great work, porkchop. u got a 500 euro phone and turned it into nokia 3310. i'd be surprised if ur battery doesn't last for a week.
come on fellas. the guy was actually on to something with this bonkers process that may be eating out batt's for breakfast and u filled his thread with ur
useless "my battery lasts" posts.
Locster dude, hope ur still trying to get some results on that little asspiece of a process. if u need somwn to test settings and compare results with, drop me some letters. let's smoke that mother ****er
-1 for thinking other people should have priorities that match your personal preference.
Disabling a crapload of always-on battery and connectivity suckers does not turn your smartphone into a nokia 3310. It makes for a good joke, but its completely false. Constant updating of everything is mainly just good for advertisers and total FB addicts, or people that compulsively check email every 30 seconds.
Different people use their phones differently.
I make little use of all the background stuff that comes pre-installed, I don't even talk on the phone much. I use other software that wouldn't run on a Nokia 3310, but its software that only runs when I start it. I don't need my phone to be an electronic leash.
For me personally, occasional phone calls, a to-do list, dictation, sketching, audio playback, camera, ebook reading and sometimes video playback are the core functionality of my phone. For none of these functions that matter to me is there any need for all that background byte-swapping stuff.
News push services and Facebook auto-updating make me want to throw up. My phone spends as much time as possible in Airplane mode with all radios turned off. Its more like a small computer I can occasionally use for calling someone, but otherwise its for me to use alone, not to inteface with an illusory world of bits and bytes that want to be exchanged constantly.
I store everything on SD-Cards, so its also available when there is no connection.
Sadly, this is also why I'm prevented from buying the latest Google Nexus devices, because they come without card slots in what looks like a misguided effort by Google to force us into even more constant data transfer.
There is another reason besides battery drain not to overindulge in running all the radios on your phone needlessly:
Watch
Beings of Frequency on Youtube
Something I wish more people would wake up to and not blindly trust corporate controlled governments and mainstream media.
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I was taking a walk the other day. Saw a woman standing infront of a building, looking this way and that... when I passed by her, she stopped me and asked me where a certain house number might be. She kept saying "my maps app said its right here!" pointing at the phone.
She hadn't thought of walking up or down the street in one direction or another, to find out if house numbers were increasing or decreasing, she just stood there like a zombie in disbelief that the address wasn't exactly where her phone said it should be.
I find this to be a rather cautionary incident. She was young and did not have stupid written on her forehead, but still, I had to tell her to go look for rising or declining house numbers to figure out the right direction to walk in.
Don't let your phone do everything for you! I have never yet had a reason to turn on my GPS, I can find stuff myself. I would turn it on if I ever got lost, but so far, checking the time and the position of the sun is doing just fine for me in case I got turned around somehow.
