I think that is probably normal. What I'm discovering about the RT (Surface 2 should be better) is that the Surface is optimized for media playback. If I continuously play videos (.m4v, .mp4 format) off of a microSD card I get well over 10 hours of use. If I surf the web, I'll get closer to 6-7 hours. Putting the Surface in standby I'm noticing anywhere between 3-5% battery drain over night.Burning 70% battery life while playing Facebook games on the IE explore and surfing the web for 4 hours total time, Is this normal?
I feel this is not, and wanted to get some feedback if this is normal or so. Because I am ready to exchange this surface 2 for the fear of a faulty battery. I have one more day before my 15 day return\exchange is up at beat buy. What are your guys' feeling about this.
I think that is probably normal. What I'm discovering about the RT (Surface 2 should be better) is that the Surface is optimized for media playback. If I continuously play videos (.m4v, .mp4 format) off of a microSD card I get well over 10 hours of use. If I surf the web, I'll get closer to 6-7 hours. Putting the Surface in standby I'm noticing anywhere between 3-5% battery drain over night.
Going to the desktop and running Task Manager, I've seen many processes still running. Apps that I had started since booting up show up in the list even though I closed them out (by a downward swipe). I need to do some investigation as to whether or not those dormant entries have an effect on battery life.
They seem to have a fix for the original surface rt.
Microsoft Surface RT and Surface 2 battery and power | Recharge Surface
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Not sure if it works with the surface 2.
I always let it run down to around 10 percent if not let it fully die than charge it.I used their tip to let my battery drain below 10% before charging and I swear it improved the battery. Or that could just all be in my head. :grin:
I always let it run down to around 10 percent if not let it fully die than charge it.
EDIT: Been using my surface more and more, and notice in the task manager sometime the windows search filter ( which is the service that index your file and stuff) is running and uses alot of resources with it. This is while i was browsing the web. I disabled the service but that made windows search really really slow. So i put it back on. Anyways, when this runs in the background, battery life takes a big hit.
Guys what I been noticing is that sometimes when i browse the web and using word, the device would not get warm and other times it would get warm to touch (usually when it gets warm battery life decreases faster.) I usually browse around forum sites. I think there is alot of stuff running in the background at certain times. It Schedules to do maintence and dont forget WINDOWS DEFENDER does automatically do scans everyday. So I think thats something to look at. Is there a way to stop windows defender from doing scans?
I believe you can set it so Windows Defender simply doesn't start up with Windows.
Going to the desktop and running Task Manager, I've seen many processes still running. Apps that I had started since booting up show up in the list even though I closed them out (by a downward swipe). I need to do some investigation as to whether or not those dormant entries have an effect on battery life.
It's considered a maintenance task, so whenever your Surface is set to perform maintenance (check via the Action Center), that's when it'll scan.
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I have seen an improvement with battery life with the latest updates. Anybody?
Noob question, but how do you do a powercfg report? I assumed you type that in the run command box but when I do nothing happens.