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2.2 Update - HTC Confirms Major Problems

JuicyJones said:
I'm using 2.2 and I'm getting 12-18 hours a day. No problems at all. I haven't noticed any difference. Task managers don't work, they will make your problems worse. Customer Service reps don't know what they're talking about.
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Or ... you are one of the fortunate few that hasn't had any battery problems. Many of us had had a horrible time keeping battery life to an acceptable level since 2.2 yet somehow due to your marginal research you figured it's the HTC rep now knowing what they're talking about. Excellent.
 
jrmckins said:
It's more likely that you're one of the unfortunate few that have had problems.
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Perhaps, based on the comments in this thread. That doesn't mean that the problem doesn't exist or that tech support doesn't know what they're doing. Denying problem and putting the blame on users is what the followers of the Church of Jobs do and one of the reason I'll never own a product from 1 Infinite Loop.
 
Is it possible the more recent incredible owners are getting better results with 2.2 than owners who had their incredibles for a while now?

Hopefully you guys understand what I'm trying to say? LOL.
 
ezydroid said:
Is it possible the more recent incredible owners are getting better results with 2.2 than owners who had their incredibles for a while now?

Hopefully you guys understand what I'm trying to say? LOL.
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Actually, I don't know what you are trying to say! :confused:
 
jayjay1122 said:
Actually, I don't know what you are trying to say! :confused:
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Haha, let me try to break it down. Let's say for example I got my incredible 2 weeks ago and I installed the 2.2 OTA and had no problems with it. Compared to another member who had their incredible around june and experiences numerous problems with it.

So the question is: Does the acquired date of the phone have relation to whether you have a problem with 2.2 or not? :confused: I hope that helps :)
 
ezydroid said:
Haha, let me try to break it down. Let's say for example I got my incredible 2 weeks ago and I installed the 2.2 OTA and had no problems with it. Compared to another member who had their incredible around june and experiences numerous problems with it.

So the question is: Does the acquired date of the phone have relation to whether you have a problem with 2.2 or not? :confused: I hope that helps :)
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I knew what you were saying the first time I just don't understand what point you're making.
 
My battery and froyo did wonders for me I can get 40 hours up and little use and with heavy use I can get 12 hours. All on 3g. No WiFi at home. At work I can run Pandora for 8 hours and surf for 4 hours and still have 32% after my shift. I'm running Sanyo 1750. I love this update.
 
pucrepeap said:
I find it interesting that HTC woud confirm "severe battery drain issues" but a good number of users with 2.2 have seen no change in battery or better.

I myself did see a drop in battery the first couple days, but it did even out, and now my battery is good as ever.

Said it in several other posts, other posters have relayed the same message. Initially after your update you will see a drop in battery life. One reason my be because you are having a grand ol time checking out the new Froyo features thus leading to more phone use. Another reason could be because the battery calibration was reset with the update and when its recalibrate days down the line battery life seems improved.

My suggestion is give it a couple days and see if the battery is better or not. Don't worry too much about checking in on apps to see if they are running, or trying to kill apps because then you end up wasting time and battery using your app killers. If after a couple days it still seems shotty then we can turn to software or hardware defects....or even just individual users and apps.

oh yeah, and a factory reset really does make a difference. Many reports of this.

I say this just out of my own personal experience with Froyo.
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I had the EXACT same experience. The first day my batter died ridiculously quick. Now its as good if not better than before. I did the Manual update, not the OTA (I don't know if that makes a difference or not).

I did have to go back in and change my sync settings, and its been great ever since.

For those having batter drain issues with ATK. I only use it as a taskmanager, I don't let it run in the background. Its very simple to use it that way rather than have it running all the time. Also I have noticed that the FROYO system itself kills apps off randomly.
 
D6AMIA6N said:
Just an FYI, my battery life has dramatically increased. As of yesterday, prior the battery warning popping up, I had gotten 49 hours of usage. This is with moderate use. I have no widgets that are constantly updating. Screen brightness on lowest setting. So, to each their own.
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Also, I have the stock battery, and did the manual update if that makes any difference. I will take pic's and post them for the non-believers when I get to 40 again.

To be honest, I really don't use the internet on the phone extensively. I'll check my email, respond to emails, text a ton w/ google voice, check facebook, download apk files, etc. I use launcher pro, and as I stated before, do not have any widgets that are constantly "on" like FB, twitter, friendstream, etc., if that makes any difference.

Hearing complaints about the browser scrolling, I downloaded the flash update, which has alleviated many other peoples complaints, which I never really noticed.

Overall, I am very pleased with the update.
 
gocardinals said:
But when you end all, what does that do to your phone?
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Shuts down apps that I closed but are still active. Everything necessary is still live and well.

On a side note, since doing facvtory reset yesterday, took phone off charger this morning, been installed and tweaking and messing with my phone on and off all day, no battery monitor on as of yet, but still well over half my battery charge left, more like 75%.... just going off the built in status

Soooo.... regardless of what everyone says, after froyo 2.2 install DO A FACTORY RESET.... as much as it pains me to say that.

Kind of like Microsoft saying 'Hey, install service pack 2 but after you do, format your hard drive and reinstall all your programs.... stupid, but for 2.2 it works.
 
jelsikstern said:
Factory reset reduced lag time on many apps, internet, etc.....but did NOT help battery life. Hardly the "end of thread".
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Recommend SystemPanel (less then $3) and check what apps are sucking the life from your battery. Pre factory reset was getting 3-4 hours, today I am +15 hours in, been messing with phone on and off all day, calls, apps, even ran SlingBox for a half an hour and STILL 50% battery left. No app killer installed but use SystemPanel.

There's gotta be some app draining you, just need to identify it. And SystemPanel has a kill all widget you can put on your home screen.
 
sezaro21 said:
We are not kidding. I have a trip I need to leave for on tuesday andI'll be gone until friday. I won't get my New phone until I come back. Verizon really dropped the ball on this one.
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Well here are the results of my testing with:
SkyRaider 3.0 RC2 Vanilla
Radio 2.15
hboot .97
Setcpu 998
Kernal KK#1 BFS
Verizon car charger plugged in

Left the mountains with 78%, on all day but asleep most of the time.
About a 1 hour drive through mountains constantly searching for signal, Pandora on the whole time except for about 5 or 10 minutes at very high altitude . Checked battery in about 75 minutes had 97% left.

So I figured ok, they were talking about GPS not the radio. Next hour I put on GPS Nav, and Pandora. Within 5 minutes the phone went green and stayed that way the rest of the trip. Ended with 100%.

So basically it seems that you either need to root your phone, get a better car charger, or something else. I just can't believe that your problem is universal or absolute even though I can't replicate it because I assume you have the OTA since you haven't answered my previous question regarding that. Anyway, for those of you rooted you probably don't have anything to worry about.
 
ezydroid said:
So the question is: Does the acquired date of the phone have relation to whether you have a problem with 2.2 or not? I hope that helps....
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I doubt it. I got mine on day 1 and don't have any of these issues. My son got his about 6 weeks ago and doesn't have any of these issues either.
 
ONJFan said:
This is exactly what I wrote about yesterday after using google navi, it drained my battery even though I was using the car charger. I still think this is a major design flaw the way it is now u can lose ur directions to get somewhere because ur battery will die and it won't charge fast enough via car. I like this phone and don't really want to switch though. It worries me how long its gonna take for Verizon to fix this.
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It would be a major design flaw if it happened to everyone or even a majority of people or even more that 3 or 4. But it does not so therefore either you have a shitty phone or you're doing something wrong. Either way you need to get it figured out and fixed.
 
bjanow said:
It would be a major design flaw if it happened to everyone or even a majority of people or even more that 3 or 4. But it does not so therefore either you have a shitty phone or you're doing something wrong. Either way you need to get it figured out and fixed.
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Well, it seems I'm not the only one who has posted this problem with google maps draining battery while car charger is pluged in.

In any case I just spent the last hour doing a full factory reset on my phone so I now have no downloaded apps, I only have the OTA 2.2 Froyo. I am also back to the Flash ver 10.1.72.7 that came with Froyo. The reset was easier than I thought, all my contacts were synch back with backup assist. The longest time was just resetting my bookmarks.

I will say that since I have done a factory reset, webpages load much faster and scrolling is better. Flash works perfectly on flash sites at m.flash.com, since I did the reset it seems to me flash is loading alot faster than before and I have always enabled on. So far I would recomend to anyone who got the OTA update (like me) to do a factory reset, it seems alot better since I did this. I'm real happy I did this tonight.

I will have to test out the Google Navi in my car tomorrow and see if my car charger holds a charge, I'm hoping the factory reset resolves this issue. I will report back tomorrow on that.
 
ONJFan said:
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I will have to test out the Google Navi in my car tomorrow and see if my car charger holds a charge, I'm hoping the factory reset resolves this issue. I will report back tomorrow on that.
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Good luck. It just doesn't seem to be universal, that's all. But then again, I rooted and am running SkyRaider Rom and all the goodies.
 
I get the same battery life as I did before 2.2 except when I use maps or directions...then it sucks it dry quickly. That is probably more on Google than HTC.
My big issue regarding battery & 2.2 is that now it takes nearly twice as long to charge.
 
rapidsandroid said:
I get the same battery life as I did before 2.2 except when I use maps or directions...then it sucks it dry quickly. That is probably more on Google than HTC.
My big issue regarding battery & 2.2 is that now it takes nearly twice as long to charge.
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I believe it. That's why I have at least 2 batteries at all times, one fully bump charged. Best $15 I spent on this phone.
 
ONJFan said:
Well, it seems I'm not the only one who has posted this problem with google maps draining battery while car charger is pluged in.
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The battery draining while charging in the car and using gps could mean your car charger isn't putting out enough juice. I tested this over the weekend and my phone stayed charged up even wig gps navigating, push email on, and music through the car stereo.

Do you know what kind of car charger you have? That may help determine if it's a charger issue, a phone issue, or both.
 
bjanow said:
Good luck. It just doesn't seem to be universal, that's all. But then again, I rooted and am running SkyRaider Rom and all the goodies.
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I'm rooted too, but stock kernel and rom...minus the bloat. Still getting same or better battery life overall. I do wonder if the bloatware is draining battery on stock users, I suspect it could if those apps have settings that keep them checking for stuff. If they're not actively doing anything it shouldn't affect battery though. No way for me to test as I have them all disabled. woot for root! :)
 
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