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[Captivate General] magicdanw:
The widget I'm using is called Brightness Level. It's a 1x1 widget that opens a small popup with a few preset buttons and a slider. Other widgets may work as well, or even better. To be honest, if I'm in a dark place, the screen at the new 0% brightness is still brighter than I'm used to! :P I seriously wouldn't mind at all a way to bring the brightness even lower. Maybe once my summer internship's over and I get a chance to start developing for this beauty I'll look into this...

By the way, does anyone know a good way to conserve battery life overnight? I like using my phone as an alarm clock, but it'd be great if there was an app that automatically turned off everything nonessential (particularly WiFi/3G connectivity) for certain periods of time.
[Captivate General] Croak:
Locale, Settings Profile, Juice Defender will all let you set schedules and turn off services based on location and time.

As for getting the screen dimmer, there's a bottom limit on how much juice you can feed an OLED before you run into refresh/drawing issues, which is probably why the Galaxy S bottom limit is set where it is.

The big thing is to try to avoid white when you can, when an AMOLED screen is mostly white it's drawing MORE power than an LCD would. Tough to avoid though, since most of the web is white, as is Gmail, etc.
[Captivate General] magicdanw:
Ah, I just found Locale since posing, it's a pretty neat app! And I'm aware of the black being low-power, I guess it's useful then that all the system menus and lots of apps have black backgrounds.
[Captivate General] zj4x4:
I'm having very poor battery life despite trying every logical suggestion out there. I posted details in the AT&T forum:

forums.wireless.att.com/t5/Samsung/Captivate-Battery-Life/td-p/1992724

If you have a moment post your details as well so we can get a good amount of hard data in one place.
[Captivate General] Kaik541:
I plug in my phone between 12 AM and 1 AM, I unplug it fully charged between 7 and 8 AM. I run Launcher Pro with Fancy Widget, Twitter, Facebook, GMail, and the "Nexus" live wallpaper with the 3D app drawer and the "improved scrolling" features on.

During the day, I typically play about 10-20 minutes of psx4droid, 5-10 minutes of Gameboid Lite, browse youtube for a song or two, SMS text (about 240+ a day), place a few calls, post to facebook or twitter once or twice a day, and check my e-mail.

The display accounts for about 55-60% of my battery consumption, but by the end of the day, I'm hanging out at about 4-7%. I disable GPS during the day, and have wifi off when I'm not in a connected area (I'm in an area with wifi about 70% of the day).

I consider this very good battery life considering I'm doing quite a bit. The one thing that does seem to absolutely kill my battery though is GPS navigation through Google Navigation. 2 hours of navigation saw it drop from 75% to 33% (not really shocking, but hey, that's what car chargers are for).
[Captivate General] Smallsmx3:
I can't complain to much. It was bad at first but seems to be a little better. I have had had many smart phones and this eats the battery more than any other I have owned. From 3pm to 3am with moderate use I went from 100% to about 25. When I woke up it was at 15% at 1030 am that's decent. I have installed and uninstalled juice defender a couple of times I will say it helps allot especially when the phone is asleep.
[Captivate General] systoxity:
its all on the wiki/ pdf. :)

also now that i've had this phone for a while i can get 2 days on one charge with moderate use.
[Captivate General] lost2030:
2 days with moderate use??? Wow!! What are your settings and what do you consider to be moderate use?

Also, what's the date on your battery and your phones manufacturing date? Thanks
[Captivate General] Krad:
When i first got the captivate the first day or two i had horrible battery life of 6-7 hours. I had the screen on lowest brightness, turned off all widgets..etc

But on day 3+ the battery got significantly better. I currently have a black wallpaper, twitter, facebook, touchdown(activesync), weatherbug, and a few other apps updating every 10 min or so. On Day 3 got about 12 hours.

I am now on day 8 or 9 and I unplug at about 7am and have about 35 % battery at about 1am. I talk for about 2 hours on the phone a day. About 100 activesync and another 30 emails from various other accounts. About 300 twitters, less facebook stuff, I use the MotoNav for about 30-45 minutes. I have since enabled the light sensor because the phone lasts well over one day for me.

Today i played two episodes of yo gabba gabba for my daugther and still had about 60 percent at 4pm.

For those who just got it, the battery def. needs to learn after a few days. After that it is just as reliable as my old BB 9700.

Only issue i have left is the damn gps lag and jumpy on the nav.

I will be buying a larger battery anyway when they come out, just so i can go 2 days on the battery.

so far, very pleased with the phone and i do recommend touchdown if you have rules in outlook for sorting email.
[Captivate General] magicdanw:
The OP is back to check in on his thread, and is glad so many people found it useful to post in! :D

My battery life has indeed improved somewhat, by learning what widgets not to use, being careful not to leave battery-intensive programs running in the background, and battery meter calibrating. Also, I installed a Galaxy S rom which may or may not have helped, but at the very least includes a very nice task manager that I don't remember on the stock Captivate.

If an extended battery comes out that fits flush with the Captivate I would still buy one, but if it sticks out and makes my case not fit, it's no biggy, because my battery life is decent now and I've learned how to use it wisely. :)
[Captivate General] iamamp3pimp:
My battery life had increased significantly iver the past day.

I am using the "galaxy" live wallpaper and that itself made the screen go from using 70 percent of the battery to using 36%.

just need to get more talk time out of it now.
[Captivate General] ewingr:
Can you be more specific about what you learned? And about how long your battery is lasting now, along with what your typical use is?
[Captivate General] fastfro:
so ive been dealing with off and on good battery life for a while now. I have had the auto brightness off and on. gps on and off. Ive ran widgets and deleted em. Ive restored the phone ran it with and without root. today is my most significant battery life. I rooted it, had it fully charged. its been 13 hours and i have 10% battery left. im using launch pro, with nothing on the home screen. i have a partially black background. i have sync off, and gps off. ive sent a few hundred text today, tweeted a bit, searched on google and made a few phone calls. so with what i consider light use its lasted 13-13.5 hours. Ill let it completely die and see how it does tomorrow. the true test is at work when im bored and on it all the time.

also i played music one day using headphones while mowing grass, it last 4 hours and was dead, im itching to test that again.:rolleyes:
[Captivate General] Lendal4:
WiFi and Blue tooth on or off? Using 'live' background?
[Captivate General] fastfro:
today its been half wifi on half off. bluetooth is always off. no live background, just the oh so lovely Ashley Greene photo :D

at work the wifi is off, since i work outside and all. Ive been struggling to see my phone at work just to keep the brightness down so it would last me the whole day :(
[Captivate General] staySICK:
I'm going on 9 hours since last charge ( according to the time since unplugged portion of the battery usage page)

Live wallpaper (currently the galaxy s boot wallpaper) twitter and fb widgets, using launcher pro and beautiful widgets with the weather animation on unlock.

Pretty heavy usage; playing heavy gunner 3d on work breaks, checking twitter and fb, texting, etc.

Very pleased with the battery life on this phone, much better than on my iphone 3gs
[Captivate General] Berserk87:
Thats what i wanted to hear. My 3GS battery sucks.

You guys gotta remember that once the froyo update is out the performance of the phone makes a HUGE jump.

Better performance = better battery life.
[Captivate General] smeltn:
When I first got my Captivate the battery life was HORRIBLE, and I was about to take it back after the first 2-3 days because I thought I got a bad one. I would unplug it at 6:50AM and it was dead by 11AM

I will say though, battery life has gotten MUCH better after the first week, and it seems to just get better and better. I unplug my phone around 6:50AM and use it like crazy during the day, playing games, Pandora, web browsing, IM, SMS, phone calls, and my biggest battery sucker is, where I work we have no service in some of the building, so the phone works extremely hard trying to find service, but by the end of the day around 4:45 my phone is at around 20-30%

I am very pleased with that.
[Captivate General] canister214:
I find just having spare batteries is the best deal for me. I got the phone for all these features but disabling it?

Ebay. 2 batteries and charger. $10.
[Captivate General] jswclw:
I was a little concerned at first. But today, after 8 hours I had only used 10% of the battery. That was with modest browsing, email, and app usage. Very happy with that!, Just finished a 17+ minute phone call which only used 4% more.

During the week, at the office it seemed to use a lot more juice. The major difference between home and office is the signal strength. At the office it is marginal. At home it is mostly full strength. That makes a huge difference with the background data usage.
[Captivate General] jswclw:
Just did the math real quick...17 minutes for 4% of the battery...

That works out to 425 minutes, roughly 7 hours of talk time!

That's an hour more than the advertised 5 hours and 50 minutes. It will be interesting to do the math after a longer call.
[Captivate General] jwkicklighter:
I'm hoping that my phone has the same trend...
[Captivate General] dmshaefe:
Observations

My battery life also seems to be improving as time goes on. Right now I am running a mostly black background, no live wallpaper, auto-brightness, gps, bluetooth, wifi and sync all off for the majority of the day, using fancy widget and gauge battery widget. My phone has been unplugged for about 10 hours and is sitting at 71%, but that is with light usage, only reading some xda posts and a few games of flood-it with some light texting and voice calling thrown in (5 mins max).

Battery usage is 35% display, 27% cell standby, 17% phone idle, 13% voice calls, and 3% android system. Even on heavier usage days I can usually go all day with the phone lasting from 9 am to 12am and have about 20% left. I did let the phone run dry and then fully recharge it one time, and it seemed to help. I am also not running setCPU or juiceDefender, as I am not convinced those actually do any good but I could be wrong. The phone is rooted, running LauncherPro with 7 home screens. I think the biggest power saver by far is the brightness adjust, like other people have said.

Has anyone noticed if the battery "plateaus" at a certain level? I know RC batteries discharge fairly quickly until they reach a steady voltage and decrease slowly, then fall off again at the end. My battery seems to stay in the 70-60% range for a while, but that might just be me not using it a lot during that time or something.
[Captivate General] TimF:
A little over 2 days and I'm at 15%. Lite to moderate use.
[Captivate General] candymann:
Just my observations. . . I charged my phone late Saturday night until it was full. Woke up Sunday morning (after reading part of a book on it for about 20 minutes) and the battery was around 95%--thought that was good since it was on standby for about 8 hours. Went out for a few hours but was mostly at home, on wifi and by the end of the night, with moderate browsing, games, texts, calls, and app installs, I was around 40% for around 24 hours. I was pleased.

Monday morning before I left for work the phone was at 100%. By lunch, after some texts and messing around with it, I was mid 80%s, which I was OK with. But then it started dropping faster and faster. Again, some use, a couple calls, but nothing drastic. By the time I left, I was at 25%. I have no idea what was eating the battery--the screen, phone idle, and cell standby were the highest, as always--but I know it wasn't that. I opened the samsung email app and noticed it hadn't refreshed since I left my house and got off wifi. I tried sending an email out and it didn't send until later that night when I was back at home on wifi. I noticed the same thing with my weather widget--it didn't refresh properly on 3G, only on wifi. A reset fixed this, but my thoughts are that the email app and weather widget kept trying to refresh but couldn't and ate away my battery life. Just a guess. I checked my email at work and it is now refreshing properly, and took off the weather widget. We will see how long it lasts today.
[Captivate General] michintom:
From 100% I made a few phone calls and played robo defense few times and the battery lasted me over 2 days and 17 hours. I was still at 55% at the time.
[Captivate General] babi_gurlx:
IMO I think its ridiculous turning off everything to the point where your phone can't function unless you manually do something to it and making it so dull and unattractive just for the sake of an hour or so more battery life. Honestly I would just get a basic flip phone if I didn't want it to do anything other than make calls. Its called a smart phone for a reason. With that being said I haven't done anything to my phone at all. No task killer, screen is at normal brightness and I have all sorts of widgets constantly updating. I surf heavily and check facebook almost every hour plus texting and my battery lasts all day. Turning off Wifi and GPS when its not needed is common sense. I have seen great improvements with the battery by with just using the it the way I normally do. I always use my phone until it dies just out of habit and I noticed that it charges somewhat faster if it is off.
[Captivate General] KryptosXLayer2:
Couldn't agree more. Well, there's one thing I would add - AUTO Task Killer! I use it once an hour, and sure, my Twitter feed on Seesmic doesn't update properly, but when I need to click it and see what's going on in the world, I do - I don't need it updating in the background all day.... And that's an important point, people - do you NEED stuff syncing all day long, other than email? Use Advanced Task Killer on auto to get rid of things that sync but don't close and you'll have 27% battery life after 14 hours like I did yesterday and today, almost the same amount of time, same usage, and same percentage!

Here's something to remember - when you open a program, with few exceptions, it won't close automatically when you hit the HOME button. I've seen my battery life plummet when I left "Video Player" on for two hours without having Advanced Task Killer running on auto, so download it, uncheck stuff you WANT to stay running, and set it to auto! It has taken me about 3 weeks to finally level everything out, and in the 12 days of my monthly contract, I've used 1.009GB of data on 3G with AT&T, phone unplugged anytime I used data except when navigating with Google Nav, so I wouldn't say I've been surfing lightly during the day......
[Captivate General] osendott:
Best battery life in the life of my captivate.

I'm not a fan of auto-task killer {{geekfor.me/faq/you-shouldnt-be-using-a-task-killer-with-android/}} for one reason) another reason is it's not needed, just use the task manager on the phone. And you're right, hitting the home key won't close out most apps, try to back-button out of them if possible, even then, I usually check the task-manager. Also, clear your rom now and again. Make sure to turn blue-tooth, gps, and wifi off when you don't need them. Also, if you're not using stock stuff, I suggest the Paragon6 oc/uv kernel. It has improved my battery life like crazy. I just flashed it last night, and I'm just now recharging my first power cycle, but my daughter played games and stuff on my phone non-stop and it took around 22-26hrs to get it from around 80% down to completely dead. I'll know for sure how long it lasts after another couple of cycles, but so far, it's amazing.

Samsung Captivate running Serendipity 5.12 with Paragon6 1200-100hz and I9000XXJVE modem. UV'd and slightly OC'd.
[Captivate General] joe1011phosphate:
If you all intend on using the same battery for a forseeavle future, what I am about to suggest wont help you. I have 2 batteries in case one or the other goes dead. I purchased a phone dock charger where i can charge both my phone and the extra battery. The extra battery was about $15 on Amazon and the charging dock about $20 on the same site. Both of these fixed my battery problems. Just saying. I hope this helps.
[Captivate General] byteme2008:
I am running stock 2.2, and find the battery life to be pretty good. My setup is:

1. Usually have the display set pretty dark. I do have it set to automatically go to full brightness when I display a full screen pic though (for me if you are looking at a photo you want to see it nice and bright lol)

2. Wireless on 24/7 UNLESS I know I am not going to be on WiFi for a while.

3. Syncing 5 e-mail accounts (one at every 15 minutes, one every thirty, two at every two hours and one at once a day).

4. Background data set to off UNLESS I am actively using the market or something else that requires it be on (e-mail syncing doesn't require background data to be enabled).

5. I have about 180 apps on the phone, over 1,100 songs, a couple of hundred photos, and usually about 6 full length movies on it. I do not seem to experience any media scanner issues (I have read for some people media scanner takes forever and I would imagine that doesn't help your battery).

6. GPS on ONLY when used (which is rare - GPS works okay, but I don't need it very often).

7. Bluetooth on ONLY when transferring a file to my laptop or using a headset (which is rare for the latter).

8. Live wallpaper used most of the time now (didn't at first because of battery life concerns, which have proven to be unwarranted in my case).

9. I have been using the LCD power saving mode, but may try without it to see how that does for me.

10. Window animations usually on, but have been trying the phone without just recently just for the heck of it lol

11. Charge the phone every night unless I don't work the next day.

12. Use the phone as my alarm clock

13. Dedicated ringtones, text message tones, and e-mail alerts for a handful of my contacts and all my e-mail accounts.

I find my battery life to be pretty good on the phone. If I only use it a little during the day then I can easily go 50+ hours it seems. If I use heavily (screen on for hours at a time with game playing, texting, e-mail, video playback, photo and video shooting, etc.) then this can drop substantially, but still gets through the day usually with 20% + easily (for me a day is typically 18 hours from taking it off charge to putting it back on). A typical day though will see me being around the 40% mark at least before it goes back on charge after 17 or 18 hours of it being off. Updating all the apps eats into the battery life to a degree I find lol

Love the phone in general, and have not suffered from the complaints that have plagued so many other users thankfully.
[Captivate General] osendott:
sounds about right except for the WIFI on all the time, you'd get even better battery life if you let it sleep when the screen was turned off. or at least just manually turned it off when you weren't using it.. otherwise, that's pretty good usage dude.. mind if I ask though, why stock?
[Captivate General] byteme2008:
To be honest I have stayed stock because I haven't experienced any major issues with the phone. I don't seem to experience the excessive lag that seems to plague some, the GPS is so-so but I knew that going in and very rarely use it (although it is improved after 2.2 so far but time will tell on that I guess), battery life is good, and the phone does pretty much everything I have wanted it to do. Biggest reason though is quite frankly the number of posts I see on here of people saying that this rom or that rom 'works so great.... except....'. I almost always see a 'but' with any of the custom roms, ranging from them having poor battery life to killing the noise cancellation, to odd and quirky problems. Then quite a few people either soft or hard bricking their phones. If my phone sucked...? Then maybe I would have rooted already. As it stands I find it pretty snappy with 2.2, and I have adopted the 'if it ain't broke don't try to fix it' attitude! lol

EDIT - Oh, and as for the WiFi always on, if I am at home or at work I am on WiFi so it isn't burning battery searching for a network (it is always just connected), but if I am out and about I usually turn it off.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] networkn:
Hi There!

Is anyone able to confirm that messaging client 2016 had problems with losing text messages (SMS) and that it's fixed in 2017?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] networkn:
So No-one else was having a problem? Could someone perhaps point me to the changelog?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tornadobarrage:
i tried all roms and none of them work. it just stays on the g1. i have rooted my phone already. anyone can help me?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tornadobarrage:
bumpity bump bump
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sergioiacobucci:
i dont know whats wrong with it but maybe provide more info to exactly what you have done and then maybe someone will help you?....just maybe

//serg
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] billquinn1:
What roms are you trying?

If you hold the camera button while powering on, what does the screen say?

What recovery image did you flash?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tornadobarrage:
is there an RUU in update.zip form so i can install it to my phone cuz im stuck in the g1 screen
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tornadobarrage:
i used RA recovery. not sure which one was it
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tornadobarrage:
i am stuck in the g1 screen and i think i lost the custom recovery. how can i install the original g1 rom?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tornadobarrage:
well right now i have no custom recovery and stuck in G1
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] G1sanju:
Assuming you are having T-mobile G1, Search for DREAIMG.nbh, you can install it through bootloader and that will be original ROM without root access.

If you have access to fastboot things can be flashed from there....
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blulitespecial:
I'm not sure how or when it happened, but my front camera does not show up as an option and cannot be used. my friend and I are both running cm6 side by side and my option to switch to camera simply doesn't show up where his does.

the last time I remember it with is in avalaunch v9 when they the got front camera to work even though the back camera didn't.

I'm going to flash back to stock if there are no other suggestions. I don't think it worked in damage control 3.2 either .
[G1 General] TyIsOwned:
I am curious as to how to change the boot animation. I loaded in the DroidX boot animation with the red droid eye, but now instead I want the blue DroidX eye.

su

cp /sdcard/bootanimation.zip /data/local/

reboot

That was the original code I had to enter into the terminal to copy the files into the directory. Now when I download the blue one, and use the same coding, the eye still stays red. What am I doing wrong, Thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] eaglesteve:
Often, after successfully connected to Kies and syncing started, I see the message that says "Value Does not fall within the expected range", preventing me from proceeding further.

Anyone else having this problem and knows how to deal with it?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] sany:
Whenever it is a question on KIES people here never come up. I dont think anyone here really are bothered to try Kies except that they are all busy playing with Odin and flashing unofficial ROMs