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[mark1252003]

The trouble with the Hero (and presumably all Android phones) is that it gets slated for poor battery life, not because its rubbish with power, but because it's ability to do lots of stuff at once means people install loads of apps which do stuff in the background (like checking mail every 15 mins, downloading rss feeds automatically, twitter feeds, facebook updates, etc), and that drains the battery.

Compare it with the iPhone for example, and because the iPhone can only do one thing at a time (with the exception of the special built-in apps like mail and ipod), it uses less battery. That's not because the iPhone's better with power, it's just not doing anything all the time to use power, because it can't.

That's like comparing my Hero to my old slidey green-screen Matrix-style Nokia from 10 years ago. The old Nokia went for weeks without a charge, and I'm charging my Hero every day. The Nokia lasted longer because it didn't do anywhere as near as much as the Hero.

Would I swap my Hero for my old Nokia? No.
Will I remember to charge my Hero? Yes.

If you want a phone that does a lot of stuff, you'll need to keep feeding it electricity. If you want a phone with long battery life, get a 15 quid one which does nothing but text and phone calls.

Suggestion: Make sure you have no apps installed that do anything in the background. Anything that has notifications, anything that does automatic sync'ing, etc. Get red of them. Try installing something like TasKiller. Restart your phone, and use TasKiller to see how many apps are loaded into memory on startup. Any of those could be draining your battery.

Now THATS a good post!

 

[mmusaji]

The trouble with the Hero (and presumably all Android phones) is that it gets slated for poor battery life, not because its rubbish with power, but because it's ability to do lots of stuff at once means people install loads of apps which do stuff in the background (like checking mail every 15 mins, downloading rss feeds automatically, twitter feeds, facebook updates, etc), and that drains the battery.

Compare it with the iPhone for example, and because the iPhone can only do one thing at a time (with the exception of the special built-in apps like mail and ipod), it uses less battery. That's not because the iPhone's better with power, it's just not doing anything all the time to use power, because it can't.

That's like comparing my Hero to my old slidey green-screen Matrix-style Nokia from 10 years ago. The old Nokia went for weeks without a charge, and I'm charging my Hero every day. The Nokia lasted longer because it didn't do anywhere as near as much as the Hero.

Would I swap my Hero for my old Nokia? No.
Will I remember to charge my Hero? Yes.

If you want a phone that does a lot of stuff, you'll need to keep feeding it electricity. If you want a phone with long battery life, get a 15 quid one which does nothing but text and phone calls.

Suggestion: Make sure you have no apps installed that do anything in the background. Anything that has notifications, anything that does automatic sync'ing, etc. Get red of them. Try installing something like TasKiller. Restart your phone, and use TasKiller to see how many apps are loaded into memory on startup. Any of those could be draining your battery.

Excellent post... well put.

 

[jabz]

The trouble with the Hero (and presumably all Android phones) is that it gets slated for poor battery life, not because its rubbish with power, but because it's ability to do lots of stuff at once means people install loads of apps which do stuff in the background (like checking mail every 15 mins, downloading rss feeds automatically, twitter feeds, facebook updates, etc), and that drains the battery.

Compare it with the iPhone for example, and because the iPhone can only do one thing at a time (with the exception of the special built-in apps like mail and ipod), it uses less battery. That's not because the iPhone's better with power, it's just not doing anything all the time to use power, because it can't.

That's like comparing my Hero to my old slidey green-screen Matrix-style Nokia from 10 years ago. The old Nokia went for weeks without a charge, and I'm charging my Hero every day. The Nokia lasted longer because it didn't do anywhere as near as much as the Hero.

Would I swap my Hero for my old Nokia? No.
Will I remember to charge my Hero? Yes.

If you want a phone that does a lot of stuff, you'll need to keep feeding it electricity. If you want a phone with long battery life, get a 15 quid one which does nothing but text and phone calls.

Suggestion: Make sure you have no apps installed that do anything in the background. Anything that has notifications, anything that does automatic sync'ing, etc. Get red of them. Try installing something like TasKiller. Restart your phone, and use TasKiller to see how many apps are loaded into memory on startup. Any of those could be draining your battery.

Taskiller was probably the 1st app i got, Been using after every thing i do since the first week i got it, Have widgets for anything that will drain power on the home screen e.g the wifi/gps so nothing is running when it isnt needed to, Knew all of that already. But thanks though.