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Spint Hero Battery Issues known fix Fix.. charges faster lasts longer

Mine has been sleepin correctly for a couple of weeks now. I think I may have found something else. I turned off auto screen brightess on mine yesterday and here it is 10:30pm and I'm at 70% battery with about the same usage as any other day. I even. browsed the net for more than 30 minutes today. The screen is on full brightness. Someone else try this and report back.
 
I too bought a hero even after reading about all the battery problems. When i got it home i immediately tried all the fixes listed in the forums. after a couple days i was at 100% awake time. Nothing i did worked, hard resets, power cycling, using handcent, task killers, etc. I then tried a factory restore under security, and when it loaded back up i disabled everything on the messaging app, installed handcent, and re customized my phone. Everything worked fine overnight. The phone was sleeping, I even had missed calls, and voicemails. I woke up and surfed the web for a bit, checked facebook and the phone still went to sleep afterwords. Just when i was comofortable that i had fixed it, I decided to further customize and plug the phone into my computer to add mp3s and photos. Immediately after i got done with that the phone stopped sleeping AGAIN. Once again i tried power cycles, hard resets, etc.. and once again nothing worked until i did another factory reset. Needless to say that is a pain because then you have to re-customize all your settings and accounts. The problem seems to be there's no telling what you might do that makes it stop sleeping, and the only solution i've found that works is a factory reset. Hope they come out with a fix soon
 
So damn near a week with full brightness, email sync as they arrive, twidroid bugging the crap out of me, lots of blogging from the browser, facebook to boot, the battery is lasting all day off the charger from 7am to about 11pm. Really love this phone, and also got my hands on a Droid, the Hero feels better and the UI is as responsive IMHO. I am not missing my blackberry one bit.
 
Mrniceguy said:
Just a lil tip i figured id pass on
Stratup auditor (Market) is a tight little app that will let you customize what starts on startup
seems to say me some ram/batt drain
Its a buck but well worth it
DO NOT DISABLE IM with it or maRKET /GMAIL/GOOGLE TALK WILL NOT WORK
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Can you provide a list of what not to disable? I installed Startup Auditor last night, disabled the easy known apps, and memory usuage went from 71m to 83m.

Thanks for your help.
 
Has anybody been using Google Voice to send messages? Are you also having the same problem? I've been using Google Voice and my phone appears to be going to sleep correctly. For now..
 
Not sure what everyone is doing and the claims you make but I have the following:

Uptime: 145:56:05
Awake time: 30:18:57

That's 21%
I've seen as low as 16%


Using:
Open Home
ChompSMS
PopupSMS
Advanced Task Killer
Power Manager
 
flammenwurfer said:
With Google Voice. Voice receives the messages that are sent to my Voice number. And I have Voice set up to use my Voice number for outgoing calls and texts as well.
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Gotcha. Not many folks have my GV number and most (all?) texts come into my cell number which I've had through for years. It would be nice to have GV pick up the SMS messages that are sent to my cell number AND my GV number, that would be sweet!

Oh well, back to waiting for Sprint to fix the stock SMS app, I like it better than Handcent.
 
ItsDon said:
Gotcha. Not many folks have my GV number and most (all?) texts come into my cell number which I've had through for years. It would be nice to have GV pick up the SMS messages that are sent to my cell number AND my GV number, that would be sweet!

Oh well, back to waiting for Sprint to fix the stock SMS app, I like it better than Handcent.
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Have you tried ChompSMS?
 
People need to stop focusing so much on awake time. My phone has an awake time of 37% and i still only get 9 hrs before I hit critical level. When I had an awake time of 100% my battery life was the same. It not how long its awake its what it is doing while its awake. Damn and how can someone have an uptime of 145 hrs. My phone locks up or becomes useless after about 20 hrs. I have to reset and reinstall apps every 20 hrs.
 
flexte said:
People need to stop focusing so much on awake time. My phone has an awake time of 37% and i still only get 9 hrs before I hit critical level. When I had an awake time of 100% my battery life was the same. It not how long its awake its what it is doing while its awake. Damn and how can someone have an uptime of 145 hrs. My phone locks up or becomes useless after about 20 hrs. I have to reset and reinstall apps every 20 hrs.
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OH MY GOD!!! you have said what I have been thinking since about 1 week into reading these forums!!

It's truly my belief that because of some of the odd/bad things that Windows Mobile has produced, users coming over from there to Android are staying with their habits of trying to max performance on some of the stuff with this phone, when in fact, the OS handles those functions for the user. Now I'm not stating that the OS is without its quirks and "bugs", but I truly believe that when people constantly "tinker" with things, they actually create more problems than they think they are actually solving. Not to mention, if the "awake v. up time" were not even visable, would there be 60 posts about it? I believe that the illusion of the whole sleep thing is causing users to go nuts over nothing.

My awake v. uptime is currently around 75%. I've had it off the charger since 7:30 am (it's 4:30pm now). That's 9 hours. WiFi has been on the entire time and connected, GPS is on the entire time, Twitter, Facebook, Weather, Exchange Email, Gmail, etc...updating very frequently, and I'm at 70% battery. In fact, because of the poor signal I get in my office, without Wifi connected, I get 4 hours use before i hit 30% and have to charge it. I've never put much stock in the 100% uptime, but that's just me.

BTW, I'm at 145Hr42Min up time right now, and the phone is snappier than when i first boot it up. Don't ask how, it just is. I've had times where it's slowed down a TON, but I just put it down for 5 minutes, let it do whatever it's doing, pick it back up and it gets snappier. My guess is, at certain times, it just has to slow to a crawl to manage itself (?)....either way, still going strong.
 
Awake time is a very real bug and is the very first thing Sprint/HTC is fixing, it is a true battery vampire.

That said, I too used to have the same problems described above (sluggish, battery dead in a matter of hours etc.) and besides the Handcent battery fix the only other three things I did to fix it are:

-Do not run any sort of task killer

-Keep home screen widgets to an absolute minimum

-Never use the "Home" button, Use the "Back" button always to exit a program.

I don't know why they work for me but they do. I unplugged my phone this morning at 6 and it is currently at 64% which is not bad and I have no slowdowns. My phone has been "Up" since Sunday.
 
I'm happy with 9 hrs but honestly that is with moderate usage. if i am at the gym for an hour and listen to internet radio im done in about 6 hrs. I agree that if i give my phone 5 min to sort itslef out it would probably return to normal speed but today my phone radio just died. it started when i tried to end a call and no matter how many times i hit the end button the phone ticker kept on counting as if i was still on an active call.after a few minutes it did shut down and a few minutes later i recieved 2 voicemails without seeing a missed call. i tried to call the numbers back only to find out the phone was not working. a soft reset got ti back to normal and yet again i had to reinstall nimbuzz, movies, gdocs and converter.:mad:. I just started to use the clock and weather widget to test out battery life using the phone the way it was advertised to function. tomorrow i will kill those widgets and see if i can squeeze out another hour of usage. the only time battery life is really a concern to me is when i travel and im not always able to charge the phone at my desk or in the car.
 
It's been two days since my last post, and my phone has been sleeping soundly. I went from 100% awake time to 15% awake time. To re-state what worked for me:

Factory reset,
Handcent SMS fix,

The only Apps I've installed:
-Handcent,
-Battery widget,
-Bank of America online banking,
-To do List

I have been able to remain logged in to facebook, browse the web whenever, and get email updates every 15 min. I must say, however, i really haven't noticed much difference in overall battery life whether i'm at 100% awake time, or 15% awake time. I think we all just care about it because we can monitor it now. I upgraded from an instinct and the battery life sucked on that too, but I'd rather have a phone like the hero that has a bad battery life and more options on it. Let's face it, if there was a perfect phone everyone would own it. Each phone has its own flaws, it's just a matter of what flaws you're willing to accept.
 
byrontessman said:
It's been two days since my last post, and my phone has been sleeping soundly. I went from 100% awake time to 15% awake time. To re-state what worked for me:

Factory reset,
Handcent SMS fix,

The only Apps I've installed:
-Handcent,
-Battery widget,
-Bank of America online banking,
-To do List

I have been able to remain logged in to facebook, browse the web whenever, and get email updates every 15 min. I must say, however, i really haven't noticed much difference in overall battery life whether i'm at 100% awake time, or 15% awake time. I think we all just care about it because we can monitor it now. I upgraded from an instinct and the battery life sucked on that too, but I'd rather have a phone like the hero that has a bad battery life and more options on it. Let's face it, if there was a perfect phone everyone would own it. Each phone has its own flaws, it's just a matter of what flaws you're willing to accept.
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exactly what i was saying in my previous post. the funny thing is we all have the same battery so people saying I get 1 full day with heavy usage and the next saying i get 6 hrs with heavy usage just goes to show that the definition of "heavy usage" can not be defined.
 
I just ordered the HTC Hero phone and based on reviews have been searching for an extended life battery for the phone. That's how I stumbled on to this site... Has any one tried this or a battery such as this?
Seidio, Inc. BASI17HTP2 Innocell 1750mAh Extended Life Battery for Use With HTC Touch Pro 2 and HTC Hero

I also intend on installing the Handcent SMS when I recieve the phone. I guess I'm trying to cover all bases before I have a problem. ANY advice would be GREATLY appreciated!!
 
KeyWesthomes said:
I just ordered the HTC Hero phone and based on reviews have been searching for an extended life battery for the phone. That's how I stumbled on to this site... Has any one tried this or a battery such as this?
Seidio, Inc. BASI17HTP2 Innocell 1750mAh Extended Life Battery for Use With HTC Touch Pro 2 and HTC Hero

I also intend on installing the Handcent SMS when I recieve the phone. I guess I'm trying to cover all bases before I have a problem. ANY advice would be GREATLY appreciated!!
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You dont have to worry about this anymore. sprint sent an update that fixes it yesterday.
 
LTZguy said:
You dont have to worry about this anymore. sprint sent an update that fixes it yesterday.
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What's the best way to get updates? Does sprint send them automatically or is there a way to know when updates are sent? I clicked inside the settings and selected to update my firmware, which it did. Not sure if that's the update that gives this "fix" or not though.

I love my Hero, even though I have one of the worst stories probably ever associated with one. I had my Hero for two weeks when it fell out of my pocket outside as I was reaching for my pack of smokes. The battery flew off but it landed upside down so I had no idea of the damage until I picked it up. I nearly cried when I turned it over and saw that the entire front plate of glass had shattered! The funny thing is that there isn't a dent on it anywhere else and EVERYTHING works exactly the way it did before the fall, so it's either the mother of all phones or it just happened to land in the perfect spot to only shatter the glass.

I called Sprint and asked if I could still return it since I was within my 30 day period still. The lady told me to bring it down there and they'd check it out so I told her the front piece was pretty much in shambles. When I got down there and she saw it I noticed that she cringed, but she said she'd still take it down to the manager to see what they could do (she had told me on the phone they might be able to replace it for free). I saw her hand it to the manager and I saw the manager put her palm up to her face before immediately shaking her head and saying there was nothing she could do. I explained to her that everything still worked and that the online Sprint people told me that I could just get the glass replaced (a white lie, but it made sense to me, and I knew that our local store didn't have a repair shop inside it and she wouldn't be able to confirm or deny this). Anyway, after doing some serious sweet talking for about 30 minutes she agreed to replace it for me for free but she told me that they didn't have any in stock so I'd have to wait until one came. It's been 2 weeks now and they still haven't gotten any but at least I'm not having to pay the $130 deductible that it apparently costs to get one through insurance!
 
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