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    Any way to improve G1S battery life?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by andrassy, Jul 23, 2007.

  1. andrassy

    andrassy Notebook Consultant

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    Is there anything that can be done besides using the Power Saving mode or whatever its called to improve battery life? I dont think i can even watch a full movie on this with the life i get now
     
    andrassy, Jul 23, 2007
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    Turning the Screen brightness down also helps.
     
    KiwiBoy, Jul 23, 2007
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  4. Miyabina

    Miyabina Notebook Consultant

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    You can also undervolt it which might save you a bit of battery life... as well as keeping it cooler. I was able to undervolt my G1S a full .2volts just fine so far.
     
    Miyabina, Jul 23, 2007
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  5. KiwiBoy

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    May I just ask what program you used to undervolt your g1s?
     
    KiwiBoy, Jul 23, 2007
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    I would guess Notebook Hardware Control, It has a feature to Undervolt the CPU, just make sure you know what to do / use for values

    Use at your own risk
     
    aoguy1989, Jul 24, 2007
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  7. THE TRUTH

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    Battery life is pretty pathetic on these....
     
    THE TRUTH, Jul 24, 2007
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  8. Miyabina

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    I use RMClock :)
     
    Miyabina, Jul 24, 2007
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    Commodore64 Notebook Guru

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    To watch a 2h movie, I just set to savings mode and turn the screen down a bit. Make sure you disable all network adapters, especially wireless. I usually get around 2h 11m, while watching a dvd
     
    Commodore64, Jul 24, 2007
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    - reduce LCD brightness to lowest comfortable setting
    - disable all the ports you don't need by going through device manager (ex. infrared and PCMCIA/expresscard if you have one)

    - turn bluetooth off
    - turn wireless LAN off (use the ethernet port if possible when connecting to the Internet)
    - underclock using NHC
    - unplug unnecessary USB devices (ex. USB memory after using it)
    - REDUCE the amount of RAM installed to the system
    - downgrade to a 4200 rpm hard drive
    - turn off background system processes / quit applications you don't need
    - disable anti-virus
     
    jsis, Jul 24, 2007
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    nhc is not compatible with santa rosa cpu atm. The only one that let's you undervolt is rmclock but it also does not fully support the santo rosa cpu. for e.g, it show that the minimum speed is 1200mhz, it's wrong, it's 800mhz.

    Rmclocke does not see the dynamic fsb. It's a very new tipe of platform. We need to wait a litle longer.
     
    adolfotregosa, Jul 24, 2007
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