I hate my evo because my Recovery is broken, and I cant fix it. The battery life is pretty bad too. Useless thread is useless.
I hate my evo because my Recovery is broken, and I cant fix it. The battery life is pretty bad too. Useless thread is useless.
The EVO doesn't have a battery problem. Blame the user....if you need that much juice for a cell phone, plug the phone into a wall outlet like you would do for a laptop.
I don't hate my evo, but the things I dislike about it, the keyboard sucks! it lags, and is inaccurate, real pain, and there seems to be some weird glitch, sometimes it magically switches to the camera app, odd... today on the phone, accidentally dialed someone while talking on the phone, how does that happen?
A phone that loses updwards of 40% juice while sitting idle for 24 hours (when HTC's stats say it should idle for 7 days) is a problem. The end user shouldn't have to tweak a single thing to make their battery last, sitting idle, out of the box.
A phone that loses updwards of 40% juice while sitting idle for 24 hours (when HTC's stats say it should idle for 7 days) is a problem. The end user shouldn't have to tweak a single thing to make their battery last, sitting idle, out of the box.
A phone that loses updwards of 40% juice while sitting idle for 24 hours (when HTC's stats say it should idle for 7 days) is a problem. The end user shouldn't have to tweak a single thing to make their battery last, sitting idle, out of the box.
Bad 3G reception is the culprit. Put an iPhone (known for supposed insanely good battery life) in an area of poor 3G reception and it will die just as fast. Can't blame the phone here.
Proof: turn off the 3G radio on your Evo, and you will get 7 days of standby, easy. I drain 1% every 4 hours when screen is off and 3G is off. That's 6% in 24 hrs. So my standby time is 16 days. (I'm rooted, so I have other battery saving stuff in place). But I can also drain my battery in under 2 hours using the stock capabilities of the phone.
I just don't see a problem with battery life. If you leave a light on, you're using power. It's not too much to ask to turn off the light (3G) if you're not using it. Especially when there's a toggle for it built in.
gotta agree with this. during a typical day's use (off charger at 7am, at work by 8am, back at home by 5:30pm....all with WiFi connectivity) which includes having Wifi on, GPS on, all the typical background stuff running (Facebook, Weather, Gmail, etc) updating at reasonable intervals, misc internet browsing throughout the day and at least 1 hour of Live Hold Em Poker at lunch, I can get 18-20 hours before I am looking for a charger. I also get really good 3G in my area.
I go to my parent's house, which for some reason doesn't get good 3G data speeds at all (which is really weird for Sprint) and I'll lose 40-50% in the few hours I'm at their house.
All this being said, I am unrooted and I have made several of the known tweaks found on various websites in order to conserve battery. None of the tweaks made, however, take away any of the functionality of the phone (i.e. my tweaks don't include turning everything off and essentially making it a "dumbphone").
I agree with you and Novox. On a different note, smartphones in the hands of dumb ass people just don't go together. Well, we all had to learn but were willing to learn how Android functions. People just buy the phone because its cool. Android devices are actually smartphones because they require a smart user. The iPhone only requires a caveman.
i hate apple
i love android
your post makes me sad .. that we use the same phone.
Bad 3G reception is the culprit. Put an iPhone (known for supposed insanely good battery life) in an area of poor 3G reception and it will die just as fast. Can't blame the phone here.
Proof: turn off the 3G radio on your Evo, and you will get 7 days of standby, easy. I drain 1% every 4 hours when screen is off and 3G is off. That's 6% in 24 hrs. So my standby time is 16 days. (I'm rooted, so I have other battery saving stuff in place). But I can also drain my battery in under 2 hours using the stock capabilities of the phone.
I just don't see a problem with battery life. If you leave a light on, you're using power. It's not too much to ask to turn off the light (3G) if you're not using it. Especially when there's a toggle for it built in.
Reception must be bad somehow no matter where I go. Same goes with my friend's droid phone too then. I don't see this being the case. Feature phones on the same carrier do much better. Yes, the antennas seem to be a battery hog, but I wouldn't blame that on bad reception.
I think we had this duscussion before btw. If the phone has crap battery life out of the box, that is a problem. I am not the first (nor will I be the last) person that has made note of poor battery life on this device. I call BS on reception being a valid "excuse". I hate to pull the iPhone card, but when I used an iPhone and worked in the basement level of a building it was constantly jumping from 0-1 bar. I would have to work to get the battery to die before getting home.
That's because you are comparing apples to oranges. CDMA (EVO) works differently than GSM (iphone) in regard to battery power on a phone. There is a huge reason why CDMA talk quality remains highly superior to GSM talk quality.
Don't think battery life woes are limited to Androids. Friend and I had the exact same Blackberry model. I could charge once every 4 days. He charged once a night. Difference? Signal strength.
People are going to complain about the battery life of any phone. The difference is that for general users, poor battery life is a defining characteristic of the EVO, but not the iPhone 4.I've read forums where people complain about the battery life of the iPhone 4. I have yet to see anyone sit the phones side by side to see which one will idle longer. Nobody can sit here and tell me HTC loaded bloatware on the EVO which sucks down battery. I do not consider email, news, weather, and stock apps as bloatware. Some people use those apps and some don't. The only reason people were experiencing drainage is because people didn't know how to adjust the settings for those apps. When the iPhone can run more than one app at once and allow multiple apps to send/receive data at the same time is a fair comparison.
a vanilla version of froyo with no radio or gps hardware will not get 7 days of battery life. Your phone would have to be labotomized to get that kind of life. But what can you do? Get a big ol' friggin battery and an sbc kernel with aggressive undervolting...oh yeah root it first.
If you use the phone, you'll use the battery. If you want the phone to live through the day, I guess... don't use it as much? I 'uno....
My room mate has an iPhone 4. If he's not listening to music on it, it's always on the charger. We both get between 1-2 bars in our room, 3 if we're near the window here.
Use it or lose it, I suppose. I have no gripes.
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