2.2 = Horrible battery life

[exdox77]

I enjoy reading this forum.

 

[John Araki]

Thanks for this great thread. I also have a wife and she has the fascinate. And she was *****ing about how her phone started sucking and having bad battery life (after the 2.2 update). I did the easier steps mentioned (shift WiFi to turn off when the display turns off, inactivate GPS, inactivate syncing of email, etc) and she woke up this morning after teh phone being on standby all night to find it still showing full green.

 

[ocgreenmachine]

I purchased juice defender ultimate after reading this thread and downloading the free edition to try. My initial assessment is that juice defender is quite useful if proper settings are used. Using the balanced profile seemed to only give a slight increase in power efficiency. Once I purchased ultimate, I adjusted the settings under "advanced" to turn on data connectivity when screen is on and to enable connectivity at regular intervals ( I set it to 5 minute intervals to check for texts/emails). With these settings, the impact to productivity and daily use is minimal. I have seen a jump in power efficiency that makes this investment worth my while imo.

As far as I can tell, if I went to the extreme and used a more aggressive profile, the power savings should increase, although extremely limited connectivity could delay receipt of important emails/messages.

 

[swenpro]

I also want to chime in about JuiceDefender Ultimate... it seems entirely underrated!! I cannot believe how little I have read about this seemingly incredible app since being on this forum several weeks!

I am getting DOUBLE battery life (perceived and JuiceDefender-calculated) since installing JD several days ago. It seems obvious to me now that 3G is the huge power-suck on these Fascinates. Now with 3G only turning on every 15 minutes, my battery hardly drops 1% during idle times!!

I also do some off-line reading on my phone, and the option to specify apps not requiring 3G data is saving juice as well. Otherwise, I have not noticed any improvement in active phone use battery life; It's the time when screen is off that JD really shines!

I am so pleased to be making it through an entire day (~14 hours) without having to charge my battery. At some point I plan to try installing the Community Rom with Comavolt to see if I can get even better battery life.

Note: Last night my phone slipped into Airplane mode without me telling it to. I read that this happens to some JuiceDefender users. This was the first I had seen this. I uninstalled and installed JuiceDefender Beta. Will see if this happens any more.