December 24th, 2009, 12:25 PM
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Originally Posted by greatcasa
Hey everyone. I'm new to the Hero/Android platform coming over from a Blackberry 8830 that has served me well over the last 2 years with the exception of the low amount of internal memory and memory leaks that required a battery pull every couple of days (no biggie). I have to say that I love the functionality of the Hero and it's OS, but the battery time on this thing is ridiculous. I've done most of what is described above, and Yesterday with moderate use only got about 8 hours before it needed to be charged again. I've barely installed any applications so far, and just tried getting used to the phone itself. If a phone is made to run all kinds of applications, but you have to go in and turn off/"dumb down" everything, what is the point of having the phone? I had my BB 8830 for 2+ years with apps and GPS on all the time, and still with the same battery was only having to charge every couple of days, with a much smaller battery. I love the functionality of this phone, but what's the point if you have to constantly be monitoring everything that's installed and ensure that every setting is exactly right for optimal battery life and NOT performance, to not even get a half a day of minimal use?
There has to be more going on here, then all of these small things being changed, that are somewhat beneficial for some people and have barely any affect for others (myself included). I also don't like the fact of having to turn GPS on and off. What's the point. My 2+ year old and even older technology BB GPS didn't drain the battery, so why is the latest and greatest in modern phone technology and OS's having such an issue?
Has anyone contacted HTC or even Google support with these issues? Can we expect/hope that future OS updates will alleviate these battery problems? Or are we stuck having to worry more about battery life on a hourly/daily basis, then just having a phone and expecting it to work and not die on us in less than a day. It's nice that there are all these small and somewhat helpful workarounds that people have found, but has anyone pressed the questions as to why we should have to be doing this at all and putting up with it for what we pay for these phones and the service?
Someone please enlighten me, assure me, explain to me, if there is hope of these issues getting fixed with future OS updates, etc and if this phone is worth keeping if they are not. The technology and the functionality is great, but with less than a day’s battery life, and having to constantly worry "am I draining my battery by using this program or function?" what is the point of upgrading from more simple phones like Blackberries if you can’t even use the programs and functionality that the phone offers above other “lesser” platforms?
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8 hours and dead, you have to have a different issue going on. I could leave my wifi and gps on and guarantee i get 16 hours on a full charge.
have you installed the latest firmware?
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