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HTC Inspire Battery Experiences...

First post here and first full day with my beloved Inspire :). All I can say is that the battery is better than I expected after what I read when doing hours upon hours of research pitting the Inspire against the Atrix.

I played with the phone straight from the box then gave it a 3-4 hour charge last night. Took it off the charger at around 11:30pm, messed with settings and my home pages for at least 2 hours straight then put it next to my bed and set the alarm (I did not put it on the charger). Woke up this morning, the battery was still green. Checked and replied to emails about 10-15 times, messed with apps and app settings for about two hours, wrote a handful of text messages, and my battery is now at under 15% and it is currently 4:30pm. This is all with bluetooth and wireless always on. I haven't messed with any battery saving options or settings, I only setup the visual and app aspects of my phone. At this rate, I'm more than satisfied with it.
 
ok well i just got the phone and after a full day usage after charging it fully after unboxing...its the next day and im not gnna lie i used it a lot...i was surfing the web a very good amount i uploaded some pics i downloaded apps i was just on it a lot cuz im obsessed with it and its almost 10pm and its just entering the lower battery level where it gets yellow..about 20-30 percent left
 
Ok I have owned my new Inspire since Saturday and over the past 24 hours I have kept track of my usage and battery life. I work 12 hour shifts at night, so here are my results from 2:30PM 3-8-11 to 9:00AM 3-9-11.

Off Charger at 2:30 3-8-11
18h 29m 33s since unplugged
64% Display - 3h 3m
19% Calls - 33m
Winamp - 1h
Surfing - 45m
TXT's - 15m
And quite a bit of messing with different things and downloading apps and checking them out.
Phone shut off at 9:00AM 3-9-11

I don't think that my results are that bad.
 
thoffland said:
I get a full day out of my battery now, but I've turned off "always-on mobile data". That really seems to make a difference. As to what that does exactly, I can't tell you since I haven't noticed.
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Interesting. I've thought about trying this, but I was apprehensive about its effect on my push email (Yahoo Mail for Android App & Gmail). I'm going to go ahead and try it.
 
"I get a full day out of my battery now, but I've turned off "always-on mobile data". That really seems to make a difference. As to what that does exactly, I can't tell you since I haven't noticed."

I can tell you exactly what that feature does. When you disable it, after 5 minutes when your not using your phone, your phone goes to sleep and turns off 3g/HSPA all together. Test this by waiting more than 5 minutes and when you press the sleep button on top of your phone you will see that there is no symbol at all and then it immediatly pops up. The problem I had with this, however, is that the H symbol did NOT immediately pop back up. It took about 7 min for me to regain a signal, and I missed a few phone calls and texts because of this. So I now just leave it checked on. The difference in battery life isn't that much, honestly.
 
OK-Here's my experience with one of those "Chinese" eBay batteries.
Even though I felt my battery life was OK, I wanted to improve it. So, I got one of those 1500mah $24.87 charger/battery combos.
Everything looked fine and I charged it up per instructions. And the phone fired up without probs.
BUT...installation bothered me. The battery length and width were the same, but the thickness was larger. It was a VERY tight fit, way beyond snug, and required some effort to get it to seat properly.
To say the least, that bothered me quite a bit. Then I thought that if that thing got hot and swelled up, Heaven forbid melted, I'd never get it out and goodby phone.
So I decided to take it out.
Now, to get a stock battery out, the instructions say to shake it and then grab an edge and remove (which worked no sweat taking the original out).
But with this thing, there was no way that shaking it was going to make it budge.
I had to CAREFULLY use the point of a pocket knife to get it started and had to use the point until it was at least 75% out before I could get it out with my fingers.
Scaed to death I was gonna mess up the case, but I took my time and finally got it out.
SO..as you can guess, my recommendation is DON'T get one of these. DON'T take a chance. BEWARE!!.
The original battery is back in and if I get a different one, I'm gonna go through Seido.
 
Took my phone off the charger yesterday at 930 a.m.
and I still have about 1/3rd of my charge left! This is with moderate use. I am using juice defender as well. Battery life is better than my sisters iPhone 4. I'm thinking I will make it a total of about 30 hours of moderate use.
 
VeryProudOfYa said:
Took my phone off the charger yesterday at 930 a.m.
and I still have about 1/3rd of my charge left! This is with moderate use. I am using juice defender as well. Battery life is better than my sisters iPhone 4. I'm thinking I will make it a total of about 30 hours of moderate use.
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Cool.

How many phone calls? Texts? Minutes of video watching? Map use minutes, etc? ..during those 30 hours?
 
Frisco said:
Cool.

How many phone calls? Texts? Minutes of video watching? Map use minutes, etc? ..during those 30 hours?
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Calls-45 minutes total
Texts- 50-60
Internet- 4 hours
Youtube- 10 mins
Games/App Use- 3 hours

I am on wifi about 80% of the time. I am also running juice defender, but im thinking about uninstalling it if i am going to be getting this good of battery life. GPS and bluetooth are off. I also turn off mobile network when im on wifi and versa visa.
 
Just curious, does anyone know what makes a 1300mAh Seidio battery ($40) last longer than a stock 1230mAh HTC battery? Is it really an extended battery or just a $40 repacement?
 
i took my phone off the charger around 10:30 this morning.as of right now i have 75 percent battery.id say this is with moderate usage.i tried juicedefender for about 3 days and it said it increased my battery life by x1.73.i since then uninstalled the app and got better battery life.i read in another forum that all JD does is turn your radios on/off.if u do everything JD does manually u should get better results since u dont have an app running and doin it for u.

here is my settings

since unplugged 8h 45m
brightness - 0 when indoors
background data - off
auto sync - off
wifi - off
bluetooth - off
gps - off
mobile data - off

i usually keep all these settings turned off unless i need them,that way its not constantly running and draining my battery.a fast and easy to do all this manually is to have a page set up with the settings widget.by using these widgets if u want to turn wifi,bluetooth,mobile data,gps etc on/off u just tap the icon,very fast,easy, and helpful.
 
I am looking for a phone that can act as a replacement camcorder for a trip to Universal Studios with my family. From the few youtube videos I've seen, the camcorder aspect seems fine, good enough certainly to at least transfer film to DVD. Anyway, I am hesitant to purchase because of the battery life. Do you think that with me taking several video clips and perhaps a few internet perusals throughout the day that this phone would last me a full day on one charge? If not, can anyone reccommend a better phone on either AT&T or Verizon that will be available before May? Thanks!
 
I've also been able to get 30+ hours of battery life out of my phone, infact I went two full days once on one charge with moderate use.

My use was lower than how much I usually use my phone due to working those two days, but I was still very happy that my phone is capable of lasting so long.

I'm actually really looking forward to seeing how things are say 10 years from now, imagine if we could charge our phones once and be good for an entire week on that charge. Of course a new battery technology would have to be created to achieve such a thing, but with how fast things are moving at the moment with having dual core phones coming out. I can say I would believe you if you told me a phone ten years from now had a quad core processor running at 2 GHz, with 2 GB of RAM, 32 - 64 GB of internal storage, a full 1920 x 1080 resolution screen, full 1080p video capture (hell this is going to happen when the Galaxy S II comes out!) with 15 MP camera stills, and a battery that will last for atleast a week on one charge.
 
altima said:
Just curious, does anyone know what makes a 1300mAh Seidio battery ($40) last longer than a stock 1230mAh HTC battery? Is it really an extended battery or just a $40 repacement?
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exactly does the 1300 make a big diff or any diff at all?? also how would you even charge the other battery..charge one batt in phone, take it out and charge the 2nd one? or does seidio sell a separate battery charger?
 
altima said:
Just curious, does anyone know what makes a 1300mAh Seidio battery ($40) last longer than a stock 1230mAh HTC battery? Is it really an extended battery or just a $40 repacement?
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exactly does the 1300 make a big diff or any diff at all?? also how would you even charge the other battery..charge one batt in phone, take it out and charge the 2nd one? or does seidio sell a separate battery charger?
 
I just put mine to the test yesterday. Checking email once every hr, websurfing, angry birds, watching youtube videos, Phone lasted from 8am-9pm than went dead. I am going to do a log in the next few days I will post when done. I have to say that the batt life is way better than the evo, I had the Evo for 2 weeks the screen started to come apart at the bottom and the batt would last like 4 hrs. It was crazy, I have yet to find a phone to match the batt life of my old iphone 4. Batt life was great. Forgot next to the iphone the inspire batt is great I have been thru alot of phones and the inspire is the 2nd best in batt life.
 
Ok so I constantly read over and over the Battery thread and wonder to myself what constitutes a heavy user. The reason I am asking is because the so called heavy users are reporting about 12-15 hours of battery life on average. How the heck do you do it? I am averaging about 6 hours right now before I'm at 10%.

Let me know if you see any problems with my set up.

Exact Usage:
Off charger- 6:30am
1 hour of pandora/ music player
Deleted 10 emails (did not reply to any)
1 HeyTell message sent
2 text messages sent
During the hour of pandora about 15 mins of Facebook.
Battery at this point: 50%

Phone settings:
WiFi on
BT on
Screen Brightness: 30%

Widgets in Use:
Beautiful Widgets
ESPN
Pandora
Weather Channel

Apps Installed on Phone:
Backgrounds
Beautiful Widgets
AppBrain
doubleTwist
Drink Recipes
Facebook
GasBuddy
Google Voice
HeyTell
Home Switcher for Froyo
Launcher Pro
Flickster
Pandora
Ringdroid
ESPN
ShopSavvy
TFLN
TWC
TWI
Words Free
xda
Zedge

Do you guys see anything that may be consuming my battery? I am around a charger pretty much all day but it is still kind of annoying being attached to it. My heavy usage (phone calls, emails and texting has not even started yet and I the batt is already 50% used). Any advice is greatly appreciated. Other then this issue I love this phone!!!!!

Thanks in advance!!
 
When you are using pandora are you keeping the screen on? I have noticed when I use pandora that if I keep the screen on it uses more battery but if you let the screen go into sleep mode and pandora play in the background the battery will last longer
 
2manyPHONES said:
When you are using pandora are you keeping the screen on? I have noticed when I use pandora that if I keep the screen on it uses more battery but if you let the screen go into sleep mode and pandora play in the background the battery will last longer
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Nope the screen is off!!! Thank you though! That is something most people might not even notice. I had to double check myself lol.
 
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