The problem is that if you turn off all the syncing and htc sense stuff then you might as well throw the phone away and just buy a phone that can call and sms only.
I don't agree. I guess you are not alone with your view on what a smartphone should do or not. So am I..
For me, it's quite ok if the Chacha shows me the mail, weather and other things whenever i need/want to see them. Not 20 times more since i last checked, while i was working, sleeping or doing something else. If you don't want to recharge your phone every day or even more, a lot of battery drainage can be saved by this 'trick'.. Do you let your car running in winter so it's nice and warm by the time you get in tomorrow ? Do you want to let your phone drain your battery while you are sleeping ?
Whoever wants to be informed about his email 48 times a day, wants to know all nonsense other people write on FB and other stuff, wants to know the weather and stock exchange constantly, etc.. should try to live with the fact that the battery will not last a day. Or maybe he/she made a wrong buy with the Chacha.. It's not the best phone on battery strength but all smartphones are rather weak on this thing.
The reason everyone buys the chacha is because it is designed to sync all your accounts and has the online FB functions, ALOT of people use these features, and altho they do wear out the battery i still use them, except my phone wasn't lasting even half a day.
Even though i never use facebook and i never intend to start using it, I still bought the chacha. I wanted an android phone, preferred htc to samsung and i wanted a full keyboard. There was only one phone to choose in fact. I know you are not alone with your opinion, I am not alone with mine either. All people can decide for themselves if they want to disable certain things or not. We don't have to decide it for them. But it can be useful enough to know what will be the reward to make the social updates at a time when you really want to read them and not 48 or more times a day.
I posted a battery drainage bug, if this bug doesn't apply to you then skip the thread. nonetheless, it is a BUG in the software that keeps the dialer active and if you do as the first post says you will get a full days use from chacha with all the bells and whistles working.
You posted a solution on how to save battery power. On how to avoid draining the battery. I reacted on that cause i thought the way i try to save battery power is succesful enough, not difficult to do (unless if entering the settings is freightening you so much) and a good suggestion for new users who often only read some of the posts and don't search too far in every forum available.
I didn't take your advice, didn't change the settings you adviced. If it works for you, great ! I have good battery power without changing the settings like 'Disable quiet ring on pickup, Disable pocket mode and Disable flip for speaker'. These are nice features I would like to keep and my posts were just telling people there are other ways of saving on power if they want to keep this stuff, just like me.
Forgive me for not taking your advice on skipping the thread (still not). As it's a part of the WWW, i don't consider it to be your privately owned piece of webspace in which i intruded. This attitude is seen too often on forums everywhere.
Dialer : Many people tend to think it's a huge bug cause dialer often is reported to use half of the power and being idle is the other half of the battery power usage.
Don't forget to click on 'dialer' one time after using your phone in an intense way. You will see almost every activity is counted under dialer. Also your internet connections f.e.
What i mean is : when you use your phone, you are either making some connection with internet OR you are using it to make calls or send messages. When almost every activity is counted under the name 'dialer', the power usage is of course high. I think it's more misleading users than a bug.
However Jacque : from my side : thanks for posting your comments and opinions to all users and for me too I guess. Every opinion is a useful one.. and no opinion is the complete truth and wisdom on its own.
That's the last word i will write about this so here's your chance of having the first and the last word in this discussion. Enjoy !
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