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As the name suggests, how fast can you drain the battery on the handset?

If you use the battery graph application, post the graph. I am interested to see what draws the most power e.g. WIFI or 3G Streaming/Browsing, Games, video playback etc.

I am going to do this myself but I figured others may be interested too.

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easy 2 hours of video playback
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Originally Posted by starman View Post
easy 2 hours of video playback
Nah, im sure you can do better than that
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ok an hours usage of Joikuspot, i left it on once battery was dead within 60 minutes
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2 hours sounds a bit short but not by much. I haven't actually tried (especially since I don't want to have to do the R&D mode recharge trick to recover from a fully depleted battery). I had it down to 8% one time when I was out the whole day using the GPS and doing a fair bit of browsing.

The fastest way to drain it would probably be to play videos streaming over wifi with the brightness maxed, 3G data connection online, bluetooth enabled, and GPS enabled
 
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I think the fastest way is to have a laptop download torrents through n900 and joikuspot, while playing quake III with the sound off to your home stereo through fm transmitter. Also having the location widget keep the gps on will help.
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Originally Posted by GameboyRMH View Post
The fastest way to drain it would probably be to play videos streaming over wifi with the brightness maxed, 3G data connection online, bluetooth enabled, and GPS enabled
how do you get 3G and wifi on simultaneously? Without joikuspot I mean
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Well you'd have to do some trickery to pass data through both simultaneously, but just being connected in 3G mode drains the battery pretty fast from what I hear.
 
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you guys are pros! i can drain my n900 not shorter that 5 hours.

2 widgets updating every 30mins. 3 email accounts updates every 5mins. always run 7 apps or more at the same time, and connected to wifi.

maybe i need to make use of the super multi tasking of this device.

if im watching a 2 and a half hour avi or mkv video, my battery is down to 50%.
 
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Leave the camera on possibly recording?
 
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