topic Software Updates setting, ON or OFF to extend battery in XPERIA archive https://community.sony.ba/t5/xperia-archive/software-updates-setting-on-or-off-to-extend-battery/m-p/2784874#M23511 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>To extend battery life should the "Software Updates" setting be turned on or off? Or, will it not affect the battery either way?</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:32:36 GMT 2010-10-27T12:32:36Z Software Updates setting, ON or OFF to extend battery https://community.sony.ba/t5/xperia-archive/software-updates-setting-on-or-off-to-extend-battery/m-p/2784874#M23511 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>To extend battery life should the "Software Updates" setting be turned on or off? Or, will it not affect the battery either way?</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:32:36 GMT https://community.sony.ba/t5/xperia-archive/software-updates-setting-on-or-off-to-extend-battery/m-p/2784874#M23511 2010-10-27T12:32:36Z Re: Software Updates setting, ON or OFF to extend battery https://community.sony.ba/t5/xperia-archive/software-updates-setting-on-or-off-to-extend-battery/m-p/2784875#M23512 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I don't know how regularly the phone checks for updates if you have the automatic seach for software enabled - the phone doesn't seem to say - but by enabling it, it will use the battery to some extent.&nbsp; I doubt that it would check every 5 minutes or something, so my guess is that it wouldn'tmake a lot of difference as far as the battery is concerned.&nbsp; That said, updates of any desciption don't happen very often, and it is easy enough to do a manual check now and again, so I just leave the box unticked.</P><P></P><P>There are certainly plenty of other things that will eat the battery very much more quickly, such as leaving wifi on and automatic updating of Facebook, email etc.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:17:46 GMT https://community.sony.ba/t5/xperia-archive/software-updates-setting-on-or-off-to-extend-battery/m-p/2784875#M23512 sushidushi 2010-10-27T14:17:46Z