The Official Motorola Milestone Thread
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If you're sitting still, then it seems that music playback is better, skips a lot less if at all. Try listening to music on the bus/train it'll skip every minute or so.
Sounds about right to me. I downloaded juicedefender, its supposed to help preserve battery life, and it's helped a little. The software reckons its improved battery life by 75% but I make it nearer 30-50%.
My Milestone has now started to run like a bit of a dog. Fair enough I have a fair few apps installed, some running in the background, but the lag is really starting to annoy me. I may start uninstalling some stuff to see what's the culprit. Can't wait for 2.1 to arrive in the hope that it makes for a smoother experience, having all the launcher apps etc integrated.
2 days and 4 hours since last charge, 16 phone calls, regular light usage (so no tetris marathons etc) - battery at 60% at the moment. Have snapshots from ShootMe to prove it, but can't connect to USB as it would reset stats and I really want to see how far it can go. It's such a shame bluetooth stack blows on these phones (no support for file browsing and no sim access for most in-car systems) - it's embarassing in this day and age not being able to retrieve stuff from phone without cable...
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That would still more than enough to annoy me, if it skipped once a day then it might just about be acceptable. It's a real pity as otherwise it looked to be a pretty good all-round phone.
It's a digital music player, really it shouldn't skip at all unless the source media has the same error in it irrespective of how much you move it around unless I'm missing something obvious.
How do you get it to last so long?
I have setcpu underclocking it at night/in sleep mode to half speed, and most of the stuff controlled by locale:
- between 0:00 and 7:00 am it switches off wifi, bluetooth, data (APNdroid plugin) etc at night, screen brightness to minimum, timeout to 30 seconds, volume to half.
- between 7 and 9 am we sync and wake up - locale turns on 3g and data, alarm volume to 100%, screen to 60%, timeout to 2 minutes, ringtone volume to 80% (using All Volumes locale plugin).
- at 9am (as I leave home), it switches off 3g and data (as I'll be travelling to work, so moving fast between masts will eat battery in minutes) and turns on bluetooth (for when I walk out of the door with coffee in my hand it's ready to connect to car system)
- screen brightness up to 40%, 3g and data off, wifi off and bluetooth off at 11am. By then i'll be at work, I will not be browsing or talking via bluetooth at my desk.
- turn 3g and data on at 2pm (sync before lunch break) and 6pm to sync stuff before I get out of work
- screen brightness down to 10%, bluetooth on, 3g and data off, wifi off at 6:30, I'll be travelling back home, won't be using screen or browsing
- bluetooth off, 3g and data on, screen up to 40% at 8pm - by then I'll be home.
In effect, my Milestone runs at bare minimum when asleep, spends most of the day with data sync off, switches stuff on and off based on time and requirements.
And off course Advanced Task Killer finished off any unwanted spawns in the background...
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Thats just it, it shouldn't skip at all!
Massive thread about the issue here:
https://supportforums.motorola.com/thread/20694?start=0&tstart=0
"Proof in the pudding" snapshots:
Things were going smoothly for the first few days, on day one it looked it's going to go at least for a week:
I work most of Thursdays and Fridays from home, so additional volume of calls started taking its toll on day two of the test:
Long conference call pushed battery into "red" (notice discrepancy between battery indicators, built in one is still green, while battery is already at 30%, by that time phone clocked 40 regular work calls already:
Finally that evening after some net use on the go and 40 minute chat with my mum, I decided to plug it in:
Things were going smoothly for the first few days, on day one it looked it's going to go at least for a week:
I work most of Thursdays and Fridays from home, so additional volume of calls started taking its toll on day two of the test:
Long conference call pushed battery into "red" (notice discrepancy between battery indicators, built in one is still green, while battery is already at 30%, by that time phone clocked 40 regular work calls already:
Finally that evening after some net use on the go and 40 minute chat with my mum, I decided to plug it in:
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http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/android-2-1-looking-fast-furious-on-motorola-droid/
Just in case anyone hasn't seen this article on Engadget, its a video of official 2.1 running on the droid. Looks awesome and runs perfectly! When my current contract finishes, I'm definately looking to get a Milestone!
Just in case anyone hasn't seen this article on Engadget, its a video of official 2.1 running on the droid. Looks awesome and runs perfectly! When my current contract finishes, I'm definately looking to get a Milestone!
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