
Originally Posted by
matt
I must say that my battery life hasn't been great lately, but it might just be because I'm fiddling with the phone all the time now, where I wasn't before, and it wasn't quite making it through the day anymore before I flashed it anyway, so I think my battery might be getting a bit old.
I am trying to keep it charged up as much as possible so I don't get stuck with no phone when there's load shedding, so I haven't seen yet how it does over the course of the day.
What I have discovered, which is awesome, is the profiles feature, which lets you turn things like wifi, bluetooth, gps, portable wifi, etc on and off (and change the different volumes, etc, etc). What's really awesome is that it has triggers, so I've now set it up so if it connects to any of my wifi networks, it switches to my work or home profile (which turns bluetooth off), and when I disconnect from the wifi (by eg moving out of range on my way to the car), it switches to my default profile (wifi and bluetooth on), then when I start up my car, the bluetooth connects, which switches the phone to the car profile (and turns off wifi). And it all happens automagically.
I also found Google Keep, which I'm now using rather than re-installing Evernote, and I've been playing with the "OK Google" feature (from the home screen, say "OK Google", and then ask it something, and it'll do a Google Search, sometimes even reads an answer back to you (eg, say "OK Google, what is the answer to life, the universe, and everything?"), and it actually works really well. I don't normally like speech recognition software because it doesn't work well without an American accent, but I have mine set to UK English, and it's picking what I say up very impressively.