Battery life, bugs
Jan. 18th, 2011 08:27 pmFollowing advice given in response to my last post, I changed the wireless sleep policy on the phone to "Never". Combined with Locale being configured to completely disable 3G data and enable WiFi when at home, battery use has gone way down. This even with the GPS overhead of running Locale.
Today has been very quiet -- no calls in or out -- and it's used ~15% of the battery. In the past it would've used more like 30-40% with the same load.
The next big test (tomorrow) will be to see how badly Skype kills the battery. At 3-10% of the call cost and some old Skype credit still on the account, it seems worth trying it out for the work conference calls. The test call service wasn't noticeably any worse than a typical overseas call, so here's hoping.
Only one complaint about Oxygen 2.0RC6/Gingerbread so far: there's a bug which causes a runtime crash followed by boot loop. This is apparently also in the AOSP 2.3.1 upstream.
Otherwise, Oxygen has been pretty nice. I've been running it for about a week now and it hasn't exhibited any of the annoying behaviour re: Exchange that I'd seen with the HTC and CyanogenMod 2.1 and 2.2 ROMs. Hopefully this means that whatever was causing the problem is fixed in 2.3 more generally.
Today has been very quiet -- no calls in or out -- and it's used ~15% of the battery. In the past it would've used more like 30-40% with the same load.
The next big test (tomorrow) will be to see how badly Skype kills the battery. At 3-10% of the call cost and some old Skype credit still on the account, it seems worth trying it out for the work conference calls. The test call service wasn't noticeably any worse than a typical overseas call, so here's hoping.
Only one complaint about Oxygen 2.0RC6/Gingerbread so far: there's a bug which causes a runtime crash followed by boot loop. This is apparently also in the AOSP 2.3.1 upstream.
Otherwise, Oxygen has been pretty nice. I've been running it for about a week now and it hasn't exhibited any of the annoying behaviour re: Exchange that I'd seen with the HTC and CyanogenMod 2.1 and 2.2 ROMs. Hopefully this means that whatever was causing the problem is fixed in 2.3 more generally.