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Battery after update - not as long lasting today.

SgtBaxter

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Jul 17, 2010
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So, I thought I was getting pretty excellent battery life, and yesterday I applied the system update.

Yesterday I took the phone off the charger at 6:30 a.m., streamed pandora for about 4 hours, goofed off on facebook over lunch, after work for an hour and a half at the bar browsing news and downloading apps off market and also applied the system update and showed off the phone. The battery was at about 40% when I hit the bar at 5:30, I pulled it and it reset to 70%, and when I got home 5 1/2 hours later it was at 30%. That's 16 hours of pretty decent use before charging again.

Today, taking off charger at 6:30 a.m. the battery was down to 30% by 4 p.m., despite me not doing anything differently than I've done in the past days. In fact I didn't use the phone as much as yesterday. I pulled the battery, but it remained at 30% instead of jumping up to 70% like it'd done once before, so now I have it charging. That's a difference of 6 1/2 hours!

It's almost like the more use the phone gets, the longer the battery lasts. I have full signal meter here all day long, so the phone isn't sucking up juice by having to boost signal.
 
You said you downloaded apps. Those new apps could be draining your battery.

Nah, I didn't download anything that would drain the battery, but I did add a CBS news widget to one of my screens, and I just realized it was set to update every 15 minutes, I changed it to 6 hours.

Also for some reason the battery manager told me the browser was polling GPS. I don't know why that would have been, unless I was on a site that was looking for location. I toggled GPS, usually just leave it on because trapster or maps shuts it off when you exit.

Hopefully one or both of those was the reasoning behind the drop.
 
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