Thanks for the clarification. Mine was at 50% w/o signal...now seems to be fixed.
No problem. When people paraphrase what the original person gives as advice, some details find their way out and important steps and details are missed. Might have been what happened there.
What is frustrating is that this bug will show up again! It is only a temporary fix. I could be completely wrong as I have not paid a lot of attention to the why or how it comes back, but it appears that all it takes is to lose signal for a short time and then it starts incrementing up again.
I have gone from 2 days of battery life with 1.5 to 1 1/2 days of battery life with half the apps running on 2.1. I think this bug has more impact on battery life than originally thought.
I believe it comes back once you restart the phone. You could also be in an area, even for the briefest amount of time, without signal. Then the statistic is correct.
Couple this with the fact that in order to fix the speaker going out issue, you need to restart your phone, it can be quite a bitch to deal with the battery depletion upon restarting it. It's a mean 1-2 punch. Not everyone has the sound problem.
I also have 1/2 the apps and my battery life is horrible. full green led charge to phone shut down in 10 -12 hours. cell standby is the drag. i created a bettercut shortcut to Batttery use so I can keep a close look.
I know this is a touchy subject to some people but, does using a process killer use more (noticable) energy? After removing apps from memory they restart themselves using more processing power? Not using a task killer is NOT an option. I can't even pull my drawer open without extreme heryjerkyness. kill a fewbackground apps, smooth sailing. Also I'm a linux user so I somewhat familiar with memory management.
I never saw a drastic change as I did a few days ago. Three different apps were involved.
I hate Pandora. Music chatroulette is not my cup of tea. But I downloaded and tried it. Didn't really like it, but I didn't my iPod near me to plug in when I was doing work. After fifteen minutes of listening, my batter seemed to be the same. Awesome. But I had had enough and back out of the program...using the back button as is recommended. Went to go mess around downstairs and left my phone upstairs. Came back about an hour and a half later and the battery must have lost about 40%. It seemed like the radio was still running, just not playing music. Checked the task killer, and I was right.
I didn't have to go anywhere so I decided to chill and not charge the phone and see what issue was. Time without signal bug was not there. Data was on (it's never off actually) and the phone remained off with little to no use. The last 40% or so lasted me until late that night where it got down to about 15 or 10% or so.
Same thing happened with NBA League Pass, where I was watching a few games. Watched maybe 15 minutes of a few games and the battery went down a bit. Left it running, despite backing out properly, and I got the low battery beep unexpectedly. MLB At Bat does the same as well.
So it seems ATK is very good for apps that stream, because they seem to have a problem shutting down completely afterwards. Music, radio, video. All the same.
I would recommend a task killer just on personal experience with these apps. But really, you should make sure you aren't doing something flagrant to kill the battery, but aren't noticing it yourself. Check the battery suggestions thread and then resort to a task killer.
