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Maybe I share with you my storm2 routine? Not so much of configs actually since the settings are pretty standard.
At home, I will turn on wifi and use the storm2 till battery almost flat till about 3% battery. I notice the phone will auto shut down some apps or functions at this point to save battery!!! e.g. I have the stormslider screen lock. It will auto terminate and unable to launch when my battery is really in an almost empty mode. Amazingly, when I plug in the power for charging, it will be able to launch again. Is that a stormslider feature? or storm2 feature? I would think is storm2 because I noted some things really shut down to conserve energy? Or insufficent battery to run? wahahaha I have meterberry btw to snooze at 5% which i usually ignore the snooze and let it continue to drain and I will usually charge my battery overnight from there.
Storm2 9550
GSM mode
List of 24x7 apps
1. Msn
2. IM+
3. Meterberry
4. BeWeather
5. BuzzMe
Pushmail box
1 x Gmail
4 x Hotmail
How to conserve battery and improve performance?
1. Network Technology set GSM/UMTS instead of Global to prevent network searching
2. Network Mode I set 3G&2G, if your telco only 2G then set 2G to prevent network searching
3. Turn off wifi
4. Turn off bluetooth
5. Theme use default
6. Backlight brightness to 10
7. Blacklight timeout to 1minute
8. Auto Dim backlight to On
9. LED coverage indicator to Off
10. Vibration off
11. Turn off any apps that startup at boot by using bb Apps switcher to identify apps and close properly. e.g. Doc2goFiles
12. Alway close apps when not in use by using bb Apps switcher
13. Media play in stop mode, I try not to let them in pause mode
14. GPS off
Left shortcut key
Stormslider
Right shortcut key
BB Application Switcher
Application memory left
<56MB
List of apps installed last update refer to thread date. All media files stored in sdcard
Purchased apps
1. Meterberry
2. Doc2go Premium
3. iBerry theme (IMHO, I hate the theme and never use it again. Brought it since its number 1 in apps store to try out and showed it to my iphone friends and they are speechless.)
A Storm2 before/after work
Multi-tasking mode for 1 hour - I will launch the following apps at same time.
How? E.g. BB browser loading CB, I will use bb apps switcher to home and launch Engaget and switch again to another apps and again almost everytime to save time while they loading.
1. Engaget
2. BB browser surfing
3. ChNewsAsia
4. Media player for music or video
5. Facebook
Storm2 at adhoc
Other apps I will use when there's a need.
e.g. google map, bb map, camera and video etc.
Storm2 at work
1. Msn
2. BBM
3. Music player
4. BB browser surfing
When to charge storm2 at work?
When the battery indicator turn red/amber, charge using USB
Storm2 at home
Turn on Wifi, use till 3% and charge using wall adapter till next morning.
Storm2 maintenance
Self perform reboot once a week and its a must to reboot upon each application installation. Backup my phone every month is a must. Please treat your storm2 the same way you treat a normal windows pc. The OS is the base and will not have problem. Its what you installed causes problems. Not all apps are design and tested intensively for storm2. Most are develop for keypad phone first then storm2.
Storm2 update
Only use DM to ensure problem free. I don't use hybrids, I don't download updates from other telco. I simply connect my phone to the DM and it auto update and push whatever is supposed to be for my phone.
Storm2 protection
1. Otterbox commuter = No battery pull since day 1 otter is on
2. Clarivue anti-glare = No finger print and smooth but slight decrease in screen clarity and touch. Still can live with it.
Storm2 history
1. Bought off ebay, 2nd hand phone.
2. Dropped 4 times? cracked the digitizer
3. Bought a replacement screen and replaced the crack screen by myself
4. Dropped 3 time with otterbox with no damage
Storm2 battery life
Range from 12hours to days, it really depend what you run.
Storm2 get organise
My bb browser, beWeather, clock, bb maps, options, meterberry, contacts and calender are in the home folder.
As for the rest of the apps or icons, I categorized them and I like to see all my folders at a glance when i hit the bb menu.
1. Instant messaging > All messages, emails, social apps such as facebook, bbm, msn all in that folder
2. Media > All music, pictures, videos, photo editing apps, youtube, radio and recorder in that folder
3. Applications > All 3rd party apps in the folder
4. Productivity & tools > All doc/xls/pdf/ppt, calculator, task etc and financial tools in that folder
5. Games > All games
6. Download > CB superstore and Appworld
7. Setup > All the bb default setup apps and 3rd party apps for use for configurations. e.g. quickpull, stormslider, buzzme etc
8. Recycle bin > Anything I can't delete and don't want to see i move to the hidden folder.
Screen and keyboard
I uses full keyboard with show key indicator always. Tap is 400, hover period is 100, swipe sensitivity is 6. I tried changing the settings but I don't find a big difference so I am still using default. For the cut and paste function, I realised that its much easier to move the selection indicator using my index finger than using thumb.
I cannot ask more from my storm2 since it meet my daily needs and everyday whenever i explore the phone and found new things, i learn from it and understand the phone better. e.g. I tried changing the permission for all my applications and test if it will screw up my phone. Verdict = yes, although some permission is not required actually. There's some cool simple features as and when you will figure out and find it useful. e.g. if you need to catch someone online in msn, you can place his/her contact as icon or even set the msn to alert you when the contact came online. Sometime when you download an apps it doesn't display properly you need to set the compatibility mode.
There is so much more to talk about. I can only share with you the basic. I guess when you hit a problem or issue, thats when this forum come handy and people will give some nice advice. I am still learning from people from the forum and always have interesting findings.Last edited by titusilvering; 07-20-10 at 01:43 PM.
07-20-10 11:47 AM - It has taken it a few months. But now my Storm2 is finally behaving as I would like it to.
With .741 I have absolutely no issues, and the stock theme just keeps getting better (i know; baby steps... but it is simply (IMO) superior to anything You can design in Theme Builder/Composer)
My brother has an A..... and my wife an I..... Those are cool phones as well but when I�m playing around with them I can�t help wonder: Where do I find that, Can�t it event do that and so on......... But they sure look nice.
One thing alone like data usage... I mean the BB in any form is just so far ahead of anything else at getting the job done with as few kb as possible. And talking about getting the job done... Handling messages, appointments is just much faster with a BB, maybee not as pretty, but that is the point.. It does not need to be in order to get it done.
The browser is cool... Now I bet that statement woke You up..... My point is. It is what it is; A mobile browser not a "surfboard". Find the right mobile sites and spice it up with few apps and you will have a quick overview of anything from news, weather, tv-guide and social networking a split second. I tried both Opera and Bolt, but for the sites I am normally visiting with my phone, they where just to slow to use.. Also I just discovered the "cursor mode" in the browser, which gives you a mouse pointer half a inch from your finger so You can see what you are hitting... Very cool.
Notificatons are breathtaking. You design those to almost any sisutation and there are even apps to expand the possibillities.
So, do I like my Phone... You bet, almost as much as I liked my 9700 which I traded in for this one. The gap was huge in the beginning and I instantly wanted my 9700 back, but now the gap is getting smaller day by day...
OS6 or not OS6. I�m a believer, regardless the rumors of it not reaching the Storm2, but I cannot see how RIM can afford not to make (some kind of) OS6 for all the 256MB devices.. I mean all 128MB devices got OS5, plus the new Pearl is a 256 is well... (But it is just all speculation on my part)
So I still believe we will have it at some point. Not as "Grand" as the version they willl throw on the Storm3, but even on that story there is good news to the Storm2 world
The device body is supposedly the same as we have now, so one less reason to crave the S3 as soon as it hits the streets.
Sounds perfect, does�nt it? So here comes the almost part...
Sure Press. It is a brilliant to implement click on a touchscreen, really unique. But it still need fine tuning, either it is too hard or too sluggish and it seems to be affected by heat/cold as well. On the upside here though, it seems that it is getting a little bit better on each new OS, so maybe they will have nailed it on OS6
Another small thing I miss, but I know can�t be achieved on a touch screen, is keyboard shortcuts, that really made the Bold so brilliant. But I hope it will be solved in the future with some better shortcut buttons than the existing ones....07-22-10 05:46 PM
