on then it'll die out in like mid-day.

Is there a way to extend the battery life?

[eami]

Hi,

How long does it last for you guys? It has been less than a day for me. Is there something wrong?? If I have MSN through HSDPA on then it'll die out in like mid-day.

Is there a way to extend the battery life?

Usually if i run skype / otroralk (for gtalk) + listening mp3 it stands about a day.

[RED21]

Same here. It usually lasts about a day for me too. That's when I'm using Wifi and listening to MP3s.

[m3uch4]

HSDPA consumes a lot of power, in the 200-300mA range. Considering the Polaris battery has a capacity of 1300mAh, if you stay connected to HSDPA all the time with screen lit you will get something like 5-6 hours battery life, and my personal experience confirms that.

Just don't keep your data connection open all the time, or disable HSDPA. EDGE consumes half as much power, plain GSM something like one tenth.

[taiwanese]

Thanks guys,


This is really sucks...in terms of battery life

[CompleteIdiot]

Seems to me that there 2 unavoidable givens with thiis device, despite the best efforts of those on this forum now and in the future:

1. its slow
2. battery life is poor

Cruel but true?

I simultaneously run TomTom for navigation, run.gps for route tracking (TT is using GPS so figure I may as well make good use of it!) and coreplayer for music (through earphones) with the pda on screen lock while on my motorbike and get just c. 4-5 hours :( Obviously would like more. How much power does the GSM/GPRS signal use? Any significant advantage in power use in turning phone off (can't answer it while on bike anyway!)?

[nahguam]

Today, from 100%:


40 minutes of FM radio playing on way to work
Wrote several emails and texts during the day
Used gmaps with gps for about 1/2 hour at lunch
Refreshed RSS on Egress to read on the loo (including Engadget and Daily WTF - lots of images)). :D
3 hours mp3 at gym/on way home
a few texts and 2 mms this evening
About 1hrs worth of calls this evening


Now, 22:00, battery at 60%. That was a busy day for me - a normal day - constant exchange sync, 1hr mp3/radio and 1/2 texts - battery would still be at 80-90%.

I'd say that's quite impressive. Compared to my old Hermes it's amezin' (a la Scott Mills).

Admittedly, this is Edge network on 02. With my T-mobile sim with HSDPA on it wouldn't be nearly as good.

[taiwanese]

Hi nahguam,
I noticed when using HSDPA...it really heats up and takes double the battery life out of it.

How did you link up google map with your gps? Google map can't seem to find my gps for me.

[maevro]

I'm using AT&T's 3G network 95% of my day and I have been happy with the battery life. I have been keeping my screen brightness about the third lowest setting. I have my email checking often and I use the WMP about 45-60 minutes a day.

I came from an Atom Life and E10 X800 and had to plug them in very often, so the Touch Cruise has a great battery life in my opinion.

[nahguam]

Hi nahguam,
I noticed when using HSDPA...it really heats up and takes double the battery life out of it.

How did you link up google map with your gps? Google map can't seem to find my gps for me.

Yea, if I'm Internet Sharing with HSDPA it get's really hot.

For gmaps with GPS I have left gmaps settings as "Set by Windows"

In Start > Settings > System tab : External GPS, I have these settings:

Programs tab : COM4
Hardware tab : (None) , baud rate: 4800
Access: Manage GPS automatically is checked.