With low usage, mine will stay alive for 2 days. But its a smart phone. No true smart phone will last longer. (I'm not talking BlackBerry) But if you are using Wifi, huge displays, games, and large resolutions, there is no way to keep it alive for THAT long. IPhones and Pres have the same issue.
Yeah, I admit if I use heavily, my battery wont last all day. But if you put a Cyanogen ROM on your phone and keep Advanced Task Manager on your phone, you can use it pretty heavy and still get all day ++ out of it.
@noodles2k Welcome to smartphones. The iPhone is the same, and the Pre can't even make it through 2/3rds of a day without tons of disabling and monitoring and work on the users end.
@noodles2k Yup. I've been a smartphone user for years, and a day is all I could ever ask for. My nexus one gets me from when I wake up, till when i go to bed. Then it goes on the charger. Easy enough. If I am gonna be out longer than a day, it just charges over USB anyway so I always have a cable with me. MicroUSB cables are ~$1.20 at MonoPrice, so just buy a bunch and keep them around you if you need more battery life!
@noodles2k the only phone I've ever owned that lasted all day was my blackberry 8900 and i used that thing way more than my iPhone and HD2... i could multitask on my 8900all day no problem
You only need one for when an app actually is hanging, killing apps off won't make your phone run any better.
Want to see for yourself? Download something like SystemPanelApp (anything that shows you the free memory, this particular app has very nice GUI).
Available free memory on my Droid is always about 38 MB. Even if I kill all apps, it will momentarily show more, and then it will fill it up again.
Actually, Cyanogenmod with SetCPU scaling your CPU clock speed (not even overclocking, just scaling on demand or conservatively on demand) and with a low voltage kernel will probably help you squeeze extra juice out.
I know all about how the Android management system works.
However, as I mentioned before, there are times when you actually do need one. Not for performance reasons, but because the app is hanging. Most of the time you get a prompt to force close it but not always.
I'll give you an example. Alice is an app that looks up concerts using artists on your SD card and/or your Last.fm profile. During the sync, it checks two different databases (one is last.fm, I don't remember the other). You can see the progress in the notification area.
For some reason, sometimes it hangs. There's no way to stop the attempt at syncing within the program and backing out of the program won't stop it. So it's just stuck. This is one of the situations where you actually need a 3rd party task killer. It's not Android's fault, it's the app's fault.
@noodles2k Good thing about Android phones is that you can replace the battery. You can prolong your battery life 1.5 to 2 times by using an extended battery.
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a day? seriously, is that all?
@noodles2k
With low usage, mine will stay alive for 2 days. But its a smart phone. No true smart phone will last longer. (I'm not talking BlackBerry) But if you are using Wifi, huge displays, games, and large resolutions, there is no way to keep it alive for THAT long. IPhones and Pres have the same issue.
@noodles2k I can't keep my phone running all day but I did notice that the removal of some widgets greatly improved my batteries performance.
But I am also a heavy user so my phone gets run pretty heavily all day long. For the most part my screen takes up the majority of my battery.
@djt
Yeah, I admit if I use heavily, my battery wont last all day.
But if you put a Cyanogen ROM on your phone and keep Advanced Task Manager on your phone, you can use it pretty heavy and still get all day ++ out of it.
@noodles2k Welcome to smartphones. The iPhone is the same, and the Pre can't even make it through 2/3rds of a day without tons of disabling and monitoring and work on the users end.
@noodles2k
Yup.
I've been a smartphone user for years, and a day is all I could ever ask for.
My nexus one gets me from when I wake up, till when i go to bed. Then it goes on the charger. Easy enough. If I am gonna be out longer than a day, it just charges over USB anyway so I always have a cable with me.
MicroUSB cables are ~$1.20 at MonoPrice, so just buy a bunch and keep them around you if you need more battery life!
@noodles2k the only phone I've ever owned that lasted all day was my blackberry 8900 and i used that thing way more than my iPhone and HD2... i could multitask on my 8900all day no problem
@corylulu NO! You don't need a task killer on Android!
@Nickedynick
You only need one for when an app actually is hanging, killing apps off won't make your phone run any better.
Want to see for yourself? Download something like SystemPanelApp (anything that shows you the free memory, this particular app has very nice GUI).
Available free memory on my Droid is always about 38 MB. Even if I kill all apps, it will momentarily show more, and then it will fill it up again.
Actually, Cyanogenmod with SetCPU scaling your CPU clock speed (not even overclocking, just scaling on demand or conservatively on demand) and with a low voltage kernel will probably help you squeeze extra juice out.
@beatsandmelody Android has one built-in, no need for a 3rd party one.
@jonshipman
I know all about how the Android management system works.
However, as I mentioned before, there are times when you actually do need one. Not for performance reasons, but because the app is hanging. Most of the time you get a prompt to force close it but not always.
I'll give you an example. Alice is an app that looks up concerts using artists on your SD card and/or your Last.fm profile. During the sync, it checks two different databases (one is last.fm, I don't remember the other). You can see the progress in the notification area.
For some reason, sometimes it hangs. There's no way to stop the attempt at syncing within the program and backing out of the program won't stop it. So it's just stuck. This is one of the situations where you actually need a 3rd party task killer. It's not Android's fault, it's the app's fault.
@noodles2k
If your battery lasts less than a day, you blew it.
@noodles2k
Good thing about Android phones is that you can replace the battery. You can prolong your battery life 1.5 to 2 times by using an extended battery.