Juice defender? Does it work
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It's been downloaded/installed 1,000,000 - 5,000,000 times and it has a 4/5 star rating with 15,838 ratings -- so that's probably a "Yes".
It's free... give it a whirl.
I used to be all "ZOMG I NEED TEH ROMZ N KERNULS WIT TEH BESTEST BATTERY LIEF" but then I realized that I sit on my ass at a desk/computer all day at work, and I'm at home more often than not, so I don't really pay attention to my battery life anymore; I'm rarely not able to charge my phone somehow.
EDIT: A co-worker of mine swears by JuiceDefender. Personally, I just don't see the point.
Yes, it works WONDERS. Also, hit up my sig for a bunch of other things you can do to help your battery life (but I can't stress enough how good Juice Defender is )
It works, but I don't think it works properly on Gingerbread yet.
Juice defender doesn't work to ME, I'd say try the free version before you buy ultimate juice for 5 bucks. I actually think it hurts my battery and I've done many test while at work from 8am-5pm to prove it. I've ran these test on 2.2 and 2.3; it doesn't have 2.3 support yet so it just pisses your phone off.
Thanks guys ill give it a try
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Easily one of my top 5 apps
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I've been using JD beta with UltimateJuice for a while now. According to it, my battery life has doubled. Dunno how true that is but meh.
Sign up for the PRIVATE beta on their website. works well and even on GINGER BREAD!
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dkdude36 said:
Sign up for the PRIVATE beta on their website. works well and even on GINGER BREAD!
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Agreed. I've been running version 3.4.4 beta (which is currently only available in the private beta) and it's been working great on gingerbread-evo-deck. None of the publicly available releases work on gingerbread yet, though.
The only problem I've had with the gingerbread ROMs I've tried is that they don't have an option to disable always on mobile data. This drained my battery life whenever I spent an extended amount of time in a place that didn't have good reception (like everyday at work), since it was continuously trying to connect to 3g. Juice Defender solved that problem and now I get great battery life regardless of where I go.
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... but then I realized that I sit on my ass at a desk/computer all day at work, and I'm at home more often than not, so I don't really pay attention to my battery life anymore; I'm rarely not able to charge my phone somehow...
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Funny, many of us are probably in the same situation and most won't admit it
Link to the private beta??
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Link to the private beta??
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http://juicedefender.com/privatebeta. Although you need to sign up and get approved at http://latedroid.com/beta first.
what's a good app to manually kill apps? I'm not talking about something like atk but something that you could use to kill 3rd party apps that continue to run in the background. Or am I just asking for something that does not exist?
Autostarts together with watchdog?
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Autostarts together with watchdog?
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Swyped from my sexy EVO.
New beta just went out. Looking good so far
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is it still good for stock 2.2? does it also save battery life
Yep. Works even better then on gingerbread.
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is it still good for stock 2.2? does it also save battery life
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3.4.7 was just released i use my phone LOTS in the day JD helps me squeeze all the juice i can from my battery lol
Related
http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile...trip-carrier-iq-from-their-hardware-20111216/
qbking77 video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev3rUQMvyhU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile...trip-carrier-iq-from-their-hardware-20111216/
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Nice!! F U CIQ!
This is a nice find. Let's see if it prevails to be true
Wonder how much this will free up resources without it running in the background?
Maybe EL stand for End Lawsuit.
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Maybe EL stand for End Lawsuit.
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No, alphabetical. I suspect they leaked it so they could get a better test base since sprint wants it asap. Curious to see if this helps speed up ota updates. Read another article the other day saying how much testing is done for ciq on devices.
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Wonder how much this will free up resources without it running in the background?
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This is the only reason I want it off. If I don't need it,I don't want it.
rican408 said:
This is the only reason I want it off. If I don't need it,I don't want it.
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I read somewhere that at any given time about 1/4 of sprints devices are reporting carrier IQ information. Oh sweet battery drain.
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Great news!
Glad to hear! Thanks for sharing.
Notre that's winning!. [email protected] "end lawsuit" brilliant!
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Sprint Disabling Carrier IQ across the board.
The Verge just posted it.
http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/16/2641286/sprint-disables-carrier-iq-software
so incredible and awesome
Merry Christmas and a Happy new year to each and every one of us with NoCIQ!!! Oh an all the rest of you too
So did phandroid and phonescoop.
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I read somewhere that at any given time about 1/4 of sprints devices are reporting carrier IQ information. Oh sweet battery drain.
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Not to mention what this must be doing to their network... 1/4 of ALL Sprint devices sending data at once... all the time?!?!
Of course, the privacy rights violations are the main issue, but wow... that must have been having some affect on the network.
My news report video
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I've been running EL13 since the leak, battery life does seem a bit better over EG30. Cannot compare to EK02 as I didn't get the OTA or flash it but it is improved over EG30 in my experience.
lol nice QB tossed you a add on G+ since I already follow ya on the tube lol. So nice they actually listened.
I have been running the EL rom for three days now.
My battery drain without using it for one day was 3.25% per hour on EG30 based on an all day no touch(screen on less than 3 min, max cell signal, with WIFI on and attached.
On EL13 my battery drain is now 3.85% per hour with the exact same testing situation.
So it looks like the battery usage has went up.
real world usage on EG30 was... fully charged and taken off charger at 8AM. by noon I would be at 75-80% with about 30+min of screen on using maps, web, and reader. Plug back in at around 11PM and the phone would be setting in the 30's with a total average screen on time of 2 hours.
Now on EL13 today I hit 64% battery at noon with 45 min of screen on using maps, web, reader. I am currently 4:20PM at 42% with a screen time of 1h22m.
To me it looks like the battery is worse, especially in the real world usage tests. I will be doing more testing this weekend and will see how it hold up to total screen on time. On EG30 I could pull 4h30m+ using a mix of apps and 3+ hours playing games. I will be testing those two fully. But right now I'm looking at going back to EG30.
Oh to be in a world without CIQ!
A couple of things that I would like to see on custom ROMS
SVoice. First of all I really don't care about SVoice. But I find pretty cool that when alarm rings you can just say "snooze" instead of wondering in the dark where is your phone.
Eye tracking to keep screen on
Direct call
Auto tagging of photos
Is this possible for the ROM developers? I mean the hardware is there, right?
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A couple of things that I would like to see on custom ROMS
SVoice. First of all I really don't care about SVoice. But I find pretty cool that when alarm rings you can just say "snooze" instead of wondering in the dark where is your phone.
Eye tracking to keep screen on
Direct call
Auto tagging of photos
Is this possible for the ROM developers? I mean the hardware is there, right?
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The screen on eye tracking I would love.
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There are a few random threads about some of these features. Basically if what I read in them are correct we will need a port of the new TouchWiz. And it hasn't been released yet so its not available to port.
Eye tracking is going to be such a battery drain, LOL.
Running a big screen and FFC together throughout the day is going to be a killer.
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Eye tracking is going to be such a battery drain, LOL.
Running a big screen and FFC together throughout the day is going to be a killer.
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Don't worry! They put a 2150 MAh battery in that thing, it should last a couple days.
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Don't worry! They put a 2150 MAh battery in that thing, it should last a couple days.
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................ -_-
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miketoasty said:
Don't worry! They put a 2150 MAh battery in that thing, it should last a couple days.
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I heard u'll be able to power ur refrigerator out of that monster battery and still keep those 2 days of use
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Don't worry! They put a 2150 MAh battery in that thing, it should last a couple days.
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I dont agree with this statement (my 2100mAh extended battery gets me between 2-3 hours screen on time), and dont find it relative to the SGN.
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I dont agree with this statement (my 2100mAh extended battery gets me between 2-3 hours screen on time), and dont find it relative to the SGN.
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You might want to call in warranty support on your sarcasm detector.
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You might want to call in warranty support on your sarcasm detector.
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I've seen too many people say they get 2 days on this battery to write the statement off as sarcasm. *hangs head*
I have the official 2000mAh battery for my gsm GNex and I get around 6 hrs screen time on auto brightness.
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So, you get twice the battery life I do?
Most of these features are like Face-Unlock. Do you actually use it? I've used it ONCE just to show off to my iPhone friends.
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Smokeey said:
Most of these features are like Face-Unlock. Do you actually use it? I've used it ONCE just to show off to my iPhone friends.
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Lol, same. Forgot it was even a feature until my sister was interested.
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So, you get twice the battery life I do?
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I also have the 2000maH battery and I get around 5 to 5 and a half hours screen on time on auto brightness. I've noticed a massive difference compared to my stock battery.
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Lol, same. Forgot it was even a feature until my sister was interested.
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Ya, it's just fancy marketing ****. Nothing special.
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There are a few random threads about some of these features. Basically if what I read in them are correct we will need a port of the new TouchWiz. And it hasn't been released yet so its not available to port.
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I was afraid for something like that...I don't like AOSPless interfaces but I am open to the new TouchWiz. If I find a ported ROM, I will definitely try it. I guess we have to wait a month+ to see something though.
Just got the phone and so far so good even on touchwiz. I actually said I'll probably will go stock rom for a bit, I think a bit just bit ok nevermind. First of all, I cant believe the packaging. Its awesome not to have the cheap at&t packaging. Now when I get home I'm probably going to root. Have you guys seen battery improvement?
Also I got a bumper case for it but now concerned the camera optics will get dirtier easier, do any of you use a bumper to verify?
So many more possibilities with a rooted phone plus custom Rome. Personally I don't ever see myself getting an android phone and not rooting it as well as using custom roms
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So many more possibilities with a rooted phone plus custom Rome. Personally I don't ever see myself getting an android phone and not rooting it as well as using custom roms
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So true, what was I thinking lol. Hopefully light flow will work flawlessly soon with this device.
I just picked mine up Sunday. Haven't rooted yet, but will this weekend. I'm curious though, if battery life shows much improvement with CM9 or other roms available. I'm not entirely sure I'm happy with stock rom battery life...
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It cant be worse. If push comes to shove I'll just use my juice defender ultimate app which has done its job in the past.
I'm pretty concerned about this bumper case thing. I'm almost set on exchanging it for the otter box case, dont even care how bulky it makes it. I want total protection for this new baby. Any other otter box users here.
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It cant be worse. If push comes to shove I'll just use my juice defender ultimate app which has done its job in the past.
I'm pretty concerned about this bumper case thing. I'm almost set on exchanging it for the otter box case, dont even care how bulky it makes it. I want total protection for this new baby. Any other otter box users here.
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I bought the "Defender Series" Otterbox case for mine, so far so good. Like you, with this phone I want to keep it as protected as possible. It's not too bulky, at least not how my Otterbox was on my ATRIX 2, but mostly the reason for that is the slimness in design on the SG3 versus that of the ATRIX. I recommend it, but I may be biased because in my job, I have to safeguard my phone with a case like Fort friggin' Knox...
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I bought the "Defender Series" Otterbox case for mine, so far so good. Like you, with this phone I want to keep it as protected as possible. It's not too bulky, at least not how my Otterbox was on my ATRIX 2, but mostly the reason for that is the slimness in design on the SG3 versus that of the ATRIX. I recommend it, but I may be biased because in my job, I have to safeguard my phone with a case like Fort friggin' Knox...
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Cool, thanks for the info. I didnt think it would be as thick as on older devices. Yea, you cant be the protection you get with Otterbox defender cases. Definitely going to hunt one down after work.
Anyone else have any input as to the battery life with the stock rom? I am going to root this weekend, and flash (probably) CM9 and still curious as to whether battery life improves greatly. Hoping that's so...
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Anyone else have any input as to the battery life with the stock rom? I am going to root this weekend, and flash (probably) CM9 and still curious as to whether battery life improves greatly. Hoping that's so...
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Rooting allows your locked android files to be modified. Meaning certain apps need root access like tethering apps. Has nothing to do with battery life. Now a kernel and custom rom can impact battery life.
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JayRolla said:
Rooting allows your locked android files to be modified. Meaning certain apps need root access like tethering apps. Has nothing to do with battery life. Now a kernel and custom rom can impact battery life.
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Thats what I meant, after rom'ming. But unless I get ridiculous drops in battery, I feel I'll be using that juice defender app or even look into an extended battery later on for the first time in my android life.
JayRolla said:
Rooting allows your locked android files to be modified. Meaning certain apps need root access like tethering apps. Has nothing to do with battery life. Now a kernel and custom rom can impact battery life.
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I understand what rooting is and does. But in order to flash kernels and roms, one must root. Hence why I asked if custom roms and kernels are proving to show better battery performances...
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Can't attest to others but on average i take the phone off the charger at 7 am, usually 3+ hours of screen time with LTE internet in the mix, 6 hours of wifi and usually put the phone back on the charger with 40%+ battery left around 11pm.
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Can't attest to others but on average i take the phone off the charger at 7 am, usually 3+ hours of screen time with LTE internet in the mix, 6 hours of wifi and usually put the phone back on the charger with 40%+ battery left around 11pm.
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Are you stock or running a custom rom?
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I just soft bricked my phone. Had to order a usb jig because I couldnt get it to work by myself. Now no phone for the weekend and part of next week... If the jig even works at all...
Be warned, messing around with your phone is very frustrating...
I'm in the same boat personally. I changed to Nova Launcher and so far I'm really happy with everything.
This is my first android phone however so I'm really curious about rooting and trying different roms etc. I just don't want to **** this phone up because I do a lot of important stuff with it for work etc.
Uzi578 said:
I just soft bricked my phone. Had to order a usb jig because I couldnt get it to work by myself. Now no phone for the weekend and part of next week... If the jig even works at all...
Be warned, messing around with your phone is very frustrating...
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I'm in the same boat personally. I changed to Nova Launcher and so far I'm really happy with everything.
This is my first android phone however so I'm really curious about rooting and trying different roms etc. I just don't want to **** this phone up because I do a lot of important stuff with it for work etc.
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It's only frustrating if you do something stupid or don't understand what it is you're doing. To understand rooting and flashing and modding, you have to read, re- read, and read agsin. Taking your time and practicing some patience, and rooting/flashing makes the Android experience infinitely more enjoyable. Just sayin'...
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Uzi578 said:
I just soft bricked my phone. Had to order a usb jig because I couldnt get it to work by myself. Now no phone for the weekend and part of next week... If the jig even works at all...
Be warned, messing around with your phone is very frustrating...
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What method did you use to root? What did you do to cause the soft brick?
I waited a couple weeks before rooting my LTE GS3. Its not bad using Touch Wiz. I use TW and switch over to Nova (paid version) at times.
I am tempted to flash a ROM but I don't want to make sure that I flash a stable ROM. I don't want to flash a ROM and not have the Bluetooth or MMS not work properly.
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Are you stock or running a custom rom?
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Task's aokp ics with ktoonsez's kernal. I am waiting on HBO go and Netflix to work with jb before I make it my daily driver
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Battery life sucks on all the roms. Some roms make it even worse. I think the stock rom gives better battery life so far it's not stellar but ok.
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I ended up reflashing my phone to start fresh after working on my friends....the sense of spring cleaning just makes you feel good sometimes to rid all the crap...clean slate....
Anyone using LookOut and it's other add ons?
I was using it on all my devices, but now....is it really worth it? Think it's just a battery drainer?
Would like to hear your thoughts.....
Nay on lookout for me. I use where's my droid for locating purposes and it works well enough for my needs.
I use avast mobile, it was tons of functions and is still pretty light-weight. Even has a phone locator you can use with their website.
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Nay on lookout for me. I use where's my droid for locating purposes and it works well enough for my needs.
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X2 on where's my Droid and nay for Lookout
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Why would you install any of the addons if you don't need them? Just install Lookout.
Lookout app
iunlock said:
I ended up reflashing my phone to start fresh after working on my friends....the sense of spring cleaning just makes you feel good sometimes to rid all the crap...clean slate....
Anyone using LookOut and it's other add ons?
I was using it on all my devices, but now....is it really worth it? Think it's just a battery drainer?
Would like to hear your thoughts.....
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I've been using Lookout for a while. I don't notice it as a battery hog and it's locate and siren features are nice and work quite well. They also have something called Plan B app which is a nice little add on that let's you remotely install it on your device and locate it after it's been lost. Which I found quite interesting. Anywhoo...there's my 2 cents...keep the change!
I personally use Seekdroid. It's useful since it shows your device location, recent calls made and other information. It's really awesome and lightweight!
Get Android Lost !
Get: http://www.androidlost.com/
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Works Really Well and has 100's of options!
And Never drains the battery! Lookout Does
Came in today to find a SGS3 on my desk woot! I like ICS wish it had Jelly bean, but it's great so far. I gotta get this an xoskin right after work, woot for a company card. I have had a Blackberry Bold for an on call phone and I guess my complaints didnt fall on deaf ears. The thing had issues, I dont even know where they got it. The sticker on the back says property of research in motion limited. It was like some demo blackberry haha. Just waiting for exchange to sync, then I will customize it. What average battery life should I expect? I had like 3 spare batteries on my old evo, as long as I can get 8 hours I should be good.
My work gave me an iPhone 4s
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My work gave me an iPhone 4s
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Haha! One of the other engineers here got one. He hates it. Daily complaints. He has a SGS2 for personally use and he side by side compares it all the time. Maybe if he keeps it up, he'll get a droid. I'm sure we have some fan boys here who would take the crapple.
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Haha! One of the other engineers here got one. He hates it. Daily complaints. He has a SGS2 for personally use and he side by side compares it all the time. Maybe if he keeps it up, he'll get a droid. I'm sure we have some fan boys here who would take the crapple.
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I would take an iPhone for work phone over a Blackberry any day. Cannot stand the Torch that I use for work. :crying:
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Came in today to find a SGS3 on my desk woot! I like ICS wish it had Jelly bean, but it's great so far. I gotta get this an xoskin right after work, woot for a company card. I have had a Blackberry Bold for an on call phone and I guess my complaints didnt fall on deaf ears. The thing had issues, I dont even know where they got it. The sticker on the back says property of research in motion limited. It was like some demo blackberry haha. Just waiting for exchange to sync, then I will customize it. What average battery life should I expect? I had like 3 spare batteries on my old evo, as long as I can get 8 hours I should be good.
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I wish my job would give me a on call phone lol. But I get on average 12-15 hours with 4-5 hours screen on time.
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The on call pay is even better. I make $250 for just being available 24 hours over the weekend. Even more when I actually get a call. Love working IT
My work gave me this, you b*tches are green with envy
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My work gave me this, you b*tches are green with envy
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At least it's a Samsung!
Battery life on the S III is ridiculously great, I can go all day at work using my phone and when I come home at 5 I still have 75% battery remaining.
My company just gave me a brand new iPhone 4s to replace my blackberry also. That thing is so locked down it unbelievable.
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rgregg504 said:
My work gave me this, you b*tches are green with envy
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Bwahaha! Awesome
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At least it's a Samsung!
Battery life on the S III is ridiculously great, I can go all day at work using my phone and when I come home at 5 I still have 75% battery remaining.
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The first day was great. I am trying to not plug it in out of habit.
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Came in today to find a SGS3 on my desk woot! I like ICS wish it had Jelly bean, but it's great so far. I gotta get this an xoskin right after work, woot for a company card. I have had a Blackberry Bold for an on call phone and I guess my complaints didnt fall on deaf ears. The thing had issues, I dont even know where they got it. The sticker on the back says property of research in motion limited. It was like some demo blackberry haha. Just waiting for exchange to sync, then I will customize it. What average battery life should I expect? I had like 3 spare batteries on my old evo, as long as I can get 8 hours I should be good.
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You can get jellybean, there's a couple good stable ROMs. I'm using baked black bean 5 right now and it does well, you can use team venum's jellybean ROM because its touchwiz, although I really don't like touchwiz(thought it was great until I tried normal android without it)oh and jellybean would require root unless you wait for the official update which is supposed to be this month.
I'm on stock unrooted(for now at least) and I can go from 7 am to 10 pm with about 6 or 7 hours of screen on time and still have around 20 percent left.
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