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USAGE REPORT: 16 Tips for Prolonging Nokia N900 Battery Life

It's been two full days now that I've had my Nokia N900.As I covered in yesterday's USAGE REPORT: My First 24-hours With the Nokia N900 the battery life lasted about 6 hours before I had to re-charge. That's seems to parallel the experience of other new owners, and the community has already identified some great ideas to follow. Here's some information about my usage of the phone today, and what I did to prolong battery life (it was at about 75% when I got home after work):

USAGE:
I unplugged the phone from it's charger at around 7:00am this morning, made several phones, received text messages all day long from Twitter and other users (and sent a few text messages), checked email hourly, read/composed email, and listened to an hour's worth of music stored on the device. I also took half-a-dozen photos and uploaded a few to Flickr via the Sharing feature. I also streamed a short video segment via Qik.

16 TIPS to PROLONG the N900 BATTERY:

1. Set Display brightness level to 2 out a possible 5 (in Settings | Display)
2. Set Backlight-Timeout to 30 seconds (in Settings | Display)
3. Turn on Power Saving Mode (in Settings | Display)
4. Turn off Touch Screen Vibration (in Settings | Display)
5. Turn off Notification Light for Device On state (in Settings | Notification Light)
6. Turn off Vibrate for both Silent and General Profiles (in Settings | Profiles)
7. Turn off Bluetooth (in Settings | Connectivity)
8. Turn off GPS (in Settings | Connectivity)
9. Turn off FM Transmitter (in Settings | Connectivity)
10. Set Connect Automatically to your cellular data network (in Settings | Connectivity)
11. Set Search Interval to 60 minutes (in Settings | Connectivity)
12. Disable Switch to Wifi When Available (in Settings | Connectivity)
13. Set Wifi Transmission Power to 10mw (in Settings | Connectivity | Connection Setup | Advanced | Other)
14. Set Power Saving Mode to On (Maximum) (in Settings | Connectivity | Connection Setup | Advanced | Other)
15. Set Availability for Skype & IM accounts to Off by default (in Status Bar | Availability)
16. Reduce the number of Desktop Views from 4 to 1 (in Desktop Menu | Manage Views)

User vasilov at the Talk.maemo.org forums has some great ideas as well, so be sure to read their post as well.

I'm curious what performance & battery life experience others are having.

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