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Help Battery runs down faster after update?

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Jun 3, 2010
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Hi,
I was just wondering if anyone had their battery drain faster after their first phone update? I am on 3 UK if that helps anyone. I am not 100% sure but i think it used to last longer. Now it seems to just drain faster after the update.
 
Not that I understand what any of this really means, but can someone please tell me all of the most current numbers and codes so I can tell if I'm current? Does it really matter in the long run if I'm waiting for the new OTA update? I'm having some reception/dropped call issues along with software stopping working or freezing up periodically. Would love to know if this is a software or hardware related issue.

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Sometimes updates improve your experience and other times they don't really affect much. Although at any iteration of operating system you shouldn't really have loads of freeze ups. If they are very bad I suggest chasing down the specific problem to see if there are solutions for it
 
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Not that I understand what any of this really means, but can someone please tell me all of the most current numbers and codes so I can tell if I'm current? Does it really matter in the long run if I'm waiting for the new OTA update? I'm having some reception/dropped call issues along with software stopping working or freezing up periodically. Would love to know if this is a software or hardware related issue.

Mods feel free to move post if needed.


Basically the first 2 characters are location.

BD Cyprus, Greece
CP Finland
DBVietnam
DC Thailand
DD India
DT Australia
DX Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam
DZ Malaysia, Singapore
JA South Africa
JC Algeria, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia
JP Arabic
JR Arabic
JV Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Morocco, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey
MT Switzerland
XA Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom
XB Denmark, Norway, Sweden
XC Portugal, Spain
XD Croatia, Czech, Hungary, Slovakia
XE Bulgaria, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine
XF Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania
XW France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom
XX Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom
ZC China, Hong Kong
ZH Hong Kong
ZT Taiwan

Then we have the year code (2012 is L) so all are L so far. Then Month then revision.

If you can tell me what those first 2 characters are initially?
 
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Hi,
I was just wondering if anyone had their battery drain faster after their first phone update? I am on 3 UK if that helps anyone. I am not 100% sure but i think it used to last longer. Now it seems to just drain faster after the update.

Yep same for me, since that update the battery has been really bad :( It seems unlikely another update will come out in the next couple of weeks which is annoying as they are now several versions behind the unbranded firmware.
 
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Yep same for me, since that update the battery has been really bad :( It seems unlikely another update will come out in the next couple of weeks which is annoying as they are now several versions behind the unbranded firmware.

Even in airplane mode there is a noticeable battery drain with the phone showing awake time chunks when it should be sleeping.. argh
 
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