On Fri, February 3, 2012 9:21 am, Marghanita da Cruz wrote: > Given the issues with Battery life, seems there is some scope for tuning > either customised/personal/individual or across the op system. I expect, > things like the WiFi are hungry and even leaving the OS running, while > you wait for a phone call.
on the subject of battery life, I have been making some semi-scientific (but not really) attempts at assessing battery life on my Motorola; GPS on or off, WiFi on or off, BT on or off makes very little difference to battery, insignificant with my phone/usage. 3G radio **used** to make HUGE battery drain, in the past, with 3G ON, my phone wouldn't last whole day (but I'm not sure whether I was on MotoBlur.. or not..) after loading CM7 Ba2TF, and, now, CM7 weeklies, my battery life is pretty good, with 3G off, I get two+ days on single charge when I 1st started obesrving battery discharge slope, enabling 3G made a huge difference, at some point, with either CM7 Ba2TF or a weekly, 3G radio ON made very small, just observable change in discharge slope, I was able to leave 3G ON all day (I'm currently out of data allowance, as soon as I get more, I'll re-test usage with 3G radio ON) another obseravtion: HTC DesireHD: initally, out of battery before day was over, since latest s/w updates (just few weeks ago), all 'on', still on 50% by 8pm fwiw, there is a nifty (y5 ?) utility that enables/disables WiFi based on your location, for power saving, idea is great, in my expeirience, battery drain for WiFi is si minimal, I don't use it) for 3G, I use a data enabler widget to toggle as needed, though it seems latest s/w build might make that need almost obsolete as always, ymmv -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
