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== Turn down the screen brightness as low as you can cope with == | == Turn down the screen brightness as low as you can cope with == | ||
- | One of the | + | One of the major sources of battery drain on a portable device is the screen. If it's very large and very bright, it will use up a lot of battery life when it's lit. |
One of the best things you can do to save battery life is to turn down the brightness on your tablet's screen to the lowest level that you feel comfortable with. The lower it is, the more battery life you will save. Just click on the screen brightness icon (the icon that looks like a sun in the status bar at the top) and adjust the brightness on the sliding scale. | One of the best things you can do to save battery life is to turn down the brightness on your tablet's screen to the lowest level that you feel comfortable with. The lower it is, the more battery life you will save. Just click on the screen brightness icon (the icon that looks like a sun in the status bar at the top) and adjust the brightness on the sliding scale. | ||
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Over on the [[Overclocking]] page, Fecn describes a set of scripts to modify the [[Kernel Power]] settings on phone lock/unlock, basically to underclock the CPU (or at least, undo overclocking it) whilst the device is locked. | Over on the [[Overclocking]] page, Fecn describes a set of scripts to modify the [[Kernel Power]] settings on phone lock/unlock, basically to underclock the CPU (or at least, undo overclocking it) whilst the device is locked. | ||
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== Use the Kernel for Power Users == | == Use the Kernel for Power Users == | ||
- | Not just for [[Overclocking]], the [[Kernel Power]] package helps to save battery power and makes it easy to configure CPU frequency scaling. You should be using this for power saving purposes even if you never choose to go over the stock 600 MHz. | + | Not just for [[Overclocking]], the [[Kernel Power]] package helps to save battery power and makes it easy to configure CPU frequency scaling. You should be using this for power saving purposes even if you never choose to go over the stock 600 MHz. |
=== Enable SmartReflex === | === Enable SmartReflex === | ||
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=== Powersave bias === | === Powersave bias === | ||
- | The powersave bias setting modifies the behaviour of the ondemand governor to save more power by reducing the target frequency by a specified percentage. This can be used to limit the extent to which the phone will overclock, according to user-specified criteria. | + | The powersave bias setting modifies the behaviour of the ondemand governor to save more power by reducing the target frequency by a specified percentage. This can be used to limit the extent to which the phone will overclock, according to user-specified criteria. |
== links == | == links == |
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