Hrothgar70
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I have an HTC Thunderbolt non rooted on VZW. I've been experiencing severe battery drain. I always kept GPS, Wifi, and Bluetooth off unless I was using them. Location services used to stay on until...
About a month ago (right after I installed Words with friends and Draw Something because I didn't know any better), the USB charger couldn't keep up. I used to be able to listen to Pandora all day long with it plugged into USB charger on my computer and never lose a percent. (As a side note, it would charge on the UBS cable but stopped months before connecting to PC where it would previously connect on the same cable.) Android OS was major culprit of battery usage. I've since learned what Words and DS do to batteries, and quit using them (didn't uninstall tho.) After a few days the battery drain seemed better, but I found a wall charger at goodwill for $1 so I thought I'd use that instead anyway.
It's been ok the last few weeks, Fast forward to yesterday, I haven't installed anything new (have uninstalled Words and Draw), locations services are off, as is GPS, BT, and WiFi. Now even turning on Airplane mode, the wall charger can't keep up. I charge this thing every night on a wall charger and it's always 100% when I wake up. Already by 9 o'clock this morning it was down to 52% (In 2 1/2 hours with minimal usage. Not even listening to Pandora). If it wasn't for my home charger, this thing would be a door stop.
Here is the funny thing. when I saw it was down to 52%, I looked at battery usage. Yup, Android OS using 45% of battery. So I thought I'd reboot and see if that would help. Shut it down, and when it comes back on... 18% battery. What? It used 34% of the battery rebooting?? As I typed this its gone down 7% sitting there on the charger in Airplane mode.
Anyone have any options for increasing the life of this thing? I'm desperate.
About a month ago (right after I installed Words with friends and Draw Something because I didn't know any better), the USB charger couldn't keep up. I used to be able to listen to Pandora all day long with it plugged into USB charger on my computer and never lose a percent. (As a side note, it would charge on the UBS cable but stopped months before connecting to PC where it would previously connect on the same cable.) Android OS was major culprit of battery usage. I've since learned what Words and DS do to batteries, and quit using them (didn't uninstall tho.) After a few days the battery drain seemed better, but I found a wall charger at goodwill for $1 so I thought I'd use that instead anyway.
It's been ok the last few weeks, Fast forward to yesterday, I haven't installed anything new (have uninstalled Words and Draw), locations services are off, as is GPS, BT, and WiFi. Now even turning on Airplane mode, the wall charger can't keep up. I charge this thing every night on a wall charger and it's always 100% when I wake up. Already by 9 o'clock this morning it was down to 52% (In 2 1/2 hours with minimal usage. Not even listening to Pandora). If it wasn't for my home charger, this thing would be a door stop.
Here is the funny thing. when I saw it was down to 52%, I looked at battery usage. Yup, Android OS using 45% of battery. So I thought I'd reboot and see if that would help. Shut it down, and when it comes back on... 18% battery. What? It used 34% of the battery rebooting?? As I typed this its gone down 7% sitting there on the charger in Airplane mode.
Anyone have any options for increasing the life of this thing? I'm desperate.