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Battery Problems Still?!

porky101

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Dec 14, 2009
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Well, I am running the 2.1 V3 and I still have battery issues. I have had the phone since December, I think I might wait to complain to HTC/Verizon until I install the official 2.1, but this is annoying. The battery is so inconsistent, some days by lunch time its half way gone, on little use, other days its a 3/4 gone by 2:00 with little use.

I charge my phone while its off all night, and unplug right before I leave for school. I make 1 phone call during the morning, usually about the same time every day and some days right after the phone call, im already down to 3/4 of battery. I check the phone occasionally for texts and email and maybe for some news. And by lunch time its down half way, and by the time im in my car on my way home I have 1/4 of battery left.

**I have all animations turned off, the brightness is set almost to the lowest it can go. I do have location turned on, but it gets it through the mobile network and I occasionally use Advanced Task Killer**

My battery use throughout the day looks like: Cell Standby about 70%...Phone Idle 24%...Android System 7%...Display 2%

Can anybody seem to guide me in the right direction? Also, what happened to the % of Awake Time, now it just shows the time?
 
Are you on 3G, or in an are with 1X?? My area just completed the full transition to 3G last week--before we had one 3G antennae and 2 1x, so my phone was constantly changing back and forth. The stock battery was only lasting about 8 hours then. Since last week my battery has been consistently at 50-60% at the end of the day(14+ hours). Got the OTA update this morning though and it is at 35% now, so got to figure that out...
 
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Are you on 3G, or in an are with 1X?? My area just completed the full transition to 3G last week--before we had one 3G antennae and 2 1x, so my phone was constantly changing back and forth. The stock battery was only lasting about 8 hours then. Since last week my battery has been consistently at 50-60% at the end of the day(14+ hours). Got the OTA update this morning though and it is at 35% now, so got to figure that out...

you got the update? were you able to pull it off your sd card before you installed?
 
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"Cell Standby about 70%"
!?!?!
holy shit man! mine is only 31%
you clearly have an app running thats not letting your phone sleep.

what apps do you have installed?

APPS Installed:

Abduction!
Advanced Task Killer Free
AP Mobile
ASTRO
Barcode Scanner
Cestos
Engadget
Facebook
Googles
Google Sky Map
Home++ Menu
Jewels
Key Ring
Maps
MonkeyKickOff
Navigation
Navigator
NPR News
Pocket Empires
Replica Island
Quickoffice
Shazam
Stitcher
Waze
What The Doodle? (LITE)
WikiMobile

+all the apps the come with HTC Sense and my phone is running Sense, not any home replacements

Also my area is mostly all 3g, occasionally when I am inside my school it switches to 1x, but only for a minute at the the most maybe, depends where in the school I am
 
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My battery use throughout the day looks like: Cell Standby about 70%...Phone Idle 24%...Android System 7%...Display 2%

Can anybody seem to guide me in the right direction? Also, what happened to the % of Awake Time, now it just shows the time?

The v3 leak still has the Cell Standby bug. FIX: You have to plug phone in. Put in Airplane mode. Wait a minute or so. Unplug phone and exit Airplane mode. (I'm not really sure if it has to be plugged in or not. I just do it that way anyways). Also, you have to do this every time you reboot the phone.

That should help your battery. Also, keep 3G off when you aren't using the phone. Those seemed to work the best for me. I've had my battery sit at 100% for hours before.
 
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