Google galaxy Nexus HSPA+ Review - Part 3
I solved some of the battery life problems, I think. I found that the "Google play magazines" app was consuming 40% of the battery. I don't use that app and I cant uninstall it, but I can stop it and DISABLE it. That made a significant difference in battery life that I saw for the rest of the day. I ended the night with crossing the 30% battery left threshold at 9:30pm and no warnings about asking to be plugged in or any radios disabled. I also spent about 2 hours that day on the phone talking. This morning I also found one of my apps is misbehaving. the Crestron control app will sit there sucking up battery when not in use, so I did a force stop and saw a drop in battery use instantly. So be warned, some apps are poorly written and will stay running eating the battery while idle.
I really like the JellyBean bandwidth control functions. the phone will now warn me when I cross threshold #1 and then cut off Cellular data if I cross threshold #3. this eliminates the need for an app to do this. and it does it better than most apps I have seen.
One thing I noticed is the case is a bit "flimsy", specifically the back/ battery door, it is very thin and only snaps on. The stock JellyBean launcher forces a Google search bar at the top of all pages, I don't like that as I honestly don't have the need to search instantly at all times. Holo Launcher is going to be installed soon.
Signal strength still is fantastic, even in the stores I lose calls on all the time I was able to hold a conversation the entire time. I am very pleased with how the phone handles calls.
Yes disabling the magazines app has made a huge difference, after being off the charger from 6:30am to 10:30pm and about 3 hours of talk time with 4 panorama photos taken and uploaded to face book and about another 2 hours of generally screwing around with the phone. Put it on the charger with 35% remaining. taking panorama shots makes the camera heat up significantly, that camera uses a HUGE amount of power. after 4 of them the camera and the surrounding area was very hot and took a while to cool down. looking at the power use graph you can see that there was a significant power draw during that time and it flattened out once I was done.
Battery Update : today is even better, 7:00am until 6:00pm I still have 70% of the battery. I did a lot of random surfing at lunch, but the bigest difference was that I had 5 "bars" of signal all day long. this phone really sips power if you are in a good coverage area.
Overall after more than 1 week of living with the phone I am very happy with it. IT does what you expect and does it fast. No garbage apps installed by verizon,sprint,at&t.. no features disabled, just 100% pure Jelly Bean and it works great.
If you really want the best Android phone, you need to buy a nexus from google directly.
I really like the JellyBean bandwidth control functions. the phone will now warn me when I cross threshold #1 and then cut off Cellular data if I cross threshold #3. this eliminates the need for an app to do this. and it does it better than most apps I have seen.
One thing I noticed is the case is a bit "flimsy", specifically the back/ battery door, it is very thin and only snaps on. The stock JellyBean launcher forces a Google search bar at the top of all pages, I don't like that as I honestly don't have the need to search instantly at all times. Holo Launcher is going to be installed soon.
Signal strength still is fantastic, even in the stores I lose calls on all the time I was able to hold a conversation the entire time. I am very pleased with how the phone handles calls.
Yes disabling the magazines app has made a huge difference, after being off the charger from 6:30am to 10:30pm and about 3 hours of talk time with 4 panorama photos taken and uploaded to face book and about another 2 hours of generally screwing around with the phone. Put it on the charger with 35% remaining. taking panorama shots makes the camera heat up significantly, that camera uses a HUGE amount of power. after 4 of them the camera and the surrounding area was very hot and took a while to cool down. looking at the power use graph you can see that there was a significant power draw during that time and it flattened out once I was done.
It's not bad, not fantastic, but not bad. I am certain it uses the video camera mode to do this and then assemble the stream of video into a panorama photo.
Battery Update : today is even better, 7:00am until 6:00pm I still have 70% of the battery. I did a lot of random surfing at lunch, but the bigest difference was that I had 5 "bars" of signal all day long. this phone really sips power if you are in a good coverage area.
Overall after more than 1 week of living with the phone I am very happy with it. IT does what you expect and does it fast. No garbage apps installed by verizon,sprint,at&t.. no features disabled, just 100% pure Jelly Bean and it works great.
If you really want the best Android phone, you need to buy a nexus from google directly.
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