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Originally Posted by ninethirty
Hey Everyone,
Just switched over to a Nexus One from my iPhone 3GS (been an iPhone faithful since they came out, but wanted to see what was happening with Android).
I love my Nexus One, but the battery life is horrible. From a full charge, hours later, I'll be at 75% having barely used the phone at all. If I leave it for a day, it's almost dead entirely. I've gone through settings, turned off the automatic syncs, don't have push turned on, brightness is down, location is off, wifi is off... can't figure out what's going on.
Sometimes when I pick the phone up after leaving it for a while, it feels warm, as if it's doing something. I've re-started many times, I have a task manager, and I kill every task often.. still, awful battery.
For what it's worth, the phone takes forever to charge as well. It charges about 10% every hour. Seems like something is wrong, no?
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There are various things you can do - to be honest, my phone on the original factory build would run out of charge between 8 and 12 hours later, depending on use.
The phone will be warm, especially if it is actively doing stuff. My advice, dump the task manager as it does really need it (the occasional force close if an app is misbehaving, thats it - I use Astro File Manager, which also has this functionality......well recommended).
If your phone is charging on the USB, it will take forever....don't bother & use the mains.
Now, I am not advocating rooting, but since running Cyanogen plus also installing SetCPU app (rooting is needed), I am probably heading for a battery charge every 32 hours or so.
Certain apps that you download can also burn more battery, depending on how efficiently they have been coded to run.
Trial and error my friend. Change one or two things then monitor and adapt.
For the record, I have everything synchronising, including email, weather every 30 mins, Facebook & Twitter updates every hour or so, and an RSS news reader app every hour as well.
Hope this helps you......