Power modes, battery, screen, stylus?

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A few Note questions....

Does it have different "power modes" or is it full speed at all times?
Does the screen have "dynamic contrast" that causes flickering (like the TF700)?
Can a capacitive stylus be used or is the Note stylus the only one that works?
Do apps or the browser occasionally hang with an eventual message to wait or quit?
In continuous use with wifi on, the display at mid-brightness (50%?), and a mix of office apps, file transfers, web use, and an arcade game here and there (no video or audio playback), what kind of battery life can reasonably be expected? Six, seven, eight hours? More? Be honest because forums and reviewers really lose credibility with this one and 7000ma can only go so far. All answers with screen shots showing 26.7 hours or higher will be discarded.
Opinions from current or former Samsung Tab 10.1 or Asus TF700 owners are especially welcome.

Thanks.

Originally Posted by Haidozo

A few Note questions....

Does it have different "power modes" or is it full speed at all times?
Does the screen have "dynamic contrast" that causes flickering (like the TF700)?
Can a capacitive stylus be used or is the Note stylus the only one that works?
Do apps or the browser occasionally hang with an eventual message to wait or quit?
In continuous use with wifi on, the display at mid-brightness (50%?), and a mix of office apps, file transfers, web use, and an arcade game here and there (no video or audio playback), what kind of battery life can reasonably be expected? Six, seven, eight hours? More? Be honest because forums and reviewers really lose credibility with this one and 7000ma can only go so far. All answers with screen shots showing 26.7 hours or higher will be discarded.
Opinions from current or former Samsung Tab 10.1 or Asus TF700 owners are especially welcome.

Thanks.

See my post (#18) in this thread, thpugh you might reject it because it show 37 hours of use.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...1828638&page=2

Not sure why uou'd reject a positive report, but to each his own.

Originally Posted by Haidozo

A few Note questions....
Be honest because forums and reviewers really lose credibility with this one and 7000ma can only go so far. All answers with screen shots showing 26.7 hours or higher will be discarded.
Thanks.

What're you? With the feds, or something? It's just a tablet, and they're just reviews and screen shots.

he'd disregard those because he's interested in continuous mixed normal use - not just continuous video looping, which we'd all agree that even 10+ hours may be near impossible. i doubt i could even use the device continuously until it dies as i just can't dedicate that much time.

kinda buttholish the way he's asking, but i'm also curious.

Originally Posted by madsquabbles

he'd disregard those because he's interested in continuous mixed normal use - not just continuous video looping, which we'd all agree that even 10+ hours may be near impossible. i doubt i could even use the device continuously until it dies as i just can't dedicate that much time.

kinda buttholish the way he's asking, but i'm also curious.

Well, fwiw and in the event the 26.7 hour limit is relaxed (I hope all of you recognize I'm being facetious and dont care, but am posting as others with lowere standards may benefit)... the screenahots I posted we after a day and a half of fairly routine usage. Wifi continiously on, mix of browsing and other activity with roughly 7 hours screen on time. During this time I also tested sd card and usb functionality by transferring roughly 25gb of data from usb to the external sd card mounted in the Note, which included 4 HD movies and a bunch of lossless (flac) music. That process took over an hour ( dont know exactly how long as I left it running whem I went to supper), mainly screen off. I think 30+% remaining battery after 37 hours on battery including this type of mixed use is pretty solid.

Originally Posted by toenail_flicker

What're you? With the feds, or something? It's just a tablet, and they're just reviews and screen shots.

My my, a bit touchy are you? I'll have to talk to Edgar and have the boys run a check on you. Subtle irony seems to be lost on a few of you and perhaps I should have said 26.7 days. Amazing tales of tablet battery life are everywhere and all I want to know is how long it runs on a full charge before it dies without tricks, magic video loops, power saving modes, app tricks, or other methods of increasing the mileage. What's your real answer?

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Originally Posted by Haidozo

My my, a bit touchy are you? I'll have to talk to Edgar and have the boys run a check on you. Subtle irony seems to be lost on a few of you and perhaps I should have said 26.7 days. Amazing tales of tablet battery life are everywhere and all I want to know is how long it runs on a full charge before it dies without tricks, magic video loops, power saving modes, app tricks, or other methods of increasing the mileage. What's your real answer?

Same point as my original post - they're just reviews and screen shots. I don't believe any of them. I believe my stats.

I've confirmed, with CPU spy, that when tablet is put into power savings mode and CPU one is checked,the Max frequency is 1ghz. For me, device still performs great in this mode. No significant loss in performance. I haven't tried playing games like nova3 in this mode yet. I will shortly. But web pages still load up fast with it.

FWIW, I'm at 9 hours, though no way to prove it except my tables, with pretty heavy use the whole time - downloading apps, no browsing, setting things up, testing, playing games, etc. I'm fairly pleased. I'm going to run it down a bit more, track the final bit, and then charge it.

Originally Posted by Haidozo

Does it have different "power modes" or is it full speed at all times?

I did not find different power modes to select as user, but my SystemPanel app showed me up to two processors in sleep mode. So I assume that the power modes are selected automatically with regard to system load.

Does the screen have "dynamic contrast" that causes flickering (like the TF700)?

The contrast can be set to "automatic" and in opposite to my former Tab 10.1 (P7500), an offset can be defined, so the automatic mode can be moved between darker and brighter.

Can a capacitive stylus be used or is the Note stylus the only one that works?

The digitizer only recognizes the inductive pen. But also the "old" pen of my Toshiba Portege from 2004 works and the "rubber" of that pen is recognized, too. So I assume that most Wacom pens will work. Of course, you can use a capacitive pen, but with the same limitations as on every other tablet (missing palm rejection, not exact, ...).

Do apps or the browser occasionally hang with an eventual message to wait or quit?

No.

In continuous use with wifi on, the display at mid-brightness (50%?), and a mix of office apps, file transfers, web use, and an arcade game here and there (no video or audio playback), what kind of battery life can reasonably be expected?

I used the Note 10.1 throughout the last 1 1/2 week. I used it at home and travelling long distance by train, with wifi and 3G (which is in the train quite power consuming). Taking it from the recharger around 6 am in the morning, I never ended below 20% at 22/23 pm. Yesterday, it rested here at my desk and was used occasionally, it had 80% in the night. The device usage was around 30%.