Only gonna downgrade from 7.1 if I hear good things about the battery life.
I will be installing it tomorrow when i return from school at around 4pm EST December 20. Till then hopefully someone will take the plunge and install it in the meantime.
I finally have it loaded. The start up took about 1:30 mins. I did shrink out some files. I will include an attached screenshot of what i shrank reducing the size to about 119mb rather than the original 230mb or so. I will preform a few more battery pulls and report back tomorrow after a typical day of usage on the battery and such. Phone will be charged to 100% when i go to bed and will have the battery pulled one more time right before i sleep and we'll see the idle time. Will be connected to BIS and 3G overnight with a 3 bar area. (full bars when i go to school)
Aswell i will be installing/upgrading my apps as you read this:
Twitter
Facebook
BB News
MSN
App World
BeeBuzz
shrunk it to 128mb in size. light use, lasted 24 hours with 25% battery left.
so this by FAR is the best on battery life ive seen. even better then the 7.1 leak.
so far so good.. nice to see battery life is improving...
Very bad battery life imo.
7:00 am 100% - 4pm 20%
Apps are all manual refresh rates.
WIFI signal locks on better but Radio signal a bit worse.
All comparisons are compared to .474 WIND Official
Going back to .474 i guess, i would usually have 50% at least.
Hopefully official 7.1 will have superior battery life.
Note: I did preform 5 battery pulls the night before and im sure it's been settled enough. Worst battery usage ever after a fresh OS install.
Hope this is good on some other Curves, just not me =(
My Battery life is improved. Earlier it would be at 30-40 % balance ( 9 am full charge and auto power off at 11.48 pm till 5.30 am), when the device powers on at 5.30 am in the morning next day.
I think this update has good battery life. I was out for 11hours y.day, took 8-10 pictures (with flash) listened to some music, the radio signal was going haywire since the cinema I was in couldn't find 2G and hardly any 3G (which can be battery draining) and as usual, BBM'n people throughout. By 11pm last night, it was at 8%
Anybody running the full stock rom getting better batterry life? I'll be removing some useless apps (like gtalk), but I don't want to find out the improvements are only if you chop out half of the os...
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Installed it last night, the install ran smoothly, off the charger this morning at 5:30am, a couple of BBM, 4-5 phone calls, 2 pictures with flash, on EDGE, 90%, not bad for 4 hours of use. Still no PIN messages, will keep updating as the day goes by.
My battery lasted for 6 hours with 16% left atm. I've stopped charging at 6pm and I wrote this post at 12mn-ish. I've done moderate-heavy surfing, FB, YM and reading emails. This is better than the .474 I've got which lasts 4 hours. Oh and I always use 3G.
Very bad battery life imo.
7:00 am 100% - 4pm 20%
Apps are all manual refresh rates.
WIFI signal locks on better but Radio signal a bit worse.
All comparisons are compared to .474 WIND Official
Going back to .474 i guess, i would usually have 50% at least.
Hopefully official 7.1 will have superior battery life.
Note: I did preform 5 battery pulls the night before and im sure it's been settled enough. Worst battery usage ever after a fresh OS install.
Hope this is good on some other Curves, just not me =(