[SGVLUG] New Linux Tablet

[Matthew Campbell]

It does drain the battery.  On the Android there is a nice utility
that reads your phone logs and prints out a nice shiny pie chart of
what used your battery today.

Mine is:
55% display light
17% cellular network
22% wifi network
6% cpu

Numbers are approximate as I interpreted the readout liberally.  I was
doing a lot of WiFi web browsing in a bad cellular area.

Matt

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Julie <tearsea88 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hmm.. I can run an experiment and let everyone know (re:  wifi always on drains
> battery).  Although I would imagine part of it has to do with the actual phone
> model.  I know it was a significant difference when Apple changed their
> algorithm for their iTouch wifi that it literally went from having the device
> fully charged lasting a few days to less than 20 hrs.  (even if I turn it off
> when not in used).  Highly annoying.  Nowadays, I switch the thing to airplane
> mode when I'm not using it.
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Tom Emerson <starman9x at gmail.com>
> To: SGVLUG Discussion List. <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
> Sent: Mon, December 6, 2010 4:31:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] New Linux Tablet
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> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Michael Proctor-Smith
> <mproctor13 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Not sure it is so much of manually switching. With android phones if there
>> is a know wifi access point within range it automatically uses wifi. The
>> logic being wifi will probably have a fast and or cheaper connection to the
>> internet.
>
> true enough, but generally (or, at least with the droid phone i have),
> I've *heard* that leaving wifi "on" when you aren't using it ends up
> being a large drain on the battery (something about constantly seeking
> for a wifi connection, plus the fact it is yet another
> transmitter/receiver you are running)  I haven't had my phone long
> enough to verify how much water this claim holds ;) but if true, I'd
> imagine much the same for a tablet (but with that much more room for a
> battery in it, I imagine the battery cap is much larger as well - I'll
> have to ask about that at the store...)
>
> (also, the logic of "wifi must be faster" won't apply at my house -
> since my wifi is ultimately throttled by my dsl, and that is only
> 384k, 3g/4g is faster...)
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