How to speed up your phone and save battery power!

Just read this tip on the Vodafone forum to speed up your phone and save battery power.

Go to settings
Then Location and Security
Switch off use GPS satallites

As simple as that............just turn it back on if you want to use GPS services.

Yes I know it may be a big inconvenience for some but as soon as I did it I noticed a huge difference in response and virtually no more lag, I've still to see how much battery it'll save but I've only just tried it.

Hopefully once froyo is released we wont have to resort to such trickery...............hopefully.

An easier way to switch your GPS on/off is to download one of the many widgets from the Android Market that allow you to turn it on/off with one touch.  I use switchpro, it gives you the option to have one click options on all your important settings.

Toothandnail, go search this subject on any of the Android websites and I think you will find that GPS does run your battery down even when not in use.  I know for a fact that over a year ago when I started turning my GPS off my battery improved drastically.  If this wasn't true then all of these developers that have apps to turn off functions have wasted quite of bit of time.  Check out androidandme.com and androidcentral.com.

I don't know if you guys have a different Samsung, but if you pull down the notification window you can toggle the gps on or off.

Hi All

Well my battery is driving me insane 8 hours since unplugged last night had 92% battery woke up this morning and got 69% battery.  I didnt even use my phone in the night, so now its on charge again this morning with 69% I have to charge it because I am out all day and I know that battery wont last.
I mean I only charged it yesterday but what choice do I have, when you switch ur phone to silent on the night is there anything about a sleep mode cus I aint sure or does this mean it goes into sleep mode.

Shellxx

This is exactly what I was talking about above.  Your phone is a computer and it has things that run all the time including GPS.  In order for you to conserve battery you need to deactivate some of your different systems while you are not using them.  For example, while I'm out running around on 3G, I turn off auto-sync.  Why?  To conserve battery.  I have been tinkering for over a 1 1/2 years now with my Android phones.  It can last me through the day with heavy internet, email, and texting.  You just need to be conservative with things you don't need.  Obviously, while emailing I do turn auto-sync on/off occasionally to update my phone.  All you need to do is play with your phone for awhile and see what will get you through the day if you don't have the ability to charge it.  You could also invest in another battery so you wouldn't have to worry about anything.  Do some research on the massives amounts of information out there.  There are many good Android sites that can answer any question you may have.

I dont know what to do for the best if you was in my position what would you do, my battery was charged last night to full and its now on 32%.  When I wake in the morning I dont have any text messages but then obviously even though its on silent its still running.
What do you advise me to do?
I do go on the net on it but not all the time.
But then when I am my breaks at work I do check it then
Shell.xx

Well when I look at the bottom at the notifications it will come up tehre if I have a friend request or something but then I guess I could try turning that off to see if that would help.
xx