Nokia N96 battery life fix
The Nokia N96 gets a lot of stick for short battery life. When I first got mine it wouldn't last the day, but it turns out the fix is extremely simple.
The N96's behavior out of the box is to scan for wireless networks. This draws quite a lot of power from the battery. If you're using it the way I do, you end up using the same wifi networks most of the time anyhow and don't need the phone connected 24/7 anyhow, which would have been the main advantage of continuously scanning for wifi networks.
I turned this off and am now getting up to 2½ days of battery time.
Not the most interesting post ever, but no one else seems to have latched on to this tip so I thought I'd throw something up for google to munch on.
Now that I've bored you, you may move along.
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That seems to be the way with
That seems to be the way with most WIFI devices these days. Just turn WIFI off until the moment you need to connect and use it, and power the WIFI connection down when ur done. Sure its a little more fiddly but its definately worth the 1+ extra day you get out of the battery life. Same with bluetooth as well. Most people complain and whinge about the short length of time batteries last in these devices but never bother looking into the details like this which make all the difference.