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2.2 Update - HTC Confirms Major Problems

Mskgreenel said:
Sorry to get off track but how are you getting 1.5 DAYS of battery life?
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Meh - before Froyo, that's what I was getting. And that was WITH running lots of non-stock apps and frequent surfing. It's why I was so upset with the battery issue after the OTA. Battery life today was a little better than yesterday (today Batteryleft is telling me I'll get about 25 hours out of it, but yesterday - day I rec'd the OTA - I got <8 hours), but it still sucks compared to pre-2.2.
 
I have no "task killers" per say on my phone after 2.2, and I'm not having any battery issues. I realize that a stock phone with 2.2 is obviously not suffering that problem, but thought I'd toss that out there.
 
My phone's performance has increased greatly. Battery life is fine. I noticed that the factory reset helped a lot. I don't use a task killer and want to smack the guy at verizon that told every rep to recommend atk to every person calling with a problem about android. How about they try educating thee reps instead of having them memorize an app name? End of off topic rant. Op, what is your service strength most of the day?
 
I don't know what you guys are talking about...

I used my phone from 6am today and I'm only at about 63%, and thats with a stock battery moderate usage with youtube, pandora, texting, etc...
 
What I hate most about this update is the time it takes to charge the battery.2.5 to 3 hrs IS waaaay to long.
 
Charging time is really the only problem I am having. If I plug it in for 1 hr I barely have any charge at all. Maybe I should turn off the phone to charge?
 
Took a chance and backed up my SD, BackupAssistant updated, documented my apps and did a hard reset. After getting back online and activating phone, contacts popped back in perfect, SD was fine (contact pictures even came back in), setup all email accounts and everything came back fine. Only issue was I forgot to document the WEP codes for my WiFi but not a biggie. Now to see how my battery works. ::fingers crossed::
 
ONJFan said:
Charging time is really the only problem I am having. If I plug it in for 1 hr I barely have any charge at all. Maybe I should turn off the phone to charge?
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This is not a problem for me. I always charge my phone overnight. It can last up to 8 hours and I would not care, I would be sleeping.
 
this is new firmware... letting the battery drain till dead and then a full recharge should reset the system battery meter.

Had anyone done this and "still" getting crappy times?

I too felt like my battery was sucking dry hours after the update "before a drain and recharge" and I also noticed I went far below the normal battery kill mv range and the phone kept going... so I knew something was out of calibration.

After a simple charge all night... I"m getting normal battery life the best I can tell....

I am using the 3500mah with battery left as a monitor.

Based my my current mv readings all is well so far.
 
WhiskyDevil said:
I usually charge the phone overnight while on. But when I disconnect I do see a fast drain/drop of ~10% within moments.

I just got off the phone w/ VZW where rep recommended Advanced Task Killer. Ugh... Then said that the specs indicate the battery should last 318 minutes (5.3 hours) under normal usage and that my current battery duration falls within that so there isn't really anything more to be done.
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Uhm, actually specs say 313minutes talk time. You need to be talking for that long. Not casual use! That guy did not know how to read the specs. it's up to 146 HOURS standby time. That would be if you don't use the phone at all and it sits on your nightstand. Realistically I just don't see that one. Geez and they're supposed to be helping us?:eek:
 
Ok, I just realized another major flaw with this 2.2 Froyo OTA update, I just traveled in my car for 1 hr using Google Navi (free version) I had destination set for 1 hr, GPS on, Bluetooth on, had 3 calls during that 1 hr, car charger pluged in during this 1 hr and when I started I had 4 green bars of charge, when I reached my destination 1 hr later I unplugged everything and checked my battery and it was 1 yellow bar left, that means using the car charger did not work, I actually lost battery life. On the older 2.1 ver I would never have lost any battery, it would have charged somewhat but never LOSE battery life while charging in my car. This is a major flaw.

Could it be that Verizon doesn't want us to use Google free navigation, this why they are forcing their own Verizon Navigator app on our phone now, they want us to pay for it? What the heck??

Anyone else having this problem now with Froyo and Google navigation while charging in car it loses battery life?
 
Well there is a reason for that... HTC stated that they purposefully reduced the rate of charging since the incredible had a flaw which the battery charged too quickly and got too hot. Someone has already complained of the same issue you brought up and got a response.
 
ONJFan said:
Ok, I just realized another major flaw with this 2.2 Froyo OTA update, I just traveled in my car for 1 hr using Google Navi (free version) I had destination set for 1 hr, GPS on, Bluetooth on, had 3 calls during that 1 hr, car charger pluged in during this 1 hr and when I started I had 4 green bars of charge, when I reached my destination 1 hr later I unplugged everything and checked my battery and it was 1 yellow bar left, that means using the car charger did not work, I actually lost battery life. On the older 2.1 ver I would never have lost any battery, it would have charged somewhat but never LOSE battery life while charging in my car. This is a major flaw.

Could it be that Verizon doesn't want us to use Google free navigation, this why they are forcing their own Verizon Navigator app on our phone now, they want us to pay for it? What the heck??

Anyone else having this problem now with Froyo and Google navigation while charging in car it loses battery life?
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This is confirmed by HTC because the phone had a bug in 2.1 that would charge the phone too fast, causing it to overheat. HTC "fixed" this in 2.2 by making the phone charge slower, but it now is so slow that when using nav and some other draining apps, it will actually drain instead of charge
 
Ok thanks, I saw that thread but didn't see that they mentioned Google maps navi or just apps draining battery. I was just blown away that using the car charger that I actually lost battery life with GPS on. However like you mentioned it makes sense now that they tweeked it, they went too far in tweeking it.

I wonder how long it will take to get an update fix for this? I still love this phone though :)
 
Do a factory reset. Install apps from scratch. This should fix any battery issues.

I've had BETTER battery life on 2.2 by about 10-20% (wild ass guess). I did a factory reset...
 
i had to do a factory reset and make sure you dont put a task killer for an app right now because it seems that its doing the most damage
 
But will a factory reset really help stop the battery from draining using GPS while using a car charger? Something tells me a factory reset is not going to correct this problem.
 
ONJFan said:
Ok thanks, I saw that thread but didn't see that they mentioned Google maps navi or just apps draining battery. I was just blown away that using the car charger that I actually lost battery life with GPS on. However like you mentioned it makes sense now that they tweeked it, they went too far in tweeking it.

I wonder how long it will take to get an update fix for this? I still love this phone though :)
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I did a factory reset hoping that it would fix this issue, and it didn't.:(
 
for the love of god people, STOP preaching factory resets!

this is JUST LIKE the Eris board now. "oh got a problem? yeah? any random problem? kay, factory reset. it's the solution to all of the questions of life. we swear."

SERIOUSLY, you people have to realize FACTORY RESET DOESN'T ALWAYS HELP. when i had my eris, it made my problems WORSE than before the damn reset. I reset my incred after getting 2.2 and NOTHING was fixed.

realize that there are people with problems out there, and people with shotty battery life now, and a factory reset IS NOT THE ANSWER.

as zemerick stated, there's probably a rogue app somewhere, hence why factory ressetting looks like the answer: you're deleting all your apps.
 
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