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I must say I hate it when people think repeating exclamation marks will help in any way. I usually don't do that.
I'm gonna build a wall around my cubical and make Mexico pay for it!
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Depends on the tablet, depends on the OS.
The WookieTab under Win10 goes into Sleep mode when I shut it (with the KB attached), press the power button, or do nothing with it for a few minutes. So it disables the WiFi, slows the CPU to a crawl, and does pretty much nothing except monitor the power button / KB Open latch magnet.
But an Android Tablet doesn't - it turns off the display, but keeps everything else running - checking the email every 15 minutes, looking for updates every 10 seconds if there is an Adobe product installed, you know the kind of thing.
So an Android tablet with the power button pushed still uses a fair amount of power, and this can flatten the battery. If you hold the power button, it brings up a "power off" option, which does exactly what it says on the tin.
What type of tablet are we talking?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It is a Lenovo IdeaPad A1107...
As much as I know I did shut it down - not just left it there... (see my comment above)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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support.lenovo.com wrote: workaround is to charge the battery up to 100%. If issue persists, call for further technical support.
 
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Superfish strikes again.
It just drained the battery monitoring you. Feel the love.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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The battery might be blown.
You can replace it if you know its dimensions and you have a soldering iron.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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When was it build?
A search for "IdeaPad A1107" shows hits from 2013. Lithium batteries will loose capacity with time and typical life times are 3 to 5 years.
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At which point, the fun starts. I have a Galaxy Tab that has an iffy battery. These things are glued together, I vaguely recall an article I read in the past about using a hair dryer / heat gun to soften the glue.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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It is easy to replace - 6 small screws and a cable...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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End of 2013... I will ask the local lab to check the battery... 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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An American queue in front of a Southern seabird, one behind the other. (4,6)
modified 2-Mar-17 4:47am.
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An American queue LINE
in front of
a A
Southern S
seabird, TERN
LINE ASTERN
one behind the other
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Indeed it is!
Have to brush up on my clue setting - had hoped it would last a little longer... 
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Way it goes sometimes - you post a nice simple little clue and nobody gets it. You post a fiendish monster, and 30 seconds later it's solved.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I liked that one - shame that Griff had to ruin it by solving it so quickly!
Slogans aren't solutions.
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This must be Thursday, I never could get the hang of Thursdays. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Probably a fairly large contributor to the demise of Internet Explorer.
Fine, Microsoft. I'll copy Chrome onto a USB key, copy it over and yet another machine will never, ever use IE.
You'd think they would at least add their own domain to the whitelist. 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: You'd think they would at least add their own domain to the whitelist.
Were you trying to download the latest version of IE - edge or something like that? It's trying to protect you, in that case.
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Hell, I keep having to open up IE because Firefox won't let me go to sites that have "bad" certificates, and doesn't even give me the option of going anyway. (We're not allowed to loosen up security here, but at least IE will just warn me before letting me go.)
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"Your current security settings" is the key here, isn't it? Just change your settings?  It's only doing what you told it to do, right?
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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No, it's their current security settings. It's the default ones.
Yeah - I can certainly wade into the security settings, work out which zone I want to fiddle with, try and work out exactly what domain I need to whitelist (extra fun because downloads often come from a subdomain and you can't wildcard add domains) and then iterate through all of that.
Or I can just use a browser that lets me get some work done.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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...but the garbage I've had to look into and fix, well, it's just amazing.
- Lack of abstraction (makes testing a total PITA)
- Lack of encapsulation (would be nice to be able to load up the configuration values without hitting a serer that I don't connect to in testing)
- Absolutely convoluted code for getting something to run on a separate thread (even before
Task.Run this was basically a 5 liner, not the 100+ lines of drivel I'm wading through.) - How many times do I need to xpath the config file to get the same value in the same loop???
- Let's instantiate variables and never use them!
- Let's add debugging that inspects the .NET stack. And not disable it in a release build.
- Let's load an XSLT transform from a file every time we need to transform something.
- And maybe XSLT isn't the most efficient?
- And let's put in comments about "not too pricey performance-wise" for stupid-arsed things and totally ignore the glaring inefficiencies elsewhere.
- Let's use
bool? as a 3 state variable instead of a readable enum. - And the list goes on.
I am getting sorely disappointed in the code I've had to work with. I have yet to see something decently implemented in this job. It's pretty clear to me that if I were the Trump of the software engineering world, I would cull 90% of them and relegate them to captaining garbage scows.
Marc
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I agree. I hate that not all programmers are as smart as me. It's the worst.  Why can't they all know exactly what I know? 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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