Comments on: Review: Virgin Mobile’s HTC One V Counts In My Book https://techcitement.com/hardware/review-does-virgin-mobiles-htc-one-rule/ get excited Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:22:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Mordechai Luchins https://techcitement.com/hardware/review-does-virgin-mobiles-htc-one-rule/#comment-31459 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:14:00 +0000 http://techcitement.com/?p=15018#comment-31459 In reply to Jeff Wiesneski.

Having it on WiFi whenever possible will absolutely help battery life. I try to stay on the cell towers as much as possible. In this case, I found the phone draining faster than other devices that I have recently reviewed.

I don’t mind Sense as much as other skins, but yes, it would be nice to be able to run straight Android.

]]> By: Jeff Wiesneski https://techcitement.com/hardware/review-does-virgin-mobiles-htc-one-rule/#comment-31453 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 14:52:00 +0000 http://techcitement.com/?p=15018#comment-31453 I’ve been using the One V for a while, and am confused about the comments about battery life. I use the phone as my work phone, so I do a lot of checking notes, e-mails, and taking pictures of errors on computers, as well as personal phone, which includes downloading podcasts, listening to music, youtube watching at times, Twitter and Facebook, etc…

I can pretty easily get 48 hours out of the battery with average use, on weekends when I use it less I can get almost 3 days. Maybe it’s because I have it on WiFi whenever possible instead of 3g?

In any case, the only downfall I see in the One V is being locked down by HTC, and not having a pure version of Android, but I’m able to get it close by rooting it, uninstalling their apps and running my own launcher instead of Sense, which also speeds things up.

Hopefully someone will be able to figure out how to S-Off the phone (enforced by HTC) so I can finally put a cutoms ROM on it, but my attempts to bypass the S-Off so far haven’t panned out.

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