Battery Life - The Good The Bad and The Ugly

[musikat]

Thank you again drksilenc, updating profile and prl seemed to work! I would not have figured that out on my own and was even considering changing out the phone, the call quality was so bad. I just got off of a 30 minute call and while I could still tell I was on a cell phone it was back to "normal" sound. Yay.

If anyone else is having buzzing, ringing and general bad call quality on your (listening) end, try this!

 

[RoboMonkey]

It's nothing new take a read and be happy.

Apple - Support - Discussions - iPhone 3GS with fw 3.1 ? battery life ...


I'm sure most of the issues can be resolved with a good patch from google.
Me I'm not having any issues. My current battery is at 50% after 10.28 minutes, but I am running in my Clean Slate Profile.

 

[jkid23]

lol
I found that htc clock eats the processor up.
Spare Part is a great app to get.

 

[eieio]

May be these tips will help them out

Apple - Batteries - iPhone

 

[IXIShogunR1]

13:12 since taken off the charger..... 69%
some webbrowsing, some pandora, playing with apps........ seems ok to me

 

[Bagua]

I'm at 73% phone has been on since 8 a.m. it's now 5:56 p.m., mobile, gps and some 4g for 20 minutes. Normal use calls text and mail.I'm Happy!

 

[redninja]

hmmm, i had great battery life my first 2 days with the phone, after 6-7hrs. with some good use i still had around 60-70% battery and was like wow this is great, and then the battery just crashed on me. I have downloaded quite a bit of apps though, so maybe there is a memory leak in one of them, trying to find the tools to find it if anyone can help out... btw i come from a long line of smartphones and ppc's, just so shadrap knows that...

 

[bluehaze013]

 

[Hrshycro]

Hey,

So I've been using my Evo since Friday evening; we have 3 of them - I have one and then 2 for the parents.

I read that the battery life sucks, but most people get through the day on one charge, which would be fine for me because my 2 year old iPhone still goes 10+ hours on a charge, jailbroken and multi-tasking.

I've read every post I can find here and other about making the battery last long; unlinking flickr, some setcpu, overclock widget, no task killer, yes task killer, turned all the syncs off or down to once a day, ect. But after all of that, I'm still lucky to get 5 hours of the fing charger with an hour of calls and an hour of apps/the screen being on. I find this completely unacceptable considering an iPhone that's been charged 600+ time can still last twice as long. The other two evos have pretty much out of the box settings, and they go dead just as fast as mine does, with the same amount or even less use! Did we get 3 lemons or what?

Also, does anyone else have speaker buzz when you down the vol. all the up or one down from the top? No matter who I'm talking to, I have to be two clicks down from the high setting otherwise I hear this quite annoying speaker buzz with every word the other person says and it makes me want to throw it in the wall; the other two evos are the same.

Anyone got any suggestions?

 

[lyons238]

i noticed some speaker buzz on occasion but i noticed that it doesnt do it when other things are played from the earpiece. my guess is its network related or whoever your talking to has shitty mics or are talking to close to it

 

[gatorchomp83]

Feel your pain...

I've been tweaking everything to save battery and nothing seems to work. The phone is incredible, but the battery, while I was expecting it to be bad, is atrocious.

 

[Hrshycro]

i noticed some speaker buzz on occasion but i noticed that it doesn't do it when other things are played from the earpiece. my guess is its network related or whoever you're talking to has shitty mics or are talking to close to it

Well, so far I've talked to landlines, the other two evos, iPhones and sprint gps address enterer - it happens on all of them and it's more of a vibration in the phones speaker than a network buzz.

 

[zpilot]

Battery life - definitely not the selling point of the Evo.

Ear piece is poorly built as well.

Two of the most important factors that make the phone a phone.

 

[Hrshycro]

Feel your pain...

I've been tweaking everything to save battery and nothing seems to work. The phone is incredible, but the battery, while I was expecting it to be bad, is atrocious.

I agree. I also seem to have no service (well, it goes from 0 to 6 bars and in-between non-stop wherever I go) anywhere I go, even though it shows that I have perfect 4G and Sprint service, I have shit - it works and doesn't seem to cut in and out, but the bars bounce around all day, and the 4G doesn't even work outside.

I might go back to an iPhone and just jailbreak it, since I guess iOS 4 has already been hacked.

 

[gigadigit]

Hm.. not sure about your battery. Yesterday, with moderate use, I was at 16 hours and still had over 50% left when I went to bed.

 

[Hrshycro]

Hm.. not sure about your battery. Yesterday, with moderate use, I was at 16 hours and, still had over 50% left when I went to bed.

You must be in dreamland...lol. I'm lucky if I can unplug it, take a nap and wake up with over 50% left.

 

[Diesektor]

I'm not saying this is the problem with your battery or that it will fix it, but I just came across this, can't hurt to try eh?

http://androidforums.com/tips-trick...killin-my-battery-life-most-likely-yours.html

 

[zpilot]

Hm.. not sure about your battery. Yesterday, with moderate use, I was at 16 hours and still had over 50% left when I went to bed.

What? I call BS on that battery life of yours.

 

[IXIShogunR1]

idk you must still have something on/running thats eatting your battery
16hrs off the charger today.... apps, a game, youtube, web browsing, pandora
50% battery still left

your spotty signal will really help kill the battery
you using sprint data or wifi when your home?

 

[GaryColeman]

America has become a country full of girlie men.

 

[musikat]

I am not getting 16 hours, but on day one starting at a full charge I am about to die at about 14 hours, with 4 1/2 of "awake" time. I guess it's all relative though. Coming from the Moment I consider this a very promising start. :lol

About the phone sound, though, I am posting this wherever I see it commented on. Someone on this forum (on a different thread) suggested that I update my profile and PRL under settings, system updates and call quality is vastly improved. Try that and see if it helps you on that score!

 

[bluehaze013]

Battery Life is great, fairly heavy use today:

 

[gigadigit]

Just read Micheal Arrington's review of Evo on TechCrunch.

"Sad Android: Don't buy the Android Evo, it's a seriously flawed device"

Don’t Buy The HTC EVO, It Is A Seriously Flawed Device

I wonder if there was a bad batch with bad batteries.


I am not having any battery issues with my Evo.

 

[bluehaze013]

Don't we have enough of these battery threads? Battery life is great, if your having bad battery life your doing something wrong...

I am just going to post this picture in all the battery threads from now on because it's really starting to seem like a bunch of iphone fanboys trying to spam the boards with false claims or something.

 

[dieNASTY]

See I would say the same thing if It was 3 days ago but now the battery life is splendid. I'm having no problems with it. It's basically at 55% after an eight hour school day and medium usage. I love it