Thread: Make Your Battery Last Longer
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stlpaul is offline stlpaul
2010-04-30 , 23:02
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#31
Originally Posted by nokiaman View Post
1ST

- Let you battery run DEAD on it's own.
- Charge it up till the phone says it's fully charged.
- Now here's were you need patience. after it's fully charged, plug it up AGAIN. IF it still says fully charged than your good to go. On mine it said fully charged but when I pluged again it continued to charge for almost 2 hours!
Bad idea, I think. See my previous reply. Also, Li-Ion batteries charge extremely slowly when they are nearly full (something like 98% slower than when empty), so your extra 2 hours of charging might be accomplishing almost nothing anyway.

Originally Posted by nokiaman View Post
2ND

Go to settings,
internet connection,
click on CONNECTIONS TAB,
now edit your WIFI connection,
click next,
click next again,
next again,
now click on ADVANCE TAB,
now click OTHER,
on wi-fi transmission choose 10 mW.
on POWER SAVING choose MAXIMUM.
no click on SAVE.
The Maximum power saving is safe to use, but it will negatively affect your wifi speeds and connection stability. (and before PR1.1 it was absolutely unusable on this setting)

The good news is that you can set this on a per-connection basis.

For example, on my work WiFi AP i have power saving set to "Maximum" because speed is not important there. At home, I set it to "intermediate" because I download updates and do streaming and other things that are really terrible when the phone is on maximum power saving more.

I would not recommend setting power saving to "Off". It seems to have no better performance than "intermediate" and uses a LOT more battery.

10mW is not beneficial IMO. Leave it on 100mW and enjoy a better WiFi experience.