I've NEVER had to carry a second battery on any phone I've had, and I would consider it a sad day when I did.
But that would be treating the symptom, not the illness.
There's a reason the battery life is so poor. THAT needs addressing - not just accepting.
But that would be treating the symptom, not the illness.
There's a reason the battery life is so poor. THAT needs addressing - not just accepting.
But that would be treating the symptom, not the illness.
There's a reason the battery life is so poor. THAT needs addressing - not just accepting.
I had exactly this problem last weekend. Charged the phone up, went to bed and by the time I got up it only had 50% left, despite everything being turned off data wise. I did some experimenting over the last week using Juice Plotter to see a graph of the battery decline. I also used Task Panel to shut stuff down. Made the battery last 5 days with light texting and calling use but no data.
In my opinion Android isn't as efficient as they say it is and people think it is and it's something that needs to be worked on.
There's absolutely no question whatsoever of losing 50% charge overnight unless you have one of two things going on:
1. A faulty battery
2. An app preventing your phone from sleeping.
Since you say you're getting better performance now, we can rule out the faulty battery.
So this isn't representative of normal behaviour on an android phone and isn't an android issue. There's a bug with HTC's flickr syncing (possibly - there are conflicting reports over this) that could be causing it in your case. Or, as stated, it could be another app causing it.
The one area that really is a problem with android is the lack of quality control in the market. There are far too many dodgy, poorly tested apps out there that are causing issues like the one you guys are seeing.
They really need to get it sorted out, because most users won't know any better and will just assume that losing 10% charge an hour when you're not even using the phone is normal on the android platform...
Im pretty annoyed now people are reporting more than a days usage and im cutting no-where near it...
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I've literally only unlocked the phone to check the battery and after one hour, yes one hour i'm already down to 93%.
What am I doing wrong????
Well, I suspect anybody claiming to be getting two days out of their phone while actually using it is bullshitting.
In fact if anybody is going to claim that from now on, I'd suggest they post accompanying screenshots of their usage statistics.
Nonetheless, 7% in an hour is a lot if you genuinely haven't been using it.
How often are your various accounts syncing? ie Twitter, Facebook etc. Check this in accounts and sync.
Do you have any other apps that regularly connect to the net to update their data?
If you're sure that this isn't the issue, check out the partial wake usage again before your next charge and see if there's anything unusual in there.
And don't forget to check your awake time vs running time too.
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