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[petes67bird]

How has your battery life been?

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[drogers81]

Well, the battery life isn't great for me. I mean I kind of expected it to not be the greatest. It really depends on the amount of use I do on it. When at work, I usually put it on the charger at around 1:00pm and it's fully charged by the time I leave at 3:00pm. When I get home, I use it quite a bit more and it usually usually comes up to 17% battery remaining at around 10:00pm and then I plug it in and leave it on charge until the next morning. This is fairly routine for me, but it really depends on how much I'm on my phone etc..It definitely doesn't change my opinion on it, because I know the other devices out there seem to range about the same.

 

[drogers81]

Have you or anyone been having trouble with the facebook app? The last couple of days, it's been crap..it never loads properly and seems to lose connection and I'm always having to refresh. I even tried to uninstall and reinstall..nothing is working. Anyone else having issues? My wife has the HTC Vivid and her facebook app is smooth and flawless..so I was thinking it was just something with the phone?

 

[petes67bird]

Haven't used Facebook as my wife and I swore it off and have never even after an account. It seems as though this new battery is dying fast for me. It has been going down fast and if I use it it needs to be charged after 5-6 hours were as the last phone was great. I might go to att today to swap again as I have 6 days left before 30 days are up.

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[drogers81]

I read some posts from users saying their battery life has improved..I know mine isn't improving, it's about the same, maybe a tad less. If mine gets worse I may exchange mine for another as well..I still have about 2 weeks of my 30 days left. I really wish I didn't have to put mine on the charger 2 times a day, so if you trade and that helps you, I may exchange mine also. I'm really hoping the ICS update will help improve battery life some too.

 

[petes67bird]

I didn't go to swap out the phone but it is appearing to have better life today. 7 hours at 70%

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[erwaso]

I didn't go to swap out the phone but it is appearing to have better life today. 7 hours at 70%

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That's exceptional on my opinion lol

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[sniktawm]

Haven't used Facebook as my wife and I swore it off and have never even after an account. It seems as though this new battery is dying fast for me. It has been going down fast and if I use it it needs to be charged after 5-6 hours were as the last phone was great. I might go to att today to swap again as I have 6 days left before 30 days are up.

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I use 2x battery by Sam Lu. It has increased the battery life of my phone. I've tried without the battery saver and I noticed how fast the battery died. I've been happy with it.

 

[buckwild]

I'm going today to swap my phone out.(battery issues) Does anyone know of a way to reset the phone to factory settings?
Also i have pics stored on the internal memory,is there a way to move them to the SD card?

 

[buckwild]

Have you or anyone been having trouble with the facebook app? The last couple of days, it's been crap..it never loads properly and seems to lose connection and I'm always having to refresh. I even tried to uninstall and reinstall..nothing is working. Anyone else having issues? My wife has the HTC Vivid and her facebook app is smooth and flawless..so I was thinking it was just something with the phone?

My facebook app is also giving me trouble,i swear this didn't happen until the latest update.
I sometimes get a black screen when it opens or i'll get words and no pictures.however if i keep scrolling up and down this sometimes fixes it.
notifications work when they feel like it
I've uninstalled and re-installed and it seemed to help with the issue.

 

[iN8ter]

I read some posts from users saying their battery life has improved..I know mine isn't improving, it's about the same, maybe a tad less. If mine gets worse I may exchange mine for another as well..I still have about 2 weeks of my 30 days left. I really wish I didn't have to put mine on the charger 2 times a day, so if you trade and that helps you, I may exchange mine also. I'm really hoping the ICS update will help improve battery life some too.

Same thing I had to deal with. 2-3 recharges a day. Sony didn't ship a rapid charger with a $99 on contract phone for no reason. They know the battery life is bad. It's a pretty well-known fact from pretty much all the reviews have come to that conclusion.

 

[petes67bird]

Well if my phone has good signal I am getting 16-18_hours with average use now. I by no means am using the phone a ton to watch videos or game. Just texting, calling and Web browsing.

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[drogers81]

My facebook app is also giving me trouble,i swear this didn't happen until the latest update.
I sometimes get a black screen when it opens or i'll get words and no pictures.however if i keep scrolling up and down this sometimes fixes it.
notifications work when they feel like it
I've uninstalled and re-installed and it seemed to help with the issue.

Yeah I don't know what's up with the facebook app..I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling and it's still a huge pain. I noticed that a lot of people have this complaint with the new update on the facebook app reviews.

 

[buckwild]

Yeah I don't know what's up with the facebook app..I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling and it's still a huge pain. I noticed that a lot of people have this complaint with the new update on the facebook app reviews.

Yeah and it seems like its getting worse. I hope a fix is in the works!

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[paul-c]

Yeah I don't know what's up with the facebook app..I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling and it's still a huge pain. I noticed that a lot of people have this complaint with the new update on the facebook app reviews.

I haven't seen any problems with the Facebook app on the ion, although I know it's notoriously buggy. Must be luck of the draw.

 

[erwaso]

The only facebook issue I have (for the past 2 years really) is the widget never updates properly. Updates after 2-3 days or mixes up updates.

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[buckwild]

Another issue I'm having is with the Twitter app. For some reason I cannot get the sound notification to work.I get the vibration and the light flashes, but no sound. Weird! does anyone here use the Twitter app?

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[paul-c]

I use Plume instead of the official Twitter app. Much better, in my opinion.

 

[buckwild]

I use Plume instead of the official Twitter app. Much better, in my opinion.

Thanks for the tip. I just installed, I'm liking it already!

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[petes67bird]

I personally love tweetcaster. Works the best for me and you can customize it completely.

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