Fast Draining Battery in "StandBy" Mode. Your experience?

For my purposes, standby mode has proven to be useless. I'll close my lid and not open it for perhaps a day or two, and when I do, the battery, under standby mode, will have been drained. So I always go into hibernate, which of course means long wait to startup. I'm curious to know what experiences and solutions others have in battery consumption when not working. My T400 runs XP business.

Thanks.

 

2% an hour seems to be my experience. There's not much reason for me to leave the laptop on standby unplugged for longer than a few hours.

 

i disabled hibernation cuz on my SSD a power-on takes shorter than resuming from hibernation.

suggestion:
if you know you'll open your laptop in the next few hours, sleep is better choice.

if you won't use it within 10 hours, you'd better shut down/hibernate.

Sleep function isn't designed to replace hibernation or power-off, it's just for convenient resume from a short time.

 

I would say the battery in my T410 drains much much faster in sleep than the battery in my R61 or z61 previously did.

Perhaps DDR3 memory takes much more power to hold its state over DDR2. Or some devices are not powering down like this always on USB port..

 

I'm with Wallmage. I also disabled hibernation once I got an SSD. A cold boot was just as fast (if not faster) and I saved 4GB of valuable SSD space.

 

I always use "sleep" on my T61, however, it is always plugged in (90% of the time anyway).
I use my T61 everyday, and most days, it just stays on my desk, plugged in. So, when I'm finished using it for the night, I just hit Fun. + F4 (Sleep) and when I go to use it the following AM, or afternoon it's on withen 3 seconds.
I prefer this to startup any-day of the week (mine takes a good 5 minutes from a cold start to be on the main desktop).
And, while off AC and on battery power, my battery still gets around 1 and a half hours with a full charge (and that's after the fact that it's almost always plugged in, and over 2 years old !!).
Just my .02 cents !
Mike

 

What do you do when you want to preserve your state of open applications?

 

I agree. I'm also amazed people still fail to realize that that is the actual point of suspend.

@OP: 1-2% per hour should be the order of magnitude. If it's considerably more, something is not suspending properly. Maybe update drivers and stuff...

 

I lose right around 1% per hour on standby. If you have always on USB or some other power setting changed then it might go above that.