SatelliteGuy
Member
Ok, some of us worry about battery life, some a little, some remind me of an old man trying to get another .2MPG outta his 454 by driving 45 on the freeway. Personally, I PAID for the $600 mini-computer in my pocket, and I pay dearly for service to it, so I'm gonna run it til the wheels fall off, and get every bit of productivity I can out of it, battery be damned. Also, I have discovered the batteries from China that are 2 for $14 w/charger to be an excellent deal. I leave the house in the morning with no less than 5 to 7 charged batteries in my pocket, plus one in the chamber. I am a "battery changer". My phone RARELY sees a cord, EVER.
I have been rooted since the day I got the phone over a year ago. I wanted free tethering. That's it. Only recently have I started playing with ROMS. I never had fast boot until Gingerbread, and even then didnt know what it was, and never activated it on my stock ROM. However, after I got Gingerbread, (which is what forced me to learn how to flash a new ROM to begin with), I decided to check out others. I like Swagged. It comes with fast boot 'on' by default. I immediately noticed when I turn the phone off, without pulling the battery, no white screen and vibrate on power-up. I also began having MAJOR stability issues. For the last month, I've had to re-flash a dozen times, due to random craziness. Turn off fast boot, problem solved.
The moral of this story - If you are a 'battery changer', fast boot is not for you. The phone is not off, it is sleeping. Jerking the battery while it's in this state is the equivelent to jerking the power cord on your PC while it's running. No, it doesnt USUALLY cause a problem, but it can, and so you dont do it often. The 2 - 4 times a day I change batteries is often. And I also dont think they figure there will be that many reasons to pull the battery, so they haven't spent a whole lot of time designing the OS to survive spontaneous power loss.
As a side note - If you're not rooted and need them to replace the phone under warranty, scratches and such, if you jerk the battery 4 - 5 times a day, I doubt very much that you would make it two weeks before you hose the OS bad enough that they'll replace it. Haven't tried it, but seems logical.
I have been rooted since the day I got the phone over a year ago. I wanted free tethering. That's it. Only recently have I started playing with ROMS. I never had fast boot until Gingerbread, and even then didnt know what it was, and never activated it on my stock ROM. However, after I got Gingerbread, (which is what forced me to learn how to flash a new ROM to begin with), I decided to check out others. I like Swagged. It comes with fast boot 'on' by default. I immediately noticed when I turn the phone off, without pulling the battery, no white screen and vibrate on power-up. I also began having MAJOR stability issues. For the last month, I've had to re-flash a dozen times, due to random craziness. Turn off fast boot, problem solved.
The moral of this story - If you are a 'battery changer', fast boot is not for you. The phone is not off, it is sleeping. Jerking the battery while it's in this state is the equivelent to jerking the power cord on your PC while it's running. No, it doesnt USUALLY cause a problem, but it can, and so you dont do it often. The 2 - 4 times a day I change batteries is often. And I also dont think they figure there will be that many reasons to pull the battery, so they haven't spent a whole lot of time designing the OS to survive spontaneous power loss.
As a side note - If you're not rooted and need them to replace the phone under warranty, scratches and such, if you jerk the battery 4 - 5 times a day, I doubt very much that you would make it two weeks before you hose the OS bad enough that they'll replace it. Haven't tried it, but seems logical.
