[Defy General] bandu89:
I just purchased a Defy, on Vodafone, my first android phone. After noticing a few of my friends' phones, I soon realised I was well up for it, and after stumbling upon a website that compares specs, price, allsorts of things, decided the Defy was a nice entry point to the ever expanding world of android.

As soon as I got it, I plugged it straight in and hustled about for how to get Froyo on it, I'd seen it running and played about with it a couple of times and for some reason Eclair seems a bit of a lemon to me. Lucky enough, not long ago the official 2.2 was released for UK Defy.

And that is what I am still running now, after installing cyanogenmod 5 on my mate's G1 (thrown right in at the deep end there, especially when 6 runs so huffy) and doing a few other daft jobs like frankensteining two old Sony Ericsson C902's to sell as one, I've found myself with not a lot of time spare with the internet and a data cable. However, I have had a bit of a fiddle, including root, ADW launcher, overclocking to 1ghz @ 50mv and a nice selection of lovely apps and gadgets.

After a few days though I noticed that when you muck around with your phone all the time your battery takes a hammering. I took a bit of a gamble here and purchased a 2430mAh battery off ebay for like 13 quid or something. Yeah, cheap chinese goods. While I was at it I picked up a 16gb sd card, class 10 apparently for another £12 (I don't know whether to believe the class 10, I could never remember what app I used to rumble the '32gb' micro sd I got for cheap last year - turned out to be a 2gb. That's ebay...), both came two days later and i fitted them.

Now, at first, I thought the battery was a full on con, it lasted no longer than my stock one before it was telling me i had 1% charge, and I duly slomp over to the charger (I'm using circle battery widget, is this known for its accuracy?). But then I started noticing that my battery was running down to 1% round about half three, four o' clock, and it was staying at 1% until i got home at 5. Then I forgot to charge it overnight and it was knocking on 1% at mid day, so I put it into ultra power saving mode (not an actual mode, obvious face) and, weird, it was still chugging along by 5.

Something very fishy indeed, I thought, though not for the worst...

2 o' clock today, it was saying 1%. I didn't care, Friday afternoons mean sit about in the yard and check out sickipedia and ebay for an hour or two so I kept on using it - full brightness for the sun (hot today wasn't it?), wifi on and browsing internet while skipping back and forth to youtube, sent and received the odd text too...

By 4 o' clock I had mentioned it to the fellas at work and it was starting to become a bit of a novelty. I did think as well, that I'd maybe not yet fully decharged the battery (what with rushing to the charger at the slightest hint of 1%, 'cos let's face it, that ****'s scary to look at when you got 5 browser windows open and you can't work out how to check your history after a reboot), and maybe it would be a good idea to discharge that, to reset the battery meter to my new battery.

So I left the brightness all the way up and intermittently until ten o' clock, surfed the web, played some games, fiddled with ethereal dialpad and generally gave it a bit of nuisance. By ten o' clock, I was really getting sick - this was about eight hours since it had first told me it only had indeed 1% of battery life left - so I started going nuts. I opened the market and just kept scrolling down the top free list, loading the content off my wifi (and downloading a few, but man I just hate ads..), plugged my hifi into it and played the only album I have at top 'media volume' (in connected music player, although I want something sleeker. Blacker. Quicker), got another 3 or 4 tabs up in browser, turned off all the low battery measures in setvsel, and rocked out a few minutes of the latest QI on iplayer. And this carried on for hours, At around twelve I decided to get the flashlight on too but after a while you realise you're having no fun (I haven't found a standalone flash light for the defy so I have been using video recorder mode and that's a chew on).

And finally, at 20 past 1, it died. But it was what happened during the power down that had me amazed...

You know those circuit bent gameboys and chiptune machines that create all sorts of 8 and 16 bit glitches and woops, this little beast started doing that - about half as loud as the music it pushed out of the way, and lasting for the whole blurry, dim shut down screen.

I don't know if this happens often, or if it was because I was halfway through downloading Cars and Guns (still didn't run that fresh on this) and a few other tasks, but it sounded awesome, I half thought it would bust out into a filthy beat.

I'm gonna charge this crazy fiend up and when it eventually does run out again, I'm gonna try and catch that effect and record it.

Has anyone else noticed this before or was it just a one-time glitch? I'd love to hear it mixed into some dirty beats (the breakdown in the android orchestra)

And hell, what a device, all my 'with it' buds show me their iPhones and how they can 'change their themes' and 'shoot in hdr' and 'turn it on its side, see?'

I laugh in their direction and stroke my Defy.