Bad battery or bad Thunderbolt?

[cochise23]

Hi everyone,

I've had my Thunderbolt for about 2 months now, and am having significant trouble with my battery life.
I bought an extra OEM battery and have been interchanging them regularly.
Recently, my fully charged batteries are giving me between 5-7 hours of usage before the battery is dead. The most recent 2 usage patterns I can share are:

Time off charge: 5hr 45 mins
Stand-by: 32%
Idle: 28%
Display: 27%
Android 5%
OS: 3%
Media Srvr: 3%
Lookout: 2%

Today's time off charge: 4 hr 45 mins

Display: 34%
Voice Calls: 30% (1 6 minute phone call)
Standby: 13%
Idle: 12%
Android: 5%
OS 2%

I've already gone to Verizon and exchanged a battery for a new one and it's doing the same thing.
This is all without 4G at all on my phone in the past 2 days...
Can anyone help me out?

Thanks!

 

[El Presidente]

Welcome to the forums.

Common battery eaters inculde things like screen brightness, haptic feedback and syncing etc. What is your brightness set too? What about your sync settings?

You might get more advice in the Thunderbolt forum: HTC Thunderbolt - Android Forums

 

[sdrawkcab25]

Are you getting 5-7 hours of actual use or 5-7 hours till your battery is actually dead?

 

[cochise23]

5-7 hours before the battery is dead...
I'm barely using it...If my screen is on for a total of 1-2 hours out of the total time that'd be a lot...my brightness setting is generally 40-50% with the power-save feature turning on at 30%

 

[nickdalzell]

mine has a faulty battery meter. it goes from full, to almost empty and seems to alternate between those. at first i thought 'hey this sucks more than the iPhone 3G!' but one day i left it alone and forgot i had it on and set to never sleep, and came back 8 hours later it still worked. although the battery meter was red by then. but it alternates like that for the duration of your use. don't trust the gauge.

 

[Bob Cat]

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