Help Just Got Off The Phone With HTC.. They Now Know What Is Causing Battery Drain..

[sitlet]

While technically speaking, a tower is a tower to a phone. But this really does make sense.

The other day, I was at a job site, I had FULL bars the whole day. I only touched the phone a few times: a couple texts and emails, and checked the weather twice, and a 5 minute phone call. The phone was completely dead in 5 hours.

A day before that, I was at a different job site all day. I had a very weak sprint signal, and a very weak roaming signal. So the whole day, the phone was bouncing between those, and no signal. I watched a 20 minute tv show fro my sd card, and sent about 50 texts and emails. In the 8 hours I was there, using the phone that much, I only used 20% of the battery.

So to me, that makes sense. Even though the one day i had full bars, the phone was still thinking it wasnt connected.

 

[tardmobile]

I'm starting to become actually surprised with all the voodoo tips people have been throwing out there that no one's blaming the battery life on this being an El Ni

 

[MisterEd]

Its an incompatibility between the EVO and Sprint towers equipped with Motorola made transmitters.

I don't doubt he told you that but what makes him right? Weren't there 14 other stories from other 14 "HTC guys?" How did you get to speak to "the guy" that had all the (right) answers as opposed to the 100's of other people who have called.

P.S. What's with the annoying large type?

 

[Jordus]

Towers dont explain why a factory reset fixed my battery issue. BetterMost made this up (probably using the Incredible reboot loop from certain towers as inspiration)

 

[J03]

Ever heard of airplane mode?

Maybe he wanted to know what calls he missed?

It's not a matter of putting it in airplane mode when hes away from his phone, its that even if the phone was sitting in his pocket unused all day it wouldn't make it to a charger in time.

 

[eieio]

There is a problem with the Moto equipment they are all being swapped out..

They are definitely not going the cheap route and are doing it right this time along with additional hardware upgrades.

As far as I know it does not effect 3g (I can be wrong), its a 4g Wimax issue. It does not effect the new cities being rolled out.

The older cities will have to be upgraded..

 

[gigadigit]

Does that mean the battery will be able to last a whole day on 4G?

There is a problem with the Moto equipment they are all being swapped out..
As far as I know it does not effect 3g (I can be wrong), its a 4g Wimax issue. It does not effect the new cities being rolled out.

 

[eieio]

Does that mean the battery will be able to last a whole day on 4G?

The best I have gotten so far is 6 hours 4g on the whole time.. not bad considering what I do with it..

I get 10-12 on 3g

 

[Jordus]

4G does drain the battery like hell, but lots of people having battery issues arent in 4G areas and dont have 4G on at all.

 

[eieio]

4G does drain the battery like hell, but lots of people having battery issues arent in 4G areas and dont have 4G on at all.

I do think there is a problem with the internal antennas and there is a discrepancy with the phones signal display with out a doubt

 

[Drew5150]

CLICK HERE
http://androidforums.com/support-tr...8062-battery-issue-hard-reset.html#post921034

man...can we make this battery fix a friggin pop-up, these threads are getting ridiculous.

This method is BS. i've tried this trick many times and it doesn't do crap. This came from the hero and i have a hard time believing its really still an isssue with sprint and htc.

Mine comes up as cdma, then i do the thing where force closes and then says gsm so I change it to cdma. Thing is the phone never saves this setting (I'm not talking about after reboot). As soon as you are done go back in and force close again and it will still say gsm. I believe this is an error of the force close caused by reading the radio band. Also after trying to apply this setting my phone runs like crap. My mobile network widget switch will no longer function and a few other things lock up or don't function. The only way to get the phone to function again is to reboot.

I have done battery tests with and without this method and there is no difference.

I'm not complaining about my battery but it could be better.

If this really was the end all be all then we wouldn't't have the same people complaining about battery life that have already done this.

Believe what you want to believe.

 

[yoyo877]

It's George Bush's fault......

 

[MrNoSox]

Making plenty of 4G phones, Really? I thought the evo was the first 4g phone

I never said other "4G" phones. I said other PHONES and for the most part, you don't hear of widespread battery issues with those other phones. I'm sure some have problems just like all phones do but not widespread like the EVO. AND some software or firmware modifications seem to fix the issue on EVO. Mine was horrible before I rooted and installed Bugless. Now i get 18 hours easy with 30% left when I go to bed.

 

[MrNoSox]

it's george bush's fault......

dammit

 

[Velocd]

I am almost always around a charger so i never understood peoples battery claims before. Monday i had Jury duty and had to leave my phone locked in my car from 830am until 3pm. It was fully charged before i left the car. When i got back in the car at 3pm i had only 8% battery left. I had about 7 missed calls and 5 or so emails. 2 voice messages waiting. But the phone was not touched all day. To me that is horrible battery life. 6.5 hours of doing nothing on the phone and it was dead.

I dont know anything about Motorola towers ect. What i know is this level of battery life it not acceptable. I had 4g off, wifi on, gps off, I didnt leave any programs running in the background. When i checked task manager it didnt have anything programs running that could explain this.

I have 1 brightly lit stuck pixel on the bottom left of my screen. I was planning to just live with it. But i think i will just take it in and trade it now.

Also i dont have facebook or twitter or any social sync apps or widgets on my phone. I have news set to never sync, i have google voice off ect.

Why would you even leave your phone on if you weren't going to be anywhere near it?

 

[Drew5150]

Before I moved to the evo I never considered turning a phone off unless I was in a movie or on a plane.

Evo is a different story.... but yeah might as well be off if you're gonna put it in airplane mode and not use it for other things.

 

[talz13]

Why would you even leave your phone on if you weren't going to be anywhere near it?

You bother turning yours off?

 

[muncher]

hm i did lose 40% battery life in 30 minutes with 4g on in philadelphia once. now i make it a point to turn off 4g when i'm not actively using it and my battery lasts 24 hours on medium use no problem

 

[B-Ran]

This method is BS. i've tried this trick many times and it doesn't do crap. This came from the hero and i have a hard time believing its really still an isssue with sprint and htc.

Mine comes up as cdma, then i do the thing where force closes and then says gsm so I change it to cdma. Thing is the phone never saves this setting (I'm not talking about after reboot). As soon as you are done go back in and force close again and it will still say gsm. I believe this is an error of the force close caused by reading the radio band. Also after trying to apply this setting my phone runs like crap. My mobile network widget switch will no longer function and a few other things lock up or don't function. The only way to get the phone to function again is to reboot.

I have done battery tests with and without this method and there is no difference.

I'm not complaining about my battery but it could be better.

If this really was the end all be all then we wouldn't't have the same people complaining about battery life that have already done this.

Believe what you want to believe.

Update your PRL, should fix your cdma/gsm issue.

 

[Drew5150]

Update your PRL, should fix your cdma/gsm issue.

I've updated my PRL a few times. Then again I do not believe I have a cdma/gsm issue. Nor do I have bad battery life, its actually pretty good. But the phone will say gsm everytime after the force close. Only after the force close will it show gsm and have an issue. Sorry but that method does nothing. I'm also not the only one to report this.

 

[EarlyMon]

Hey, this thread's beaten to death, so just for you 4G users out there - when you turn on your 4G radio, does it automatically turn off your Mobile Network radio?

I've turned on my 4G radio, but, not getting a 4G signal, I can't see what processes might happen automagically.

On my phone, it sure looks like you can have both on at once - and that would seem to be pretty wasteful, to me.

There's a widget to turn off the Mobile Net under widgets -> Settings, btw.

Guess if I get time later, I'll turn on just 4G and let it scan forever, until the battery dies.

Don't know what that would prove, though.

 

[Norril]

Leaving your phone in a hot car will KILLL your battery.

absolutely correct.

 

[Norril]

Hey, this thread's beaten to death, so just for you 4G users out there - when you turn on your 4G radio, does it automatically turn off your Mobile Network radio?

I've turned on my 4G radio, but, not getting a 4G signal, I can't see what processes might happen automagically.

On my phone, it sure looks like you can have both on at once - and that would seem to be pretty wasteful, to me.

There's a widget to turn off the Mobile Net under widgets -> Settings, btw.

I don't want it to auto disable 3g. I am looking forward to 4g for my hotspot and 3g for evdo services.

 

[romannsjr]

Good 411 intell but we need a fix qik !! get it qik?

 

[EarlyMon]

I don't want it to auto disable 3g. I am looking forward to 4g for my hotspot and 3g for evdo services.

Ah. Way good point.

Still - I wonder how many people don't notice.

AFAIR, the Mobile Network widget wasn't pre-loaded on that wacky page to the left of home....

Just saying, maybe 4G users could get better luck turning that off if they know they don't need it. (?) Isn't being on WiMAX a wholesale replacement for all our data needs, when running in the normal scenario (not as you mention)?

I won't travel to my first 4G spot until maybe next month, so I'm quite curious.