Go Green With The PSP

**JPJunkie** · August 5th, 2007, 11:34

Via PSP 117

This is a guide on how to go green with your psp!

Go Green with the PSP

With all the talk of global warming and carbon footprints everyone seems to be paying more and more attention to the amount of energy they use and emissions they are causing. So I’m writing this to try and do my bit towards helping the planet by teaching PSP users how to save energy on their PSP.

1. Don’t just leave your PSP on when you aren’t using it, when paused why not put in standby or turn off the system?

2. How bright do you need it? Turning the screen brightness down when listening to music or using in the dark is always going to help save battery life. Do you really need to see visualisers with music?

3. If you use your PSP to play music, then hold down the screen button to put the screen into standby mode, your music will keep playing for many more hours because your using your PSP efficiently!

4. Use headphones! No one else wants to hear your hip-hop anyways so plug in some headphones, get some better sound quality and save some more energy.

5. If your downloading a large file then keep the screen on standby till its done, the memory stick and WiFi light will stop flashing so you’ll know when its done.

6. Not all games need music on the top volume, why not bring it down a bit?

7. In USB mode, why wouldn’t you put the screen in standby and save a bit more juice.

8. You don't need to leave your PSP on standby for weeks, turn it off instead.

9. Get a solar power charger, and then you can charge up wherever you are without using any unrenewable resources.

Hopefully these ideas will encourage you to use your PSP a but more efficiently, after all, you get longer battery life out of it if you do, save some money on electricity bills and do your bit for the environment!

Via PSP 117

**TCLCloud** · August 5th, 2007, 22:37

Awesome!

**xg917** · August 5th, 2007, 22:44

im all up for saving battery life on my psp. i know many people that put the volume of their psp at max and also screen brightness at max and its kinda annoying.

**dangee** · August 5th, 2007, 23:13

nice 1 JP .
dont know if its true , but I read somewhere that lower screen brightness is done by
increasing opacity of the screen substrate.
The backlight intensity is constant , so changing brightness makes no diff to power consumption.
tip #3 is great , didnt know this b4.

**acn010** · August 5th, 2007, 23:23

backlight makes a huge diff... so its true

**dangee** · August 5th, 2007, 23:36

not sure if u mean that what I read was true, or not (do u know the approx Milliamps used ?) ..
..just remembered another tip..
Slower CPU = less heat = lower power use + longer chip life

the homebrew bookr offers v. slow cpu speed for power saving

**xg917** · August 5th, 2007, 23:46

yea. lower the cpu speed when listening to music or watching videos.

**acn010** · August 5th, 2007, 23:58

its all about the green X]
oh well these are great tips

**LilSwish722** · August 6th, 2007, 00:11

Good tips but...global warming is a bunch of crap. There is no such thing. And if there was, and what Al Gore said (the stupid liberal moron) we will all be dead by 2013. SOOOO...no. I won't use this lol. Great tips though. But alot of these i already knew or did in the first place.