Really Works. guide to save battery power

[Guest justpratik]

- Ensure you do not have Wi-Fi on permanently

- Set your backlighttime out option to the minimum level.

- Reduce your display brightness.

- If you are in a poor 3G signal area, and the phone is constantly

switching between 3G and 900/1800, this may drain battery life. Please

set your band selection manually to 900/1800.

- uncheck the beam option > setting -> connection -> beam and check it if you want to receive files via bluetooth.

- monitor regulary task manager. you will notice main menu is still running even after close.

close it after check.

- main menu of samsung is not closing if we start to close try to use another software like spb mobile shell,pointui,spb pocket plus for app

let me know if it works for you.

[Guest dwallersv]

Don't use the device for anything fun -- no videos, music, games. Throw away your BT headset and do not use BT for anything.

Battery will last a long, long time. Of course, you might as well have gotten a freebie limited capability phone.

I kid, I kid! The biggest battery issue with smartphones is that battery technology hasn't advanced enough to meet the demands of these integrated devices. I routinely burn a fully charged battery in half a day -- because I'm watching streaming video while in a waiting room, using it as the equivalent of a PhatBox in my car for music or as a personal music player wirelessly through my Plantronics Voyager 855 wireless BT headphones.

All this stuff sucks down power like a voracious alien from Star Trek. Right now the only solution is to carry a charged spare battery.

Hang in there, folks. Battery technology is advancing. There's a promising technology out of Stanford with 10x the storage density of current LiPo batteries, and will probably hit commercially in the next two years.

Imagine that -- ten times the total energy than your current battery, in the same package. I could use my phone just as I do now, but only charge it every 4 days or so. Those of you who hardly use the great features of your phone at all could probably go a month between charges.

[Guest justpratik]

Don't use the device for anything fun -- no videos, music, games. Throw away your BT headset and do not use BT for anything.

Battery will last a long, long time. Of course, you might as well have gotten a freebie limited capability phone.

I kid, I kid! The biggest battery issue with smartphones is that battery technology hasn't advanced enough to meet the demands of these integrated devices. I routinely burn a fully charged battery in half a day -- because I'm watching streaming video while in a waiting room, using it as the equivalent of a PhatBox in my car for music or as a personal music player wirelessly through my Plantronics Voyager 855 wireless BT headphones.

All this stuff sucks down power like a voracious alien from Star Trek. Right now the only solution is to carry a charged spare battery.

Hang in there, folks. Battery technology is advancing. There's a promising technology out of Stanford with 10x the storage density of current LiPo batteries, and will probably hit commercially in the next two years.

Imagine that -- ten times the total energy than your current battery, in the same package. I could use my phone just as I do now, but only charge it every 4 days or so. Those of you who hardly use the great features of your phone at all could probably go a month between charges.

hi, have checked this instead of buying battery?

http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techsp...ase_sku=PNOTEBX

i did buy it with 4 AAA of UNIROSS 250 Mah cell but its not working.

may be higher capacity needed?

[Guest Gibeon]

Wow, great news *not*

[Guest WdGldDave]

The biggest drain for me came from the default setting that syncs all your emails as they come. Go into ActiveSync and change it to "every 30 minutes" during peak hours and "every 4 hrs" during non-peak times. You can always hit "send and receive" from the email dialog if you feel that it hasn't updated recently.

[Guest dwallersv]

The biggest drain for me came from the default setting that syncs all your emails as they come. Go into ActiveSync and change it to "every 30 minutes" during peak hours and "every 4 hrs" during non-peak times. You can always hit "send and receive" from the email dialog if you feel that it hasn't updated recently.

Didn't quite follow this... did you mean settings in the email app for retrieving from a POP3 account?

None of what you said above makes any sense to me vis a vis ActiveSync.

In any case, the Omnia has a 1400mAh battery, which isn't too shabby. The Omnia itself is not some bad, power-wasting hardware design. The problem is that radio transmitters, the backlight for a large screen, and processor power consumption during things like decoding compressed media all just really consume a lot of power.

Yet, all this stuff is what makes the Omnia an Omnia. So, if you use your phone for what you bought it for, not just making/taking phone calls, the battery's gonna run down fast.

Consider: You can only play about two hours continuous video material from a full battery before it's just about completely drained. Well, if you're in an airport and your watching an episode of some TV show, you're going to have drained half your battery after a single program. That's if you have it stored locally on the phone. It's even worse if you're streaming over the internet from a media server, sucking down power for the cell radio too.

That's my situation most of the time. So I manage power by doing two basic things: Charge whenever I can (alway in the car, at home, or in the office), and carry a spare battery that you keep charged.

There's really no other solution right now. For any device in the Omnia's class.

[Guest Adrynalyne]

He was saying that having your email pushed to you as it arrives via activesync eats battery, which is an issue with me as well. So I set it to later intervals.

[Guest 3shirts]

I have to agree with Dwallersv, it is pretty much common sense that turning off things like wifi and bluetooth and avoiding a lot of music, streaming or gaming will save battery but you don't have a device like this if you want to avoid those things. If I am going away from a charger for a few days or end up stuck away from one longer than planned then sure I will cut back on all that stuff but otherwise I want to use my phone for all the awesome shizz it can do

[Guest rayanmx]

I have to agree with Dwallersv, it is pretty much common sense that turning off things like wifi and bluetooth and avoiding a lot of music, streaming or gaming will save battery but you don't have a device like this if you want to avoid those things. If I am going away from a charger for a few days or end up stuck away from one longer than planned then sure I will cut back on all that stuff but otherwise I want to use my phone for all the awesome shizz it can do

On the contrary!!!

That doesn't make any sense at all!!!

Why purchase an all-in-one device capable of doing so many wonderful things if you have to keep yourself from using them???

In that case just go ahead and purchase a dumb phone!!!

My other smarphone, a Nokia E71 can do pretty much all of that (music, video, 3d ngage games, youtube, internet, push mail, etc) and the battery lasts 2 days straight!

Don't get me wrong, I'm not blaming the Omnia... It's more a Windows Mobile design flaw in my opinion... All my other WM devices (HTC TyTn, HTC TyTN II, HTC Trinity, Treo 750, HTC Prophet) all suffered the same battery problem!!!

So our beloved WM Smartphones are not that smart at all!!! They don't know how to save power efficiently! <_<

Cheers!

RayanMX

[Guest kav]

- Ensure you do not have Wi-Fi on permanently

- Set your backlighttime out option to the minimum level.

- Reduce your display brightness.

- If you are in a poor 3G signal area, and the phone is constantly

switching between 3G and 900/1800, this may drain battery life. Please

set your band selection manually to 900/1800.

- uncheck the beam option > setting -> connection -> beam and check it if you want to receive files via bluetooth.

- monitor regulary task manager. you will notice main menu is still running even after close.

close it after check.

- main menu of samsung is not closing if we start to close try to use another software like spb mobile shell,pointui,spb pocket plus for app

let me know if it works for you.

in other words u are saying not to use the fone at all,,, <_< just the strict minimum... but then like it was mentioned before, why didnt u buy a samsung b320,, probably the battery would last 3 weeks the way u would plan to use it....

the omnia is made for fun and extensive use,,, just use it and stop trying to save the battery unlerss u have to charge it every 4 to 5 hours intervals.....

one other thing, can u tell me how can u change the network band manually to only 900/1800mhz and prevent it from connecting to the 3G network???

[Guest davidmrrr]

man, if you have a nokia, or a samsung or whatever, whether or not youre running windows mobile, the fact is if you use your smartphone or ppc for all the cool things it can do, your batterys going to die sooner than if you strictly make phonecalls.

buy a car charger.