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Battery life AFTER recent ota update

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3cutiger

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Non rooted here.

Ya'll's battery life worse after the recent update?

I used to be ~ 35-40% after a day's use. now many times I am below 20%. Battery usage says mostly from my display, but my display settings have not changed.
 
i am noticing worse battery life too. this morning as an example- unplugged at 7:30, 10 minutes talk time, wifi and gps off, not looked at it much at all, realy, screen off, and I am at 55% already. before, doing the same or more, I would be at least up at 70-80% still... if not better... not liking this update much. on positive side, I got to try the gps post-update yesterday, and it did lock on faster--- took about a minute.
 
i had really bad battery life the first day after i updated. i looked at my screens and figured it was the updated youtube widget. the original one was just a link but the new is an active widget that changes the preview icon for the most popular video. that would mean that its pulling data and i bet that is causing poorer battery life for a lot of people out there.
 
I have noticed a definitive drop in battery life since the update. I can't quantify it but it is a definite, noticeable drop in battery life.
 
fwiw... my phone, albeit a replacement i got yesterday, is running much hotter.
 
Be sure you turn off application background data sync by going to menu, settings, accounts & sync and un checking
Background data sync.
 
Here's something interesting I just noticed. I've been checking my "usage" the last two days and I've been noticing that when you click the "Cell Standby" the phone tells you a % of how long the phones been on without a signal. When I checked yesterday and again this morning the phone states it's been without signal for 55-65% of the time.

I just rebooted the phone and watched the signal meter NEVER drop below a single bar, and refreshed the "usage" statistics several times. I've discovered that the phone registers a single bar as having "no signal", but having 2 more bars as having one. The % went down as soon as the phone has 2 bars, but as soon as it had 1 the % went back up.

I thought the DL09 update was supposed to fix the signal meter? (I saw some people actually mention it fixed the actually reception of the phone but I don't recall actually reading that in the update notes so I kind of assume they're mistaken.)
 
After doing *22899 my battery life improved dramatically. I am getting 2 days out of a single charge. I am doing mostly voice and texting along with Facebook and reading USA today.
 
found that the update is sucking battery power via my GPS. I used to leave my standalone GPS on all the time. Now I turn it off unless I am actively using it and my battery life is more appropriate. It is not a big thing b/c the lock on now is so fast for the GPS. I keep the Verizon and Google location on as well for those aps that need a general whereabouts to work (weather, gas buddy, etc)
 
I think I'm getting worse battery life...tough to tell. Could it be the E911? Although I assume E911 is always on but now there is just an icon visible.
 
3cutiger said:
found that the update is sucking battery power via my GPS. I used to leave my standalone GPS on all the time. Now I turn it off unless I am actively using it and my battery life is more appropriate. It is not a big thing b/c the lock on now is so fast for the GPS. I keep the Verizon and Google location on as well for those aps that need a general whereabouts to work (weather, gas buddy, etc)
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Leaving the standalone GPS on all day has a minimal impact on my battery life, and it definitely helps the lock times when I need to use nav. Keeps it "awake" I guess. I still get a full day out of my Fascinate battery with GPS, bluetooth, and WiFi all enabled, all day long. This of course is pre-update. I think I'm going to give this update a try, though, and if it doesn't work well for me, after rooting and cleaning up a bit, of course, I'll just go back to a clean ROM or stupidfast kernel or something like that. Might even go back to one of dirrk's voodoo kernels.
 
SirKronan said:
Leaving the standalone GPS on all day has a minimal impact on my battery life, and it definitely helps the lock times when I need to use nav. Keeps it "awake" I guess. I still get a full day out of my Fascinate battery with GPS, bluetooth, and WiFi all enabled, all day long. This of course is pre-update. I think I'm going to give this update a try, though, and if it doesn't work well for me, after rooting and cleaning up a bit, of course, I'll just go back to a clean ROM or stupidfast kernel or something like that. Might even go back to one of dirrk's voodoo kernels.
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dirks old voodoo? with how iffy voodoo4 was (relative to voodoo5 which is light years ahead of it and doesnt slow down after a day or two) and how old the code is, as well as it being for dio1, thats not a statement id think anyone would be making :confused:
 
My Battery life is terrible after the update. And my GPS is not working at all? Thanks Samsung and vzw....big thumbs up!
 
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