Help Battery drain on new firmware 3.2.1

[androidfocus]

My solution: download a wifi on/off widget, and use it to turn wifi off when you put the tablet away...

 

[eddiewawa]

well to be honest? after updating the dual battery widget, the battery drain has pretty much gone! 90% 4 hours ago, now 88% on the dock....will keep monitoring

ok...issue is defo still there in relation to the dock, humph... common Asus, ICS ASAP!

 

[AutobahnSHO]

The strangest thing happened: I was going on a trip for a week so charged my TF to 100% with its Dock connected (so both TF + Dock charged to 100%). Then disconnected TF and powered it off and left it on my desk (I wanted it to be fully charged to use it once I returned).

Once I came back from my trip, and powered it back on, it warned me that I only had 4% battery power left!!! How is that even possible, the TF was Off this entire time??? Did the Dock Keyboard stay on, and acted like a "power vampire", even when the TF was turned off?

(The only thing it was connected to was the Dock Keyboard)

For whatever silly reason if you turn the tablet off and put it on the dock, it can easily drain 10-20% of the keyboard dock overnight.

When I'm storing mine (even overnight) I leave it out of the keyboard.

 

[Stuntman]

My solution: download a wifi on/off widget, and use it to turn wifi off when you put the tablet away...

This is working for me. It's just that some widgets I downloaded did not appear on my tablet. Just took some time to find a widget that works on the Eee Pad.

 

[Stuntman]

Even with turning WiFi off, the battery drained last night for some reason. I rebooted it now and it seems fine today.

Anyway, Apple is working on their battery drain issue. When is Asus going to work on theirs?

 

[s_special]

Did you update the newest firmware from the 5th of November?

 

[RichSz]

With the latest firmware, the problem seems corrected. I've only had it installed for a day and final results are not it yet, but it's promising!

 

[fldude99]

The battery drain issue is fixed with the 11/5 update. This thread should be closed

 

[Stuntman]

Did you update the newest firmware from the 5th of November?

Well, talk about timing. I checked for updates just prior to my last post and found nothing. Just checked now and installed the latest one. I'll see how well it works.

 

[viffer800]

Having read this thread I kept postponing the instal of the latest update. After reading the very latest comments about the problem being fixed I took the plunge last night. Charged it and left it over night. Went from 99% to 97% over a period of 8 hours. Was in deep sleep 85% of the time according to cpuspy. That sounds not three bad to me

Haven't tried it with the dock yet. Just connected them and will check the battery level later.

 

[kmhanson]

The battery drain issue is fixed with the 11/5 update. This thread should be closed

I can assure you, it has not been fixed.

 

[fldude99]

I can assure you, it has not been fixed.

It's definitely fixed or the forums would full. You must be having a different problem

 

[littlecay]

I, too, can assure you it is not working. Wo doing anything, I can leave my iPad on the shelf (easy to do since it can't do too much, really) and use it weeks later wo charging it.

But with the TF, no matter what I do, the TF will be dead in a couple of days! This includes taking it off the keyboard (what?), using juice defender, wifi off settings, and holding three buttons down wbile plugging or unplugging and chanting to "he who will not be named."

I love the TF, but the battery system is currently screwed up... still! And where is lcs?

 

[Doit2it]

I had no issues with battery drain after the October and November updates. After the last update at Christmas my WiFi stays on constantly. If I select WiFi off with screen it just reverts to Never when I exit settings. I even tried a WiFi switch wiget and would turn it off before putting the screen to sleep, but it would come back on sometimes.

WiFi is always 75 to 80% of battery.

I'm going to try jerarts Airplane app suggestion until there's a fix or we get ICS.
Update: Didn't work.

Note: I do not own the dock, so it's not a dock related issue.

 

[Nbgorman]

After perusing other forums, this seems to now be a "feature" of the Transformer, and not a bug. Very annoying

Are you sure it is a feature bcuz im running 3.2.1 an it will go to sleepwhile im downloading stuff from aDownloader

 

[Nbgorman]

Is this odd that the screen takes up 59% of power when im downloading apps and movies all day whil wifi takes up 26%?

 

[Podivin]

Personally I like to see screen usage as the number one battery drain, that means I've been using it enough.
It takes a lot of power to light the screen, especially if you have the brightness turned up.

 

[Nbgorman]

Personally I like to see screen usage as the number one battery drain, that means I've been using it enough.
It takes a lot of power to light the screen, especially if you have the brightness turned up.

Yea i know that the screen should take up quite a bit of power but based on what people were sayin i wasnt sure but thanks for the reassurance