Noticed that after the update, WiFi eats more battery life. Right now my home WiFi is offline & I'm getting great battery life. I'm almost afraid to go back to WiFi, but because I'm a data hog, I need to get my WiFi back. :S
Gingerbread Update Pros and Cons
- Thread starter galfert
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Mine is doing the same. I've noticed if I drop out of messages and go back, the names are there.
anyone else having issues with their photos dissappearing? My wife has to keep resetting her phone everytime this happens. Even when she re-boots, sometimes they are still gone. Takes multiple re-boots. She has never had this problem before. Now after the Gingerbread update...she keeps losing photos.
Phil, I never experienced that on my Inspire until just a couple days ago. I took a couple photos on my way to work. Got to work, looked for them and they were gone. I was baffled. Interesting to hear it's happened to someone else. I didn't know that rebooting would bring them back as you mentioned. I just rebooted and now the photos are back! Weird!
@ShippsAhoy Check out this thread for a resolution to this issue..
http://forums.androidcentral.com/t-...disappearing-after-gb-update.html#post1193570
Any updates or thoughts on why the battery life is so awful with the update? I literally go 7 hours, and my phone is dead. Wifi, gps, bluetooth, live wallpaper are all turned off. Screen brightness only about 30%.
Thanks for any help.
Sent from my HTC Inspire, so the typos aren't my fault.
Thanks for any help.
Sent from my HTC Inspire, so the typos aren't my fault.
I've already reduced them to sync about every 4 hours. But I used to get a full day even with more frequent syncing, (some as often as every half hour) and live wallpaper.
About at the point where I dump everything on the phone and do a clean install. Really didn't want to have to do that, but I'm getting really sick of the phone battery dying with hardly any use.
Sent from my HTC Inspire, so the typos aren't my fault.
About at the point where I dump everything on the phone and do a clean install. Really didn't want to have to do that, but I'm getting really sick of the phone battery dying with hardly any use.
Sent from my HTC Inspire, so the typos aren't my fault.
Did some searching and read through who knows how many threads about battery conditioning. Found this one and followed the directions. It's made a huge difference in battery life. I'm still not up to where I was before getting Gingerbread, but at least I can go more than half a day now without a charge. I've even turned some of my syncs back on.
Found here: http://forums.androidcentral.com/t-captivate/30851-recalibrating-your-battery.html#post305044
So, you are having trouble with your battery seemingly draining too quickly, especially after having flashed many ROMs/Kernels/etc...
It is possible that the problem (or part of the problem) is not necessarily the phone using too much power. If this is the case for you, you should see some results from doing the following:
1. Connect the phone to the charger with the phone powered on, and allow the phone to charge until it shows 100%
2. Disconnect the phone from the charger, and power it off.
3. Reconnect the phone to the charger with the phone powered off, and allow the phone to charge until the battery indicator shows 100% (you can use vol-up/vol-down to make the indicator come back up when the screen goes to sleep).
4. Disconnect the phone from the charger and power it on.
5. Once the phone is powered completely on, power it off again and reconnect it to the charger until the battery indicator shows 100%.
6. Disconnect the phone, power it on, and use it.
You should only need to use this sequence one time.
Hope this helps.
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Joey
Samsung Captivate
All FroYo'd and stuff...
It is possible that the problem (or part of the problem) is not necessarily the phone using too much power. If this is the case for you, you should see some results from doing the following:
1. Connect the phone to the charger with the phone powered on, and allow the phone to charge until it shows 100%
2. Disconnect the phone from the charger, and power it off.
3. Reconnect the phone to the charger with the phone powered off, and allow the phone to charge until the battery indicator shows 100% (you can use vol-up/vol-down to make the indicator come back up when the screen goes to sleep).
4. Disconnect the phone from the charger and power it on.
5. Once the phone is powered completely on, power it off again and reconnect it to the charger until the battery indicator shows 100%.
6. Disconnect the phone, power it on, and use it.
You should only need to use this sequence one time.
Hope this helps.
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Joey
Samsung Captivate
All FroYo'd and stuff...
Found here: http://forums.androidcentral.com/t-captivate/30851-recalibrating-your-battery.html#post305044
I've had so many issues since I updated to 2.3.3 a few days after it came out. I, like many others, did the OTA update. I had issues with the phone numbers instead of contact names in the messaging app, my keyboard vibration feedback was extremely buggy, the GPS couldn't lock if my life depended on it, camera would just stop randomly when I would be recording something; just an all around bad experience compared to Froyo. I decided to manually load the update from HTC's website on my phone. I lost all of my apps and had to redo a bunch of settings, but you can just go to the Market website and send all of your apps directly to your phone, so no big deal. Ever since I've done this a few days ago, everything has been awesome and more! I have yet to experience any of the bugs that I have listed above. On top of that, battery life is stellar! I definitely recommend, if you have a couple hours to spare, to take the time and load the update manually and redo all of your settings/apps.
Hope this helps...
Hope this helps...
Thanks notorious for posting this. I've been wondering for a while if doing a "clean install" from the download would make a difference. I did the OTA a couple of days after I got the phone and only had a few market apps loaded. So maybe there wasn't anything to conflict with the update. I haven't run across any issues that I haven't been able to correct or work around. If something happens where I do need to do a factory reset, I'll run the RUU and get the cleanest install I can.
You're welcome, sharksfan. Just trying to help and share my experience! I wish I would have just done a clean install from the get-go. It would have saved a lot of frustration.
Hmm i manually updated my inspire to gingerbread and i'm still getting some of these issues. I started from the beginning and everything. Doesn't seem to work for me.
well wait, battery will be poor for the first few days as the OS and radio loads settle. what bugs? be specific. There are several listed in this thread but there is no reason a factory reset from the bootloader and running the RUU should fail. Just make sure to install HTC Sync first then remove it and only it. The USB drivers are all that is required to run the RUU.
Cons: I noticed that random applications and processes are "force closing" out of no where now.....
Contacts in messaging app showing up as numbers instead of by name.
And the dialer running in the foreground.
Known issue and 2 workarounds provided... The bug has been reported and a fix is in the works.
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