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[Hijpo]

Youv seen my problems with my battery on the phone. Well iv stopped using advanced task killer to end unused background tasks and im still running of the charge  from yesterday.

[Wooster]

Nice one, well spottified.  

[Stevie]

is it advanced task killer draining your battery then?

I use that app and my battery life is terrible. I just put it down to smartphone shiteness.

[Wooster]

Maybe they should rename it Advanced Battery Killer.

[keasy]

ATK runs on my phone and doesn't drain my battery.

I even run it alongside CPU master on scaling smartass OC'ed and my charge lasts three days if I don't use wireless, sat, BT or mobile network.

[tricksterdude]

Atk should be killing all the required processes when the phone goes on to stand by. I use it as well and it doesn't eat the battery.

The trick us to only enable stuff as you need it and to disable it once you're done. Ie mobile webs, GPS, wifi etc. Smartphones are known to be battery drainers, its the price you pay for having such a smart phone :P



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[Hijpo]

Well from a 6 hour battery life to 15 hours and counting after uninstalling advanced task killer thats using wifi for half an hour this morning aswell.  Even when i had ATK running i always turned off Wifi etc and it still made no diffrence to the battery life, not using ATK seems to have done the trick as i havent changed anything else.

[Thermalsig]

Well from a 6 hour battery life to 15 hours and counting after uninstalling advanced task killer thats using wifi for half an hour this morning aswell.  Even when i had ATK running i always turned off Wifi etc and it still made no diffrence to the battery life, not using ATK seems to have done the trick as i havent changed anything else.

Maybe atk wasn't coded to work well with your phone. 

[Hijpo]

Could be, its defo ATK though. 22 hours since last charge and i havent used it any diffrent. If ATK stops process running again maybe it was using up reasources and eating away at the battery in the background to keep them stopped?

[Thermalsig]

You need to figure a way to root the phone and you won't have all the background shit to have to worry about killing. I know it can suck looking for a rom for your phone that works, but i"d keep banging away at it. Even if you just get it rooted, you cab remove bloatware . You don't even have to rom it. Luckily, my phone was one of the top selling phones in the states, so it had a billion and one people coding for the phone. Still, in the beginning a lot off people bricked their phones; which technically is impossible, short of a hardware failure. It was just a lot of people posting up half assed walk throughs. Now the process for most phones is documented much better. Still no luck on finding the way to get it done?

[Hijpo]

No, iv done alot of searches but im very skeptical trying anything that involves messin with system software from the internet. I trusted the link you provided because you know your stuff and obviously arnt malicious. Spose ill just have to dig a bit deeper because i would like to git'r dun.

[corroded]

Mobile Devices have much better memory management systems than PCs. You tend to be able to reclaim memory from running apps, and as such an Android task killer is sort of pointless.

I think with most Androids you can connect it to a PC, and reflash a base install from your carrier. It's quite hard to brick an Android phone, unless as Therm says, you are right on the bleeding edge.

I actually used revolutionary.io (that's the web address) on my Desire, then whopped LeeDroid on it. Mine wouldn't root with any of the existing methods, even Unrevoked.

My battery life isn't bad, especially if it's on screen off, where my CPU downclocks to about 200mhz. I also have a raft of other power settings, for when I'm running low on juice. I find the biggest one that drains most of my battery though is regular mail checking.

I was going to look at making it SIM free for my travels, however it's sort of pointless since I put a Voda SIM in on the weekend and it worked fine, so I suspect that's not much of a problem.

[Hijpo]

battery finaly went after 2 days and 15 minutes 

[Thermalsig]

battery finaly went after 2 days and 15 minutes 

That's impressive. Even using cpumeter to throttle my cpu, I never got more than 20 hours of battery, unless I never used my phone that day, meaning I left the phone at home. 

[corroded]

That is very impressive. I never really get close, though I want to try the HTC Desire give me more battery trick (which apparently helps), involves charging whilst on, whilst off, then a quick reboot after turning back on for a few mins. Apparently it removes some profiles or something.

ASUS Transformer is still really quite impressive. It happily does over a week on a single charge. It's off the dock battery, and on the main on at 89% at the moment. I honestly can't remember when I was recharged it. I think it was early last week.