A lot of people own an android phone these days, including
my family. I used to have a simple phone and I’ve had that for almost five
years. If it wasn’t for the battery, I might just keep it until it’s broken
(literally).
I used to dislike androids because of its QWERTY keyboard. Despite
that, I can type with 10 fingers on laptop/desktop. But I figure it’s the small
size that makes it difficult for me to do so. My thumbs are pretty big so I
will most probably press the wrong letters and instead, type something else.
Maybe because I’m so used to using it, I love candy bar
phones. I can type without focusing my eyes on the display. It’s the right
size; I won’t have to worry about my fingers pressing something else. It’s just
perfect.
Not to mention, the battery. Old phones – mostly candy bar
ones – can “stay alive” for more than three days; a week if you don’t use it.
You can go camping and not worry about forgetting to bring a charger because
your phone will still be alive when you’re already on your way back. Of course,
this doesn’t apply if you can’t keep your hands off of it.
My android is Samsung Galaxy Wonder, only two months old. To
be honest, I didn’t understand how to use it properly at first. It was
confusing because I wasn’t used to using it before. It took me awhile to familiarize
myself with the touch screen.
Like I said before, I’m really
used to candy bar phones. When I found out about my new android’s phone, I was
more than surprised. I wouldn’t have expected myself to always charge it every
night. No matter how long I charged it, it’s always dead by the end of the day.
Sometimes it didn’t even last that long, so the charger was always in my bag.
I even turned off the mobile data during the day because I
was mostly busy that time. But since I bought a smart phone, what’s the use if
not for the mobile data? My friend even said that I shouldn’t have bought it if
I wanted the battery to last longer. So I just accepted my fate (?) and dealt
with it.
People told me to look for a battery saver app. I was
slightly skeptical because it might do something else instead. They said that
it helped extending the battery life a bit, but not entirely. So I complied and
looked for the app.
For the first few days, I was in love with it. It clearly
extended my battery for a few hours. I didn’t have to worry about a dying phone
on my way home because mobile data would be off if I didn’t touch my phone at
all. It had a night schedule where the phone could sleep when I did. It also
had a schedule to run a background sync for an interval of several minutes whenever
the screen was off. Basically, I was grateful for having come across this app.
But as time went by, one problem appeared: my phone started lagging.
It took me longer to open an app, twitter for example. It used to be in a blink
of an eye. But not anymore. It’s stressful because I had to be patient when I wanted
to be quick.
I couldn’t take it anymore so I decided to stop using the
app for a while (I didn’t uninstall it, though). I just continued what I did
before: turning off the mobile data when I was at work and turning it on again after
I finished. My phone didn’t lag anymore so that’s good.
I googled again and found another app: Easy Battery Saver
(EBS). In my opinion, this app is much simpler to understand and much easier to
operate. I installed it and chose the Advanced Customized Mode because I could
choose which tasks allowed to do and such.
The night schedule is better because I can adjust the time
for the phone to “sleep”, whereas in JD I can’t do that unless I pay for the Plus
or Ultimate version. This app also offers more delay time for the night
schedule than JD. One time, my phone lasted for two days, which is my record so
far. Granted, I didn’t use my phone as much as I do usually.
Alas, nobody is perfect. The same saying goes to apps as
well. My phone lags because of this app. Once, I had to restart my android
because the screen kept turning off and on without me doing anything.
Having said that however, I still have both JD and EBS
installed in this phone. But I’m currently using EBS because I’m in love with
the services it offers. Maybe there are other apps much better than these two. But
as good as they might seem to be, there will be weaknesses as well.
Maybe the only solution is to buy a simple phone, not a
smart one ^^
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