evo battery drain fix - Page 2

JBHorner · #11 (**permalink**) 10-03-2010, 10:08 AM

Just to cut the guy some slack here, I have wondered if the update fixed the GPS/battery issue. I have other Android phones that do not have this problem, so I was hoping it was specific to that particular firmware release.

Joel

iknight8 · #12 (**permalink**) 10-03-2010, 10:50 AM

i always have GPS off...

**aman1127** · #13 (**permalink**) 10-03-2010, 11:21 AM

I think we had enough fun....OP was trying to help.....I'm sure he doesn't stalk all the threads like the rest of us do.

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Big Redneck3100 · #14 (**permalink**) 10-03-2010, 09:23 PM

Nice??? Speak for yourselves!!!! LMAO, just kiddin haha....welcome to the forums OP. For the record I only use the gps when I need it and have pretty good battery life for the day. And Im on a completely stock phone, no root or roms yet. Oh, and no task killer

xSD · #15 (**permalink**) 10-04-2010, 03:25 AM

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Originally Posted by bradart

Also because using a task killer hurts your battery life.

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Not necessarily true

**bradart** · #16 (**permalink**) 10-06-2010, 10:21 PM

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Originally Posted by xSD

Not necessarily true

yes. Necessarily true.

If you need me to, I'll explain it.

**aman1127** · #17 (**permalink**) 10-06-2010, 10:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bradart

yes. Necessarily true.

If you need me to, I'll explain it.

I agree, to keep it short, the CPU uses more juice to autokill these things. Without a taskiller, Android automatically makes these programs sleep until you need it. Unlike winmo, having 50mbs of free RAM isn't a bad thing. I had to get used to this as well. My device never lags even with "low RAM"

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**bradart** · #18 (**permalink**) 10-06-2010, 10:55 PM

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Originally Posted by aman1127

I agree, to keep it short, the CPU uses more juice to autokill these things. Without a taskiller, Android automatically makes these programs sleep until you need it. Unlike winmo, having 50mbs of free RAM isn't a bad thing. I had to get used to this as well. My device never lags even with "low RAM"

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Not to mention that fact that the Android development team changed the "kill" function to "restart". This means that every single time you use a task manager to kill an app, it will re-start itself in about 25 seconds. You can try it if you don't believe me. You are literally wasting battery and CPU by starting up a whole lot of apps that were already running.