Lol, the Fascinate easy on the battery compared to this...
I've had my Samsung Fascinate for 3 days now, and I must say that the battery life is just awful. I applied the Froyo 2.2 update right away, so I really don't know if it made a difference in battery life from out of the box or not. I've done everything I could - turned off all background actions, lowest display setting, no sync, no gps, no WiFi, etc. . . . When I check battery usage, it says that 90% of usage comes from the display! Is that possible? Did I get a bad battery, or is it just this update issue? This is my first smartphone, and I know that battery life is not the best, but 5 hours running naked? Please help.
I would recommend changing your battery. Perhaps your phone came with a bad battery.
I use stock Fascinate with GPS, WiFI and BT on all the time. I have one gmail (push) and two other email accounts and Facebook syncing at 30 minute intervals or higher. I stream Pandora for about one hour every day and play it on my car audio system via BT. While using Pandira, Google Maps is also on (mainly for traffic updates). I DO NOT use any app killers. I do not use Weatherbug, though I understand it is part of VZW bloatware and always runs in BG. I talk 30 mins max per day. I browse using 3G for the most part (about 2 hours) and on WiFi for about an hour. My battery lasts the full day with about 20% remaining before I go to bed. I always charge to full capacity over-night. I charge the phone during the day only if I use the camera/flash a lot.
Edit: My signal is 2 to 3 bars for the most part. I do find one wierd behavior with my Fascinate. When I have WiFi turned on, my cell signal goes up by a couple of bars, though they are no way inter-related. If I switch my WiFi off, my cell signal bars go down by a couple. Not sure why this happens. I think there is a bug with how Fascinate/Android calculate/display the number of bars.
I use an app to show me the percentage of battery life remaining. It is better to keep Wi-Fi turned off until it is needed because battery life will dramatically be reduced. For example, looking at my cell right now with Wi-Fi turned off I am at 83% with 1 day 36 minutes of battery life remaining. When I turn Wi-Fi on the battery power remaining goes down to 4 hours and 29 minutes, huge difference!
So I hope this is not a stupid question, but well...... I read earlier about apps updating themselves like weather bug and such. You know when you add applications and it has the box to check off if you want those apps updated automatically, should you not set the phone up to do that automatically if you want to improve your battery?
ladybell wrote:So I hope this is not a stupid question, but well...... I read earlier about apps updating themselves like weather bug and such. You know when you add applications and it has the box to check off if you want those apps updated automatically, should you not set the phone up to do that automatically if you want to improve your battery?
diff type of update
that the app software update
we are saying the data update the app uses.
Ok, so how would I control that???? Forgive me but I DID come from a BB that could barely update apps thus didn't happen much and android and the apps are rather new to me so...
could you explain a tad more?
ladybell wrote:Ok, so how would I control that???? Forgive me but I DID come from a BB that could barely update apps thus didn't happen much and android and the apps are rather new to me so...
could you explain a tad more?
its part of the settings/ prefences
i keep weatherbug @ 1hour
Well thanks mdram4x4. I didn't realize I could adjust those preferences like that. (don't laugh) This system kills me. Its like there are so many menus and options and more buttons and such that it is a little hard to keep up with at times. So much customization! Thanks again.
ladybell wrote:Well thanks mdram4x4. I didn't realize I could adjust those preferences like that. (don't laugh) This system kills me. Its like there are so many menus and options and more buttons and such that it is a little hard to keep up with at times. So much customization! Thanks again.
i only bother with it on widgets, since they are technically running all the time
k cool tip
mdram4x4 wrote:
ladybell wrote:Ok, so how would I control that???? Forgive me but I DID come from a BB that could barely update apps thus didn't happen much and android and the apps are rather new to me so...
could you explain a tad more?
its part of the settings/ prefences
i keep weatherbug @ 1hour
I dont have one hour option for weatherbug it starts from none then goes to 3 hours which i have mine set at
Regarding the extended warrany from Samsung for signing up and registering the phone, on the front page of Samsung's USA site is the small print: * Sorry, extended warranty is currently not available for cell phones. So don't bother.
Lol, the Fascinate easy on the battery compared to this...
I 've found that all the bloatware sucks up a lot of battery life. Once you remove the all the bloatware you'll gain at least three hours of battery life.
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