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What power setting do you use on your Rezound?

What performance setting do you keep the Rezound in mostly?


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I hadn't seen this asked yet and figured maybe we could see where everyone stands with regards to their battery life and their power settings. For those that don't know, if you go to Settings>Power>Power management you can adjust how fast your Rezound eats your battery.


I've found that if I am at home and do anything less than Performance, I get no 4G connectivity or it bounces around. Thus, I keep it at Performance almost exclusively. I do notice it gets warm occasionally, but that's when I take the Otterbox case off and let the Rezound frolic around 'nekkid'. I get about 8-9 hours on the Performance setting which is fine by me. I figure it's like when I owned a performance car that requires premium, if I can't afford to put the good stuff in then I probably can't afford the performance car.

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I use performance mode. Normal and economy mode disables my gmail and other crucial syncs I need for business, which isnt profitable for me. :D

I tried the normal mode yesterday (just got the phone Sunday night) and couldn't figure out why it wasn't telling me when I got emails! Now, in "performance mode" it's been dinging away all day! Now ... to decide whether or not that's actually a good thing ... :rolleyes:
 
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I tried the normal mode yesterday (just got the phone Sunday night) and couldn't figure out why it wasn't telling me when I got emails! Now, in "performance mode" it's been dinging away all day! Now ... to decide whether or not that's actually a good thing ... :rolleyes:


What you do is you switch to "Economy" mode when you know there's an important email coming but don't really want to answer it. ;)
 
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I tried the normal mode yesterday (just got the phone Sunday night) and couldn't figure out why it wasn't telling me when I got emails! Now, in "performance mode" it's been dinging away all day! Now ... to decide whether or not that's actually a good thing ... :rolleyes:

I put my phone on economy after about 5 days (so the 21st) and haven't had any trouble getting gmail notifications. In fact I get 2 notifications, the HTC mail app is sending them as well. The main reason I wan't worried about not having it on performance is I don't have 4G in my area, so switching to normal was no biggie. So then I went to economy to see how that would work for me and so far I can't really tell the difference, so until that changes, that's where it's staying.
 
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I have played with all three settings and finally decided to keep it on "normal". I don't see a significant performance difference but I do see a difference in battery use among the three, at least for my use.

I don't have 4G at home so only use that setting during the day in "civilized" areas. This past weekend at home with the phone set to 4G and normal as a test and with reasonably light use I got nearly 2 days on the stock battery.
 
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You can enable economy mode then turn on your gmail sync. This mode is customizable.

Thanks I had no idea you could do change individual settings. I can probably use my standard battery and case now instead of the extended battery and case lol. :D

Edit: Unfortunately economy mode did not work for me. Even with enabling background data it still periodically polls for new email. I need it instant. Thanks for trying.
 
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Performance Mode-

Switched it down to the next mode for a night- wondered why I had no 4G LTE connection, and why Gmail stopped syncing. Once I figured out what I did, I put it back in Performance mode, and won't be taking it out of there.

I did turn the gmail sync back on, somehow, but it only lasted for a short period of time, before it went back off, same as the 4G LTE signal. That's why I put it back to Performance.
 
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