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Not really. He has his screen on for a little while, but then it's hardly on at all and the drain is more. 3G usually takes more than WiFi. (As stated, as long as you have an actual WiFi connection.
 
AndyCr15 said:
Not really. He has his screen on for a little while, but then it's hardly on at all and the drain is more. 3G usually takes more than WiFi. (As stated, as long as you have an actual WiFi connection.
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The screen on time does have gaps in it during the drop, but it's still on a lot more than it was on either during the minimal drain during wifi on or during the minimal drain when wifi was off. The phone was also nearly always awake during the large drop (some of this is probably due to data being on and downloading/syncing or whatever, but data alone won't, or atleast shouldn't, cause that drop).

So IM(admittedly noob)O the drain is due to him actually using the phone (a small amount will be because of data, but it won't be a lot), rather than it just sitting idle with the screen off. The period of minimal drain afterwards should show that just enabling data alone isn't draining the battery.

Although it would have been easier to tell what exactly the cause of the drop was if he'd screenshotted the battery stats as well as the graph.

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Actually I've looked at the graph better now, and I think we're talking about different things :D.

I didn't realise that the battery after the large drop is still dropping slightly more than with wifi on :D.

I had just looked at the large drop because he said that the battery plummeted, so didn't look at the part that looks like fairly normal drain :p.

Apologies if this is why we're disagreeing, as I'd agree that that battery drain after the large drop could be because of data :p.

Oh, and I'm on my phone, so I blame the small screen for the confusion :p.
 
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Bloomfield said:
Although it would have been easier to tell what exactly the cause of the drop was if he'd screenshotted the battery stats as well as the graph.
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Sure, there is a bigger drop because the screen is on a lot, but that will happen no matter what. I'm confirming, yes, you're using more battery when not on WiFi, which can also be seen from his image.
 
Restored my phone to the latest stock generic UK rom.

Leaving the phone in completely stock state and kept calling the phone and hanging up.

I can recreate my screen problem so now certain it's not some app I was installing.

I noted that with the phone in silent and vibrate switched off the phone would vibrate for 1/10th of a second when receiving a call sometimes. Everytime it did this the screen stays on too.

So weird that I seem to be the only person with this fault?!

I am now going for the 2.3.4 Frankenstein'd firmware in case that includes some bug fix. I'm not hopeful though.

This is ruining an otherwise excellent phone for me :(
 
AndyCr15 said:
Sure, there is a bigger drop because the screen is on a lot, but that will happen no matter what. I'm confirming, yes, you're using more battery when not on WiFi, which can also be seen from his image.
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Yeah, check my edit, I realised that we were talking about different things :).

Apologies again, it was just me half reading fallbayuk's post, seeing the word plummit and only looking at the large drop part of his screenshot :).

I agree that data being on instead of wifi could be the cause of the larger drain after that part :).

@fallbayuk I should have edited that part out of my post really (or just deleted everything but the edit, but I left it in so people could see me being an idiot :D), the stats screen shot was only really for when I was talking about the large drop rather than the slightly higher drain after that :).
 
Tesla said:
Stuff about screen staying on problem
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So does the screen only stay on when in Silent+No Vibrate then?

I keep my phone in silent but have vibrate turned on, I'll test now with vibrate turned off and see if I get this problem too (the person on XDA that I linked had this problem over night so he may have had the same settings as this so the phone didn't wake him, and I'd guess most people have vibrate turned on in silent mode(?) so not many people will notice this problem).

Will post back in a min or so with my results :).

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Just tried calling myself with the phone in silent with vibrate set to "never" and "only when not in silent" and I don't have the same problem :(.
 
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Thanks for your help.

The vibrate and silent settings seem to make no effect. I just noted that even with vibrate off the phone still sometimes vibrates for 1/10th of a second when ringing. When this occurs the screen will stay on too.

I'd say 9 times out of 10 it works as it should.
 
for those that have hooked up the sammy to a tv.... basically how is this done, as im not a stock rom. just wondered what you do? is it as simple as plugging in or do you need a service or something running on the phone?

im running the Modaco Custom ROM and it could be that i guess
 
_Jimlad_ said:
for those that have hooked up the sammy to a tv.... basically how is this done, as im not a stock rom. just wondered what you do? is it as simple as plugging in or do you need a service or something running on the phone?

im running the Modaco Custom ROM and it could be that i guess
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Just plug in a MHL cable and what ever is on the phone screen is also on the TV screen. Simples :)
 
Lols!

I've spent most of the morning playing with voice commands (double press the home button). If you press Menu when in there then click Voice Commands you can swipe through some examples of just what you can ask it to do (absolutely loads of stuff).

So far I've tested: emailing people, calling people, texting people, facebook/twitter updates, opening installed applications by name, saving memos, map navigation, map view, browsing to websites and more. All been flawless so far.

I could get used to this somewhat :p
 
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