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Has anyone tried JuiceDefender on the Desire Z or G2? Is it effective at improving battery life?
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Has anyone tried JuiceDefender on the Desire Z or G2? Is it effective at improving battery life?
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yes i use it on my g2 and it does save some battery life. idk how much to be exact but i do see some improvement in the battery life. all it does is turn off ur data when ur screen is off. thats all i noticed different. then when u turn ur phone back on it turns back on ur data. tmobile told me to use it when i had my, mytouch 4g but i never used it till i got my g2..
And on cm7 based roms it can control 2g 3g to save batt too!
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Love the app. I've had it since my G1 days and it works wonders on the G2 as well. I've been having troubles with the AOSP helper the past month or so, so I've had to control my 2g/3g manually, but when it works right its even better.
great app. you can set all sorts of power saving features on there. you can set it to connect to 2g/3g at set intervals, get it to connect to a wifi whenever you enter the area you use wifi the most. ive noticed my battery life does quite well with it.
This app is so amazing that I bought the ultimate version. This app is very affective. I recommend using for all devices, especially ones that have roms that use lots of battery life.
i use it with my g2 and it really better my battery life even by default setting.
thanks, one of the best apps which I used!
Love the app, I have ultimate version. Enable wifi in certain places doesn't always work. Btw don't get juice plotter, I liked that app at first but then I was draining my battter in 2 hours just w screen on even thou it has really good concept.
I recently installed the ultimate version & noticed a huge improvement soon after. I'm in love with this app & can't see my self not using it. It's been 17hrs+ and I'm still @ 23% with moderate use.
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I have the Ultimate Version. My phone was on battery for about 18hrs with moderate usage today.
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Now I wonder what causes such a big difference from regular to ultimate. Maybe just a placebo affect?
I have the free verson of it, and I`m happy.
does it have support for gingerbread now??
Yes, juice defender works marvelous! If you want you phone to last the whole day and your not using it just enable juice defender and it can last as long as 2 days.
Very usefull
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works pretty alright for me as well.. i guess the auto turning off of data does help to a certain extent.. if you are using the phone constantly, then i think there would be minimal difference..
Hi all,
Im in the process of getting a new contract, and I have 2 options, the Galaxy W or HTC desire S, I was going to get the desire S until i saw the W, hwt ado you alll think,
I compared the two and it was a tie on here
http://geekaphone.com/compare/Samsung-GALAXY-W-vs-HTC-Desire-S
Also will the W be getting ICS?
Thanks.
Well from my expwrience with the W (and having a friend with the DesireS) I can say that I'm really satisfied with my purchase.
The phone itself is pretty speedy (and even speedier if you root it and uninstall the Samsung bloatware plus anything that you don't need) and quite nice to held in hand.
As far as I know it won't get the ICS update, at least officially.
But who cares, in CyanogenMod we trust.
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I don't yet hava a smartphone and I had the same dilemma...
As far as I can tell the Desire S only advantage is the bigger ram, but the Galaxy W has a newer technology as the blutooth, flash, browser and codecs support.
I will know if my decision was good by the end of the week.
anyway, i couldn't find a batter "bang for the buck" in that price range...
I had a long hard look at both these phones before I ended up buying the Galaxy W.
The Desire S is much more well built, but that made it very heavy.
The screen is better on the W than the DS. It just looks much more crisp.
The glass is also alot smooth on the W, no smudge stays after a quick wipe. I hear it is also Gorilla Glass alternative from Samsung. Very impressed.
The W doesnt have a LED notification light, which is annoying.
The W is much faster in terms of CPU, opening the browser for instance was quicker on the W than the DS, but the DS has a much better UI, Sense is far better than TouchWiz.
Battery life on the W is good once you remove the bloat. I get well over 20hrs, that includes calls and gaming.
The W feels plastic'y but not bad due to how light it is. Like a feather.
There is far more community support for the DS than the W, but as you can see we are growing
All in all, both phones are great, but the extra CPU grunt makes it a winner for the W.
Vyker you I couldn't have described it better. Excellent comparison.
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what about the ore RAM u get with the Desire S? it is not a big-a-deal?
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what about the ore RAM u get with the Desire S? it is not a big-a-deal?
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Depends on what you think RAM is?
Yes, it is true to say, "the more the better".
But what does it actually mean to the end user, trying to make a phone call, or play a quick round of a game?
The reality is, 512Mb of RAM on the SGW is more than enough. If used correctly, you should have about 50Mb free at all times, this means that you are using the RAM as intended, to run your phone.
I have on my phone, about 13 applications running all the time, and have 50Mb free. I would rather have only 10-20Mb free, as this means more has been given to make sure my phone runs smoothly.
There are mis-conceptions that "OMFG I only have 20mb left, this phone is ****" are wrong. It doesn't mean you dont have enough. It just means it is being used correctly.
Anyhow, for Gingerbread, 512Mb is perfectly fine to run your phone and your apps. It won't be slow! Don't worry.
You will notice a drop in performance because of CPU clock speed [[email protected] and [email protected]] more than you would because of less RAM. Bear that in mind!
Good Luck!
Answered my question! thank you!
Vyker said:
I had a long hard look at both these phones before I ended up buying the Galaxy W.
The Desire S is much more well built, but that made it very heavy.
The screen is better on the W than the DS. It just looks much more crisp.
The glass is also alot smooth on the W, no smudge stays after a quick wipe. I hear it is also Gorilla Glass alternative from Samsung. Very impressed.
The W doesnt have a LED notification light, which is annoying.
The W is much faster in terms of CPU, opening the browser for instance was quicker on the W than the DS, but the DS has a much better UI, Sense is far better than TouchWiz.
Battery life on the W is good once you remove the bloat. I get well over 20hrs, that includes calls and gaming.
The W feels plastic'y but not bad due to how light it is. Like a feather.
There is far more community support for the DS than the W, but as you can see we are growing
All in all, both phones are great, but the extra CPU grunt makes it a winner for the W.
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@Viker You said
"Battery life on the W is good once you remove the bloat. I get well over 20hrs, that includes calls and gaming."
I'd really be grateful if you could explain a bit more what else you've done to acheive this...because I've also rooted and frozen several system apps just as you advised, following the spreadsheet you gave...but I'm getting no significant improvement in battery life(I'm still around 10hrs on moderate usage with Juice Defender). I AM getting a much smoother experience though. I'm still on stock EU ROM KKL3 by the way. Glad for the help
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Congratulations
Just to share in high hope I am not alone :
I have been using Juice Defender on my HTC Tattoo until now with my SGW i8150 and decided to stop using it and I noticed a change of the battery life as below :
- It seems that the battery lasts even longer
- I am on Unlimited Data
I have not made any further test n I will soon here
2g11, I'd start by removing Juice defender.
One of the best battery savers in Android is to have no "ongoing notification" apps.
In other words, dont let any app running constantly in your notification bar.
The only apps I have running constantly are message apps [SMS, GMail, WhatsApp] and widgets. Everything is not needed.
Since I moved to GO Launcher EX, and stopped using TouchWiz, I've noticed my battery life got worse. So if you use any other Launcher, switch back to TouchWiz.
Hi guys,
Just did a little experiment and needless to say, the results arent surprising. I unfroze all the bloat, unrooted and tadaaa!!....my SGW back to the 'respectable' battery life I used to have with Juice Defender!! This could mean:
1) With the root access, certain apps just override juice defender and switch on the data link at will...OR
2) I dont have a clue..any ideas guys?
BTW: I emailed JD about my experience..still waiting for response
I'm beginning to think I might have to root, freeze the apps then unroot to get the best performance and battery, but will that work?
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Why freeze when you can just back them up and uninstall right away?
At the moment I'm rooted and uninstalled all the bloatware plus other things I don't need and I get around 20+ hours of battery life with mid-high usage on mobile data (since AFAIK wireless drains a lot less battery).
I'm not that sure that rooting impacts battery life that much
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@banelicious Do you use Juice Defender?
I notice lots of people get good battery life WITHOUT juicedefender. The only decent battery life I've had (20+ hrs) was using JD. Dont know maybe I have a slightly weaker battery but I intend to install the new EU FW (XLA2), root/backup/uninstall bloat then see how the battery lasts (without JD).
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@banelicious Do you use Juice Defender?
I notice lots of people get good battery life WITHOUT juicedefender. The only decent battery life I've had (20+ hrs) was using JD. Dont know maybe I have a slightly weaker battery but I intend to install the new EU FW (XLA2), root/backup/uninstall bloat then see how the battery lasts (without JD).
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No I'm not using JD, I just uninstall ed the crap out of my phone.
The W battery is a 1700mAh one,not that bad.
I'm installing juice right now, I'll let you know how it goes
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Did you say 1700? Mine is 1500. Did you get a replacement battery or the italian version has a bigger battery? All the spec sheets I saw had 1500mAh so this is a real surprise...
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1700? you are using the original one?
1700, stock with the phone (bought in early december). I'll post a shot when I get home from work, and I'll check the manual also
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Good discussion, but just to let everyone know, I ended up getting a HTC sensation
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nice!
by the way, anyone know where to buy a good quality spare battery?
Hey guys, I am an iPhone convert and using HTC one x for nearly two weeks now. I have rooted and installed leedroid Rom and its much better than HTC stock. So the question is u an attaching a screenshot of ny battery. Is this battery usage kind of good or can I improve it. I don't use my phone for calls much so that's why very low usage on calls.
Would really appreciate some feedback.
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It is pretty good,you can try to download Easy Battery Saver and Easy Task Killer from the playstore.Also (this helped me verry much) you can download the CoreControl app from the xda forum:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1652136
You can set it to 2 cores,it will run perfect,the phone won't heat up anymore if you play games and also saves you'r battery life.
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It is pretty good,you can try to download Easy Battery Saver and Easy Task Killer from the playstore.Also (this helped me verry much) you can download the CoreControl app from the xda forum:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1652136
You can set it to 2 cores,it will run perfect,the phone won't heat up anymore if you play games and also saves you'r battery life.
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Task killers are pretty useless, android is good at memory management. When you kill the task that android hadn't done already it will be restarted right after by android then killed again by the app thus making an endless loop of killing and restarting processes wasting more battery.
And anything these "battery saver" apps do you can do your self, turning off WiFi ect. Thus removing the need of the app and saving more battery.
@op you really need to post a screen on time as well but yes that seems about normal
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could have 3 days battery life without screen on time it means nothing
asgr8 said:
Hey guys, I am an iPhone convert and using HTC one x for nearly two weeks now. I have rooted and installed leedroid Rom and its much better than HTC stock. So the question is u an attaching a screenshot of ny battery. Is this battery usage kind of good or can I improve it. I don't use my phone for calls much so that's why very low usage on calls.
Would really appreciate some feedback.
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What was the screen "on" time?
Wtf? Is this normal.
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What sort of. Battery life and screen time are you getting from it 100% > 0% cause don't look normal to me
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Well, long story short, from %100 to dead took less than 4 hours on stand by.
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If WiFi and 3G are turned OFF, but auto-sync is ON, does it cause any drain on the battery as opposed to if it were OFF?
On WiFi, for a non-rooted HOX, what battery time and screen-on time is considered "good"?
I installed CM10 on my One X yesterday, and since then my mobile internet is a lot slower, not to mention I get no signal at all in some places [my house too]
Also, sometimes when I try to wake pu my phone, I discover it was actually off for some reason ... It just shuts down randomly :3
Is there a way to fix it, or should I just change ROM? :\
Btw, is there a way to enhance battery life with CM10? its kind of horrible now :3
Cm10 has known issues with wake locks preventing the phone from sleeping which in turn causes the battery to deplete much faster than normally.
If you are avoiding sense i would try an AOSP based ROM.
I'm using pabx's 4.2 and its running great. Battery lasting all day with moderate usage
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do a factory reset.
use setcpu to under clock ur device and save battery. Or use juice defender..
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bagofcrap24 said:
Cm10 has known issues with wake locks preventing the phone from sleeping which in turn causes the battery to deplete much faster than normally.
If you are avoiding sense i would try an AOSP based ROM.
I'm using pabx's 4.2 and its running great. Battery lasting all day with moderate usage
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Not avoiding Sense, but I like getting my 'Menu' physical button back, and I really like the look of CM10... :3
But mainly I wanted to make my phone smoother, and get JB
So you're suggesting I just get another ROM?
mihirengg19 said:
do a factory reset.
use setcpu to under clock ur device and save battery. Or use juice defender..
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Factory reset should help signal issues?
And will these apps significantly improve battery life? and which is better? :3
Hi all, I bought my brand new original HTC One X 3 days ago and it got the newest android version for it, JB. But there is a big problem and it is the battery, it's just horrible to see such a awesome phone with a battery life like that. Does anyone know which things I can do to have a better battery life? I already have the almost lowest brightness, no live wallpaper and no antivirus on the phone. I also use the official energi saving function that comes with jelly bean but it doesn't even make the battery better at all, not even a little bit. Please help!!!
Tomb_Raider_Legend said:
Hi all, I bought my brand new original HTC One X 3 days ago and it got the newest android version for it, JB. But there is a big problem and it is the battery, it's just horrible to see such a awesome phone with a battery life like that. Does anyone know which things I can do to have a better battery life? I already have the almost lowest brightness, no live wallpaper and no antivirus on the phone. I also use the official energi saving function that comes with jelly bean but it doesn't even make the battery better at all, not even a little bit. Please help!!!
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You will find your phones battery life will improve, mine wasn't that good for the first few days.
When ever i get a new phone i always charge it over night & then when its off charge leave it till it bleeps to be put back on charge, do that for the first few times as i find it gives the best life.
Mine is very good now
https://www.dropbox.com/s/flsunfck4qbr42l/Screenshot_2012-12-23-21-43-11.png
Tomb_Raider_Legend said:
Hi all, I bought my brand new original HTC One X 3 days ago and it got the newest android version for it, JB. But there is a big problem and it is the battery, it's just horrible to see such a awesome phone with a battery life like that. Does anyone know which things I can do to have a better battery life? I already have the almost lowest brightness, no live wallpaper and no antivirus on the phone. I also use the official energi saving function that comes with jelly bean but it doesn't even make the battery better at all, not even a little bit. Please help!!!
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can u say how long your on screen time or general battery life is? but at the first few times/days/weeks it's really bad but after few charge cycles it will bet better because the battery has to improve itself with the information the phone gives, you know? wait and charge and after a week or so it will be really better...
Or if you just disable google now you will be good. If you disable google maps aswell your battery life will be perfect. Something is wrong with those two
That issue is just with jelly bean
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tadas_max said:
Or if you just disable google now you will be good. If you disable google maps aswell your battery life will be perfect. Something is wrong with those two
That issue is just with jelly bean
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yup that's also right ^^
one sitvokin
It says 4H 56M on the battery but when I fully charge it and use it for 3 houres (games, music and wifi surf) and almost the whole battery is gone so I have to charge it again
And how do I disable those google things?
Tomb_Raider_Legend said:
It says 4H 56M on the battery but when I fully charge it and use it for 3 houres (games, music and wifi surf) and almost the whole battery is gone so I have to charge it again
And how do I disable those google things?
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if you play more then 1 hour or so then that's not so bad because if you play a game or two only from full charge you can reache 2- 2,5 hours...with games like THD games or other which make a lil bit more heat or so ....and if you play only games like solitaire for this time or so ...then that's really not normal...you know that in the hox are 4 cores and 8 gpu cores, and therefore the battery isn't like in a phone with 2,500 or more mAh because our has only 1,800 mAh ...if yo uwant to disable it press long home button and then you can press the menu button and there will be settings in that you can disable google now and for the other google things just go in settings then apps and then all apps and there you can click on any app ! but don't deactivate system apps! and if you click on them there will be a button deactivate and yes press it and it is disabled
I usually play Dead Space but not for more than 20 minutes because the phone heats up like hell -.- And I disabled google now hope the battery will be a little bit better, but any more ideas how I can get better battery life please
With my HOX, I found having brightness at 60% or less made the biggest impact. Also, disabling wifi when not needed made a huge difference. Decrease the time between auto syncs, and also check for wakelocks. Might have an app waking the phone a lot.
But I do understand where you are coming from. The battery life was killing me also, so I bought a Note 2 as a primary phone and now use the HOX as a music player for which it is outstanding haha
the first time the battery is always bad ._. just wait some days or so and it will be better...and look with betterbatterystats which wakelocks you have then you can see which apps might make the battery life also more worse...
Thank you very much I will try them, the battery seems to be a little bit better when I turned Google Now off
i have the AT&T HTC ONE XL (L For LTE)
has the Dual Core Snapdragon and i say the battery is better lasting than ones with out the Dual Core CPUs
markjcc said:
i have the AT&T HTC ONE XL (L For LTE)
has the Dual Core Snapdragon and i say the battery is better lasting than ones with out the Dual Core CPUs
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Pretty obvious, isn't it? Plus the Snapdragon S4 Krait has a better manufacturing process (I think 32nm) compared to Tegra 3's 40nm process, so it's more efficient and less power hungry.
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To sum up. You want good battery go back to keypad £20 Nokia or Alcatel phones.
Smartphones will be pants for years to come
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With normal usage... Talk, wifi, handset Bluetooth... I only put my hox to charge wen it gow out of power. And my batery goes between 2 and 3 days. without gaming just regular usage...
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arknailed7754 said:
To sum up. You want good battery go back to keypad £20 Nokia or Alcatel phones.
Smartphones will be pants for years to come
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Not true. Look at the RAZR Maxx. If Motorola can put such a huge battery in a thin phone, there's no reason other manufacturers can't. Also, it was definitely possible to put a bugger battery in the One X, but HTC just didn't do it. They instead released One X+ sometime later and claimed better battery life as a 'feature'. That's just wrong, and very similar Motorola releasing the RAZR, and then the RAZR Maxx soon after. The phone should have had that battery since the start. The only reason I can find with Motorola is that the RAZR is slightly thinner for those who want it that way. But the One X and One X+ have 0 design difference.
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My point was in comparison to old phones.it'll be a long time before we get as good batrery life as on old phones. Reason being smArt phones just do to much nowadays..many forgetting it's actual purpose
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Just don't forget that the T3 is a pretty "old" chip, it needs a lot of power.
Nevertheless, I think the One X isn't that bad regarding battery life. It will drain quickly if you start gaming, but you should expect that. It's no gaming device, it's still a smartphone. Of course you can play your games every now and then but if you expect you can game with that thing for hours without getting it to heat up or charge it in the meantime, you put your money on the wrong device
Hi guys.
I cannot disable Google Now. In my Settings there is nothing like that?
Stock ICS ROM.
Help pls. Thnx a lot.
xsardax said:
Hi guys.
I cannot disable Google Now. In my Settings there is nothing like that?
Stock ICS ROM.
Help pls. Thnx a lot.
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There's no Google Now in ICS.
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