New Incredible, New Battery, Same Result

[Stockmoose16]

Just swapped out my incredible for a new one to see if it was the battery or the phone that was the problem. I first tried the new battery in my old phone, and still got a precipitous drop in battery. Then I put the new battery in the new phone and here's the results from this morning:

- Looked at 5 emails, downloaded one 35mb podcast, listened to 33 minutes of said podcast. Battery went from 100% to 71%!!!!! (killed almost all apps before running this test)

What are the chances I got TWO bad phones?

 

[FlyPenFly]

None, its not calibrated. Stop obsessing over the percentage, it's essentially meaningless until you've used the phone through many cycles. Focus on actual hours used until dead.

 

[Mjcanton]

Yeah really, just realx. I'm sure the downloading and podcast listening had something to do with it too..

 

[nyngbld]

agree; give it more time. i stop the internet nightly now before i go to bed. today i am at 36 hours up time; best yet since starting charges on 4/29... also i have been performing the same various tasks to get a generic baseline, possibly more each day, so i know i am getting more juice already...

 

[Droidus]

Run the battery dead and then full charge, redo test.

 

[TheSultan]

i think people need to remember also that this IS a phone. It's not some NASA science device that is supposed to never deplete the battery. We are using phones WAY harder than ever before, surprise, the battery is gonna go down!

 

[poster55]

You are getting low battery results because you are not letting the phone run a full cycle or two of full battery to drain to calibrate the battery meter. If you do not do this, your battery % will read wrong and your battery will seem to drain faster than it really is.

For good measure I did this 3 times. Currently my phone is sitting at 14% with 25 hours Up time and 13 Hours 11 Mins Awake Time.

I had the same issues as you. 7 Hour battery yada yada. So I let the phone drain until it shut off, then charged it to full, and did that again the 3 times mentioned above. Now I get a much better battery life.

NOTE: This has nothing to do with your -battery- and everything to do with how the Android OS Calibrates to read how much charge your battery really has.

 

[jamor]

You can get the 1750 which has amazing performance reviews.

http://androidforums.com/htc-incredible/73626-htc-incredible-seido-1750mah-experience.html

Just bought mine!

 

[guyheavensent]

wow OP, learn that downloading and using your phone will make the battery go down... not a hard concept.

 

[sanmanreg]

I was online with my incredible for 3 straight hours and still had 50% remaining. I think its better at running straight than a little here a little there.

 

[elrabin]

Just swapped out my incredible for a new one to see if it was the battery or the phone that was the problem. I first tried the new battery in my old phone, and still got a precipitous drop in battery. Then I put the new battery in the new phone and here's the results from this morning:

- Looked at 5 emails, downloaded one 35mb podcast, listened to 33 minutes of said podcast. Battery went from 100% to 71%!!!!! (killed almost all apps before running this test)

What are the chances I got TWO bad phones?

jeez. You downloaded a 35 mb file over the cell network and didn't expect it to murder your battery?

Running meebo for IM, which uses a mb or two per hour drains the battery pretty good, so i can't imagine what downloading a 35mb file would do.

i get roughly 5 hours of near constant messaging on meebo to bring the battery from 100% to 30% and thats with texting and emailing and surfing between.

Soooo, i'd suggest not downloading hugeass files over wifi/cdma.

 

[Air Force One]

What are the chances I got TWO bad phones?

Not nearly as good as the odds that both of your phones are fine and you're just being obsessive compulsive over a new purchase.