Le_Petit_Lapin | # 21 | 2009-12-21, 16:08 | Report

I turned off all my homescreens apart from one as Hildon-Desktop was using about 6-7% CPU constantly, with them off its now at 0.3%.

Lacedaemon | # 22 | 2009-12-21, 16:25 | Report

Do you see the irony?
Disabling features of a device like widgets is ofcourse going to improve battery life.
There is no sudden improvement here, like your topic title claims.

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les_garten | # 23 | 2009-12-21, 16:29 | Report

Hmmm, I turn wifi on and off all the time, and this does not happen to me. There must be another variable in here.

REMFwhoopitydo | # 24 | 2009-12-21, 16:42 | Report

never noticed a difference, whether i was connected to the wifi all day long, or before i had ever connected at all.

regardless, what i described previosly was the performance as it stood then, whereas right now my battery is still at ~95% after eight hours connected to the work wifi.

something is different.

bocaJ | # 25 | 2009-12-21, 19:00 | Report

Does anyone have very good battery life while maintaining an internet connection over just cellular data (no wifi)? My guess is that cellular data is very inefficient compared to wifi, so if you just connect to wifi at work, you're fine, but that cell data runs things down quickly.

My second guess is that I've got a weak/otherwise weird cellular data connection in my office, and that runs down the battery.

Doing some testing today - we shall see!

les_garten | # 26 | 2009-12-21, 19:06 | Report

My Battery gets nailed if I am using DATA of either type. I am on ATT Edge. My battery does great if I shut off BT, WiFi, and 2.5G when I am not using it. You really don't need it on all the time. The connection is only a few keystrokes and takes very little time to establish.

I think some of the batt improvements are coming from battery "break-in". Asw well as being more frugal with batt chewing appz.

bocaJ | # 27 | 2009-12-21, 19:13 | Report

I really do feel like I need some sort of data always on for services, particularly given my usage: I don't have an SMS plan, so I rely on chat services, particularly gTalk for short, discrete messaging.

les_garten | # 28 | 2009-12-21, 19:32 | Report

Your usage patterns are defintely different than mine then. Battery management will be an issue than. I don't see any way to have real time, constant on DATA and not pay the price of the power, it takes bidirectional radios to do that.

Perhaps when we get Di lithium crystals? I never saw Capt. Kirk charge up his communicator!

neo | # 29 | 2009-12-21, 19:49 | Report

I can confirm this battery improvement. It happened about 2 weeks after first charging. I dont have to close my facebook applet anymore . Battery lasts at least 1,5 days. My phone is on 3g network all the time.

Only thing what I have done is I disabled calendar widget. But it was about week before battery improvement.

gives me one line what was without info last time i checked:

Is it just fortune but that line was missing value last time I checked (before my battery got boost)

Edit: More info: I havent have touch search installed.

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bocaJ | # 30 | 2009-12-21, 19:58 | Report

Are you generally connected to a wi-fi network, or are you getting that with data always on + 3G only? If the latter, that is very heartening.