Hey guys, I'm new here and totally glad to be here on what looks like a great community site - looking forward to some great development and support on this site... Anyway, I just got my teeth into an Android 2.2 (froyo) powered Optimus V. I had seen another post on this but I'd like to detail everything and maybe make an official thread here.
My Optimus V has had pretty horrible battery life as of yet. It has gone about eight hours at the very outside, with apps frequently disabled through both an app killer and the native service manager.
Additionally, I was wondering if it is possible to uninstall the pre-loaded apps such as Poynt and gChat that I never use.
What is the recommended way to prevent apps such as Maps and Where from starting back up as soon as I force stop them - in order to save battery life.
Day 1:
-Fairly infrequent web browsing (MAYBE a half-hour at the most)
-Roughly 70 messages sent or received (half and half)
-Maybe an hour and a half total of app use between Where, News & Weather, VM Account Settings, Downloads, Marketplace, and so on.
-Perhaps 10 minutes total of voice-calling time
-Frequent re-organizing of the apps, app exploration, and playing with system settings (i'd estimate about 4 hours or so)
**Phone lasted from about 7:30 AM off the charger to 3:45PM automatic shut-off at 0% battery.
Thanks a ton, and I'll be watching this thread frequently on my Optimus V ^.^
UPDATE: Yesterday it came off the charger around 8AM, and made it to around 1PM untill the battery was down to 10 percent or so.
This was with intermittent airplane mode while service was sparse. Perhaps an hour or two of web surfing at most, as well as maybe half an hour of downloading and playing apps.
All power - consuming things such as GPS and WiFi turned off at least 90 percent of the time. Screen brightness all the way down.
I mostly used it for texting and some visiting web pages, checking email, and a few ten minutes or less voice calls. Albeit I did obsessively unlock the phone to check all feeds and play with it at some times, as usual.
I used appkiller frequently to shut down the browser and stuff when not in use. Next I'll try it sans appkiller.
**Is this on-par or good for most smartphones?
My Optimus V has had pretty horrible battery life as of yet. It has gone about eight hours at the very outside, with apps frequently disabled through both an app killer and the native service manager.
Additionally, I was wondering if it is possible to uninstall the pre-loaded apps such as Poynt and gChat that I never use.
What is the recommended way to prevent apps such as Maps and Where from starting back up as soon as I force stop them - in order to save battery life.
Day 1:
-Fairly infrequent web browsing (MAYBE a half-hour at the most)
-Roughly 70 messages sent or received (half and half)
-Maybe an hour and a half total of app use between Where, News & Weather, VM Account Settings, Downloads, Marketplace, and so on.
-Perhaps 10 minutes total of voice-calling time
-Frequent re-organizing of the apps, app exploration, and playing with system settings (i'd estimate about 4 hours or so)
**Phone lasted from about 7:30 AM off the charger to 3:45PM automatic shut-off at 0% battery.
Thanks a ton, and I'll be watching this thread frequently on my Optimus V ^.^
UPDATE: Yesterday it came off the charger around 8AM, and made it to around 1PM untill the battery was down to 10 percent or so.
This was with intermittent airplane mode while service was sparse. Perhaps an hour or two of web surfing at most, as well as maybe half an hour of downloading and playing apps.
All power - consuming things such as GPS and WiFi turned off at least 90 percent of the time. Screen brightness all the way down.
I mostly used it for texting and some visiting web pages, checking email, and a few ten minutes or less voice calls. Albeit I did obsessively unlock the phone to check all feeds and play with it at some times, as usual.
I used appkiller frequently to shut down the browser and stuff when not in use. Next I'll try it sans appkiller.
**Is this on-par or good for most smartphones?