Iphone or Samsung Galaxy 2

[jaykay]

My camera on my S2 has decided to stop working, only taken about 30 photos with it

other than that love the phone

[Evman]

Is anybody getting more than 2 days of battery life out of theirs? Seriously I'm not doing anything all that intensive on it. Saturday afternoon I booted it up, installed some anitvirus programs on it then got my widgets and e-mail setup properly and transfered my sim data accross. By Sunday night battery was dead.

Charged overnight, unplugged it this morning, listened to like 5 tracks on the plane back to work and thats it. Rest of the day no usage as I have no signal where I am and I'm looking at my battery and its 1/4 used already? Is this normal?

Two full days of normal use is going to be a stretch. The reason your battery drained so much is because it maxed out its antennas to try and find a signal. You'll find that if you were in a good service area your battery life will greatly increase. As has been said, try aeroplane mode if you know there's not going to be any signal for a while.

[team illucid]

I just got my Galaxy 2 over the weekend and so far so good. Piece of cake to setup and I have pretty much everything running the way I want it. The only thing though is the battery life.

Is anybody getting more than 2 days of battery life out of theirs? Seriously I'm not doing anything all that intensive on it. Saturday afternoon I booted it up, installed some anitvirus programs on it then got my widgets and e-mail setup properly and transfered my sim data accross. By Sunday night battery was dead.

Charged overnight, unplugged it this morning, listened to like 5 tracks on the plane back to work and thats it. Rest of the day no usage as I have no signal where I am and I'm looking at my battery and its 1/4 used already? Is this normal?

I get about 12-13 hours out of mine .. rooted and running CheckROM 1.0 with Siyah 2.1 kernel - that is with a dozen calls, some music, 40 minutes worth of solid gaming, 20-40 sms and responding to 20-30 emails, twitter, facebook and linkedin. I would consider my business use of the phone to be average or maybe 6/10. Other guys in the office are lucky to see lunch time before recharging (standard ROMs, one on Telstra the other on Optus).

Emails are pushed via Gmail and Exchange, wifi and BT are on and connected all of the time.

The best I have seen out of this phone with a limited usage by me (on a Sunday) was 34 hours before it hit its 15% reminder, at which stage I plugged it in to charge.

[team illucid]

My camera on my S2 has decided to stop working, only taken about 30 photos with it

other than that love the phone

Maybe try a reset and see if the camera comes back to life.

[jaykay]

Maybe try a reset and see if the camera comes back to life.

Tried that..been into the Vodaphone store I got it...they can't work it out never had one do that before...typical I always find the "first" one

Now I gotta go into the city repair store to see if they can repair it or not..

BTW what does flight mode do ???

[rodp]

I just got my Galaxy 2 over the weekend and so far so good. Piece of cake to setup and I have pretty much everything running the way I want it. The only thing though is the battery life.

As much as it makes absolutely zero sense with battery conditioning being absolute bunk with modern batteries.. I found my SGS2 battery phenomenal when I first got it, awful shortly after (having to recharge within a day) and now going 2+ days without charge with no change in usage patterns.

Ultimately, it depends what you're doing on the phone, though. Heavy use = heavy battery. In those instances, there's not many places I go that doesn't have the ability to charge through USB.

[Deco28]

What anti-virus apps do you guys recommend for Android? I've got the HTC Sensation.

[jaykay]

What anti-virus apps do you guys recommend for Android? I've got the HTC Sensation.

Norton Mobile Security

[mrtockley]

What anti-virus apps do you guys recommend for Android? I've got the HTC Sensation.

Ha what's an anti virus app?? Welcome to the world of open source!

[team illucid]

BTW what does flight mode do ???

Flight mode disables all of the packet switching stuff .. Radio, phone, bt, wifi so you can use it on a plane, hospitals etc.

GT-I9100

[rodp]

None. Use trusted sources.

[rodp]

Ha what's an anti virus app?? Welcome to the world of open source!

First virus I ever received was a rick roll on my iPhone.

[Evman]

Ha what's an anti virus app?? Welcome to the world of open source!

If you want a lesson in custom ROMs, 4.3" and larger screens and more than one hardware design just ask away.

Or you could just stop trying to stir shit.

[HazzaHSV]

I am generally a very light user of my phones, not many calls, sms. More a bit of surfing and games. I get minimum 2 days, and maximum 4 days with that usage. When I did some idle baselining I worked out the phone on stock standard ROM with a few basic apps running in the background (data manager, battery widget, couple of weather apps, etc) uses 20% per 24 hour period without wifi on, and 25% per 24 hour period with wifi on. This is not using the phone at all except maybe one short call/sms a day, and a few minutes here and there with the screen on, and assuming good service signal.

You can add another 20-25% on to that if you get the Samsung extended battery. Custom roms will increase efficiency even more. But if I game heavily on it or use the sat nav I can drain the battery in 3 hours.

Anti virus is a waste of time IMO, just get a firewall app and an ad blocker.

[HSV,_I_GOT_ONE]

What anti-virus apps do you guys recommend for Android? I've got the HTC Sensation.

I'm using AVG as well as Lookout. I don't know too much about Lookout but it seems to be running in the background all the time which leads me to believe this is the cause of my short battery life.

The reason I decided to download Lookout was that it could track your mobile phone if you ever lost it via the website. Also it can remotely trigger an alarm to the phone even if its on silent to help you find it.