Guest M@rtin Posted April 28, 2011 Report Posted April 28, 2011 What sort of battery life is everyone getting from the Asus? I've read a few reviews where it's supposed to be 8-9 hours but I'm getting nowhere near that. I've charge it a few times and generally it shows the same kind of battery consumption as my iPhone, where I'll use it a few times, I'd estimate maybe 3-4 hours solid use at the most, but the battery needs charging by the 2nd day. In contrast, I got an iPad 2 last Wednesday and charged it in the evening while syncing. It's been used pretty much every day for similar tasks as the Asus, but the battery is still on 31%.
Guest SilentMobius Posted April 28, 2011 Report Posted April 28, 2011 What sort of battery life is everyone getting from the Asus? I've read a few reviews where it's supposed to be 8-9 hours but I'm getting nowhere near that. I've charge it a few times and generally it shows the same kind of battery consumption as my iPhone, where I'll use it a few times, I'd estimate maybe 3-4 hours solid use at the most, but the battery needs charging by the 2nd day. In contrast, I got an iPad 2 last Wednesday and charged it in the evening while syncing. It's been used pretty much every day for similar tasks as the Asus, but the battery is still on 31%. What have you got installed? and what is your wi-fi sleep policy set to? Android can do a lot of useful stuff when its "off" whereas the iPad does nothing until you switch it on and fire up the app you want to use. Perhaps you have a badly behaved app? Given that you can't run anything in the background on the iPad I wonder if there is any way to get a reliable graph of the iPad's battery charge over time. It would be nice to do a side-by-side use comparison, with identical use patterns and compare the battery graphs.
Guest M@rtin Posted April 28, 2011 Report Posted April 28, 2011 Wifi sleep policy is set to disable when the screen is off. I don't have much installed, Facebook & Twitter, ebay, a few games, that's pretty much it. I've disabled as much automatic checking that I can, although I have noticed that if I set the Exchange email client frequency to "Never", it instead acts like "Push" has been selected, delivering new emails instantly. I set that one to 1 hour instead. It's a shame that the battery usage graph doesn't show what apps have been using the battery, I always get a "battery usage data not available" message instead. It's not true that the iPad does nothing while it's off - it also checks hourly for email, and has notifications enabled for facebook/twitter/ebay so it should be doing similar things. Next time I come to charge the iPad I might set them off playing a video or mp3 and see how long they last, might be interesting like you said. As I don't have much on the Asus so far I might do a factory restore and see if that makes a difference.
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