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\"\"I’ve been using an Android phone for work for a few months now (a Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini: GT-I8190N)\u00a0and, on the whole, I’ve been pretty disappointed. \u00a0The user interface is clunky (and downright confusing at times) and the battery life terrible – but I’m also more than a little aware that there is a certain amount of OEM- or carrier-supplied software on the device and that a “stock” Android phone might be a little more “polished”.<\/p>\n

I started to look into wiping the device and starting afresh but, after consulting with Dan Delaney (@dan_delaney<\/a>), who knows more about this stuff than I do, \u00a0I decided not to bother as it looked as though I’d need to root the device – something I’d be happy to do on my own phone but am not permitted to do on a company device that’s connected to our corporate infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Even so, I’ve made a few tweaks over recent months that have slightly improved the experience, and I thought I’d make a note of them here…<\/p>\n

First up, battery life. \u00a0Three things that have made an enormous difference:<\/p>\n

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  1. Firstly, I dropped the polling interval for email in the settings for TouchDown<\/a> (the app used for ActiveSync connectivity to my Exchange email and calendar). \u00a0Instead of push email, I poll every 10 minutes, or every hour during off-peak times (I have peak times set as 07:00-19:00 Monday to Friday).<\/li>\n
  2. Secondly, I removed the native ActiveSync connection to my Office 365 account as, between them, Exchange Services and TouchDown were drinking a lot of juice.<\/li>\n
  3. Finally, I installed the free Battery Doctor<\/a> app, which not only intelligently charges the device but also watches out for apps that are draining the battery and gives me the ability to disable them.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Another change I made was to install the Android 4.4 Kit Kat Launcher. I may be stuck with Android “Jelly Bean” 4.1.2 but I can at least have some of the latest bits – although I now have such an odd collection of widgets that it looks a complete mess (sorry guys, Microsoft has tiles nailed in Windows\/Windows Phone). \u00a0The process for installing the Kit Kat parts is described on WonderHowTo<\/a>\u00a0and I have Google Play Services, Google Search and the Google Launcher all running happily now.<\/p>\n

    Still bogged down with Samsung and other bundled software, I decided to follow Jon Spriggs (@jontheniceguy<\/a>)’s guide to stripping a UK O2 Samsung Galaxy SIII Mini down to the bare essentials<\/a>. \u00a0Jon’s guide is based on a “clean” device and mine has a load of extra apps I’ve installed, plus the customisations I mentioned earlier but I used it to disable some of the built in apps that I don’t use (if you can’t disable them, uninstall updates first, then the disable option should be available). \u00a0Unfortunately, I can’t see how to hide the unused apps, now that I have changed the launcher!<\/p>\n

    My Android adventure continues… but it’s still very tempting to wipe the device and start again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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