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alexandraerinSo, back in July I got a new phone. It's the same model that Jack has and that was a factor in my choice... I'd been able to handle it and try out the keyboard and heft and stuff. One of the positives I knew about it was that it had a better battery life than my phone, which was only ever meant to be a temporary replacement anyway.
And while I've liked it well enough, I've always been disappointed by the battery life... it just didn't seem to last, even when I wasn't doing anything with it. So I didn't do much with it. It was disappointing because I knew for a fact that Jack's could be left of the charger overnight without dying and mine could barely make it through the day. I didn't have any apps running in the background that he didn't...
Except when I realized that I did. When I first got the thing and was playing around with its capabilities, I had been amused by a live wallpaper that grabbed the satellite view of the area off the internet and turned it into your phone's desktop. I'd never meant to leave it like that, because I can smell a power hog when I see one, but once I started feeling my home screen up with shortcuts I forgot what the background even was supposed to be. It was only when I happened to look at an empty page right when it updated that I went "Oh... right."
So I've got that fixed, and I also turned off the automatic email sync/notification (mostly as an alternative to silencing the phone at night) and now the battery bar barely budges all day. It's pretty awesome.
And while I've liked it well enough, I've always been disappointed by the battery life... it just didn't seem to last, even when I wasn't doing anything with it. So I didn't do much with it. It was disappointing because I knew for a fact that Jack's could be left of the charger overnight without dying and mine could barely make it through the day. I didn't have any apps running in the background that he didn't...
Except when I realized that I did. When I first got the thing and was playing around with its capabilities, I had been amused by a live wallpaper that grabbed the satellite view of the area off the internet and turned it into your phone's desktop. I'd never meant to leave it like that, because I can smell a power hog when I see one, but once I started feeling my home screen up with shortcuts I forgot what the background even was supposed to be. It was only when I happened to look at an empty page right when it updated that I went "Oh... right."
So I've got that fixed, and I also turned off the automatic email sync/notification (mostly as an alternative to silencing the phone at night) and now the battery bar barely budges all day. It's pretty awesome.