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Hey guys,
I'm sitting here with a little problem with my GNexus...
My girlfriend and I bought it in combination with a Telekom-contract.
Everything works fine except the call quality via Skype. But only with her device.
We tried it via wifi but the only case when it happens is if she's online with her mobile data... then the quality is cut-off and sounds robotic. It works with my phone and we also got the same speed results with speedtest.net so we're pretty helpless here.
Anybody got an idea or solution?
Thanks in advance,
Fabian
uninstall the original skype, try this version instead and report back
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1148708
zerozoneice said:
uninstall the original skype, try this version instead and report back
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1148708
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Didn't fix the Problem..still the same bad quality.
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does wifi to wifi work ok?
does 3g to 3g make a difference who's calling and who's answering?
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does wifi to wifi work ok?
does 3g to 3g make a difference who's calling and who's answering?
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Wifi to wifi works perfectly...and it doesnt matter who's the calling one, we tried it in every way...
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guess you're limited by bandwidth then...i also didn't get great quality out of 3G videocalling, guess it's normal.
does it work with other phones on the same network?
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guess you're limited by bandwidth then...i also didn't get great quality out of 3G videocalling, guess it's normal.
does it work with other phones on the same network?
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That also was our first guess..but we tried it with my phone, too (also with Telekom) and got better results. We made an internet speed-test with both phones and got the same results. :S
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No more ideas? :S
What are your download/upload speeds when you do a speed test? What's your ping time?
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cmstlist said:
What are your download/upload speeds when you do a speed test? What's your ping time?
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Download was around 300kb/s, upload something like 100kb/s and ping i cant tell anymore..but it was pretty high and at least over 80
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the_f4b1 said:
Download was around 300kb/s, upload something like 100kb/s and ping i cant tell anymore..but it was pretty high and at least over 80
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Kilobits, or kilobytes?
If it's 300/100 kilobits/s, that would explain it completely. 300 is just barely enough to receive a moderately low quality video stream. 100 is completely insufficient to upload streaming video.
If it's kilobytes, you still might have some choppiness on the upstream.
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Kilobits, or kilobytes?
If it's 300/100 kilobits/s, that would explain it completely. 300 is just barely enough to receive a moderately low quality video stream. 100 is completely insufficient to upload streaming video.
If it's kilobytes, you still might have some choppiness on the upstream.
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yep, kilobytes.
But we didn't even try video-calling.
Only voice, nothing else..if it didnt work with video we wouldn't even mind
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https://support.skype.com/en-us/faq/FA1417/How-much-bandwidth-does-Skype-need
even though 300KB/s should suffice, the high latency and bandwidth variations (packet loss, TTL, etc...) of 3G will negatively influence the quality.
your problem is the mobile network, not Nexus or Skype.
100ms and more for a connection oriented stream of any kind will produce dropouts...
zerozoneice said:
https://support.skype.com/en-us/faq/FA1417/How-much-bandwidth-does-Skype-need
even though 300KB/s should suffice, the high latency and bandwidth variations (packet loss, TTL, etc...) of 3G will negatively influence the quality.
your problem is the mobile network, not Nexus or Skype.
100ms and more for a connection oriented stream of any kind will produce dropouts...
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We also thought of that but why does it work with my phone then? We tried it just the same time and we had the same speed results but still skype only worked good for me...that's the thing i don't understand :S
the_f4b1 said:
We also thought of that but why does it work with my phone then? We tried it just the same time and we had the same speed results but still skype only worked good for me...that's the thing i don't understand :S
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you can go back to the shop and ask to test with another device, maybe there's something wrong with it?
Someone plz help me I downloaded a new radio and I went into hboot and tried to install but it says no image or wrong image I renamed to PB31IMG.zip and I downloaded like 5 times and still says the same thing plz help
Now it said "parsing package" for one sec and it went back to fastboot
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Make sure its not named zip.zip
Where are you getting the file from, and what version?
May need to backup your sd to a computer, format the sd fat32, and then copy the files back.
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Where are you getting the file from, and what version?
May need to backup your sd to a computer, format the sd fat32, and then copy the files back.
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It's the EVO radio 0808
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Try this one. http://dinc.does-it.net/Radios/EVO_2.15.00.08.08/PB31IMG.zip
Heres the md5 http://dinc.does-it.net/Radios/EVO_2.15.00.08.08/PB31IMG.zip.md5
You can get all the radios here http://dinc.does-it.net/Radios/
It says no image or wrong image again :banghead:
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Try it on a different sd card, with nothing else on it. For some reason, that's the only way I can flash radios and splashscreens, but it works. Make sure it's FAT32 format.
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omniatic said:
Try it on a different sd card, with nothing else on it. For some reason, that's the only way I can flash radios and splashscreens, but it works. Make sure it's FAT32 format.
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That's exacly wat I did I have another 2gig micro sd and both have problems
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The reason I'm trying to change radios is wen I turn my WiFi on my WiFi can't even reach to my upstairs . I would have one bar or won't even connect anyone knows why ?
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Alton (Halo 2) said:
The reason I'm trying to change radios is wen I turn my WiFi on my WiFi can't even reach to my upstairs . I would have one bar or won't even connect anyone knows why ?
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The cell radio and wifi are 2 seperate things, and wifi has its own antenna. Wifi is part of the kernel, try a different one. Also most wireless routers have a output power setting as to how far the signal goes, make sure that is up all the way. Do other devices connect with good signals upstairs?
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The cell radio and wifi are 2 seperate things, and wifi has its own antenna. Wifi is part of the kernel, try a different one. Also most wireless routers have a output power setting as to how far the signal goes, make sure that is up all the way. Do other devices connect with good signals upstairs?
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Sure do. My sisters HTC rhyme has all bars upstairs
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Alton (Halo 2) said:
Sure do. My sisters HTC rhyme has all bars upstairs
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I would try a different kernel or the stock kernel if u can without messing things up like ext4, or a different version of the one your on.
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I would try a different kernel or the stock kernel if u can without messing things up like ext4, or a different version of the one your on.
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Still happens, why is this ?
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Alton (Halo 2) said:
Still happens, why is this ?
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Not sure, are you running any apps that may take controll of wifi power? A sip program or task killer or battery saver app mabey? Other than that im not sure.
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Not sure, are you running any apps that may take controll of wifi power? A sip program or task killer or battery saver app mabey? Other than that im not sure.
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No
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I know my Inc's WiFi isn't super great for me on my second floor, although my Rezound does just fine. Inc is on Abduction ICS with the newest Incredikernel, and I use the Rezound Incredikernel on my Rezound.
Doesn't bother me much as I just use it as an mp3 player/alarm clock, but just my two cents.
I suspect the WiFi radio in the Inc isn't spectacular...but being upstairs should get you better cell service. You could also look into a Wifi Access Point and extend your network.
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LunaticSerenade said:
I know my Inc's WiFi isn't super great for me on my second floor, although my Rezound does just fine. Inc is on Abduction ICS with the newest Incredikernel, and I use the Rezound Incredikernel on my Rezound.
Doesn't bother me much as I just use it as an mp3 player/alarm clock, but just my two cents.
I suspect the WiFi radio in the Inc isn't spectacular...but being upstairs should get you better cell service. You could also look into a Wifi Access Point and extend your network.
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Idk how
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Turning up the transmit power "all the way" is the last thing you should do. First off you will piss off your neighbors using wifi. Second, transmitting from the router at high power will do NOTHING if your phone cannot transmit back with EQUAL effectiveness. What you should try is MOVING the wifi router to a better location. Preferably up high, not blocked by metal objects. Wifi signals work best when the source and destination operate in the same general plane, e.g. the same floor of a house. If the wifi router is on the 2nd floor and your phone is on the 1st floor the closer you get "under" the router, the worse your signal (especially for high gain antennas). Most routers come with a 2 or 3 dB gain antenna. These have pretty good vertical beam width, meaning the angle up and down that they transmit and receive is fairly wide. This is good for multi floor homes. The price you pay for all that vertical coverage is less distance. If you are going for distance, and you have removable antennas, a 7 or 9 dB gain will allow the wifi router to not only have a higher effective radiating power (without adjusting any internal setting), but it will allow it to RECEIVE weaker signals from farther away. Again, the price you will pay for extra range is LESS vertical beam width. That means if you are close to the router, if you move up and down (vertically) too much, you will start to loose signal quickly. So, a high gain antenna is good if you are a house width away and on the same floor, but BAD if you are on different floors (you will be outside the vertical beam width).
Hope that helps.
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The cell radio and wifi are 2 seperate things, and wifi has its own antenna. Wifi is part of the kernel, try a different one. Also most wireless routers have a output power setting as to how far the signal goes, make sure that is up all the way. Do other devices connect with good signals upstairs?
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mjb32803 said:
Turning up the transmit power "all the way" is the last thing you should do. First off you will piss off your neighbors using wifi. Second, transmitting from the router at high power will do NOTHING if your phone cannot transmit back with EQUAL effectiveness. What you should try is MOVING the wifi router to a better location. Preferably up high, not blocked by metal objects. Wifi signals work best when the source and destination operate in the same general plane, e.g. the same floor of a house. If the wifi router is on the 2nd floor and your phone is on the 1st floor the closer you get "under" the router, the worse your signal (especially for high gain antennas). Most routers come with a 2 or 3 dB gain antenna. These have pretty good vertical beam width, meaning the angle up and down that they transmit and receive is fairly wide. This is good for multi floor homes. The price you pay for all that vertical coverage is less distance. If you are going for distance, and you have removable antennas, a 7 or 9 dB gain will allow the wifi router to not only have a higher effective radiating power (without adjusting any internal setting), but it will allow it to RECEIVE weaker signals from farther away. Again, the price you will pay for extra range is LESS vertical beam width. That means if you are close to the router, if you move up and down (vertically) too much, you will start to loose signal quickly. So, a high gain antenna is good if you are a house width away and on the same floor, but BAD if you are on different floors (you will be outside the vertical beam width).
Hope that helps.
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Very interesting. So i have a Linksys E3000 router and it has no external antennas. It can sit flat or be wall mounted. Which position would get the signal to spread out the farthest but still work good up close too?
Gnex comes with dual frequency WIFI radios 2.4GHz and 5.0 GHz, when active are known to interfere each other's signal causing problems. Stuff is abit technical, but bottom line is its better to operate in a single spectrum then both at the same time, which most WIFI router don't do.
Fix is to run wifi at a single spectrum either 2.4 or 5, for me i stick-ed with 2.4 (as i was not sure enabling 5GHz would turn on both) and it resolved over-heating near back camera.
Another advanced thing could be done, that is to avoid interference of other routers, near your router. google for softwares to scan nearby WIFI, see what channels they are using and set your router to use some other channel to kill any interference.
Read it yourself if you want to
http://www.macworld.com/article/1140685/wifi_spectrumbands.html
http://technott.com/2010/04/apple-acknowledges-problems-with-ipad-wi-fi-connectivity/
Well theory is just theory and practical is hell alot different, worked for me lets see if it works for you.
I'll give it a try.....and come back at you later
by the way....i got overheating problem when using facebook app....do you know what's the problem....??
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I'll give it a try.....and come back at you later
by the way....i got overheating problem when using facebook app....do you know what's the problem....??
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it can't be facebook.... try and break it down into small pieces...
what do you use to access facebook, 3g or wifi or 2g ??
is there a signal prob at the place you usually use facebook.
like that
by the way i personally use friendcaster not facebook
There are routers that broadcast both 2.4GHz and 5GHz signals, they are called concurrent dual band routers, but i will give your method a go, will report back later.
Just tried, fixed the heating problem
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What "over-heating near back camera" is there to begin with? I know it can get a little warm next to the camera, especially on heavy 3G data use, but nothing is overheating. Overheating for me is when the heat gets too much causing problems like instability and crashes. But other than a slightly warm battery door there is no such thing on my phone. My Galaxy S and Moto Milestone showed the same behavior so it's nothing I worry about.
gokpog said:
What "over-heating near back camera" is there to begin with? I know it can get a little warm next to the camera, especially on heavy 3G data use, but nothing is overheating. Overheating for me is when the heat gets too much causing problems like instability and crashes. But other than a slightly warm battery door there is no such thing on my phone. My Galaxy S and Moto Milestone showed the same behavior so it's nothing I worry about.
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then your device is working correctly with your router, as it was designed to
in our case it wasn't...
Mach3.2 said:
Just tried, fixed the heating problem
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thanks for the feedback.... i dont have my nexus with me yet .... heard it over the phone, googled about the prob, its detailed description, probable fix and issue fixed at 2 places, feels great to know the fix is working
I don't have any problem, but it does significantly reduce the heat output at the back camera area.
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walidhiphop said:
I'll give it a try.....and come back at you later
by the way....i got overheating problem when using facebook app....do you know what's the problem....??
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Prolonged data use makes these phones warm.
I don't understand? I have a dual band router, but the phone only connects to one at a time. How does another unconnected network heat up the phone?
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It doesn't
T-Keith said:
I don't understand? I have a dual band router, but the phone only connects to one at a time. How does another unconnected network heat up the phone?
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Same with me. My phone sees both WIFI connections but I prefer the 2.4 gHz over the 5 gHz. Never had a overheating problem. I'll take the OPs advice though just to be safe.
Hello,
A friend of mine has the GNEX, and he complains about overheating problem "specially using 3G & facebook app". The interesting part is, he didn't only mention the back-near-camera spot, he also says that it's getting overheated from the front "Top screen part".
Shall he worry about it? Maybe send it to maintenance to check?
Fishawy said:
Hello,
A friend of mine has the GNEX, and he complains about overheating problem "specially using 3G & facebook app". The interesting part is, he didn't only mention the back-near-camera spot, he also says that it's getting overheated from the front "Top screen part".
Shall he worry about it? Maybe send it to maintenance to check?
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could be wifi or low 3g signal issue. we have signal jammer in my workplace and my phone gets heated up like anything, switching off wifi and 3g keeps it cool
if it doesnt help, go i'll advice going to service center before its too late.
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I don't understand? I have a dual band router, but the phone only connects to one at a time. How does another unconnected network heat up the phone?
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i think it keeps scanning/refreshing available networks.
Over Heating
My signal kept disappearing when I was sitting at home phone on desk.
I picked it up and it wasn't hot so I thought to install a signal booster app
which I should of new better they really dont work anyways. I ran the app
and it started over heating so bad that the screen was changing color.
I uninstalled app and rebooted and its fine now. So I beleive it will overheat
scanning for networks.
So is 5 faster then 2.5 or something??? What is the difference.
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So is 5 faster then 2.5 or something??? What is the difference.
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5 Ghz frequencies are much better to transfer large files over wireless, streaming hd movies and the like. Plus, the channels it operates on are less crowded than the traditional 2.4 Ghz. More info on Google.
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So is 5 faster then 2.5 or something??? What is the difference.
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Yes, 5ghz has a faster transfer speed than 2.4ghz.
So my stock JB 4.1.1 GSM Nexus is having some issues regarding the wifi, specifically the sleep policy. I have it set to turn off when the phone is sleeping but whenever I go to look at my battery consumption, it shows the wifi as being active all day long. Has anyone else experienced this/ can you reccomend a fix? Thanks!
Same problem here; wifi is always on for me on stock 4.1.1. Anyone have advice?
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Not sure why you'd want to turn WiFi off when the screen is off?
But yes, the "advanced" settings on WiFi are a bit finnicky for people. I've noticed that they don't always stick. Just gotta try toggling it a few times over and over.
martonikaj said:
Not sure why you'd want to turn WiFi off when the screen is off?
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To save battery.
martonikaj said:
But yes, the "advanced" settings on WiFi are a bit finnicky for people. I've noticed that they don't always stick. Just gotta try toggling it a few times over and over.
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Thanks, I'll try this
pinke123 said:
To save battery.
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You think wifi consumes more juice than cellular radios do? or do you shut those down as well?
animal24 said:
You think wifi consumes more juice than cellular radios do? or do you shut those down as well?
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I know it does because my battery lasts longer when I manually shut off wifi.
Wifi will never consume more battery than the cellular radio.
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Wifi consumes more battery idling. 3g consumes more battery surfing.
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I know it does because my battery lasts longer when I manually shut off wifi.
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Over a whole day's use, if you're on WiFi the whole time you'll use less battery then if you're on the mobile network. The idle battery use is higher but your time connected to transfer data (and therefore battery used) is much much lower.
idling in 2g saves allot more battery than Wi-Fi
Turning off the phone is the best battery saver. But everyone knows wifi is the best option if you have it. 3g runs your battery down way faster. Even though most people have known this for yrs, its even in the tips section when you go into your sprint account. "Wifi to save battery" or something like that.
I use juice defender to turn off all radios when the screen is off. WiFi and 3g will pop back on within seconds of the screen being back on. I know not everyone finds juice defender useful, but I love it
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Hello all,
I am currently using JMT x1. I have been having problems with my battery draining quickly. So I put it on airplane mode and the drain drops significantly. Therefore, I thought I'd try a new radio.
I followed the instructions from this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1895400), however, I am not what "tests" to use to compare which radio works best besides looking at signal strength. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
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blackmystre said:
Hello all,
I am currently using JMT x1. I have been having problems with my battery draining quickly. So I put it on airplane mode and the drain drops significantly. Therefore, I thought I'd try a new radio.
I followed the instructions from this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1895400), however, I am not what "tests" to use to compare which radio works best besides looking at signal strength. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
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Signal strength is going to be your best bet. Usually the stronger the signal the better the reception will be, obviously. There is an app called Speedtest that you can use to see if your upload/download speeds are any faster. It will also ping your phone with different servers - the lower the better.
I went through about 4 radios over the course of a week, testing, testing and even more testing to find the best one for me. From what I understand different radios work better for different locations so you have to determine which works best for you in your area. Good Luck.
I agree with Meelocheck's post. You can also try Juice Defender and see if it improves your battery life.
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I agree with Meelocheck's post. You can also try Juice Defender and see if it improves your battery life.
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Don't get a app that "saves" battery. They waste it more than save it
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Don't get a app that "saves" battery. They waste it more than save it
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It depends really. I've used on one device and that was true. On the Herc its been fine. I don't have to keep remembering to turn off my radio/wifi/bluetooth.