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alextop30

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I am talking about 3.70.... version that HTC came out with. The software looks pretty good however my batter went from 4 hours to barely 2 hours of use time. That is not constant use time - now I am finally thinking about rooting my device because I would really like my TWO batteries to last me most of the day so that I can use my phone as mobile phone and not as a stationary corded phone constantly plugged to the wall!!!

What have you guys noticed? how is your battery life?
 
4 to 2 hours? Neither of those are very normal - let alone good. Sounds to me like there is another issue going on. Is your phone not sleeping? If you go into your battery use settings does it show your phone is awake the same time it has been on? That is the first place I would start to try and figure out what was wrong.

There are also apps that can help, but start with that.
 
I am talking about 3.70.... version that HTC came out with. The software looks pretty good however my batter went from 4 hours to barely 2 hours of use time. That is not constant use time - now I am finally thinking about rooting my device because I would really like my TWO batteries to last me most of the day so that I can use my phone as mobile phone and not as a stationary corded phone constantly plugged to the wall!!!

What have you guys noticed? how is your battery life?

Something is definitely wrong with your phone... Have you only been getting 4 hours of usage out of your phone since you got it?
 
Yea Evo 4g is a power hog I had 3 batteries and they would last me through the entire day. I lost one of them and the two use to be somewhat good. Now I actually have to actually swap them before lunch.

The four hours use to be with heavy use. So a lot of internet, calls and other apps.

On the battery settings it says that Phone idle uses 39% of the battery - cell stand by 37% and android system 9%. This is for 3 hours down 30% from a fully charged battery. That may not sound bad but I have not used my phone at all - meaning I was on my comp and have not received or made a phone call.

I do not know what is happening.
 
A little more update here I got up this morning and my phone is at 10% charge after 11 hours unplugged time. This is the breakdown of the battery usage
44% cell standby
44% Phone idle
4% android system
3% voice calls
3% media server
2% dialer

I don't think this is normal because it has been only on stand by on my night stand. Is it normal or am I getting a little too worked up about this?
 
Did you ever check the wake time under menu->settings->about phone->battery as mdizzle99 suggested? That really is where you need to start.
 
the question is wat do you think I got these numbers from. that is the exact same menu icon salted before I publish these numbers. As u see my phone was on standby most of the time.
 
OK... I still can't decipher your responses enough to know if you have answered our question yet... is your phone sleeping at all? Is your "Awake time" and "Up time" the same number?
 
i have no answer for you on this, but i do have a question for the others with answers. should up time and awake time be the same
 
No, uptime should be the amount of time you've been using the phone + a little extra for stuff that needs to run in the background from time to time. If it equals uptime, your phone is not sleeping, and the battery is constantly draining much faster than it should be.
 
Here is my latest update after research tweak and other measures. The time I posted up there was the total time the phone was unplugged. I am perfectly aware that the Evo has very poor battery life but 2 hours of work is nearly unacceptable. I tried turning off everything that has the periodic update except the weather and gmail. That did not help at all. I quit all bloatware apps from Sprint and its associates, that really did not help, I did not know how many cycles of the CPU they were using I would have to guess that it was not much since I never ran them. At this point I am thinking of just rooting the phone and seeing if I can remove all the bloatware and customize power of CPU and see if I cannot at least pull 8 hours of work time so I do not have to use my computer.8 hours with the two batteries.
 
As far as the up time and awake ratio it seems my phone is in sleep mode. Up time shows 60 hours and awake timer it shows as 29 hours so it only leads me to believe that the phone is in sleep mode slightly more than half of the time.
 
Sounds like you have something running in the background without you knowing. I have a couple suggestions for you.

1) If you want to spend time trying to figure it out, overnight leave your phone in Airplane mode. You won't get calls or texts, but if you're not using music or other apps, power consumption should be minimal. If you don't drain nearly as quickly as now, it's mostly likely one or more apps running in the background.

I've found that some apps simply restart themselves when there's a change in phone status (screen unlock/awake). Flikr and Facebook always seem to turn themselves on even though I've never used them and don't have accounts with them. When they turn on, they also turn on/use GPS. That forced me to have to check to see if GPS was on.

I cannot figure out why, but something was also turning on my bluetooth. That's been resolved, but it was draining the heck out of my battery.

Go into your apps and make sure you're not giving them permission to do things with your location (via GPS) and that your background data doesn't continuously refresh, rather it refreshes only every hour or when you direct it to manually.

2) Based on the % you indicated, 44% cell standby would be the only thing that seems high. Is your cell signal strenth good? Standby could be affected if you're in a low-signal area as it forces your phone to work harder to establish and maintain network connection.
 
Cell standby being that high doesn't matter much. Mine is just a little lower than that all the time. What you need to do is press that to see what your time without signal is. If it's anything higher than 0% (1-4% probably isn't enough to affect the battery that much).
 
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