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Battery life after Gingerbread update

Hello,

I've noticed the battery life on my Thunderbolt seems to be a lot shorter (even with Advanced Task Killer installed).

Is anyone else seeing this happen? If so, any suggestions you may have? I'd prefer not to have the extended battery. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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Ann154

Have you run the phone from a complete charge to the phone shutting down from a dead battery. That should help reset the battery statistics in the phone system. I would also suggest uninstalling the Task Killer. If you haven't configured the application correctly, you can actually do more harm than good. Every time the ATK kills applications, phone will most likely respawn the same applications again. The phone uses more battery to restart the applications then it uses to hold the applications in the memory. http://m.androidcentral.com/ram-what-it-how-its-used-and-why-you-shouldnt-care

budone

Als o a bump charge helps also. But kill the Advance Task Killer. It is killing your battery.

djysrv

I found that the native Facebook Android app was a battery killer as well. There was no way to throttle its constant checking for updates.

budone

djysrv wrote:
I found that the native Facebook Android app was a battery killer as well. There was no way to throttle its constant checking for updates.

Under MENU>SETTINGS>ACCOUNTS&SYNC, you can turn off or set time intervals for FB to update.

AZSALUKI

i didn't want the extended battery either. however, when the htc rezound came out, i purchased the battery for it. it's a 1620 (tbolt is 1300) so it's about 25% more juice, while only being a fraction thicker than the stock battery. it will fit in the standard case/door so my tbolt is no more thick than with the stock battery, but i have 25% more juice. i grabbed one because they ran them on sale for $20, but i'm not sure how much they typically cost?

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