My Juice Defender with Epic

[candi3188]

that feature is stock & the phone is preset that way already...

Well, it seems as though (according to BatteryHistory) my wi-fi was on 100% of the time, but not necessarily running (connected) whenever I had it enabled without the help of UltimateJuice. And I want the radio to actually be of, rather than just disconnecting. And...I want this to be done automatically. Unless I am missing something? Please tell me if I am.

 

[Dave4G]

Dave u only need the free version.. set it how u want it (as much as u can with the free version) use the toggle widget to cut Data on/off/or let Juice defender do it automatically & there u hav it.. simple as that... its so not kool when we hav posters with confusing &/or wrong info...

Thanks for the info. Sorry for confusion , but are you saying that free JD has a widget that turns off data radios, or to get the SwitchPro as suggested? My JD widget does not have a manual toggle widget, unless it is on the "beta" version, or I cant find it. The widget I have only gives the battery multiplier.

 

[antmon]

yes.... go to.....

android widgets > toggle mobile data

and it will basically add an on/off button with JD controller, on with User controller or Off

 

[Dave4G]

yes.... go to.....

android widgets > toggle mobile data

and it will basically add an on/off button with JD controller, on with User controller or Off

Thanks a bunch. The Widget was there and I didn't see it before since there was another JD widget farther up in the list. Thanks!!!

 

[badankles]

thought i'd share one more time...before i put this baby (non-rooted) on the charger, with light use, it's been 30+ hours with 34% battery life left.

 

[YaBoiD]

thought i'd share one more time...before i put this baby (non-rooted) on the charger, with light use, it's been 30+ hours with 34% battery life left.

Whats the name of that "running programs" widget? TIA

 

[badankles]

Whats the name of that "running programs" widget? TIA

It's a Samsung widget that came with the Epic, Program Control. It gradually changes from green to yellow to red, along with scrolling description of the app using the most cpu at the time.

 

[Renee1228]

What's the battery left app you're running?

 

[badankles]

What's the battery left app you're running?

That's Quick Battery widget, I installed it with Quick Settings app from Market.

 

[Tarrah]

Ok, so I've had my Epic for a week now, and feel SOOOO slow when it comes to all that I can do with this. This is my first REAL smartphone and touchscreen, so its like culture shock for me. I have found a few answers to questions I had for the phone just by searching, but I've come to an issue that I can't find an answer for, and it seems like I can do what I want, and improve battery life at the same time after reading this, which would be great. But I'm not quite sure even after reading every posting on this thread, that I understand how it can be done. Please help!

I was interrupted 6-8 times during the night last night with email updates. I have two email accounts on my phone - hotmail & gmail. It was hotmail that is my primary & keeps going off with senseless junk email that I can't get rid of (a problem in and of itself - different day, different forum). So I would like to be able to set the phone to update the email only during say, 7 am & 10 pm, so that I don't get the notification at 3 am that sally wants me to join her on a video chat.

At the same time, my battery life is average - I get about 10 hours of good battery life, with all stock settings - nothing extra installed to save or improve battery life. I haven't even messed with the stock epic battery use widget. Just after reading this I DID go in and change my WiFi settings to sleep never, so that when I'm at work and home, I can work off the wifi networks, not 3G (because that saves some battery, right?). Question about this though - while working on WiFi - does it still enable me to do all that it does on 3G normally - like synch and update emails, facebook, phone calls, etc? Remember - I'm a techy r e t a r d and don't know much about this advanced rock I hold in my hand. (you can't use that word, really?!!?? WOW)

So the end result question would be this - can I install an app or use a stock feature that would basically turn off everything on the phone but phone calls (and maybe texts) at night?

Also - I love your widgets badankles!!! Can you tell me what the time/weather widget is?

 

[latinmaxima]

It is Beautiful Widgets if I read right near the top of the thread.

 

[Tarrah]

yea I looked for that, and found it on the market, but it didnt show me any screen shots with the animated sun guy...wouldn't want just a regular sun/moon, so I didn't buy it cuz I want to confirm its available first... I couldn't find any screenshots like that anywhere else either. Sorry if I seem like I'm biting your style, but I am - too cute

 

[KillerQ97]

Hey all,

JD worked for me - increased battery life by about 33%. HOWEVER, the fact that the 3G was dropped out for 15 minutes at a time made my push email (K9) not so instant... I don't like that.

SO, I may give it another shot. Do you think it would still save some juice if 3Gdata was always enabled?

Later,

Matt!

 

[badankles]

@Tarra, what you saw from market for Beautiful Widgets is default clock/weather skins. once you purchases and installed it, you have option to download additional clock and weather skins, where you can mix-and-match.

@Tarra, you can do all that you want either manually or with help from third-party apps. a couple of things i know of that cannot be done with WiFi only are MMS and Sprint TV (and Media Hub, i think). as noted in this thread (post #22) and other threads, you can use SwitchPro to manually manage. to have something automatically manage and at the level you wanted, i can only recommend J/D plus Ultimate Juice.

you have to be careful because if J/D is not configured correctly than it could be more frustrating than help. good luck.


@KillerQ97, i'm not 100% sure, but with the Ultimate Juice add-on to J/D, you can add your K9 to the Apps/Configured apps list to tell J/D you want it to force data access for K9.

 

[Sedan_Clan]

Informative thread. So much information to absorb from this forum.

 

[shook187]

Won't truning on wifi shut off 3g even when a wifi signal isn't available?