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The Bluetooth wireless system is intended to let the tablet easily connect to nearby accessories or computers, but if you're not using the connection then it's worth switching it off to avoid it needlessly wasting battery life.
The Bluetooth wireless system is intended to let the tablet easily connect to nearby accessories or computers, but if you're not using the connection then it's worth switching it off to avoid it needlessly wasting battery life.
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Bluetooth doesn't use much power in standby mode (some 2..3mA) so this may not have much of an impact on battery life, but if you genuinely don't need it then there's no point having it switched on. Tests proved that BT doesn't use any significant power on N900 when set to active+'''invisible'''.
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Bluetooth doesn't use much power in standby mode so this may not have much of an impact on battery life, but if you genuinely don't need it then there's no point having it switched on. Tests proved that BT doesn't use any significant power on N900 when set to active+'''invisible'''.
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To switch off Bluetooth just click on the status bar at the top (or open the system-settings dialog), click on "Bluetooth Settings", and tick or untick the box marked "Bluetooth On". Click "OK" and the Bluetooth will switch on/off accordingly.
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To switch off Bluetooth just click on the angular B icon in the status bar at the top, click on "Bluetooth Settings", and untick the box marked "Bluetooth On". Click "OK" and the Bluetooth will switch off.
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The very next checkbox in the same dialog is for selecting visibility status of BT. Setting it to "off" (aka "not visible") will make BT not send own name all the time, thus saving part of the above mentioned power consumption of BT.
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To switch it back on again, go to the Applications menu (the green squares on the left), click on Settings, click on Control Panel, double-click on Bluetooth and tick the box marked "Bluetooth On".
== Switch off Wi-Fi when you don't need it ==
== Switch off Wi-Fi when you don't need it ==

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