Sep 19 2011

Improved & Excellent Battery Life on Nokia N8 with Symbian Belle

Posted by Jade Bryan in N-Series, N8, Nokia, Symbian Anna, Symbian Belle, Symbian^3, tags: anna, battery, Belle, N8, Review

Symbian Belle on Nokia N8 status bar and battery app monitor 3 Improved & Excellent Battery Life on Nokia N8 with Symbian Belle

I’ve been using the Nokia N8 running on Symbian Belle for many weeks now after I returned the Nokia 701. I recently installed the CFW v111.020 on it, ditching the old Belle version. And I noticed one impressive experience on Belle aside from UI, the battery life performance.

My Nokia N8 running on Belle gave me no aches anymore especially on the annoying connectivity issues like popping 3G and WiFi choices every time I connect in a new place. Instead, the Nokia N8 now have improved status bar which is integrated with connectivity programs like WiFi, Bluetooth, 3G, etc.

Also, the battery consumption is more efficient. Meaning, if I just tap to turn off the WiFi or 3G, it will automatically turn off these program and will not bother you anymore. But you can of course easily navigate to this programs by just going to status bar to turn it on again. Simple, fast and brilliant change over the old Symbian^3 UI and performance.

One statistical example: I charged my N8 yesterday and have been on standby for a day, after that I played songs on it for 30min while on 3G. And I can see the battery status on top and both in battery app are still on the top level. This is not just one typical basis example, I noticed it on other cases too. It really improved from Anna to Belle with exceptions on the screen saver I use.

Symbian Belle on Nokia N8 status bar and battery app monitor 1 Improved & Excellent Battery Life on Nokia N8 with Symbian Belle

So are you also eager to try out Belle? And when will Nokia N8 and other Symbian Anna devices will receive the Symbian Belle update? The Belle update date is not yet specified but Nokia gave promise that this will arrive in Q4 this year, October to December, but we don’t know which month, maybe during Nokia World 2011.

Anonymous

well, I’m suffering from the battery life, which is one of the big reasons i bought the n8, it doesn’t hold charge very well using wifi!
Lloyd

Can we please just get Anna in the US? We’ll worry about Belle later.
Blazeddaily

I have a feeling the rest of the world will have Belle before the US gets Anna…
http://www.themobilefanatics.com Mike Macias

Just installed this latest version. Everything seems faster and I can’t wait to see how the battery holds up!
Jason_b

tired of waiting for anna going to try my hand at flashing bella
http://www.app4mobile.net/2011/09/20/improved-excellent-battery-life-on-nokia-n8-with-symbian-belle.html Improved & Excellent Battery Life on Nokia N8 with Symbian Belle

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Anonymous

We already asked them but we still don’t have definite answer. It’s already out of our control. But we’ll try to make a post later.
Anonymous

You will surely hook with it, day by day, Mike.
PerfectMoment

Last charge 6 days ago and only lose 1%? Is that for real?
Bourne

that is not real Last charge 6 days ago, if u switch off your phone and then plug it to charger disconnect then turn it back on the the app will not notice you have charged the phone that is how he did it as well ,
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001278190704 Dhiraj Deshmukh

Copy of Android 2.2 Froyo
This is wrong They are coping android
Abs

copying what? Wat did they copy?
http://www.nokialino.it/2011/09/22/34888/ Durata batteria con Symbian Belle?

[...] Jade Bryan di Symbian World sostiene di aver testato Belle su N8 con ottimi risultati soprattutto dal punto di vista della durata della batteria. [...]
Nasrulz

No..definitely not..Nokia Never copy android..have you ever read the history about android(before and after been taken by google?.)..u read first,then u comment whether android copy nokia,or nokia copy android…before comment,u need to have knowledge first..,or else..everyone will call u stupid!
Anonymous

Hi there. Maemo was been around for years and even when Android was not yet around. I believe that Nokia gathered the concept of Symbian Belle from Maemo, MeeGo and Symbian but not from Android.
Anonymous

nothing does.

wifi its battery eater even on standby. 3g eats alot too
Anonymous

It obligates me to turn wifi on while at home! i can’t turn it off, and i don’t want to change my settings everytime i want to check facebook or tweet.
Hicham

Hi Mike,
How can i download the latest version please? Do you have any links.? Thanks
Ahakeem1

Guys , What is this products from nokia. Look like they dont care there goodwill. n9 meego , belle , anna , in wich phones.Bad days for nokia. find your self confirtable better than many.
rushi

wen will the n8 belle update come…………………………..
Ferje1

If only that was true. I upgraded to Bell less than 2 days ago and have had to charge my phone daily. I have turned on all the power saving options which I never had on before and it is worse. There is something in the background that it is eating the battery life but I have no applications running. I wonder if I can go back to Anna????
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1679584797 Karl Dwenson Tabiling

yeah same on mine.. i am charging my N8 almost daily and sometime the battery drains in the middle of the day.. i dont know why… wifi and bluetooth was turned off. no message or call.. whats happening to this OS. This never happened on my Symbian Anna.
http://twitter.com/MF28_Nijmegen Mark Flink

Same on my C7. Have to charge my battery every day, batterly life half of what is was with Anna.
NFC and BlueTooth are turned off, Energy saving turned on in WiFi settings.

I thought batery life was one of the improvements with Belle???
Sonu Saji Mammen

it’s de problem of that app….battery monitor……it’s not working in symbian belle…
Sonu Saji Mammen

it’s de problem of that app….battery monitor……it’s not working in symbian belle…wil not monitor battery life as in symbian anna……
http://twitter.com/subash_patel Subash Patel

I have the same issue with N8-Belle. I found an All in the store called “AppStop” I killed many background tasks that were not visible in the task-manager. I am now finger crossed to see how much time more my battery will provide. But definitely, Nokia has failed N8 with Belle update.
Ninocisco

Since I installed Belle last week my phone does ‘t make it till evening, so I wonder why you are so ex ited a out it…it does look nice, but not good overall (by the way: where has the command “open applications” ended up? Thanks