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http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-SAMSUNG-EPI...016637?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item4cf6603cbd
Who has it and what do they experience as far as uptime? I plan on starting to keep my 3g connection alive always while at work (BAD SIGNAL), brightness turned up more , 4G more often , And best of all ramp up my CPU to 1300 - 1400 depending on how i feel ... Its time for me to unleash the epic for what its true beaty is
Cool story, bro.
This belongs in Accessories.
ezsoulja said:
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-SAMSUNG-EPI...016637?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item4cf6603cbd
Who has it and what do they experience as far as uptime? I plan on starting to keep my 3g connection alive always while at work (BAD SIGNAL), brightness turned up more , 4G more often , And best of all ramp up my CPU to 1300 - 1400 depending on how i feel ... Its time for me to unleash the epic for what its true beaty is
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Looks like the one I got off e-bay for $21 that came with an extra data cable. I use my phone differently everyday but certainly seems to get double stock battery life. It works well. This is the one I got:
http://cgi.ebay.com/N26-3500mAH-Ext...578987?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item230c70deab
OH, make sure to run it all the way down before charging it. It seems to make a difference.
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OH, make sure to run it all the way down before charging it. It seems to make a difference.
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will be doing just that..
Waiting on mine to come in
seems like forever
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Cool story, bro.
This belongs in Accessories.
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Open the case and it's two 1200mAh batt stuck together. I complained and they refunded my money, I then bought it from 3 other vendors and did the same thing. 4 extended batteries for free.
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Zzim said:
Waiting on mine to come in
seems like forever
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This is why i made sure i was checkin for shipping location... coming from ny to va so should be here in the next day or so i cant wait
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OH, make sure to run it all the way down before charging it. It seems to make a difference.
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I thought this didn't matter with Li-Ion batteries.
knyque said:
I thought this didn't matter with Li-Ion batteries.
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Seems to work better and calibrates the phone if you do this the first time. Don't matter after.
Do you BONSAI?
knyque said:
I thought this didn't matter with Li-Ion batteries.
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Its due to the fact that android's battery meter is more of a demand meter, so if you don't run it all the way down the first couple times it won't read remaining battery life correctly and try to make you charge when you're at h alf battery.
See threads about calibrating battery.
Hrm. I've had a 3500mah + extended back cover for several weeks now as purchased off eBay. This was before I knew about the wonders of Juice Defender and custom roms that helped increase battery life. This was when I was getting a few mere hours out of the stock battery before needing to charge.
Anyhow, the 3500 did increase life. I'd say it doubled it. After I found out about JuiceDefender, I only stayed with the 3500 for about two days before I reverted back to the stock battery. With JD, I can easily get all day out of the stock battery. It's amazing.
I just took the cover off the 3500 to see if I have two 1200's or two 1500's sandwiched together. I took the end cap off and indeed there are two cells laying on each other, but don't want to disassemble any further. Battery is a nice spare to have.
Hey guys,
I have played around with a few different roms for my SGS2 and was wondering which one has the best battery life in your experience?
Cheers
I honestly think stock ke7.
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I am using Litening rom and my phone isn't reaching 2 days of battery life like some people do with this rom
darkstar09 said:
Hey guys,
I have played around with a few different roms for my SGS2 and was wondering which one has the best battery life in your experience?
Cheers
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That's an almost impossible question to answer as there are so many different factors involved which can affect battery life both on a custom rom and a stock one for example.
signal strength
push
gaming
screen brightness
Everyone will have a different experience and your best bet is to try different rom's and choose the one which suits you as a rom which is great for them may not be great for you.
If some rom creator would make make a black-red theme for his mod it would be probatly the best mod... Of course with all other goodies and tweaks.
Black-red theme because it would drain the lowest energy from the battary in the standart screen mode, but since we all use mostly different apps with different colors it will vary anyway.
To be fair, although it is purely anecdotal, people who have tried different ROMS while going through the sameness of their daily lives should be able to make a relatively valid comparison of battery life.
All the custom ROMs out at the moment are extremely close to stock, so I doubt there's much difference.
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droidluck said:
I am using Litening rom and my phone isn't reaching 2 days of battery life like some people do with this rom
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2 days?? I'm gald to reach one day.. I just flashed lite'ning V 1.3. Hope to reach one day without any problems..
have a nice day
hattrick
It appears the battery indicator is often way off. I let mine drain as much as it could til it would not boot at all, then charge it for 6 hours. Now it seems to last twice as long on stock (2 days with a lot of use)
Kevincod said:
It appears the battery indicator is often way off. I let mine drain as much as it could til it would not boot at all, then charge it for 6 hours. Now it seems to last twice as long on stock (2 days with a lot of use)
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I'm going to try this right now. I'll just let it stream some music over wifi at a high bitrate to drain it quickly. And using GPS, Blue-tooth. Playing music through PowerAmp at the same time.
Kevincod said:
It appears the battery indicator is often way off. I let mine drain as much as it could til it would not boot at all, then charge it for 6 hours. Now it seems to last twice as long on stock (2 days with a lot of use)
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That would be great if true... I will try it too.
mguel said:
That would be great if true... I will try it too.
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Let us know how it goes
I'm having excellent battery life with ke2. I personally had problems with ke7.
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i have a great battery life with KE8 guys... pls try it & then comment...
its too good...i recommend litepro 1.3 for every SGS2... its the best i have ever had so far....
Same here
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That would be funny if a lot of the battery problems are actually because we keep thinking it is flat when it isn't - it is just being mis-reported. Kind of iphone batterygate in reverse.
I had a lock up on my device the other night but didn't realise until the following morning when I found the device unresponsive and stuck on my last screen. Although I had to pull the battery to regain control, the screen had stayed on all night because of the freeze and the battery meter graph was red for about 7 hours. The screen was still on and bright before I pulled the battery though.
Think I will also try ignoring the meter today.
darkstar09 said:
Hey guys,
I have played around with a few different roms for my SGS2 and was wondering which one has the best battery life in your experience?
Cheers
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stock KE2 and stock KE8 is best
ke7 is a nightmare
Using stock ke8 got about 30 hours with juice defender, constant wifi usage and app store and constant browser usage
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droidluck said:
I am using Litening rom and my phone isn't reaching 2 days of battery life like some people do with this rom
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Thank you guys for all your informations.
Just been online and read a few posts about Android 2.3.4 updates on the Nexus, which allegidly suffered from the infamous 2.3.3 battery drains.
But unless i'm mistaken, according to what I have read online the 2.3.4 has not fixed this issue.
Example: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=6e382d186ba3dcd6&hl=en
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Omg, please!
Everything's perfect but battery drain is killing me and making the S2 unuseless for me!
I was looking forward to a fix but this message is killing all the hopes!
You can check this out http://www.gsmarena.com/android_234_gingerbread_leaks_for_the_samsung_galaxy_s_i9000-news-2761.php
An update although it's for galaxy S. All I'm picking up from the comments is speed. You shouldn't compare other phones with 2.3.4 as it's all down to the manufacturers on how they implement fixes to the ROM. Nexus S has more support so I wouldn't compare the two.
Bawezy said:
You can check this out http://www.gsmarena.com/android_234_gingerbread_leaks_for_the_samsung_galaxy_s_i9000-news-2761.php
An update although it's for galaxy S. All I'm picking up from the comments is speed. You shouldn't compare other phones with 2.3.4 as it's all down to the manufacturers on how they implement fixes to the ROM. Nexus S has more support so I wouldn't compare the two.
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Yup, I am not saying that the 2.3.4 update won't fix battery life on S2, but don't put your eggs in one basket.
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Many have confirmed with the SGS1 that Android OS bug is now gone in their 2.3.4 firmware. So if thats the case, I only seem to have bad battery drain when I check battery stats and Android OS is taking up 80% of battery drain - even more than display time. Apparently 2.3.4 should be helping take care of that. We will see though. Until then, I think all we can do is cross our fingers and not assume that it will or will not take care of battery drain and will see when it comes.
blue265 said:
Many have confirmed with the SGS1 that Android OS bug is now gone in their 2.3.4 firmware. So if thats the case, I only seem to have bad battery drain when I check battery stats and Android OS is taking up 80% of battery drain - even more than display time. Apparently 2.3.4 should be helping take care of that. We will see though. Until then, I think all we can do is cross our fingers and not assume that it will or will not take care of battery drain and will see when it comes.
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Seems like the only way to find out is when the 2.3.4 update is finally released for Samsung Galaxy S II.
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Either way, I can't wait to see and keep checking religiously when I can to see if 2.3.4 has been leaked yet. lol
Wel I hurd 2.3.4 is better on battery on dual core devices.
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ziggazee said:
Wel I hurd 2.3.4 is better on battery on dual core devices.
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I heard what he heard and the folks on the SGS1 forum seem happy. What any of us have "heard" is really irrelevant since none of it has been tested on a SGS2. We'll find out soon enough when 2.3.4. gets released.
I bet just putting a new version number on the same release and claiming it improves battery life would anyway have dozen of ppl claiming how much better their battery has become.
Battery is very very subjective ;-)
Personally checking the Android OS time I doubt I would get a lot more battery life from the SGS2 even if it wasn't there. Probably 3h more if the phone is on standby after 3 days, yes, but when using it, 10min?
2.3.4 Leaked Firmware is out for Galaxy S. It still has the Battery Drain Problem.
oooo thats bad ,i wont upgrade it till everyone say good thing about 2.3.4,staying with 2.3.3 for the moment lol cant face a bad battery problems not when im listening lots of music for many hrs
even though it might not completely fix the battery drain problem, I believe 2.3.4 will at least improve battery life across the board.
turborider said:
oooo thats bad ,i wont upgrade it till everyone say good thing about 2.3.4,staying with 2.3.3 for the moment lol cant face a bad battery problems not when im listening lots of music for many hrs
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Then you can just forget about updating then. Lol.
Lucky i dont have such a drain
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vimto25 said:
Lucky i dont have such a drain
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Yes you do.
Cetin said:
Omg, please!
Everything's perfect but battery drain is killing me and making the S2 unuseless for me!
I was looking forward to a fix but this message is killing all the hopes!
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Unuseless? meaning: useful?
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Yes you do.
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He does? I must aswell then, oh wait...nope, I dont have it either, many of us dont have it.
Just because you have some sort of problem, you shouldnt assume everyone does. We all set up our phones quiet differently, which means some are set up better than others. Some on custom, some on stock.
So please try not to make sweeping generalisations.
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my sgs2 lasts 15 hours on moderate use, pretty damn good. i have chargers everywhere so not a problem.
stoney73 said:
He does? I must aswell then, oh wait...nope, I dont have it either, many of us dont have it.
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Well, you still do have this problem. Just because for your set-up and phone usage it doesn't manifest itself as strong as for others that doesn't mean it isn't there.
It's a general bug in Android in combination with the SGSII so it's on your phone too.
What an amazing battery!
Never seen that number even on my Flyer!
Really liking my Note
And btw, my brightness was ALWAYS at 90%!!
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...but your battery is full?
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LordManhattan said:
...but your battery is full?
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Got cha!! ;P
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Did i just get trolled? I won't accept that. Someone has to go.
...I'm looking at you Matius.. Tick tack..
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He is with satan!
LOOL am sorry was sleeping, yes my battery was full but that because I took that screenshot after I plugged my phone and charged from 1 to 100 straight but the previous cycle stats was still ther..
Try it yourself, charge your phone and before taking it off the charger you will still have thae last cycle details and graph in usage..
And if you look at the screenshot, it clearly says "Battery used by the display and backlight" .....
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HI,
Please take a look at my latest battery screenshots
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10486200/capture_01.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10486200/capture_02.png
mR.fR34ky said:
HI,
Please take a look at my latest battery screenshots
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10486200/capture_01.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10486200/capture_02.png
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Even with your funny coded language I can see that that's over 3 days on one charge. Impossibru indeed
mR.fR34ky said:
HI,
Please take a look at my latest battery screenshots
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10486200/capture_01.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10486200/capture_02.png
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Nice!
I was amazed by my battery because I watched two movies and surfed xda and websites also!
If only I can get rid of those "suspend" and "events0" I would be a happy camper
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mR.fR34ky said:
HI,
Please take a look at my latest battery screenshots
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10486200/capture_01.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10486200/capture_02.png
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Actual phone usage is pretty low though, I've gone as high as 7 days w/ just SMS and a few calls and wifi usage of less than 1hr.
LordManhattan said:
Did i just get trolled? I won't accept that. Someone has to go.
...I'm looking at you Matius.. Tick tack..
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So what were you saying mister doubtfull?
Tick tack huh?
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That's photoshopped. The orange on the "H" isn't 100% correct. My god, when will you stop this madness!? When will you STOP!?
LordManhattan said:
That's photoshopped. The orange on the "H" isn't 100% correct. My god, when will you stop this madness!? When will you STOP!?
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POST EDITED:
Sorry sleeplessness has adverse reactions
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How do you get your Android OS to be so low. My note is always around 25% to 30%. Do you think I have something running that's draining my battery? I do know that I'm not getting anywhere near the battery life you guys are saying you are getting.
ckyllr said:
How do you get your Android OS to be so low. My note is always around 25% to 30%. Do you think I have something running that's draining my battery? I do know that I'm not getting anywhere near the battery life you guys are saying you are getting.
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he could have disabled all animations, force-closed processes, etc.
I have bluetooth running eight hours a day, streaming music for four to five of those to it, at least three to four hours of reading massive PDFs (textbooks), ppts, and word documents, WIFI on whenever available, etc.
I've gotten 10-13 hours without too many issues. The 10 was with a LOT of screen time, wifi or data running always, and bluetooth running always.
It also depends how you charge your battery. I make sure to fully charge my battery, and then run it into the GROUND (eg note powers off completely) before I plug it back in. Every time. You get maximum capacity that way, there's a name for this, but I can't remember what.
Anyway, battery 101. Kill processes, disable unneccesary services, use WIFI when you have it, disable everything you don't need, disable sync if you want/need to, disable gps, animations, and especially use minimal screentime. I don't see why the note wouldn't pull at least 36 hours if it was left in airplane mode the whole time.
Actually I was just watching movies and listening through bluetooth, thats why I don't have other processes eating my battery but I didn't do anything special..just straight 6 hours of watching movies using mobo player..
But I noticed that using mobile data to surf the net would drain my battery faster, so try to use wifi whenever available..
Everything about my setup is stock, only de-odexed to manually install my language..
Also noticed that when my phone left idleing, there will be Android OS drain in my battery usage, wigh "suspend" and "events0" showing in BetterBatteryStats but I still didn't figure out how to solve that..
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matius44 said:
Photoshopped?? Really??
Who do you think you are so that I waste my time faking pics??
Not because you were wrong ASS-uming I was lying it means you continue discrediting me..
I don't know if you are stupid or just being a jerk, either way go f**k yourself
Man the type of people you can meet on the internet is amazing..
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Hahahaha! DUDE i'm screwing with you! Calm down! It's pretty clear now that you can't detect a joke on the interwebs
guitarplayerone said:
It also depends how you charge your battery. I make sure to fully charge my battery, and then run it into the GROUND (eg note powers off completely) before I plug it back in. Every time. You get maximum capacity that way, there's a name for this, but I can't remember what.
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This is an old technique which no longer has any effect whatsoever on the life and capacity of modern Li-ion batteries.
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LordManhattan said:
Hahahaha! DUDE i'm screwing with you! Calm down! It's pretty clear now that you can't detect a joke on the interwebs
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Haha that was actually funny when i saw that... And with ur name in sig and all i could not help laughing a little ha. Anyway, maybe just putting a jk at the end would help lol. That was awesome though ha.
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This is an old technique which no longer has any effect whatsoever on the life and capacity of modern Li-ion batteries.
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For me, charging it all the way down really helps (not to dead,then the stock software which i dont usually run has problems). It also seems to work on my ipod touch 3g quite well also.
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Haha that was actually funny when i saw that... And with ur name in sig and all i could not help laughing a little ha. Anyway, maybe just putting a jk at the end would help lol. That was awesome though ha.
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Hah yeah, a little too late now but i'll totally remember it next time
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I've been pondering over whether or not to upgrade to ICS now as the german version is released. My question is whether or not the battery life is similar to what you get with gingerbread. I've attached an image of what i get on a normal day, when i am at work and use my phone normally and not when i am sitting at home and never let my phone hit deep sleep!
Sure you get a lot of added features but battery life is what i really care about at i need to go sometimes two days without charge.
Got around 74 pct after 9 hrs of extreme light usage.
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How does it compare to ICS hour by hour? any difference would you say?
I would skip this Samsung release of ICS. Samsung's interpretation of ICS is not terribly different then GB unless you run a different launcher. I thought battery life was worse on the German release. With the added risk of bricking a few have experienced, don't do it.
If you want try the ICS, go with this one;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1627854
With this one, you can easily and safely role back to GB from a nandroid backup. This one does not have Touchwiz and the SPen is not fully functional as it is in TW.
I find battery better on GB personally but not by much when u compare it to the silky smooth quickness of ICS
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It's a shame because i really wanted to put ICS on but if my battery is going to die out in a day, will be pointless to have. Thanks for the advice people!
I'm getting about the same, maybe slightly better its hard to judge, yup never use your phone the same each day
Don001 said:
It's a shame because i really wanted to put ICS on but if my battery is going to die out in a day, will be pointless to have. Thanks for the advice people!
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If u look in the bad battery ics thread i posted screen shots.. Had about 50% battery left with just over 3 hours screen on time including watching the whole formula 1 qualifying on the bbc iplayer
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For me so far samsungs 's ICS has not even been close to the battery life I got on Stunner. I'm a little disappointed but not enough to go back to ASOP or GB. Oddly enough I love TW with ICS Elements fused in.
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Thats not actually too bad! I reckon i'll give ICS a go and see how it sets in and then take it from they!
p.s. THEY SCREWED HAMILTON OVER ONCE AGAIN! THEY MUST BE A CONSPIRACY AGAINST HIM!
Don001 said:
I've been pondering over whether or not to upgrade to ICS now as the german version is released. My question is whether or not the battery life is similar to what you get with gingerbread. I've attached an image of what i get on a normal day, when i am at work and use my phone normally and not when i am sitting at home and never let my phone hit deep sleep!
Sure you get a lot of added features but battery life is what i really care about at i need to go sometimes two days without charge.
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It looks like it drops pretty quickly even when your screen isn't on. Are you sure you don't have wakelock problems? I think your battery life could be better, even without ICS.
Don001 said:
Thats not actually too bad! I reckon i'll give ICS a go and see how it sets in and then take it from they!
p.s. THEY SCREWED HAMILTON OVER ONCE AGAIN! THEY MUST BE A CONSPIRACY AGAINST HIM!
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Give it a few full discharge/charge cycles to fully settle in.. Mine is improving every day..
p.s. Yeah the stewards really love him at the moment.. He had an amazing drive today though to finish 6th
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pboesboes said:
It looks like it drops pretty quickly even when your screen isn't on. Are you sure you don't have wakelock problems? I think your battery life could be better, even without ICS.
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This is a noobs question but how do i go about checking wakelock problems? I have CPU spy installed which i check to see whether the phone goes into sleep mode or not, the attachment below is my current state.
nuclearmonkeyuk said:
Give it a few full discharge/charge cycles to fully settle in.. Mine is improving every day..
p.s. Yeah the stewards really love him at the moment.. He had an amazing drive today though to finish 6th
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Yeah he had an amazing race, if only the stewards weren't out to screw him over!
Don001 said:
This is a noobs question but how do i go about checking wakelock problems? I have CPU spy installed which i check to see whether the phone goes into sleep mode or not, the attachment below is my current state.
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Weird. The battery usage should nearly flatline in deep sleep.
Try BetterBatteryStats for checking wakelock issues: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
pboesboes said:
Weird. The battery usage should nearly flatline in deep sleep.
Try BetterBatteryStats for checking wakelock issues: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
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Well i've just downloaded the app, xda edition ofcourse, lets what happens but judging from my deep sleep time, doesn't seem like i have a wakelock issue.
Any settings i need to change in the application or leave it to run its magic?
My battery life is noticably worse in ICS. I'm getting a lot of odd wakelocks that I never saw in GB.
This is my phone . You decide.
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Don001 said:
Well i've just downloaded the app, xda edition ofcourse, lets what happens but judging from my deep sleep time, doesn't seem like i have a wakelock issue.
Any settings i need to change in the application or leave it to run its magic?
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Well, if wakelocks aren't the problem.. Then I don't know.. ICS battery life seems better in general, but GB shouldn't be that different (and wasn't for me me I used it). Not that your battery life is bad or anything, but it could be better. Like I said, your phone in deep sleep should hardly use battery at all.
Well looks like I will have to test it out and see the outcome, looks like I shouldn't get my hopes up.
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This is my phone . You decide.View attachment 1059167
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That's pretty much what I get/got before and after ICS.