going to plug the 3DS cradle into my router since I never use that USB slot and it's always on.A great idea...until you find out that your 3DS is pulling as much power as the router itself. 900mA is way beyond the USB spec, and the adapter for the router itself is probably barely sufficient for its own needs, so you'd have to use those awful USB wall warts.
awssk8er said:
I have power save mode off. Do you know how it works? I thought it just lowered the brightness slightly.
Since the brightness control already does that, what would be the point? The only visible changes in "power save" mode is that the screens are tinged slightly yellower. A poster in another thread stated that it's because it takes less power to represent white as off-white instead. In addition, the 3DS figures out if the display is all black (maybe through function calls for clearing the screen, maybe by just checking the framebuffer) and simply switches off the backlight if it is, which would probably save quite a bit of power. Note that these are just the changes we can actually see; there may be other magic going on internally, such as controlling the power through RAM or CPU sleep states. A moot point, though, considering how it works doesn't really matter a whole lot as long as it does actually save power.
QUOTE(Masterpaul @ May 1 2011, 01:20 PM)