You can try doing what I did--turn airplane off and wifi on and leave it like that. It worked for me.
PrincessReader wrote:My battery life last 1 and 1/2 days I am an avid reader so this is not pleasing. I have live with my nook on airplane mode, turned off the WI FI and adjusted the brightness... none of this has helped. Does any one have any new suggestions that does not involve placing myself back on the wait list for a replace part/nook
I am right there with you Princess. I'm not happy either. Listen, I want Barnes and Noble to succeed over Amazon, and thats why I made a conscience choice to pick hte Nook over the Kindle. But apparently the Kindle 2 battery is FAR superior to the Nook. Their website claims 2 weeks between recharge times and from what I'm reading on the user boards, real world people are getting close to this.
If B&N says the Nook should be getting 10 days of reading , with airplane mode on, then it should. Shouldnt not matter how many pages you are turning. This thing is supposed to use minimal power in both sleep and on modes, if wireless is off. Even 7 days would be acceptable, but people claiming 2-5 days, when they are reading 3 hrs a night? That is unacceptable. I still wonder just how B&N is explaining this? They need to come out and explain how they got 10 days, and why their experience is literally twice the amount that others are experiencing. I like the nook and want B*N to beat out Amazon...but this really is false advertising on their part.
My only hope is that when the batteries on these units die out ( 2 yrs maybe?), the newer batteries will be far better. Another possible hope is future software revisions, that may extend battery life somehow. But i have a bad feeling that all of us who already own the nook , are pretty much out of luck, and will have to deal with 3-5 day battery life depending on our reading habits. Thats a far way off from 10 days, and very misleading of B&N literature.
By the way, just got to the end of Chapter 23 of Amy Tan book "100 Secret Senses" and the chapter ends abruptly, with text missing! Have to go to book store to actually finish the chapter. Another e-book glitch. Ah, perhaps paper books is the way to go ( I wonder how i report the missing text issue of the e-book to barnes and noble? I'll have to track that down now. Hopefully can get a refund on that book).
@ DarrenVA , yes that is what I am saying. I do not know why nor do I know about any other devices. All I know is that I read about it somewhere and decided to try it because I was recharging every couple of days. It works for , whether or not it is supposed to do so and I also do not "put to sleep". I just lay it down when I am done and leave it alone and it does it's own thing.
@ icebox, I don't think that I said 10 days but it is consistently going down 10 % every 24 hours so I guess 10%=10 days.
I suppose you have nothing to loose by giving it a try if you are having battery issues
Ok, I know it's not data. I promise I'll post more #'s later.
Icebike, that's true about the CPU still doing things. I just think it's an unusual amount of drain for so little action. It's almost like they are using a "busy wait" which requires CPU (and heat) in order to do nothing.
TO NOOK ENGINEERS: I hope by now you see something that will help. Optimize your code to be more "event" based. You're spending too much power just to "remember" our last page and to know a button was pushed (In airplane mode, remember). Save the current page and bookmarks on the SD-card or wherever you store the books themselves so that we're not at constant risk of loosing our place/bookmarks.
[Soapbox mode off. But this really has to happen -- everyone can see this problem]
