[admorris#AC]

Just curious to see how everyones battery life is so far? I just bought my pb yesterday and I have to admit that I'm not impressed with battery life so far. It seems as though I'm burning through battery MUCH quicker than my original iPad. Please don't flame, as I love this thing, just not impressed with the battery in comparison to what I had been using. I have gmail set uo to push and that's about it as far as background apps (that I know of anyway). Are there any hidden battery saving tricks I should know about? Appreciate the response ahead of time.


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[bb.pl]

Just curious to see how everyones battery life is so far? I just bought my pb yesterday and I have to admit that I'm not impressed with battery life so far. It seems as though I'm burning through battery MUCH quicker than my original iPad. Please don't flame, as I love this thing, just not impressed with the battery in comparison to what I had been using. I have gmail set uo to push and that's about it as far as background apps (that I know of anyway). Are there any hidden battery saving tricks I should know about? Appreciate the response ahead of time.


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You bought your pb yesteday, that means you paid half of the price of he ipad...aren't you atleast getting half as much battery life...so why comain
I bought mine when price was ranging from 500 to 700 and still can't.edit my browser favorites after a year

[RoboticGolem]

I was running the beta, havent noticed a difference in battery life. Our lab's main monitor went down and I was remoting it and using my playbook as a monitor all day O.o

[afgui]

You bought your pb yesteday, that means you paid half of the price of he ipad...aren't you atleast getting half as much battery life...so why comain
I bought mine when price was ranging from 500 to 700 and still can't.edit my browser favorites after a year

damn man, you got some faith in RIM

[Spencerdl]

It's to soon to determine an accurate battery analogy. Like all updates on all BlackBerry it has to settle. Give it a week or so when the newness where's off and usage goes back to normal

[admorris#AC]

It's to soon to determine an accurate battery analogy. Like all updates on all BlackBerry it has to settle. Give it a week or so when the newness where's off and usage goes back to normal

Yea , that's what I'm hoping. It was like that with android as well. On a side note, its so nice to be back to blackberry. Loving my 9930 and loving this pb as well!

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[BlueNoserBESguy]

Drain it the whole way, then charge it fully, then test how long it keeps a charge for. I found after doing this I am seeing better battery life.

[NinjaChopstick]

downloaded and installed os2.0 at around 9am before work. used my playbook all day excessively, and just plugged it in at 36%, and its now 6:30pm

[SmakBerry]

If you turn the screen brightness way down it will help conserve the battery as well.

[QuantumFish777]

Drain it the whole way, then charge it fully, then test how long it keeps a charge for. I found after doing this I am seeing better battery life.

Draining a battery completely is a sure fire way to reduce its lifespan.

I too am noticing a reduction in battery life, and this occurred with the first couple of beta releases as well.
My battery would drain whilst in standby and still is, so I switched back to 1.07/1.08 at the time and my battery life returned to what I consider "normal".
The ipad battery life is somewhat better than the PB but only by about an hour from the reviews I have read.

[dugggggg]

I agree, regularly depleting the battery is bad, bad, bad. Do it once in a blue moon, to give the battery meter some semblance of accuracy---but get in the habit of keeping it above 50%.

Although a bit early to make any conclusions about 2.0, I seem to be draining about 12% per hour. Not much different than under 1.0.

[swyost]

I have just realized that the battery indicator is now rather innacurate on my Playbook. I lost almost 10% of a charge while doing some minor tasks which certainly seemed excessive. When I plugged it in, however, I realized I needed it to check something online, and unplugged it and the battery meter was already reading 100%. Somehow I don't think that even the most rapid of rapid chargers will give you back 10% in a couple minutes. It is at least possible the power consumption is not as high as you think. Just something to consider....

[Retroguy]

I charged last night, and my PlayBook is now down to 84% this morning -- without use. Email and calendar polling is set to manual, but it looks like something is draining battery in standby at an alarming rate. I didn't have this problem with the 2.0 beta build.

[Talon88]

:::

For all having Batt High lost problem, Please try,
Make sure all Wifi & Bluetooth turn off before standby
& post the Result again.

Mine is ~ 3-6% last for 8-12 hrs when standby,
No Bridge install because I don't use BB phone at all.

I use PlayBook as a stand alone Tablet, so I like QNX v2...!

:::

[LeKeiser]

Couldn't you use an existing thread talking about battery life instead of opening a new one?? I mean Geeeeezzz!!!

[stego]

Fully drained mine yesterday...then charged fully. Used the pb fir about 30 minutes, battery dropped maybe 10%, this morning though, after only 7 hours on standby, battery was down to 25%.

I assume more is running in the background with os2 than before....eg message syncing etc...

My bluetooth was off, but wifi on....but definitely slot shorter battery life with the is upgrade.

[apasehculun]

The problem most likely to exist if you are using bridge along with native apps. Try to disable calendar sync and make sure synching is set to manual.