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FYI - interesting to note that my previous statement said 220, which was 100 min of initial charge and 120 of + time. The phone has slowed down now reaching only 77% of charge in nearly 120 min. Again I am not doing much with it, really nothing. Could be USB charging or could be something else.
 
dkaufman1 said:
FYI - interesting to note that my previous statement said 220, which was 100 min of initial charge and 120 of + time. The phone has slowed down now reaching only 77% of charge in nearly 120 min. Again I am not doing much with it, really nothing. Could be USB charging or could be something else.
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Mine charges signifcantly slower on USB.
 
Ageless Stranger said:
Thanks :)

I have updated the first post to reflect the latest findings, but initially the phone does need to know where the empty mark is, otherwise it can not calibrate efficiently. I have put the low mark as 5%
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I've done the let the battery die thing for 4 days now and have charged over night removed the battery saver app and as of today when I took it off the charger at 640am I surfed the net for a good 30 minutes solid ran bluetooth since 730 this morning sent a few texts checked my email checked the app store twice watched a movie trailer on youtube and have been running on 3g and it is now 511pm and my battery is still at 71% big difference considering just 2 weeks ago I would have been maybe 50% or less by this time... going to let it be over night and see where it's at in the morning....
 
dkaufman1 said:
Which app?

Awesome stats though... encouraging!
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the power manager app and since my last post I have been using wifi and browsing the internet and youtube and installed 2 apps 1 game and k9mail in a vein attempt to connect to hotmail again sent some more texts and made 1 call... and my battery is now at 46%
 
Just so I am clear you felt the battery "saver" app power manager was not working as well as you would like so you removed it? If you are getting battery juice, great. Just a bit surprising.
 
dkaufman1 said:
Just so I am clear you felt the battery "saver" app power manager was not working as well as you would like so you removed it? If you are getting battery juice, great. Just a bit surprising.
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just seems to me like the app running drained more power than it saved... but since removing it and allowing my phone to die on it's own a few times the battery not only lasts me all day now but nearly 2 days with use without a charge....
 
Interesting "flub"....apparently the Market never times out...let me explain....

I used aTrackdog to download some apps the other day. I had at least 8 that were out of date. I just clicked on each one and went about my business. My phone was draining power very fast yesterday and this morning I opened up aTrackdog and somehow found myself on the MyApplications screen in the market, which had 5 apps still "Starting download." I don't know why. I realized that this was just running the background.

I stopped all of them. Tried a few again and was not getting the apps to download. So this time I canceled all the streams and will see if battery life today is much better.
 
I have been letting my battery go down to about 15% for 3 cycles now and have noticed improvement in my battery.
 
Lizalu68 said:
I have been letting my battery go down to about 15% for 3 cycles now and have noticed improvement in my battery.
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I think the whole point of letting the phone run down is to calibrate the point where the phone runs out of juice. Only allowing it to run down to 15% will not achieve that. You need to let it run out completely.
 
ChilledMatt said:
I think the whole point of letting the phone run down is to calibrate the point where the phone runs out of juice. Only allowing it to run down to 15% will not achieve that. You need to let it run out completely.
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I agree with this. You need to let it run out. My phone lasted about 15 min on 1%. Which means it was not on 1% at all. Also after it shut down I was able to power it back up. Which should not happen with "no battery".
 
Just thought I'd say that charging overnight all the time is NOT GOOD FOR THE BATTERY, it will wear out way quicker than normal and have poor performance if you do this.
 
Goooooooooogle said:
Just thought I'd say that charging overnight all the time is NOT GOOD FOR THE BATTERY, it will wear out way quicker than normal and have poor performance if you do this.
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If you read back in this thread I made a post from BatteryUniversity (or something close) ... Li-Ion batteries do not have the old issue of memory and often and freguent charges are better and recommended for them ...
Letting them go to zero is a NO NO ... and since the batteries come with built in charge monitoring ...they can not be over-charged .. (unless of course the battery firmware fails) ...
 
justjimjpc said:
If you read back in this thread I made a post from BatteryUniversity (or something close) ... Li-Ion batteries do not have the old issue of memory and often and freguent charges are better and recommended for them ...
Letting them go to zero is a NO NO ... and since the batteries come with built in charge monitoring ...they can not be over-charged .. (unless of course the battery firmware fails) ...
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Ahh, sorry, it is a long thread!

Thing with batteries is that people will give you loads of different advice for the same type of battery and it get's very confusing!
 
ChilledMatt said:
Interesting. We have a catch-22 situation. The only way to "teach" your G1 what an empty battery is, is to drain it completely. Although it could be that those that have reported long periods of usage from a batt that is at 1% is in fact purposeful to protect the battery.
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I think that when you get a brand new phone with a brand new battery you should discharge it a few times because it helps calibrate it but, as that article says, it should be avoided at all times after that. That would make sense to me.
 
Shoo said:
ok call me crazy.
Do we have the same G1 phones??

I have done the calibrating thing.
I charge mine to 6:30 am and by 1:30 I am on 10%

This is with wifi off, gps off.
I just have mine on a charger now every time I can PC car you name it.

You guys get a whole day of G1 with the stolen batteries from TMO?

amazing.
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Consider your brightness setting. The display itself takes a huge part in battery consumption, and that's with brightness at minimum. Having your brightness at max is just asking for short battery life.

EDIT: I have a test to prove this, during regular use with brightness at maximum, my phone said around 80% of my battery's usage was going to display.
 
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