Guide: All About Battery Life

[ctitanic]

Added one more recommendation

Disable WiFi while in sleep. By default, your Surface stays connected to WiFi while it's asleep. Turn this off by going to Settings->Power & Sleep->WiFi

 

[ctitanic]

By the way, I just learned that YouTube streams to Chrome in a codec that does not use Graphic Acceleration and as result consume more CPU. The solution is to get this extension
H264ify

 

[kristalsoldier]

Added one more recommendation

Disable WiFi while in sleep. By default, your Surface stays connected to WiFi while it's asleep. Turn this off by going to Settings->Power & Sleep->WiFi

But isn't turning off WIFI or initiating Flight Mode the same thing? The idea is to turn off the WIFI radio, correct?

 

[ctitanic]

Flight mode turns off more stuff.

 

[xbliss]

And for anyone who said we were complaining too much about SP3 firmware & the funkly flashing that started.. MS is new to driving their own hardware. Firmware people have been hired but its not a 20+ year old smooth running team; and even those make mistakes.

So, pushing issues about firmware to MS is something we should do as a community.

Microsoft says its fix for Surface Book, Surface Pro 4 finally solves power problems

 

[JSilva]

Hello, there, i have a Surface Pro 3 I3, bought on July 2016. My battery used to last about 8-9 hours, just surfing the internet without seeing videos and reading the newspapaper in offline mode. Since last September/October (i believe after some update), the battery only lasts 4-5 hours doing exactly the same things. I usually charged the battery when it went below 10 %, not always, but in 80-90 % of the charges. What shall i do ?

Thanks,
JSilva

 

[JSilva]

Any help ?

 

[hughlle]

Reset/reinstall windows and see if there is any change. If this happened suddenly after an update, then chances are it can be fixed, especially as this doesn't seem to be a common problem.