Battery Life is a nightmare :(

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I got the Google Ion build (WOW it's fast!). I absolutely love it! (Sorta miss having that manila digital clock though), the market has so many free apps I love just sitting there for hours on end flicking threw and seeing what I can get!

But my Battery life is horrible . I deleted my gmail account from the email app, as it checked for new mail far too often.

As I'm a total Android noob I don't know how to limit the data transferred, or how to close apps, or any other battery saving tips

Originally Posted by Macmee

I got the Google Ion build (WOW it's fast!). I absolutely love it! (Sorta miss having that manila digital clock though), the market has so many free apps I love just sitting there for hours on end flicking threw and seeing what I can get!

But my Battery life is horrible . I deleted my gmail account from the email app, as it checked for new mail far too often.

As I'm a total Android noob I don't know how to limit the data transferred, or how to close apps, or any other battery saving tips

yeah the battery life on all of the android builds for the vogue are absolutely horrid compared to winmo, not sure why though?

make sure gps is turned off and maybe buy an extended battery?

Turn off background data or turn off always on data. You compair to windows mobile but in windows mobile I always have to reconnect when I check email or browse the web. And turn down screen brightness and make sure you power settings are correct in your default.txt. it's all about usage too. I'm sure by playing around with android you are actually using your phone and data more than in windows mobile simply by downloading market appsand using them.

I've actually been surprised, with the most recent Android xROM, I'm getting significantly better battery life than with WM, and of course far better than early Android. I keep GPS off and brightness at 60% almost always, but still, my battery seems to last around 20 hours with light use, and probably 12-14 with average use. I know the battery meter can't be off, since I've actually used the phone during those time ranges.

Edit: Oh, also taskiller (on the market and in a bunch of these builds) works great to kill apps you aren't using.

Try one of the new zimage's by dzo - he's done quite a bit of optimization and it makes a huge difference.

Originally Posted by fixxxer2008

yeah the battery life on all of the android builds for the vogue are absolutely horrid compared to winmo, not sure why though?

make sure gps is turned off and maybe buy an extended battery?

GPS is off

Originally Posted by zenulator

Turn off background data or turn off always on data. You compair to windows mobile but in windows mobile I always have to reconnect when I check email or browse the web. And turn down screen brightness and make sure you power settings are correct in your default.txt. it's all about usage too. I'm sure by playing around with android you are actually using your phone and data more than in windows mobile simply by downloading market appsand using them.

I don't know where to turn off always on data, but I turned off background data. I really liked getting gmail alerts though

Originally Posted by brsev

I've actually been surprised, with the most recent Android xROM, I'm getting significantly better battery life than with WM, and of course far better than early Android. I keep GPS off and brightness at 60% almost always, but still, my battery seems to last around 20 hours with light use, and probably 12-14 with average use. I know the battery meter can't be off, since I've actually used the phone during those time ranges.

Edit: Oh, also taskiller (on the market and in a bunch of these builds) works great to kill apps you aren't using.

Originally Posted by plemen

Try one of the new zimage's by dzo - he's done quite a bit of optimization and it makes a huge difference.

Thanks for the suggestion about taskkiller, but it doesn't find all the current running apps. I'm not entirely sure where to get the latest xrom or zimage from dzo or what to do with them if I download them

Originally Posted by plemen

Try one of the new zimage's by dzo - he's done quite a bit of optimization and it makes a huge difference.

link please

I second the link request.

This isn't kb7's zimage and rootfs in the sense ui thread, is it? If so, they are up on vogue-hero.

Originally Posted by silex

This isn't kb7's zimage and rootfs in the sense ui thread, is it? If so, they are up on vogue-hero.

Yes that is built off latest codo it should help. Kb7's rootfs and zimage have the added benefit of speeding things up. So get the latest basefiles and overwrite rootfs and zimage with kb7's. All of this is on vogue-hero.