Better smartphone battery life please

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I used to think this is my own fault but really, I’m not that intensive a user on my phone. From the information provided below I’d say it’s more of a wifi hardware/software issue. I’m not complaining about Cyanogenmod specifically, as reading around it seems that a lot of smartphones (not just Android-based) suffer from battery life issues. CM7 is a massive step up on the ZTE Blade compared to Orange’s horrific 2.1-based stock ROM, especially once you replace the default CM7 launcher (ADW) with LauncherPro.

So yeah, manufacturers, please provide more efficient wifi hardware and drivers 😉

A very bad day

ZTE Blade battery drained to 22% in 7 hours on CM7 nightlyZTE Blade battery drained to 22% in 7 hours on CM7 nightly (details)

A pretty standard day

ZTE Blade battery drained to 15% in 13 hours on CM7 nightly

A good day

ZTE Blade battery drained to 65% in 15 hours on CM7 nightly

Room for improvement

Honestly, I’m not sure why things went quite so well on that good day – overall things vary day-to-day so much I feel there’s plenty of room for improvement in this area by the manufacturers. Also, where I live has bad mobile coverage, so that probably doesn’t help the battery much.

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