Extended Battery Stats

June 10th, 2011

As I said (here) I will try writing a quick review on the extended battery. Basically YES the battery does comfortably last 1day+ with the following settings

80% screen brightness

Wifi On

GPS On

CPU OVERCLOCKED – min = 384 / max = 1152

Gingerbread based ROMS, i must say that with using any froyo it was a clear difference in battery life, that may have been the individual rom or radio ect but it cut down a good 11/12 hours life out of my average battery length.

If anyone wants any more info just drop a comment.

.: HTC Desire battery usage

Bought me an extended battery for my HTC Desire

May 12th, 2011

So I thought I’d take a look at some extended batteries for my HTC Desire. The Desire battery life isn’t exactly great, but I can comfortably say it does a lot better than the majority of today’s smartphone, however they still dont compare to the 2000′s when a phone would comfortably last 2/3 days on normal usage (Nokia 3310 anyone?).

Anyways, on Friday I ordered this from eBay, and it arrived on Monday

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170614549831&clk_rvr_id=231704290653

2400mAh Power with Replacement Back Cover

Basically the original battery rating is 1400 mAh for the Desire, and my general understanding without getting all technical is that if i scrape a days usage out of a 1400 mAh battery, then if I was to get a 3200 mAh I should theoretically get over 2 days usage, right? Juicy.

Well, apparently the guys on the XDA Forums have managed 3-4 days out of it. So I looked on ebay, and the only good looking UK seller had 2400 mAh with proper labels and warranty, so to stay as safe as possible I got that one, which should still easily get me well over a day or so of usage.

HTC Desire extended battery 3200 3000 2400 mAh

Taken with a Blackberry Curve 8900, apoligies for the blurry cam

I will write a proper review of it after about a week of full usage (next Monday?) but on first use, I must say I am very impressed, no overheating at all and CLEAR difference in battery strength.
Last night (about 1am) I drained the battery down to 26%, the next late afternoon (today around 3:30pm) the battery was fully depleted, after continuous use of Spotify, a bit of browsing and a couple of phone calls, mad right?

Also to top it of I have over-clocked the CPU to 1.2ghz max and min 384ghz, and it still managed an easy full day of heavy usage.

My Top 10 Android Apps

January 18th, 2009

android-rendered Iâ€™ve had the T-Mobile G1 for a couple of months now and like most users, Â i’ve have heavily customized the phone to suit my fingerprint. However there’s always them few programs that become a â€œmust haveâ€, you know, the ones that are used as if it came along built into the android OS, that im sure many people will surely have.

Now for the list in no particular order

Power Manager

A perfect addition to the android OS, pretty much automatically adjust settings on your phone to match the battery level i.e. if the battery level falls below 30% then it can be set to disable wifi, set screen brightness to 20%,

MyBackup

Backup the essentials to your SD Card or Online (SD Card much faster for heavy textâ€™ers)

SMS

Phone Settings

MMS and Attachments

Even home screen shortcuts

SMS Popup

As great as notification system the Android is, its still sometimes cannot compete with the basics that most other phone OSâ€™s bring to the table.

SMS Popup displays a larger preview of a received sms, it can even be set to show preview of the message while the screen is locked.

SnapPhoto

This app gives the camera a whole lot more functionality than the simple Point-n-Shoot App that comes with the Android, just to name one it uses the accelerometer built in the G1 to detect stability #

Rings Extended + Ringdroid

I personally class these two Apps as one because without them you choice of ringtones is very very limited to what the android OS sees, Ringdroid allows you to edit any mp3 and cut a part of the track to use as a notification or ringtone, while Rings Extended adds the functionality of selecting music files or any other sound on your SD Card or phone memory

Toggle Settings

Its in the name, easily access 90% of the android system settings from your home screen, turn on/off wifi, gps, bluetooth, screen brightness etc etcâ€¦â€¦

Any Cut

Any Cut allows you to create a shortcut to almost anything in the Android OS and place it on the home screen

Missed Call

This application is definite must must have. From the first version this app has evolved into a true LED notification modifier (donâ€™t know how else to put it) not just for Missed calls but for pretty much any core functions that SHOULD display an blinking LED that for one reason or another the google android OS failed to implement.

The user can set custom colour LED notifications for

Calls (Missed and Incoming)

SMS

Bluetooth

Flashlight (by Devesh Parekh) / Strobelight

Amazing i have used this app (originally used strobelight until Flashlight came to the marketplace) alot more than expected, it seems that you will always come into situations where you need a quick n simple light source.

ShopSavvy

I was contemplating whether to put this in my list but it qualifies in a way that, i rarely use it BUT, when i need something to show off the phone, its the first application i go to, and im sure im not the only one who feels this way. Scans an item barcode, and compares the prices on the web, and looks for local prices as well via GPS locationÂ and Internet.

Many people will have their opinions on this list but hey an opinion is an opinion.

Eugene

My Next Phone has been unveiled

June 14th, 2008

You may know ive been a HTC user since 2004 (T-Mobile SDA1) and i am now currently using the HTC Tytn II well my next iteration of HTC phone is the HTC Touch Pro (which in my opinion should have been named HTC Tytn III, but who am i)

HTC Touch Pro

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