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Optimize your Droid Eris battery life (READ THIS)

I turned off notifcations on messenger, downloaded chompsms, and my awake time is still at 70-80% any ideas or helpful tips? gps off, bluetooth off, wifi is set to always on, but is switched off right now......
 
Chuntsman949 said:
I turned off notifcations on messenger, downloaded chompsms, and my awake time is still at 70-80% any ideas or helpful tips? gps off, bluetooth off, wifi is set to always on, but is switched off right now......
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Stop using your phone and the awake time % will decrease. It's those stuck at 100% EVEN AFTER THE PHONE HAS BEEN ASLEEP that have a problem.

If the awake time % is dropping after the phone goes to sleep then you're fine. If not then I don't know what to say.
 
Magnus_CA said:
Stop using your phone and the awake time % will decrease. It's those stuck at 100% EVEN AFTER THE PHONE HAS BEEN ASLEEP that have a problem.

If the awake time % is dropping after the phone goes to sleep then you're fine. If not then I don't know what to say.
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I understand that much, I'm not THAT ******** hahah. It still hovers around 70-80... odd
 
Hi all,
Like everyone else, I love love love the Droid Eris but have hated battery life and thought I was going to have to return it for this sole reason. So I followed the tips on this and other forums and am FINALLY getting decent battery life. Here are my findings:

1. Conditioning the battery by letting it run all the way down and then charging it up seems to help alot. For best results, do this three days in a row.

2. Get rid of YouMail!!! I love the app, but that single-handedly was keeping my awake times at or near 100%.

3. Disable auto backlighting, and set the brightness to approximately 25%. It's still pretty bright at 25% brightness.

3. Be judicious with your use of the wireless radios, such as Bluetooth, Wifi, GPS, etc.

4. You DON'T have to turn off Mobile Network as has been suggested by avid forum-goers like Grimster. Yes, it will make your phone into a STAR performer for battery life, but taking this step kind of defeats the purpose of having a smartphone, doesn't it?

I am using Handcent SMS as well, but it's mainly because I like the app and not because of battery life issues.

I can only imagine what HTC's upcoming updates will do. At this moment, I am actually happy with the battery life, and I am a pretty active phone user.

Please don't forget the first 3 complete discharge cycles; it has really seemed to help!

Good luck.
 
make sure you have all visual voicemails uninstalled (including stock verizon app) and cancel visual voicemail with Verizon. that dropped me in to the 20s.
 
Thanks for all the tips, just made a couple changes and looking forward to tomorrow and seeing if there is any difference.
 
duncanhoo said:
make sure you have all visual voicemails uninstalled (including stock verizon app) and cancel visual voicemail with Verizon. that dropped me in to the 20s.
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How can you uninstall the visual voicemail that comes on the phone from verizon? Advanced task manager tells you that it can try to remove it but it can cause problems since it comes built into the phones software
 
Wow, great thread. Just got my phone Friday, found this forum and, like everyone else here, love this phone but not so much the battery life. We'll see how much this helps.
 
hmm. maybe i did not uninstall the applicaiton. just make sure you arent using visual voicemail at the verizon level (the service they charge 2.99/month for but was free on att).
 
Ok guys I found another killer, but I am not sure if there is anything WE can do. I took yesterday off from work and noticed my battery was good ALL day, in fact this morning I was at 40% off of yeserdays charge. When i woke up I threw it back on the charger for a bit got ready and headed off to the office. Well low and behold, this office is what is killing my phone. It will not run in 3g, it stays in 1x mode and keeps working, thus raping the battery....i got here at 98% and in 15 mins i am at 89%.. Any ideas on a fix?
 
I am trying to nip and tuck at battery power wherever I can. Does the OS allow for scheduled intervals for cal/contact/email sync? If so can someone post how to do this

Thanks!
 
All sounds good over here. One thing...my wife's Eris has had no less than 30 hrs per charge for a good while now. She let's it completely die b4 each charge then does not overcharge. I think that could be a key in all this. More and more use as she's gotten comfortable w her phone, too. She plays Slacker quite a bit and also browses, texts and plays games. All this and she makes a good handful of calls.
My point in all this is to strongly sugggest y'all that have battery issues to try what she's done as far as killing the battery b4 each charge. It may just do the trick!
Hope this helps y'all. :)
 
I thought I had fixed my "bug" with SMS and decided to try to power down last night before charging. I was at 28% and everything was fine. I turned off mobile networks and wifi before going to bed. I powered it back up this morning and checked my status and I was at 100%??? What?? Help? Am currently doing the sms fix again.
 
For what it is worth, I emailed Verizon help about the Eris battery. The person who wrote me back said there is no problem with the battery, and gave me a couple tips. I wonder if Verizon's official line is to deny the battery-issue?

Below you can see the exchange. At the bottom is my question and then above it is the response. Also no word in the email about the patch/update coming.

From: VZW WFM MW IRT <wfmmwirt@HQ.VerizonWireless.com>
To:
Sent: Thu, November 26, 2009 10:47:08 AM
Subject: RE: Currently Offered Phones (WFM53044255)


Good morning. I will be happy to assist you regarding the HTC Droid Eris phone.

I have researched the HTC Eris Droid and was unable to find any thing about the battery life being an issue. I have provided information below for managing the battery life on the HTC Droid Eris.

These tips and hints below will help better manage battery life:

To turn off the screen, press the Power/End button. The device will continue to function.
To manually manage the brightness of the screen, navigate to Settings => Sound & display => Disable auto backlight. This will disable the auto backlight sensor. The customer can then manually adjust the brightness and modify the backlight setting as desired.
Turn Wi-Fi and Bluetooth off when not in use.
Close any third party applications running in the background that are not needed.
If using Exchange Active Sync email, change settings to download email less frequently. Press Menu => More => Settings => Send & Receive => Set download frequency.
Log out of Google Talk or other IM/chat applications when not in use.

Thank you again for your email regarding the battery life on the HTC Droid Eris. I hope you continue to find the
 
Lpetel said:
I thought I had fixed my "bug" with SMS and decided to try to power down last night before charging. I was at 28% and everything was fine. I turned off mobile networks and wifi before going to bed. I powered it back up this morning and checked my status and I was at 100%??? What?? Help? Am currently doing the sms fix again.
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Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but when you power the phone on, the awake time measures how long your phone is awake vs how long the phone has been powered on. If you start your phone and look at your phone for the first 10 mins, your awake time is going to be 100% because it's been on for 10 mins and you've been actively using it for 10 mins. Once you put it to sleep/stop using it, that will obviously go down.

Hope this makes sense.
 
Hey guys my name is Jude. I just got my Droid Eris this past Tuesday. I loved it...until I saw how fast the battery went. I never had a smartphone so I figured this is what it did. Until I came across this site. I joined just so I could thank you all for the tips and tricks and I have put them all to good use. Just today I let my battery drain I got 6hrs and 10 mins outta it. It then took 4 hrs and 15 mins to charge. After 30 mins I had went from 100% battery to 85% and I had only made 5 calls. So I came back here and did all the tips and I will do the complet dead and then full charge for then next 3 days to see if that helps. I keep reading about an update for the Eris in December. What will this update do, how will it help/fix and will I have to get a new phone or will my phone just update by itself? Thanks so much for the help and I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!
 
jude21 said:
Hey guys my name is Jude. I just got my Droid Eris this past Tuesday. I loved it...until I saw how fast the battery went. I never had a smartphone so I figured this is what it did. Until I came across this site. I joined just so I could thank you all for the tips and tricks and I have put them all to good use. Just today I let my battery drain I got 6hrs and 10 mins outta it. It then took 4 hrs and 15 mins to charge. After 30 mins I had went from 100% battery to 85% and I had only made 5 calls. So I came back here and did all the tips and I will do the complet dead and then full charge for then next 3 days to see if that helps. I keep reading about an update for the Eris in December. What will this update do, how will it help/fix and will I have to get a new phone or will my phone just update by itself? Thanks so much for the help and I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!
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just a heads up, it seems to be pretty universal that the battery drains really quickly from 100%-85% for some reason, but then like normal the rest of the way, and sometimes runs really strong for the last 15%. I've used my phone minimally the past 2 days, and i'm going on about 32 hrs and its at 20% which i think is pretty good. I have the mobile network on all the time, but have the "enable always on mobile" unchecked.
 
Alright so I just turned off auto-backlight, and I'm starting to notice improvements.

Does Wi-Fi burn more battery than Mobile Network?

What happens if i uncheck "Enable always-on mobile" ?
 
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