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[Battery] Fixes and Tips

ok i too tried this and it worked for me as well. i charged with the phone off, unpugged and charged again. before within 10 minutes i was down to 90%, now its been off the charger for near 2 hrs and i'm still at 96% so i will be practicing this method until it is fixed.
 
Haelous said:
If this is true, then doesn't it suggest that those who have not done this do not have a properly calibrated battery meter on their phone?

You would need to do this and then drain to zero a couple times.
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This shows a phone that has a poor to jacked up charging system.. at least.

A consumer should not need to try and trick, condition, break-in or otherwise play games to get the battery to perform its best. Waiting a few cycles is one thing but... sheesh!

This is a plain case of the bleeding edge... and usually in my experience Verizon doesn't release handsets with issues like this but then again they are (frustrating) never on the bleeding edge of tech either... so...

As with SOP for the "edge".... time will see many things improved... new rooted OS's and more... even with a battery/charging/run time that sucks... this phone still rocks EVERYTHING on the market AND will be a great piece of kit for a long time to come.
 
I couldn't get it to work....

I ran the battery down to 9% left it on and plugged it into the charger until the light went green.

I unplugged the phone, turned it off and plugged it into the charger and the light went orange

After 10 minutes light turned green took it off the charger and turned it on, turned it back off and plugged it into the charger and the light went orange

After 5 minutes the light turned green, unplugged from charger, turned on and batterylife widget read 100%

But after 10 minutes I'm down below 90%.....what did I do wrong????
 
Woohoo, this is a great thread. I tried this double charging technique at 11:30am this morning. It's now 5:30pm and I'm showing 75%. This is definitely better than I was doing before, thanks. It was such a joy to look at my phone an hour after charging and seeing it still in the mid/upper 90's.
 
Mode we should star this thread or something. This thread saved me the 60 bucks of an extended battery I no longer need. I'll be giving thanks to the op
 
nashfh said:
I just did the test as well. Charged till green, unplugged and powered off, plugged back in, now it's red and charging some more. Whatever this issue is, it's real.

Update: It charged for 14 minutes, I then unplugged and plugged it back in and it charged for another 10.

Update#2: 2 hours later still at 100% and have been using moderately. Actually posting this from the DI.
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OK. This appears to not be limited to charging while the phone is on, turning phone off when green, and charging some more.

My Seido 1750 was down to 5% when I got home from work today. Turned phone off at 6:10 pm and plugged in to charger. Noticed green light at 8:55 pm. Unplugged and plugged charger back in. No green light and it's still charging more. I'll update this post when I notice green light again. Been an additional 7 minutes so far....
 
Chandria said:
Ok, so like many of you I have tried this. I charged my phone to 100% while it was turned on. I unplugged it, turned the phone off and plugged it in again. It started charging and after 15 minutes it turned green again (phone is still off). So I unplugged it and waited 5 sec and plugged it in again and guess what? Yeah, it charged again for 10 min or so. I have repeated this 4 times with the same result. Finally, after the 4th time the light turned green within 30 seconds. I've turned the phone back on thinking it is now fully charged. After 26 texts, 3 calls, checking 2 email accounts and 1 hour awake time...I am at 76%. In other words...I don't believe it made any difference.
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basically the same thing happened for me! Oh well!

Glad it's helping some people
 
mrjinglesusa said:
OK. This appears to not be limited to charging while the phone is on, turning phone off when green, and charging some more.

My Seido 1750 was down to 5% when I got home from work today. Turned phone off at 6:10 pm and plugged in to charger. Noticed green light at 8:55 pm. Unplugged and plugged charger back in. No green light and it's still charging more. I'll update this post when I notice green light again. Been an additional 7 minutes so far....
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That was fast! Turned green right after I posted.

Unplugged AGAIN and plugged back in. AGAIN amber light. Just turned green after another 2 minutes. Rinse and repeat. I'm on my fourth unplug and replug and I still get amber light after each replug, although it only takes 1-2 minutes to go green again. All of this while phone is OFF.

Here's my theory: trickle charge is not working properly. By doing what we are doing, we are forcing the battery to charge to 100%.
 
my phone for the first 7 days I had it, would die after roughly 5 and a half hours into my day. I would send roughly 100 texts between time taking it off charger and getting settled in at work. I would take it off the charger at around 915 to 930 am every morning and by 11 it was below 80%, and then down to 25% by 2 or 3, with minimal usage after the initial texting in the early morning. Now, I finished this method at 130 pm today and have been unplugged since. I have sent over 100 texts, four emails, three ten minute phone calls, downloaded three apps from the market, listened to two songs via music widget, and used google talk for about an hour. and my battery is still at 47% remaining now at 12:11 am. so nearly 11 hours after removing it from the charger, its barely used half its power. There is no denying that this method helped for me.
 
mrjinglesusa said:
45 minutes off charger after the above experiment and still at 99%.
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Hmmm. Not so great this morning. Off charger last night at 9:15 pm. Played with it very little. Before going to bed, it was at 99%. Checked this morning at 7:30 am: 80%. Dropped 20% overnight with no use.
 
I wonder if what I'm doing is similar to this double charge technique?

I let my Incredible charge overnight each night while it is on. When I take it off the charger in the morning, the indicator is green. I then go to my car and drive 20-25 minutes to work, during which I charge the phone on my car charger. Despite the fact that it has just been charged overnight, the indicator during that car ride is orange. Then I take it out of the car and use it all day, and my indicator is still mostly full by the time it's night time and time to charge again overnight.

I never turn the phone off for either the overnight charger or the car charge. For those of you doing this "double charge" thing, do you have to turn off the phone? I'm not going to change what I'm doing, because I get great battery life. I should mention that I keep "Always-on mobile data" set to off, which really helps.
 
I got unbelievable battery life yesterday. For the first time in a week I didn't even think of looking at my battery life, I knew it was ok. At 9 PM, 15 hours later, I had 60% left! I was online, phone calls, wifi, animations, checking the NY Boston score constantly during dinner out ...and still could have gone for hours. The only time that happened before was with my old Eris battery that had just come off my external charger. So that's what I did yesterday too. BTW, with the external charger once it turns green (or blue in my charger's case) that's it. No reason to unplug and plug again multiple times. It gets the full charge the first time. But here's the kicker...

My wife's LG cheepo phone has been losing charge more than usual lately. So I tried the trick with her phone last night. Charged it, went green, unplug, turn phone off, plug in again. 20+ minutes later it finally went green. Will monitor her phone today but I can almost guarantee it will have better life. So this is not isolated to HTC phones or smartphones it seems.
 
Maybe it's been mentioned already, but a few things I do to squeeze a little more out:

when ever I use my phone after I am done I hit the power button to turn off screen....I don't let it just sit there waiting for the screen timeout I have set. Display "on time" can be a drainer.

Also when I am inside I use the power control widget to control screen brightness...I don't need retina burning brightness while indoors!

If I'm busy while at work (I'm not in the corporate world thank goodness!) I don't need 3G/WIFI syncing 100% of the time I have toggles on my home-screen one touch and voila they are off.

If WIFI is available and your surfing the net by all means use it it's a much faster experience and imo uses less battery.

My favorites: no task killers and don't load your phone with 100 apps....if it's new I can't blame you I did the same, but after the novelty has worn off remove them and use just what you need :)
 
This charging technique you guys are using sounds like a way to possibly over charge your battery to me. Your phone knows how much charge the battery needs and charges it until it gets to that point. It then remembers the charge and won't charge again right away. I think turning the phone off your essentially tricking it and it doesn't know it just charged. That extra 10 or 15 minutes is what it takes the phone to analyze the battery and realize that it's already charged before it stops charging again. I highly doubt you're really gaining anything and possibly over charging the battery. The battery may not allow over charging but if that's the case you're not gaining anything. Those minutes are just the phone realizing the battery is charged. You can put pretty much any kind of battery on a charger that was just charged to full and it will charge again for a few minutes before it realizes it's already full.
 
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