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Originally Posted by Gulanowski
Are you nuts!! What can explain the drastic difference between your TP2's battery life and mine (a few posts up)? Is there some special charging technique I was supposed to do the first time I charged it?
I'm really disappointed with this battery while everyone else seems so pleased  |
LOL... oh, it's very possible that I'm nuts!
But I don't think so on this. Battery life is just one of those things that you can't really gauge generally... it's always specific to what you're doing with a device. How you use yours could be totally different than how I use mine. I can tell you how I use mine and it might influence you to make certain concessions, but at the end of the day, your use may demand an extended battery.
First, start by accepting this fact... it's 4-5 hours of continuous talk time as the advertised life. Unfortunately, that's not helpful, because nobody continuously talks that long on a regular basis. So you have to accept that it's really 4-5 hours of continuous talk
not in addition to other functionality. What do I mean?
If you text every 3 minutes for an hour while surfing web sites and then watch 30 minutes of YouTube videos before making an hour long phone call, that'll probably do it for your battery, because all of those things consume battery life via radio, and the fact you had your screen on the whole time does the rest. Keep in mind, you probably had email accounts syncing during that time too.
The nice thing about the TP2 is how much smarter it can be about power management. In addition to the usual battery tweaks, and shutting off the wifi and bluetooth radios when not in use, the phone will shut off the display on its own now when it's pressed against your ear or sitting face down for speakerphone.
I set my email accounts to sync every 60 minutes rather than using push or more frequent times. Why? Because it takes 1 second to sync manually if I want to check right now, and even as a system admin for a hospital, nothing is so important that they're going to email me before calling me. If it's urgent, trust me, they'll call. So let go of any immediate email needs you may have. I'm also at a computer 15 hours a day, so that helps.
I set the weather and the stocks sync I set to manual. I can push the Update Now button and wait a half second or just walk to a window.
I don't surf the web from my phone except when I'm sitting/standing around somewhere waiting on something, but it's always briefly. I don't watch videos or listen to music on my phone... that's what my Zune and TV/DVD is for.
My phone is a phone first, and a PDA second so that I can stay connected when needed... not just because I can't disconnect. That's a solution that may or may not work for everyone, I realize. I'm not preaching to anyone about how they should use their phone... just saying what works for me, and maybe others might say the same.
