I have recent become the proud owner of an HTC Desire HD.
The morning came and i heard a knock at the door. The excitment builds I charge my phone and then start to play due to fears of the old batteries 'memory' issues (I still cant get out of the habbit!). But to my dissapointment my phone didn't even last a day
The following points helped me alot:
1. This is very strange but seemed to really help my phone. It seems to work for some but not others. My advice - give it a chance: HTC Desire HD Battery Improvement Help - HTC Forums. When you power off take the battery out
2. Uninstall all but essential apps. Yes they are fun but do you REALLY need them. I ditched about 10 or so.
3. Get rid of widgets. They look fancy but really there is no reason to have them and it appears they use alot of power (CPU, memory and battery). The only widget I use is the clock (without the weather - seriously if I want to know the weather I'll stick my head out the window!!!)
4. Lower the brightness and turn your background to a dark colour. Turn the screen timeout to 30 seconds. 15 seconds if you really feel like it.
5. Manage your connections correctly. Find a happy median between syncing all the time and not at all. Find somewhere in between that suits you. Accounts & Sync menu will manage what syncs and how often.
6. Extended Controls (Honolulu Team) is a really good app which will help you toggle your wifi, data, GPS and syncing. This helped me massively.
7. Get a task killer. The two i use are Advance Task Killer (ReChild) and Auto Killer Memory Optimizer (AndRS Studio). The former is a good quick kill app and the latter gives a more detailed look at what is running in the background. You can set Advance Task Killer to kill all tasks when the screen goes off which is a nice feature.
I am running an Exchange email account with push mail and callendar and Gmail syncing mail only. I have Wifi and GPS off. I have made two short calls and I have been using the internet and market.
I am currently at 11 hours since unplug at 100% and I am left with 55% but I am sure I could get more without a data connection running constantly.
I was running 3g watchdog (or something like that?!) and that ate my battery like nothing else.
Any further ideas please let me know.
Also any feedback would be great.
Good luck
The morning came and i heard a knock at the door. The excitment builds I charge my phone and then start to play due to fears of the old batteries 'memory' issues (I still cant get out of the habbit!). But to my dissapointment my phone didn't even last a day
The following points helped me alot:
1. This is very strange but seemed to really help my phone. It seems to work for some but not others. My advice - give it a chance: HTC Desire HD Battery Improvement Help - HTC Forums. When you power off take the battery out
2. Uninstall all but essential apps. Yes they are fun but do you REALLY need them. I ditched about 10 or so.
3. Get rid of widgets. They look fancy but really there is no reason to have them and it appears they use alot of power (CPU, memory and battery). The only widget I use is the clock (without the weather - seriously if I want to know the weather I'll stick my head out the window!!!)
4. Lower the brightness and turn your background to a dark colour. Turn the screen timeout to 30 seconds. 15 seconds if you really feel like it.
5. Manage your connections correctly. Find a happy median between syncing all the time and not at all. Find somewhere in between that suits you. Accounts & Sync menu will manage what syncs and how often.
6. Extended Controls (Honolulu Team) is a really good app which will help you toggle your wifi, data, GPS and syncing. This helped me massively.
7. Get a task killer. The two i use are Advance Task Killer (ReChild) and Auto Killer Memory Optimizer (AndRS Studio). The former is a good quick kill app and the latter gives a more detailed look at what is running in the background. You can set Advance Task Killer to kill all tasks when the screen goes off which is a nice feature.
I am running an Exchange email account with push mail and callendar and Gmail syncing mail only. I have Wifi and GPS off. I have made two short calls and I have been using the internet and market.
I am currently at 11 hours since unplug at 100% and I am left with 55% but I am sure I could get more without a data connection running constantly.
I was running 3g watchdog (or something like that?!) and that ate my battery like nothing else.
Any further ideas please let me know.
Also any feedback would be great.
Good luck