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I find my phone next to the bed all night (alarm clock) kills the battery. 5 feet away on the table and it's fine. Each phone and network have a different scheduled time for searching out signal, between a few minutes to 10 minutes. This is why your battery dies quicker when you have less reception and much quicker when you have none - on the tube turn plane mode on. My kitchen has an RSJ in the middle of it. One side and I have full reception and long battery life. The other and I often have no reception and a flat battery. You can be as careful as you like with apps and settings, but if that isn't the problem, check the indoor coverage for your network. I used to run a phone shop and am talking from experiance ;-)
If you are on Orange or T-mobile, you can share the others network. In reality, your phone keeps swapping between them using the stronger signal which kills the battery, but gives you beter coverage.
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Dammit this is probably a really dumb question but do you have Juice Defender (or similar) installed on your phone? I have the ultimate version and find that it really helps prolong my battery life with the added bonus that I have to faf around with settings much less because it learns how and where I use them and tries to anticipate what I am going to do eg it switches on the wifi in places were it knows I use it.
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I turn off wifi all day (until I'm home at night) and refreshing emails I turn off during the day (turn on at lunch and evening) when I'm at my desk I've got the app for chrome which pops up with Gmail so I don't need it at work.
Don't turn off 3g during the day, suppose I could but I easily get a day out of my battery, It's never dead when I come to charge it at the evening and I have it on off the charger from 6am till 1030-11 at night.
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My house is one of those where you have to lean against a window to get reception sometimes and other times its ok. Doesn't seem to affect the battery on any phone I've owned in the 6 years of living there.
I've installed CPU spy and its interesting to see how much my phone is in deep sleep. It seems to go into this about a minute after closing the screen whereas others take ages, or there's an app which prevents it. If you've got root, its definitely an app I'd suggest installing so you can see what's going on.
Edit. On T Mob/Orange
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I turn off wifi all day (until I'm home at night) and refreshing emails I turn off during the day (turn on at lunch and evening) when I'm at my desk I've got the app for chrome which pops up with Gmail so I don't need it at work.
Don't turn off 3g during the day, suppose I could but I easily get a day out of my battery, It's never dead when I come to charge it at the evening and I have it on off the charger from 6am till 1030-11 at night.
This.
I am on HTC Sensation.
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Sorry Ed, but that's bollocks. I had a Desire S, albeit briefly, and used to get 2 days with moderate useage. Admittedly, I'd dicked about with all the settings for apps, but nothing out of the ordinary.
Genuine question, if you don't use your phone for work, what the hell does everyone do with them during the day to get such shit battery life? Gamers are excluded for obvious reasons.
Nothing out of the ordinary, occasionally I like to browsed the internet, turn off wifi when not needed, but always had 3G on, where I work have poor 3G coverage according to the phone (whether iPhone oddly flared better at maintaining a 3G connection).
But on the iPhone, I have both Wifi and 3G on too, often give little care about maintaining a battery life and always had 30-40% left in the end of the day.
reckon it might be to do with trying to maintain a 3G connection that drain the battery?
HTC Desire S took bloody age to charge thought.
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My htc sensation has developed an annoying fault with the power button. Having to get it "repaired", which is going to take 2 weeks. Very irritating when they are just going to throw it in a bin and give me a new one.
Anyone else had trouble with a sensation? Apparently it's a fairly common complaint.
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I have a young friend that has recently got the **HTC Sensation XE **(Beats phone), and has never regretted anything so much. It overheats so badly, that he can't play 3D games on it, and it can almost be too hot to touch when charging. I can only recommend what not to get, and its the phone I've just mentioned.
So you're recommending not to get a phone based on one faulty unit? On that basis you definitely shouldn't get a Transformer Prime because my first one was rubbish :)
My first Desire overheated - I was using it constantly plugged in on a train down from Edinburgh. It got really hot and went nuts.
I called HTC and they picked it up and couriered a new one back to me about five days later, which has been very reliable. Their customer service is very good.
I would agree the Galaxy S II would probably have been a better option though.
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Yep, but only on one of the bikes. I also like the ability of the phone based Strava to upload on it's own.
On the bike without a Garmin I am reliant on the phone recording the route- or rather now I am not.
surely it'll work just putting it in a jersey pocket?
the wanting it to auto-upload is fair enough though
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Do you have data on constantly and auto sync set to minutes rather than hours? I switch 3g on manually when I need it and only refresh as necessary. Additionally I've become robotic at ending all tasks whenever I put the phone down and this seems to work. My record with the sgs2 so far with normal, new phone use is over 60 hours and these are known to be utterly shite on battery due to the screen.
I'll be flashing that wildfire again next week so I'll see how it goes using those apps.