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billmcdougal

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So, my girlfriend and I both picked up HTC Inspire 4Gs about a week and a half ago. For most of that time, everything was fine and we both got a full day off of a charge, after I had configured both of them to turn off always-on wireless data, turning down screen brightness, etc (following advice in this forum - thanks!).

Well, now there's an issue.

Last night, for instance, we charged our phones at the same time. When the light was green, we took them both off the chargers, fully charged, at about 8PM.

The phones sat next to eachother overnight, and I went to check them this morning, and see that, under these same conditions, her phone retained a 100% charge, while mine had drained itself overnight to 40%!

I noticed this happening to a lesser extent the day before, which is why I performed this test, and I even ended process on some of my apps while charging, such as the browser.

Is my battery a lemon? Any ideas?
 
I am kind of a noob here, but I'd say something is definitly going on with your phone. It may be the battery, or it may be something running in the backround draining your battery. I have done nothing to try and save battery life as far as turning off data and whatnot and mine only drops to about 92% overnight. Sorry I can't help any further, just throwing out what you probably already know.
 
If I am reading what you wrote correctly (and please correct me if I am wrong), you took both phones off the charger at 8 PM, and let them sit overnight NOT charging (so, approximately 12 hours?) and did not use them at all during that period of time.

IF we presume that they went 12 hours between when you pulled them off the charger and when you next checked them:

(1) With respect to yours, that would be about a 5% drain per hour, which might not be that far off. It might be a touch high for doing nothing, especially if wireless wasn't on at all or wasn't on the whole time, but there is going to be some drain just from having the phone turned on and the OS running, even if in the background.

(2) With respect to your girlfriend's, it would be virtually impossible for the phone not to lose ANY power whatsoever (i.e. stay at 100%). Even with airplane mode on and Wi-Fi off, and not turning the screen on for 9-12 hours, the battery is going to drain a little bit because it is still running the OS and what not.


I'm not saying you are wrong, but I do think that to go 9-12 hours unplugged and have absolutely no power drain at all sounds a bit off, to say the least.
 
Hrmm. Well I do think that her phone was probably closer to 95% and that it just rounds up to the nearest bar. I do believe that usually, when we do it this way, our phones would be at about 90% in the morning, so she must have just gotten lucky.

But at any rate, I've definitely let mine sit overnight in the same circumstances before and turned it on to about an 80% charge, which is acceptable...but 40% not only seems like too much, but is just not consistant with the previous times.
 
billmcdougal said:
Hrmm. Well I do think that her phone was probably closer to 95% and that it just rounds up to the nearest bar. I do believe that usually, when we do it this way, our phones would be at about 90% in the morning, so she must have just gotten lucky.

But at any rate, I've definitely let mine sit overnight in the same circumstances before and turned it on to about an 80% charge, which is acceptable...but 40% not only seems like too much, but is just not consistant with the previous times.
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You may want to do a battery pull (even though the door is a pain to get off) to reset all the apps and programs, then try the same thing on yours again and see how much it drains overnight. If you had a program or something that was abnormally draining it, that might be resolved through a battery pull.

I'm not an expert, but that might be worth a try, given that this was an abnormality when compared to your prior experiences with your phone. If it continues to drain that much overnight with no use, then requesting a new battery wouldn't be out of the question.
 
NativeTxn said:
You may want to do a battery pull (even though the door is a pain to get off) to reset all the apps and programs, then try the same thing on yours again and see how much it drains overnight. If you had a program or something that was abnormally draining it, that might be resolved through a battery pull.

I'm not an expert, but that might be worth a try, given that this was an abnormality when compared to your prior experiences with your phone. If it continues to drain that much overnight with no use, then requesting a new battery wouldn't be out of the question.
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I'm actually in the process already :P
When I noticed the problem this morning, I did a battery pull and then started charging it. When the light turned green, I turned the phone back on, and then the light went red to charge again. I let it continue charging until it went back to green, and I have just now pulled it off the charger and turned the screen off.

I guess I'll let it sit there until about 10PM tonight and then check the battery. I was wondering if apps could have something to do with it, but wouldn't that app be listed under the battery usage, instead of just Phone Idle and Standby? I know that my girlfriends' battery usage screen often shows Google Goggles on there for some reason, even though she hasn't used it in days.

I'll definitely update the thread with the results (tomorrow morning if not tonight). Thanks everyone for the suggestions!
 
Mine and my girlfriends had the same pattern the first week. After the second week they started evening out.

I can't explain it at all.

My only guess is some of these batteries had been sitting a long time and are having to go through some kind of retraining process..

Give it a week or so and see if they dont start behaving the same (as mine and my girl friends eventually did).
 
I actually think the battery pull did it. After charging again after a battery pull, I have a "full" charge after leaving it overnight. :)
 
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