Hi Everyone,
For those of you who are migrating from BlackBerries, welcome to the wonderful world of Android! I am a DX owner, but I have a couple of tips that will help you get immense battery life out of your DPro.
If you are willing to -- ROOT. You can get a lot more out of your phone if you do this simple procedure.
1) Download JuiceDefender immediately and use the widget to turn off mobile 3G data. This will increase your battery life CONSIDERABLY.
2) As said before turn off all radios you are not using (GPS, Bluetooth Wifi, 3G when necessary)
3) Buy setCPU ($3) and set it up so that your phone, when the screen is off, defaults to the lowest mHz possible (300 mHz I believe), and when your battery gets below 30% or so limit it to 800mHz or 600mHz max. ***Root Required***
4) Get rid of all task killers! These do not help at ALL. There is only one program that you need to manage memory and that is Autokiller ($3). Read about it. It is NOT a TASK KILLER just a memory manager. ***Root Required***
5) Get rid of live wallpapers and/or widgets that are intense on the data using 3G radios.
6) Get that extended battery, when it arrives, if you have the $$. The one for the X is WONDERFUL (1.5x the battery life).
That's all I got for now. If you have any quesitons, give me a shout on this thread or PM me. We can squeeze so much juice out of your phone, but it has to be done right.
***Unrelated*** The stock launcher tends to get slow after a couple months use of adding apps and what not. Get either LauncherPro or ADW to keep things quick.
Good luck!
-Elo
For those of you who are migrating from BlackBerries, welcome to the wonderful world of Android! I am a DX owner, but I have a couple of tips that will help you get immense battery life out of your DPro.
If you are willing to -- ROOT. You can get a lot more out of your phone if you do this simple procedure.
1) Download JuiceDefender immediately and use the widget to turn off mobile 3G data. This will increase your battery life CONSIDERABLY.
2) As said before turn off all radios you are not using (GPS, Bluetooth Wifi, 3G when necessary)
3) Buy setCPU ($3) and set it up so that your phone, when the screen is off, defaults to the lowest mHz possible (300 mHz I believe), and when your battery gets below 30% or so limit it to 800mHz or 600mHz max. ***Root Required***
4) Get rid of all task killers! These do not help at ALL. There is only one program that you need to manage memory and that is Autokiller ($3). Read about it. It is NOT a TASK KILLER just a memory manager. ***Root Required***
5) Get rid of live wallpapers and/or widgets that are intense on the data using 3G radios.
6) Get that extended battery, when it arrives, if you have the $$. The one for the X is WONDERFUL (1.5x the battery life).
That's all I got for now. If you have any quesitons, give me a shout on this thread or PM me. We can squeeze so much juice out of your phone, but it has to be done right.
***Unrelated*** The stock launcher tends to get slow after a couple months use of adding apps and what not. Get either LauncherPro or ADW to keep things quick.
Good luck!
-Elo