This is a question to the masses of the Photon community. Just wondering if anyone is having bad laggy-ness with this device? The reason I ask is because I am coming from the epic touch because I need a world phone now and have watched the dog fight part 2 and seemed the phone they were using was laggy especially on the internet.
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Laggy yes. But not if you don't use the stock launcher. Download any other launcher and the phone should be fine. It does feel a tap Laggy neitherless. But it handles somehow gaming and media stuff in general better. And the reception is awesome unlike when I had the Samsung epic touch.
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Laggy yes. But not if you don't use the stock launcher. Download any other launcher and the phone should be fine. It does feel a tap Laggy neitherless. But it handles somehow gaming and media stuff in general better. And the reception is awesome unlike when I had the Samsung epic touch.
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Did you not like the epic touch?
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dante501 said:
Laggy yes. But not if you don't use the stock launcher. Download any other launcher and the phone should be fine. It does feel a tap Laggy neitherless. But it handles somehow gaming and media stuff in general better. And the reception is awesome unlike when I had the Samsung epic touch.
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I agree hole heartedly on this one , ditch motos and use something else and this phone is a bamf
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Mine runs Fast as Puck with Launcher Pro Plus.
and with the qHD screen I can easily configure Launcher pro to allow 5 rows of icons or widgets without looking crappy
Thanks for all the replies but how is the browser?
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Also does this device have an nfc chip?
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No NFC unfortunately. I use Dolphin Browser HD on this and seems very fast, the only slowdowns you may see would be in Sprint's 3G Network.
Well I did like the Epic Touch. Beautiful device fast light. But the bad reception and the loss of service issues where a pain and the slow data on it was a pain too and not being able to handle games and media as well sucked to. And the random error with sd cars mount were all a pain in the butt. The photon is great just sometimes Laggy. Specially when scrolling to pages and my battery is horrible. It drains it like hell even the 3500 mah battery is dead within 11 hours in slightly use wtf.
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Well I did like the Epic Touch. Beautiful device fast light. But the bad reception and the loss of service issues where a pain and the slow data on it was a pain too and not being able to handle games and media as well sucked to. And the random error with sd cars mount were all a pain in the butt. The photon is great just sometimes Laggy. Specially when scrolling to pages and my battery is horrible. It drains it like hell even the 3500 mah battery is dead within 11 hours in slightly use wtf.
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Sounds like you have something draining it. No way an extended battery won't last longer than 11 hours. My regular battery will do that with slight use no problem. The Photon has excellent battery life for an Android phone. Even my ogEVO could get a day & 1/2 with extended battery under heavy use and it was terrible with battery life.
Stock browser is just OK. So many better browsers on the Market. I have used them all and still go back to Miren for everyday usage.
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Sounds like you have something draining it. No way an extended battery won't last longer than 11 hours. My regular battery will do that with slight use no problem. The Photon has excellent battery life for an Android phone. Even my ogEVO could get a day & 1/2 with extended battery under heavy use and it was terrible with battery life.
Stock browser is just OK. So many better browsers on the Market. I have used them all and still go back to Miren for everyday usage.
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Agreed..maybe you need to recalibrate that battery?
+ 1 for Miren browser
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Did recalibration a few times. I also can't find anything draining the battery strange thing is that it gives me a lot of idle that says that it has in average like 80% of times no signal even though my coverage is great.
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Did recalibration a few times. I also can't find anything draining the battery strange thing is that it gives me a lot of idle that says that it has in average like 80% of times no signal even though my coverage is great.
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I've had the same thing happen where the battery drained extremely fast and showed majority of use as phone idle. Battery pull/reboot took care of it for me. If you can't get it to stop might have to do a factory reset. Either that your battery/device is defective.
Battery pull seemed to work so far. I even had it so bad happen today that the battery didn't get recognized and gave me no power reading. Now it works. Have to see how long. Thanks for your reply and idea and input. I appreciate it.
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I played with my bros stock photon today giving him some tricks and stock is still snappy but yes get blur off it. If you're an android user, its just nature to modify anyways so its no buggy. Solid radios in the phone, great construction. I'm impressed w them.
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So I've been struggling with battery life on this rezound since I purchased it. It does get hot every now and then sometimes for no reason. I was waiting for aosp to come along to determine if it was just sense or the phone itself but since its not fully operational and makes my rezound hot as hell, I've stuck with sense roms for my day to day. The following screen shots are venom Rom desensed by me, including no weather, or facebook. The only thing syncing manually is gmail. That's it. No gaming here either. Downloaded a 7mb song, listened to mp3s with headphones and cruised the web a bunch.
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That's about what I had using viperrez, although it seems your phone is discharging quickly when screen is off. I'd recommend under clocking when screen off to about 500mhz that works for me. Doesn't help with the screen on time though
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So I've been struggling with battery life on this rezound since I purchased it. It does get hot every now and then sometimes for no reason. I was waiting for aosp to come along to determine if it was just sense or the phone itself but since its not fully operational and makes my rezound hot as hell, I've stuck with sense roms for my day to day. The following screen shots are venom Rom desensed by me, including no weather, or facebook. The only thing syncing manually is gmail. That's it. No gaming here either. Downloaded a 7mb song, listened to mp3s with headphones and cruised the web a bunch.
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1.) sense 4 is a MAJOR battery hog. id advise not to use ut unless your showing off
2.) i usually get 2hrs screen on, so id say NOT defective
3.) if you want like an extra 30-60 mins, try aosp. its fast and good on battery
hope this helps
Thanks for the replies guys I appreciate it. I did forget to mention something though... This is with the extended battery I know 2 hours would be about right on standard but I would think the extended should yield more no?
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Thanks for the replies guys I appreciate it. I did forget to mention something though... This is with the extended battery I know 2 hours would be about right on standard but I would think the extended should yield more no?
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Most likely yes, isn't the extended battery 1.5x? Either way, battery consumption is hard to perfect. Like I said maybe underclock or find a battery saving build. Prop script to try I know system tuner pro has one built in.
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I thought we shouldn't underlock yet because of the perflock bug? Or did that get fixed?
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I thought we shouldn't underlock yet because of the perflock bug? Or did that get fixed?
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Some people experience overheating, I personally have never experienced negative effects from using a cpu governor
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I really want to get a evo but I'm worried about the battery life. I do 2 things on a smartphone:
-Listen to music
-browse the web
I do this non stop until the battery runs out. Can someone tell me what battery life/ screen time you get when doing this.
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I really want to get a evo but I'm worried about the battery life. I do 2 things on a smartphone:
-Listen to music
-browse the web
I do this non stop until the battery runs out. Can someone tell me what battery life/ screen time you get when doing this.
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Running 8 to 9 hours on mine....
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I really want to get a evo but I'm worried about the battery life. I do 2 things on a smartphone:
-Listen to music
-browse the web
I do this non stop until the battery runs out. Can someone tell me what battery life/ screen time you get when doing this.
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In my experience the battery life on the EVO LTE is great, but it varies more than other phones I've used, based on how I use it. graphics-intensive games and other apps that keep the screen on and run the processor at the same time use it the most. You can do plenty of web browsing provided you keep the screen brightness halfway down, I use the automatic setting and don't notice much battery drain when browsing, but if you turn the brightness to it's highest setting you'll definitely notice more battery drain. I love the 4.7" screen but there's no way a screen that big isn't going to draw a lot of power with the backlight turned up. As for streaming music, that's no problem. I've listened to pandora for hours at a time with the screen off and only seen single-digit drops in battery percentage.
bro i thought the same thing cause u cant remove the battery.. but let me tell u i get great battery life out this phone... i had the og evo and the evo 3d.. and now evo lte.. this phone kicks major a$$!!!!!!
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bro i thought the same thing cause u cant remove the battery.. but let me tell u i get great battery life out this phone... i had the og evo and the evo 3d.. and now evo lte.. this phone kicks major a$$!!!!!!
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^^^+1. What he said! I had my doubts about a non removable battery, but mine has been great so far. :thumbup:
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Battery life tops most cells I have ever owned.. LTE 4 g not as stable for some compared to other comparible cells but you didn't state that as requirement..
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I use mine heavily for many graphics and radio intensive applications, and routinely get 14 or more hours on a charge. GPS is the one thing that will drop me below that. My brother has a galaxy s3 and gets much less.
I use meanrom, overclocked.
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I for one think that the battery life sucks on this phone. But I only can compare to the phone i had before the droid x from verizon, I could go 24 hours on the droid x but on the evo I get around 16 on normal everyday usage. now suppose I came from the evo or evo 3d phones and had a phone with that drained the power off the phone then I would be saying this phones battery rocks.
but with that all being said 16 hours on a smart phone really is not that bad.
Obvious total noob here. I've read all the thunderbolt reference material here and have followed a couple of tutorials on how to root my thunderbolt, but I keep finding broken mirrors. I just keep finding dead ends. Can someone point me to a current root method for this device. My goal is to try the leaked ICS rom. Thanks.
The closest I got was with revolution.
It did see my device and I was on the last step but it seemed like my rom was not compatible. There was a nice video and followed all the steps.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1703455
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Thank you for the link. I had to use that with revolution to achieve root. I am on Liqiuid now and my god its like a new super awesome phone.
Thanks again.:good:
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Thank you for the link. I had to use that with revolution to achieve root. I am on Liqiuid now and my god its like a new super awesome phone.
Thanks again.:good:
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Yeah. Rooting and having ICS is quite nice. Lol.
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Welcome to the rooted club! I just joined this week myself.
I hadn't seen the all in one tool but I think I'll snag it. Revolutionary worked great for me. The only thing I had to do was temp root since I was running the .19 ROM. It was smooth sailing after that.
I'm running SkyRaider 1.3 now. I'll probably flash to ICS next month after playing with SR for a bit.
What has SR been like for you?
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So far I'm digging it. It's been considerably faster and seemingly more reliable than stock. The past two years have been hateful and I wish I would have rooted a long time ago.
I'm still trying to figure out what things have changed (like what new options I have and where to find some things) but it's been a fairly easy ride. I did have to flash twice to get it to work but now it seems to be solid.
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I just started using the thunderbolt and is this battery performance is terrible. I'm not going to make a full day at work. If you want to keep 4G on do you have to use a extended battery.
I am liking liquid Ics should I try another rom or is this just how LTE is
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Alright..... at 7am I was fully charged and now is about 1pm and now I'm at 14% so on the charger I go. Perhaps a bad battery? I bought this phone used
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Sounds like a battery. I typically charge overnight and I'm good from about 7-4. Then I charge on the 30 min drive home and I'm good until the nightly charge. I've never seen exceptional battery life even with JuiceDefender. Right now it's bad but not quite like yours. I was on a third-party battery, though. I just swapped to the HTC battery and I'll see how it is. I think I'm going to turn JD off as well to see how SkyRaider managers on its own.
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Alright..... at 7am I was fully charged and now is about 1pm and now I'm at 14% so on the charger I go. Perhaps a bad battery? I bought this phone used
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This was typical for me.
I recommend turning off 4G. It's not really useful anyways unless you're trying to download something. Calibrate the battery also. Turn down your screen brightness and backlight timing. Also adjust how often accounts sync. Slow your CPU speeds.
You should be set after that.
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Yeah, I only use 4G if I'm doing file transfers or tethering. I need to look at underclocking. How often do you sync? I have a number of accounts that I check every 15 min. I could probably increase that to 30.
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Yeah, I only use 4G if I'm doing file transfers or tethering. I need to look at underclocking. How often do you sync? I have a number of accounts that I check every 15 min. I could probably increase that to 30.
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I increase mine to 4 hours.
Some of these are apps you can change within the apps settings, such as Facebook. I usually sign on before it syncs anyways.
Definitely checks your social apps and change the update intervals. It's basically the same thing.
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I unplugged at 7:30 and it's almost 4pm now. On 3G with some forum browsing and regular email checking I'm at 38%. So if you were dropping to 14% I'd definitely try a new battery. This is with JuiceDefender disabled as well.
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I finally hit 14% 12 hours after disconnecting from the AC charger. I guess that's not too bad.
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I unplugged at 7:30 and it's almost 4pm now. On 3G with some forum browsing and regular email checking I'm at 38%. So if you were dropping to 14% I'd definitely try a new battery. This is with JuiceDefender disabled as well.
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I finally hit 14% 12 hours after disconnecting from the AC charger. I guess that's not too bad.
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I just bought a 1600 battery. We'll see how that goes.
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You need to realize the stock battery is only 1450. So very small for a 4g phone. I have found juice defender only made my wallet lighter. You might want to look in to an aosp ROM as it gives you better battery life. I personally disable auto sync and turn off GPS. Also while I am at work I disable data as SMS and MMS doesn't come over mobile data part. In the end some people carries more than one battery on them if they won't be in a place they can charge.
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Dark Jedi said:
You need to realize the stock battery is only 1450. So very small for a 4g phone. I have found juice defender only made my wallet lighter. You might want to look in to an aosp ROM as it gives you better battery life. I personally disable auto sync and turn off GPS. Also while I am at work I disable data as SMS and MMS doesn't come over mobile data part. In the end some people carries more than one battery on them if they won't be in a place they can charge.
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I'm on liquid ics so I'm good there. I will be swapping batteries once it comes in.
I used to swap batteries in my old blackberry days.
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Yea no matter what I do or what Rom I use this is the same results I get the only way I can get like 10-15 hrs is if I rarely use my phone and turn the data off lol so yea just thought I show y'all my battery results lol
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Download GSam to see whats draining the battery down. When I used my Amaze I constantly got a good 12hrs with 3hrs screen time. Once you figure it out youll need to kill whats draining it.
Btw. What rom are you using?
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Download GSam to see whats draining the battery down. When I used my Amaze I constantly got a good 12hrs with 3hrs screen time. Once you figure it out youll need to kill whats draining it.
Btw. What rom are you using?
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This guy used all the roms he could get his hands on, and all of them, according to him, had bad battery life.
He doesn't understand his amaze or his battery is faulty, and blames the Rom every time he has bad battery life. He needs to get an iphone or Windows Phone because I doubt he understands Android.
Ah.. didn't even notice who the op was..
I'm not blaming the roms I'm blaming my bad choice of a phone yes I'm blaming myself mainly
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The Amaze is a quality phone with decent but not great battery life you can easily get a day its probably your battery
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I'm not blaming the roms I'm blaming my bad choice of a phone yes I'm blaming myself mainly
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Then you need to get a new battery because you clearly have a faulty one. You are the only person on here with a 1 hour battery while everyone else gets 24 on light use.
For what it's worth, this phone seems to eat batteries. I've been through 3, and its not even my daily driver anymore. The processor gets extremely warm, and that in turn gets the battery warmed up too. You can find batteries fairly cheap on Amazon but be careful about which ones you buy.
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Yea no matter what I do or what Rom I use this is the same results I get the only way I can get like 10-15 hrs is if I rarely use my phone and turn the data off lol so yea just thought I show y'all my battery results lol
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These guys are a bit unfair with you but you dont help it by saying lol so much. If you get battery like that on fourth bar infusion as well then its definitely your battery. Its not just you with bad battery. Generally the amaze has decent but not good battery life.
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Yeah, you should expect battery life on par with a first generation LTE device. If you're going to play on it a lot I would advise a second battery and a charger to keep you going. That's what I had to do when it was my daily. A second battery went with me wherever I was going, no questions asked.
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Check this out. .and still have about another full 24hrs before it dies
I had pretty decent battery life when I had the Amaze. As everyone said, it's probably your battery.
I had battery issues as well with the amaze. Even tried the Anker battery with no luck. I've since switched to the HTC One S because of this and am much happier. Good luck with your phone
I'm glad to see someone saying something positive about the One S... I didn't have much good to say about mine the two weeks I had two separate handsets.
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Check this out. .and still have about another full 24hrs before it dies
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10 hour screen on? That's cray
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Filthygoat - haha its not from an Amaze. It's my Note 2 with a Zerolemon 9300mah battery.
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Filthygoat - haha its not from an Amaze. It's my Note 2 with a Zerolemon 9300mah battery.
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Oh no wonder. I wish we had zerolemon for our amaze
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I think it comes down to expectation. I was able to play Inotia 4 for about 6-8 hours in airplane mode while flying.
However, in my home area the signal strength is weak. If I have 4G on, I lose about half of my battery power in about an hour.
(The battery is about 1 year old by now.) I bought a new Anker battery from Amazon. Reportedly it works well with the Amaze.
I'll have to test it out. Though I think in my area the battery life is not going to be too great due to weak signal...
It is ironically much better when I'm traveling.
install greenify from playstore (ensure you have supersu and root first) and you will be fine. my year old dead battery became alive again. also you can use anker battery, combined with greenify the phone can last day and half or more.
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Check this out. .and still have about another full 24hrs before it dies
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Thats crazy.. But the amaze with constant use for me last about 2-3 hours..(just about NONSTOP use). Does seem to drain fast but for the most part theres always somewhere to charge it or your best bet is to just get a second battery like some people have stated. I Love the amaze, Have Energy rom and everything is GREAT for the most part.. battery does go fairly quick though... Not horrible at the same time. But im on my phone alot
Is it just me or does this phone completely suck. Dont get me wrong I love android and Samsung. But this phones battery is terrible o have to charge twice a day and as soon as I play any game it heats up and drains all the battery. And everything is slow and laggy. I know its an older phone but this is rediculous. I am running stock att jelly bean
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dannytt07 said:
Is it just me or does this phone completely suck. Dont get me wrong I love android and Samsung. But this phones battery is terrible o have to charge twice a day and as soon as I play any game it heats up and drains all the battery. And everything is slow and laggy. I know its an older phone but this is rediculous. I am running stock att jelly bean
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The phone is actually pretty good, especially for its age...
You really need to ditch the stock ROM and try something like Cooked. It will perform better AND have better battery life to boot. There will be nothing laggy about it
Also, keep in mind that playing games will drain the battery quickly on any phone regardless of the ROM.
dannytt07 said:
Is it just me or does this phone completely suck. Dont get me wrong I love android and Samsung. But this phones battery is terrible o have to charge twice a day and as soon as I play any game it heats up and drains all the battery. And everything is slow and laggy. I know its an older phone but this is rediculous. I am running stock att jelly bean
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This was the best/fastest phone in the history of the world 2 years ago. Jesus Christ. What does the world owe you.
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This.
And, a few people have even stated they still like their SII better than their SIII or SIV.
Check out this battery life. This is on SHOstock3 with lite usage.
I still don't get the fuss about battery life when there are removable batteries ...
Definitely not normal to not last a whole day unless that battery is old. Either case, get some new batteries.
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Don't like your phone? Send it to me. I will give you fifty bucs for it.
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This.
And, a few people have even stated they still like their SII better than their SIII or SIV.
Check out this battery life. This is on SHOstock3 with lite usage.
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Thats amazing but I doubt you are enjoying your phone to the fullest
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Thats amazing but I doubt you are enjoying your phone to the fullest
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True. This is very light use. No gaming. Not a lot of screen time even. But it illustrates that the kind of problem that you described is due to firmware, and not the phone. There is a thread in this forum titled Known identified battery drainers that can help you understand how to correct battery issues. Part of the problem can be the rom, or more specifically the kernel, but there are other possible issues to consider. You can configure your phone to get very good battery life, even with heavy usage.