Getting the most from your battery :)

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found this vid on youtube. you must be rooted to install set CPU, but its worth it. i'm goign to be testing my gains today since i can see big gains being made while the phone is in standby mode especially.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt3H75qnupA

what other tips do you guys have?

can you do this with the captivate? what are the overclock speeds?

I installed set cpu on my captivate and it has dramatically increased my battery time

i thought set cpu was crashing captivates? how's it been going for you guys?

I've got it on mine and it hasn't crashed. I will note however, that if you go too low for the Max speed, this phone will come to a crawl. I had mine set at 400/200 for battery <20%, and it had trouble coming out of the lock screen. Did some tweaking but my batter is almost dead anyways, so I will have to comment on it tomorrow.

I'm debating if I want to get JuiceDefender or not. It's a good program, but the "turn off data" for 15 mins is what's getting me. I text and Google Talk alot, so I may just download the program and use it while I'm at work, then disable it when I get home.

i thought this was a waste since the phone will go down to 100mhz on its own to conserve power?

it will but when you are using it, it can climb up to 1000 wasting power. Nothing on the android should really require that much horsepower atm

a simple approach i started using on an earlier smartphone, was a wallpaper that was predominantly black - considering the display is the predominant battery drain

i've been using this one, just enough going on to be visually intriguing but not take a lot of juice - whenever i look around for wallpapers, i keep coming back to this one - once i've seen a new wallpaper for a day or so, i've bored of it. Plus my flip clock widget, i set it with transparent background and transparent digit plates, to minimize the white display

i've posted the full size image in case anyone wants to copy

the other nice part, for me, the widgets are easy to discern

Originally Posted by larryccf

a simple approach i started using on an earlier smartphone, was a wallpaper that was predominantly black - considering the display is the predominant battery drain

i've been using this one, just enough going on to be visually intriguing but not take a lot of juice - whenever i look around for wallpapers, i keep coming back to this one - once i've seen a new wallpaper for a day or so, i've bored of it. Plus my flip clock widget, i set it with transparent background and transparent digit plates, to minimize the white display

i've posted the full size image in case anyone wants to copy

the other nice part, for me, the widgets are easy to discern

+1 to this post.
Very good approach to conserving power, since, according to the phone itself, the display usually takes up a high percentage of its battery life. This wallpaper is also really good, because not only is it predominantly black, but the main color is red, which drains the least amount of life of all colors.

Think I might try that once I get my brick working or trade it in for a new one...

Originally Posted by domin8

found this vid on youtube. you must be rooted to install set CPU, but its worth it. i'm goign to be testing my gains today since i can see big gains being made while the phone is in standby mode especially.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt3H75qnupA

what other tips do you guys have?

So when i try and use SetCPU (which is supposedly the most effective power saver) I get around 500 mhz... That being said, I wasn't using the new 2.0.1 version. Is there support for Captivates in newer versions? I need help with this >.< My battery isn't lasting nearly long enough for me, and I really want to get close to 25 hours with heavy usage on my captivate (or close to) as Carlos suggested in his video.

Thanks.