ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco

AntiRip wrote: »

I have this a few weeks now. Still love it, really good phone. The battery is ok but on WIFI it is simply diabolical sorry. I can charge it to 100% at night before bed and surf for awhile. It will loss 40% no bother within 20 minutes!!

Anyone else experience this type of battery drain on wifi?

If the battery wasn't this bad it would be the perfect phone, but tbh I had thoughts of throwing it on adverts since getting it because of the battery but I really don't want to

Hi, I'm having the same trouble .I have been losing 40 percent while I sleep even with airplane mode on.I've tried the app Set Cpu but it hasn't made the radical difference I'd hoped for.I found manually setting No Frills Cpu to 245 max and 122 min and switching to"power save"governor when I'm not using the phone has worked most effectively.Its annoying having to turn the settings back up and to "on demand "when Iwant to use it though.

Yesterday I tried a tip for recalibrating the battery that people on modaco seem to be finding great.It's here

http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blade-blade-modaco-com/323487/battery-recalibration-protip/

The last two steps are more clearly explained in a post further down the first page of the thread.It hasn't helped me as much as some but it's worth a try.Report back if it helps and I'll try it again myself if it does.

AntiRip wrote: »

Just finished doing this and the difference is unreal.
On wifi now for 25mins and down to 97%

Thanks

Oh thats fantastic! I'll try it again myself so, just in case. I found my battery marginally improved but nothing major. However most people found it really helped by the looks of things.

AntiRip wrote: »

@_Whimsical_

Charged since 11pm last night and did about 45mins surfing last night. Had a few calls today and a good few texts. Also some surfing. Still at 48%.

Have you done it yet yourself?

Wow that is good going! I haven't gotten time to do it yet but I will try it again at the weekend and report back.

In the meantime I've turned off background data (settings>accounts and sync) and it seems to have improved my battery life a lot. For example I've gone from losing 40% charge overnight while the phone was on airplane mode and idle to losing just 1% last night in the time that I slept. I also had it clocked on powersave gov at 245max.

It's not ideal really in that some apps wont work while it's off but it's fine to do while you sleep or while you're not using wifi as far as I can see. It seems to effect apps that rely on refresh like the news app, tv guide app, and gmail, although it lets you refresh that manually if you want.It's fine to leave it off for browsing. It's worth a try for anyone with major battery drain anyway.

Holy sh1t. I had to have a go of it too, and so far it's looking sweet! The aesthetics alone are a seller!

The tweening animations are awesome. Looked at the guy's profile on MoDaCo though, he's 17. Not to be TOO ageist, but I hope he didn't royally fu*k up only for us to regret this move later. :P

PogMoThoin wrote: »

Most of the best tech heads are young. I've a Galaxy S myself, Darkys rom is the software I use on that, the guy is 18. GeoHot is 21, he jailbroke the iphone in 2008 and then cracked the PS3 encryption last year and got taken to court by Sony, hence the hactivists are flat out attacking Sony.

I smell cheap labor and development "sweatshops" for exploitation opportunities. :P

shadowninty wrote: »

HCDR Jacob, maintainer of CyanogenMod for the Blade, is 16
Only a few months older than me. Jealous

His Twitter says he's 17. Still though, CM is going to be good, one day. It's not quite there, yet!

shadowninty wrote: »

He was 16 in March anyway

CM is good, just a few Bluetooth bugs ATM, concensus is that its near as stable as SS
I've been using it nigh on four months, and it has progressed SO MUCH.
Jacob and TomG are heroes

I really cannot wait for it. I don't want to try it again until 7.1 is released though. My last try was 7.0. Is 7.0.3 doing much better?

donmeister wrote: »

Just threw on Portuguese Spring B3 there coming from Swedish Spring RlS4. The theme and animations are awesome. So so quick aswell. Loving the power control widget in the notification bar. I would definitely recommend this ROM from anyone still on Swedish.

I think it's based on RLS5, the latest Swedish Spring. The Power widget is brilliant and the Gingerbread power control in the notifications area is a sweet addition too!

donmeister wrote: »

The Chinese Portuguese, great bunch of lads!

Nós amamos o Irlanda!

Lads how do I stop the 3g from coming on on its own?
I have a button for the wifi on my home screen

Swedish Spring RLS5 is what a I currently have