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battery - tell me what im doing wrong!

i have found over the last week that the days i turn off 3g it lasts so much better as i live in a non 3g area so i dont need it till i go to a city. it's like it is using power just looking for it all the time! all the other stuff doesnt seem to make half as much difference.
 
ok stupid question... but if you turn off 3g doesnt it just ruin the point of setting up sync for emails twitter etc , because until you turn it back on again you dont get no notifications ??.

i keep reading contradictory stuff about task killers, are they ok to use or not.and if it kills tasks will the sync reboot when needed etc

thanks
 
Hi all, does someone sell a 3200mAh battery for this thing? It'd be great to have all the features AND reasonable battery life!
 
For notifications 2G is fine, when actively browsing you should use 3G.

You can get 2G/3G toggle widgets from the market for exact this reason.
 
Is there a list of stuff that should and shouldnt be killed?

2.1 seems to fire up a hell of a lot of stuff on boot. Whitelisted stuff I know needs to run, but some of the other stuff I have no idea.

Like the Rosie task. What's that?
 
wuthton said:
If you don't know what Rosie is then you shouldn't use a auto-taskiller.

This kind of question is exactly why auto-killing is a bad idea.
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Well it's been whitelisted along with all the other google/htc/android named tasks.

I'm not auto killing anything until someone offers up a list of stuff that shouldnt be killed.

I'm currently only killing apps like music, bluetooth, gallery, photoshop that seem to want to run all the time even when never asked to run!
 
sparklehedgehog said:
i get notifications still for my emails etc as it syncs using 2G instead. twitter, both email accounts and facebook are setup and sync fine
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lekky said:
For notifications 2G is fine, when actively browsing you should use 3G.

You can get 2G/3G toggle widgets from the market for exact this reason.
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Hold up, hold up.... stuff updates when 3g is off?
Wait.... is my little button for 3g AND 2g? or just 3g?

I'm confused :(
 
The battery deffinatly seems to improve with use, my desire is a week old and my indicator has only just turned amber after 31 hours, the only thing i had switched of was updates for 8 hours today , have had a few calls, a bit of a surf, and even watched a little youtube via wifi
 
The_Verse said:
Hold up, hold up.... stuff updates when 3g is off?
Wait.... is my little button for 3g AND 2g? or just 3g?

I'm confused :(
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The mobile internet button turns off internet, 2G or 3G. When on, the phone will try and pick up 3G, if no 3G is available, then it will try to pick up the slower 2G. 3G uses more battery than 2G.

You can force the phone to only use 2G, and never use 3G. Saves battery, but the data transfer speed is slower. So when your sitting at your desk, and only care about facebook/twitter/email notifications, speed isnt really an issue so setting to 2G may save some battery.
 
nx1977 said:
I'm currently only killing apps like music, bluetooth, gallery, photoshop that seem to want to run all the time even when never asked to run!
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I think you are confusing running with background tasks. I have had my Desire over a week and I have killed 3, maybe 4 apps. my phone has no lag, battery is fine and my apps/phone probably functions better for it.
 
I see im not the only 1 suffering from a poor battery on the desire. I amusing it even less than I did my iphone 3GS and the battery is piss poor.

Could it perhaps be an Android power managment issue?

In any case I hope HTC release an extended battery soon.
 
bavlondon said:
I see im not the only 1 suffering from a poor battery on the desire. I amusing it even less than I did my iphone 3GS and the battery is piss poor.

Could it perhaps be an Android power managment issue?

In any case I hope HTC release an extended battery soon.
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How long have you had it for?
 
And what do you have running?

How long do you get from a charge, and what are you using the desire for between charges?
 
I just got my Desire a couple days ago, and the battery life is truly shocking so far, at least for me, as I come from a Nokia E72 that happily made it through 4 or 5 days of heavy use.

I'm following all the tips in this thread, and might get a 2G/3G widget too. Hopefully the battery life will improve a bit over the next week. If not, I can probably live with it - it should still make it from morning till evening most days. This phone is such a joy to use, I can accept this as one of its few limitations.
 
Kendoji said:
I just got my Desire a couple days ago, and the battery life is truly shocking so far, at least for me, as I come from a Nokia E72 that happily made it through 4 or 5 days of heavy use.

I'm following all the tips in this thread, and might get a 2G/3G widget too. Hopefully the battery life will improve a bit over the next week. If not, I can probably live with it - it should still make it from morning till evening most days. This phone is such a joy to use, I can accept this as one of its few limitations.
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Remember the E72 didnt have a 3.7" touch screen.

Also what apps do you have seeking net access and how often are they set to refresh?
 
Quite a lot of replies!

I've found that my battery life has increased over the course of the first week. Managing 20-24 hours with moderate usage now, with email sync always on.



Sent from my HTC Desire using Tapatalk
 
nx1977 said:
Remember the E72 didnt have a 3.7" touch screen.

Also what apps do you have seeking net access and how often are they set to refresh?
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Absolutely, I don't expect this phone to compete with the comparatively underpowered E72, but I do need to get used to it. :)

Just like the OP, I'm heavily restricting the phone's net access and keeping brightness to a minimum. I'll wait a few days and see, though, hopefully it will improve for me as well.
 
I never kill 3G, keep everything else off, email/twitter/facebook/friendstream set to manual update. Weather app set to 4 hours

Had the phone 9 days now, done 6 charges. Was getting around 36hours like the Hero. Last charge distance was 46.2 hours since last unplug.
 
The battery is defo getting better by the day. my top tips are below.
- remember you can now stop emails updating over night, unlike 1.5
- do you need facebook, weather and other apps updating more than once a day?
- black wallpaper saves battery
- lower brightness
 
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