Help Battery Life Improves with time?

[SgtBaxter]

That is super impressive, I'd love to know your secret! I have ATK, but now I'm starting to read it can be a problem? Any alternative suggestions?

Look for an app called "fast reboot" on market. Effectively it kills all applications and restarts all startup processes, but doesn't actually make the phone reboot. Works great.

 

[ekyle]

Weird thing. The past two days my battery has gone to crap. I was getting great life then the UID process starts devouring it... No idea what I did to change it, but I'm looking for a fix

 

[kwest12]

Weird thing. The past two days my battery has gone to crap. I was getting great life then the UID process starts devouring it... No idea what I did to change it, but I'm looking for a fix

Strange.... have you installed any updates of any of your apps or installed any new ones? I'm assuming you tried battery pulls, and power offs?

 

[ekyle]

haha, haven't restarted yet. I'll do that now and see what happens

 

[deemedic]

Getting better with each 'cycle' is what Lithium Ion batteries do. There is no 'memory' issue like in NiCad or other types of rechargeable batteries, and as such LiIon batteries like to not have a full discharge when cycling.

Here are some links:

The care and feeding of Li-Ion batteries | User Support | TechRepublic.com
How to prolong lithium-based batteries
Charging lithium-ion batteries

Yeah initially there should be some improvement, but then after some cycling one charge will be virtually like the rest.

 

[ekyle]

Strange.... have you installed any updates of any of your apps or installed any new ones? I'm assuming you tried battery pulls, and power offs?

Restarted the phone and there is no change. I don't see anything unusual from what I had before the weekend started...

 

[john0821]

My battery has been a beast lately. After my Facebook app decided to go nuts with a memory leak which caused a full drain in a few hours a few nights ago, I went to EVERY app I have and adjusted the settings. I turned the majority of my apps to manual refresh/updates, weather/scoreboard to every 2 hour refresh, and email to hourly refresh. I still have Advanced Task Killer to force close buggy apps, and that is all I use it for (settings set to: disable Auto Kill, ignore apps that I don't want to be killed). My battery is running Smart mode, but I am starting to feel confident enough to leave it in Performance mode.

 

[whitrome]

Look for an app called "fast reboot" on market. Effectively it kills all applications and restarts all startup processes, but doesn't actually make the phone reboot. Works great.

Thank you! I will try that! Since uninstalling ATK, my battery life has been better, though my DX is really laggy when I use media or camera functions. It's annoying, but nothing serious-I love this phone.