ohgosh. i charge my x8 as long as its not like 90+ percentage!

good tips tnx

Thanks for the CPU settings idea, haven't thought of that As for charging, right now I'm testing how long can it last without plugging in (yeah, yeah, I've just plugged it to USB for a moment to download the setcpu app, but that doesn't count as charging :P), and so far it has eaten 65% since yesterday 3p.m., and I really used it a lot - music, wifi, talking, texting...

In my opinion JiT helps a lot - since the phone processes data faster it uses CPU less

Thanks for this! Great tips :)

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Originally Posted by Evander_F

5. Charge your X8 only when its on 10% Battery and occasionally (per week maybe) fully drain your battery to increase its life. Please do not charge un-necessarily because i've noticed people charging their phones at 50% Battery (which really silly) :P

This is misinformation. Li-polymer batteries do not have this problem. They can be safely charged without a full discharge with no decrease in battery life.

4. Use SetCPU to change the CPU Scaling when idle.

The phone already does this.

3. Turn of 3G if you dont use it (or your country doesn't support it)
Go to Settings>Wireless & network settings>Mobile Networks>Network mode and in the popup displayed just select 'GSM only'

According to Sony, this actually uses more power.

Edit: If your country does not support 3G, you will not save power by turning this off.

Originally Posted by redsock

ohgosh. i charge my x8 as long as its not like 90+ percentage!

i charge my X8 3 hour to get 100%

my baterry always drains very fast, hope these tips will get work.

Originally Posted by Evander_F

5. Charge your X8 only when its on 10% Battery and occasionally (per week maybe) fully drain your battery to increase its life. Please do not charge un-necessarily because i've noticed people charging their phones at 50% Battery (which really silly) :P

Straight out of the X8 manual in Troubleshooting - Battery Performance:
"The following tips will help you improve battery performance:
- Charge your phone often..."

And from Windows Help (who would have known it would actually be helpful), if you search "how accurate is the battery meter":
"The practice of completely draining the battery and then fully charging it is advice that is applied to nickel cadmium and nickel metal hydride batteries. Lithium ion batteries last longer if you charge them often, a little at a time, to maintain a minimum charge of about 40 percent capacity."

I hardly ever let my phone get below 50% (I usually keep it above 70%), mostly because my battery lasts long enough so that it doesn't get to below 50% in the first place (thanks to good setcpu profiles). And it usually takes less than 10 minutes for my phone to be fully charged (from a wall outlet) from any charge level, even in the rare case that I am below 20%.

thank you for number 6, I'll apply it

If mentioned the battery. Is it just me, or somebody else experienced that after unplugging from charging, battery level drops from 100% to 97 rapidly, then idle, drains bit fast till ~50% and after drains a lot slower. (yes calibrated it two times now). It can last for 3-4 days but this is interesting for me.
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