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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
I know this has been talked about many many times but I when I got the phone the battery was not that good. After about 4-5 charges the battery life picked up and was terrific.

Some people might say that the battery needed to be calibrated but I recently had to do a factory reset and once I got it all back up and running the battery was lasting like when I first got it. After 4-5 charges it is now working like it did prior to the reset.

This only goes to prove that it is not the battery that needs to be calibrated it is the phone that needs to be calibrated for the battery.
 
I was holding off on my opinion until I had used the phone for a couple weeks...

Battery life does suck. :( Car charger best buy sold charges slow.

From a full charge, I have 4g, gps, wifi, bluetooth all turned off... Brightness on lowest setting and have only been using google talk and pandora radio. Battery went from 100% to 25% in 3 hours.
 
This may be pointless to some but I absolutely love my Evo except for my hideous battery life. I understand that there are countless threads out there about the battery but I want to voice my opinion. There have been several different methods that people mention and some work for some and others may not work at all. I am not used to buying brand news electronics that require you to use different methods and download additional apps to get it to work as it should out of the box. I want it to work and perform as it should. I understand the whole turning off wifi, screen brightness, etc. but those are things that you can do to any electronic devices to save battery. This one requires much more work and I don't think that is fair. Most people are not extremely tech savvy and they are probably pulling their hair out at this point. If I were an HTC rep, seeing the numerous accounts of horrid battery life that people have posted all over the web(just do a google search), I would be doing damage control right now and having someone work on some sort of fix. I hate saying, "I love my phone but...."
 
It was the same issue with the Hero when it first came out. The battery life was miserable but HTC was pretty quick about releasing a patch and hopefully they will do the same thing this time.
 
i understand not everyone is tech savvy, but to be honest, it isnt hard to play around with settings. its just like fine tuning a car
 
Dylan, this goes leaps and bounds above playing with the settings. And it is definitely not the same as fine tuning a car.
dylan88 said:
i understand not everyone is tech savvy, but to be honest, it isnt hard to play around with settings. its just like fine tuning a car
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honestly i dont think playing around with settings should be an issue....they made a phone with all these features and they should be able to support using it (battery life) for a reasonable amount of time....if not why put all these features in when you can hardly use it?
 
kkwus74 said:
honestly i dont think playing around with settings should be an issue....they made a phone with all these features and they should be able to support using it (battery life) for a reasonable amount of time....if not why put all these features in when you can hardly use it?
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My thoughts exactly!
 
I agree that HTC should have had this phone figured out in stock form before shipping it, my battery was/is great 15+ hours with medium use, however I recently started getting terrible battery life, and was able to trace it down with the help of these forums. It turned out to be HTCs Facebook integration gone rouge.

On the other hand; with the openness of the platform you will run into more rouge programs that mess with your phone, and it will take some work to sort it out. I guess thats the tradeoff.

As the famous quote goes "Freedom isnt free"
 
WordIsBorn said:
I agree that HTC should have had this phone figured out in stock form before shipping it, my battery was/is great 15+ hours with medium use, however I recently started getting terrible battery life, and was able to trace it down with the help of these forums. It turned out to be HTCs Facebook integration gone rouge.

On the other hand; with the openness of the platform you will run into more rouge programs that mess with your phone, and it will take some work to sort it out. I guess thats the tradeoff.

As the famous quote goes "Freedom isnt free"
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Whats up with the Facebook issue?
 
If HTC had made a better unit, we wouldn't have to make any changes/modifications:

1) to save battery life
2) to reduce lag

All of which are things that are simple fixes (root + custom rom) but was not implemented during the building process of the phone.
 
durtdawg said:
Whats up with the Facebook issue?
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My Facebook for HTC sense integration went rougue on me, and started using data in the background. About 20MB, or more and hour! I was able to see a drain through the battery useage. It was coming from android.process.acore.

You can read more about it at the thread entitled:
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What is my phone downloading????
 
What I found interesting is that while I have been getting horrible battery life, the battery seems to charge very fast. While this is great it makes me wonder if it's truly a 1500mAH batt. It seems to recover at the rate of a much smaller capacity battery.

I am really hoping that a software update will come out to help correct this issue. When I got my Touch Pro 2 battery life was on par with what I am getting now. After installing a couple custom ROMs, toward the end (I installed the latest ROM on the TP2 ~4days before getting the Evo) and was able to get 2+ days out of it. I think at the end of day 1 battery was still at 80% and my usage really hasn't changed with the Evo and I can't even make it 8hrs now without going into the yellow.
 
toddlamp said:
What I found interesting is that while I have been getting horrible battery life, the battery seems to charge very fast. While this is great it makes me wonder if it's truly a 1500mAH batt. It seems to recover at the rate of a much smaller capacity battery.

I am really hoping that a software update will come out to help correct this issue. When I got my Touch Pro 2 battery life was on par with what I am getting now. After installing a couple custom ROMs, toward the end (I installed the latest ROM on the TP2 ~4days before getting the Evo) and was able to get 2+ days out of it. I think at the end of day 1 battery was still at 80% and my usage really hasn't changed with the Evo and I can't even make it 8hrs now without going into the yellow.
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Read up on all the battery threads. One of the main things I got out reading all of them is that you really need to use the USB charging method to "trickle" charge it. Otherwise the battery won't last nearly as long simply because it charges (or the unit makes it look like it's charged) way to fast with the AC outlet. Technically it doesn't receive a true FULL charge doing it the AC outlet way.
 
you have to remember a battery is like a tank of gas for a car...

i corvette might have a tank that says 300 miles (evo)

and a honda fit might have a tank that will get 400 miles (iphone)

but then you get in the vette and have so much fun that you only get 200 miles out of the tank...

your honda fit is great.. and it gets the 400 miles as promised... but all you did was drive the speed limit all day.. back and forth to work..
 
Rogue... The word is rogue lol. Sorry I couldn't not address it. Out of curiousity is this y'alls first smartphone? This is my seventh and for the most part the battery life is in line with all of the other ones straight out of the box. Again just curious
 
i'm into technology, but i'm a first time android user so it took me hours to figure out what i was doing. At first the battery life seemed bad but once you know what to do you'll eventually see a better battery life. I'm at 16 hours with 53% of battery life left. Took like 30 pictures without flash and about 30 mins of phone, 20-30 text (5 of which were picture messages, received 2 picture messages), checked 2 e-mail accounts about 3-4 times and a few hours of customization.
 
sikclown said:
Rogue... The word is rogue lol. Sorry I couldn't not address it. Out of curiousity is this y'alls first smartphone? This is my seventh and for the most part the battery life is in line with all of the other ones straight out of the box. Again just curious
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Ive used a lot of different smartphones dating back to the Kyocera 6035. I've had everything in between..When I say everything...I mean everything..Also, this is my 3rd Android phone..I have previously used the Hero and the Moment...so I am an OG when it comes to the smartphone world :cool:
 
durtdawg said:
Ive used a lot of different smartphones dating back to the Kyocera 6035. I've had everything in between..When I say everything...I mean everything..Also, this is my 3rd Android phone..I have previously used the Hero and the Moment...so I am an OG when it comes to the smartphone world :cool:
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Interesting.... You may have to do a Hard Reset then. I did that right out the box and get from 18-24 hours battery life. It actually smokes my Hero in that regard... I averaged 13-14 hours on the Hero
 
All I'm getting from the OP's post is that he shouldn't have to worry about turning anything off on the phone(different antenna, features he isn't ever going to use) and be able to get the longest battery life out of every phone on the market without ever attempting to tweak the phone itself.

If you cant take the time to understand the equipment you're using, you shouldn't have gotten it in the first place. Oh and my EVO easily get's well over 10 hours of battery life even with heavy use. light usage and I charge it maybe every other day or so.
 
No, my battery does not suck. Does it go for 24 or 48 hours without a charge like all the "dumb" phones out there? Absolutely not!
Mine is giving me in the rang of 12-14 hours of moderate use and that is without any tweaks...other than turning off the "Talk" function of Google and making sure that when you set up the Amazon MP3 app, you do not elect the remember me function.
How long is a SMART (and I mean SMART) phone supposed to run when you are using it like a laptop computer...how long does your laptop hold it's charge anyway?
If you are using your "phone" as your computer for more than 5-6 hours a day...I suggest your either get a second battery or figure out a way to charge it.
Can anyone tell me that their "SMART" phone gets 24 hours of heavy "non-phone" type usage out of their batteries??? Really? And if you say your I-device does...we are all just gonna laugh at ya...
Okay, I am done on my soapbox for the moment (what kind of battery life does that little miniature phone get anyway? lol)
 
Kevin C said:
No, my battery does not suck. Does it go for 24 or 48 hours without a charge like all the "dumb" phones out there? Absolutely not!
Mine is giving me in the rang of 12-14 hours of moderate use and that is without any tweaks...other than turning off the "Talk" function of Google and making sure that when you set up the Amazon MP3 app, you do not elect the remember me function.
How long is a SMART (and I mean SMART) phone supposed to run when you are using it like a laptop computer...how long does your laptop hold it's charge anyway?
If you are using your "phone" as your computer for more than 5-6 hours a day...I suggest your either get a second battery or figure out a way to charge it.
Can anyone tell me that their "SMART" phone gets 24 hours of heavy "non-phone" type usage out of their batteries??? Really? And if you say your I-device does...we are all just gonna laugh at ya...
Okay, I am done on my soapbox for the moment (what kind of battery life does that little miniature phone get anyway? lol)
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And we needed a new thread for this?????????
 
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