What is your tablet schedule, when do you get on it, and whats the first thing you do?
Here is mine:
3:15pm- get on check xda anything new and then engadget 40 min
4pm- listen tho music, browse anything on internet 15 min
5pm- watch an episode of the office
7pm- check email, xda, browser, what the office
11pm- listen music, what the office
There is partially my schedule
3:00 a.m.: Turn off Gentle Alarm, unplug from stereo.
3:30 a.m.: check out current events and recent news.
3:50 a.m.: Put tablet into custom made car dock and plug into stereo aux and use Poweramp or Pandora as media player and make the 40 minute trek to work.
4:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.: Use Tablet as media player "music, movies", play games on PSX emulator and read current events/surf forums throughout the work day.
12:00 p.m.: Get off work, plug back into car aux and listen to music, podcast or news on way home & during shower.
1:00 p.m. - 10/11:00 p.m.: Plug hdmi into TV and use to stream movies etc. then plugging back into stereo for gentle alarm and going to sleep.
This is loosely how I use it during a normal workday, no matter what after all of that when I plug it in before going to sleep it still has about 30-40% battery life left . If I bought the damn thing I'm gonna use the snot out of it lol.
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3:00 a.m.: Turn off Gentle Alarm, unplug from stereo.
3:30 a.m.: check out current events and recent news.
3:50 a.m.: Put tablet into custom made car dock and plug into stereo aux and use Poweramp or Pandora as media player and make the 40 minute trek to work.
4:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.: Use Tablet as media player "music, movies", play games on PSX emulator and read current events/surf forums throughout the work day.
12:00 p.m.: Get off work, plug back into car aux and listen to music, podcast or news on way home & during shower.
1:00 p.m. - 10/11:00 p.m.: Plug hdmi into TV and use to stream movies etc. then plugging back into stereo for gentle alarm and going to sleep.
This is loosely how I use it during a normal workday, no matter what after all of that when I plug it in before going to sleep it still has about 30-40% battery life left . If I bought the damn thing I'm gonna use the snot out of it lol.
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man, you get on that really early!!
I use my tablet often thru the day.at night laying in bed of the morning before i get up..
Mostly for email some text documents /journal. Web browsing.
SHOPPING SHOPPING SHOPPING.
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it to shop online
6:00 am : Get up and sit and check the weather/news/email while I drink that ever important first cup of coffee.
6:15 am : Continue to sit and stare blankly at the screen while I have the even more important second cup of coffee(after all, the first cup is just a prelude to the second).
7:00 am : Pack it into my manchel for the ride to work.
11:30 am : Check Craigslist/play games/etc. while I have even more coffee and possibly something to eat. Then back into my sweet man-bag while I go back to slaving for the man until
5:00 pm : Check emails one more time, in the vain hope that some of my useless friends have written me. Also a good way to stay abreast of all groinal enlargement methods available to the modern man.
6:00-11:59pm : Play games, read news, comics, books, etc. until
The Witching Hour : Read in bed for a bit or possibly watch something on netflix.
Then its time for it to sleep while I do.
It's awesome you guys have shared, here's my schedule:
6am - Turn off the alarm and try to wake up
6.30am - Check GoogleReader feeds, read emails from last night while prepparing clothes and coffee. Then go for a good shower to finally wakeup.
7am - Write out a little and send early emails to my crew, while having tiny-breakfast
8am - Check work-related urgent matters while packing everything on the bag
8.30am - Leave to the client's office for OnSite consulting (Mon-Wed-Fri) or check new clients and meetings (Tue-Thr) 30mins driving aprox while listening Grooveshark on my car.
10am - Respond urgent emails, while tweet a little
12pm - On LunchTime eat some "feeds" and coffee
2pm - Meal time, while seeing a Netflix TV Show
5pm - Off OnSite asignation, back to home office to check personal stuff (Mon-Wed-Fri)
7pm - Some good TV and Online Social Stuff, Videoconferencing, Podcasting ... whatever is pending.
9pm - Offline mode, sure we need to rest sometimes, then no gadgets until tomorrow. Watch News, Netflix or read a Book, depending on my mood. ... well just mobile phone in case a Sev1 Issue appears on client's site
BTW my mobile crew: Iconia Tab A500, SE Xperia Arc, Galaxy Mini, Macbook Pro 15" (thunderbolt) - sometimes iPod Touch 4G to replace GalaxyMini or Galaxy Tab 7" to replace IconiaTab.
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Just curious what people do with their bricks when their sleeping..I like the idea of leaving it on, plugged in overnight next to my bed in case I get any emergency calls, but is there any possible wear/damage issues to the microdrive by leaving it on for extended periods of time?
About the Microdrive, no, not really.
But I couldn't vote in your poll: I personnaly leave it unplugged and in stand by (not completly shut down).
I am one of those who believe micro-leaking hurts batteries, even if they are supposed to be without memory-effect. So I don't leave it plugged, and when I charge it, I disconnect it ASAP.
That worked for me for all my batteries, which I kept up and in shape for a long, long time.
Thanks for the input Heartofdarkness, I guess I should have added another option to the poll at least one for none of the above. With work and everything, it seems like I am constantly in and out of my office with wifi, and bluetooth on. I'm fairly sure I would not make it thru the entire day on one charge, should I be charging it in spurts of like 30 mins? Currently im trying to get it as much charging time as possible, and unfortunatly thats in short bursts. I'm interested to see what everyone else does as well....... I guess it really doesent matter if the battery eventually craps out, at least its a replacable item.
My devicedoesn't shut down. It's always on 24x7. At night, it's my MP3 player if I'm not listening to my am talk back radio. It's also my alarm clock for the morning calls. Yes, my golf buddy can call me closer to the morning if there is any change in golfing plan, or just send me an SMS. Most probably, I still read and answer to XDA forum on bed until I get sleepy. Sometimes I download youtube videos and watch it before sleeping.
There will also be a scheduled backup that happens automatically at 4am.
Im option E: plugged in and completely off.
I suspect you would be fine if you didnt charge it all day. Mine goes on at 6am, gets a call or two and some browsing through the day (staying on standby otherwise), and by 8pm I have about 80 to 90% left. It then gets heavy browsing between me and my wife between 8 and 10pm leaving me around 30% at the end of the day. If I start browsing earlier than 8 Ill be left with 10 to 20%. Most of the day Im on a 3G/HSDPA network which uses more power than EDGE.
Have you tried going all day without charging?
Im option E: plugged in and completely off.
I suspect you would be fine if you didnt charge it all day. Mine goes on at 6am, gets a call or two and some browsing through the day (staying on standby otherwise), and by 8pm I have about 80 to 90% left. It then gets heavy browsing between me and my wife between 8 and 10pm leaving me around 30% at the end of the day. If I start browsing earlier than 8 Ill be left with 10 to 20%. Most of the day Im on a 3G/HSDPA network which uses more power than EDGE.
Have you tried going all day without charging?
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Have you tried going all day without charging?
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Never happen for me. A single battery will not last the whole day for me. I use it so much that I normally also use a spare battery. When a battery runs out, I simply go the charger to take out the then fully charged one and swap them. So I never get caught not having any juice. If I'm in the car, then a single battery will suffice as the car battery quickly fully charge it.
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Never happen for me. A single battery will not last the whole day for me. I use it so much that I normally also use a spare battery. When a battery runs out, I simply go the charger to take out the then fully charged one and swap them. So I never get caught not having any juice. If I'm in the car, then a single battery will suffice as the car battery quickly fully charge it.
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Today I went 5 am to about 7:30 pm without a charge. But man was I hurting when I got to the car! Had to plug in right away, down to the short red bar on the top, I think that's 10%.
thanks for the responses
cool, I feel a bit better about leaving it on all night. even if its just standby mode, I need it there for the calls....and who knows maybe ill wake up and wanna check some news
On and powered - Its on the bedside table and runs SPBTime as a bedside clock. I use phonealarm to turn down the screen brightness to zero, volumes to 10% at midnight, then at 6.45, turn up the display back to 100%, volumes upto 60% and then trigger a connection to BBC Radio 1 via Windows Media Player to wake me up. And if that fails, SPBTime kicks off an alarm at 7am which I can't ignore and wakes me up.
I pretty much leave the thing running 24x7 and it doesn't spend that much time off the charger (Charged when by the bed, and charged at work - only between times that it doesn't get plugged in). I accept that the battery will probably need to be replaced at some point, my biggest concern is the backlight wearing out.
Well, I don't really use wifi that much, but BT's always on. And it is always in stand-by mode when I'm not using it. And currently, I think I could go about 3-4 days without charging it, and using it quite heavily as it is both my personnal AND professionnal PDA and phone and I'm on the phone A LOT.
My secret (I feel like a "Barbara Gould Woman" ) ?
- stand-by after 1 minute inactivity instead of the default 2;
- Pocket Hack Master + "disabled XScale scaling functionalities" + PHM scaling engine with specific settings, among which 204 MHz as lower speed;
That way, my Athena's about 98% of the time at 204 MHz, and still feels responsive because of my scaling settings.
Thanks for all your responses!
I want to see how your X1's doing on performance. Please post your battery life with ur daily usage here please
For myself, i ran it only for a few days n i may have to get an extra battery to work...
phone fully charged by wall charger from 12am last night to 7am this morning (i know the crappy stuff about charging it thru PC, so i decided to go with wall charger).
unplugged at 7am
7am - 9am: phone was on without usage - wifi, bluetooth, everythings off
(battery bar from FULL to 80%)
9am - 11am: windows media player with connection for live radio online
(battery bar from 80% to 40%)
11am to 2:45pm: media player panel for mp3 usage, listening to mp3 nonstop with a few short phone calls
(battery bar empty and it shut off itself)
so i have total of 5 hours and 45 minutes of usage of the phone from 9am to 2:45pm, other than that it was just sitting turned on from 7am to 9am
Is it normal? please post urs here to do a little comparison!
Fully charged with the phone off overnight, 8 hours later without any usage (just checked the clock a few times) kept me at 100% battery level.
However, using the internet to browse through regular websites consistently and running Fring at the same time runs my battery from 100% to completely shut down in 3 hours and 45 minutes or so.
Today:
Fully charged and unplugged @ 10am
Surfed the web 30 minutes (opera 9.5)
Skype ~10 minutes (text messaging)
Checked mails (2 accounts) every 60 minutes = 10 times until 8pm
~20 minutes phone calls
all with HSDPA
battery level now 1:17 am, after 15 hours, 60%.
So, yes. Its normal and I think any other phone will behave the same with 2 hours listening to online radio + ~3 hours mp3 playback + few short phone calls.
Charged about 8h overhight, unplugged at 10am in the morning, bluetooth on all day, synchronized with bluetooth watch mbw-150 for all day, listening music over bluetooth stereo headset for about half hour, phone calls 35 minutes, turned on display many times over all day and in the evening at midnight, after 14 hours of usage I have more then 60% battery so not bad I think.
Battery life
Well my phone really is inconsistent. I keep forgetting to load it at night and i will be empty the next morning as long as bluetooth is on. No matter how full it was in the evening.
I do use it all day with bluetooth and about 1 hour phone calls a day over bluetooth + Outlook used a lot. It will be almost empty in the evening.
Bluetooth really is pulling the battery down.
ya, hmm maybe cause by network we are in... maybe some network require stronger use of battery to get reception... for this i cant really tell cause im not an expert...
by the way, im in US using ATT.
feel better now though by knowing its normal for a pda phone, actually its my first, used to play mp3 all day with sony's phone, lol
i know turning all programs and connection off will reduce use of battery, but is there ways to really make it run a little longer?
sidenote: my theme is Today, and i also make sure that nothing running in task manager...
Perhaps it has something to do with the radio ROM?
anyone? no hints?
Connected to EDGE, BT (syncing with car stereo only) and WLM 24/7 with about and hour or two worth of calls and viewing & answering sms/emails my battery lasts about 3 days.
Connected to EDGE, BT (syncing with car stereo only), WLM 24/7 with about 20 minutes worth of calls, viewing & answering sms/emails and listening to mp3's with the screen on with the backlight dimmed lasts from about 6-7 hours.
Connected to EDGE, BT (syncing with car stereo only), WLM 24/7 with about 20 minutes worth of calls, viewing & answering sms/emails and listening to mp3's with the screen off lasts from about 10-15 hours
charged th phone overnight swiched off, on at 8:00 MBW-150 and bt headset connected 2 hours of calls. no wifi or internet browsing, 3g and HSDPA off. and at the end of the day after normal use 23:00 battery was almost dry.....
100% in the morning @ 7:00 am charged all night using wall charger
HSDPA (or Edge depending on converage) all the time with Microsoft Push Email
10 to 20 SMSes per day
2 to 3 hours phone call
RSS feeds syncing every 1 hour using RSS HUB.
Bluetooth ON 24/7 in connectable mode, connected to BT headset (not sterio) and BT watch (MBW-150) using smartWatchM
10 to 15 Minutes of WiFi
i reach 10:00pm and the battery on 20 or 30%.
if i reduce phone calls (1 to 1.5 hours) i get 40 to 50% @ 10:00pm
this is a great battery life for me, i love it. the battery is affected by the current FW you are using and how many applications are running in the background (doing stuff not sleeping).
i use R2AA10.
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Alarm rings at 6:00.
Usage 6:00 - 16:00:
Two or three phone calls with a length of one minute or two.
Email checking for 3 accounts every 30minutes (HSDPA).
10 to 20 text-messages (receive and write).
Half an hour listening to music with headphones.
Usage 16:00 - 0:00:
Two or three phone calls with a length of one minute or two.
Email checking for 3 accounts every 30minutes (EDGE).
10 to 20 text-messages (receive and write).
Quarter an hour of W-Lan while searching the internet for updates to my programs.
Usage 0:00 - 6:00:
Standy with flightmode.
The battery drains each day for about 20%, so I charge the battery each 4th day (it should last one more day but you never know what's coming to drain your battery during the day )
I'm on YYYYY's german Manilla ROM
Hi,
New here, my first post.
Am using the latest update from SonyEricsson website.
No matter for how long I charge my phone never shows "Completely charged" status all the time its in "Charging" mode.
I have observed that it consumes more charge on using playing music, browsing, using Java tools, and if Bluetooth is kept on.
Take it off charge at 0700
3-4 hours internet use.
Podcast download and RSS feed checking + dl... (varies in a day depending on Podcast available or not and whats new)
Loads of sms
about an hour of phone calls
about 4 hours or so of reading/vocab practice (using Plecodict, a Chinese language tool)
after 2-3 days like this it needs charging again (40-20% depending on podcast dl)
Let it charge over night.
Lasts about 2 full days.
Make few calls, lots of texts, checks emails every 15 min and updates weather every 4hrs.
Also updates stocks, rss and other stuff.
Use facebook panel once a day.
After reading this thread i am a bit confused. I have My X1 for 10 days now, and it never held the whole day, which makes me want ma E90 back...
Couse the usage is just the same, maybe a little more WLM.
I have mails checking every 5 mins, no WIFI, or BT. AND 24/7 WLM connected, with 5 hours typing or more.
And i gues it is thy typing that consumes battery. Somehow X1 3" screen consumes twice the power of E90 4" screen? That just doesn't make sense. G2 or G3 doesn't realy matter. Well only little.
Will try for the first time tommorow without WLM.
Or Maybe WLM with me turning the screen of and relying on sound notification, instead of checking the screen all the time.
Still big downside for me, regarding the battery. Even E90 was at EDGE, couse, UMTS did not hold it whole day. God damm it we have battery tehnology from 100 years back...
can those with good battery life please post the rom and radio rom u are using?
thanks
Just wanted a place to express how extremely pleased I am with the battery life of my Streak. I came to the Streak a month or so ago after using the Nokia N900 for a year (great device, abandoned it due to Nokia's abandonment amongst other things. Shame, really, Maemo 5 is the most intuitive and easiest to use mobile OS I've ever seen so far!). I was expecting to need to carry the USB cable with me every day due to the large screen and my reasonably heavy use during the day...
My usual scenario is to unplug the Streak at 8:30am and immediately turn on Bluetooth and connect my Sennheiser MM-200 earphones through A2DP. Start listening to MP3s through Winamp straight away. ~10GB of Music on shuffle all day.
Walk half an hour to work, then turn on 3G Data (Widgetsoid "Data" button) and enable auto-sync (gMail and other various background data services).
FeedR set to update list of ~25 feeds every half hour
Reasonable amount of web browsing as well as feed reading throughout the day.
Approx 10 or so SMS messages sent and received.
Reading eBooks through Kindle app during lunch break.
Screen brightness set to ~30%
HSDPA signal remains between -0 and -68dB while at work; "full signal" according to top bar meter of Android.
Battery for bluetooth earphones runs out ~6:30-7:30pm (approximately matching conservative error margin for Sennheiser's 12 hour claim!)
Streak battery by this point is still at 45%!
Wi-Fi turned on and connected to home network since ~6:30pm. FeedR still checking feeds every 30mins.
It's now just gone midnight and BattStatt is still reporting 36%!
To put my amazement in perspective, my N900 would have been flat by 1pm with an identical routine!
Running rooted official unlocked Dell 2.2 with only "modification" being the "Performance Fix"
So, what are other Streak'ers routines like? How long do you get through the day before needing to reach for the PDMI?
I leave wifi on all day. Make like 10 calls a day, surf,etc . Plug in at 60% at night.
My captivate was at 15% at plugin
Sent from my Dell Streak using Tapatalk
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I use Doggcatcher to listen to podcasts on my N4. The episodes are auto-downloaded at night, so they're stored internally and I listen to them while I'm driving. Problem is, just listening to a podcast drains my battery by about 15% per hour. That's essentially using as much power as if I have the screen on browsing the Internet. Why is this? Listening to a locally stored file should consume essentially no battery at all.
Whenever I use Doggcatcher 'Mediaserver' is listed at the top of my battery list, and it shows that the "Keep Awake" time is equal to my listening time, i.e. the device is being kept awake the entire time I'm listening to a podcast.
Any suggestions for more efficient podcast listening?
It's funny to see this thread as just this morning I was pleasantly surprised that my phone only went down 4% during my 50 minute commute while listening to a podcast the whole time. I use Pocket Cast and it auto downloads too, so everything playing locally.
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It's funny to see this thread as just this morning I was pleasantly surprised that my phone only went down 4% during my 50 minute commute while listening to a podcast the whole time. I use Pocket Cast and it auto downloads too, so everything playing locally.
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+1 for Pocket Cast. Great app. I think it's only $3 too, half of what the other app devs are asking for.
Just did a quick test using Doggcatcher (Ver. 1.2.3883) and only lost 2% in 30 min listening to a locally stored podcast.
I get really great battery life on my moto 360 normally. I never worry about getting through a day, routinely getting 20 or more hours. However, whenever I use google play music or pocket casts, the battery life tanks irrespective of whether I am actually using the watch. I do not use the watch for multi media controls however there is no way to disable them so they are always there. Today on a long trip I listened to over 4 hours of podcasts and my watch battery was dead within 6 hours. The same happens with Google play music. This has occurred on two different phones now and after a fresh reset of the watch and a re-pairing to a new phone.