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Best phone in the world

New to all this 'Android' lark ...lol The Pulse is the 1st one both the beloved & I have had & yes it's the best mobile we've had despite the drawbacks we've found in the 2 months we've had it. The biggest being the battery, about as reliable as using oil to get get snow off your driveway. Yesterday was the worse, charged while asleep, 100%, four hrs later 64%, another 4 hrs & 21% and that's very limited use. On other days though it's pretty good. If we can cure this problem, this mobile is gonna stay with us a long, long, time.
 
Keggies, Hi

Ensuring 3G, wireless and Bluetooth are off when not needed will improve your battery life, if they are already off, well, you have the same issue as all of us...:)
 
Leave it on 2G, always. It'll last a day and a half at least. The app I use to manage that is called '2G-3G OnOff'.

I also downloaded an app that puts a notification icon up the top when I've got wifi on but am not connected. That one is called 'Wifi Status', and to toggle wifi on-off from the homescreen I use 'Wifi Toggle Widget'.

Using those three apps helped me manage my battery a lot better, hope they help you as well.
 
Muuurgh said:
Leave it on 2G, always. It'll last a day and a half at least. The app I use to manage that is called '2G-3G OnOff'.

I also downloaded an app that puts a notification icon up the top when I've got wifi on but am not connected. That one is called 'Wifi Status', and to toggle wifi on-off from the homescreen I use 'Wifi Toggle Widget'.

Using those three apps helped me manage my battery a lot better, hope they help you as well.
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And you can get a brightness control toggle too. Indoors it only needs to be on absolute minimum
 
Thanks, but I have it 2G, wireless etc off but the damn thing is just so erratic. Charged full last night went to bed 100%, had on silent with alarm on, this morning it was down to 54% now at 1pm it's 18% so back on charge again - this time I've turned it off completely. Sometimes it will last 2 days before charge.

On the home screen I am running a battery widget (which also can use for wifi, GPs etc), sound on/off widget and a retro clock & calendar widget - will these make a difference? Also running a task killer app which sometimes shows items such as RoadSync running (even though I haven't started it) which I kill as soon as I notice. Nerves are being shredded as I speak as I love this phone. We'll see what this charge brings, being charged with the phone actually off & on the mains & not by USB.
 
keggs

That rings a bell, for some reason the electricity coming out of the mains is better than the usb, :)

I always charge mine from the mains

Rich
 
It may be worth monitoring how you use the phone. Standby time will always be aeons greater than actual usage time. If, for example, I spend 2 hours talking to folks on the phone, It'll quite easily run me down to around 30-40%. If I only send a couple of texts a day, then my battery can last days.

Also, it may be the snake oil affect, but I believe my battery is lasting longer after ditching my task killer app and applying T-mobile's minor update.
 
another battery killer is using the Pulse running sat nav. Even with the car charger plugged into it Copilot uses more power than the in-car charger can provide :-) you have to laugh :-)
 
Actually it's kinda behaving itself recently. I haven't been using it that much, text during the day, 1-2 phone calls, bit of web and it's lasting 2 days well, going down to max 55% so happy at the moment .......
 
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