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le n, the phone's only 3 months old. Work went with this over the 4 because it was free. @@
ehab, I turned of the automatic time zone determination 2 hours after I installed 5.0. It's been off ever since. I closed all my applications last night, and it's still going on.
tiggy, I don't think it is. I only have running what's necessary, and now I'm having an issue with my exchange emails not showing up on the iPhone until I click on them in Outlook.
Argh. So not happy.
hmmm...maybe it's just a lemon.
Erin, when are you looking to upgrade? Right now, T-Mobile has a lot of their 4G Android smartphones for free.
Not until March. I'm an early researcher. I know that comes as a shock...
But you like the Androids?
What is the difference between sleep and hibernate? I mean, I know that they're different, but...what is the purpose of each? In fact, what is the purpose of ever turning off the computer instead of hibernating?
When your computer is asleep, your session is kept in RAM, and it is still drawing power (although much less than when your computer is awake). If your battery dies completely (or you remove it), your computer's RAM will be wiped out and your session will be lost.
When your computer is hibernating, the contents of the computer's RAM is written out to disk, so the system can lose power completely, and your session can still be restored.
The drawback is that it takes time to write the RAM to disk (and read it back), while sleeping and waking up can be nearly instantaneous.
It's also easy for things to go wrong coming out of hibernation since it's trying to bring up all the drivers while maintaining state. I generally prefer either to sleep or shutdown depending on the situation.
Waking from sleeping isn't instantaneous in my install of W7. All I can say effectively is that it uses more juice and it doesn't require me to enter a BIOS password, just my Windows one.
But hibernating does use some.
So my boss (intially typed that as bios) is having the same iPhone issue. Finally figured out that it's the Exchange account causing the problem. No solution yet, though.
But you like the Androids?
I do, just don't expect a long battery life. Downloading Juice Defender was the smartest thing I did. But I like it so much better than my old BlackBerry.
can you delete the exchange account and then add it back in?
How do you define long battery life? What's standard for non-Android smartphones? And what services do you have running?
One thing misleading about Android--your average task killers are not good for you. Don't use them. I think Juice Defender just works on the big battery killers and leaves your standard apps alone. So it's good.