Gamaze

My tablet experiences have been completely spoiled by the excellent battery life of the Apple iPad. It usually lasts for a week without recharging with normal use. That can not be said about the otherwise great Galaxy Tab by Samsung. In practice, during my first week as an owner I had to pretty much charge it every night. Of course I used it more but it was still limited to 2-3 hours a day. Having some experience in maximizing battery life on Android gadgets I’ve tried quite a few ways of increasing the stamina and Ive now gone almost 24hrs with over 70% battery left. That is as much as twice as much I usually have at this time a night. Huge improvement! Here is what I did.
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It is easy to say that I’m a very satisfied owner of the HTC Hero since a couple of weeks. Overall, the smart phone is great and having the ability to run apps and processes in background gives it a clear edge over the iPhone. On the other hand, there are several areas where the Apple experience is just so much smoother. Without going into details I hope the rumoured couple of Android updates still this year will help ease these early misses.

Regardless,there is one thing a smart phone just has to offer and that is getting through a full day or 2 without having to recharge the battery. This is an area where the HTC Hero is struggling a bit. I often end up having to give it some more juice during the afternoon or early evening with the default factory settings. That is fine for a laptop but not acceptable for a smart phone.

To solve this I’ve been fiddling with the settings quite a while to maximize the battery life and below is a short summary of how I’ve managed to get through a heavy usage day without having to recharge the phone. One of the not so secret ingredients to a long battery life is to minimize active network connections – that is also where I focus my tweaking effort below.

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