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Originally Posted by ilovetechnology
Also, if you are polling the battery less often, then it is like syncing your email every 2 hrs. You may have new mail, but you wont know until your email application polls the server in the next 2 hr interval. Which means the battery reg edit may only be superficial. Depending on how your usage staggers your battery polling, you could see some drastic drops in battery life.
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though what you say is true to an extent, I also know finding out the exact charge on a battery is usually a very power intensive activity, it effectivly has to send the power through a resister and take a reading based on that output which is like running a short on the battery for a short time.