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WOW look at my battery after JDefender

oh... settings>about phone>battery>battery use

i'm on Gingerbread though.... should be the same with whatever build your on, or very similar
 
Hey all. I've recently installed JD on my rooted TBolt running CM7 RC1.7. I did it at first with my extended battery (which has been a necessity) and managed a full 24 hours without hitting the 15% warning. I decided to try it out with the factory battery, and I got something like 12 hours today when I hit the 15% warning and put it back on the charger. In both cases, I was on it all the time, checking connectivity, playing with speed tests, trying out GPS locks, browsing pages, etc. Basically, it was moderately heavy use. In both cases, I see an improvement in overall battery life. I have a few questions that I'm hoping some of you might be able to help me out with.

1. I'm concerned with connectivity with things like GTalk and Facebook. I use GTalk to stay in touch with my wife throughout the day, and it seems like I'm having to manually check now to see messages from her. Is there a way to keep myself online with GTalk while using JD, or does that basically defeat the purpose of the app?

2. For a novice user like myself, do you think going with the default automatic setting (with maybe just a tweak or two for things like GTalk, FB, etc.) is the best way to go, or do some of you have some great JD settings that get you improved battery life without sacrificing the feeling of being connected to your favorite apps when you want to be?

3. Shouldn't a guy who rooted his TBolt, flashed the updated RUU, and flashed the latest version of a great custom ROM be able to figure this stuff out by himself?

(I know, right?)

Thanks in advance for any help.
 
I find it funny that when people post their time off charge time they never post the screen display time on.

Sure, I got 15 hours out of my stock battey. That's because the phone was mostly Idle, and display on for 2 hours.

Actually, I'm going to start turning my phone off when I'm at work. It sits in my car for 8 hours and drains from 100% to 70% that's really crappy.
 
If rooted and using CyanogenMod you don't need an app to do screen shots - long press power button for the menu and there is option to take a screenshot :)

If not rooted the best method to take a screenshot is to install the ADK (Android Development Kit), connect phone to computer via USB, and fire up the DDMS app in the ADK folder. DDMS (Dalvik Debug Monitor Server) allows you to screenshot your device with click of a button.
 
SeekerOfTheWay said:
I find it funny that when people post their time off charge time they never post the screen display time on.

Sure, I got 15 hours out of my stock battey. That's because the phone was mostly Idle, and display on for 2 hours.

Actually, I'm going to start turning my phone off when I'm at work. It sits in my car for 8 hours and drains from 100% to 70% that's really crappy.
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airplane mode FTW. my lil sister does this while she is at school. after a full day of larnin' she strolls out with 90%+ battery. she's allowed to listen to music SOMETIMES (and i'm pretty sure she sneaks some texts!) airplane mode.........
 
Mine has 10% left after 2d 1hr 36min. Awake time a total of 9hr 39min. It will probably be dead before I wake up to throw it on the charger though lol. Extended battery of course. My last time til dead was 51hr and some change.
 
hmm, you talking Atrix or Tbolt? WiFi's or no WiFi's? 4Gee's or 3Gee's?

that's pretty impressive sir!
 
Thunderbolt, Wifi on when Im in the house, which was most of yesterday and part of friday. Sadly only 3G. Bluetooth on some and playing music through a headset.Games downloads etc etc lol
 
I was using JD, but my phone started having trouble picking up 3G when coming off the screen lock, so I disabled it. Not really seeing a huge difference.
 
Ive never used JD. I thought someone said all task killers and the like were bad so I just let it roll as is
 
it's not that it was bad when i was using JD, it was annoying to have to wait for 3G or LTE to catch upon waking up...
 
dnoonan said:
I was using JD, but my phone started having trouble picking up 3G when coming off the screen lock, so I disabled it. Not really seeing a huge difference.
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never used JD, but pretty sure it kills the data connection when the screen is off, thus saving battery. its a good concept, but for someone like me that depends on getting e-mails withint 5 minutes of them being sent, it is NOT an app for me :)

i am happy to get 12 hrs on a battery. best i ever got on my TB was 18hrs i think.
 
Bramsy said:
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now?
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How do I look this up?
 
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