Wondering how many of you use this simple method to take complete control of what your TB is doing at all times....well, sort of.
First, let me preface by saying that I bought an extended battery (2750) thinking that I can finally use my TB carefree with all options on. First few days was great, then the day came in which my fully charged extended battery died mid-day, while on idle, screen off. A couple days later happened again. It was then that I realized no matter what size battery this phone has, there WILL be days where either the network or the phone or both just go nuts and suck the life right out of your battery. I tried Juice Defender, and while it did help a bit, the free version gives you no options on how often the device turns on the mobile network to sync. All you have is the "normal" and "aggressive" option, and not even the aggressive option gave me the results I wanted.
So then I found the mobile data widget. I slapped that onto my home screen, and just began to manually turn on and off mobile data as I needed it. BINGO! Instant results. Mind you, I didn't change any other setting beside screen brightness to 30%. All I'm doing is manually turning on/off 4G mobile data as I need it, so basically when I'm surfing or using apps that require data. When I'm done, I go back to home screen, shut off the data, and shut off the screen. And when I'm home, I always use wifi (and keep it on). Thats it!
I've been using this method for 10 days with the STOCK battery, and I'm going to bed every night with average of 50% battery life left. For example, today I unplugged my phone at 6:30am, and with moderate use it's 10pm and I'm at 59% with stock battery. The other day I used it more heavily and was at 40% when I went to bed.
When you turn mobile data off you still get and can send calls and texts. So all I'm doing is manipulating the phone to use data only when I need it. My experience with the phone hasn't changed, it's just that it's NOT constantly syncing when I'm not using it, which is just fine by me. And to get even better results, switch the phone to 3G.
Long press on home screen-->Widget-->Browse all HTC Widgets-->widget #52(mobile network).
A lot of you might already know this, but I haven't seen it mentioned much. Give it a try if you haven't and you might be surprised.
First, let me preface by saying that I bought an extended battery (2750) thinking that I can finally use my TB carefree with all options on. First few days was great, then the day came in which my fully charged extended battery died mid-day, while on idle, screen off. A couple days later happened again. It was then that I realized no matter what size battery this phone has, there WILL be days where either the network or the phone or both just go nuts and suck the life right out of your battery. I tried Juice Defender, and while it did help a bit, the free version gives you no options on how often the device turns on the mobile network to sync. All you have is the "normal" and "aggressive" option, and not even the aggressive option gave me the results I wanted.
So then I found the mobile data widget. I slapped that onto my home screen, and just began to manually turn on and off mobile data as I needed it. BINGO! Instant results. Mind you, I didn't change any other setting beside screen brightness to 30%. All I'm doing is manually turning on/off 4G mobile data as I need it, so basically when I'm surfing or using apps that require data. When I'm done, I go back to home screen, shut off the data, and shut off the screen. And when I'm home, I always use wifi (and keep it on). Thats it!
I've been using this method for 10 days with the STOCK battery, and I'm going to bed every night with average of 50% battery life left. For example, today I unplugged my phone at 6:30am, and with moderate use it's 10pm and I'm at 59% with stock battery. The other day I used it more heavily and was at 40% when I went to bed.
When you turn mobile data off you still get and can send calls and texts. So all I'm doing is manipulating the phone to use data only when I need it. My experience with the phone hasn't changed, it's just that it's NOT constantly syncing when I'm not using it, which is just fine by me. And to get even better results, switch the phone to 3G.
Long press on home screen-->Widget-->Browse all HTC Widgets-->widget #52(mobile network).
A lot of you might already know this, but I haven't seen it mentioned much. Give it a try if you haven't and you might be surprised.
So after 15 hours today I still got 65% left.
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram