Battery Life - The Good The Bad and The Ugly

[maximus96]

so basically turn off, or reduce everything that is good or handy for this phone?

 

[mjz773]

No....If you read the thread it says, these are tips to conserve battery.

All of these things help conserve battery, because people are worried and complaining about it.

 

[rdegk15]

anyone know the best place (cheapest place) to buy an extended battery

 

[KoukiFC3S]

My biggest boost was from changing twitter and facebook to poll every 4 hours instead of every hour.

 

[FraGztr]

good tips, but i like my brightness to 75%. Also, how do you turn off the vibration when pressing icons or such?

 

[lyons238]

simple but settings - display - set screen to sleep every 15-30 secs.

 

[wazzap1101]

Awesome tips!

 

[mjz773]

good tips, but i like my brightness to 75%. Also, how do you turn off the vibration when pressing icons or such?

Settings>Sounds and Display>audible touch tones-off, haptic feedback-off

 

[FraGztr]

Settings>Sounds and Display>audible touch tones-off, haptic feedback-off

Thank you

 

[lanenubia]

Dont know if it will work, but I will be trying this once mine comes in.

tip-trick-After 61-hours on Evo -24% battery-remaining

 

[GodCountryND]

I was wondering how the battery is on the EVO. I was talking to a Sprint rep earlier and she told me they are telling people to expect four hours of battery life with normal use. Seriously? 4 hours?

What have you EVO owners found?

 

[avengence]

I have 5 hours of use so far today and the phone still has like 25% left.

 

[backdown]

It was fully charged at 11 when i went to work, came home around 4 and it still had a good amount left on it. Charged it for..15 mins, and went away till the present time of 12:42. According to my battery widget it has 13% left. I also used sprints navigation for about two hours..so yeah.

 

[nathanjr]

As soon as I turned 4G off the battery started performing well, especially considering how large the display is. If you are using it for 4 continuous hours, then yeah, you will burn through a lot of the battery. I'm not sure what you get on your Moment, but 4 hours is pretty standard for a smart phone.

 

[splattered]

I have wi-fi/gps/4g/etc turned off and its lasted me maybe 4 or 5 hours and still prob have 25% left... that being said it seems to be draining pretty quickly right now. Not sure why :/

 

[RiverOfIce]

I have wi-fi/gps/4g/etc turned off and its lasted me maybe 4 or 5 hours and still prob have 25% left... that being said it seems to be draining pretty quickly right now. Not sure why :/

Check out the battery meter under settings, it breaks down the battery life. Once I installed and used advance task killer, my battery life went from like 5 hours to 10 hours,with 4g.

 

[Aridon]

Depending on signal I'd say 4 - 5 hours of constant use. About the same as most devices.

 

[jmxp69]

I charged mine to 100% around 10am. It's now 2am and I'm down to 4%. I've been beating the hell out of it all day installing apps, configuring, playing mp3s, FM Radio, browsing the web, Facebook, a couple tweets/texts.

I think the battery will be just fine. Normal use with my Hero got me to ~50% every day. I expect similar when my usage pattern settles down.

 

[lyons238]

with the 50% that came with the phone it lasted 3-4 hrs. after i charged it again im still on 48% after 7hrs. 2 hrs of this 7 were heavy the remaining 5 hrs were light.

i imagine if you use the phone lightly - mediocre it will last 8-12 hrs. 5-7 if use pretty heavily. but honestly i could kill my old verizon flip phone after 4 hrs of talking

 

[uniqlo]

got mine around 10:30am and took it home to charge immediately. it was about 1 or 2 pm that i felt it was fully charged so i unplugged it. i've pretty much been messing with it all day installing apps, browsing websites, music/video, etc. and the phone finally died a little after midnight.

i had 4g turned off from when i unplugged it and a few hours into using the phone i turned gps off. so i basically got around 9 hours of moderately heavy usage out of it.

 

[AsItLies]

wow, all I can say is it's all about configuration. Turn off what yer not using (gps included) and turn it on when u want to use it.

My impression so far, couple of days on one charge easily. it's all about usage, this question becomes so subjective.

regards,

 

[apollooff320]

ppl need to turn the screen brightness down instead of having it maxed out.

 

[splattered]

Check out the battery meter under settings, it breaks down the battery life. Once I installed and used advance task killer, my battery life went from like 5 hours to 10 hours,with 4g.

Wow cool im new to droid phones, i didnt even know you could do that... looks like the OS is eating up all the battery? Sheesh.

 

[expalpo]

Bought a spare ‘OEM’ battery ‘pre-launch’ so I had it ready to go… on the charger for 24 hours before picking up the phone @ 7:30AM… placed the charged battery into the phone @ 8:00 AM EST and put the battery from the box into a charger…
First battery went from 8am – 6:00pm with fairly heavy use and then back into charger @ < 10% capacity. Spent most of that time &#8216;playing&#8217; with everything I could find youtube, camera, email, etc&#8230; installed lots of apps&#8230; Thanks App Brain! A couple of phone calls&#8230; and last but not least, the MicroSD OTA update.
All the while I had the following radios turned off&#8230; GPS, Bluetooth, 4G (Rumor is November J) &#8230; WiFi was powered on as I needed to connect to a 802.1x wireless&#8230; some challenges with certificates, but the PHP method worked great! I basically replicated what these folks are doing here&#8230;
http://www.realmb.com/2010/01/android-certificate-installer/
Sense UI Exchange ActiveSync support&#8230; with a &#8216;self signed certificate&#8217;&#8230; was a dismal failure! If anyone has some suggestions here, I&#8217;m all ears&#8230; yeah&#8230; yeah&#8230; who hosts an exchange server with a self signed cert&#8230; apparently &#8216;we&#8217; do.

 

[KoukiFC3S]

After 8 hours I have 80% battery left. Seidio extended, good stuff.