DOwnload and install spare parts from the market, then go to battery history (after installing wait half an hour or so) then select partial wake usage, it will tell you what's keeping your phone awake. The shorter the blue bar, the better. (you'll see what I mean)
There's an issue for some people; when they use the stock HTC messaging app to send an sms, it activates the dialer which puts the phone into a parital wake lock. So while the screen dims, the phone itself is still awake. If it's that, there's a fix for it.
IF the thing that's keeping your phone awake ISN'T the dialer, it's something else, a widget or something. For me, spare parts told me it was Android system. I eventually solved it by accident; I had a countdown widget on my homescreen that I removed and found after that my awake time went right down.
Most convoluted post ever but I hope it helps. Come back when you find out what's keeping your phone in a partial wake lock
I had that same problem the first week with my Hero. It was driving me nuts because my battery life was insanely short. I did tons of research on the web and the previous poster hit it on the head. The HTC messaging app is usually the cuilprit. I downloaded Handcent, problem solved. My battery life increased 4x. Just make sure that after downloading the 3rd party sms app you reboot the phone and you have to send a text after reboot before it works. Dont forget to shut off notifications from the stock sms app too. Good luck!
Ok. Well, out of the programs listed there, the ones I HAVEN'T got are
Dice,
coinflip,
mabilo (had it but deleted it, gave me no probs though)
Quick uninstall
So, I think one of those others is keeping your phone awake. Hmmm. Do you have mobile data as always on? Also what are your refresh rates for twitter, FB, stocks, weather etc?
Also, just on the offf chance, after you installed chomp, did you reboot and NOT use the stock messenger app again?
OK. Restart your phone. If you've got a task manager app, when it's rebooted, use it to kill the message app if it's started up again. Then look and see what else is running. If it's a programme you downloaded, kill it, then leave the phone to 'sleep' for around 5 minutes, then check your awake time. If it's gone down, it was that app, if not, repeat.
I'm assuming you have the Sprint Hero. Sprint just recently released an OTA update. You should update your phone to this update if you can.
The EV with arrows is for EVDO, the 3G connection with Sprint. The corsshair with a slash is probably your location service, indicating that it is disabled.
The most recent update, which came out just a couple days ago, addresses the 100% wake time issues created by the Messaging App and their lock screen.
If your phone is dying within an hour, it sounds like either you have a bad battery or you've installed an app that doesn't let your phone sleep and uses a lot of your phone's resources. Are you sure you haven't installed Folding@Home for Android (joke)?
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