I browse the internet for maybe an hour a day on wifi, 30-60 minutes of phone calls, between 100 and 200 texts, syncing three news feeds regularly, download an app or two and some updates daily, and play about an hour of games on it a day to while away the bus journey...And I normally have about 50% left after a 07:00-23:00 period off charge. I can assure you, the battery is fine.
Well then good for you, my battery doesn't! The battery is not fine or I would not be on this forum, so stop being a tit please.
You send 6000 texts a month?!
because you dont need all that crap on , when its in you pocket , dohSorry but what a shite article, whats the point in buying a high end device and then switching everything off, in!
I'm sorry but there is no way on earth you will get 30 hours out of a single Desire charge under medium to heavy usage...absolutely NO WAY!
I know about 6 people with desires and most use them regularly throughout the day and every one of us has to charge it every night.
Depends what your definition of Heavy usage is...Im talking an hour or so calls and a good 2 hours internet...plus texting and maybe navigation....some days I can get to 3 o'clock and need to charge it!
I'll swap batteries with you! I'm somewhat envious! I maybe do an hour or so of net and 100 texts a day and I'm out of it by 20:00 after unplugging at 08:00.I browse the internet for maybe an hour a day on wifi, 30-60 minutes of phone calls, between 100 and 200 texts, syncing three news feeds regularly, download an app or two and some updates daily, and play about an hour of games on it a day to while away the bus journey...And I normally have about 50% left after a 07:00-23:00 period off charge. I can assure you, the battery is fine.
my phone can last 3 days from decent to max use such as internet, market, etc.
4-5 hours sound about right to how much I can get out of my phone if I use it intensively. That means a good couple of hours internet on 3g, general faffing about, calls and text. I think that's the general timeline for everyone no?
nope, for me everything can be on (bluetooth, wifi, gps, hsdpa, background syncing,...) and i still would get at least 7-9 hours playing games, listening to the music, browsing internet...
so i dont think 4-5 hours is alright
I have also loaded Advanced Task Killer and go tthat shutting down any errant apps every 30mins.
nope, for me everything can be on (bluetooth, wifi, gps, hsdpa, background syncing,...) and i still would get at least 7-9 hours playing games, listening to the music, browsing internet...
so i dont think 4-5 hours is alright
I bought a HTC Desire on a week ago and love it. Only problem is tat the battery is dire. I found it lasts for about 4 hours then it's dead. I am not running any apps or Wi-Fi, GPS, syncing etc. I initialy put id down to me playing with the phone constantly for the 1st couple of days. However by the fith day the battery was still dying in 5 hours or sooner. I took the phone back suspecting a faulty handset or battery. Got a new phone and battery. Still have the same very poor 4 or 5 hour battery life. I have loaded 'Battery Graph' app and you can see there is almost a straight line going down losing 20% of power every hour!!!! This is even overnight when it's doing absolutely nothing. I have also loaded Advanced Task Killer and go tthat shutting down any errant apps every 30mins. Still no improvement in battery life. Any ideas what may be causing this? Neither of the batteries I have had have hologram stickers on them like my old Nokia did. Should the official batteries have hologram stickers? Any help much appreciated.
i love the way people suggest switching everything off to save battery. why not just switch the whole device off, then the battery would last forever!
I live in a semi-rural part of zambia (central africa) and am often in areas of poor cell signal, it seems to me that the desire chows a lot of battery searching for better or more signal. when i go off camping to areas where i know there is no signal at all i put the phone in airplane mode and the battery lasts ages, even using camera, flashlight and playing music. But it still cant fly.
I wanted to like android so badly and I have forgiven so many of it's failings because of this - things I would have crucified another platform for (eg iphone). I know I'll get flamed mercilessly for saying this, but android's multitasking system is broken at the most basic level. Everyone is constantly singing the praises of it's flexibility and openness but I can't decide if I want to shut an app off??? The system knows best? Clearly it doesn't when I can't make it home from work without a dead battery. The comparatively ancient Symbian had the ability to close apps years ago.
The fact that a whole world of app-killers sprung up to counteract (unsuccessfully) the way android manages tasks is proof positive that this aspect of the system is a tragic failure. At least give us the option to shut them down for crying out loud (without automatically restarting them again!).
The countless posts on innumerable forums about the hoops you have to jump through to get acceptable battery life are testament to just how broken core elements of android are. And frankly, the fact that some people get 30+ hours out of theirs while I get about 12-16 on average out of mine now (up from 8 when i first upgraded to Froyo) is further proof of it's brokenness. It's not really an open and free system if I have to do ludicrously specific "tricks" and use it in very particular ways for it to be functional.
While I still think that android is the best smartphone system currently available, it really is proof that none of the technologies really fulfill our (realistic) needs. The thing that gets me so annoyed is that I believe android COULD be great if they fixed a few minor flaws in its design.
As I type this I'm doing the battery 'reset' thing to it as it's the last hope for me before I throw it off a bridge. It constantly lets me down when I need it.
The fact that android phones are in the hands of millions of non-technical users now makes all it's quirks unacceptable and put its longevity in doubt. Most people don't want to faff around with their phone endlessly.
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(HTC Desire 8183 Telstra Australia)
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