What Changed With Today's Update?

[colalounge]

I just got some sort of Android update but can't find what has changed. It stills says its 4.0.4. Did anyone else on Sprint get this update?

 

[colalounge]

Sadly, battery life hasn't improved. In 8 minutes I went from 100% fully charged to 94%.
A disgrace. Total disgrace.

 

[blakew595]

Look at your firmware version
Its probably up to fi27 now

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[DirkBelig]

Sadly, battery life hasn't improved. In 8 minutes I went from 100% fully charged to 94%.
A disgrace. Total disgrace.

What were you getting before and what were you doing for those 8 minutes?

 

[colalounge]

I never checked battery life before the ICS update because the phone could last most of the day with light use. I work from home so my phone spends most of its time just sitting on my desk.
After ICS my phone is dead within 4 hours tops of doing nothing. Sitting in the doctor's office, the dentist office... whatever. 4 hours max. I timed it several times. It dies simply sitting in my purse.
As for those eight minutes, I was looking through the phone to see what had changed and logging on to this site. I don't have to do anything and it does this. It dropped from 100% to 97% with me just holding it in my hand looking at it. My phone has been a lovely paper weight since the ICS update and I keep hoping with each update that the problem, as well of several of the other problems ICS caused, would be fixed.

 

[daviepants]

I got my update notice about 2am this past saturday morning. It seems to have improved the ability to charge (faster) and my batt isnt draining as quickly.

 

[patrao_n]

Colalounge. Its likely you have a gingerbread app that doesn't play well with ics still installed.

sent from MY BAD A$$ ET4G

 

[colalounge]

That's not it either. I didn't download apps for a while and the problem persisted.
I have learned a lot from this experience though, my next phone will probably be an unlocked Nexus.

 

[b0bbY]

i never had any issues either prior to the ICS update. phone would come off the charger at 3:30am and when i was leaving work at 3pm I'd have 45-50% battery still intact. after ICS by break its down to 40-45% same usage. no new apps. and regular use of twitter...fb...web...texts....battery recharges faster...but dies just as fast if not faster. REALLY annoying. smh...

 

[smirghan]

Looks like universal search got taken away. FAN. TASTIC. /not.

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[DirkBelig]

Over the past couple of days, I've been aware that I'm getting MUCH better battery life (25% used in 5 hours, 35 min call, 40 min screen time) and the wake bug that prevented wi-fi from connecting seems to be swatted.

Was on rooted ODIN stock and took the OTA.

 

[DirkBelig]

Currently, I've used 35% battery in 3-1/2 hours in an area with TERRIBLE data connectivity that once drained my phone (after a bad NoData update; had to wipe it) in 3 hours flat. 1 hour screen on time. I'm happy. Sucks that it's finally behaving a week before I move to a Nexus 4.

 

[kb64]

I received it yesterday and don't see that anything has changed.

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[smirghan]

So am I the only one that had their universal search removed?

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[NathanCCI]

No, it's gone on my phone as well. Very frustrating, especially having to go to the contacts app instead of just searching from the magnifying glass icon. Not happy about this change - hoping there's a fix.

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[systemind]

I never had problems with my battery, after this update is horrible it goes down like water Sucks :banghead:

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[Tsukiyomi]

No, it's gone on my phone as well. Very frustrating, especially having to go to the contacts app instead of just searching from the magnifying glass icon. Not happy about this change - hoping there's a fix.

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I can't see there being a fix for the universal search thing - that was part of the Apple v Samsung patent lawsuit that Apple won.

 

[Mellimel22]

Yeah if u want universal search u gotta get Google now

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