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I installed "System Tuner" and found that my live wallpaper was chewing up CPU even when I wasn't browsing the main desktop. Once I switched to a different (non-broken) wallpaper my battery life doubled.

I've also used this tool a few times to figure out why my phone was running hot (even though I wasn't using it). For instance, last night, my Facebook app was in a bad state and was chewing up 20% CPU in the background. I killed it and everything was back to normal.

The tool isn't the easiest to use, but it might help.



Thanks for the live wallpaper tip, it was neat but not worth having a brick for half the day. I'll check out the tuner app.




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