torstai 2. tammikuuta 2014

Transformer Book T100 Issues - Battery Drain

Looks like I ran into one obvious issue that's plaguing the T100: Battery drain when the keyboard dock is connected. I've now accidentally run the device all dry by just having it sleep overnight with the dock connected and not having the charger connected. Twice. On the first occasion I thought it was due to some process having gone wild on my browser (I had a bunch of tabs open), but on the latter occasion there wasn't anything special running.

So I made a test and charged the device all the way to full and then after using it a while I let it sleep with the dock disconnected -> battery went down 7% during the night with my usage included. In the morning I plugged the tablet part to the dock and put the combination into my bag (in sleep mode) while getting to the office. During the hour or so charge had gone from 93% to 80%! That's quite an insane pace, considering that for the rest of the working day the keyboard dock was disconnected and the battery went down only to 76%.

So it looks like there's a major battery drain with this device when the keyboard is connected. Also the idle battery drain is a bit high in the tablet only mode, but fortunately it's still on manageable level. This is an unfortunate downside on otherwise fine device. I hope there will be a firmware update to fix this.

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