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[Battery] Statistics and Reports

Should we also collect "Battery Use" Information?

  • Yes

    Votes: 111 88.1%

  • No

    Votes: 15 11.9%
  • Total voters
    126
Hi everyone, here are another set of stats using a Seidio 1750 mAh extended battery for the Eris but in the Incredible of course:

I removed the phone from the charger just after 7:30am this morning (May 13th 2010):

Signal strength as of now: -69dBm (at my home I get decent signal)

UpTime: 16:02:40
AwakeTime: 5:07:10
Battery %:4 %
Wifi: On (Only on for about 3 hours)
GPS: On (but not used today)
Bluetooth: Off

voice calls: 27%
cell standby: 21%
android system : 21%
phone idle : 17%
display: 6%
wi-fi: 5%
dialer: 3%

16hr 2min 31s since unplugged

What I am noticing: my battery seems to be worse while everyone else's seems to get better as time passes. Since I swapped back the 1750mAh (Seidio), from the Stock 1300 mAh I ran for a week -- my battery life has been more in line with everyone elses. Before, in my first week with the phone I was getting 10 hours of awake time w/ 22 hours total up time!! Now I am lucky if I get 6 hours + 16 hours total up time!! :(
Got this yesterday too!
What do you guys think? Is it calibration issue? Is it an app issue? Am I just crazy!?!

What's a guy to do!?! Grrrr....:mad:

-Elo
 
Eloquence said:
Hi everyone, here are another set of stats using a Seidio 1750 mAh extended battery for the Eris but in the Incredible of course:

I removed the phone from the charger just after 7:30am this morning (May 13th 2010):

Signal strength as of now: -69dBm (at my home I get decent signal)

UpTime: 16:02:40
AwakeTime: 5:07:10
Battery %:4 %
Wifi: On (Only on for about 3 hours)
GPS: On (but not used today)
Bluetooth: Off

voice calls: 27%
cell standby: 21%
android system : 21%
phone idle : 17%
display: 6%
wi-fi: 5%
dialer: 3%

16hr 2min 31s since unplugged

What I am noticing: my battery seems to be worse while everyone else's seems to get better as time passes. Since I swapped back the 1750mAh (Seidio), from the Stock 1300 mAh I ran for a week -- my battery life has been more in line with everyone elses. Before, in my first week with the phone I was getting 10 hours of awake time w/ 22 hours total up time!! Now I am lucky if I get 6 hours + 16 hours total up time!! :(
Got this yesterday too!
What do you guys think? Is it calibration issue? Is it an app issue? Am I just crazy!?!

What's a guy to do!?! Grrrr....:mad:

-Elo
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Wow! If I could get these numbers out of my phone I would be a very happy man! My Seidio only got me 2:40 of awake time today. Wifi off, no GPS today. My % were similar to yours. Got 4:05 awake time and 13:57 off the charger yesterday. But 10 hrs awake time on one charge is absurd! My phone's going back for a replacement.
 
4 hours awake time seems pretty good to me too. 10 hours? If that's what I should expect on one charge my phone must need to returned too. Do you have the hard numbers on the day you got 10 hours?
 
yep said:
4 hours awake time seems pretty good to me too. 10 hours? If that's what I should expect on one charge my phone must need to returned too. Do you have the hard numbers on the day you got 10 hours?
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Yeah, see my posts here and here

Those were my first couple days with the phone (I immediately put my new Seidio into my new Incredible) and those were the results I got.

Kinda amazing huh? :)

Why can't I get my Inc back there!!!

-Elo
 
Based on all the battery issues, I've started a new battery app project.. it monitors signal, drain, temp and awaketime so far... its free.. search "Battery Detective" or kenyu73... its FREE now.. was asking .99 <shrug> hahah

send me emails for ideas... going to add more stuff soon too.

(sorry for spamming different threads, just hoping it helps others!)
 
Battery 1% remaining
UpTime: 14:38:50
Awake Time: 4:30:28
UnPlugged time: 14:38:50
Wifi: on some of the time
GPS: on
Bluetooth: on
Always on Mobile data: On
Mobile network: on
Sync: Gmail,Exchange,POP,Facebook,Weatherbug
 
1300 mah OEM

Turn off at night > charge overnight
Unplug in a.m., wait 30 sec > charge until green
Turn phone on and go to work
At work I turn off 3g network

Battery: 18% remaining
UpTime: 14:48:46
Awake Time: 2:37:27
UnPlugged time: 14:48:46
Wifi: off
GPS: off
Bluetooth: off
Always on Mobile data: off
Mobile network: on
Sync: Gmail (mail, calendar, contacts), seesmic, Weatherbug


Cell Standby 27% (time w/o signal 5%)
Phone idle 24%
Android System 21%
Voice calls 17%
Display 6%
Robo Defense 3%
Dialer 2%

Android System
total 13m 51s
CPU foreground 1m 28s
data sent 168.44 kb
data received 68.07 kb
 
chl said:
1300 mah OEM

Turn off at night > charge overnight
Unplug in a.m., wait 30 sec > charge until green
Turn phone on and go to work
At work I turn off 3g network

Battery: 18% remaining
UpTime: 14:48:46
Awake Time: 2:37:27
UnPlugged time: 14:48:46
Wifi: off
GPS: off
Bluetooth: off
Always on Mobile data: off
Mobile network: on
Sync: Gmail (mail, calendar, contacts), seesmic, Weatherbug


Cell Standby 27% (time w/o signal 5%)
Phone idle 24%
Android System 21%
Voice calls 17%
Display 6%
Robo Defense 3%
Dialer 2%

Android System
total 13m 51s
CPU foreground 1m 28s
data sent 168.44 kb
data received 68.07 kb
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Hmm that's pretty bad. Considering the awake time is only almost 3 hours. I have similar situation.
 
Battery: 10%

UpTime: 27:32:43

Awake Time: 4:08:52

UnPlugged time: 27:32:43

Wifi: on

GPS: off

Bluetooth: off

Always on Mobile data: on

Mobile network: on

Sync: Gmail, hotmail



Cell Standby 40% (time w/o signal 16%)

Phone idle 29%

Android System 17%

WiFi 8%

Display 6%


Android System

total 23m0s

CPU foreground 22s

data sent 356.44 kb

data received 274.07 kb
 
Did another test. Seems to be much better results. Could be that with more charge cycles things are getting better.

UpTime: 22:02:00
AwakeTime: 6:46:00
Battery %:12%
Wifi: Off
GPS: Off (on briefly during uptime)
Bluetooth: Off

Unplugged time: 22:02:00

Phone idle was 25%.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that if you really wanted to see if your battery was defective, couldn't you fully charge it and then call *2539 and leave the phone on? If you hit 314 minutes, your battery is as advertised. If it was drastically less then you might have a hardware issue.
 
yep said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that if you really wanted to see if your battery was defective, couldn't you fully charge it and then call *2539 and leave the phone on? If you hit 314 minutes, your battery is as advertised. If it was drastically less then you might have a hardware issue.
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what does *2539 do?
 
XxICEMAN720xX said:
what does *2539 do?
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It calls a Verizon number that just plays a revolving message. It allows you to leave the phone on a test call for as long as you want. I got the # from a Verizon rep and they use it for testing battery life.

Basically if you go into a Verizon store and say your battery isn't working they charge it fully and then call that number for 2 hours and then eyeball the battery bar. The funny part is that he really did say they just kind of look at the bar and expect to see it about a quarter down after 2 hours. Not very specific when you know the rated talk time and you could figure exactly what percentage 2 hours would be.
 
I consider myself a moderate to heavy user. 100-200 emails per day (I'm an eCommerce Director), dozens of texts, IM'ing, only about 20-30 minutes a day talking on it, GPS on, 3G on, Screen Auto Brightness, Bluetooth on while driving (about 1 hour total), about 15-20 minutes of remote desktoping, and other services running and syncing hourly such as FaceBook, Twidroid, FeedR RSS, etc.

-With my stock battery I was able to make it 8-9 hours.

-With the Touch Pro2 1500 mAh battery I typically made it 10-12 hours.

-After just 3 power cycles with the Seidio I am now able to make it 24 hours. I hope it will continue to get better, but if not, I don't mind. 24 hours was my benchmark.

Needless to say, I am very happy with the Seidio battery and will be keeping it. All I ever want to be able to do is make it through a FULL day (wake to sleep) without having to think about my battery and while not having to make any sacrifices on what I want to use. With the Seidio battery "I" am able to achieve this goal.
 
I'm not trying to hijack the thread, but I did the talk time test as follows.

Fully charged off.
Turned on and immediately called VZW test number *2359.
Let call run for 5:14:00.
18% battery at that point.

According to specs the rated talk time is 5:13:00. By that measure my battery should be just fine. The other nice bit about this test is that when the call is on you now other services aren't pulling data and clouding results. The downside is of course that you can't use your phone.

If what we're after is a measure of what can be expected of a "normal" phone/battery, this would seem like a good test for comparing one Inc to another.
 
Hello, this is my 4th cycle. Using the charge while on, turn off, charge again hack


Uptime: 14:57
Awake Time: 2:28
unplugged time: 14:58
Battery%: 36%
Wifi: On
GPS: On
Bluetooth: Off
Always on Mobile data: On
Sync: facebook 2hours
3 gmail accounts
twitter 30min
weather 6 hours.

hack: charge unplug, charge

Cell standby: 33%
Time without signal: 4%
Phone Idle 28%
Android system 18%
WiFi: 16%
Display: 5%
 
Battery 6% remaining
UpTime: 13:52:26
Awake Time: 4:13:44
UnPlugged time: 13:52:26
Wifi: off
GPS: Off
Bluetooth: On
Always on Mobile data: On
Mobile network: on
Sync: Gmail, Calendar, Facebook for HTC, Weather

Menue>Settings>About Phone>Battery>Battery Use
Android System 50%
Cell Standby 20% (% time without a signal)
Display 13%
Phone Idle 10%
[FONT=&quot]Calendar 7%

[/FONT]Ok - now what??? I bought the phone with three other friends... his uptime and awake time were longer than mine - and he had 75% of his battery.

I didn't use the internet today, no camera, checked facebook once, calendar, email (mostly reading a few responses) and less than 10 texts. I have it set to auto-display.

I want to keep this phone - but I'm 3 days away from my 30 day window and it dies all the time.... suggestions? (and yes, I have recycled using the on/off), cranked down my updates for FB and calendar, etc.
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I just wanted to chime in with an experiment I did to see if running a task manager will make your battery last longer. The results of experiment can be found here: Task Manager vs Battery Life Experiment

Long story short the experiment concluded that running a Task Manager does seem to make your battery last longer (not by a massive amount)
 
FYI

Seidio cells are made in Japan, battery assembled in Taiwan
HTC cells are made in China, battery assembled in China

Size wise, the Seidio is pretty much the same size as the 1300mAH HTC, with squared corners (HTC has rounded corners). If I place the batteries on the table they're the same thickness. Length and width cannot change due to the battery's compartment in the phone. However, the thickness to the HTC 1300mAH can be deceiving due to the metal backing it has. The Seidio has paper all around it, so I cannot see if it has the same metal framework.

I have a TP2 1500mAH battery on the way (it's in the mail), and my gf is getting one of these batteries. If the 1500mAH can get us through the day with MODERATE to HEAVY use it stays, and the Seidio goes back.
 
Depending on how much I use the phone I've noticed anywhere from 2-6 extra hours of battery life since I bought the 1750. I could care less what batteryboss says, I noticed a real world difference and I'm happy.
 
I just bought a 1600 mAH TP2 battery and should be here in a few days. From what I've heard in other threads, this battery almost fits, but fits enough. For the price of $20 with shipping, it's hard to go wrong however. I bought this substitute for now because I am going to buy the 2150 when it comes out. I needed to have something better in the mean time. I'll keep everyone updated in my experience with the battery.
 
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