Help Um, I think this battery issue will be a problem...

[benson304]

How is the service in your area?

What is the phone reading for signal strength and noise? (NOT the bars, but the dB ratings)

 

[Needz_Android]

check to make sure your mail and calender is not pushing every few minutes

how do you do that?

 

[skunis1]

I can do that , but that is just a list. I see everyone posting percentages of battery by widget (i.e. 10% camera, 4%wifi, etc).

Where is everyone seeing these percentages?

I don't get those exact percentages either. My guess is only certain services show up there. My Slacker was not showing up there either.

 

[bryn987]

dunno, should be in the email app setting somewhere. Wherever you went to set it up in the first place

 

[phositadc]

I took it out of the box and put it straight on the charger; didn't touch it until green.

Then I fired it up and activated it. Then I setup my Google account and Exchange account to sync my contacts and calendar.

That's it. So it's been on less than 2 hours and is approaching 50% charge. Not good.

So, yeah, the thing runs like lightning, but I'm afraid that may be because it runs on lightning.

Agreed. Battery life is the one thing that might make me return this phone, which would make me sad because it's a ridiculously awesome phone.

Regardless of whether you are using PUSH notifications and getting bad signal strength, when the Incredible gets 16 hours of battery life when my BlackBerry got 48 hours (doing the exact same things and running the exact same apps, more or less), I find it hard to justify keeping the Incredible.

I love the phone and it's beautiful, and I am really sick of BlackBerry, but I do need it to comfortably last at least a day with normal (read: not heavy) usage.

I'm still conditioning the battery. Hopefully things will work out. I don't need 48 hours out of it... but 24 would be nice.

 

[serpentine009]

If the battery problem is because of running programs, why don't they design the programs to give you a "Close Program" option? Having to have another running app simply to close other running apps is annoying.

 

[trojanchick99]

I can do that , but that is just a list. I see everyone posting percentages of battery by widget (i.e. 10% camera, 4%wifi, etc).

Where is everyone seeing these percentages?

I don't get those exact percentages either. My guess is only certain services show up there. My Slacker was not showing up there either.

In settings, About Phone there is a Battery Usage app that will show you those percentages.

That's also where you can see your signal strength.

 

[skunis1]

If the battery problem is because of running programs, why don't they design the programs to give you a "Close Program" option? Having to have another running app simply to close other running apps is annoying.

You are not going into another app to close an app. You are just going to where you can manage your apps.

I do agree that it would be nice if all apps had an option in their menu to shut down the service or the app.

 

[Ryobi]

Not sure why everyone is surprised battery life is terrible. It uses the same size cell as the Eris. And we all know how bad the Eris is. Bigger, faster, better. Same crappy little battery. HTC, Quietly stupid.

 

[skunis1]

In settings, About Phone there is a Battery Usage app that will show you those percentages.

That's also where you can see your signal strength.

Yes, I go to that app it is just that not everyone will see the same usage. I only have Android System, Idle, and cell standby showing right now.

I was trying to tell the other person that they need to check what apps are running under the applications area of settings.

 

[neomits]

In my experience some Lithium-ion batteries will perform better after being fully charged then discharged a few cycles....

 

[trowpa]

Yes, I go to that app it is just that not everyone will see the same usage. I only have Android System, Idle, and cell standby showing right now.

I was trying to tell the other person that they need to check what apps are running under the applications area of settings.

Yes - i've just NEVER seen anything other than "Android system" and "Cell standby"

Thought i was in the wrong place or was missing some option.

 

[skunis1]

Yes - i've just NEVER seen anything other than "Android system" and "Cell standby"

Thought i was in the wrong place or was missing some option.

Yep, same here plus Idle for me.

 

[powdbyrice]

gosh i hope so. charged overnight. unplugged at 600am, its 1100a right now and the battery indicator is yellow. =(

i turned off the auto check for email and FB and the GPS. what else can i turn off (other than the phone.)

 

[phositadc]

gosh i hope so. charged overnight. unplugged at 600am, its 1100a right now and the battery indicator is yellow. =(

i turned off the auto check for email and FB and the GPS. what else can i turn off (other than the phone.)

People that keep suggesting that we turn off push email, get rid of widgets, etc., all have the wrong idea. If you have to disable all of these things to get more than 6 hours of battery life, the phone becomes almost useless...

That being said, do make sure that you don't have any huge battery hogs running in the background. I've heard that Pandora and Slacker are particularly bad. Maybe get a Task Killer or Task Manager to see what's going on, and kill a few things to see if that helps.

 

[CRPercodani]

Check the screen brightness, try to keep it down around 20-30% and don't use auto adjusting. I use google nav for 2 hours a day with pandora streaming, make/take about 90 minutes of calls, multiple emails/texts/gtalk and spend anywhere from 20 to 45 minutes browsing the web and using apps. All this over the course of 10 hours daily and my battery is always at 40-20% when I get home. This is on a overclocked (1.2ghz) droid.

 

[Mischka7]

I just think this is something we have to deal with, it's one of the most powerful smartphones out there. At least we have the ability to change out the battery easily.

My 3GS hits 50% within 2 hours on a regular basis. After a 15 minute phone call, I can be down 15%. On top of that, the 3GS had an issue with the battery display: 1 minute it would be at 100% and the next minute it would be a 20%. The worst was when the phone thought the battery dropped under 10% and automatically switched into airplane mode.

 

[iamrobk]

I think a lot of it is that we're all playing with them so much. When I had my Droid for a month, for the first week or so I played with it a ridiculous amount, and the battery life was pretty terrible. After the newness wore off and I used it in a more regular way, the battery life clearly improved. So I think just wait a week or so and get into a regular usage pattern and you'll see it improve.

 

[mobilehavoc]

Mine has been surprisngly good!! It's been 7 hrs since unplugged per the battery status in settings and I'm at 56%. Mind you I used it a lot. About 200 texts, 4 phone calls, browsing, skyfire, bluetooth is on, etc.

Pretty impressive. I'm getting the 1750mah battery today so hopefully that'll be even better but this thing has better battery than my Sprint HTC Hero!!!

 

[gl1800]

My initial charge lasted 23 hours. That's with WiFi, mail update, Facebook update, weather updates, etc all turned on. At about 21 hours of operation, I turned on the GPS and it lasted for another 2 hours. Normally, I leave all non-essential junk turned off, but I wanted to see how long it'd last before dying.

 

[jamor]

I took it out of the box and put it straight on the charger; didn't touch it until green.

Then I fired it up and activated it. Then I setup my Google account and Exchange account to sync my contacts and calendar.

That's it. So it's been on less than 2 hours and is approaching 50% charge. Not good.

So, yeah, the thing runs like lightning, but I'm afraid that may be because it runs on lightning.

You have to let it go through many cycles before it hits optimal performance. You also have to make tweaks and download an app killer.

There are several other things to do like setting push e-mail to every 2 hours.

STOP reviewing the battery after your first charge and not reading the sticky it's getting so ridiculous.

You know - nevermind. Actually you are right. Take it back and give it to someone more educated.

 

[CRPercodani]

My initial charge lasted 23 hours. That's with WiFi, mail update, Facebook update, weather updates, etc all turned on. At about 21 hours of operation, I turned on the GPS and it lasted for another 2 hours. Normally, I leave all non-essential junk turned off, but I wanted to see how long it'd last before dying.

Unless your on a wifi network and or using a application that requires gps (like maps) it won't use any extra battery. You still got good time off the charge though.

Sense does use more battery then vanilla. This was discovered and researched when we put the Hero/Sense ROM's on the G1.
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[mobilehavoc]

Forgot to add that I'm getting good battery life and I have all background updates going, Gmail Push, Facebook every hour, Newsrob every hour, Weather every hour, Doggcatcher every 2 hours, etc. Loving this phone man!

 

[skunis1]

gosh i hope so. charged overnight. unplugged at 600am, its 1100a right now and the battery indicator is yellow. =(

i turned off the auto check for email and FB and the GPS. what else can i turn off (other than the phone.)

I don't know what you have running but I have had the thing on since 6:30am and I am at 60% battery.

You also have to realize that with multitasking some apps keep running in the background.

Go to Settings-->Applications-->Running Services

See what is running that you thought you closed out and kill those applications. This helped me with Slacker Radio draining my battery this morning.

 

[lukem]

There's already bigger batteries available for it so I'm getting one as soon as I can. I've got one of these on the way.

4U 1500 mAh Lithium Ion Slim Extended Battery