[312]

Hey guys...I keep reading threads about battery life sucking and I just wanted to throw a post up with info on my phone. Initially after installing every OS, my battery life has been HORRIBLE. I'm talking in the neighborhood of discharging 10%-15% an hour. Since I've installed .141, I've been playing around with the settings of some of my apps, as well as the devices. I'm happy to say, under light to medium use, I'm now only discharging 1%-2% an hour. I don't know if it is actually because of all the tweaking or just good luck, but I don't have good luck, so I have to guess it's because of the tweaks. Below are all my installed apps and some of my settings I thought were key to achieving this great of battery life.

Hopefully this will help some of you out...

123 Spoof - Never Use
ActiveApps - Use rarely
AP Mobile News - Use Daily
Bank of America Mobile - Use rarely
Battery Booster - Never have used on .141
BBLight - Don't even remember what this app is
BBmem - Beta Testing
BeejiveIM - Just installed new beta, haven't had much time to tinker with it
BerryBuzz - Haven't even configured on .141 yet
Blackberry App World - Use rarely
Blackberry Application Center - Used for the 1st time today
Blackberry Maps - Use rarely
Blackberry Messenger - Use daily
Bloomberg - Use daily
Brickbreaker - Use rarely
CallsBlocker - Never use
CBLauncher - Use rarely
Classifieds - Just installed, doesn't even work
CNBC - Use daily
Glass Theme (found it somewhere on here) - Obviously use daily
Documents to Go - Use rarely
Easy Button - Used once in my life
Facebook - Use Daily
FlyCast - Use once or twice a week
FX Converter - Use rarely
Google Maps - Use rarely
Google Sync - Haven't used on .141
GyPSii - ??? What is this?
Instango - Used to use daily, switching to BeeJive
iStockManager - Use rarely (wish eTrade woke the **** up)
level - I think I used this one time
LightSaber - Should probably be installed, 'cause this app was cool the 1st day I installed and that's about it
logMaid - Never used on .141
Memopad - Never used
MeterBerry - Use Daily
MissingLight - no idea what this even is
MyVerizon - Used only a couple of times
NewYorkTimesMobile - Use occasionally
NYTDealBookMobile - Use occasionally
PaderSyncFTP - Use occasionally
PatternLock - DAILY (best app ever)
Poynt - Use rarely
Qik - Use rarely
QuickPull - use occasionally
RepliGo Reader - Never used on .141
SaveNumberAs - Beta, use occasionally
Shazam - Use rarely
SignalLoc - Use rarely
SmrtGuard - Use rarely
Speed Test - Use rarely
SpeedOmeter - Use rarely
StockQuote - Use rarely
StormSketch - Use rarely
Tasks - Never even used
TheStreet.com - Use Occasionally
Tiltris - Used once
TinyTwitter - Use occasionally
Visible Vote Mobile - Just installed, haven't played with it much
vlingo - Use rarely
WeatherBug - READ BELOW
Word Mole - Never used on .141
WorldMaterLive - Never used on .141
YouMail - Use daily
YouTube - Used to use occasionally until it stopped working...heard it works now?

Weather Bug
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I think this is the key to bad battery life. First, make sure you give this a location. I don't use My Location. Every time you restart your phone for, I think you have to go into the app and update the weather. I *think* if you don't it will just drain the battery. I keep this app on my home screen (Glass theme shows 6 icons on the home screen) and I noticed that when I restart, WB doesn't automatically update. I am willing to bet that this drains the battery, like when it's looking for a location.

Locate on startup - Yes
Update interval - 1 Hour

GPS Settings
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-Device GPS
-Location On
-Enabled

Mobile Network Settings
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-On
-Automatic
-1XEV

Screen/Keyboard Settings
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Backlight Brightness - 50
Backlight Timeout - 10 sec
Automatic Dim Backlight - On
LED Coverage Indicator - Off

PatternLock
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[Autolock]
Startup - Yes
Afterbacklight turns off - After 1 Min
[Backlight]
Timoutwhen locked - 5 Sec
Timout when unlocked 45 Sec
Immediately turn off when lock enables - Yes

Like I said, hopefully this helps some of you. If I missed some settings that you might have a question about, let me know.

[unseenme]

Do you seriously have all of those apps on your phone?? I have like 3!! Screw the battery life...I wanna know how much memory you have?!?

...or don't have

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[312]

I have 19MBs of app memory available. What's the point of having it if you don't use it? My phone runs smooth as I can hope for.

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[nyr88]

I have 19MBs of app memory available. What's the point of having it if you don't use it? My phone runs smooth as I can hope for.

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Good response!

[hawkshockey92]

i have a quick question, sorry im kind of new to all of this but if you do not have internet bought out on your BB but have wifi, will your wireless provider (mine is Tmobile) charge you for downloading apps

[312]

i have a quick question, sorry im kind of new to all of this but if you do not have internet bought out on your BB but have wifi, will your wireless provider (mine is Tmobile) charge you for downloading apps

Not really sure how this fits in with the topic, but...

I would assume they wouldn't even know about it because it's being downloaded through whatever ISP your WiFi is connected through.

[CXXXV]

All he uses the phone for is Facebook. No wonder it has long battery life.

[312]

All he uses the phone for is Facebook. No wonder it has long battery life.

You forget this is still a PHONE, with functions like PHONE, and text messaging, and believe it or not- it has web browsing capabilities too. Apps aren't the only things usable on this phone.

[CXXXV]

If actually used the PHONE then you battery life will suck.....

[312]

If actually used the PHONE then you battery life will suck.....

If you say so, pal.

[theswami#CB]

If you say so, pal.

Actually, calls murder my battery life. I have not looked at the stated anount of talk time but there is no way I get more than 2 hours talk time from a full charge. I was on a conference call for 1 hour and 10 minutes using bluetooth and my battery drained at least 75%.

[312]

Actually, calls murder my battery life. I have not looked at the stated anount of talk time but there is no way I get more than 2 hours talk time from a full charge. I was on a conference call for 1 hour and 10 minutes using bluetooth and my battery drained at least 75%.

I don't use Bluetooth, of course that's going to drain your battery.

[CXXXV]

If you say so, pal.

I do. Read other posts....

[maserati13]

I have 21 apps and memory is pretty stable. No isue of battery drain when using the phone. Bluetooth does eat up my battery, I use Motorola S9-HD headset when i'm at the gym and when I am done, so is my battery. I do notice that some days are different then others, one day battery does great and others it seem to go quickly. Not much difference in the use not sure why that is. Today it's been off the charger since 7:00am and it's now 12:20pm, still have 4 bars. I have made phone calls, webb, media player (movies and music) weather bug and Hockey news. I guess I dont know sure what I did but mine seems to do pretty good...

[advsr11]

Why would I need to read other posts about battery life when I have personal experience on my own phone. I don't really care what others experience since I don't know the multitude of factors that influence their phone's battery life.

[312]

Why would I need to read other posts about battery life when I have personal experience on my own phone. I don't really care what others experience since I don't know the multitude of factors that influence their phone's battery life.

Came here to post the exact same response.

[maserati13]

Just conversation dude, you don't have to join in...

[312]

Just conversation dude, you don't have to join in...

Relax, he was not quoting YOU. He was quoting this guy:

I do. Read other posts....

[maserati13]

Oh, sorry...