BatteryFu battery saver (v. 1.43) Разработано Toby Kurien |
BatteryFu (pronounced Battery-Foo, like in Kung-Fu) extends battery life (and lowers data usage) by changing always-on mobile/wifi data to periodic sync (meaning it disables your mobile data and/or Wifi, then checks your accounts every X minutes). This also provides a way to manage your data usage.
BatteryFu is also great for tablet use to keep accounts sync'd even when the tablet is in sleep/standby. Normally accounts won't sync due to WiFi going to sleep (see "WiFi sleep policy").
There are lots of other battery savers on the market, but this one has been around since 2010, and has no ads or spyware (see permissions).
Features:
* Lean and fast (see download size!)
* Work for all networks (CDMA/GSM) from Gingerbread up
* Notification icon: lets you switch modes even while inside another app.
* Data while screen is on, with screen off delay
* Data while charger is plugged in
* Pre-defined modes: Travel mode, Online mode, Offline mode, Night mode, etc.
* BatteryMinder shows battery stats, like usage during screen off, kernel wakelocks, etc.
* 3rd party app support (using intents) so that you can control BatteryFu from your own app. Email me for details.
Note:
* Do not move to SD
* Do not task kill
* Disable before un-installing
* If your battery drains more than about 10% overnight with Night mode on, then something else is draining your battery. Uninstall some apps and/or reboot.
Tips for even better battery life:
* Select "2g networks only" in Android settings
* Turn off "Network notification" under Wifi settings
* Uninstall apps if your phone is running out of RAM (e.g. slow to get to homescreen or switch apps)
* If your battery life is out of control, reset phone to factory defaults, install BatteryFu and be amazed! Then slowly re-install some apps
* Do not put apps on SD card if they run in the background. SD card access drains battery.
* Some Samsung devices drain battery overnight after Maps/Navigation is used (even with GPS off). Turning off "Use wireless networks" under Location settings and rebooting seems to help. You will see this as a long "gps" wakelock in BatteryMinder.
See website for more information, if you have problems, or would like to donate. Email for support, I don't check comments.
Similar apps: JuiceDefender, GreenPower, ApnDroid, BetterBatteryStats, CPUSpy
Tested and works great on: HTC Dream (G1), HTC Hero, Huawei Ideos U8150, Archos Internet Tablet, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Samsung Galaxy S2, Samsung Galaxy Note, Samsung Galaxy S3
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[2013-09-15] A Google User: Its awesome But I can't understand the settings. I only want my Wifi to turn off when screen shuts down and turns on when its active. But I couldn't put a setting to it ! help me if someone can. I've uninstalld it. |
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[2013-09-14] A Google User: Toggle WiFi just turns WiFi off Needs instructions . Don't understand how it works. |
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[2013-08-31] A Google User: perfect works perfect! it only eats a small size of data. I salute the dev.. I highly recommend this app. God speed. |
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[2013-06-26] A Google User: I like it but. I like it but wish they had a battery level icon. That's all that is missing. There is no icon. What is the reason this? I am sure that adding such a feature will not increase the apps size too much. 5 stars if added. |
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[2013-06-11] A Google User: Great App It does wat it says. I'm able to control my data with the widget and it auto syncs at intervals I can set. Its very useful. My only request is that u make a different widget with a better settings short cut. Its hard to hit sometimes. |
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[2013-05-29] A Google User: Excellent This app really works. Simple and free of any adv gives a much needed boost to the battery life :-) |
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[2013-04-26] A Google User: Good, needs refinement The settings are a little hard to understand. On the Galaxy S3 sometimes the data will not turn back on. |
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[2013-03-28] A Google User: Perfect Perfect app! Excellent performance.. |
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[2013-03-28] A Google User: Light n fully loaded This is the smallest battery app and full of great feature. Only need battery percentage icon, so I dont have to install additional battery icon. |
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[2013-03-06] A Google User: Finest Battery Saver App So far..... Its the Finest Battery Saver App So far Developed. 1. Does what its is meant to do "Saves Battery by toggling data" 2. Very Light , takes 1/10th size of any other apps,check in your phone Application folder. 3. No Non Sense features 4. Clean interface 5.last but not least its actually saves battery. I'm impressed !!! good job |
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[2013-02-09] A Google User: Super data and battery saver Superb app. Saves battery and periodically turns on/off data. Has option to turn off data when phone is on every time. Works great. |
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[2013-02-01] A Google User: Good Very good |
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[2013-02-01] A Google User: Saving battery & data! 2 of the most important aspects of your phone: 1: Battery life. More or less doubled as the unnecessary radios are switched off while phone is not using them (normally they remain on in the background) 2: Data. Reduced, as unnecessary background updates are not performed (do you really care if Android only checks for system updates every couple hours?) Great app and so small, keep it up! |
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[2013-01-30] A Google User: Love It helped save my battery keep it up |
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[2013-01-24] A Google User: a very capable app with some room to improve a very good no nonsense which does what it says but lacks whitelisting of apps. Internet radio won't work or other similar streaming apps won't work when the screen is off. other similar battery saver apps have this feature and this app lacks only this feature. very light weight and friendly to ram memory. |
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[2013-01-18] A Google User: Pure gold !!!! Best of its kind. A battery saver that has no equal. This dev has raised the bar and is miles ahead of the wannabe competition with their high priced bloat ware. Bravo & thanks. |
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[2012-12-11] A Google User: Good Very good |
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[2012-11-20] A Google User: Night mode? As far as I can see it doesn't automatically flip into night mode properly. At least the battery left after a night unplugged is different if you manually select night mode as to when you leave it in standard to do its own thing. Either way, it doesn't seem to do a particularly good job of saving that battery compared to turned wifi off entirely. If the wifi is turned on only a fraction of the time, then much more should be left available. Needs work. |
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[2012-11-08] A Google User: Excellent This is a really good app, and a real batterysaver. The only thing missing is a choice to disable batteryfu when clicking on the notification bar. Now we have the option to set "Travel" or "Always off". Hoping for an option to be "Always on" as well. You have to enter the application and disable the app to do this. |
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[2012-11-04] A Google User: Rsl Good app ! Should add volume control tho |
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[2012-11-04] A Google User: Complete battery drain in minutes |
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[2012-10-26] A Google User: Working great Saves me alot of battery |
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[2012-10-24] A Google User: Awesome app Really works like charm. Its so small. I uninstalled JD. I have everything i need in this small app. JuiceDefender cant really defend itself against this app. Nice one |
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[2012-10-15] A Google User: Waste of time |
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[2012-09-24] A Google User: Please add smaller "data on" increments Eg every 5, 7, 10 min to turn on data, otherwise, great app |
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[2012-09-17] A Google User: Amazing! Best battery saving app! Yeah the internet goes off but its perfect when your not using your phone. Love it :) |
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[2012-09-13] A Google User: .....3hrs later, full battery dead. WTF?! |
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[2012-09-10] A Google User: Best on markey No ads, customizable, no personal info collected. |
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[2012-09-08] A Google User: Excellent. If you set it up right it works as good if not better than Juice Defender plus it's free. Normally my galaxy s3 phone would burn approx 1-2 percent per hour while the screen is sleeping. I now burn about 1 percent for every 3-4 hours of use when the phone is sleeping. You can't beat that! |
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[2012-09-07] A Google User: Top App works perfectly on Samsung YP-G70 I have been looking for something like this for ages but missed it because I was searching under WiFi for a toggling device. This app is totally user configurable and you can choose whether or not to toggle mobile data, which I would not want to do unless I had an unlimited data plan. You can choose to have an icon on the notification bar and detailed status information is also given in the notification area, which is useful. The app is only a few kilobytes and uses virtually no power itself. If you use BatteryFU's own menu (main screen) to control your WiFi, you will not create any conflicts with scheduled events. A 2-star reviewer has not realised this! It works perfectly and is completely reliable. Also works well on my wife's Sony Xperia. BatteryFU is better than some similar paid-for apps, is free and I have not seen any adverts so a big thank you to the developer. EXCELLENT |
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[2012-09-03] A Google User: Needs work. Does not re-enable data after night mode. SGS3. |
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[2012-08-23] A Google User: Excellent Everything I needed and wanted. All apps should be this well designed and efficient! |
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[2012-08-22] A Google User: very lightweight, free and ad free like juice defender (which I paid for but didn't work) except it's so small. only thing is I had to install wifi fixer because wifi wouldn't resume automatically on screen unlock, similar to jd |
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[2012-08-13] A Google User: App Coo Chizz |
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[2012-07-24] A Google User: Don't move to card or it stops. Seems to work,unlike others. |
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[2012-07-20] A Google User: Partially work Xperia mini pro ics 4.0.4, night mode doesn't work... |
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[2012-06-30] A Google User: THE BATTERY APP To be the best, here we have the elegance and sleakness in just 70k. Unlike the competitors, all of which are around or over a meg!? Free shouldn't mean bloatware, this is that example. |
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[2012-06-30] A Google User: Mj Genius! |
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[2012-06-25] A Google User: More duration options It would be nice if you add more off durations like 1 min 2 min and more on durations like 15 seconds |
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[2012-06-23] A Google User: Lifesaver... I never thought this would work :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :0ssshhh.. don't tell anyone.! ;) xo |
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[2012-06-20] A Google User: This is the battery app you've been looking for. I tried JuiceDefender, Green, every ohter battery app under the sun. BatteryFu is, without a doubt, the best battery-saving app ever. (I am not affiliated with the app, or its creator.) You can set regular sync, and it works every time. I freaking love this thing. I would have paid for it (after a trial period, of course). Seriously, try this (and shut off your other battery saving apps and syncs), and you will see what I mean. Kudos to creator!!! |
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[2012-06-15] A Google User: Could be better. 3 things missing to make this the best app.... 1st. Battery level notification. 2nd. Widgets. 3rd. Shorter time intervals for syncing data. 15 minutes is too long. How about 5 or 10? Think about it. |
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[2012-06-15] A Google User: V 1.41 - looks good Return to normal. Thanks. |
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[2012-06-14] A Google User: Great Saves power well on my phone. Nice. |
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[2012-06-10] A Google User: Great idea, does not seem to work on Motorola i1, data sync had to be manually reconfigured to work again. I wish the app could detect device limits. |
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[2012-06-02] A Google User: Nice Great app |
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[2012-05-12] A Google User: Galaxy S Maybe bug? When Standart mode (with "Wait till screen unlocked") selected after Offline mode, Data don't restored (if enabled). Display at this time is turned on. Good way - save state before change mode, and restore it if needed. It would be nice if you add "marker" in menu from status bar for active mode (Standart, Online, Offline, Night). For example: * Standart mode (Data managed by app, if selected) Online mode. Offline mode. Nignt mode (Data managed by app, if selected) If user manually switch Data off, marker must be "Offline mode". Standart mode Online mode *Offline mode (always offline) Night mode If user manually switch Data on, marker must be "Online mode". Standart mode *Online mode (always online) Offline mode Night mode After select "Standart mode" or "Night mode" data managed by app. Sorry for my English :) |
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[2012-05-09] A Google User: Wasted my battery faster. |
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[2012-05-09] A Google User: Samsung galaxy Fit Works great. |
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[2012-05-06] A Google User: AWESOME! Thank you for making this free! |
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[2012-05-04] A Google User: Tito HTC one s good all u have to do is go to the app settings and put data of wen screen is off and it will tern it on when screen on locks now I can have mi live wallpaper on all the time good app |
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[2012-05-02] A Google User: Xcelent 4 times better battery life! |
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[2012-04-17] A Google User: It works! I think this one is the most # 1 battery saver app because it seems to make my battery life longer........(; THANK U VERY MUCH!!! |
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[2012-04-14] A Google User: Good |
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[2012-03-25] A Google User: Unpredictable I like what this app is supposed to be doing, but it seems to be inconsistent about doing it. It turns off the wireless while I'm actively using it, but then seems to turn it on while the device is off. To date, I haven't really seen much of an improvement in battery life either, so I'll uninstalling it shortly. |
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[2012-03-16] A Google User: Antwon Love it |
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[2012-03-06] A Google User: If a whitelist was added this app would be perfect. |
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[2012-03-03] A Google User: This is a brilliant concept - data on demand - but lately it slowed my mobile down very noticeably. |
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[2012-03-01] A Google User: Perfect Works great, and plenty of control. No problems after a whole month. |
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[2012-02-29] A Google User: Gagan Best apps Work it...... |
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[2012-02-21] A Google User: Great app |
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[2012-02-09] A Google User: Nice! Works nicely, best way to increase battery life. |
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[2012-01-31] A Google User: Samsung Galaxy S2 This works, pretty much the same functions as paid battery saver apps. Thanks Toby for making this free. To the people that have issues, you don't know how to use it, go back to using an old "dumb" phone, you don't deserve a smart phone. |
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[2012-01-27] A Google User: Last update, messed up with toggle data toggle data not working after last update.... |
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[2012-01-27] A Google User: Fixed Its fixed now. Great support. Thanks! |
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[2012-01-27] A Google User: Latest version works great! I had some problems with an upgrade. Got excellent customer support and now I'm back in business. This APP is a must for everyone! |
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[2012-01-26] A Google User: Bad Not usefull..... |
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[2012-01-22] A Google User: Adrian It drain the battery power faster on my galaxy S. When turn it on, phone battery last half aday,and i need to charge the Phone battery so to last till end of office hours b4 going home |
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[2011-12-15] A Google User: My phone has been shutting off and responding slow ever since this app was downloaded a few days ago. Will be deleting if this continues. |
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[2011-12-03] A Google User: The Best app so far, I am saying so because I been using so many software's including Green Power which it worked until I upgraded my phone to Samsung Galaxy S II and it stopped. Now with BatteryFu, and with friendly use of settings my battery last up to five days! Although for light use, and for heavy duty use about: eighw hours. |
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[2011-12-02] A Google User: ####@%@ No data after installing this garbage. WiFi still Works. |
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[2011-11-03] A Google User: Doesn't follow settings Even though wifi handling is turned off out keeps turning it on. Slow to reenable data when screen back on. Doesn't turn off data as configured. |
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[2011-11-02] A Google User: Amazing job :-) Wonderful battery saver app. Very responsive developer too.Really love the mode settings :) Looking forward to the update Toby. Hope all is well :-) |
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[2011-10-31] A Google User: What happen |
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[2011-10-28] A Google User: Simple yet amazing Awsome app..works great with galaxy s1 |
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[2011-10-25] A Google User: Tried it before ... not so bad... |
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[2011-10-25] A Google User: Tried juice defender which was recamended by Tmobile was a waste hope this works better apps killing my batt. |
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[2011-10-19] A Google User: Simple Works great, simple to set! |
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[2011-10-09] A Google User: The best tool The best battery saver that I try very configurable, small footprint memory usage, works with apndroid, perfect integration, enable 3G or WIFI in inte |
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[2011-10-09] A Google User: Dis is great my phone was good for two days |
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[2011-10-07] A Google User: Simply Garbage |
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[2011-10-05] A Google User: Doesn't turn wifi back on I want to like this, but I tell it to re-enable data when the screen is on, but it won't - have to reboot the phone to make it work. The concept is sound, was looking for a Juice Defender alternative. |
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[2011-09-22] A Google User: Best battery saver I ever used. My battery can now last 2 full days after using this app. Samsung Galaxy SII - Singapore |
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[2011-09-20] A Google User: Great battery saving, some user interface issues This makes my Samsung Galaxy S last for over 3 days, a huge improvement. But there is a problem. I'm running a custom ROM GalnetMIUI. The main menu shows all white - I can only see the options when I press and hold each one. I do not have this behaviour on any other application. |
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[2011-09-17] A Google User: Does what it tells Does what it tells |
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[2011-09-13] A Google User: BettFV |
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[2011-09-10] A Google User: Awesome. Thank you |
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[2011-09-06] A Google User: DONT INSTALL Its easier to install gps and internet connection disabling widgets. This just makes it more complicated. |
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[2011-09-04] A Google User: G2x Works great it doubles my battery, please fix widget, sometimes doesn't work |
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[2011-08-18] A Google User: Great app, occasional glitches with mobile data. |
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[2011-08-17] A Google User: Uninstalled and now phone can't connect to Internet :@ |
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[2011-08-15] A Google User: This is the best battery saver guys its saves more than 50% of my mobiles battery must have in every android... |
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[2011-08-13] A Google User: Great The simplest, cheapest, best way I've found to increase battery life. Works much better than juice defender which I paid for. |
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[2011-08-12] A Google User: great but i just changes my batt saver into the new one |
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[2011-08-03] A Google User: Works perfectly extend my battery life almost doubled. |
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[2011-08-03] A Google User: problems with uninstall Well it works. But when I uninstalled it it turned of data/3g. Can not turn on again... xperia x8 |
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[2011-07-27] A Google User: Easy to use interface to switch modes really saves my battery would recommend |
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[2011-07-23] A Google User: Widget tends to stop working, and if you enable WiFi or data it will turn it off during it's schedule. Otherwise a simple app. Juice defender=better |
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[2011-07-13] A Google User: disables wifi if streaming with tunein and connected power plug:( |
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[2011-07-07] A Google User: Wonderful app. Suggestion to add GPS control also inside app to save more battery. |
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