Guest Jaboloid Posted February 21, 2011 Report Posted February 21, 2011 (edited) There is an enormous difference in battery life when you compare the stock 2.1 ROM with default settings to a 2.2 ROM like FLB or JJ with a widget (I use Widgetsoid) for turning things like Wifi/3G/GPS/Bluetooth/etc on and off on-demand. I went from 1,5 days of battery life to 3-4 days of battery life with the same usage pattern. I'm using JJR9 Rom n just found out that you can add a 'power control' widget to ur home screen :D (long-press anywhere on homescreen, chose 'widgets' from popup screen and then'power control') I can now easily use my phone without charge for more than a day - the widget has different options like bluetooth, wifi, etc.. that you can switch off individually! Actually I'd like to ask anyone who's familiar with this widget to explain what the 6 buttons are for? I can't seem to find a screenshot with the same 6 buttons online and I don't have any programmes to take a screenshot on my phone :D But I recognise 4 of them: Bluetooth, wifi, Sync and Brightness. I guess the other 2 are GPS and 3G? Edited February 21, 2011 by Jaboloid
Guest tuckshop Posted February 22, 2011 Report Posted February 22, 2011 I found this link which may help: http://android.stackexchange.com/questions...ntrol-widget-do I still don't exactly know what the fourth button does though.
Guest Jaboloid Posted February 22, 2011 Report Posted February 22, 2011 I found this link which may help: http://android.stackexchange.com/questions...ntrol-widget-do I still don't exactly know what the fourth button does though. Thx! It can only be something to do with data - maybe even SDCard transfer according to that article... Anyway I switch it off most of the time except when i use googlemap or browser :huh:
Guest Spies Posted February 22, 2011 Report Posted February 22, 2011 Turning off background data improves battery life at the expense of notifications.
Guest Jaboloid Posted February 22, 2011 Report Posted February 22, 2011 Turning off background data improves battery life at the expense of notifications. [/quote Yes, but I'm not bothered - it's my 1st smartphone ever so I'm not even used to getting notifications (email, facebook, etc..) on my mobile :huh: However i do forget to sync data regularly, so maybe if there was a programme that could put on 'data sync' every 2-3 hrs automatically that'd be nice.
Guest womble_sanfran Posted February 22, 2011 Report Posted February 22, 2011 However i do forget to sync data regularly, so maybe if there was a programme that could put on 'data sync' every 2-3 hrs automatically that'd be nice. Tasker?
Guest gremlinman Posted February 22, 2011 Report Posted February 22, 2011 Another thing that helps is: Let you battery go bellow 15% before charge it back up. If you don't then the battery will think that its dead and will remember this next time. ------------------------------------------------------------ Check out my website: gremlinmanblade.weebly.com
Guest exec Posted February 22, 2011 Report Posted February 22, 2011 Another thing that helps is: Let you battery go bellow 15% before charge it back up. If you don't then the battery will think that its dead and will remember this next time. ------------------------------------------------------------ Check out my website: gremlinmanblade.weebly.com No
Guest Phoenix Silver Posted February 22, 2011 Report Posted February 22, 2011 Another thing that helps is: Let you battery go bellow 15% before charge it back up. If you don't then the battery will think that its dead and will remember this next time. ------------------------------------------------------------ Check out my website: gremlinmanblade.weebly.com li/on battery doesn't care about such things (only old generation batteries)
Guest shadowninty Posted February 22, 2011 Report Posted February 22, 2011 ------------------------------------------------------------ Check out my website: gremlinmanblade.weebly.comdo we find CM8 here? :huh:
Guest gremlinman Posted February 22, 2011 Report Posted February 22, 2011 do we find CM8 here? :huh: No not yet :P :)
Guest Jekle Posted February 22, 2011 Report Posted February 22, 2011 No not yet :) :huh: watch out the mythomaniac is about!
Guest IronDoc Posted February 22, 2011 Report Posted February 22, 2011 While he does have a tendency to spout nonsense, this is right. You need to let it discharge occasionally for the level to report correctly.
Guest Martin Watson Posted February 22, 2011 Report Posted February 22, 2011 Might just be me, but isn't the content of his site (check it out!!!!!) copied from here? http://orangesanfrancisco.co.uk/ Martin.
Guest slarti99 Posted February 28, 2011 Report Posted February 28, 2011 Any idea why my battery appears to have been eaten up by the camera (3 pictures taken, then used task killer to ensure it wasn't still loaded). Camera 68% Android System 28% Pulse 2% (news application) according to Battery Use report from the settings menu. ================================ Stock 2.1 Rom with most Orange c**p removed. Thanks
Guest slarti99 Posted March 1, 2011 Report Posted March 1, 2011 Update After 12Hours of being unplugged with wifi on byt phone in stand by report now shows: Camera 97% Android System 2% but battery is a 94% Starting to think the battery report is lying !
Guest mrbill1234 Posted March 22, 2011 Report Posted March 22, 2011 Just to add to this - my battery life was terrible too - it turned out to be a rogue application. I had a tcp/ip keep alive app running. After removing this, standby battery life improved dramatically.
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