Samsung NC10 Tips & Tweaks thread

Disable pinch zoom in your touchpad settings, then right click on the TwoFingerScroll icon in your taskbar. Set it to launch with Windows, then modify the scrolling settings (default is too fast) and in tapping, disable two finger tap = right click.

 

so, when i first heard the name of the prog, i was thinking, i can maneuver the pointer with my middle finger, and while the finger is still on the trackpad, click with my index finger (without pointer jumping several inches across the screen)...?

am i mistaken?

 

That doesn't do anything.

 

Subscribing. I'm hoping for a price drop on the regular NC10.

 

Could you share your battery run time and discharge rates, possibly with tweaks and settings mentioned?

My discharge rates (you can check that with "Battery bar" or "Battery status" programs - google it) in IDLE (CPU load of 1%-10%) is from -8 to -9W! I discovered opening firefox increases discharge rate for -0.5 to -1W, even if firefox is just idle! Is that low/high, compared to...?

And my battery times around 6h (some times stated at 100% as 5.40, also to 7.20 hours to go), depends on the usage, if only surffing is in mind it seems firefox consumes quite a lot of battery!

Status right now: 55% of battery, below settings, 3:30 to go, -8.258mW, idle...


Tweaked windows XP (following some tips on guides mentioned), sound off, wireless off (cable instead), BT off in Device manager, 3 bars of brightness, Auto CPU speed (with "battery doubler 1.2.1" drops to 798Mhz, but do not know if it does sth. to prolong the battery life), 32 bit color setting...

It seams to me a lot of tweaking for little improvement, or am I missing something? Lots of users/websites states up to 7h or 7.5h battery times and I even read about -6 to -7W of drain with BT off and wireless on...myth? I do not gett it under 8. I know that is probably low, but still. I do not know what are the default out of the box rates and battery lifes? So whats yours?


Also, there is a "click" sound every a couple of time? Like something switches on and of...does anyone else get this? I think it could be the fan or disk...?

@PAUL

I do not know if I get the question, but "Two Finger Scroll" simply refers to scrolling by moving the two fingers on the trackpad simultaneously as one, instead of using side scroll bar. It is easier, more efficiant and faster! Try it!

 

quartz, I dont have a BT device in my NC10, I get 6.6W with Wifi on an FF running (displaying non-flash sites). This is with minimal brightness. three bar brightness gives me 7.5W.

 

I did some measurments today, again...i was runing only "torrents" and "msn" all the time. Partialy runing "firefox", "notepad", chating and checking some pictures in "windows picture viewer". Also running all the time in the background were "rocket dock", "avg antivirus" (tray icon disabled, also disabled background disk checks), "samsung keyboard hot keys" utility, "two finger scroll" and "battery maneger" put to 2 bars of brightness, set to custom! So no hard stuff!

I chose to disable auto hibernation and sleep and set disk turn off for 30min, also LCD autodiming set to 5min! ...so these setings basiclly make the system run al the time as I would use it for reading or surfing!

I found out this:
- perhaps I was not careful before at checking time!
- windows battery meter (WBM) and BattStat (BS) meter compared to Battery Bar (BB) are showing different, where WBM and BS are close together mostly!

At 100% of battery: BB was showing 5.50; WBM and BS from 6.50 to 7.20 (as 7 hours and 20 min to go);

Depending on the discharge rate, which was runing from -7W to -9W, sometimes kicking to -11W...I would say the average is around -8 W; through the whole period, though it goes up! Starting below -7 at start, keeping mostly around -7.5 W to -8 W for the first coulple of hours and then getting close to -9 W, with the netbook geting hotter in time! There are short peaks to from -10 to -12W, of course... Talking about IDLE or low usage, the CPU f. around 800Mhz and mostly between 5% to 15% of usage!

at 80%: (real time 1.20 from the start): BB 4.30, WBM&BS switching between 5.00 - 5.50

at 70% (2.30 from start in real time): BB little below 4h, WBM&BS switching between 4.20 - 4.50

at 60% (3.10 from start in RT): BB 3.11; WBM&BS swi..b.. 3.20 - 4.00

at 48% (4.00 from s...): BB 2.30; WBM&BS: 2.50 - 3.05

at 30% (5.20): BB: 1.20; WBM&BS: 1.40 - 1.50

As you see discharge rate gets better calculated in time and higher due to heating, at this point is runing only between -8.3 W and -9 W, so the calculated time left has smaler intervals when closing the end.

at 20% (5.55 from start in real time): BB: 0.52; WBM&BS: 1.10-1.15

at 6% (6.55 from start in RT): BB: 0.05; WBM&BS: 15-20 min

So Sammy NC10 went to hibernation in about 7h at below 5% battery left, speaking of light use! I belive it is just a couple of minutes left, not realy 15, mybe 5-10 at max, if you set it to hybernate at 0%, noth worth it in my oppinion! What can be seen is that the BattStat or windows battery meter are quite accurate and judging from NONS reply the main cunsumption is in BT, other tweaks mybe just improve Sammys functionaly, not really giving much bettery batery!

Or mybe, I do not know.... Still wana see some more replys of battery life!

 

Hi, when I launch the two finger scrolling exe all I get is an error message written in German :S

Something relating to tray icon with the following German:

fehler beim lesen von benachrichtigungssymbol kann nicht erstelt werden

 

what is it supposed to do?

 

It is supposed to

But that action doesn't do anything.

 

Congratulations, you got a Fujitsu hard disk in your NC10 What you're hearing is the "head unloading", which is done to save battery. I couldn't manage the get rid of it whatever I tried.

 

So is that good or bad?

 

has anyone tried using rmclock with the nc10?

If you did, how did it go and what did you manage to get the voltages down to?

Is it worth trying to use rmclock with a intel atom?

Cheers

 

RMClock can't detect the Atom properly.

John

 

aahhh ok,

any news if there wil be a similar program being released in the near future for the atom?

 

There was recent discussion about another undervolting program in the hardware forum. I can't find it at the moment.

However, I don't think you will get a lot of benefit by fiddling with the Atom's voltage. RMClock increases the idle CPU utilisation. You can use Fn+F8 to use the silent mode which locks the CPU to the minimum speed.

John

 

This may be a useful thread to newcomers so I'm bumping it.