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Old 11-06-2007, 08:05 PM
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Originally Posted by hperry View Post
I had weather panel set to update every 30 minutes or so and it drained my battery very quickly. Are you doing something to get weather panel to close the data connection once it's established? It's not the actual WP download that drains the battery, it's the lingering data connection that won't close on it's own for an hour or two...at least that's what I found.
No I don't close the connection. It almost runs continually.
Now you bring up a good point. If I closed it I wonder what my battery life would be. Right now it goes from 100% at 6:30am to about 20% at 10:00pm. However this can change base on what I'm doing with my device.
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