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ICS is coming for the Samsung Galaxy SII Touch 4G!

Has anyone experienced a reduction in battery? I unplugged mine at 9am and within an hour the battery level was at 71 percent.... I also changed the launcher to the one with the with the circle with the 6 squares in the middle. Anyone know how to change it back? Thanks.[/QUOT

The easiest way is to download "home switcher " from the play store. Then you can switch back and forth easily. It a good idea to have that app if you begin trying different launchers, just makes it easier. There is a way to do it without that app, but its more involved and cumbersome.

I'm not a fan of TouchWiz. Right now I'm going back and forth between Nova Launcher and Apex (I think that's what its called). I was using GoLauncher before ICS, and it still works, but now that I have more choices I'm trying them out.
 
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Start of day 2 on ICS. As I noted last night I had a few issues....Well, many have cleared up. Calendar & camera now working. Need to learn where stuff is located again (had the same problem when I up-dated my tablet to ICS).
Battery life looks ok so far. Was at 89 when I went to bed and in the morning was at 75......:thinking:
So, I'll keep an eye on that.
It is getting better.... :eek:

Lateck,
 
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Just did the manual update on my wife's phone - worked great. No waiting for OTA:

Here's how to manually update

Note: This is for UNROOTED phones
Looks like that link is 404. I'm getting the same "We're sorry" message that I got for a solid month when I tried to log into my Sprint account. Are there any independent links or 3rd party documentation?
 
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You've been pretty helpful with me on my other blog. Got any input into my terrible battery with ICS.... Going from 100 percent to 67 percent in less than two hours and hardly using the phone.....

Similar problem here. After checking, my Android OS is using 62%. I have a feeling that my reception decreased a bit and the OS is continually searching for a solid signal (both wifi and phone).

CPU total at 40 mins
Stay awake 1h 50 min

Unplugged at 7AM - now at 84%, hardly used at all...deliberately to see if it would drain.

Before upgrade, I wouldn't even come close to 90% 5 or 6 hours in. I am no android expert, but would love a couple of ideas or thoughts on this.
 
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Yea i'm in the same boat you are...... I just checked my android os is at 43 percent and my screen is at 25 percent.... I use to be able to go a whole day without going below 50 percent. I'm sure you are the same way...... I don't have any answers of how to fix it other than go back to gingerbread 2.3.6 if that is even possible....
 
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Before upgrade, I wouldn't even come close to 90% 5 or 6 hours in. I am no android expert, but would love a couple of ideas or thoughts on this.
The price you pay for software bloat? :D

Maybe it's still doing stuff in the background, which can be CPU-intensive. It also seems to keep the screen lit a lot. Before, my screen was the #1 consumer of power, so if it's doing lots of things (for instance my virus scanner is working a lot) and the screen is now staying lit for a long time, your battery usage will go way up.

IME with other Linux embedded devices like TiVo, when it says that the update is finished, there's enough still going on in the background to keep the CPU pinned at 100% for quite a while. This can manifest itself in sluggish control response on the TiVo, and reduced battery life on a mobile device.

Give it a day or so to complete all the checks and background tasks, and see if it's still a power hog. You might want to set your display back to a less thirsty power setting as well.
 
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FYI:

My screen is using up 60-65%, Android OS was at 10% and is dropping slowly, Android System was at 9% and is dropping slowly. I have Norton Security, which is holding steady at 7%, which indicates that it's probably scanning temporary files or something. Usually it's like 2%. Everything else is 2% or less.

The new default power saving settings are a lot more greedy than I had the phone set before, so I went through the menus and dialed down the display and other power settings.
 
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When I first got this phone, I did everything I could in the control panel to keep the GPS radio turned off. I just noticed that after the ICS install that "Location and Google search" has been re-enabled. I noticed that a lot of new and unwanted system processes are running again.

It looks like we're going to have to comb through every setting and look for settings and software that we don't want sucking up CPU cycles, munching on memory and blasting the battery.
 
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