Would DHD owners still recommend?

[BobbyPhoenix]

you have to train your battery to be better from day one. (1)That means out of the box dont charge it. (2)Let it run down and turn off. Do a full charge and let it run down and turn off again. Do the full charge and run down at least 5 times and you will get a healthy battery. Try not to charge your battery from halfway if possible. (3)Batteries have life memory and half charging can affect the performance/life. You can reset battery life in the recovery mode menu (hold down menu while turning on, i think you need to install a recovery program to do recovery mode) but make sure the battery is absolutely full before doing so.

1 - You are telling people to go directly against what the manufacture is saying to do in the manual. Why would the manufacture lie? You MUST fully charge the battery before first use.

2 - Li-Ion batteries can be ruined by letting them drain completely. You should start charging around 10% life left (at least).

3 - Only batteries prior to circa 2002 have memory. All modern batteries (Li-Ion, Li-Pol) do not. You can charge from 10% or 90%, and it makes no difference.

Where were you educated on batteries, and battery life? I'm not trying to be mean or anything, but your advise goes against all proper battery care.


EDIT - "I have advanced task manager on mine purely to kill the extra apps that i've installed at half hour intervals. It works fine and does not cause any problems."

Task managers, and Android do not mix well. The Android OS is much more capable of maintaining proper memory and power management. In fact using task managers makes the OS run even harder resulting in more battery use.


Disclaimer:

These are just my observations, but if what you say is working for you, by all means keep doing them.

 

[flashypants]

1 - You are telling people to go directly against what the manufacture is saying to do in the manual. Why would the manufacture lie? You MUST fully charge the battery before first use.

2 - Li-Ion batteries can be ruined by letting them drain completely. You should start charging around 10% life left (at least).

3 - Only batteries prior to circa 2002 have memory. All modern batteries (Li-Ion, Li-Pol) do not. You can charge from 10% or 90%, and it makes no difference.

Where were you educated on batteries, and battery life? I'm not trying to be mean or anything, but your advise goes against all proper battery care.


EDIT - "I have advanced task manager on mine purely to kill the extra apps that i've installed at half hour intervals. It works fine and does not cause any problems."

Task managers, and Android do not mix well. The Android OS is much more capable of maintaining proper memory and power management. In fact using task managers makes the OS run even harder resulting in more battery use.


Disclaimer:

These are just my observations, but if what you say is working for you, by all means keep doing them.

1. Through my own experience, letting the run down before first charge works better for me.

2. From reading many posts on battery care, I have seen many times this advise on full charge, full run down cycles.

3. In one of the xda-developers guides to rooting the Hero, my last phone, it said to fully charge and reset battery life - from this i gather that there is still some sort of battery memory, even in Lithium batteries.

I appreciate your arguments and by all counts I could be wrong, but in my experience all the things i have posted enable me to charge my battery at 9am on Wednesday for 2 hours to 100% and i still have 27% left now, 24 hours later, with an estimated 7hrs and 52 minutes left. That is with some heavy "Slice-it" gaming last night and regular facebook checking, and some phone calls.

My wife has followed the same advice on her DZ and has doubled her battery life also.

I would like to add/agree that i am by no means a battery expert, these rituals have merely worked for me for many years to achieve great battery life.

I'm getting a replacement DHD tmrw (original batch faults) and will attempt the immediate full charge as recommended and see if there is a difference.

I appreciate your thoughts BobbyPhoenix, i didn't mean to come across as some sort of guru.

 

[ynwa]

Certainly it used to be said that you let your battery run right down and then fully charge it. All advice i have read in recent years is this is no longer the case.

 

[blearyboy]

To answer the original question: the DHD is not a phone for everyone.

It requires a huge amount of tinkering and fiddling to get it working. A month later and I still find myself spending about an hour a day messing around with settings, installing apps and trying to get the battery stable (every time I think I've got it figured out, I make a small change and suddenly I'm back to having to recharge at 8pm)

If you want a phone that works out of the box, try an iPhone. But if you're a total dork who likes tinkering with technology, this is definitely the best phone on the market.

(For the record: I'm a total dork and I love my DHD)

 

[slashnburn]

i to have same problem of jumpyness and slowing down hardly got many apps installed from new. dont know what to do about it maybe return phone for replacemnt?

I have found that what makes my phone stutter and lag is syncing, (not all syncing apps display the sync symbol in the notification bar) particularly google syncing the calender and contacts, the HTC sense service, and any of the Facebook apps that sync your contacts (More apparent if you have a lot of contacts) My solution is to (1.)untick any syncing functions not needed in "Accounts and Sync" (2.) Put the "sync all" widget on your homescreen, and when your phone lags stop the sync in it`s tracks and see if that improves performance, It does with mine.
Let me know if this works for you........

ps I have loads of apps installed

 

[big_mike]

well i did get one in the end after being messed around by tmobile!
and im SUPER happy with it! its awesome!

love everything about it and a friend with an iphone 4 said wow its got a nice screen ;-)


for a non super amoled (i came from the sgs) its a VERY nice screen.
size is fine battery isnt a prob i keep a spare charger at work!

 

[Leong428]

Glad you like it big mike! almost 2 months in with this phone i have to say the battery life has improved dramatically. Surprisingly removing Advanced task killer extends my battery life.

I still bought an extra battery for travels but even on a whole day journey from manchester to london the phone pulled through without a battery replacement.

Trust me, it only gets better!