DS Daily: Sleep vs. shutdown

I usually shut mine down, unless I'm just using the restroom, or have something that I have to do right then. I'd rather not eat up my battery (even though I know it can last a while) by leaving it on. Helps lower my carbon emissions.

I do love that sleep mode though, I remember coming back from doing something sometimes hours later and Pokemon music would still be blaring from my gameboy sitting on my bed or in my chair, ate up a lot of batteries that way.

I usually, almost always, leave my DS in sleep mode. It's the DS's best feature. Though, I don't think it's too good for the environment. I should really stop using that feature.

Though, at the same time, I wish Nintendo found a way to support GBA games.

Apparently a fully-charged DS can last for a week in sleep mode, but that doesn't stop me from being crazy and turning it off.

I keep mine off unless I know I'm going to be coming back to it to play. I only use sleep when the traffic signal turns green.

Arguments regarding carbon emission vs. sleep mode? For the DS? Please. You might as well collect and eat the tiny dry crumbs of bread that fall from your toast to the floor, in an attempt to buy less bread from the supermarket, therefore lowering the carbon emissions of the transports that carry the grain from the plains to the store. That said, I'll swallow back this snark and apologize if someone comes forth with solid confidence intervals over average battery discharge times when alternating play with sleep versus alternating play with off. Confidence intervals over the total play time should be given along. And from that play time should be subtracted the time it takes from the moment the DS is toggled on to the moment playing actually starts --- unskippable developer and publisher logos and menu navigation don't count as play time to me.

If my point was not clear, I favor the sleep mode. I really only turn the DS off to switch games, which seldom happens.

Well.. sleep if it is a quick time out... but always use shutdown to save power. What is strange, is that one day I had to go to work and was playing New Super Mario Bros e had it sleep, and forgot about it until night, and then the light was already red, while the my PSP saves more power in sleep than in shutdown mode. Isn't it strange?

SLEEP-almost always
between Subs or between classes or just the drive home......sleep mode is genius

Yeah, for the most part sleep mode is confined to either "oh man, I forgot it was in sleep" or to a short break in the game. If I actually intend to go and pretend to be productive it's off.

you can shut a DS off? never heard of it...mine's either on, or sleeping...

The DS has such a quick startup, I usually just turn on and off. I play with the brightness on the third setting, so I get decent battery life, and sleep mode usually takes nothing from that. I use sleep mode all the time, it helps at work or just going to the bathroom or when I remember I have to eat sometimes. The only hangup I have with it is that some DS homebrew doesn't support sleep mode, namely POWDER, which I'm generally playing the hell out of. So even when I close the system, it's still running at full steam.

My only request for the DS as far as suspending games is concerned is that they add a standby mode that will fully suspend your game, like on the PSP. When I realized that I could just stop wherever I was standing in Monster Hunter and come back to that exact moment in time, it blew my mind.

I normally turn mine off. Then again, I'm fairly complusive about turning light switches off.

I only use sleep mode when I us my DS as an alarm clock.

I leave mine in sleep mode almost constantly... sometimes I leave it like that for days on end.

I almost always turn it off, unless I'm just putting the thing down for a minute to grab a snack or let the dog out or whatever. I'm pretty paranoid about battery usage, even though there's no real need to be, since the DSL battery lasts incredibly long, especially on the lower brightness settings. Well, the less often I have to put it away for three hours to charge, the better!

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DS carbon emissions. Just when I thought I'd heard everything, lol.

I'm about 50/50. I use sleep when I plan to come back to the game soon, or I can't save right then.

Otherwise, I shut it off. I've been extremely impressed with the battery life. The GBA SP was good, but the DS is truly impressive.

My first handheld was an Atari Lynx, and my second was a Sega Nomad, so I'm no stranger to excessively poor battery life.

I only ever turn my DS off to switch games, if I didn't have to do that I'd never ever turn it off, I hate that Health & Safety screen SO MUCH

I hardly ever sleep it. Only when I use it as an alarm clock in a hotel! I love that feature, by the way.

I only use Power when changing games or when I'm done for the day.

I didn't even know there was a sleep mode until recently. I guess I should on occasion read a manual or something. Ah well, but through force of habit I still usually turn mine off.

I totally turn mine off unless I am getting up to grab something to drink or some other quick task. The DS turns on and off so quickly and it's fun to look at the time I start a game. :)

I shutdown. When I use sleep, I tend to forget that I was playing anyways. There's still power when I find my DS still on, but I do like not to have to remember that I was doing something.

sleep mode

Once i used alarm feature (which works only in sleep mode), not anymore because of it drains almost whole charge, Now im surpsised to read that battery in sleep mode lasts one week? then my ds battery is corrupted, or what?

I tend to turn it off. I'm almost always playing a gb advance pokemon game ;) so that doesn't really go to sleep when you close it!! Curses nintendo! ! Why make it backwards compatible when sleep doesn't work for both :(