Thread: battery better with PR 1.3
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shadowjk is offline shadowjk
2010-10-27 , 21:15
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Originally Posted by superchode View Post
at this exact moment, battery eye is showing 90%, which is in-line with the phone being off the charger for a few hours. however the status bar animation still shows 100% full.
It's better than typical Nokia. The typical nokia style is to show full bars minus 1 when battery reaches 50%.

This is probably a remnant of the distant past when everyone and their dog were quantifying battery life time in terms of "wow my phone still shows full bars after 5 days!".


this disconnect appears consistent throughout the battery level range (i ran the battery down to about 20% yesterday to test it). the status bar animation is consistently 15 to 20% higher than i'd expect, given my normal battery consumption on PR 1.2 and the results from battery eye.

so... battery life seems improved, but i'm having a very hard time quantifying it.
I've always said that the only way to quantify battery life is to run it until shutdown.