I have the free version of Juice Defender, stock Froyo Epic-just got the phone this past Wednesday. However accurate this might be, I like that it shows battery life in percent. I wanted to keep track of my battery use, and I have done this by the hour or two or three, depending on what I'm doing for the day.
I love the phone, it has a nice readable screen, bigger than the LG VU I am coming from. It seems if you don't have it rooted and have a ROM that is efficient or something like Set CPU (read this on another battery life thread) then we might have to live with it.
Yesterday, at the beginning of the morning, JD said it gave me 1.98x more battery use. I did light checking of messages, a couple of phone calls, played a game-10-15minutes, used Pandora radio maybe 15 minutes, looked through the app market-I'd say 40 minutes total, looked at Facebook about 40 minutes total-those are on the high side.
Later in the day it said 1.48x, I didn't think I was using the phone heavy at all.
At 12:38pm it said 68%-almost 2 hours later at 2:18pm and in "sleep mode" it still showed 68%, so nothing was running in the background. I like to check with task manager lite (downloaded from app store-it's free) because you can go to the tab that says running to double check, and if you see something you can shut it off.
Checked JD, made sure this & that was off in task manager lite.
So today when my phone was fully charged-blue light on-I unplugged it, looked at JD's widget on my screen-98%. Yesterday I let the battery go all the way down that the phone shut itself off, I'm thinking this is how you condition the battery-once it's fully charged, use it until it dies then re-charge fully-repeat process?? Well, that's what I'm doing.
At 653am I checked it this morning-98%. I leave the unit on-don't shut it off, the screen goes black and it is in rest mode in case I get a phone call. I have 3g off, JD data toggle is off, I don't have wi-fi at my home-that is kept and stays off. I have the drm and that other app related to that off.
At 655am-96%. In between I had checked for any messages, checked JD settings-it said JD got me 2.12x more battery service today than yesterday. Lets see what happens today. I do find the phone goes thru a battery lol.
I'm hoping I'm "conditioning" my battery correctly. I don't know about rooting the phone just yet, it's too new for that and I don't want to "mess with it", may or may not down the road. I don't want to mess it up, lets put it that way.
I do have Elixir also on there also, it is like a status monitor/task manager, it shows your cpu and memory use. I'm shutting that off to see if it gets me more battery life.
At 743am-95% 952am-92%
I checked through Elixir and Task Mgr lite and the tsk mngr that comes with the phone, 6 minutes later and shut off Elixir-88%. My screen brightness is set very low.
Here's a rundown of yesterday's checks:
522am-battery fully charged. 922am-88% 1021am-85% 1042am-83% 1049am-81% turned off Elixir task killer 1103am-80% 12:25pm-70% 12:38pm-68% 2:18pm-68%
Anyone have advice on battery conditioning-and I'll search the forum-and what works for you for an unrooted Epic or ?? I'd be interested to know.
