Juice Defender Ultimate Review
Juice defender Ultimate doesn’t really help save your battery life unless you aren’t using the phone.
Avg battery drain on my phone with the latest kernel @ 1.2 /768 screen on and 386/386 screen off / antenna & running Gingeritis 1.0 final (HTC Thunderbolt) is about 5% per hour if you aren’t using it. Drain increases if you’re listening to music or tethering ect.
Pretty simple concept really. It does work but it’s not really worth the money in my opinion. More or less all it will do is turn your data on and off for you which kind of defeats the point of even owning one of these phones does it not? I’ve run several tests on my phone and the results were about 2-3% better battery life with Juice defender (while the screen was off) but when you are actually using the phone JD is actually draining your battery more so you loose that 2-3% gain you got with the screen off. You gain a software that automatically disables and re-enables your data for you however you are adding 3-4 extra apps (full install) that are running in the background 100% of the time eating up cpu and ram. Some slower phones will even lag when waking up with JD installed.
Best way to save battery life I’ve found on my phone is by investing in a few spare usb cables. I have plenty around the house and keep them in my truck & at the office. I ordered a extended battery one of the 3500m not sure if I’m going to like the extra bulk but life should be significantly greater from that over the default 1400m there is also a 1700m out now that is the same size as the 1400m and suposidly adds about 3 hours of talk time over the default I’m a rather heavy user of my phone so I went for the overkill.
Use SetCPU ß root required and set 100% priority on screen off at the next to lowest setting. *to avoid wake lag* and plug the thing in whenever possible. Fact is we’re carrying a laptop around in our pocket with a 4G LTE internet connection that is 5x faster than most residential DSL / Cable connections and the battery technology just isn’t keeping up with the hardware. They will get there soon enough but these are the growing pains.
Juice defender Ultimate doesn’t really help save your battery life unless you aren’t using the phone.
Avg battery drain on my phone with the latest kernel @ 1.2 /768 screen on and 386/386 screen off / antenna & running Gingeritis 1.0 final (HTC Thunderbolt) is about 5% per hour if you aren’t using it. Drain increases if you’re listening to music or tethering ect.
Pretty simple concept really. It does work but it’s not really worth the money in my opinion. More or less all it will do is turn your data on and off for you which kind of defeats the point of even owning one of these phones does it not? I’ve run several tests on my phone and the results were about 2-3% better battery life with Juice defender (while the screen was off) but when you are actually using the phone JD is actually draining your battery more so you loose that 2-3% gain you got with the screen off. You gain a software that automatically disables and re-enables your data for you however you are adding 3-4 extra apps (full install) that are running in the background 100% of the time eating up cpu and ram. Some slower phones will even lag when waking up with JD installed.
Best way to save battery life I’ve found on my phone is by investing in a few spare usb cables. I have plenty around the house and keep them in my truck & at the office. I ordered a extended battery one of the 3500m not sure if I’m going to like the extra bulk but life should be significantly greater from that over the default 1400m there is also a 1700m out now that is the same size as the 1400m and suposidly adds about 3 hours of talk time over the default I’m a rather heavy user of my phone so I went for the overkill.
Use SetCPU ß root required and set 100% priority on screen off at the next to lowest setting. *to avoid wake lag* and plug the thing in whenever possible. Fact is we’re carrying a laptop around in our pocket with a 4G LTE internet connection that is 5x faster than most residential DSL / Cable connections and the battery technology just isn’t keeping up with the hardware. They will get there soon enough but these are the growing pains.