Help Juice Defender for Revolution?

[sandystorm]

Any ideas on how well Juice Defender works on the Revolution and if it is good battery saver, plus what does it shut off/ I have a missed call app on phone for calls and messages with 2 minute alets and dont want that to shut down.
Ok now I asked about Juice Defender maybe you know what is best or dont use anything?

 

[1of7627]

I've been using JuiceDefender for a couple of weeks now and I started another thread on it that's down the page a ways. My first try was to just install the free version and use the defaults. I've since bought the "Plus" version which allows you to customize your settings and affected apps.

Basically, JuiceDefender works good if you have sufficient downtime during the day that it can shut off the radios when the screen is off. If you're a heavy user and are constantly on the phone, your benifits won't be that great. I'm a moderate user at best, but do use a lot of data for e-mail and such. I get two to three hours more use from my battery than I did before under the same use.

Using the "Plus" version, I manually disabled the radios for apps that I don't use that show up as running and I can't kill off or uninistall. Some of these are City ID, Twitter for LG, BlockBuster, Weather Widget, etc.. Just doing this alone also gave me 30-40mb more available ram as well.

Just a couple of days ago, I found that the city I work in (Spokane, WA) went live with 4G LTE, so I went into the settings and turned on the 4G radio. I'm still figuring out the differences in power usage since then, but the jury hasn't come back yet.

I still thing the ultimate solution will be to root the phone and deal with the bloatware, but I'm not going to do that until Gingerbread comes along as I'm able to work within the system quite well now. - MarkC

 

[sandystorm]

I've been using JuiceDefender for a couple of weeks now and I started another thread on it that's down the page a ways. My first try was to just install the free version and use the defaults. I've since bought the "Plus" version which allows you to customize your settings and affected apps.

Basically, JuiceDefender works good if you have sufficient downtime during the day that it can shut off the radios when the screen is off. If you're a heavy user and are constantly on the phone, your benifits won't be that great. I'm a moderate user at best, but do use a lot of data for e-mail and such. I get two to three hours more use from my battery than I did before under the same use.

Using the "Plus" version, I manually disabled the radios for apps that I don't use that show up as running and I can't kill off or uninistall. Some of these are City ID, Twitter for LG, BlockBuster, Weather Widget, etc.. Just doing this alone also gave me 30-40mb more available ram as well.

Just a couple of days ago, I found that the city I work in (Spokane, WA) went live with 4G LTE, so I went into the settings and turned on the 4G radio. I'm still figuring out the differences in power usage since then, but the jury hasn't come back yet.

I still thing the ultimate solution will be to root the phone and deal with the bloatware, but I'm not going to do that until Gingerbread comes along as I'm able to work within the system quite well now. - MarkC

Thank you and I think i will try it

 

[stinkyjak]

Juice defender basic (aggressive) works wonders for me. I am going to get the paid version so I can have more control over what is turned off. There is a short lag when you first wake the phone before the radios are turned back on, but by using this I went from about 4 hrs to 36 hours. Of course I wasn't streaming radio, video or doing much app play or internet browsing... but texting calling and a few Facebook and email posts. I am sure there are similar apps but I like this one.

 

[1of7627]

I used it for some time and was quite satisfied until I noticed a tendancy for the phone to go to sleep and not respond to incoming calls or allow outgoing calls. I missed several calls because I didn't know they'd happened (didn't get any notifications) and couldn't check voice mail because there was no sound. (The phone would look like it was dialing, but nothing was heard.) Rebooting the phone woke everything up and let the notifications arrive, but it was disconcerting. I thought it was just because I'd done something boneheaded with my custom settings, so I changed JuiceDefender back to the default settings and it still happened. It may not for you, so just watch be aware in case you experience it. I still feel it's a great product and it might just need some developer tweeking for the new crop of 4G LTE phones. - MarkC