Battery Booster

[a0r0a7]

This App works well to improve battery performance. I found 3 items consumed battery when I first got my Scroll, Cell- Very high (not required), Display- dependant on setting and Wi-Fi. I do not want to root my Scroll at this present time. With Battery booster I have it set to boot up the Scroll in Airplane mode. This turns off Cell and Wi-Fi at start up. You can then turn on Wi-Fi when you need to. When I now check Battery use I only ever get Display and Wi-Fi, no more pointless Cell use. I also like the fact you can turn the Display brightness right down to say 3%, good for night time use and extends the Battery time. It has a good set of Set up options. It has proved stable and really works. I downloaded this App via Slide-Me.

http://slideme.org/en/application/battery-booster

Hope it works for you!

[Fonefixer]

Thanks for pointing this one out Andy!

I had issues when I previously renames the phone apk files (which basically does the same thing as this app - puts it in airplane mode). I have a slightly later firmware version than you and it works fine on my unit.

[a0r0a7]

Cheers Fonefixer
Let me know if you get good results using the App, interested to know!

[Fonefixer]

This is a great app to have!

Saves all the naffing around renaming apk files to get the same results. The only criticism I have is that the battery indicator it uses is just as jumpy as the scrolls standard one. I just checked and there's an update to V2.7 posted on March 11th, not sure of a changelog though....

It has saved me quite a bit of battery power with a lot less hassle!

[a0r0a7]

Glad to hear you find it useful Fonefixer. Agree with the Batt indicator. After a charge I do get 100% followed very shortly by 85% of which it remains at for a good time. It seems to drop level info in chunks!

It does allow easy control of battery power and improves life all round!

[mf455]

Am I doing something wrong? I downloaded and installed Battery Booster. How do I get it to turn "airplane mode" on at boot-up or even manually? I can find the setting so airplane mode is [supposedly] turned on when the battery is low but not at any other time. Even when Battery Booster is running, if I look at the battery usage (via setting -> about device) it still shows approx 75% of battery usage is "cell standby".

I am running on a vanilla, un-rooted 1.02 device.

[Fonefixer]

In the "Battery Tweak Tab":

Calibration Notification - leave alone - should be disabled.
"On Device Lock"
Turn off wifi - ticked
Turn off bluetooth - ticked
Turn on airplane mode - ticked
"On device unlock" - all unticked
"Smart battery saver" - ticked
"security level" - low

It will also repeatedly play a bloody annoying voice prompt when the battery is full and charger connected - to disable it untick "enable battery full beep"

HTH

[mf455]

I'll try those settings.

I didn't realise you had to wait for the device to go into standby / lock mode for "airplane mode" to be activitated.

I also found I had v2.5 so I'l update to v2.7 as well.

Thanks

[Fonefixer]

What I did was use the settings above then rebooted the scroll - then works fine.

V2.7 puts a batt temp indicator as well as batt level in notification bar - you can disable it in settings.

[mf455]

Upgraded to v2.7, set the settings you suggested, let the device lock, unlocked and rebooted (just to be sure). All work fine now.

Thank again