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Old 11-11-2008, 11:12 AM
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Re: Battery Fix

dcdupre

You are right, and wrong...

All this does is change how often the system polls the battery, so it can report the battery level (or if it's charging.

However each time it polls the battery it wakes certain processes that were otherwise idle, and USES power to poll the battery.

If you are not OCD about knowing the exact state of you battery every few seconds then it will consume your battery less, esecially when your device is sleeping.

I think you would see a much larger difference if you turned everything off and found out how many days the battery would last doing nothing. Testing while doing something with a high draw and wide awake device will see very little difference.

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