Help My battery holds up well, except for voice calls

[(HULK)]

My phone went from 6 AM to 10 PM yesterday (when the battery finally ran out).

I made just under 15 minutes of voice calls, and somehow that ate 30% of my battery life? That is crazy.

Anyone know of anything I can do to fix this?

 

[jonra]

Voice calls seem to be what really kills mine as well, but overall I really do feel that the big battery complaints here are a bit ridiculous. I use the living crap out of this phone and it has yet to fail me within a day as far as the battery goes.

After doing the 'time without service' fix of course :|

 

[PoundSand]

Voice calls seem to be what really kills mine as well, but overall I really do feel that the big battery complaints here are a bit ridiculous. I use the living crap out of this phone and it has yet to fail me within a day as far as the battery goes.

yeah, the complains could be ridiculous- or other people might have different experiences than you. i haven't been able to get past 7pm. when i 'use the living crap out of' it, i'm done by 2 or 3pm.

it's currently 8:41am, and i'm at 75% battery life. i've checked email a couple times. no phone calls, no texts, no web browsing.

 

[(HULK)]

Voice calls seem to be what really kills mine as well, but overall I really do feel that the big battery complaints here are a bit ridiculous. I use the living crap out of this phone and it has yet to fail me within a day as far as the battery goes.

After doing the 'time without service' fix of course :|

Please enlighten me on the 'time without service' fix. Thanks!

 

[vertcobra99]

This is all due to the sept 16th update. Before the update calls used to be a small portion of eating the battery.

Now its the biggest. Before the screen used to be the biggest consumer of power.

They messed up something in the update.

 

[iBleedBlackNgold]

same deal for me. today its 53% of my battery so far. some calls I use speaker due to a work related annoying automated system but the rest aren't and screen isn't on while up to my ear .. wtf ?

 

[jonra]

yeah, the complains could be ridiculous- or other people might have different experiences than you. i haven't been able to get past 7pm. when i 'use the living crap out of' it, i'm done by 2 or 3pm.

it's currently 8:41am, and i'm at 75% battery life. i've checked email a couple times. no phone calls, no texts, no web browsing.

Sorry, but it is impossible for anyone to use the phone any differently than I do.

Seriously though, not sure, I've had 20 minutes or so of talk time, so not a ton - maybe it is the voice really killing it. Right now my battery is showing around 75% full and I've installed games (tried to at least, 2 times even), browsed a ton on it, played about an hour of NES games, sent a ton of text messages and some other data-use stuff. To me, that's a pretty solid battery - I've still got plenty left on it.

Though I'm coming from a Samsung Instinct (first version) where doing any kind of browsing or data use applications at all killed it immediately. Who knows, maybe any upgrade is amazing for me