Battery Life: Just how bad? - Page 5

Askym · #41 (**permalink**) 10-19-2009, 01:20 AM

ok just a little pointer here also. dont be testing the sleep mode if you have the usb plugged in. took me about 4 resets to figure out that the usb keeps it awake

nebula · #42 (**permalink**) 10-19-2009, 02:39 AM

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Originally Posted by ObsoleteE

Done and done, still getting texts to both programs. The stock messaging prog doesn't give my any notification, but its still showing up that I have a new text on the stock mms icon.

That is normal because remember you are not deleting the Messages app you are only turning off the notifications, I prefer it now showing on any of my Scene Pages, perhaps you could do the same.

Red_Cheeks · #43 (**permalink**) 10-19-2009, 02:53 AM

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Originally Posted by ObsoleteE

Done and done, still getting texts to both programs. The stock messaging prog doesn't give my any notification, but its still showing up that I have a new text on the stock mms icon.

just do a hard reset and start over. i did, and its working perfect. im just getting the one notification from the handcent app... just hard reset ....

ToxicToastKatz · #44 (**permalink**) 10-19-2009, 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Askym

ok just a little pointer here also. dont be testing the sleep mode if you have the usb plugged in. took me about 4 resets to figure out that the usb keeps it awake

It appears that the USB keeps it awake only when charging. Once it's at 100% it appears to be able to sleep. I had mine on the charger all night and when I woke up this morning, it had a little bit more "awake" time, but for the most part, it was sleeping all night

ToxicToastKatz · #45 (**permalink**) 10-19-2009, 05:15 PM

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THANKS!! (I hit the button too).

So far it does seem to be working. I turned off the notifications and auto-retrieval in the native sms client and turned on the notifications in Handcent. I also went into a contact and acted like i was going to send a text so that I could choose Handcent to be the default app to send texts from (thus, clearing it from the manage apps menu). As of right now, my up time and awake time are different (i believe at 65% or so). The big test will be after a full day's use and texting. Thanks for the help on this. I'll hit the topic back if something goes awry tomorrow.

Ok, so here's what I've got so far from about 8.5 hours off of the charger after making the above listed changes and utilizing Handcent as my default SMS app:

Off charger at 7:30AM with 100% charge
Current State at 4:00PM:
30% battery remaining
"Up Time" = 17h16min
"Awake Time" = 3h41min (21%)
Usage (phone calls, browser, etc) has been very light. No phone calls, a few texts incoming and maybe 4 minutes on the browser.
Automatic Usage is set up pretty much as frequently as possible (Exchange Server syncronization, Google Sync for mail, Facebook and Twitter updates are on most frequent selections, weather is fairly frequent and GPS is on all the time)

I think at this point yesterday, I was pretty much at a dead battery, so I do believe that the Handcent workaround is doing SOMETHING. I guess my question to whoever can provide insight is this:

Shouldn't and Awake Time of 21% conserve quite a bit more battery than an Awake Time of 100%? Don't get me wrong, wtih the frequencies that I have all of the applications updating/refreshing I would expect the battery to not last quite as long as if none of the stuff was updated that frequently, however, I was just thinking that with such a difference in awake times, the battery would last quite a bit longer.

Personally, with everything that is going on with my phone, if I can squeeze 12 hours out of it w/o a charge, I'm pretty happy. Am I setting the bar too low? What is everyone else seeing with this kind of usage and updating? LIke I said, 12 hours, to me, isn't too bad, but if other people are getting 14-16 hours with the same usage i'd like to hear some tips.

Thanks guys.

ObsoleteE · #46 (**permalink**) 10-19-2009, 09:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Red_Cheeks

just do a hard reset and start over. i did, and its working perfect. im just getting the one notification from the handcent app... just hard reset ....

Is a hard reset restoring to factory defaults or taking the battery out?

Red_Cheeks · #47 (**permalink**) 10-19-2009, 09:53 PM

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Originally Posted by ObsoleteE

Is a hard reset restoring to factory defaults or taking the battery out?

Restoring to factory defaults

ObsoleteE · #48 (**permalink**) 10-19-2009, 09:55 PM

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Restoring to factory defaults

Boo to that! I've put too much time in so far.

**dannzeman** · #49 (**permalink**) 10-19-2009, 11:42 PM

I'll definitely give this a try because my battery life sucks and my awake time is 95%. I hope this helps. I'll report back tomorrow to see if I notice any differences.

jhintz83 · #50 (**permalink**) 10-20-2009, 01:56 PM

i have unchecked the proper options and it has helped quite a bit but the battery life still sucks. had it charging all night till about 8am. its now 1p.m and im at 65% life left. my awake time is only 24% so its doing what its supposed to, jus think the bigger and better phones gets the less and less life we will get, too much screen and apps for the smaller batteries to handle, but i cant complain i dont have a mogul anymore. just my $.02