12-23-2008, 12:52 AM
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Join Date: 05-28-2003
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PDAPhone: Omnia i910
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Carrier: VZW
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Originally Posted by SuicideMike
....2, and this is the kicker. I disabled the backlight. The device even has a warning right there that says prolonged use of the backlight will drain the battery fast. I has no idea how fast. The one nice thing is that you dont really need the backlight since the omnia has such a bright LCD display. I did this from the "power" setting and told it NOT to light the backlight when the screen is tapped. Ok, one interesting bug I came across which also helps. When you do this, it also disabled the accelerometer. However, this may not be a bad thing since I'm thinking that drains the battery too. it's a sensor. And the backlight being off all the time disables the auto light sensor on the front......
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Sounds like some excellent ideas...I have been using the Omnia with the backlight turned off from my forays outdoors walking the cat in the dark and often didn't bother turning the backlight back on. I have been wondering recently why my accelerometer sometimes worked, sometimes didn't. Now I know the answer! Thanks for a tip on saving battery life and explaining the accelerometer.
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Originally Posted by dkfif
Over in Howardforums there seems to be discussion about batteries ending in "31" not lasting as long as those ending in "20" which seem to be the replacement batteries.....
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Interesting. One of my batteries ends in ..31, the other in ...20 and from my rotation schedule the ..31 would the original and the ..20 the spare. The Spb battery benchmark drain test, which charges batteries to 100% and then times the time to completely drain them under reproducible constant use conditions, would be the way to confirm the idea. Better than going on people's approximate experience. The only way I'd want to part with use of my phone is if I could run the test overnight.
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