3g sucks (battery)

[prog]

The day after I complained about 3g not working, my phone's Edge connection started to work OK, so for the first time I let it run in Edge-only mode for a couple of days.

Holy cow: I didn't know that 3g affected battery life _that_ much. My phone can now go two full days without a recharge. Time was, the battery was completely dry after 15 hours of casual use.

It's noticably slower this way too, but... I think I'll leave it like this for a while.

Edit: Shozu fail! It let me type in my tags and a "geotag", and it appears to have posted neither, but it did feel free to replace both with a binky little banner-ad for itself. Get offa my phone, you pantload.

Comments

[xartofnothingx.livejournal.com]

the apple network was down around for a while around the time your interwebs stopped working. they said they fixed everything though but didn't know how many ppl were affected.

[jtroutman.livejournal.com]

I run in "edge only" mode all of the time because no 3G in Maine ANYWHERE. I also go to the trouble of turning off Wifi or Bluetooth when I don't need them, and to use "airplane mode" in areas where I know that I cannot get any signal. Still, even with all of that, I am am lucky to get 4 hours of usage out of it on a full charge. I generally charge the phone overnight, and then end up charging it again sometime in the mid to late afternoon, lest I run out of battery.

I have wondered if there might not be something wrong with my battery.

[prog.livejournal.com]

If this is a new phone, then yes, something's strange.

Do you have 'push' turned on and shoving things at you more than once an hour?

[mrmorse.livejournal.com]

I meant to drop an update that things seemed to start working normalish for me the day after your post about problems. Things do seem better than earlier this week.