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[Q] Reboots/freezes caused by Bluetooth?

The hunt continues...
I wanted to take a quick poll to see if perhaps Bluetooth might be causing some of the reboots/freezes we've been experiencing?
If you do use bluetooth can you please reply with what profiles? i.e. Headset, A2DP (stereo), computer, other phones, etc. Also do you leave it on all the time or turn it on/off as needed.

I've never used bluetooth on my phone and still get reboots/freezes.

I don't understand why people would keep a non-working phone. Swap the thing out. Trust me, you will save yourself a ton of misery. Trying to fix a broken phone through patches and tricks is pointless. Swap it out!

jcbofkc said:
I don't understand why people would keep a non-working phone. Swap the thing out. Trust me, you will save yourself a ton of misery. Trying to fix a broken phone through patches and tricks is pointless. Swap it out!
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I agree if it was consistent. As I said, I was on a recent trip abroad and used my G2X extensively (same app/software load) and it ran flawlessly for 3 days straight. It only rebooted/froze when I was back home!!
I actually used it even more than normal on this trip including the following:
- Constant wifi calling and low signal wifi APs, jumping from Wifi AP to Wifi AP
- Take about 20 minutes total of 1080p videos
- Tons of pictures including different modes
- Lots of browsing, games, apps use
- Tons of texting
- Quite a bit of phone calls
It handled it perfectly - only thing I didn't turn on during this time was Bluetooth. While when I'm at home I use BT quite extensively.
The point is, if my phone rebooted every few hours or even every day no matter what, I'd swap it in a heartbeat but this inconsistency makes it seem it's a software bug and not so much a hardware bug.

jcbofkc said:
I don't understand why people would keep a non-working phone. Swap the thing out. Trust me, you will save yourself a ton of misery. Trying to fix a broken phone through patches and tricks is pointless. Swap it out!
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If it is trully software related, have you made a backup and tried other ROMs? Just a thought.

[Q]OLED is black like my skin...

And I'm the whitest person I know. Who the hell advertised any variation of the OLED technology to be completely black? I can put up an all black screen and go in a completely black room with no windows and I can see a slight grey-ish. I noticed this on my Zune HD like a month after I got it, as well. It's not too bad on my Infuse but it's easily noticed if you were in a very dark place, which I often am.
So who let someone decide that OLED, when turned to black, is actually off? Complete lie IMO.
And yes I've stayed on a black screen for like 20 minutes to let any of that residual charge go away that you sometimes see in monitors and lights after you turn them off, still grey.
This however, I am less concerned about: Why does my phone still use data on my AT&T data plan when I set packet data to off and turn wifi on? Not as big an issue but I just noticed I used 60MB of my 200MB plan in like 10 minutes which could be a problem if I forget it does that and start streaming music or something.

TheNetwork said:
And I'm the whitest person I know. Who the hell advertised any variation of the OLED technology to be completely black? I can put up an all black screen and go in a completely black room with no windows and I can see a slight grey-ish. I noticed this on my Zune HD like a month after I got it, as well. It's not too bad on my Infuse but it's easily noticed if you were in a very dark place, which I often am.
So who let someone decide that OLED, when turned to black, is actually off? Complete lie IMO.
And yes I've stayed on a black screen for like 20 minutes to let any of that residual charge go away that you sometimes see in monitors and lights after you turn them off, still grey.
This however, I am less concerned about: Why does my phone still use data on my AT&T data plan when I set packet data to off and turn wifi on? Not as big an issue but I just noticed I used 60MB of my 200MB plan in like 10 minutes which could be a problem if I forget it does that and start streaming music or something.
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Perhaps if you turn down the brightness (disable the auto brightness option first) you can see more pure black...
Too bad you don't have a Motorola Atrix to compare the blackness with though
If you did you would see a day and night difference in the two phones.

Yeah my friend has an atrix and I had a blackberry, I know LCD is worse but it shouldn't have ever been said that OLED is actually 100% black when it's black.
Any idea about the data thing though? I assume it's android or samsung's fault and not AT&T's.

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Yeah my friend has an atrix and I had a blackberry, I know LCD is worse but it shouldn't have ever been said that OLED is actually 100% black when it's black.
Any idea about the data thing though? I assume it's android or samsung's fault and not AT&T's.
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I am almost sure that if you have the packet data turned off that the phone will only use wifi... The phone may still count the kbytes used, but it does not go on your bill it is perhaps only for your information and if you have a 200K plan check and see if it used any of the 200K after you surf the web with wifi and packet data off.
Another way to be sure its really not using your data network is simply turn off the wifi completely and keep the packet data off too, try connecting to internet, it should not connect.. If it does not connect you can be sure that when wifi is on and packet data is off that you will not be using any of your 200K limit.. It should only connect to internet if you turn wifi on again or packet data. Just be sure that you remember to turn off the packet data if you do not want to use it.
I have had my Infuse now for close to 3 months and never got charged for DATA at all, I do not even have a DATA plan and I only use Wifi (I use wifi a lot!).

Hmmm.. odd. Now it's giving me another plan with 0MB used, but I used a ton of data on my 3g plan. What's a good way to use like 3MB so I can tell which one is my current plan?
When I check my account it has one that's like 57.2MB of 200MB (Deactivated)
but one is 0 of 200MB, but I know I've downloaded at least .1MB of apps just via "4"g. Probably more than 10. So I have no idea what's going on.

TheNetwork said:
Hmmm.. odd. Now it's giving me another plan with 0MB used, but I used a ton of data on my 3g plan. What's a good way to use like 3MB so I can tell which one is my current plan?
When I check my account it has one that's like 57.2MB of 200MB (Deactivated)
but one is 0 of 200MB, but I know I've downloaded at least .1MB of apps just via "4"g. Probably more than 10. So I have no idea what's going on.
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Just watch a couple of short YouTube videos .. That should do the trick.
Check data usage after that.

Neither of them changed... Not sure whether to call AT&T so they don't get mad that the meter hasn't been ticking, or abuse the hell out of it and download and stream everything in sight.
Also, does anyone know how to edit the dock at the bottom without a custom ROM or anything like that? The email thing is incredibly stupid since it already comes with GMail and it IS Google's os. Also I want my opera to be down there, **** uncompressed data.
Edit: oh my god.. if one more thing is wrong with this phone i'm taking it back, it freely removes whatever apps it feels like whenever it feels like it.

Jeez you've got a lot of small problems. As for the dock it is very easy. There are threads on here I know of that explain it step by step. I would explain but I'm at work and takes forever to try and say all of it on my phone.
Sent from my rooted infuse flashed with infused!

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Neither of them changed... Not sure whether to call AT&T so they don't get mad that the meter hasn't been ticking, or abuse the hell out of it and download and stream everything in sight.
Also, does anyone know how to edit the dock at the bottom without a custom ROM or anything like that? The email thing is incredibly stupid since it already comes with GMail and it IS Google's os. Also I want my opera to be down there, **** uncompressed data.
Edit: oh my god.. if one more thing is wrong with this phone i'm taking it back, it freely removes whatever apps it feels like whenever it feels like it.
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Go to the Applications screen, click your menu button, click view type, change it to customizable grid, then hit the menu button again and click edit, and then you can move whatever wherever you would like.
And for the apps disappearing, make sure they aren't on your external SD card under manage applications. If they are then move them to your phone.

P1 Wookie said:
Go to the Applications screen, click your menu button, click view type, change it to customizable grid, then hit the menu button again and click edit, and then you can move whatever wherever you would like.
And for the apps disappearing, make sure they aren't on your external SD card under manage applications. If they are then move them to your phone.
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Thanks, got opera and GMail down in the dock. And the apps were saved to my SD, and I had to unmount it to root it and I realized that after I had reinstalled them all lol.

noone says oled has true black, but in thory it could, it is a matter of drivers and controlers. im sure if they accomplish true blacks there would be anomilies as they switch pixels on and off without a lot of tweaking.
this screen is far better in black level than my plasma tv, im not complaining. if you put a standard lcd next to it you certainly see a difference.
im curious about the screens on the i9003 and i9023(lcd varients of the galaxy and nexus s) as well as the sony arc and lg optimus black. they are all supposed to have super high contrast, not sure if it will compare or not.

Dani897 said:
noone says oled has true black, but in thory it could, it is a matter of drivers and controlers. im sure if they accomplish true blacks there would be anomilies as they switch pixels on and off without a lot of tweaking.
this screen is far better in black level than my plasma tv, im not complaining. if you put a standard lcd next to it you certainly see a difference.
im curious about the screens on the i9003 and i9023(lcd varients of the galaxy and nexus s) as well as the sony arc and lg optimus black. they are all supposed to have super high contrast, not sure if it will compare or not.
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lolok, you can google "OLED black" and get about 4.5 trillion results that are all news articles saying something along the lines of "this new technology would produce no light when it's displaying black, as opposed to an LCD, which is always producing light while it is turned on."
But I can understand that it actually won't for a while, and probably never will.

dude give it up. you have the blackest blacks available and yoy complain that there is light there if you lock yourself in a darkroom.
this is far better than any tv panel and other manufacturers claim things much more laughable. look at a sony lcd with infinite dynamic contrast, the claim is obserd that it appears to have infinite contrast. just because some articles have a mis understanding of oled as it is implemented doesn't mean you were lied to. Samsung may say "blackest blacks" but nowhere does it say zero light emision on black pixels. get over your self you didn't notice anything significant and you can't even see the light on a black screen in moon light. for the sake of argument this screen gets black!

Cool story, troll.
To anyone else: this is probably really stupid but is there no way to set a custom general ringtone? I know you can set one for individual contacts, but that would take 10 hours and what about people that aren't in my contacts?

TheNetwork said:
Cool story, troll.
To anyone else: this is probably really stupid but is there no way to set a custom general ringtone? I know you can set one for individual contacts, but that would take 10 hours and what about people that aren't in my contacts?
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you have to add like a "media" folder on the sdcard and it shows up in the list or something i dont remember.

And with the last thing I'll ever find wrong with this phone, I return it. Data usage WILL NOT STOP going up, even though I have packet data off and am connected to wifi. I'd rather have a data-planless piece of **** that won't overcharge me $200 each month.

TheNetwork said:
And with the last thing I'll ever find wrong with this phone, I return it. Data usage WILL NOT STOP going up, even though I have packet data off and am connected to wifi. I'd rather have a data-planless piece of **** that won't overcharge me $200 each month.
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Have fun with your dumbphone. Good riddance.

gtg465x said:
Have fun with your dumbphone. Good riddance.
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Lol yeaaa buddy damn angry trolls getm gtg
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Troll harder, bro.

um... hi. is it supposed to get 10x worse in the first week of use? its worse than an LCD, easily noticed yellowish gray in a well lit room...
also. now my screen is clearly quite red on the bottom and blue on top.. time to take it back to att?

[Q] Where is our Extreme Power Saving update?

I feel Verizon is either severely slacking on the update, or they are waiting to bundle it with any improvements they may have. All other main carriers have officially gotten their extreme power save update. Sprint, ATT, heck even T-Mo that was last in line to get the M8 has now pushed the update. Anyone know what might be the hold up or an estimation on when we are going to receive this for Verizon? Thanks!

We'll see it when Qualcomm submits a patch to prevent firewater from working. Only then will Verizon care to give us a meaningful update.
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Div033 said:
We'll see it when Qualcomm submits a patch to prevent firewater from working. Only then will Verizon care to give us a meaningful update.
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Matters not. Patch and OTA all you want. We're already S-Off and our fabulous devs here will rip out anything meaningful and post it within hours.
Super big Thank You to all the devs that support this phone!

mikexda said:
Matters not. Patch and OTA all you want. We're already S-Off and our fabulous devs here will rip out anything meaningful and post it within hours.
Super big Thank You to all the devs that support this phone!
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Yeah, anyone who already ran S-Off is indeed safe. However they can effectively block new device users this way, and by golly they want to.
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Been wondering the same thing myself. Starting to get scared it'll never come.
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I definitely hate the fact that all the warnings are there but the options are not. wtf big red
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Isn't there already a working Extreme Power Saver mod available?
Also, from what I understand, EPS basically turns off everything and makes your M8 into a dumbphone...why would you want that? (And please let me know if I'm mistaken, that's just what I've heard it does, I've never seen it or installed it on my phone since I don't have battery issues.)

sfreemanoh said:
Isn't there already a working Extreme Power Saver mod available?
Also, from what I understand, EPS basically turns off everything and makes your M8 into a dumbphone...why would you want that? (And please let me know if I'm mistaken, that's just what I've heard it does, I've never seen it or installed it on my phone since I don't have battery issues.)
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If you leave for an overnight/weekend trip, forgot your charger/charger broke, etc. You could put it into that mode and still get calls/texts. Without that you basically have to shut it off or go airplane mode and check it without knowing if you missed something.

sparkerjc said:
If you leave for an overnight/weekend trip, forgot your charger/charger broke, etc. You could put it into that mode and still get calls/texts. Without that you basically have to shut it off or go airplane mode and check it without knowing if you missed something.
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Makes perfect sense. I've never found myself in that situation (at least not yet), but for people that do, I could see how it would be a useful feature.

sfreemanoh said:
Makes perfect sense. I've never found myself in that situation (at least not yet), but for people that do, I could see how it would be a useful feature.
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Yesterday I took an extensive road trip where I knew I would both be unable to use the phone (while driving) and be nowhere near a charger (although I have a spare external battery for real emergencies). I decided to throw the device into extreme powersave mode. Did not discern a significant advantage over "regular" power saver mode, but at nearly 17 hours off charger (with some calls and texting, a little wifi out of the mode and a little data) I was down to about 25%. That works for me.
Beamed from the holodeck of my Nexus 7 FHD.

hgoldner said:
Yesterday I took an extensive road trip where I knew I would both be unable to use the phone (while driving) and be nowhere near a charger (although I have a spare external battery for real emergencies). I decided to throw the device into extreme powersave mode. Did not discern a significant advantage over "regular" power saver mode, but at nearly 17 hours off charger (with some calls and texting, a little wifi out of the mode and a little data) I was down to about 25%. That works for me.
Beamed from the holodeck of my Nexus 7 FHD.
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Depending on how much you were on the phone, that's not bad...for regular power mode. I would have thought the power savings would be significantly better.

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Depending on how much you were on the phone, that's not bad...for regular power mode. I would have thought the power savings would be significantly better.
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I agree. In fact today I ran mostly on regular powersave mode and tonight I am at 70%. Frankly, I am starting to think that the extreme powersave mode as a mod is a placebo. Maybe something is missing.
My name's Harold and I'm a flashaholic....

hgoldner said:
I agree. In fact today I ran mostly on regular powersave mode and tonight I am at 70%. Frankly, I am starting to think that the extreme powersave mode as a mod is a placebo. Maybe something is missing.
My name's Harold and I'm a flashaholic....
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It's basically just an "extreme" variant of the power saving mode, IMO. Basically just makes it so you are in a mode that limits use. I am sure this is basically the same as just not really using the phone or just using phone + message + email (basically what EPM allows) and having data off and or have wifi shut off with screen.
I agree though, I am not sure if this truly gives the hours that HTC claims it does, but I would like to start doing or see someone who has the time to make some logs and see the real life numbers.

I don't have exact figures, but in Extreme Power Save mode my M8 on average uses about 1% per hour to two hours. It is different from regular power save in that all background data and apps are disabled as opposed to just turning off data while the screen is off, lowering max brightness, and basically under-clocking the phone. Normal Power Save mode makes a big difference over normal function as well but I don't have any numbers on that right now.

How to easily get the most from your phones battery life

some one said I should post this on a mainstream board, so it will help out others too, I am too lazy to edit the some things so please pretend that I am refering to JUST YOUR PHONE. This basically apply's to every ones phone. Even the iphone. so please ignore droid turbo and copy and paste your phone name. take everything with a grain of salt. I refuse to take any one seriously if you fail to see that you missed the point of my thread. here it comes (copy and paste lol desu).
So I pick up my Droid Trubo (only for the specs) and I noticed that Verizon is claiming that you can get a whole 48 hours off your phone with out having to charge your phone within those 48 hours. makes me giggle but the battery is a 3900mAh battery. Pretty sweet, but inevitably on day one release I have seen articles and posts of people claiming that they only get no less then 9-12 hours on there turbo before they have to charge..... (Not claiming I know all there is to phones) but I had a feeling that any one complaining about the battery on there phone probably (in fact i am 110% sure) that they have no idea what exactly takes up power usage on there phone. I charge my phone up to about 100 percent, I used it consistently watching you tube video's web browsing listening to music, all that jazz, you name it and I probably did it. After a whole 25 hours(in counting) my phone sat at a woping 67% battery charge. Verizon held up there part of the bargain and this is by no means them lieing to us. So I am going to start listing off on why your phone literally dies after only 5 hours.
1.Brightness: Thats rite folks, turning your brightness to the max is a very sexy way to speed up the process of killing your battery, I highly recommend that you simply set the brightness to automatic and you should be set. Brightness kills your battery, but this is not the only thing that you probably goofed in, lets read on.
1.Wallpaper: You know, I kinda don't consider this one to be much of a big deal, but it is true non the less(still kinda not that big of deal) but have LIVE wallpaper does consume much more power vs having just a normal wallpaper background.
3. Mother fu**ing gps/location : So I noticed that every one and there grandmother, turns on the GPS/location(well, more like you hit yes to turn it on and forgot about it sense) setting on there device for Google map, or maybe you want your friends to know where your making yourself look lost with selfie picks of Facebook or instagram. Now let me tell you having the gps setting to detect your location or use it on google maps KILLS YOUR BATTERY faster then you can say "How do i get to the control panel?". Generally on your average phone your looking at (if your lucky) a solid 4-6 hours before you have to charge your phone because you have this on all the time(and probably everything else I list aswell). The GPS tracking system is always on REGARDLESS if you are or not using google maps, facebook, instagram etc. I can imagine that with turbo you would only survive for a good 10 hours before you have to charge your phone again. Make sure you go into your phone setting and turn of gps location and only use it when you need it at that time.
Mobile and Wifi usage: Now, Of course this takes up power, but I always get a kick out of watching every one have there wifi AND there mobile data active at the same time. This is very effective for killing your phone sooner, rather then later. Dont get me wrong your phone is either going to use one or the other, but its still outputting power to keep a connection, VS having it actually turned off, and having it simply notify you that there is a connection available.
Now Maybe alot of you are like "this guy does not know what he's talking about I have this on all the time and I still only get 10 hours". If you are thinking this, I recommend you take the moment to stand up take 2 steps back and punch yourself in the stomach, when your able to breath come back and go through the steps in making sure that your phone does not have all these setting turn on at ones.
Ya, ultimately this is the bread and butter list that kills peoples battery's that I see all the time (dont play yourself, you know who you are) . So I guess I will go just a little more in-depth on how I get an easy 48 hours on the phone with no sweat.
Ultimately, when I am at my house, I keep my wifi data on, with my brightness set to auto. As far as Droids turbo goes, this will be easy peasy for your phone to get to the whole day, go ahead and watch some you-tube videos, hell take a bunch of pictures while your at it, (fun fact, your video recorder is pretty niffty for draining battery) I only turn my gps location on when I need to get from point A to Point B and always remember to turn it of after I am done using it.
I want to talk about 1 more technical thing before I Wrap this up, I notice that some people say "I checked my battery today and it says that this app took up 30% of my power! WTF? I disabled it and removed it). you guys mite want to pay better attention to the battery, for example, my phone lost about a good 5% after like 1-2 hours of you-tube or something, when I looked at the battery status rite from the get go, it told me that you tube took 70% of my power usage. but mind you, your phone is telling you it took up 70% of power in the 5% battery period. some people don't pay close attention to these details so when they go on there battery status at the end of the day they do back-flips for days on the fact that there app or (my favorite) screen took up so much power on there phones.
Ya my guide is not the best, just posting this out there to hopefully get this concept through to some people. I am just your average power user, with a nice phone, and a ton of trig homework to catch up on, feel free to ask me any question, I mite go and post this in the general/Q & A threads.
Just got done proof reading, If things are still terrible, I recommend you kill it with fire, and hyperventilate until your amazon prime order of frozen yogurt arrives at the back of your basement step.
UPDATE: Ok, just so I stop getting bombarded with these pointless reply's (who am I kidding some one is still gonna call me a dumbass am I rite?) this is what I expect for you guys to get out of this thread, I will use myself in this example).
ME : let's see so I turned off all my features on the phone (or for what ever reason some of you like to call it a dumb phone). Now everything is OFF.
- I am sitting down and I want to shoot a text or make a phone call to my friend. I do just that that and......OH SNAP! I don't need my mobile 4g lte to be turned on if all I am doing is sending/receiving text messages/phone calls. Sweet! BUT WAIT, I want to go on SPACE-BOOK AND want to know when people post comments on my selfies! Then I will simply keep my mobile data on 24/7(when I am at home switch to my wifi and turn off mobile) so I can retrieve those oh so important selfie updates! I know keeping mobile data on at all times will drain my batter faster then having it off, but for just posting comments on space-book, or doing web serfing that should be of no problem ESPECIALLY if you have the turbo. So flick the mobile data on if you want to know whats going on in your twitter or what have you. I don't twitter, space-book, instagram or any of that Personally, I only turn on mobile data when I need to web browse (I do heavy web browsing myself, but that wont be too much battery drain.). Thats just me. Pick your options and learn what takes up more power when you do it. Learn what you need to do to accomplish these goals through out the day because lets face it people, selfies make the world go round. I mean if you go to the gym and work out for 2 hours but did not take a selfie, then it does not count. every one know that! (to keep myself sain, you will notice I will constantly be mis pronouncing names and I will be using Selfies as a general term for "those people" that like to take pictures of everything. I have to point this out because some one will say "I dont just take selfies I take "insert stupid category here" with my phone! YES because I am sure what ever pictures you take is of that much different from selfies!")
2. Alrgiht! So I leave my mobile data on all the time go web serfing and I take selfies of myself looking lost in towns. No problem for the droid turbo! but you know what? I also want to watch a bunch of video's! whatching video's on your phone will of course drain the battery faster (stack that on with user number 1.) though it does take away more power from your phone its not that bad if the video is actually on your phone, what's that? you want to go to youtube and watch 720 or 1080p cat video's. Thats gonna cost more resources, your going to need your phone to output its data connection to start STREAMING 720 or 1080p cat video's! Thats pretty demanding for anyphone regardless. If you do it here and there through out the day, you will lose power faster, but if you stream 720p cat video's all day, then your turbo probably wont survive the 24 hour mark. (2 hours streaming cat videos and 2 girls one cup is not going to destroy your phone but it will require a nice chunk of your battery non the less).
3. HOLD ON NOW, I need people to know where I am at 24/7 so lets flick on that locations app! once again this will stack on to your demanding needs of power, 24/7 mobile data turn on with your 2 hours of streaming 720p cat video's and 2 girls 1 cup, with selfies (lets not forget your camera and video record do tend to take up power giving you those true HD pictures. Now you got your phone Twerking to constantly feed your location to your app. Then it costs even more power when you use it.
4. I also want max screen brightness and my Bluetooth (though bluetooth is not so bad, just depends how you use it) for my headphones....I also want to have high frequency mode turned on while im at it too so I can use gps!.....with a LIVE wallpaper!
Do you guys see where I am getting at with all this? you need to treat your phone like a car. you need to know what features take up how much power and how long you plan to keep them on. I am not telling you, to turn EVERYTHING OFF and boom 48 hours. I am telling you that your phone has a **** ton of power and its up to you to learn what apps and what features drain how much power and how fast and how long do you plann to use it? You may think its so small or it does not take that much power but the more you stack things on to your phone the more power its going to need. You need to think about it like if it was yourself. If I told you to walk for one mile you would totally (I hope) be fine doing it no sweat, but what If i told you to RUN for one mile your body is going to take way more energy to make you run at a descent pace vs walking. I really do hope (in my opinion) my fun explanation helps you guys understand the concept's of phone power usage. Over time if your like me and a few other power users I know, you will have absolutely no problems what so ever keeping your phone alive, because we piratically know when its going to die and when we will need to charge. comes with experience.
Final note: just remember, if you think this is stupid or all this is a waist of time, then I recommend punching yourself in the stomach and simply waiting for that amazon prime order of frozen yogurt to arrive at your door step. that's all I got to say, Im gonna go through and proof read this so it does not sound too dumb (i gotta get back to that trig homework). I need to emphasize though, if your gonna be naive and not see the point of my thread, just punch you self in the stomach and take a selfie saying you just got done working out, it works EVERY TIME, I promise!

How to get the most out of your phones battery, reas on!

ome one said I should post this on a mainstream board, so it will help out others too, I am too lazy to edit the some things so please pretend that I am refering to JUST YOUR PHONE. This basically apply's to every ones phone. Even the iphone. so please ignore droid turbo and copy and paste your phone name. take everything with a grain of salt. I refuse to take any one seriously if you fail to see that you missed the point of my thread. here it comes (copy and paste lol desu).
So I pick up my Droid Trubo (only for the specs) and I noticed that Verizon is claiming that you can get a whole 48 hours off your phone with out having to charge your phone within those 48 hours. makes me giggle but the battery is a 3900mAh battery. Pretty sweet, but inevitably on day one release I have seen articles and posts of people claiming that they only get no less then 9-12 hours on there turbo before they have to charge..... (Not claiming I know all there is to phones) but I had a feeling that any one complaining about the battery on there phone probably (in fact i am 110% sure) that they have no idea what exactly takes up power usage on there phone. I charge my phone up to about 100 percent, I used it consistently watching you tube video's web browsing listening to music, all that jazz, you name it and I probably did it. After a whole 25 hours(in counting) my phone sat at a woping 67% battery charge. Verizon held up there part of the bargain and this is by no means them lieing to us. So I am going to start listing off on why your phone literally dies after only 5 hours.
1.Brightness: Thats rite folks, turning your brightness to the max is a very sexy way to speed up the process of killing your battery, I highly recommend that you simply set the brightness to automatic and you should be set. Brightness kills your battery, but this is not the only thing that you probably goofed in, lets read on.
1.Wallpaper: You know, I kinda don't consider this one to be much of a big deal, but it is true non the less(still kinda not that big of deal) but have LIVE wallpaper does consume much more power vs having just a normal wallpaper background.
3. Mother fu**ing gps/location : So I noticed that every one and there grandmother, turns on the GPS/location(well, more like you hit yes to turn it on and forgot about it sense) setting on there device for Google map, or maybe you want your friends to know where your making yourself look lost with selfie picks of Facebook or instagram. Now let me tell you having the gps setting to detect your location or use it on google maps KILLS YOUR BATTERY faster then you can say "How do i get to the control panel?". Generally on your average phone your looking at (if your lucky) a solid 4-6 hours before you have to charge your phone because you have this on all the time(and probably everything else I list aswell). The GPS tracking system is always on REGARDLESS if you are or not using google maps, facebook, instagram etc. I can imagine that with turbo you would only survive for a good 10 hours before you have to charge your phone again. Make sure you go into your phone setting and turn of gps location and only use it when you need it at that time.
Mobile and Wifi usage: Now, Of course this takes up power, but I always get a kick out of watching every one have there wifi AND there mobile data active at the same time. This is very effective for killing your phone sooner, rather then later. Dont get me wrong your phone is either going to use one or the other, but its still outputting power to keep a connection, VS having it actually turned off, and having it simply notify you that there is a connection available.
Now Maybe alot of you are like "this guy does not know what he's talking about I have this on all the time and I still only get 10 hours". If you are thinking this, I recommend you take the moment to stand up take 2 steps back and punch yourself in the stomach, when your able to breath come back and go through the steps in making sure that your phone does not have all these setting turn on at ones.
Ya, ultimately this is the bread and butter list that kills peoples battery's that I see all the time (dont play yourself, you know who you are) . So I guess I will go just a little more in-depth on how I get an easy 48 hours on the phone with no sweat.
Ultimately, when I am at my house, I keep my wifi data on, with my brightness set to auto. As far as Droids turbo goes, this will be easy peasy for your phone to get to the whole day, go ahead and watch some you-tube videos, hell take a bunch of pictures while your at it, (fun fact, your video recorder is pretty niffty for draining battery) I only turn my gps location on when I need to get from point A to Point B and always remember to turn it of after I am done using it.
I want to talk about 1 more technical thing before I Wrap this up, I notice that some people say "I checked my battery today and it says that this app took up 30% of my power! WTF? I disabled it and removed it). you guys mite want to pay better attention to the battery, for example, my phone lost about a good 5% after like 1-2 hours of you-tube or something, when I looked at the battery status rite from the get go, it told me that you tube took 70% of my power usage. but mind you, your phone is telling you it took up 70% of power in the 5% battery period. some people don't pay close attention to these details so when they go on there battery status at the end of the day they do back-flips for days on the fact that there app or (my favorite) screen took up so much power on there phones.
Ya my guide is not the best, just posting this out there to hopefully get this concept through to some people. I am just your average power user, with a nice phone, and a ton of trig homework to catch up on, feel free to ask me any question, I mite go and post this in the general/Q & A threads.
Just got done proof reading, If things are still terrible, I recommend you kill it with fire, and hyperventilate until your amazon prime order of frozen yogurt arrives at the back of your basement step.
UPDATE: Ok, just so I stop getting bombarded with these pointless reply's (who am I kidding some one is still gonna call me a dumbass am I rite?) this is what I expect for you guys to get out of this thread, I will use myself in this example).
ME : let's see so I turned off all my features on the phone (or for what ever reason some of you like to call it a dumb phone). Now everything is OFF.
- I am sitting down and I want to shoot a text or make a phone call to my friend. I do just that that and......OH SNAP! I don't need my mobile 4g lte to be turned on if all I am doing is sending/receiving text messages/phone calls. Sweet! BUT WAIT, I want to go on SPACE-BOOK AND want to know when people post comments on my selfies! Then I will simply keep my mobile data on 24/7(when I am at home switch to my wifi and turn off mobile) so I can retrieve those oh so important selfie updates! I know keeping mobile data on at all times will drain my batter faster then having it off, but for just posting comments on space-book, or doing web serfing that should be of no problem ESPECIALLY if you have the turbo. So flick the mobile data on if you want to know whats going on in your twitter or what have you. I don't twitter, space-book, instagram or any of that Personally, I only turn on mobile data when I need to web browse (I do heavy web browsing myself, but that wont be too much battery drain.). Thats just me. Pick your options and learn what takes up more power when you do it. Learn what you need to do to accomplish these goals through out the day because lets face it people, selfies make the world go round. I mean if you go to the gym and work out for 2 hours but did not take a selfie, then it does not count. every one know that! (to keep myself sain, you will notice I will constantly be mis pronouncing names and I will be using Selfies as a general term for "those people" that like to take pictures of everything. I have to point this out because some one will say "I dont just take selfies I take "insert stupid category here" with my phone! YES because I am sure what ever pictures you take is of that much different from selfies!")
2. Alrgiht! So I leave my mobile data on all the time go web serfing and I take selfies of myself looking lost in towns. No problem for the droid turbo! but you know what? I also want to watch a bunch of video's! whatching video's on your phone will of course drain the battery faster (stack that on with user number 1.) though it does take away more power from your phone its not that bad if the video is actually on your phone, what's that? you want to go to youtube and watch 720 or 1080p cat video's. Thats gonna cost more resources, your going to need your phone to output its data connection to start STREAMING 720 or 1080p cat video's! Thats pretty demanding for anyphone regardless. If you do it here and there through out the day, you will lose power faster, but if you stream 720p cat video's all day, then your turbo probably wont survive the 24 hour mark. (2 hours streaming cat videos and 2 girls one cup is not going to destroy your phone but it will require a nice chunk of your battery non the less).
3. HOLD ON NOW, I need people to know where I am at 24/7 so lets flick on that locations app! once again this will stack on to your demanding needs of power, 24/7 mobile data turn on with your 2 hours of streaming 720p cat video's and 2 girls 1 cup, with selfies (lets not forget your camera and video record do tend to take up power giving you those true HD pictures. Now you got your phone Twerking to constantly feed your location to your app. Then it costs even more power when you use it.
4. I also want max screen brightness and my Bluetooth (though bluetooth is not so bad, just depends how you use it) for my headphones....I also want to have high frequency mode turned on while im at it too so I can use gps!.....with a LIVE wallpaper!
Do you guys see where I am getting at with all this? you need to treat your phone like a car. you need to know what features take up how much power and how long you plan to keep them on. I am not telling you, to turn EVERYTHING OFF and boom 48 hours. I am telling you that your phone has a **** ton of power and its up to you to learn what apps and what features drain how much power and how fast and how long do you plann to use it? You may think its so small or it does not take that much power but the more you stack things on to your phone the more power its going to need. You need to think about it like if it was yourself. If I told you to walk for one mile you would totally (I hope) be fine doing it no sweat, but what If i told you to RUN for one mile your body is going to take way more energy to make you run at a descent pace vs walking. I really do hope (in my opinion) my fun explanation helps you guys understand the concept's of phone power usage. Over time if your like me and a few other power users I know, you will have absolutely no problems what so ever keeping your phone alive, because we piratically know when its going to die and when we will need to charge. comes with experience.
Final note: just remember, if you think this is stupid or all this is a waist of time, then I recommend punching yourself in the stomach and simply waiting for that amazon prime order of frozen yogurt to arrive at your door step. that's all I got to say, Im gonna go through and proof read this so it does not sound too dumb (i gotta get back to that trig homework). I need to emphasize though, if your gonna be naive and not see the point of my thread, just punch you self in the stomach and take a selfie saying you just got done working out, it works EVERY TIME, I promise!

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