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Battery Life and Push Email Feedback?

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anakin1979

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Hi All. I am currently using a Blackberry Bold 9900 and have grown quite sick of waiting for RIM to add more apps, something which Android has an upper hand on.

I've searched through the forums and still wanted to pose the question.

Are there any former Blackberry users out here who switched to this phone? I'm looking at the SG2 as my priority option.

My reservation is push e-mail and battery life. This is where my Blackberry comes in handy. My battery lasts me a day and a half with moderate to heavy use (Facebook, Twitter, E-mails, four to give phone calls). I get all my e-mails on time, real time.

How does the SG2 fare in this regard, and what's battery life like? I have several Yahoo and Gmail accounts and one personal IMAP e-mail that I need on a daily basis.

Would appreciate everyone's feedback, I am slowly falling in love with this phone and Android!
 
The sgs2 will last a day with moderate to heavy use, definitely not as long as a blackberry, but respectable for a smartphone. There are things you can do to get longer battery life such as turn the brightness all the way down.
 
with push mail on and using other apps/calls etc, i get an average of 24 hours, maybe 26.. like mentioned above, there are ways u can further increase the battery life. but u probably wont get as much as u do with a blackberry, coz to be honest, this phone is doing that much more and running that much more.. look at that screen, for example :D but yeah, i think 24 hours is very acceptable for wat this phone does
 
no idea on that, but as no one really syncs the SGS2 with anything (kies is rubbish to be honest), any transferring is done by mounting ur memory, and browsing.. via windows explorer on windows, etc.. like u'd browse a usb drive.. im pretty sure u ought to be able to make the connection with no fuss
 
yup i've read about the sg2 being able to mount on the mac as a drive for transferring media files and such, i'm just wondering how i'm going to get all of my 300 plus contacts into the phone, and my previous calendar entries...
 
well if u have a gmail account, thats the best :D it automatically keeps ur contacts in sync with ur gmail.. if u can get ur previosu phone's contacts into a .csv, u can add it directly to gmail and it'll sync. it works with other email accounts too (hotmail etc) but i find gmail to be the best, and its the one i use, so.. yeah. i dont use calendar much, but u could try importing it to google calendar :D
 
thanks. i was able to sync all of my contacts but can't seem to do it with my calendar. i'll have to search this on google.

does the sg2 have the ability to have different notification sounds per message (meaning different notification tones for SMS, e-mails, facebook, twitter)?
 
yup, u can set one default notification tone, and most apps (including SMS, email/gmail, facebook) allow u to either use the default tone or a different tone for that app.. although facebook for android has dreadful notifications, really.. lol. no push notifications, and just for messages/friend requests.. but thats off the point :D
 
oh do you mean if someone posts on my facebook wall or comments on a photo, i wont get a real time instant notification? i ask only because while not 100%, i get those on my blackberry 9900...
 
u wont get a notification, period. not real time, not an hour later. the app itself is great, much improved from 6 months back, but the notifications suck. it'd probably use a lot more battery with push notifications but it should still be an option. yeah i know the iphone app definitely has notifications too..although there are other social networking apps that support facebook and have real time notifications (thats the beauty of android :D)
 
anakin1979 said:
many thanks for the clarification. what about twitter though? does that have real time notifications? :-)
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i dont use twitter, sorry. and ur welcome, i hope this doesnt put u off android even slightly, its a great system and this will surely be fixed some time down the line :D
 
i asked a friend here who uses a galaxy sii and she says she gets facebook and twitter notifications instantly and real time. that's a bit odd. i'll research some more. these things are actually important to me (e-mail, facebook and twitter real time push notifications).

another question you might be able to answer, do instant messaging applications run in the background even as you put the phone to sleep and slip it into your pocket? if someone messages me on google talk or YM for instance while my phone is on standby or sleep mode in my pocket, will i get an alert?
 
well maybe ur friend is using a third party app for facebook? not sure about twitter

yes, IM apps run in the background. google talk is always online, unless u sign out.. other apps work the same way too, as long as u sign in first..and u get real time notifications :)
 
anakin1979 said:
Hi All. I am currently using a Blackberry Bold 9900 and have grown quite sick of waiting for RIM to add more apps, something which Android has an upper hand on.

I've searched through the forums and still wanted to pose the question.

Are there any former Blackberry users out here who switched to this phone? I'm looking at the SG2 as my priority option.

My reservation is push e-mail and battery life. This is where my Blackberry comes in handy. My battery lasts me a day and a half with moderate to heavy use (Facebook, Twitter, E-mails, four to give phone calls). I get all my e-mails on time, real time.

How does the SG2 fare in this regard, and what's battery life like? I have several Yahoo and Gmail accounts and one personal IMAP e-mail that I need on a daily basis.

Would appreciate everyone's feedback, I am slowly falling in love with this phone and Android!
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I never tried the Galaxy S2, but with most Androids what drains the battery is having background data enabled. You can still get push (via imap idle) email with the k9 mail client, even when background data is off. See this:
http://androidforums.com/motorola-m...ife-disabling-backgr-data-but-push-email.html
Even if it refers to another phone, the concept applies to all Androids.
 
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