Worse (or better) battery life: Inspire or Infuse?

[QR25DE]

I currently have an HTC Inspire that I love...I think HTC as a whole makes the best Android phones. That said...I miss the AMOLED screen on my Incredible, among other things, and I am seriously considering a switch to the Infuse. I know the battery on the Inspire is terrible, but I'm used to it.

Can I expect to see any improvement with the Infuse?

 

[jey49ers]

infuse battery is alot better. i have both and when i used the inspire, the battery is at less than %20 after a 8-9 hour work day, my infuse is usually around 60-70% with the same usage.

 

[Canesfan]

Wow, I can't imagine a worse battery life than the Infuse. I'm at the point where I have a non-animated wallpaper, dim back-light setting and virtually no apps. or widgets, yet the battery goes to half in 6 hrs. of mostly standby usage. What am I doing worng?

I'm coming up on my 30 day return window, so this may be a deal-breaker for me and I may go back to an iPhone. Other than battery life, I love this phone.

 

[Rockinfigs]

I prefer htc android also..sense is so much better...but my inspire battery last 10-12 hrs n my infuse last 12-15 hrs

 

[BadFishCM]

@canesfan

I would definitely exchange your phone for a different one, I have at least 10 Widgets, a live wallpaper, and wigdetlocker running constantly, with Widgets on my lockscreen as well and my battery lasts at least 12 hours with heavy usage. If I don't use the phone that much it can last longer than 24 hours. You may have got a lemon. Bad luck, but don't give up on the infuse its great! Make sure you use your task manager. When I first got the phone I was leaving every program open constantly and that was sucking my battery.

 

[strodda]

For those of you getting poor battery life, maybe you have some random crap running in the background that you're not aware of. I get good battery life, and I use it quite often. It varies by day with the amount of use, but I remember it being similar to my iPhone 4.

 

[Canesfan]

@canesfan

I would definitely exchange your phone for a different one, I have at least 10 Widgets, a live wallpaper, and wigdetlocker running constantly, with Widgets on my lockscreen as well and my battery lasts at least 12 hours with heavy usage. If I don't use the phone that much it can last longer than 24 hours. You may have got a lemon. Bad luck, but don't give up on the infuse its great! Make sure you use your task manager. When I first got the phone I was leaving every program open constantly and that was sucking my battery.

Thanks. I do use the task manager regularly but I think I found the drain. I have 4 mailboxes regularly searching for new email. Yesterday when I finally found the sub-menu for turning off the automatic search (i.e., now making it manual), my battery life seemed to be much better.

(I posted this under topic, "email question".)

 

[Rockinfigs]

i get good batt life on my infuse..my inspire was bad..even with a seidio ext batt it would barely last a whole day(9-12hrs max) on my infuse i get easily between 12-16 hrs

 

[Mr. Ed]

Equivalent battery on our infuse and inspire. Do you guys track battery usage with spare parts or system panel. we keep our screens at 100% and simply turn off Bluetooth gps and wifi when not in use.

The more you use the phone....the faster the battery will drain

 

[kzone86]

Infuse is Better, by a noticeable, but not a huge amount

 

[BOOMSHAKER]

Thanks. I do use the task manager regularly but I think I found the drain. I have 4 mailboxes regularly searching for new email. Yesterday when I finally found the sub-menu for turning off the automatic search (i.e., now making it manual), my battery life seemed to be much better.

(I posted this under topic, "email question".)

Can you tell me how did you find that sub-menu? Thank you.

 

[Eddie Bombay]

Battery life fkn blows on the Infuse, I went to the beach the other day, and browsed Google+ & Tapatalk and the phone went from 90% to 20 LOL jesus fken christ man... Ugh maybe that's just normal, but coming from an Atrix that is just a nightmare.

This is with the Infused v2 Stable Rom (which helps the battery out lol) & Juice Defender on Aggressive mode...

 

[BOOMSHAKER]

Battery life fkn blows on the Infuse, I went to the beach the other day, and browsed Google+ & Tapatalk and the phone went from 90% to 20 LOL jesus fken christ man... Ugh maybe that's just normal, but coming from an Atrix that is just a nightmare.

This is with the Infused v2 Stable Rom (which helps the battery out lol) & Juice Defender on Aggressive mode...

I know what you mean brother. I just switched yesterday from my iphone 3g. Battery was always good with that phone. Today I am getting a rude awakening with this phone. I have pretty much signed out of everything. All I am doing is text messaging and aphone call here and there for 2-3 mins each call. I have 29 more days to see if I really want this phone or send it back. Time will tell.

 

[BadFishCM]

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You guys must be doing something wrong. I don't use juice defender or any battery life extenders, i just monitor my task manager and make sure app's are closed. I am also running on infused 2.0.2. That picture is with heavy use as well. I can last 2 days with light use. Don't give up on this phone battery life is amazing.

 

[BOOMSHAKER]

You guys must be doing something wrong. I don't use juice defender or any battery life extenders, i just monitor my task manager and make sure app's are closed. I am also running on infused 2.0.2. That picture is with heavy use as well. I can last 2 days with light use. Don't give up on this phone battery life is amazing.

I am so far finding out the many things this phone can do. So it is a blast so far. My task manager has basically nothing running in it. Just text message stuff. My WIFI, Bluetooth, GPS, is all off. I mainly use my phone for texting mostly and talking secondly. Some "light" web searching. No heavy duty usage. In the setting, when i click on applications, I then click on running services. I really have nothing running.

Can you tell me what should be left on and what is ok to stop running until I need it? Also with that screen shot you posted, may I ask where that usage data can be found? Thank you for your help.

 

[Mr. Ed]

You guys must be doing something wrong. I don't use juice defender or any battery life extenders, i just monitor my task manager and make sure app's are closed. I am also running on infused 2.0.2. That picture is with heavy use as well. I can last 2 days with light use. Don't give up on this phone battery life is amazing.[/QUOTE]

good stuff...I have yet to squeeze more than 17 hours out of it...but I am still tinkering

some days are good..others not so much.

 

[somanyapps]

I don't know how you define heavy or light use, but my phone currently says:

"3d 5h 14m 23s since unplugged"

Display 48%
Wi-fi 23%
Cell standby 16%
Phone idle 8%
Android System 4%
Voice calls 1%

The battery level is at 29% and just went yellow

Obviously, I don't use the phone for phone calls alot. But what things constitute heavy usage? I have some apps, not alot. I do web searches. I am running a live wallpaper. Sometimes I watch video. I do try to close apps/ programs periodically, like the browser or Market, etc. I turn the GPS off when I'm not out somewhere.

 

[doug44]

I am so far finding out the many things this phone can do. So it is a blast so far. My task manager has basically nothing running in it. Just text message stuff. My WIFI, Bluetooth, GPS, is all off. I mainly use my phone for texting mostly and talking secondly. Some "light" web searching. No heavy duty usage. In the setting, when i click on applications, I then click on running services. I really have nothing running.

Can you tell me what should be left on and what is ok to stop running until I need it? Also with that screen shot you posted, may I ask where that usage data can be found? Thank you for your help.

This screen shot can be found at ABOUT PHONE Then BATTERY USE