Yep, that's the one.

Go to settings -> about -> battery usage

Then look at what's using most of your battery. From what you've said, it's almost definitely because your phone is searching for a network. So don't worry too much, I doubt the battery kong d.

Worst case scenario, switch your phone to airplane mode and see what happens.

This post has been edited by PhantomThief: Aug 28 2011, 06:49 PM

Press on cell standby, and look for amount of time spent with no signal. But that is almost certainly the culprit here

I have found that my battery life is absolute shite no matter what I do unless I use Juice Defender and switch to EDGE over 3G/HSDPA. I lost 12% batt in about 1hr 30mins, with Android OS being the highest user, despite the fact that the screen was off the whole time and there was basically no waketime either. It's just dreadful. Looks like I'm only going to be using 3G when watching youtube or for any heavy surfing sessions/tethering. Can't afford the battery drain otherwise.

I still think something's not quite right though. I mean, others are reporting much better battery times than this. Is it possible that I got a bad battery?

Haha, I don't think anyone who has been keeping up with Engadget is surprised at the announcement. Talk about overkill though.

I've decided to give this one more try. 1.26am, 79% battery with 3G/HSDPA enabled and Juice Defender disabled. Let's see what happens in the morning.

Arrivederci, LYNers.

Woke up to 60% battery. That's about 7hrs 30mins consuming 19% battery which is about 2.5% an hour. Which is not too shabby. But I've had no connection at all for the past 1 hour or so to Digi. Had to restart the phone before I managed to connect to the network again

That's exactly what I did. According to Watchdog Lite, there was nothing waking the phone up other than what I requested, and no rogue processes either. Still, 2.5% per hour last night ain't too bad compared to what I've been getting recently. Perhaps the charge cycle will continue to improve? *fingers crossed*

I have no idea. But I woke with "Emergency Calls Only" in my notification bar. A quick restart sorted that out though.

I do still have juice defender on my phone, but I didn't use it last night. I think I might just get rid of it all together. I'll plug my phone in at the end of the day, charge it to 100%, manually switch off data before I go to bed, then switch it back on in the morning and top the battery back up to 100% before I head off for the day. That's what I'll be testing tonight

From what I've heard, I don't think you can go wrong with VillainRom/Lite'ning ROM/Batista and many others. There are a lot of custom roms for this phone. Personally though, I'm on Lite'ning ROM

If there really is a bulk, I'm in! This baby needs more juice.

@thiri56 Normal

This post has been edited by PhantomThief: Aug 29 2011, 09:54 PM

Holy crap, what were you doing? Overclock benchmarks? xD

Perfectly normal, bro. I'm charging my phone right now too and it was at 44celsius earlier when I was messaging and all. Like waveweaver said, don't worry unless you hit 50

This post has been edited by PhantomThief: Aug 29 2011, 10:08 PM

Bravo, my good sir, bravo

I'm still guessing that running your phone at those elevated temperatures *will* shorten your phone's lifespan in the long run. But I think that most of us will have changed phones long before then, unless, of course, you overclock and thus increase the voltage.

Speaking of overclocks though, I've overclocked mine It's max on SetCPU is now 1.4GHz at 1250mV, which is still below stock voltage for 1.2GHz (which is 1300mV). That made it quite a simple decision for me. More speed and less voltage? Yes please! I also undervolted the rest of the clock speeds and made a "screen off" profile to reduce power consumption. Trying to suck every bit of juice I can get from this phone.

Haha, I think he just meant that it will charge till full and then cut itself off. 2 hours being a roughly average value for a charge

This post has been edited by PhantomThief: Aug 30 2011, 12:06 AM

If it doesn't show up, I guess the sgs2 can't read PNG files. Because the gallery will detect images from practically any folder in the phone and place it there for your viewing.

Apologies all around for the mistake. My bad

On a side note, I have a question about charging as well. My Battery Monitor Widget and Android System Info tells me that my battery has been charged to 100%. But Android doesn't tell me that the charging is done, and when I go to settings -> about -> status, the Battery Level says 100% but the Battery Status still says "charging". Should I continue charging or stop?

Whoa, ease up a little. I'm just curious as to why Android no longer informs me when the battery is charged. The only time it ever gave me the tone to signify a full charge was the very first time I charged it. Ever since then, I've had to manually check to see if the charge is complete. That's why I'm asking. So no, it is not "so critical" for me to have 100% instead of 99.99%. And no, it does not say "charging" so long as the charger is inside, it should say "charged" when the charging is complete.

Only possibility I can think of right now is that Lite'ning ROM has the notification disabled. Either that or there's something wrong with the phone, hahaha.

Yep, I just double checked. While there's nothing in the Lite'ning ROM changelogs, there is supposed to be the option to set it on or off under Sound in the Settings menu. That option is nowhere to be found now, so I suppose it has been removed altogether.

With mobile data off, I lost 2% battery over about 6 hours last night. Guess I'm going to be sticking to my new schedule of charging at night, switching off data and topping off in the morning

If you're looking for people to tell you *not* to buy this phone, this is the wrong place to ask