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Started by Tsutarja August 10th, 2013 5:25 AM
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Buoysel

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Seen August 4th, 2015
Posted April 12th, 2015
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One thing I do know, though, is having more apps never hurts when it comes to smartphone platforms.
It hurts your battery life. (Maybe that's why my Windows Phone has such awesome battery life?)
I really need a new signature.

Legendary Silke

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Seen December 23rd, 2021
Posted April 22nd, 2020
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Yeah, I use greenify root on my Android phone to keep apps under control. It hibernates apps that like to sit on all the time (e.g. Facebook).
The strange thing about this is that, well, shouldn't Android OS do all that by itself? Misbehaving applications?

Legendary Silke

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Seen December 23rd, 2021
Posted April 22nd, 2020
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Its not designed to misbehave, I just prefer it not running all the time.
Well, one thing everyone should know is that there's no need to worry about apps behaving oddly these days.

Both my parents' Android smartphones are loaded with apps and are used as actual smartphones (mostly phone calls, some texting, some Internet browsing, and some Facebook time, with a game or two in between), and even these phones manage to have 70% or more of the battery capacity remaining at the end of the day, despite Wi-Fi and GPS being turned on for the entire day.

Not worrying about apps running amok rings even more true in the world of Windows Phone and iOS, as multitasking is rather... strict.

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In other news, my laptop's battery has 27.5% capacity loss. Ouch! Time to bring it to a Toshiba service centre and get a replacement battery. You know it's bad news when your system is throwing up battery life warnings.

Tsutarja

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Ever since I've had KitKat installed onto my tablet, it's heated up more easily and it's taken down more battery.. but I'm not sure if I should blame one of my apps or if it's something in the software that causes the battery to lower faster and consume more CPU.

Tsutarja

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Has it been updated to 4.4.2 yet? Google pushed out some fixes.
Yeah, it's on KOT49H (4.4.2) now. Though I didn't get notified on the update, but rather had to flash it. Hopefully when I flashed 4.4 onto the device it didn't cause automatic update notifications to fail :<

Legendary Silke

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Seen December 23rd, 2021
Posted April 22nd, 2020
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Yeah, it's on KOT49H (4.4.2) now. Though I didn't get notified on the update, but rather had to flash it. Hopefully when I flashed 4.4 onto the device it didn't cause automatic update notifications to fail :<
Official or unofficial firmware?

Tsutarja

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Official or unofficial firmware?
Definitely original firmware. I probably won't root my tablet until the warranty expires on it.
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Yeah, it's on KOT49H (4.4.2) now. Though I didn't get notified on the update, but rather had to flash it. Hopefully when I flashed 4.4 onto the device it didn't cause automatic update notifications to fail :<
They prolly made it more of a background procedure than before.

Morkula

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Posted March 4th, 2018
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The battery in my old laptop just randomly died. If it came unplugged, it would just immediately turn off. At that point I was pretty much fed up with it since I'd had to send it off several times in the three years or so that I'd owned it, and I just decided to buy a new laptop. Now this one cost a third of what I paid for the other one and hasn't given me a minute's trouble since I got it (a year and a half ago).

Tsutarja

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Usually when I run on my laptop, I try to discharge the battery often to make sure it still works.

Meganium

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Posted February 1st, 2023
My last laptop that I had, had a 2-2.5 hour battery life and honestly that wasn't enough for me lmao. I'm planning on getting a small laptop next month, and that's one thing I'll be looking at.

My tablet has hoooorrible battery life. 1 hour per use? Yuck.

Buoysel

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My last laptop that I had, had a 2-2.5 hour battery life and honestly that wasn't enough for me lmao. I'm planning on getting a small laptop next month, and that's one thing I'll be looking at.

My tablet has hoooorrible battery life. 1 hour per use? Yuck.
I got a Surface RT and I love it. I was surprised by it. this thing is way more useful than I tough it was going to be. The battery life is really good too. I highly recommend getting one and using it for a couple of days. If you don't like it you can always take it back. Who knows, maybe it will surprise you too.
I really need a new signature.
Seen November 21st, 2014
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I got a Surface RT and I love it. I was surprised by it. this thing is way more useful than I tough it was going to be. The battery life is really good too. I highly recommend getting one and using it for a couple of days. If you don't like it you can always take it back. Who knows, maybe it will surprise you too.
Agreed -- Surface tablets are amazing machines. My brother got me into them and now I want one haha... but I still love my Nexus 7. The Surface tablet would prolly replace a laptop ;P
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My tablet is pretty good at holding a charge. I haven't used it in a while, but it was decent every time I used it. Which is a good thing, since my cat chewed the charger's cord and I can't leave it out all the time.

Right now, I'm annoyed at my desktop. It came preinstalled with Windows 8, and if I knew that that operating system would be holding me back, I would have waited to get a computer without it preinstalled. I can't play the games I want, and now I have to download different drivers in order to install my printer/scanner. Fortunately, in a few months' time, I'm getting rid of this computer and going back to my old one, which will give me more and better options.

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