December 19, 2012

Phone battery

I was wrong about this phone. Right now the battery shows 49% and says it's been 4 days, 21 hours since I last charged it. That's truly excellent.

Of course, it's a 2000 ma/h battery, and the ones in the phones I worked on were usually 600. But it's still quite excellent. I'm going to run it most of the way down before I charge it again. It's good for lithium batteries to do that when they're first new.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Daily Life at 10:42 AM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
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1 The kind and number of apps you're running causes large variations in battery life. So much so that apps exist that diagnose the problem (most are just wrappers around APIs that Google borrowed from Arjav van de Ven's PowerTop). Just to many it more interesting, blame sometimes comes to junk that cellular carriers pre-install on handsets.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at December 19, 2012 03:52 PM (RqRa5)

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Actually, there's a frame in my phone that shows where all the power is being used. I turned off Wifi, and I think that made all the difference.

Also, I haven't been using it much as a phone.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at December 19, 2012 03:58 PM (+rSRq)

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I'm going to run it most of the way down before I charge it again.

Do you mean until it shuts down itself or right before it does (like at 10%). I try to figure out the best practice for battery life.

Posted by: Jaked at December 19, 2012 11:07 PM (YqYGj)

4 Something like that. The exact number isn't critical.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at December 19, 2012 11:33 PM (+rSRq)

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