no, no answer

Not good!

The SmartCaddie's battery life here in Japan is also reported with 1h30min using iTunes only. Wireless on/off seems to have no effect on battery life!

 

Thanks floodguy.

You should try disabling the USB bus from the BIOS as a test. It will probably give you another 30% battery life.

Wifi should really affect battery that much. They're quite low power devices.

I wonder if the VIA MPEG2 hardware helps with MP3 decoding. mmmm.

Steve.

Actually, I think changing the BIOS setting won't help here. The setting is "USB legacy support" which should mean that the bios traps USB mouse/keyboard events and translates them into PS/2 events durin POST. If there was an option to disable the host controller, well, that would be different. Some details here:

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/usbcompat.mspx#EKC

//TB

Doc. What do you mean?
I understood that to reach C3 states, people were disabling the USB bus?

Did I misundertand?

Steve.

I was talking about the BIOS setting, that won't help. You have to disable the USB devices in Windows to get to C3.

//TB

Sorry Doc. I though people had been disabling it from the BIOS.

Understand now!

Steve.

I'm getting some 2 hour surfing times... and all i did was change the wifi adapters power saving on..

it was disabled by default.

i really think there is no optimizing for mobile use at all by default.

JKK. Thats really interesting becuase the WIfi is on the USB bus. Perhaps thats the device that is causing the problems.

I'll get a few others to test it.
Where did you enable 'power-saving' In the adaptor settings?

Steve.

JKK:

I'm getting some 2 hour surfing times... and all i did was change the wifi adapters power saving on..

it was disabled by default.

i really think there is no optimizing for mobile use at all by default.

Does enabling the Power Save Mode do anything to  the integrity or strength  of the WiFi signal?

well... eo's wifi antenna is really week with any settings...

to try your self go:

controlpanel/system/hardware/devicemanager/network adapters/80211../advanced/power save mode and enable it...

OK thanks. I'm just getting a test done.

Steve

JKK. Can you contact me at chippy[at]carrypad.com

We're doing some testing now.

Steve.

I had the power saving  on for sometime and disabled again because I was getting disconnected too often.