Help Anyone use juice defender ultimate?

[peterjmay]

I think this works, who agrees?

 

[Amerie]

I use it, bought it before they changed the different levels. Helps me since I have really bad signal when at work, stops it from frantically searching for a data signal and draining the battery in a few hours. It does help, just a bit annoying when the data takes a while to reconnect or gets stuck on switching on, but it's worth it to be able to use my phone in the evening without recharging!

 

[Xyro]

@Amerie I think all they did was add a less expensive version with features in between the ultimate and free.

But yeah, I've used it since my previous phones. No complaints here

 

[splash104]

For me the free version seems far better than the paid one. Atleast it doesn't drain my battery.

 

[SB13X]

IMHO I can only agree with the following from XDA as it saves me typing:

i think it is a waste of money.

I have been a dedicated user of Juice defender since December. Only last week I decided to test out LeeDroiD 3.3.3 without it.
Battery life-The difference, if any is tiny, I'm still trying to work out if there is a real difference. With Wifi/3G constantly on my phone will last a day of medium-heavy usage easily.
Performance-Is 10 times better without it. It causes a LOT of wake lag to the point where I was waiting around 5-10 seconds after turning my screen on just for the phone to be fluent whilst Juice Defender toggles Wifi/data etc.
If I could refund now I would.

I honestly think that with Juice defender running in the background constantly it adds up to about the same battery consumption and lots of lag

 

[Amerie]

IMHO I can only agree with the following from XDA as it saves me typing:

I do agree with this, during the weekend for me, Juicedefender doesn't make a lot of difference on LeeDroid (I only have experience of LeeDroid so I can't speak for any others), and I actually have it set to disconnect when connected to my home Wifi.
Thing is there are some cases (like mine, very poor signal at work) where it helps regardless. And I always found on stock that it gave me an extra 5/6 hours or so. So it depends whether you are willing to trade a couple of seconds of lag for usable battery life. Yeah you could toggle it all manually, but why would you if there is an app that will do it for you? And not everyone is dedicated enough to replicate everything in tasker, or has the knowledge to do so.

The only thing I don't agree with is that they changed the different verions of the app to remove some functions, forcing people to pay for the wifi options. I bought ultimate ages ago, and I did so to support the dev. Crippling the basic functions of the app is not a way to gain a loyal fan base, and I know a few people that went elsewhere rather than be forced to pay to gain back the fuctions they lost in the update.