- My first couple of days with the Torch has pretty decent battery life. The past 2 days have been horrible. I did add a couple of apps (Google Maps and Fandango), and battery life tanked. I just rebooted (Battery Pull), and things look to be improving.
Does anyone have an idea of what the drain on the battery is for GPS aware applications? I will try to uninstall apps (or reconfigure) in a controlled manner to figure it out but just wondering if anyone else has already figured it out.
Also, what default apps do you usually delete?
so far I think it is a good piece of hardware with a lot of potential, but a few boneheaded decisions such as eliminating "column view" in browser, and the home screen layout make it hard to love. BTW - I upgraded from the Bold 9000 and the 8800 before that, and I can't even remember the model number of the one before that with the scroll wheel on the side.
Hopefully they value feedback from this user community...
Thanks,09-13-10 12:57 PMLike 0 - Did you make sure you closed the apps in the background and they are really not running anymore?
I have had pretty good battery life with the torch.
I charged my torch last night at about 7pm. Used it a little before going to bed. Didn't charge overnight and have just been streaming slacker radio for the last 4 hrs and I'm at 55 percent battery.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com09-13-10 01:07 PMLike 0 - Yea, I haven't had any battery issues. Mine last me 36-48 hours with pretty moderate usage. One weekend I almost didn't touch except for a BBM here or a phone call there, and I got just shy of 4 days out of. Much better than my 9000. You have to have something running in the background that you don't know about.09-13-10 02:59 PMLike 0
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- When I first got it the battery life seemed fine. The last couple of days it has been horrible. I do have a lot of stuff installed but nothing is really running. I have full 3G at work, we have an in-building antenna. Wifi and bluetooth are on as well as they normally are. When I go to the application switch the things that are present are; Home, Browser, Meebo, BBM, phone, messages, and dropbox. Apps I have installed; Trillian, bbweather, facebook, bolt, twitter, slacker, pandora, opera mini, cardstar, google maps, batteryex, flixster, meebo, yahoo messenger, google talk, aol instant messenger. File free is 302616788 bytes. I fully charged my battery last night and took it off the charger at 6:15am. I have been using very little to just check email and social feeds. It is now 10:28am and my battery is down to 65%. Any ideas?09-22-10 12:28 PMLike 0
- When I first got it the battery life seemed fine. The last couple of days it has been horrible. I do have a lot of stuff installed but nothing is really running. I have full 3G at work, we have an in-building antenna. Wifi and bluetooth are on as well as they normally are. When I go to the application switch the things that are present are; Home, Browser, Meebo, BBM, phone, messages, and dropbox. Apps I have installed; Trillian, bbweather, facebook, bolt, twitter, slacker, pandora, opera mini, cardstar, google maps, batteryex, flixster, meebo, yahoo messenger, google talk, aol instant messenger. File free is 302616788 bytes. I fully charged my battery last night and took it off the charger at 6:15am. I have been using very little to just check email and social feeds. It is now 10:28am and my battery is down to 65%. Any ideas?
I uninstalled social feeds altogether, only have Facebook installed and log in and out when I do use it. No other IM apps other than BBM, no GPS aware apps, basically the only thing I have running constantly other than the core apps is BerryWeather. Oh, and 6 e-mail accounts. I took mine off the charger around the same time you did, quite a few BBM messages and emails later now at 2:10 pm my battery is at 92%. I also have it set to 2G only, which can also make a BIG difference as far as battery life is concerned.09-22-10 01:09 PMLike 0
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