[tranh2]

Anyone notice better battery life with OS 1.2?

[awrnsmn]

To soon to make a judgement on yet.

[angiest]

It felt this morning like it might be better. Time will tell.

[xForsaken]

yesterday at this time i was all ready down to 39 percent.. right now im at 57 percent... same sort of day.. lots of email.. and a few calls..

[grrmisfit]

i have another thread going on this.. in 4 hrs ive managed to loose 40% battery life with nothing going.. no email gps BT wifi aim just plain jane pre .. atm i have it sitting next to my mogul.. bith phones have 50% battery.. im betting when i wake up in 5 hrs the pre will be dead and the mogul wont be at 40%

[DavidF78]

seems worse to me.

[Crackbone]

I've seen a pretty decent improvement, and I've been using it all morning and into the afternoon.

Could be placebo, don't know yet.

[ChemEngr]

Too early but ATM no significant change noticeable.

[Elysian893]

I've been running it for some time in leaked form, and from a day to day usage perspective, no, there are no real improvements. When used in conjunction with disabling Data Usage and using WiFi though, then there are some battery savings.

[xForsaken]

yes yesterday was a heavy day,, and in hindsight, i do recall turning off wifi and the gps.. so not a fair comparison... except that wifi and the gps are running today and i am up about 15 percent over yesterday

[warblad13]

same here no difference

[anon(4738177)]

i have another thread going on this.. in 4 hrs ive managed to loose 40% battery life with nothing going.. no email gps BT wifi aim just plain jane pre .. atm i have it sitting next to my mogul.. bith phones have 50% battery.. im betting when i wake up in 5 hrs the pre will be dead and the mogul wont be at 40%

You've got something else wrong, or a bad config somewhere... I left my Pre unplugged overnight (8 hours) and it dropped 11%.

[skinneejay]

You've got something else wrong, or a bad config somewhere... I left my Pre unplugged overnight (8 hours) and it dropped 11%.

Agreed. Do you have GPS turned on? I know after the update my GPS and Google services was turned on. So after noticing my battery was draining faster than normal today, I checked and poof my GPS was turned on. Weird.

[adjmcloon]

My battery life was waay better on 1.0. 1.1 brought it down, and now I am already at like 20% battery after a normal day...typically I'd be at 35-40% by this time during a workday.

[Siraris]

Seems worse to me but I've been browsing a little more. I also had GPS on, and just figured out how to turn it off.

[bgriffin1497]

This is the part I hate about an update......battery life stories. forum is going to be plagued for weeks

[JKTex]

If it's not worse, it's not better than the same.

I really hoped it would be better.

[wynand32]

Using the Battery Monitor homebrew app, I was averaging about 8%/hour discharge on 1.1, and I'm running around 10.5%/hour discharge with 1.2. Same usage patterns (I was charging during the initial post-1.2 splurge).

So, for me at least, it's fair to say that V1.2 has made battery life significantly worse.

[alex.dobeck]

Seems quite a bit better for me, leaving GPS on.

Used to drop 10% every half hour, now it's about 50 minutes before it looses 10%, moderate gain I'd say.

[Achill3s]

It seems about the same however, there is now a LED/gesture bug that will not help battery life. Anytime the screen goes dark (manually with the power button 'single click' or darkens in x-amount of time) the gesture area lights up quickly, EVERY time. No bueno for battery!

I've already reported the bug to Palm and it has been logged in their database.