ok, not quite, more like 23 hours and 47 minutes! take that haters!
I'm gonna try to describe,the best I can remember, what my EVO did in the last 24 hours so you can get an accurate idea of the usage:
-the phone was charged with a wall charger of a Samsung Rant (with the phone on)
-took it off the charger as soon as the led went green last night at 9 :33 PM (100%)
-didn't do much on it until I went to bed at 10:30, mainly just downloaded and installed some apps and wallpapers and played with the home screens a bit
-at 10:30 (after the Lakers lost to Celtics, crap!) I went to bed .
- woke up at 5:45 am and the phone's battery was at 90% (WiFi was on during the night no 3G or 4G)
- went to work and have used the phone pretty lightly until 5 PM
+a bit of browsing, mostly on 3G,
+no Wifi and maybe 10 min of 4G on
+installed some more apps and wallpapers
+sent and received about 10 text messages
+about 15-20 of talk time
+other light misc stuff
-on my way home I played with the Sprint GPS for about 7-8 minutes
-more test messaging, about 20 min talk time and light misc stuff until the EVO died at 9:14 PM
here are two screen shots of the battery usage: (it does not show thre real time since unplugged because I plugged it in for couple of minutes to get some APK on the SD card, forgot about the battery test)
I know, pretty light usage but 24 hours is not too shabby. cheers!
UPDATE 1:
- after letting the phone die it is now plugged in and off. I will charge it overnight and report back tomorrow.
UPDATE 2:
- charged my phone overnight (from 9:14 to 5:45) with the phone off. I used the Plantronics Bluetooth 230's charger. It is almost 7 am right now and the phone is at 81% with veri light usage (maybe 10 minutes of GPS and about 3-4 minutes of browsing over 4G).
Conclusion : it looks like the charger of the free bluetooth that came with the EVO is not suitable to charge our phones
So I just did another test watching the Ivory Coast-Portugal game on Sprint TV over 4G for 2 hours (the match was not that long but I let it run after the final whistle to get to about 2 hours of watching).
The battery went down from 87% to 13% in 2 hours. That is 74%.
Extrapolating that I might get an approximate of 2 hours and 20 min total of very heavy usage.
I honestly do not think there is a more battery draining and intensive test you can do on the EVO then Sprint TV over 4G.
UPADATE 4: Very Heavy Usage
So I just did another test watching the Ivory Coast-Portugal game on Sprint TV over 4G for 2 hours (the match was not that long but I let it run after the final whistle to get to about 2 hours of watching).
The battery went down from 87% to 13% in 2 hours. That is 74%.
Extrapolating that I might get an approximate of 2 hours and 30 min total of very heavy usage.
I honestly do not think there is a more battery draining and intensive test you can do on the EVO then Sprint TV over 4G.
So there it is, take as you may but, IMO, the EVO did pretty good on this one, too.
I'm gonna try to describe,the best I can remember, what my EVO did in the last 24 hours so you can get an accurate idea of the usage:
-the phone was charged with a wall charger of a Samsung Rant (with the phone on)
-took it off the charger as soon as the led went green last night at 9 :33 PM (100%)
-didn't do much on it until I went to bed at 10:30, mainly just downloaded and installed some apps and wallpapers and played with the home screens a bit
-at 10:30 (after the Lakers lost to Celtics, crap!) I went to bed .
- woke up at 5:45 am and the phone's battery was at 90% (WiFi was on during the night no 3G or 4G)
- went to work and have used the phone pretty lightly until 5 PM
+a bit of browsing, mostly on 3G,
+no Wifi and maybe 10 min of 4G on
+installed some more apps and wallpapers
+sent and received about 10 text messages
+about 15-20 of talk time
+other light misc stuff
-on my way home I played with the Sprint GPS for about 7-8 minutes
-more test messaging, about 20 min talk time and light misc stuff until the EVO died at 9:14 PM
here are two screen shots of the battery usage: (it does not show thre real time since unplugged because I plugged it in for couple of minutes to get some APK on the SD card, forgot about the battery test)
I know, pretty light usage but 24 hours is not too shabby. cheers!
UPDATE 1:
- after letting the phone die it is now plugged in and off. I will charge it overnight and report back tomorrow.
UPDATE 2:
- charged my phone overnight (from 9:14 to 5:45) with the phone off. I used the Plantronics Bluetooth 230's charger. It is almost 7 am right now and the phone is at 81% with veri light usage (maybe 10 minutes of GPS and about 3-4 minutes of browsing over 4G).
Conclusion : it looks like the charger of the free bluetooth that came with the EVO is not suitable to charge our phones
So I just did another test watching the Ivory Coast-Portugal game on Sprint TV over 4G for 2 hours (the match was not that long but I let it run after the final whistle to get to about 2 hours of watching).
The battery went down from 87% to 13% in 2 hours. That is 74%.
Extrapolating that I might get an approximate of 2 hours and 20 min total of very heavy usage.
I honestly do not think there is a more battery draining and intensive test you can do on the EVO then Sprint TV over 4G.
UPADATE 4: Very Heavy Usage
So I just did another test watching the Ivory Coast-Portugal game on Sprint TV over 4G for 2 hours (the match was not that long but I let it run after the final whistle to get to about 2 hours of watching).
The battery went down from 87% to 13% in 2 hours. That is 74%.
Extrapolating that I might get an approximate of 2 hours and 30 min total of very heavy usage.
I honestly do not think there is a more battery draining and intensive test you can do on the EVO then Sprint TV over 4G.
So there it is, take as you may but, IMO, the EVO did pretty good on this one, too.