Battery usage

Topic started by S1D3BURN on 17 October 2009

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S1D3BURN
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17 October 2009, 01:30 pm

I've always been a firm believer in running my phone battery all the way down before recharging. Do you think this is still necessary with modern phones?

Any other tips for prolonging life?

weetanhops
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17 October 2009, 01:58 pm

Depends entirely on what phone you have, care to enlighten us?

S1D3BURN
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17 October 2009, 08:29 pm

Good point! HTC hero - great phone, just trying to keep it going as long as possible!

aopchick21
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1 November 2009, 10:28 am

S1D3BURN says:
I've always been a firm believer in running my phone battery all the way down before recharging. Do you think this is still necessary with modern phones?

Any other tips for prolonging life?

im doing the same thing too, I was advised my my friend to really drain out the battery before recharging it they said its one way of prolonging you batt life

weetanhops
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1 November 2009, 10:49 am

With regards to the Hero - turn off any automatic data-fetching for things like mail, facebook, twitter.

If you really don't need 3G (as in, if you're not using any internet or VoIP) then turn it off. 3G is such a massive drain on a phone's battery, it's pretty ridiculous.

Turn the brightness right down as well and turn off any haptic feedback (the thing that makes the phone vibrate a little when you press something)

Other than that there's not much you can do! Hope that helps a little though.

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