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Old September 4th, 2009, 11:06 AM   #96 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by mrbrdo View Post
BATTERY PROBLEM SOLUTION: Basically in 99% of cases the battery problem (lasting only 1 day or so) is caused by 3g! So basically you have 2 options to solve it:
1. Disable 3g in settings (then the phone will still be able to connect but only with 2g-EDGE which is a bit slower).
2. Install APNdroid - this is a free program (available in market) you can put on your desktop to enable/disable 3g with 1 click. Only enable when you need internet access.

I tried the 2nd solution and my battery now holds for probably around 5 days (depending on how much calls are made).
Thats the thing on the first day I had the phone i did indeed have 3g enable most of the time and it lost power by 4:45pm. The second day I switched it off along with background data and it was down to 15% by 4pm so only a slight increase. However today I have been running it the same as yesterday (2g and no background) and it is still currently at 63% so a massive improvement.

However I got this phone as a top end gadget with all the bells and whistles and now find that I have to cripple it a bit to get it to last a day. I'm hoping that once the battery has been run through it paces and charged a couple of times this will improve a lot more (already it is showing signs of this so fingers crossed)
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