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Battery Life - The Good The Bad and The Ugly

Does your phone drop 10% quickly in the morning after a full night of charging?

  • Yes

    Votes: 436 79.3%

  • Nope

    Votes: 74 13.5%

  • Not sure

    Votes: 40 7.3%
  • Total voters
    550
Jordus said:
I don't use a case, but they cant be that bad to take off.

Dude if you really dont like the phone that much, take it back so someone else can have it (there are thousands maybe tens of thousands of people waiting on this phone) and go get your iFail, i mean iPhone.
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yea, it's going back today. and my 18 month old iphone 3gs still gets better battery life than the evo. :eek:
 
I have done everything in my power to turn off stuff to reduce the power draws. i pretty much have my phone now to just makes calls and texts. All setting off to do with syncing and every networks bluetooth. etc. I have had my phone for 55 minutes and have lost 10% that is doing nothing.... Not even a single text or anything. Just turning the phone on after a nights charge. What am I doing right? I ahve even done everything that there is to do on goodandevo.net
 
mercdizzle said:
Yea, I really look forward to taking off my case to swap batteries. :rolleyes:
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I don't know what kind of case you have, but my Innocase comes off in less than 5 seconds. The battery cover is off the phone in another 5 (or less) and a fresh battery is in place in another 5 (or maybe 10 if I take my time). Add another 15 seconds to put the cover and case back on and you're all back together in well under one minute. Add in 50 seconds or so to reboot and you're good to go for another 2 to 24 hours. :D

Like Jordus, I have a pair of the $12 eBay cheapies and they do fine. Hell, I have yet to plug the phone into the USB for charging. I'm doing all charging on the one included with the eBay batts.
 
The reason is people do not all have the same perception of light, medium, and heavy use. Too many dynamics and factor in some people that are just not telling the truth (for high or low claims).

One more time: If people are not all using the same radios, same network areas, same structures, same apps, widgets and themes for the same time and all confirmed a full charge- battery life is too subjective to correlate by any sane margin of tolerance.
 
i had what i would call an average use day yesterday, some you tube, video podcast, web browsing, some showing off apps to a co worker, etc and my battery lasted from 0630 to about 2000. i have most features turned off when im not using them, I dont feel like the features are pointless either, I dont need to have my hotspot on when not in use so i disable it, live wall papers really are not that useful so I disabled them, location is for when im navigating, and my bluetooth headset broke so i disabled it.
IMO if you want your cell phone and manufacturer to do the thinking for you, get an iphone, and thats cool, to each his/her own. I like being able to control my phone the way i see fit.

oh yea, the OP, no thank you, i dont want to bash this great phone. I am pretty sure its just in fun but still, no thank you.
 
I know people who own an iphone and were only getting 5-7 hours of battery life until they realized they need to turn off certain functions
 
Jordus said:
No, it doesnt. Stop trolling.
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nahhhh.. I don't know what I'm talking about. I still have it as my primary line and use it more than I do my evo. When I'm leaving work to go home, I don't have to use a car charger for my iphone on my way home...
 
Well my phone in the 2 hour duration has sent maybe 30 texts made a 10 minute phone call and tweeked a couple of settings. Has 2 bars missing. thats a light use if u ask me.
 
well merc ur failing badly then cause i have 3 active sync accounts constantly polling over 3g at work i use the phone for atleast an hour of calls a day and all the other random stuff i do and i leave work with atleast 60% battery left
 
mercdizzle said:
nahhhh.. I don't know what I'm talking about. I still have it as my primary line and use it more than I do my evo. When I'm leaving work to go home, I don't have to use a car charger for my iphone on my way home...
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Yeah you know what your doing, so much in fact that you got an iPhone 3GS 6 months before it was ever released :rolleyes:

You are trolling and you know it. My coworkers' iphone 3gs' die before the day is up and my Evo is still fine. And when they are STUCK plugging in the iphone for another charger, im swapping the battery in under 30 seconds and on my way with a full charge.

iFail, once again.
 
drksilenc said:
no 4g doesnt kill your battery in 3 hours its lack of 4g that does... your problem is your phone is constantly looking for a new signal... and that in tail is whats eating your battery
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I freaked out yesterday. Had to charge after 4.5 hours (yea...I was playing games on it a good portion of that time). I had forgotten to turn off my radios, I had everything on and it wasn't connected to wifi and we have no 4g here.

What's the screenshot tool?
 
not sure wtf you battery dying people are doing.

yesterday i had my battery at 100% when i went to bed and got up with 95%.

i had an hour phone call straight plus another hour of random calls through otu the day.

I also used my phone as a pandora ghetto blaster(speaker) at work for 2.5 hours. By the time i got home aroudn 7:15 i still had 45% battery left. That includes constant email updateds and facebook checking.

as someone says the longer i have used teh phone the better teh battery life is getting...
 
Extra batteries FTW. I would much rather swap batteries than use a butt ugly extended battery like I did with the palm pre. Not to mention this is the fasting starting smartphone I've ever owned, so it makes the process pretty easy.
 
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I charge the phone at night while I'm sleeping, use it all day, battery never gets below 25%. Repeat. What's so hard about that? I had the same routine with my berry.
 
This loser has been trolling this message board for a few days now.
He doesnt even have an evo. He is just insecure because he has an iphone.
He is too stupid to realize that phones like the EVO actually help the iphone evolve. Just like the iphone helps android evolve.

I was let down some by the iphone4. I was hoping they would really force htc and other android makers to raise the bar even higher. Unfortunately they just look like they are scrambling to play catch up.

Oh well. maybe windows 7 phones will cause enough competition to force even more improvements.

When will fanboys on either side start using their brain and realize that competition is good for all of us. Acting like a sheep isnt helping anyone. I talk with my wallet and the best products get my money regardless of who makes it. Googe, Microsoft, Apple, HTC, Samsung,RIM, i dont care. I dont own stock in any of them. I am just a user of the products. Let them all bash each other.

Why waste so much of your time trying to upset people and bash a product? Dont you have anything going on in your sad life? A girlfriend, kids, a job, anything.

BTW.... kudos to your hero Steve Jobs... The new iphone looks really nice in many ways. I dont want it. But it looks nice.
 
My battery is working great. It is lasting longer then the 3GS when I had that phone. I am currently going on 26 hrs with the EVO unplugged and still at 32%. I have used BT for about 45 min, Wifi for 2-3 hours (the rest of the time i used 3G for internet), I have no complaints about the EVO and battery usage. I don't use ATK and am not constantly watching my phone to see whats running. For those of you that are having poor times, all I can say its either a bad battery or you.
 
bluehaze013 said:
There is a problem with the flickr app that when you setup an account on the phone it causes the Calendar to keep the phone awake 100% (screen will go off but the phone won't sleep) So if anyone experiencing bad battery life has setup a flickr account on the phone that is why. Remove the flickr account and reboot the phone and everything will go back to normal.
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i think this is one of the main issues people are having. OP did you have the flickr app?

follow the instructions at http://androidforums.com/htc-evo-4g...-major-cause-bad-battery-life.html#post898859 to see if you are afflicted
 
Hmm, I've had random restarts too. I might give this a try, even though I don't want to spend an hour or two adding all my contacts back in again lol
 
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