I exchanged my Surface 2 because.....
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CrippsCorner
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Hey Jeff very similar looking set up to mine! Samsung monitor on a glass desk
only difference if you have two Surface's... damn you lol.
kristalsoldier
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Well, I had an interesting experience today. I am still overseas (well, relative to my permanent location).
I started working in my hotel room in the morning at around 6AM till 8:45AM with the Surface 2 on the charger. Battery had charged up all night and was at 100%. At 8:45 I left my room and met with some people in the hotel. Surface was on WiFi, off the charger, and I was on IE11 with two tabs open and with one Excel worksheet open. This meeting last about 45 minutes. I then left the hotel and returned at 9:50PM. I had left the Surface in the room and it was off the charger (deliberately left it so). It was connected - I assume - to the hotel's WiFi, but I had made sure that ALL apps were closed down (meaning they were not on the Task Manager). In other words, it was on connected standby or so I assume. On returning to the room and opening the Surface, I found that I had only 19% of battery charge left. In other words, between 8:45AM to 9:50PM with the Surface being actively used for not more than 30 mins, the device lost 89% of its charge. The power settings are at default (and this includes the screen brightness with the auto-dim feature set on).
I am not sure this is optimal in terms of battery charge. I say this because if I was using the Surface for the whole period of time, I probably would have lost more. Though, what is odd is that I have indeed worked on the Surface (with WiFi on and all other things remaining constant) even a week or so back and can swear that I got better results than this. I can't say that there have been any OS or firmware updates in the interim, though there have been Defender updates, which should not matter, I think.
Comments?
Edit: In every other way though the Surface 2 has performed like a champ. No lag. No issues of any kind and I have been punishing it! So, I am not sure if my particular device is a candidate for exchange because I still feel that the battery question (like the speaker issue) is a matter of a software/ firmware update/ optimization.
I started working in my hotel room in the morning at around 6AM till 8:45AM with the Surface 2 on the charger. Battery had charged up all night and was at 100%. At 8:45 I left my room and met with some people in the hotel. Surface was on WiFi, off the charger, and I was on IE11 with two tabs open and with one Excel worksheet open. This meeting last about 45 minutes. I then left the hotel and returned at 9:50PM. I had left the Surface in the room and it was off the charger (deliberately left it so). It was connected - I assume - to the hotel's WiFi, but I had made sure that ALL apps were closed down (meaning they were not on the Task Manager). In other words, it was on connected standby or so I assume. On returning to the room and opening the Surface, I found that I had only 19% of battery charge left. In other words, between 8:45AM to 9:50PM with the Surface being actively used for not more than 30 mins, the device lost 89% of its charge. The power settings are at default (and this includes the screen brightness with the auto-dim feature set on).
I am not sure this is optimal in terms of battery charge. I say this because if I was using the Surface for the whole period of time, I probably would have lost more. Though, what is odd is that I have indeed worked on the Surface (with WiFi on and all other things remaining constant) even a week or so back and can swear that I got better results than this. I can't say that there have been any OS or firmware updates in the interim, though there have been Defender updates, which should not matter, I think.
Comments?
Edit: In every other way though the Surface 2 has performed like a champ. No lag. No issues of any kind and I have been punishing it! So, I am not sure if my particular device is a candidate for exchange because I still feel that the battery question (like the speaker issue) is a matter of a software/ firmware update/ optimization.
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kristalsoldier
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Yes, but once every 24 hours and that 24 hour period may have run out sometime around Noon...you bring up a good point! I have to take that into account tomorrow.
So, I logged back in at 9:50PM when I got back to my room.
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I noticed more or less the same thing last night with my S2 (But I´m using it at home under my noraml conditions).
I hope it had something to do with an update (was one finishing while restarting the device).
kristalsoldier
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Well..see I was not in to notice any updates. I'll take a look to see if any updates (aside from Defender) were installed in my absence. Regardless, this should not happen - though what Jeff mentions above makes a lot of sense though.
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The last firmware update I had was on 2/11 and the last 8.1RT update I had was on 29/11. All other updates were Defender updates.
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