campuscop2003
Newbie
Mine is sitting at between 280 and 800 back and forth. I have also notice my phone has been charging for three hours now from dead and its only at 80% is that normal?
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Post Froyo OTA: Your Battery Life
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Twiz
Android Enthusiast
OMG YES!! LOL!! I did the RUU and all the apps that could sync were set to do so FREQUENTLY! I changed them right away and battery lasts all day through texting, surfing, emailing, playing games, etc.
Oh and I have poor signal still /sigh
That sounds about right. When you get your phone the usb cord has a tag on it that says "Typical charge times for full charge 4 hours standard, 5 hours extended" My phone has always taken about 4 hours to charge from dead.
smillerlsu
Newbie
I RUU'd late last night, andthe phone drained overnight... I don't think I gave it a full charge before work, though, so I'm not surprised that I drained out by 5:00 (completely... wouldn't even show HTC flash screen). I'm giving it a full charge now, and we'll see if that gets the battery calibration back... but for now, sucks as bad as it did on day 1!
UPDATE: After a total discharge / recharge, my battery seems to be at least as good as before... maybe better. 3:30 PM here and 65% left with moderate use.
UPDATE: After a total discharge / recharge, my battery seems to be at least as good as before... maybe better. 3:30 PM here and 65% left with moderate use.
zemerick
Android Enthusiast
Most people use System Panel. keep in mind, while you have that open and looking at it, System Panel itself is using the CPU so it skews things a fair bit
zemerick
Android Enthusiast
Well, I wouldn't be surprised if there was, but I don't know of any right off hand.
However, if it's in the notification bar it will be running all the time your phone is awake: Draining your battery faster than normal. So, I would recommend against it really.
I just turned off, Background data. Is that what you're talking about? Will it really effect it too much?
I did RUU yesterday @ 10am, by 3am when I got home, it was 11%. I worked 8 hours too without using the phone. Horrible battery life.
Anyway, I dealt with Verizon today at the store and they sucked, so I called and they sent me a free 2150MAH n cover.
zemerick
Android Enthusiast
I think he meant the different syncs specifically. Most people don't want ALL of those things syncing ( Such as me. I disabled News, Stock, and Weather syncs. ) Also, check the frequencies for the updates. My Twitter was set to something like 5 mins and I really don't care much about twitter, so I changed it to 4 hours.
Also, don't forget about "Enable Always-On Mobile Data" under Wireless and Networks->Mobile Networks. If you don't use Push emails then you should be able to disable this.
mine sucks ass now, I mean the battery was always poor but now it's HORRIBLE. I literally took it off the charger this morning, browsed a couple of pages and pics and the battery was at 80%. I barely made it though today with the same use I always use, some texts, email and a couple of short phone calls. I also stopped the syncing for stocks and news and set the others to a different sync time
I just did all of what you said. Whats the purpose of always-on mobile data?
What did I just turn off? lol
zemerick
Android Enthusiast
It stays 2.2
It kinda sets the phones data to "listen". Normally things on your phone are set to wake the phone up, and then ask out if there is anything new ( EX: The mail app might wake up every 30 mins to ask Yahoo if you have any new emails. ) However, with the data always on...the data stays awake all the time listening for when certain things send information to it (EX: Gmail push mail. Instead of waiting for you to ask Gmail if theres anything new, when something new comes in...it sends it right out to your phone. )
This will ( if you set up push ) allow you to receive emails whenever they arrive, but it will also eat into your battery. A side trick if you have enough/unlimited text: You could set up your email to send you a text message when something new arrives as this is always able to receive. Then when you get the text, you can pop open your email and check it right away
I just updated yesterday, so I'm going to have to wait a few days until I'm into my normal usage to see. Mine went down today lower than normal, but I've been playing with it more than usual checking out all things Froyo.
I remember when I got the Dinc, I was critical of the battery, but once I got into what ended up being my normal daily usage amount, it wasn't all that bad.
I remember when I got the Dinc, I was critical of the battery, but once I got into what ended up being my normal daily usage amount, it wasn't all that bad.
BuickGS67
Newbie
My battery life has been significantly improved since I installed the official update OTA this morning. I haven't charged at all today since plugging at 7:00am. I still have over 40% left after heavy usage today giving 2.2 a good workout. I used to need to charge late PM, or I'd run low by 9:00 or so. I'm running the Seidio 1750 I bought from Amazon. Quadrant score is more than double what it was under 2.1. I'm in Froyo heaven!
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Deleted User
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Is there a chance that those of you who are experiencing worse battery issues are still running task killers? With froyo there isn't a need to. It's actually going to impact your battery worse by running them because froyo WILL start the programs back up until they accomplish their tasks. The only thing you can do is wait for the system to move the process to the background, which will happen given a bit of inactivity with that particular process. Repeatedly starting the programs would be a far larger drain on your battery than simply letting them do their job.
smillerlsu
Newbie
Nope.
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Deleted User
Guest
It's not a 'hype'. It's how linux systems work. That is not debatable. It's designed to never have to close a program...it simply moves them to the background where they use less cpu and sit mostly in the memory (which will not cause any drain on the battery). If the program is inactive then the system will close it out. Tell me where the 'hype' is in that?
Not trying to be a jerk..just stating fact. This is linux, not windows.
I noticed the same thing in System Panel, but now I'm thinking that System Panel itself is banging the CPU more in Froyo than it did before. If you look at the line on the left next to System Panel in the active apps list, you'll see that it's going up and down quite a bit.
I just downloaded Temp+CPU V2 from the market. It's a widget that displays your CPU speed on a home page. Mine shows 245 when the phone is just sitting there. Makes me feel a lot better about Froyo.
It also shows the CPU temp and free memory. Pretty nifty little widget.
I got my Dinc yesterday came home and flashed it to 2.2 usinf update.zip rebooted hardreset device twice to make sure it is agood clean install charged it over night
It had close to 14 hours with about 20% left moderate use installed about 30 apps setup woifi bluetooth since this is my first time with this phone this looks to great
It had close to 14 hours with about 20% left moderate use installed about 30 apps setup woifi bluetooth since this is my first time with this phone this looks to great