hi there, thought I'd post up a new thread regarding the battery life of my LG eve, I know it's been done many times with complaints, but this time I am surprised of the out-come, and you'd probably be too since I've haven't seen anyone else mention these results.
1st off, i'd start off. I got my LG eve back in late march '2010. Read a bunch of reviews from users such as you guys on here and other feed-back forums, so I knew what to expect from the phone itself. Didn't stop me since the phone had the one thing I needed which was the full-out keyboard, touch-screen and it being a smart-phone. Anyways I knew the battery life was one of the main concerns, but when I got the phone and played around with it, it was worse than expected. Literally I had to charge the phone everyday. But I would wait till I almost kill the battery before I charged it since alot of other users suggusted that. The phone itself I actually bought 2nd hand, but it was still literally brand new. So finding some ways to help increase battery life, I would browse the forums and see what other people suggested. So i did exactly that. Though it didn't make much of a difference. But up until now... my battery life took a complete u-turn for the better. I downloaded the "battery indicator" app, since it got alot of feedback, and works perfectly since it monitors and displays everything and On sunday night may 2nd I charged my battery over-night. Dis-conneted it monday morning @ 7am and left it as is. And to this day I've haven't charged it @ all. Which I am totally surprised of that. It's about 12am saturday may 8th and it's still hasn't been charged since, still going strong and will need a charge eventually this weekend. I just took a picture of it about an hour ago to prove my results. "unplugged for 124 hours" about more than 5 days and still going strong, just less than 20% battery life. Pretty much the attached picture will explain for itself.
Now the phone has been on every single day, regularly used for sending texts and a few short phone calls. Also I would play around with it here and there. Now the wifi is completely dis-connected when not in use, did use it a few times as well. I don't use blue-tooth, so completely turned off. I disabled "use wirelss networks" and "enable GPS satellites" in security and locations settings. ALso I use "advanced task manager" as you can see from my screen shot. So i kill whatever is running even though some apps would still come on running again for some strange reason. Other than that it's still on the original firm-ware 1.5. I don't know why or how this happen but it did....
I really don't know if my battery life will continue like this, even though it wasn't like this @ all when I 1st got the phone. But with almost a week of stand-by time... don't know what to say... though I did write quite the story on here. But I will continue on to charge the battery when it is almost completely drained.
If you have any questions, do my best to answer them. Screen-shot is attached as well for your viewing pleasure.
1st off, i'd start off. I got my LG eve back in late march '2010. Read a bunch of reviews from users such as you guys on here and other feed-back forums, so I knew what to expect from the phone itself. Didn't stop me since the phone had the one thing I needed which was the full-out keyboard, touch-screen and it being a smart-phone. Anyways I knew the battery life was one of the main concerns, but when I got the phone and played around with it, it was worse than expected. Literally I had to charge the phone everyday. But I would wait till I almost kill the battery before I charged it since alot of other users suggusted that. The phone itself I actually bought 2nd hand, but it was still literally brand new. So finding some ways to help increase battery life, I would browse the forums and see what other people suggested. So i did exactly that. Though it didn't make much of a difference. But up until now... my battery life took a complete u-turn for the better. I downloaded the "battery indicator" app, since it got alot of feedback, and works perfectly since it monitors and displays everything and On sunday night may 2nd I charged my battery over-night. Dis-conneted it monday morning @ 7am and left it as is. And to this day I've haven't charged it @ all. Which I am totally surprised of that. It's about 12am saturday may 8th and it's still hasn't been charged since, still going strong and will need a charge eventually this weekend. I just took a picture of it about an hour ago to prove my results. "unplugged for 124 hours" about more than 5 days and still going strong, just less than 20% battery life. Pretty much the attached picture will explain for itself.
Now the phone has been on every single day, regularly used for sending texts and a few short phone calls. Also I would play around with it here and there. Now the wifi is completely dis-connected when not in use, did use it a few times as well. I don't use blue-tooth, so completely turned off. I disabled "use wirelss networks" and "enable GPS satellites" in security and locations settings. ALso I use "advanced task manager" as you can see from my screen shot. So i kill whatever is running even though some apps would still come on running again for some strange reason. Other than that it's still on the original firm-ware 1.5. I don't know why or how this happen but it did....
I really don't know if my battery life will continue like this, even though it wasn't like this @ all when I 1st got the phone. But with almost a week of stand-by time... don't know what to say... though I did write quite the story on here. But I will continue on to charge the battery when it is almost completely drained.
If you have any questions, do my best to answer them. Screen-shot is attached as well for your viewing pleasure.
