I usually get about 4 to 5 hours with mine, although that's more of a guess than anything as I haven't timed it. It may be closer to four. I run it on the second highest screen brightness and power saving off (it gives the screens a weird tint), and 3D mostly on, although I think the battery hit is the same for mild 3D as full 3D. The system also lasts about two days in sleep before going completely dead. That bothers me more than the ~4 hour battery life, as every other device I have with a sleep mode can last more than a week without being charged, and it also ruins the spotpass feature.
I usually get about 4 to 5 hours with mine, although that's more of a guess than anything as I haven't timed it. It may be closer to four. I run it on the second highest screen brightness and power saving off (it gives the screens a weird tint), and 3D mostly on, although I think the battery hit is the same for mild 3D as full 3D. The system also lasts about two days in sleep before going completely dead. That bothers me more than the ~4 hour battery life, as every other device I have with a sleep mode can last more than a week without being charged, and it also ruins the spotpass feature.DJ_Lae
That is what the "Charging Cradle" is for. Just plop it in, wait for the orange light to go off, then be on your merry way. You get SpotPass even while in sleep mode, so with the cradle it'll be in sleep mode as long as you have electricity.
Unless you meant StreetPass, but who would use that for 2 whole days without charging at least once?...
But anyway...I get about 4 hours FULL 3D and 6 or 7 hours 2D when using my 3DS. I have my screens brightness set half way, with "Power saving" set off, I'd probably get an hour more in both modes if I had Power saving on. But like DJ_Lae said, it gives the screen a weird light brown tint which makes everything look dull, so I just leave it off.
It lasts a good 4 hours for me and longer for regular DS games, although less than the DS lite/DSi but it doesn't really bother me since I only ever had the original DS. Anyway, I have never had a problem with the battery life before.. the only occasion where I can see it beeing a problem would be on a long flight. Otherwise I am always around an electrical outlet and a car charger costs like $10.
I use mine on Brightness 2, wifi on, 3D used randomly and I usually get about 5-6 hours on 3DS software, and probably 8-10 hours if I play nothing but DS games. That's with power save on. It's not nearly as bad IMO as people make it seem.
I have the brightness set to 4/5, and it seems to last around 3 hours. No more than that really. Even if i'm playing a Gameboy game, i'll not get more than about 3 hours out of it.
I am at about 3-5 hours. I swear I have had it go out on me in under two though while playing Street Fighter over wifi but I don't exactly sit there w/ a stop watch so I don't know for sure. I think it was at full brightness then and I've turned it down since. In sleep mode, it lasts quite a long time. I keep mine w/ me in sleep mode all day pretty much everyday and it's good for sixteen hours and more. I think it might go down to about half battery over twenty four hours in sleep mode. I do seem to get better battery life w/ regular DS games but I don't have many DSiWare/eStore games that I play for extended stretches so I can really tell how battery life is w/ those. I think playing Cave Story, I got about the same as I did w/ DS games.
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