Phone battery poor, but then realised

Haven’t been well over the last week, so Blogging hasn’t been on my mind as I fight off a head cold with sinus infection thrown in. This may have contributed to a very Human Error condition a few days ago.

I was getting frustrated at my new mobile phone’s battery life. I’d charge it up and it would be nearly flat 8 hours later. And I’d hardly used it at all!!

What gives? Was the battery-eating GPS or Bluetooth activating? Was there a virus or bot on it that was starting up and using heaps of power? Was it the option to Check Email every 10 minutes doing it?

Finally it just hit me. I’d turned off the power saving feature. The default is for the phone to go into (soft) power-off mode after 2 minutes of inactivity.  As part of the attempt to copy a big file over to the phone, I’d turned this off.  I’d even said so in the Blog post: It even has a resume function, which was needed when the phone went into sleep mode after 2 minutes. Oops. Fixed that by temporarily telling it to not sleep.

Oh dear. Temporarily became permanently. Back to the sleep-after-2-minutes now and seems to be fine again.