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Help Guess I'm the only one that got a good battery...

WizeGuyDezignz said:
Do any of you use battery saving apps like Juice Defender or Green Power? Just wondering the percentage of people who use those, and if you see it as a vital app.
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I was able to get JD to work, but I'm not using anything right now. I didn't bother messing with all of the settings, but since I don't want my data turned off, I didn't see what else it would be helpful for. And I'm not having any battery issues so it seemed like it might harm more than help.
 
I can easily go 24 hours and have already twice just to verify. I don't use any battery saving methods, but I'm not a heavy app gamer and youtube watcher like some. Overnight I drop 10% at most, leaving it on wifi and putting it on vibrate so new emails don't wake me. I have friendstream syncing with Facebook and Twitter with default settings, Droidin synced with Linkedin and 2 Gmail accounts with default sync.

During the day I check my social media and email on the phone first thing in the morning, in the gym parking lot waiting on my workout partner, and sometimes stoplights going into work. While at work it sits on my desk on vibrate connected to 3G, I get a text probably every 20-30 mins throughout the day and reply to most of them. It vibrates to new emails throughout the day as well which is about every 10 minutes though I use my computer for email at this time. At lunch I watch new emails coming in and check out facebook and Linkedin again. I usually have a couple of short phone meetings using the TBolt, no more than 30 minutes but usually on speakerphone. At night I check new email and facebook while having dinner. Before bed I browse Facebook and emails one more time and usually have a couple of quick 1 liner emails to send out for impt things.

Now with that, I'm at least 20% after 24 hours, however, I always go to the gym at 7AM till 8:30. I usually leave my phone in my car, but if I take it into the locker room and leave it in my locker, it will drop up to 20% battery in 1.5 hrs because it has trouble keeping a signal. That's the ONLY time I've ever noticed the battery doing horrible.

I'm not in an LTE area for VZ, and I left everything default, brightness, syncing, GPS on and everything else.

I had similar batt life with the EVO once I turned 4G off. With 4G it was aweful like people are complaining here about the TBolt. So I have to assume most of the problems come from 4G or a weak signal causing the phone to switch networks or reconnect all the time.

I did learn with Android you don't leave apps up though. Once I left Angry Birds on my DroidX and walked away from it thinking it would stop like the iPhone does, but apparently it didn't because when I came out of the gym I was down over 30% with the battery in 1.5 hrs. So I always click the home button before putting the phone down. Maybe it was just a freak thing, not sure, I'm still kinda new to Android (The DroidX and EVO were trial accounts while waiting on the TBolt to come out).
 
adamalter said:
I can easily go 24 hours and have already twice just to verify. I don't use any battery saving methods, but I'm not a heavy app gamer and youtube watcher like some. Overnight I drop 10% at most, leaving it on wifi and putting it on vibrate so new emails don't wake me. I have friendstream syncing with Facebook and Twitter with default settings, Droidin synced with Linkedin and 2 Gmail accounts with default sync.

During the day I check my social media and email on the phone first thing in the morning, in the gym parking lot waiting on my workout partner, and sometimes stoplights going into work. While at work it sits on my desk on vibrate connected to 3G, I get a text probably every 20-30 mins throughout the day and reply to most of them. It vibrates to new emails throughout the day as well which is about every 10 minutes though I use my computer for email at this time. At lunch I watch new emails coming in and check out facebook and Linkedin again. I usually have a couple of short phone meetings using the TBolt, no more than 30 minutes but usually on speakerphone. At night I check new email and facebook while having dinner. Before bed I browse Facebook and emails one more time and usually have a couple of quick 1 liner emails to send out for impt things.

Now with that, I'm at least 20% after 24 hours, however, I always go to the gym at 7AM till 8:30. I usually leave my phone in my car, but if I take it into the locker room and leave it in my locker, it will drop up to 20% battery in 1.5 hrs because it has trouble keeping a signal. That's the ONLY time I've ever noticed the battery doing horrible.

I'm not in an LTE area for VZ, and I left everything default, brightness, syncing, GPS on and everything else.

I had similar batt life with the EVO once I turned 4G off. With 4G it was aweful like people are complaining here about the TBolt. So I have to assume most of the problems come from 4G or a weak signal causing the phone to switch networks or reconnect all the time.

I did learn with Android you don't leave apps up though. Once I left Angry Birds on my DroidX and walked away from it thinking it would stop like the iPhone does, but apparently it didn't because when I came out of the gym I was down over 30% with the battery in 1.5 hrs. So I always click the home button before putting the phone down. Maybe it was just a freak thing, not sure, I'm still kinda new to Android (The DroidX and EVO were trial accounts while waiting on the TBolt to come out).
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I always completely back out of everything. Blackberry habit. :o
 
I'm confused as to how or why, but my phone's battery life has gone from absolutely terrible to surprisingly good. How terrible? I left it alone fully charged at night from 12am to 7am and it drained down to 30% bad. And how surprisingly good? I have been having 16 hours of not charging and staying at 50% battery.

My habits: I use my phone regularly throughout the day. Minimum brightness. I disabled facebook sync unless I log onto it. gmail updates pretty regularly. gtalk on the whole day and chatting quite often. Averaging 25 texts outbound each day. average 1/2 wordfeud game per day. Browsing some webmail through browser. And listening to music for about 4 hours; 1 hour to work and back, and 3 hours at work. About 2 ten minute client calls.

Today, I charged my phone at work, and unplugged 6 hours ago. Listened to music for a half hour walking around the financial district, and then an hour on the way back on the bus. Texted, gtalk, wordfeud, etc. As I'm typing, and switching to wifi, I'm sitting at a healthy 80%. Since I have time over the weekend, I'm going to let it drain until it goes down to 10% before charging again. I'll edit this post again when I find out how long that time is.

I don't know what happened, but I'll take it. Maybe it was me being more judicious in closing programs and not letting it run in the background. I also force stopped some of the random crap that I never used. I'll cross my fingers that this battery life will last.
 
I bought the Thunderbolt the day it came out. The first two days the battery life was horrible. I noticed that the new HTC Sense was completely different from the HTC Incredible. I use Outlook for work, Gmail, I have facebook, the engadget widget, the mobile buzz widget, a calender widget, a weather widget, and use my phone quite regularly for texting, calling, listening to music, you tube, checking the web. On top of all of that I live and work in the 4G coverage area in LA. The first two days were rough. In February when the phone was suppose to come out I bought 3 extra batteries in preparation for the launch and i was changing batteries every 4 to 5 hours.

On the 3rd day I decided that i was going to do something about the battery life. I changed every single sync on my phone to 15 minutes or longer. I put a black wallpaper (black uses less energy than color), and called *#*#4636#*#* to disable the 4G. Ever since I made those changes on my phone, it has been lasting until about 8 at night with no problem. It now goes about 10 hours without needing to change the battery. I am very happy with the phone now and no longer want to return it like I did those first couple of days.
 
I purchased an extended battery with the case. I put it in this morning so we will see how the day goes. I wish they made a good rugged case while you had the extended battery door installed but will just have to wait
 
ColeHarris said:
My battery life has been pretty sporadic. Some days It will go all day with heavy use and have plenty of life left, some days I'll spend a few minutes on the phone and check a couple of emails and its dead, Pretty strange. Hopefully the peeps over at XDA get Cyanogen running on the TBOLT soon, its one of the most battery efficient roms I've used.
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Same here...one day its good and the next its horrible.
 
Bumped charged a lot yesterday, went to bed with 90% left, forgot to charge, woke up 9 hours later and it was at 85%. Green Power really does wonders.
 
(follow up to my previous post).

Plugged in just now just to make sure I had a fresh battery before going out out.

26 hours since unplugging. Similar usage as I described before too. At 40%. Gonna continue crossing my fingers.
 
HTCTundaBow said:
Mine lasts around 12 hours on the 4G extended network. No complaints here.
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I work in a decent 4G area, though the signal is pretty weak. I work 10 hour shifts. I unplug my phone an hour or two before I go to work and I don't plug it in until just before I go to bed normally 3 or 4 hours after I get off. My battery isn't dead when I plug it in and I let it charge while I sleep. I don't turn anything off or change my settings, I like to use the phone. GPS, WiFi and my mobile network are all on. AND I let things sync at a reasonable rate!

I find it extremely hard to believe that I am among so few people who can get 14-16 hours and still have a charge. WTF are you doing with this phone? Expecting it to stream 15 hours of HD YouTube is insane. When I really get on my phone and do a bunch of crazy stuff on it, I know the battery life is going to be awful, BECAUSE I'M USING THE HELL OUT OF IT.

If you dislike the battery life that much, get the extended battery. I am.
 
I have zero issues with battery. No 4g where I am at so disabled 4g totally. Use wifi when possible which is probably 75% of the time. Set notifications to 15 minutes. GPS off most of the time. Use Startup Cleaner to make sure apps are not launching that I don't use. I charge in late evening before bed for 1.5 or so hours. (till green light) Boost charge in morning for 30 minutes or so. (again till green light) Not a heavy user but it does get used.I don't think I haveever had it dip below 30%.
 
Today was the first day that I used the extended battery with the new battery cover. I am very pleased as I took it off charge this morning around 9am and I am posting this now after 11pm and I am at 50% battery. GPS Bluetooth and WiFi on all day with some surfing about 9 calls lasting a few minutes. And about 100 texts. Normal usage of Facebook and Twitter. I don't mins the bulky battery case at all. I would suggest getting the extended battery to anyone. Monday will be the "big" test as I have a full 14 be work day and expect a lot of calls and texts.
 
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