just get in the habbit of charging daily, battery life will only get worse, and these people that eek out a few more hour will get caught out one day, i leave the house with a 10% flat battery and charge at work each morning, i have a fully charged spare battery that i swap if i need to
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Just use a widget to adjust it as you please.
Yeah every night before I go to bed the phone gets turned off & fully charged for the next morning. I have no problems with that after having a poor battery on my iphone2g for most of its life.
What widget would you recommend Richdog? I have an all black theme so don't want something that looks too out of place.
not everybody uses the phone 5-8hours+ per day. hence why some people get much lomger battery life....
also they use different settings
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I use brightness level widget: http://www.appbrain.com/app/brightness-level/com.curvefish.widgets.brightnesslevel
Normally set it to 50%, and that's fine 99% of the time. The widget is also black.
Also just to add to this if you press on the pull down menu on the home page that scrolls down (top of screen), but slide your finger either left or right instead of down to pull the menu down, this will also change the screen brightness..... I found this out by accident a couple weeks ago.
Normally set it to 50%, and that's fine 99% of the time. The widget is also black.
Also just to add to this if you press on the pull down menu on the home page that scrolls down (top of screen), but slide your finger either left or right instead of down to pull the menu down, this will also change the screen brightness..... I found this out by accident a couple weeks ago.
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you will be fine 1gb is ample, i only have 500mb and not once in 2 years wit smart phones have i ever gone over that, normally around 350/400mb per month. just do your updates on wifi, but saying that with 1gb you can do then over 3g
24month sucks, but i presume u upgraded and wanted to stay with virgin?
yeah wanted to stay with Virgin as my credit history isn't exactly rosy and I got denied by Vodafone and O2 last time so went with VM.
that's why i said get used to it, as you will need to charge daily unless you are turning your phone off for periods of the day/night - your battery will peek and then go downhill, at what rate will depend on many things. depends if you want to chance heading out with the option of one long call and your in battery no mans land.
Yeah I know about the scrolling the notification bar but it doesn't always work as intended haha, Sometimes it doesn't go full brightness.
But that widget is perfect thank you very much!
but even if u leave it in idle no need to turn it off, u should still get 3-4 days from it with light usage.
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After updating my firmware to KF3 the other day, got really bad battery drain, Android OS cpu total was at around 2.5 hours yesterday, my phone was completely dead after less than 24 hours, with my normal usage (actually probably slightly less because of i knew of this issue) I'd usually get about 2 full days, and then charge over night using KE7.
After settings kept force closing whenever i tried to do a factory reset, i decided to give a custom Rom a try in my frustration.
Now running Cognition S2 v1.12 (which is 2.3.4 - KG1), which seemed like one of the easiest to flash. Now getting much better battery life with similar usage to yesterday, my battery is still reading 76% (was around 40% yesterday from memory), Android OS cpu time is down to 13 minutes at the minute.
Pretty happy now, and was very easy to install, as i'd already rooted the phone (which is a simple process anyway). Obviously i've not used the phone a great deal to compare it against a standard rom. But i've not come across any issue yet, and it seems like the guy on xda is updating the rom pretty quickly.
Downloading v1.13 now, to update to when i get home, apparently an issue with flash.
After settings kept force closing whenever i tried to do a factory reset, i decided to give a custom Rom a try in my frustration.
Now running Cognition S2 v1.12 (which is 2.3.4 - KG1), which seemed like one of the easiest to flash. Now getting much better battery life with similar usage to yesterday, my battery is still reading 76% (was around 40% yesterday from memory), Android OS cpu time is down to 13 minutes at the minute.
Pretty happy now, and was very easy to install, as i'd already rooted the phone (which is a simple process anyway). Obviously i've not used the phone a great deal to compare it against a standard rom. But i've not come across any issue yet, and it seems like the guy on xda is updating the rom pretty quickly.
Downloading v1.13 now, to update to when i get home, apparently an issue with flash.
Hi anyone on three and has SIMS 3 on handset?
How the hell do you play it says in game status as cancelled and can play until
01/01/1970 any ideas
Just tried tower blox and first time play then came out of game and same thing cancelled
How the hell do you play it says in game status as cancelled and can play until
01/01/1970 any ideas
Just tried tower blox and first time play then came out of game and same thing cancelled
I got the same results moving to Litenin' 2.2 (2.3.4 based ROM) using the KG1 kernel - KF3 was appalling!
Didn't work on mine just crashed when opening it up. Think it is confirmed as not working on the XDA forums. Not a very good game anyway you aren't missing out on much
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1057199 post here of all the games working that people have tested so far
Also, only played with the phone briefly but IMAP folder handling appears to just not work. There are no settings for mapping folders. This is pretty disappointing, have I made a mistake leaving iOS? Email was great on that.
EDIT - Gmail support does seem excellent and I like Gmail on the PC too so going to play around with setting up a Gmail account to pull in my work email.
EDIT - Gmail support does seem excellent and I like Gmail on the PC too so going to play around with setting up a Gmail account to pull in my work email.
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Please can someone tell me how to see the battery usage by system, appls etc? I had this pop up on my screen yesterday couple of times when the battery was getting low but I can't find it at all on my own.
EDIT: Finally managed to find it
Settings>About Phone>Battery Usage
EDIT: Finally managed to find it
Settings>About Phone>Battery Usage
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The default email app left a lot to be desired I found, I had read a suggestion of using K9 Mail and to be honest have been quite happy with it ever since I got it setup. And the push notifications work for my various accounts as long as my phone isn't on WiFi.
One thing that I still haven't seen any app do properly however is resizing the email when you open it in the way that iOS does it. That I do quite miss at times
