How to Make Your Palm Pre’s Battery Last Longer!
Here’s a really simply way to make your Palm Pre’s battery last longer by simply turning your LCD brightness down to the lowest setting, which is still too bright for me.
Before doing this, I got about a day of normal use out of my Palm Pre. Afterwards, I am now getting at least 3 days of normal use without recharging.
I think Sprint messed up by launching the new Palm Pre’s with too-bright LCD settings. This is probably why people are getting the wrong idea Pre’s battery is short when it’s actually the LCD setting.
I did even compare my Palm Pre’s lowest LCD brightness setting with an iPhone 3GS and it’s actually still brighter than 3GS’s normal LCD brightness setting.
There goes the mystery why the battery didn’t last long.
Here’s how to adjust your LCD brightness.
1. Launch your Launcher and go to LCD and Lock:
2) Then set the brightness all the way down like this:
3) Enjoy 3-4 times more battery life.
Sometimes, solutions can be so simple they are right in front of your nose.
Also, you can save additional power by always keeping your wifi and bluetooth turned off if you are not using them.
If you use the Palm Pre e-mail, try to set the e-mail settings to only check every hour.
For those of you who need even longer life, you can try this Seidio aftermarket battery, which supposedly lasts 20% longer.
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August 26th, 2009 at 12:45 am
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August 28th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
I thought having wifi turned on used less power than the sprint data network. Otherwise, good ideas
August 28th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
Since the data is always on anyways, it'd save more if you turn off the wifi. Of course, if you turn off the data/voice and turn on WiFi only, you might save power but I don't think you will be able to receive call then.
September 3rd, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Brilliant! Now why didn't I think of that? I've only had it three months or more now!
@mhfeder
September 3rd, 2009 at 11:22 pm
That's what I thought, WHY did Palm leave default setting so HIGH? Maybe they were high.
September 5th, 2009 at 6:31 am
Thank you for different hack that you submit your blog.
I am the editor PalmPre France and I wanted to ask you if you accept that you translate your Hack into French and published on PalmPre France.
Of course the source is linked for each ticket.
You can join me by mail
Thank you for your work
ps: Excuse my request here as comment but I could not find a contact on the blog
September 5th, 2009 at 6:48 am
Sure, so long as you do link back, I have no problems with that, I'd have to thank you for that actually. Thanks!
September 12th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Hate to break it to you but this “fix” does NOT give you 3-4 days. Either you have a super battery, hardly use your Pre at all, or have an anorexic Pre (doesn't wanna eat the battery? … anorexic? Get it? … never mind.)
Joking aside folks, I definitely recommend lowering the brightness down to minimum, but don't expect miracles with this alone. There IS a tweak where you can reduce the minimum brightness even more using WebOS Quick Installer via precentral.net … I recommend that tweak, among others!
February 10th, 2010 at 5:20 am
Proper maintenance of a lithium-based battery requires keeping the electrons in it moving occasionally. Go through at least one charge cycle per month (charging the battery to 100% and then completely running it down).