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seraj12

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I got juice defender yesterday because my battery life on my Galaxy S is rubbish. When it gets below 20%, it seems to start draining even more even when i have everything disabled and turned off. Im using the agressive setting on Juice Defender and it says when my battery gets to 15% it will start saving it more, but its not. Any tips on what settings to use because it is quite confusing?
 
For all Android phone owners with poor battery life, I will highly recommend you to try out Juice Defender on their phone.
 
I tried Juice Defender and Ultimate Juice Defender and finally decided it did not significantly improve my battery life.

David
 
My Galaxy S has been on one charge now for about 40 hours and is at 37%. About 22 hours of that 40 have been in flight mode. The screen has been on for just over 2 hours. I have been using Juice Defender with agressive settings. However, when i am actually using the phone, the battery goes down by about 3% every 10 minutes. Is this normal. It was 72% 2 hours ago and is now 37%.
 
I found that if I don't have apps starting and stopping (task killers and programs) and I leave my open apps alone, it uses less battery power.
 
Wow. Juice Defender does really work. At 11 pm last night, my battery was at 9%. 8 am the next morning it was still 9%. 4pm in the afternoon it was STILL 9%. However, when im using the phone, the battery seems to drain a lot quicker than before. By the way i am using the agressive settings.
 
This is about the best I can do on my Galaxy S device as well.
Juice Defender seems to make it worse.
seraj12 said:
My Galaxy S has been on one charge now for about 40 hours and is at 37%. About 22 hours of that 40 have been in flight mode. The screen has been on for just over 2 hours. I have been using Juice Defender with agressive settings. However, when i am actually using the phone, the battery goes down by about 3% every 10 minutes. Is this normal. It was 72% 2 hours ago and is now 37%.
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I think it really helps when your phone is in standby and below 15%. But when i am using it it drains really fast.
 
Again, I think it depends how you use your phone. From what I gather, it mostly saves battery by severing connections when you're not using them. If you are a light user and regularly DON'T use your phone, but keep it in standby and only need new messages/updates every hour or couple of hours, you'll benefit quite a bit from not having it connected.
If however you're a frequent user, constantly using your phone for apps and want messages received immediately, you'll actually lose power from JD running so often and connecting/disconnecting.

At least, that's what I gather from it. I see the benefit, but I use my phone very frequently on irregular schedules and want messages received immediately... so JD was a bad choice for me.
 
My battery is really really bad when im using the phone. It was at 60% 3 hours ago. After 18 minutes of phone calls and 75 minutes of games it is now 26%. Is this normal?
 
jamoosh, i think you should give juice defender another go. Use the aggressive settings. Ive been using it 5 days and it really saves a lot of battery when you have less than 15% remaining. The other day i had 9% remaining and i didnt use my phone at all just to see if juice defender worked. About 13 hours later it was still 9%. So it really helps if you are expecting a call or something and dont want your battery to die.
 
I have the Thunderbolt and the first full day I went to 15% in about 5 hours. After using JD in advanced mode I got almost 14 hours on one charge. I have it sever all connections when the screen is off but it does re-enable wireless every 15 minutes to update messages, ect. So in my case I say it works.
 
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