I can get 8 full hours with heavy use and my battery will be at 15%. By far the best battery stats of any smart phone I have owned.
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I've been feeling better about mine this week. My biggest challenge is that I get a very lousy signal at work which makes gauging my battery a lot more complicated. It used to be with the Storm 2 and light usage, I had to have it on the charger by 1:00 to get through the day. The same thing with the Fascinate. But the last couple of days I've made it ALL DAY with light usage without having to charge. I think the Fascinate is holding a better signal than the Storm did.
If I can get through a "work day" (i.e. from the time I get up in the a.m. until I get home in the evening which is approximately 10 - 12 hours) without worrying about the battery dying I'm happy. I did notice that when I changed from one of the "picture" built in wallpapers to a dark one, my battery life seemed to significantly increase. I would never have thought a "pretty picture" wallpaper would have that negative in impact but in my case it seems it did. I don't use my phone for talking much at all...I'm mostly multimedia and email use.
I'm looking forward to gauging it this weekend when I will have good signal throughout the day.
However, good it is right out of the box; expect it to get slightly better after 3-5 cyclesI think the battery life is excellent so far. I bought the phone on wed. at around 4:30 pm with half of the battery left it and I used it extensively until about 12:30-1:00 last night it died. I have it fully charged right now so we'll see how that goes.
On my D1 2.2 I am doing much better without the ATK. Much better means 12-14 hours with no music, no text, mainly checking email regularly and virtually no web browsing. Can't wait until 10/27 for the SF.
Don't be on screen as much.When I go to battery status, it says the display has used the biggest percentage of my battery. Its usually 80 something. I have the brightness as low as it can go and timeout at 15 sec - any other ways i can reduce this?
FWIW, if you guys get an undervolted kernel the battery life gets even better
Did you bork it SK? If you did yeah odin et al. If you're not borked at all and you haven't put voodoo on or even if you're running any voodoo v.2 kernel just flash any kernel you want in CWM. Only problem we found was voodoo v.1 to voodoo v.2 when we got impatient with the re-boot and pulled the battery.Ok, man, I might need some of your help doing this ... I want to do it right this time.
So, first, do I have to do the Odin restore from that 300+ MB Fascinate image?
Then, I install CWM?? And what do I do if I don't get the update.zip file like what happened with my sister's fascinate? Will the CWM still be installed?
And then, do I download the new custom kernel and install it? After that, I've gotta reinstall everything, right????
Did you bork it SK? If you did yeah odin et al. If you're not borked at all and you haven't put voodoo on or even if you're running any voodoo v.2 kernel just flash any kernel you want in CWM. Only problem we found was voodoo v.1 to voodoo v.2 when we got impatient with the re-boot and pulled the battery.
Lemme know where you are at
Lets PM this conversationPhone is running great right now. It's rooted, and I have launcher pro and autokiller running. I only did the Odin restore on my sister's phone because rooting it bricked it. Haven't installed ROM manager or CWM on my phone at all yet. I'm just wanting to make sure I do things in the right order. Restoring this phone with Odin and then doing all this rooting/modding stuff over again is not a fun project I want to spend another day on like I did with my sister's fascinate ....
So what's the right process from here? I did NOT do the OTA system update, if that matters.
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