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[myTouch 4G General] beelbeel:
I have had the phone for about a week, and I have not rooted it. I can definitely get through a day, but if I want to be up and running all the next day, I have to charge it over night. It is typically still green when I go to sleep, but the remaining charge would not last me the next day.

Somebody in this thread mentioned that wifi is actually better for battery life than 4g. Is this true? On a given day, I spend the majority of my time in the office or at home, both of which have wi-fi. Would it be better to keep wi-fi on and have it automatically connect to these networks? Alternatively, would be it best to manually turn wi-fi on while at home/work? If that is the case, I would suddenly understand the use for a wifi widget, and I wouldn't really consider turning it on/off an inconvenience.

Somewhere down the line, I will probably root it and try setcpu. It will be my first time rooting, but I will research it extensively before diving in (or perhaps wait for an extremely easy solution). The most that I really expect is to only charge it every other night, or perhaps even just every 1.75 days (charge during the day when needed), but that would be nice.
[myTouch 4G General] nmw407:
Personally on my phone, when I have wi-fi on, the battery drains slower than if I have wi-fi off. I mostly use the phone at home and at work. At home I'm 100% on wi-fi, since I'm in T-mo's dead zone. At work, I'm 100% on HSPA since I have no wi-fi.

When I'm at work, I can get maybe 7-8 hrs from fully charged to 30%, but when I go home, that 30% can last me another 6 hrs before hitting the 10% mark.
[myTouch 4G General] blancoisgod:
im getting about 7 hours of 1.8 ghz of stress testing.

if i dont do much on the phone, i can get 24 hours(turning off mobile data, turning off sync, etc.). I get about 7 hours of talk time, and about 10 of texting.
[myTouch 4G General] SParKlingCyaNide:
Absolutely Fantastic Battery life.
[myTouch 4G General] SParKlingCyaNide:
Exactly because Wifi is more efficient than the mobile network.
[myTouch 4G General] xs11e:
I don't know why you people are compl (wait, gotta go charge..... OK, I'm back) aining about battery life on the MyTo (ooops, gotta charge again) uch 4G, it seems to be just fine with me on my p (wait, gotta charge...) hone.

Just kidding, it'll make it all day and I charge every night so it's adequate.

Unfortunately, I'm coming from a BB where the battery life is much better but I can live with the MT4G battery life.

I've done most of the usual tricks, brightness, etc. but the main trick is a car charger and using it if I drive anywhere. When I'm home I usually keep it plugged into a USB port on the PC with 'charge only' selected so most of the time I don't need much battery life.
[myTouch 4G General] CBConsultation:
A lot of people coming from Blackberries just don't seem to understand a few basic things when it comes to battery life.

First would be screen size. My 9700 screen was half the size of the MT4G.

Second would be Widgets. Widgets run constantly in the background. Blackberries Do Not have widgets.

Yes there are apps that run in the background (as on Android) but widgets are completely different and draw battery.

Also, the battery itself. I had a 1500mAh battery in my 9700 (half the screen size/ -widgets). My MT4G only has a 1400mAh (twice the screen/ +widgets).

These are just a few things to bear in mind when comparing apples to oranges!
[myTouch 4G General] PolishDude:
I now run MIUI rom and battery life is a little better, nothing crazy, however my gf also runs miui on her phone and her battery life is ridiculous! Last night at 8pm I looked at her phone and she was at 88 percent after 12 hrs! I almost feel its inaccurate because she talks on her phone a lot!
[myTouch 4G General] xdviper:
That's some great battery life, I don't understand how a graphical intense rom like MIUI gets more battery life than the stock (iced) rom.

But then again, MIUI is based on Cyanogen's rom too, no?

I've underclocked my battery to 245mhz and 806mhz max while running now, I'll have to see how far it takes the battery, if it's good, I'm keeping it this way. The phone is as fast as if it was on 1ghz with 800mhz. If anything I get about 10hours with moderate use, and about 8 with heavy, and that's with a couple phone calls about 10min total, and 300-400 text messages.

I remember when I first got the G2, the battery life sucked, but then overtime it broke in and got better, but then also after I installed Cyanogen's rom on to it, it became faster and more battery efficient, where I couldn't even drain the battery even if I wanted too.
[myTouch 4G General] Christopher3712:
On CM7 build 26 running with the stock kernel, i'm averaging about 8% battery loss per hour under HEAVY usage. I've been downloading, facebooking, browsing, etc. I'm scaled 245-1497 but I have a screen off profile of 245-245.
[Focus General] Thresher:
It's been a long journey for some of us with smartphones/pdas. My journey began with XDA and moved to the 8125, 8525, Tilt, Fuze and Tilt 2.

Today I join the ranks of the qwerty-less and HTC-less folks on the XDA as I now have a focus SGH-i917.

First impressions:

From reading various reviews I was thinking the Samsung Focus was going to be a plastic, piece of junk. I feel it is better than I expected. With an exception, the back cover and the way it attaches to the device. Instead of it being a slide, click & lock like an XDA/HTC this thing is a click. It is hard to explain but the back cover looks flimsy and like you should choose to rarely take it on and off. It snaps into place and snaps out of place, the snaps are very tiny little plastic tabs. Not galaxy tabs but plastic tabs. It reminds me of an older motorola phone where if you dropped it once, broke all those tiny plastic attachment tabs then your cover would never stay attached.

Accessories:

So far the body glove case that AT&T was selling at my store works like crap, as it keeps pressing in the power button. I am going to take a Dremel tool to it and report back in, I am going to shave the interior portions to make them slimmer.
[Focus General] surfnet:
I had the exact same problem.. lame case.. should have know not to buy it.. but the phone is great. I agree with the back cover, but I think the IDEA is that you only need to open a few times to insert SIM or SD card..
[Focus General] Thresher:
Lame case! At&t Gel Case from Body Glove.
[Focus General] ryotgz:
I saw the cases they had and told them I would wait for better ones. As for the tabs, I had the same exact thought. Better to keep the back on and hardly take it off. I was worried they could break easily, but other than that the phone is really nice.
[Focus General] MarcBate:
I too had (and really liked) the 8125, Tilt, and Tilt 2, and just got the Samsung Focus today. I really like it so far, and agree taking off the cheap back cover was scary.

I guess I'm keeping my Tilt 2 until someone comes up with a tethering app so I can use it while travelling.
[Focus General] Bizybone:
Hehe...8525, Fuze, Tilt2, HD2. I just picked up the Focus today, was the last one left in the store. I am in the same boat as you with tethering, hopefully ATT wont charge to use it.
[Focus General] markgamber:
I was a lot more worried about the screen side than the back side. I've owned a lot of Windows phones (HTC WinMo and that awful LG piece of crap AT&T was selling last year) and, invariably, the screen was plastic and fairly easily scratched and damaged. Not the Focus. I've read it has Gorilla Glass and given how rigid it is and how tapping it sounds the same as tapping the iPhone, I believe it. I'm not so worried about the back because I've had phones with "snap on" backs before and they were surprisingly sturdy if you applied a little care when removing and replacing the back. What I don't like about the back is how the camera pokes out, making it a greasy fingerprint magnet which leads to lousy pictures. It would have been nice if it had been recessed even 1/2 mm so it was at least a little more difficult to trash the glass. I'm sure a case would fix it but I don't have a case and from I've read above, I won't be getting one quite yet.

I can't say I've committed to the phone yet since I have 30 days to return it and I'm coming from a relatively feature rich iPhone 4. But since buying it....yesterday....I've already bought Slingplayer (the fastest I've EVER seen Sling Media do ANYTHING, ever, by several magnitudes!) and new apps are appearing quickly. So far so good!

Oh...per tethering, each system has it's own schedule, of course, but I can tell you it took a LONG TIME before the iPhone got tethering and oh yeah, you BET AT&T charges out the ass for it. $30 a month for 5 GB? What a swindle. If you jailbreak the iPhone you have better options, such as a $30 app that does it "for free" in that AT&T doesn't know you're tethering, but who knows if something that like will be an option with these WP7 phones in the future? You may want to keep in mind the old saying "Buy a phone for what it does now, not what has been promised in the future" because it may be a LONG TIME before there's WP7 tethering.
[Focus General] Thresher:
People are reporting too many accidental power offs, the location of the power button and the volume buttons and the power button in general is a detractor.

Solution:

The case I reported was so lame may be dremelled even further to make ' notches ' where the buttons are, removing the plastic case over that button. This would force my fingers to have to depress a bit.
[Focus General] MikeyMike01:
The iPhone does NOT use Gorilla Glass. It uses an inferior glass that's somewhere between normal and Gorilla.
[Focus General] markgamber:
That's not what I've read elsewhere. It was even posted here, I believe, that Samsung stated on twitter that it was Gorilla glass. Whatever, as long as it's not cheap plastic that scratches when you look at it twice in the same hour I don't really care.
[Focus General] Soundtweaker:
I was still on a 8125 Wizard until monday. What a shocking change when I turned on the Focus. :)
[Focus General] wildbilll:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x91cmj_dP_4

He says it won't scratch. It must be similar to gorilla glass.
[Focus General] Mallux:
I too have been a very loyal HTC user. I got a lot of use out of my tilt and tilt 2 especially, but when it was announced that HTC was going to be launching with a phone that features a slide-out speaker instead of a slide-out keyboard, it was like a slap in the face. Maybe it was ATT that made the call (idk) but i wasn't going to pick up the LG Quantum (whenever it does come out.)

So, HTC has lost a customer and Samsung has gained one and i'm liking it so far.

Also, has anyone tried placing a Captivate gel case on the Focus? i curious to see how it fits - not that i think it'll be perfect, but i'm interested to see how much modification would be required to make it decent.
[Focus General] jevangil:
Not gorilla glass in my opinion

I have a iPhone4, Captivate and now the Focus. The focus' glass on the front is just like the Captivate (obviously, both Samsung made). The captivate survived in my pocket for over 2 months with no case or screen protector on it and the screen looks good as new.

The iPhone on the other hand with a case on it and no screen protector now has what appears to be a surface abrasion in a 3/8 by 3/8 square spot, from what I assume was the other phone rubbing on the screen while in the same pocket. It is light, but noticable in direct light. Gorilla glass, I don't believe it is.
[Focus General] doddsjr653:
/signed

I went from an 8125 to the Tilt, and now the Focus. I didn't care much for the build materials either but it's starting to grow on me. I wish I could find a decent case though so that there's something to actually hold on to.
[Focus General] Paolo01:
I am in the same boat. I am a VERY happy HTC owner since the StarTrek, to the Tilt and Fuze. I was stunned when att opted to go with a qwertyless HTC model, or maybe HTC is just over att and no longer providing cutting edge design or tech. The att sales rep who sold me my Focus claims that Samsung R&R dwarfs HTC's and that att is redirecting its smartphone relationship to Samsung. Whatever. Back on point.

I picked up a Focus on day one, feeling a little dirty to be dipping my toes in Samsung's waters. And now, I love this phone.

Build Quality: I agree that the plastic is disappointing, but I am not feeling it really when I hold the phone and I am a very tactile person. The phone feels nice. Would I like a nice metal battery case, yes, but the antenna works so maybe that lack of drama is the pay off.

Screen: This thing is what is really making my Fuze feel like it was a toy. It looks better, it feels better, heck it even has a nicer appearance when the phone is off. My only issue with the screen is the small ridge between it and the phone body. If that was smooth or imperceptible the feel would be sublime.

Typing: I love qwerty physical keyboards. I also love the lightweight Samsung feel right now and I am slowly getting used to the virtual keyboard. The key is using the suggested word which I am getting used to. That way you don't really need to fix every mis step. Will I go back to a physical keyboard? That was my plan originally, to bail the Samsung and get the first NICE HTC that cam along, but I love this phone. I am learning to deal with the virtual keyboard.

I won't get into the WP7'isms. The OS has a great feel and has room for updates but those are being discussed in other threads.

I love HTC, I have transitioned to Samsung and it was actually easy and enjoyable. I will now be very curious to see what is on Samsungs 2011 roadmap and yes, I will keep an eye on HTC in the distance.
[Focus General] hg23:
The Samsung Focus CAN tether:

http://www.amitbhawani.com/blog/enable-usb-tethering-windows-phone-7-samsung-devices/

Steps to Tether :
[Focus General] Whizzit:
First of all...Wow. Not the phone, but the fact that there are so many formerly loyal HTC users that jumped ship to Samsung with the Focus product. My story is just like everyone else, owned an HTC this and that, was holding out with my Fuze for something better on AT&T than the Aria. Before my visit today I had no knowledge of the Focus, but had researched the Captivate quite well. My Focus is still in the box, I'll break its hymen when I get everything backed up in my Fuze. Reading through the forums I was pleased to hear the reactions of many of you Focus veterans. I have been a lurker for the most part on XDA, but I feel that with so many like minded and experienced members here, I'll do my part to contribute monetarily and with any effort I can provide. Cheers to all and our new phones!
[Focus General] FuzzyLogic_FC:
I've had HTC phones for years, the last one being the Fuze. And I was going to have a choice to make if the Dell Lightning had come out on AT&T and not T-Mobile, but as it was just the Focus and the HTC speaker model, the Focus was a no brainer. I was worried about it feeling like a toy after reading the pre-release reviews mentioning that's what it was made of, but I don't notice it and everyone who grabs it to check it out only comments on how light it is and never mentions any plastic feeling. They all seem to love it.

Like a previous comment, I wish the camera was a bit down in the body more...it seems I always get my finger on it when pulling out of my pocket, but so far the pics have still been great. And after my horrible pics experience with the Fuze, it's night and day better. (My camera on the Fuze just kept getting worse and worse as time went on. Even after wiping the OS, the camera lagged and every shot would be blurry. And that was my second one after the first one developed mysterious spots on it and was replaced while still under warranty)

Samsung has a new fan!
[Focus General] tronnix:
Ditto man, that little ridge on the front screen could potentially be problematic (i.e. I can see little specs of lint and stuff possibly getting in there).

The phone is great, but the build quality of the plastic back leads me to believe I really need a good case.

With my iPhone 3G, I've used a Griffin case that has really held up. It's basically leather-coated plastic, which I think would be perfect for the Focus. Here's a link: http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/elanform3g.

If anyone finds a good case, please post it! Thanks guys.
[Focus General] Thresher:
Wow, freaking awesome. Thanks for posting this here. I put it on the wiki. Wow.
[Focus General] Ratcamp:
I had the HTC Fuze for the past 2 years. Syncing with Active Sync was great. I have 4000+ contacts.

I also miss the keyboard but love the graphics and the fast speed of the Focus.

I may return it... which would suck because I like this phone for fun.
[Focus General] sandrobber:
Left HTC and proud of it.

HTC tends to be on the forefront however the focus screen is just plain better hands down. I scratched my screen so it is possible, bought zagg screen protector. Thank goodness the screen had a superficial scratch. Can't see the scratch now.
[Focus General] riceboyler:
I too got a Focus last Monday after a Tilt, Fuze and TP2, and what a difference. My wife has a Samsung Impression "dumb" phone and has been happy with it, so I thought Samsung deserved a shot. I know not all Samsungs are like this one, but I love it.

I played with a co-worker's HD7 this morning, and WOW what a difference the Super AMOLED makes. His screen appeared to be smearing and just didn't pop like the Focus does. I really feel like HTC kinda dropped the ball, at least in the US market, with this launch. The Surround (I played with on Saturday) is really heavy compared to the Focus and has a smaller screen. Granted, not much smaller, but every little bit helps. The HD7 has a bigger screen, but it's not nearly as sharp and (sorry) "focused". I'm hoping that the 2nd Gen HTCs will be higher quality, because this Focus absolutely kicked their butts on the 1st Gen.

As a habitual ROM flasher, I have to say it's been awfully nice not having to worry about flashing for the past week. I just wonder if I'll end up missing that...
[Focus General] panzerxschreck23:
I have been using HTC 8125, HTC 8525, HTC Fuze, and I was going to wait for HTC 7 Pro but I want to try Windows Phone 7 so bad. lol Therefore, I bought a Samsung Focus :)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sinkster:
Ok, tried searching for answers but nothing obvious came up. I rooted my X10 again after upgrading to nordic 2.1, which I presume will be the last update for a while... The question is, which ui apps are safe to freeze/delete? Obviously, moxier, Spotify, and creatouch, plus I froze face recognition with no perceivable after effects, but after that I'm a bit apprehensive.
[myTouch 4G Accessories] solidunit:
Does the Glacier (mytouch 4g) take Touch Pro 2 / Droid Incredible batteries ? Anyone try one ?
[myTouch 4G Accessories] jhnnyblze2000:
I came from the evo to the mytouch but have had the incredible in the past. The evo and and incredible use the same battery but sad to say my evo battery did not fit in the phone. Battery was too big.
[myTouch 4G Accessories] vikramdhani:
You will not able to use any other battery with the phone
[myTouch 4G Accessories] ESKIMOn00b:
Selling phones at radio shack (att tmo and sprint) I haven't seen a battery that looks like it would even have the contacts in the proper place or right size... so there might be a VZW phone out there that might be able to swap, but none of the current phones on other carriers seem to be cross compatible....
[myTouch 4G Accessories] jmwils3:
Anyone tried switching a battery from a G2? I just switched from one of those (quite against my will, as I loved the phone but had wi-fi calling issues), and the batteries look almost identical. However, not having them side by side, as I had to send the g2 back, I cant confirm for certain.
[myTouch 4G Accessories] daewond3r:
The TP2 battery won't fit. I had one for my Slide and both of those batteries are taller than the MT4G battery.

Pull your battery out and google the battery model number. I did and if I remember correctly all of the entries I saw were for the MT4G only, nothing else listed. So maybe it's a new battery?
[myTouch 4G Accessories] BeEazy10:
The first Five Second

The same day i purchased my MT4G (release date) i pulled my tp2 out of my pocket, pulled the battery out, and tried to fit it into the MT4G... and i failed, it doesn't fit as stated in the post above... was worth the try 1500 mAh battery would have been nice :D
[myTouch 4G Accessories] ilyabyk83:
Dude, I got the same exact issue. But before I got this MT4G I bought for a very short time MT3G, and there yes, my extended batty off of my TP2 (Touch Pro2) fit, the door didn't but the battery did. Few days later, MT4G were released, so I was still able to return my MT3G and add a bit more money and get the MT4G, but here, this battery doesn't fit at all, like ESKIMOn00b said, looks like it, but it doesn't fit. Even if you magically make it fit, what are you going to cover it with?

So for now, no battery. Do what I do: Carry a charger with. :)
[myTouch 4G Accessories] sunpowcn:
It use same battery as HTC Merge
[myTouch 4G Accessories] ilyabyk83:
And a door? Do they sell batteries for that model?

A Door would be huge issue, also. MT4G has this laching in metal door.
[EVO 4G General] tejasrichard:
I recently upgraded to the Evo from the Hero. Over the last few days, it seems like a trend has been developing. Folks with hw version 0003 and sw per 3.39 have had a very hard time gaining root. Vote in my pole and tell me how it went for you. If you HAVE had success, let us know what worked for you. Again, this pole is for folks w/ hardware version 0003 who purchased the phone with 3.30 installed, and hboot 2.02 s-on
[EVO 4G General] tejasrichard:
Those of you that managed to get rooted and flashing, what method did you use??
[EVO 4G General] twin001:
I followed this guide. Make sure you have adb working and you have the files in the right folders.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=829045
[EVO 4G General] nebenezer:
pins and needles man.. did you get it rooted?
[EVO 4G General] rfeagan:
Followed same guide, I have hardware 0003, got it done. Rooted. Unrevoked forever
[EVO 4G General] HTCRALEIGHFAN:
ver 003 also. rooted with warm 2.2 rls3 with netarchy

used unrevoked in the rooting for dummies thread at androidforums
[EVO 4G General] tejasrichard:
Not yet. It goes great up to the point where I flash PC36IMG.zip, but when that is flashing, it throws an error during the radio v2 update (fail-pu) and instead of skipping bootloader, like it says in the guide, it tries to update and throws an error there, too (fail-ic). After this, it finishes the flash. I can get to recovery, I can even flash a custom recovery, but when I try to boot, it just hangs at the white HTC splash. To get it to boot, I hafta run the ruu. S-off sticks, so unrevoked is working, but I don't have root, and I can't flash custom roms. I have checked my md5sum, adb communicates correctly. Something about the pc36img file just doesn't work with my phone. I will say, the pc36img in Dan's thread doesn't throw the errors, but I still couldn't boot afterwards. Think I'm gonna step away from rooting for a day or two and just enjoy my new phone. I'll come back at this when I'm fresh, not so frustrated.