The new Orange Android phone (San Francisco) £99...but a Question??

Murray · 4 Jan 2011 at 17:17

PiKe said:
Those with short runtimes...

Battery History on the Android market may prove to be useful!

What does it do?

PiKe · 4 Jan 2011 at 18:15

Murray said:
What does it do?

Unsurprisingly it shows your Battery usage history.

It will help pinpoint battery drain, for example Maps has caused my phone to stay awake for over half its uptime, after some digging I have found that it's due to latitude and use wireless networks in location and security settings.

Murray · 4 Jan 2011 at 18:56

cool took mine off charge at 8am and its still at 72 atm.

p4radox · 4 Jan 2011 at 21:25

Does anyone know of any way to turn on/off the wifi and data connection directly from the desktop?

buchtis · 4 Jan 2011 at 21:26

Press and hold your finger down on a main home screen of your choice, you'll get a window pop up asking what you wish to do. Select Wigets and hit the Power Control one.

Murray · 4 Jan 2011 at 22:50

Thanks that rather useful!

JIM_BOB7813 · 4 Jan 2011 at 23:42

p4radox said:
Does anyone know of any way to turn on/off the wifi and data connection directly from the desktop?

buchtis said:
Press and hold your finger down on a main home screen of your choice, you'll get a window pop up asking what you wish to do. Select Wigets and hit the Power Control one.

Another tip is to use Widgetsoid to create a custom widget with only the buttons you require.

p4radox · 4 Jan 2011 at 23:58

buchtis said:
Press and hold your finger down on a main home screen of your choice, you'll get a window pop up asking what you wish to do. Select Wigets and hit the Power Control one.

Cool thanks. Doesn't look like there's a button to turn off 3G though, just wifi.

liquidex · 5 Jan 2011 at 01:10

p4radox said:
Cool thanks. Doesn't look like there's a button to turn off 3G though, just wifi.

It's the second one from the right. Looks like a sim card with two arrows in the middle of it.

PiKe · 5 Jan 2011 at 09:21

Went to bed with 87% battery, checked just now and it's only dropped 2% so the phone is sleeping properly now \o/

insane200 · 5 Jan 2011 at 13:29

JIM_BOB7813 said:
Another tip is to use Widgetsoid to create a custom widget with only the buttons you require.

widgetsoid is great and its free.

i took my phone of charge at 7:30am and its still on 83% now which is really good tbh.

PiKe · 5 Jan 2011 at 13:53

Mines still 85% but it's been sleeping all day.

roboffer · 5 Jan 2011 at 13:53

Extended Controls is a widget that has a lot of options for toggling settings, it does cost but its cheap and very very good.

englishpremier · 5 Jan 2011 at 14:28

Yeah, this was the first application i bought. Very good.

Delvis · 5 Jan 2011 at 15:00

PiKe said:
It wouldn't survive a drop that's for sure.

Meh, mine did

....Battery popped out though :O

p4radox said:
Does anyone know of any way to turn on/off the wifi and data connection directly from the desktop?

As said add the widget mentioned.

Otherwise go onto the market and download free widgets for this...I use four widgets, one for wifi, gps, 3g and silent mode etc

Scrutinize · 5 Jan 2011 at 18:58

Coolies, only just discovered that wifi tether is as standard in the Jellyfish 2.2 and it is stable.

Getting 373ms ping and 1.5 meg download with my vodafone connection.

englishpremier · 5 Jan 2011 at 20:04

Can anyone tell me how to get the phone to vibrate on sms?

I've got the phone on silent so it vibrate on calls but i can't see any settings at all for sms tones/vibration

Edit: Found it, seems its not in phone settings at all like you'd expect from a proper mobile phone OS it's in the messaging application. Shows how andriod isn't really developed around mobile phones, more mobile devices.

dasyad · 5 Jan 2011 at 20:34

To be fair when it wasn't in the the "regular" sound settings, I found it quite obvious that it would be in the SMS app settings.

englishpremier · 5 Jan 2011 at 20:37

but the phone ring tone is in the main settings, so it doesn't make sense.

I've come from symbian on a n80 which although a smartphone was a mobile phone first and foremost. On android you can remove the mms and phone app then you have a stand alone multimedia device.

Bradmax57 · 5 Jan 2011 at 20:51

Question, one of my wifes friends wanted a contact card sending from my wifes SF, its tunning Pauls Aplha 3 Froyo rom, go to contact longpress and select send via sms and it does nothing?