I just recently picked up the OS a couple days ago. Being my first android phone I didn't entirely know what to expect except that my battery life obviously wouldn't be as good as it is with a dumb phone... That being said, I didn't expect it to be this bad.
The first thing I noticed is that it was charging extremely slow. I don't have an exact time, however, I'm estimating it took around 5 hours for it to charge, and that was from starting at around 40% life out of the box.
Anyways, later that night when it was finally fully charged I went to bed and when I woke up the next morning the battery was down to 50%. I said okay, looks like I'll have to start leaving my phone on the charger all night.
Once I finally get it charged up again, I go about the rest my day as usual and about 6 hours into it it's telling me to put it on the charger. I sent a lot of texts, had skype running, and that's really it. I have wifi, bluetooth, gps, and autosyncing all off.
I decided to install juice defender and I managed to bump my battery life up to about 10 hours, however, despite being somewhat new to the world of android I feel this is still too low.
Thanks to the wonderful help of this forum I was easily able to root it. I installed setcpu and underclocked it a bit. I haven't really noticed an increase in battery life, per se, however, the phone now charges much faster than it did at first.
I've been modifying computers and gaming consoles all my life, so I feel that should give me helping hand as I venture into this vast world of mobile phones, but I'm still learning and don't really know where to go from here. So I ask, any ideas what could be up? How does your battery compare to mine?
One more thing worth noting is that I get pretty poor signal where I am, and the phone is constantly fighting for 3G. So I'm sure that's adding fuel to the fire.
Also I've just installed TitaniumBackup and have begun to freeze some of the bloatware although I doubt that will do much. I'm also going to attempt to calibrate the battery. Any suggestions at all regarding this would be greatly appreciated.
If it wasn't for the disappointing battery life I would be in love with this. It does well enough keeping up with my girlfriend's HTC mytouch 4G, the only difference is that the mytouch has been on all day and the battery is still at 86%!
The first thing I noticed is that it was charging extremely slow. I don't have an exact time, however, I'm estimating it took around 5 hours for it to charge, and that was from starting at around 40% life out of the box.
Anyways, later that night when it was finally fully charged I went to bed and when I woke up the next morning the battery was down to 50%. I said okay, looks like I'll have to start leaving my phone on the charger all night.
Once I finally get it charged up again, I go about the rest my day as usual and about 6 hours into it it's telling me to put it on the charger. I sent a lot of texts, had skype running, and that's really it. I have wifi, bluetooth, gps, and autosyncing all off.
I decided to install juice defender and I managed to bump my battery life up to about 10 hours, however, despite being somewhat new to the world of android I feel this is still too low.
Thanks to the wonderful help of this forum I was easily able to root it. I installed setcpu and underclocked it a bit. I haven't really noticed an increase in battery life, per se, however, the phone now charges much faster than it did at first.
I've been modifying computers and gaming consoles all my life, so I feel that should give me helping hand as I venture into this vast world of mobile phones, but I'm still learning and don't really know where to go from here. So I ask, any ideas what could be up? How does your battery compare to mine?
One more thing worth noting is that I get pretty poor signal where I am, and the phone is constantly fighting for 3G. So I'm sure that's adding fuel to the fire.
Also I've just installed TitaniumBackup and have begun to freeze some of the bloatware although I doubt that will do much. I'm also going to attempt to calibrate the battery. Any suggestions at all regarding this would be greatly appreciated.
If it wasn't for the disappointing battery life I would be in love with this. It does well enough keeping up with my girlfriend's HTC mytouch 4G, the only difference is that the mytouch has been on all day and the battery is still at 86%!