C550 What should the power management settings be?

[Guest larrygrayson]

What are the default power management settings for the C500/C550 (I presume they are both the same)? What do you have them set on?

[Guest hotphil]

Don't know about the default, but I have mine on Backlight time out - 60 seconds, Display time out 1 minute and Light Sensor Enable (strange how the capitalise some of the words and not others!?) and I seem to get OK battery life. There's a lot of discussion in earlier threads about the fact that if you have the display time out any longer it doesn't matter as you can't see it (in any practical sense) anyway.

[Guest Disco Stu]

I have 60sec / 5mins / enabled which works for me and don't have any battery worries.

[Guest hotphil]

I believe you'll get a (slightly) longer battery life if you whack that 5 mins down to 1 min. After all, why have the screen on for all those extra 4 minute periods when you can't see it anyway?

[Guest Disco Stu]

That struck me straight after I'd posted !

Have changed my settings as you suggest ;)