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Re: So let me get this straight. Insane battery life comes from OCwidget?
If your phone is going to sleep like it should then it is actually going in a lower power state than underclocking with OC widget would. OC widget is going to help people more whose phones aren't actually going to sleep.
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Re: So let me get this straight. Insane battery life comes from OCwidget?
how do you know if your phone isn't actually going to sleep? why wouldn't the phone go to sleep?
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Re: So let me get this straight. Insane battery life comes from OCwidget?
Apps can keep it awake. Go to Menu settings about Phone then Battery, then look at the up time vs. Awake Time. The awake time should be within 5% of the amount of time you actually had the screen on. If the Awake time and up time are almost the same your phone isn't going to sleep correctly (and by sleep I mean screen off low power you still receive phone calls and texts and it turns on instantly). If you need help finding out what's keeping it awake there is a program called spare parts in the app catalog that will let you see what apps are keeping your device in partial awake status (meaning screen off but the whole chipset is at full power and not sleep status).
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Re: So let me get this straight. Insane battery life comes from OCwidget?
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Re: So let me get this straight. Insane battery life comes from OCwidget?
I have it installed on mine and it SEEMS to help. Yes, you must be rooted to use it. Also, a lot of batery savings can be realized by turning off crap you aren't using, such as 4G, GPS, Wifi, and go into running programs and stop Google talk.
If you have poor cell coverage, then your phone will use more battery looking for service. |
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Re: So let me get this straight. Insane battery life comes from OCwidget?
You have to be rooted to use the OCWidget, but unrevoked's root will suffice if you aren't comfortable going through toast's rooting method. I think it's the placebo effect, if you ask me. That or these people don't use their phones as much as an average smart phone user. There is no way one can get 40 hours of heavy usage; and by heavy, I don't mean surfing the web for ten minutes. I mean the people who claim to have 2 3 hour long calls, pandora, slacker, texting, and surfing the web with 4G.
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Re: So let me get this straight. Insane battery life comes from OCwidget?
Did you have your phone on the charger before you checked your stats? If so thats why they are only three hours apart, if you havnt been playing with your phone all that time.
No placebo effect for the OCwidget, my phone "goes to sleep" just fine and I installed the ocwidget and I saw a huge increase in battery life. ONLY WHILE ITS SLEEPING though, the widget will do nothing for battery life while your phone is in use. He even stated that in his first post of that thread. So heavy use you get heavy use battery life, and so on down the line.
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Re: So let me get this straight. Insane battery life comes from OCwidget?
I use SetCPU.
I have Advanced Task manager set to auto-kill in 30min intervals (ATM is has to be excluded itself within the auto-kill in order to perform this function) I have all of my (2) email accounts set to: Peak - 2 hour Off Peak - 4 hour Background data & Auto-sync are "On" Weather and all other apps that have an interval status are set to 3/4 hour intervals. Screen brightness is set to "Auto Brightness" Static wallpaper GPS - Off Wifi - Off 4G - Off I also run Bugless Pete v.3 with ADW Launcher and I got the following on stock battery: 51:31:12 uptime since last charge 03:51:23 awake I consider this to be exceptional battery life considering the multimedia/social networking integration this phone manages... |
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