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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
Off charger at 5AM Sat. Everything except WiFi turned off (GPS, autosyncs, 4G, email, etc...) In other words exactly like my iPhone is set-up. Checked phone only twice since then. At 5PM 88% (Ok, not bad), at 6 AM this morning....red light flashing and 5% battery. WTH?

Sorry, I'm just not going to jump through hoops to basically turn into a dumb phone. Esp. not with the 'premium data fee'. Sorry...maybe next time around. For now it's back at Sam's where I picked it up Friday.
 
dequardo said:
Off charger at 5AM Sat. Everything except WiFi turned off (GPS, autosyncs, 4G, email, etc...) In other words exactly like my iPhone is set-up. Checked phone only twice since then. At 5PM 88% (Ok, not bad), at 6 AM this morning....red light flashing and 5% battery. WTH?

Sorry, I'm just not going to jump through hoops to basically turn into a dumb phone. Esp. not with the 'premium data fee'. Sorry...maybe next time around. For now it's back at Sam's where I picked it up Friday.
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My question is did you use it at all in that 25 hours that you didn't charge it? If you did use it (even regular usage) I have no idea what you're complaining about. My iPhone wouldn't have lasted 25 hours with regular usage. Now, if you just let it sit idle for 25 hours, then yes, there's a problem. But one wonders why you'd let your phone sit, unused, for that long.
 
I left mine off the charger last night. I looked at it this morning. It had been off a charger for 10 hours, and it had 80% battery remaining. You've got something set up in a way that's draining you.
 
This honestly makes no sense. Why would someone be complaining about 25 hour battery life? I always thought hitting 24 hours was the goal with any phone since that means you only have to charge it when you go to sleep.
 
ejchis said:
I left mine off the charger last night. I looked at it this morning. It had been off a charger for 10 hours, and it had 80% battery remaining. You've got something set up in a way that's draining you.
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Maybe that's CDMA but I feel that is terrible considering you are not doing anything with the phone. In a 24 hour period about 50% of your battery would be used due to doing nothing but having it on. My iPhone does not drain batteries like that at most it would be like 5% for 10 hours.

Still giving my EVO a work out and jury is out on what I think of battery so far.
 
VGPOP said:
He probably wants 10 days straight and still have 70% left.

The nerve of some people.....:confused:
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That's why they make car charger . This phone is beyond kewl. Besides if battery life is the only reason to return they maybe he should go back to old flip fine. People!!! :-)
 
This says it all....
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People, ask yourself this:

If you are able to put EVERYTHING that the EVO has (hardware and software) on the Iphone....

Will the Iphone battery last exactly the same as it is now?

People talk about Iphone like it's literally the best phone ever made and has no cons, none whatsoever.

Wasn't battery life a major issue when the original Iphone came out? Or even the 2nd generation?

People like to forget that for some reason.
 
I agree battery life is rough on the Evo (it feels like a laptop...watching it drain while I use it). I can't get my hands off it either though. :P I got about 9 hours of regular use yesterday texting, GTalking, checking email, browsing some websites. It doesn't feel a lot worse than my old Touch Pro but it does seem it sucks the battery faster while being used. It takes some adjusting.

However, I don't think the example you give is a good argument for bad battery life. If most of the battery drained over night you either had bad signal strength or left something on. Most people leave it charging overnight. If you would have, you'd have no issue with battery life at all. Like I said, I'm not sure that's a good evaluation of battery life....it's not a typical expectation of the phone.

This is a moot point though since you returned the phone. :)
 
DarkManX4lf said:
I don't get it? Whats with the tree lady ?
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Its a troll.......

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In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into a desired emotional response[1] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.[2] In addition to the offending poster, the noun
 
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