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Old December 20th, 2012, 10:24 AM   #610 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by dwappo7851 View Post
You may also want to turn off wifi when you're not using it, turn down brightness, and maybe even use a task manager for freeing up RAM.
Wifi is certainly preferable to have on when you need it, but I haven't noticed too much drain/issue when no network is available.

Turning brightness down does seem to help a lot (I'm usually manually set to 35-40% which is plenty readable).

Haven't used or needed a task manager since before Android 2.1 came out (mid 2010). Android itself does a great job of memory management, so task managers are largely unnecessary nowadays (most apps will / should sit quietly in the background and will get auto swapped-out by the OS when memory is needed).

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