I've been searching all over this forum as well as the internet on how people are using their HERO and the battery performance they're getting out of it. I've seen answers from 9 hrs with heavy usage to 36 hours with minimual usage. That's about all the detail I've been able to find. (Maybe I'm just not good at searching?)
With that, I decided to do a little tracking of my own. I logged my usage and battery performance over a 27 hour period and thought I'd share it with the community. Not sure if this is even helpful but maybe it'll provide some sort of baseline for others to compare against.
I recorded the battery level in % based on the stock battery meter, the time I recorded the battery level and any activity that occured between the current time and the previous time recording. For example, between 7:00AM and 10:19AM the battery dropped by 10% and I had received 2 emails, 2 calendar reminders went off and I had surfed the web for about 10 minutes.
**** Periodic Breakdown ****
Day 1
100% 7:00AM Unplugged from wall charger
90% 10:19AM 2 emails, 2 calendar reminders, 10 mins surfing
70% 1:21PM 30 min call, 8 emails, VM, 5 txt msgs
60% 3:06PM 3 emails, 2 txt msgs
60% 4:04PM 4 emails
50% 5:01PM 3 emails
50% 6:35PM 5 emails, 15 mins surfing, Used Google maps to check traffic
50% 8:10PM
50% 9:43PM
40% 10:35PM 2 emails
Day 2
30% 7:00AM 5 emails
30% 8:29AM 15 mins music player
30% 10:15AM Used Clock Timer - 21 mins, 5 mins, 2 emails, 2 calendar reminders
30% 10:16AM Plugged into USB port to recharge
**** General Usage During that period ****
Gmail Push Sync ON - 24 emails (NOT syncing Calendar or Contacts)
Hotmail Poll 4 hr interval - 8 emails
Other Email Poll 4 hr interval - 1 email
Yahoo Poll once a day - 1 email
Bluetooth ON - only connected for 30-40 mins total while driving
WiFi OFF
Built in People app has Facebook updates set to NEVER
Android Facebook app updates set to NEVER - not using widget either
Analog clock used on homescreen
No weather widgets on any homescreen
Total run time on full charge: 27 hrs, 15 mins with 30% left.
88 hrs uptime
12 hrs awake (13.6%) at time of plugging back in to charge (USB)
The other reason I decided to do this was to test just how much battery power Gmail with PUSH ON was taking up. Based on my findings, I seem to be getting decent battery life with what I would call 'normal' usage. I realize it's not a great deal of email being pushed in one day but I think it's probably what the average user may get.
Based on this, I'll probably migrate all my mail accounts over to Gmail so I can have the Push feature and not worry about having to Poll multiple mailboxes.
Hope this is helpful to some of you out there.
Regards.
With that, I decided to do a little tracking of my own. I logged my usage and battery performance over a 27 hour period and thought I'd share it with the community. Not sure if this is even helpful but maybe it'll provide some sort of baseline for others to compare against.
I recorded the battery level in % based on the stock battery meter, the time I recorded the battery level and any activity that occured between the current time and the previous time recording. For example, between 7:00AM and 10:19AM the battery dropped by 10% and I had received 2 emails, 2 calendar reminders went off and I had surfed the web for about 10 minutes.
**** Periodic Breakdown ****
Day 1
100% 7:00AM Unplugged from wall charger
90% 10:19AM 2 emails, 2 calendar reminders, 10 mins surfing
70% 1:21PM 30 min call, 8 emails, VM, 5 txt msgs
60% 3:06PM 3 emails, 2 txt msgs
60% 4:04PM 4 emails
50% 5:01PM 3 emails
50% 6:35PM 5 emails, 15 mins surfing, Used Google maps to check traffic
50% 8:10PM
50% 9:43PM
40% 10:35PM 2 emails
Day 2
30% 7:00AM 5 emails
30% 8:29AM 15 mins music player
30% 10:15AM Used Clock Timer - 21 mins, 5 mins, 2 emails, 2 calendar reminders
30% 10:16AM Plugged into USB port to recharge
**** General Usage During that period ****
Gmail Push Sync ON - 24 emails (NOT syncing Calendar or Contacts)
Hotmail Poll 4 hr interval - 8 emails
Other Email Poll 4 hr interval - 1 email
Yahoo Poll once a day - 1 email
Bluetooth ON - only connected for 30-40 mins total while driving
WiFi OFF
Built in People app has Facebook updates set to NEVER
Android Facebook app updates set to NEVER - not using widget either
Analog clock used on homescreen
No weather widgets on any homescreen
Total run time on full charge: 27 hrs, 15 mins with 30% left.
88 hrs uptime
12 hrs awake (13.6%) at time of plugging back in to charge (USB)
The other reason I decided to do this was to test just how much battery power Gmail with PUSH ON was taking up. Based on my findings, I seem to be getting decent battery life with what I would call 'normal' usage. I realize it's not a great deal of email being pushed in one day but I think it's probably what the average user may get.
Based on this, I'll probably migrate all my mail accounts over to Gmail so I can have the Push feature and not worry about having to Poll multiple mailboxes.
Hope this is helpful to some of you out there.
Regards.
