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Smudgie

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I was getting excellent battery life....sometimes 40 hours. Within the last week my battery has gone from great to terrible. After 45 minutes of the phone doing nothing I am already at 90%. I did a restore after installing ICS a while back, I have not installed recently, have powered down the phone and closed all running apps. I even turned off 4G. Any suggestions? Thanks
 
I have noticed, that some times the OS seems to run a little longer on somthing, and can use a bit more battery. Then, everything goes back to normal. I'd give it a few days and see if it continues.
 
I ended up getting just over 8 hours today before the phone died. This was with just about no useage. The phone sat in my pocket for most of the day with a few text messages as well as very very light Internet useage. I usually get close to 40 hours of battery with similar useage if not more. So today I got 5 times less......this blows my mind and I am somewhat pissed. Hoping I can find a solution or this fixes itself on its own
 
A couple apps that I found have a significant negative impact on my battery life are the gmail email widget - NOT the gmail app itself, but the widget - which allows you to run a fullscreen inbox. Also, I noticed that beautiful widgets takes up a lot of battery life when all the eye candy, such as animations, are turned on.

If you are running either of those, try disabling them and see if it helps.

David
 
Uninstalling and reinstalling K9 email has fixed it. For some reason K9 was running continuously. It must have been a software issue.
 
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