Help Battery Life - critical!

[tobyfry8]

Hi guys,

Wondering if any of you could suggest why my battery life is so poor?!

HTC Desire HD (Rooted)
Android version 4.2.2
Kernel 3.0.67_JellyTime
JellyTime_42_R7
CPU - ARMv7Processor rev 1

Play a game and it will drop considerably, took it off charge at 11(ish), played a few games for about a accumulative time of 15 minutes and been on twitter and facebook a few times. Down to 12% already!!

Any ideas?


Thank you!

 

[SiempreTuna]

I'm guessing your phone is coming up to 2 years old ..?

If this is something that's started recently or has been gradually getting worse, it could be you need to replace the battery - they do die eventually, particularly if you're a heavy user.

There are other things you could do to mitigate the issue, but they're unlikely to make a vast difference:

- reduce screen brightness
- minimise the time the screen stays on before 'sleeping'
- turn off radios when not using them (WiFi, GPS, BlueTooth)
- reduce how often apps sync (email, facebook, news, weather etc)
- switch to airplane mode when you don't have a signal (yeah - now we're getting extreme!)

Alternatively, could be the ROM you have installed .. Was that a recent change?

 

[tobyfry8]

Thanks for the reply.

It is a recent change but it's not been good for a while and i've changed 3-4 time in the past couple of months. Most of those I do anyway so I can't change much. Perhaps my battery is dead?! How much is a new one? Does this happen on the new HTC's because they have unchangeable batteries don't they?

 

[olbriar]

Batteries are pretty cheap. They can be found on ebay but be warned, they all are not created equal. Be certain it's specs match the oem battery. A new one will most likely fix you up.