Guest Webbywoo Posted January 25, 2010 Report Posted January 25, 2010 Hi I have very recently got 2 new pulses and gave one to the girlfriend. Mine needs charging once every 2 days and hers every night, even tho i do a lot more with it usually. the only real difference is that i am using the custom vanilla rom from this site (great btw many thanks) and hers is stock tmobile (with the update). can that really a difference? neither of use any widgets at the moment. is there any apps that can help track down why hers is draining quicker? or shall i just nuke it and vanilla rom it?? really puzzled, any help would be great
Guest Webbywoo Posted January 25, 2010 Report Posted January 25, 2010 hi i have just gone to battery history on both phones. mine says running 21% hers says 100% ?!??! something keeping it at full 'onness' (struggled for a word then) all the time?? help please. PS: pretty please
Guest jlgmax Posted January 25, 2010 Report Posted January 25, 2010 hi i have just gone to battery history on both phones. mine says running 21% hers says 100% ?!??! something keeping it at full 'onness' (struggled for a word then) all the time?? help please. PS: pretty please On the T Mobile ROM mine used to struggle to last a day. I recently moved to the Vanilla 1.7 ROM and I get nearly 2 days out of it now Its running the same apps (Panda Home, weather widget, facebook widget etc) so I can only think its something running on the T Mobile ROM like their "Contacts" app or something like that maybe ?
Guest meinnit Posted January 25, 2010 Report Posted January 25, 2010 I found that the 1.7 ROM gave a lot better battery life than the stock T-Mobile which also ran a lot slower. I can only guess that the UI or some background processes were consuming more CPU and therefore using more battery.
Guest Webbywoo Posted January 25, 2010 Report Posted January 25, 2010 Thanks guys, thats exactly whats happening. bootloaders, rooting and vanilla rom'ing it is then out of interest is there anyone not using the vanilla rom? i know from my xda days to custom rom it up asap. so my pulse never ran the stock rom :) once i have got past this issue i shall be buying an addfree account to show my gratitude B)
Guest Webbywoo Posted January 25, 2010 Report Posted January 25, 2010 jlgmax, what weather plug in do you use? theres so many out there i don't know which to buy ??
Guest chris9181 Posted January 26, 2010 Report Posted January 26, 2010 Thanks guys, thats exactly whats happening. bootloaders, rooting and vanilla rom'ing it is then out of interest is there anyone not using the vanilla rom? i know from my xda days to custom rom it up asap. so my pulse never ran the stock rom :) once i have got past this issue i shall be buying an addfree account to show my gratitude B) I have the bog standard Pulse with the December update, and I am getting 3 days between charges. Using pandaHome HTC Hero theme, widgets for wifi and 3g on home screen so they are both off when I don't need to use internet. Pleased so far, and don't think I have the guts to update ROM!! I am not that techy!
Guest Webbywoo Posted January 27, 2010 Report Posted January 27, 2010 updated her phone, sorted! 1.7 vanilla rom is on it. updating the phone is quite simple. its about 4 simple steps. these guys at the forum made it simple
Guest jlgmax Posted January 28, 2010 Report Posted January 28, 2010 updated her phone, sorted! 1.7 vanilla rom is on it. updating the phone is quite simple. its about 4 simple steps. these guys at the forum made it simple I use Weather Widgets. The paid for version gives you a "Weather and flip clock" widget - which looks surprisingly similar to HTC's....!
Guest quincy456 Posted January 28, 2010 Report Posted January 28, 2010 (edited) what's the best app to see what is running as i use advanced task manager but when it's killed apps the built in task manager still says others are running my battery doesn't even last a day! i reckoned the bbc news widget might be a culprit so have removed that Edited January 28, 2010 by quincy456
Guest le_lutin Posted January 28, 2010 Report Posted January 28, 2010 what's the best app to see what is running as i use advanced task manager but when it's killed apps the built in task manager still says others are running my battery doesn't even last a day! i reckoned the bbc news widget might be a culprit so have removed that The built in task manager doesn't necessarily show the currently running apps. It shows the last 6 apps that you ran.
Guest Spook Tooth Posted January 28, 2010 Report Posted January 28, 2010 Out of interest, what battery voltage figures do people have in the battery info section? Mine's 3997 mV.
Guest starkos Posted January 28, 2010 Report Posted January 28, 2010 Out of interest, what battery voltage figures do people have in the battery info section? Mine's 3997 mV. Think it depends on the charge level and how much activity there is on the phone. When mine is fully charged and rested for a short while it's usually 4.224. At the moment I've got a 45% charge & it's 3.792
Guest Spook Tooth Posted January 29, 2010 Report Posted January 29, 2010 Right, that makes sense. Battery level is currently 91% and battery voltage is 4085 mV. Had less juice (70%odd) before.
Guest quincy456 Posted January 30, 2010 Report Posted January 30, 2010 "The built in task manager doesn't necessarily show the currently running apps. It shows the last 6 apps that you ran. " Wow thanks for that - never knew that! How do you guys find these things out!!
Guest Webbywoo Posted January 31, 2010 Report Posted January 31, 2010 quincy456 : you using the tmobile rom? if so bin it asap
Guest triplezoney Posted February 1, 2010 Report Posted February 1, 2010 Have to say, I'm using the 'as sold rom' not even the December update! Get at least 2 to 3 days battery from mine running ahome & hero skin and 3g! AND my keyboard works fine on a flat surface too... maybe I had one that was ok?! lol
Guest meinnit Posted February 3, 2010 Report Posted February 3, 2010 I find the battery life very poor, even with minimal usage but now I've finally found a way to save a considerable amount of battery power! I simply disabled the following 2 options: Settings -> Data synchronization -> Background data Settings -> Security & location -> Use wireless networks Before I made the changes I was using 10% battery power on standby overnight (approx 8 hours) and now it's using just 2%! I don't have any widgets, background apps or auto-syncs running. I'm not sure which setting had the most effect on battery life but I'm going to do some more tests to find out.
Guest Swift_gti Posted February 3, 2010 Report Posted February 3, 2010 Don't know if anyone has already tried but I installed Timeriffic today to disable the phone etc. at night, hopefully this will help with the battery issue ;)
Guest twe Posted February 3, 2010 Report Posted February 3, 2010 Settings -> Data synchronization -> Background data This one has given my lots of battery life back. Phone is on 91% charge right now, would normally be at 60% at this time of the day.
Guest robot1000 Posted February 3, 2010 Report Posted February 3, 2010 This one has given my lots of battery life back. Phone is on 91% charge right now, would normally be at 60% at this time of the day. True, but you will lose out on automatic email sync
Guest meinnit Posted February 3, 2010 Report Posted February 3, 2010 True, but you will lose out on automatic email sync Even without auto sync on, Background Data alone has a significant effect on battery life! It's a tough trade off as I like the idea of having push email. Anyone know what Background Data actually does?
Guest robot1000 Posted February 3, 2010 Report Posted February 3, 2010 (edited) Even without auto sync on, Background Data alone has a significant effect on battery life! It's a tough trade off as I like the idea of having push email. Anyone know what Background Data actually does? Found you your answer on a another site http://androidcommunity.com/forums/180398-post8.html background data is referring to any data any app needs such as services like weather apps or the market or gps. So basically it stops your phone from accessing the web Edited February 3, 2010 by robot1000
Guest twe Posted February 3, 2010 Report Posted February 3, 2010 Yeh just tried launching Market and it asked me to Enable background data... hmmm... Although will leave it as is, with it disabled, at work I have internet access to my emails anyway, its mainly when I am on the road when I want that so can always switch it back on.
Guest meinnit Posted February 4, 2010 Report Posted February 4, 2010 Found you your answer on a another site http://androidcommunity.com/forums/180398-post8.html So basically it stops your phone from accessing the web Thats not totally true. After searching several sites and forums it seems that the setting is indeed used for background data however its up to an application whether it actually obeys this setting (which almost all apps seem not to!) http://androidforums.com/samsung-i7500/256...round-data.html The background data setting is to allow you to control whether apps can access data. Apps can choose not to obey that setting and just access anyway. Unfortunately, Google apps obeys it. Another thing is that google apps uses a lot of power with a data connection and background data enabled and it hardly sends out any data. I also found another forum post claiming that this setting is in place so that only one process deals with background data access but it seems apps simply don't obey this setting. I dont understand why this setting uses up so much power even when you have nothing syncing in the background!! What is it actually doing?!
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