I used juice defender on my DINC and it seemed to really help my battery life. The auto disable mobile data/wifi when the screen was locked while still turning on to sync at a schedule I determined appeared to dramatically improve my battery life. However, I'm wondering if juice defender is hurting my bolt battery life.
I read somewhere that juice defender doesn't work on the bolt. Well, it seems to technically be 'working', just not very well. Many times it takes forever for either the mobile data (usually 4G) or wifi to turn on, a problem I never had with my DINC.
I'm starting to wonder if juice defender is actually hurting my battery life, possibly because it is constantly running and working hard when I have those delays where mobile data or wifi doesn't kick on right away.
I have the latest OTA gingerbread update and am not rooted. I keep reading on these forums that people are getting 12 or more hours of battery life with 'moderate' use with the latest OTA update. I would consider my use to be moderate: I'm a teacher, so the phone is in airplane mode from about 7:00 to 2:30. I use it almost exclusively to browse the web (rarely any video), send text messages, and read emails, and probably not for more than a total of 1.5-2 hours. By the time I plug it in around 9:00, many times it's already down to less than 50%.
Should I ditch juice defender? It just seems like auto turn-off of mobile data and wifi when the phone is locked should save battery because then the 4G, 3G, or wifi is not constantly running. Is that wrong? Should I just use widgets to manually turn these off myself?
I do have GPS on all the time and use bluetooth when in the car, which is typically for no more than 1.5 hours per day. I leave GPS on all the time because I read on these forums that it doesn't actually use any juice until a program needs it. My screen brightness is at around 20% all the time.
I read somewhere that juice defender doesn't work on the bolt. Well, it seems to technically be 'working', just not very well. Many times it takes forever for either the mobile data (usually 4G) or wifi to turn on, a problem I never had with my DINC.
I'm starting to wonder if juice defender is actually hurting my battery life, possibly because it is constantly running and working hard when I have those delays where mobile data or wifi doesn't kick on right away.
I have the latest OTA gingerbread update and am not rooted. I keep reading on these forums that people are getting 12 or more hours of battery life with 'moderate' use with the latest OTA update. I would consider my use to be moderate: I'm a teacher, so the phone is in airplane mode from about 7:00 to 2:30. I use it almost exclusively to browse the web (rarely any video), send text messages, and read emails, and probably not for more than a total of 1.5-2 hours. By the time I plug it in around 9:00, many times it's already down to less than 50%.
Should I ditch juice defender? It just seems like auto turn-off of mobile data and wifi when the phone is locked should save battery because then the 4G, 3G, or wifi is not constantly running. Is that wrong? Should I just use widgets to manually turn these off myself?
I do have GPS on all the time and use bluetooth when in the car, which is typically for no more than 1.5 hours per day. I leave GPS on all the time because I read on these forums that it doesn't actually use any juice until a program needs it. My screen brightness is at around 20% all the time.
I'm using 2xbattery on my Tbolt when I get them, and I will report my findings. the worst part about using 2xbattery is waiting for it to recconnect to 3g or 4g. usually takes about 15 seconds. but if I can save battery life almost triple...I will put up with a 15 second wait.
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