acer switch 10 severe battery drain

Hi there!

 

I had the same problem on iconia w1-810 8inch tablet.

 

AOP Framework BURNS THE CPU!!!!!

 

Battery runs out in a couple of hours when locked! 35% CPU constant!!!

 

All people there, UNISTALL ALL ACER PRE INSTALLED APPS WHEN YOU RUN A LOW PERFORMANCE LAPTOP-NETBOOK OR TABLET!!!!!

 

 

I want to share my experience regarding placing my tablet into sleep mode. I have an Acer Switch 10 (1st gen), It seems there are other means in doing this. I have recently, experimented with using a magnet on my tablet, a ref magnet to be exact. Now you might be thinking what does a magnet have to do with this. Read on and you might find this insightful. I was thiking how come when my tablet is in netbook mode (keyboard attached) the screen shuts off or the tablet seems to go into standby mode everytime I close it out or use the keyboard as the cover (you get the idea).

 

I tinkered with the keyboard by letting a paper clip go around near the edges, (since that is the most sensible way to find out if there is a magnet), yup found it on the lower right a quarter and an inch from the edge facing you or coming from you I should say, is the magnet. I tried using a ref magnet next to place it opposite (without the keyboard attached) on the edge of the screen, to see if my tablet would go to sleep (or mimik a closed lid). Yup it did. I finally got hold of a thinner magnet cut it into 1 by 1 inch and glued it on my leather case cover. Now when I close my leather case my tablet sleeps (or at least mimiks a closed lid). BTW, my power setting for close lid and power button are both go on standby also I got a leather case for my tablet this Christmas.

 

Now since I have a modified leather case with the magnet as trigger to put my tablet into standby mode, there are NO BATTERY DRAIN! I found this out by accident, when I used it before going to sleep, after using my tablet I was falling asleep, I closed the leather case cover with the magnet, of course my tablet went into standby mode. When I woke up the next morning it is on the same battery %. If I remembered right it was 45% last night when I fell asleep, and when I used it the next morning, it it still on the same 45% battery! Wow, this is great, now I don't need to use the power button to place it on standby and have a battery draining. I just use the "close lid" method.

 

Also I will try the powercfg method here to monitor if there are anything happening with my "magnet method" of putting into standby.

Standby mode on windows keeps the power running to the memory and some peripherals like keyboard, touchpad and mouse. Only cpu is put into a sleep mode. This mode uses battery power and in some hours the battery will drain. Hibernation is a complete power off but needs more time to boot up again when you press the button. Although, any running apps stops but any open files are there after the boot. I think that all is how loaded our system is with common windows apps and services like antivirus, tools, etc. Those things are not suitable for low performance cpus on tablets. I just have only the minimum user applications that I need and during night I lose about 6-7% of battery. I also think this is a lot too if I compare to my iPad mini where even 2 days it is not loosing more than 1%. This is because no background apps are running compared to windows. Just to remind you I own the iconia w1-810 tab.

Connected to the dock I use about 1.25% battery an hour during sleep mode.

Not connected to the dock I use about 1% battery an hour during sleep mode.