HTC Inspire Battery Experiences...

Lordlogan · Jun 1, 2011

Where can i get official non "chinese knock off" batteries?

Simba501 · Jun 2, 2011

Lordlogan said:
Where can i get official non "chinese knock off" batteries?

eBay

zsmalley · Jun 9, 2011

I just got off the phone with htc. They are sending me a new baterry. Hopefully its bigger and will last longer. I will post back when i get it on how it performs as well as its size. The funny thing is the rep told ne I can look on amazon for a battery and a charger.

kb58 · Jun 10, 2011

zsmalley said:
I just got off the phone with htc. They are sending me a new baterry. Hopefully its bigger and will last longer. I will post back when i get it on how it performs as well as its size. The funny thing is the rep told ne I can look on amazon for a battery and a charger.

Huh? No, you better hope it's not "bigger", because if it is it won't fit. There's already been lots of threads regarding miraculous battery claims on ebay/Amazon saying they last ~30% more and it's always BS.

After my phone settled down after the update I seem to be getting better battery life, no complaints here. I do think the variations we're seeing are due to low-coverage areas. I know when I visit family, they live in a local "black hole" as far as coverage goes, and in 3-4 hrs during my visit, my battery takes a dump, but at home it lasts 16 hrs easy.

zsmalley · Jun 10, 2011

Im getting my battery from HTC so Im sure it will be the correct size. i live in the Dallas area so my battery is not being drained because of lack of coverage. By bigger i meant larger Mah not physically bigger.

kb58 · Jun 11, 2011

zsmalley said:
"...By bigger i meant larger Mah not physically bigger.."

Unless it's different chemistry there's no such thing.

55pilot · Jun 13, 2011

kb58 said:
Unless it's different chemistry there's no such thing.

Right now LiPo is the highest density chemistry that is commercially available. The stock battery is LiPo, so you are basically stuck. The only way to improve battery life is with phone settings, by reducing consumption.

55pilot · Jun 13, 2011

zsmalley said:
i live in the Dallas area so my battery is not being drained because of lack of coverage.

Being in a big city does not guarantee that you have good coverage where YOU are. There are dead spots in coverage even in the best covered cities. Even if you are in a zone of good coverage, if you are located inside a metal structure you will have really poor coverage.

KRoberts · Jun 13, 2011

The battery in this phone makes me want to chunk this phone off a cliff and never look back. I'm so upset with myself for not getting another iphone when I had it in my hands.... hate this inspire!!!!!!!

zsmalley · Jun 15, 2011

Got the new battey package said 1200 mah. Seems so far to work the same or maybe worse l will give it a few days to see if it gets better.

gianmarco · Jun 22, 2011

Good afternoon. I have been researching for a new phone for days and have decided on the Inspire. After reading through hundreds of posts on this thread, I am not all that worried on the battery life.

I am going to pipck it up later today. However, I have a few questions (of course pertaining to the battery):

1. I read how one member drained it out of the box near completely (less than 10%) before giving it a full charge. Is this advisable? Or am I better off charging it straight off the box?

2. It seems that the screen backlighting seems to be the main battery drainer while things like wifi take up very little (60+% for the screen and 2% for the wifi....if I recall a post that I read on this thread correctly). What apps would you all reocmment to best monitor and adjust battery usage? And, if the stated usage is correct (i.e. wifi uses 2% of battery), will having the wifi on all the time make any difference? The reason I am asking is that there is a lot of (fast) public wifi where I am on a normal, daily basis (on campus and work).

3. May someone elaborate on the "pushing" for widgets such as gmail, facebook and twitter (which are the main 3 I plan to have streaming on one of my home screens)? Also, is there a way so that it only shows things like fb status updates and tweets from certain people you already follow? I mean I follow some 350 accounts on twitter, but I dont want all of them streaming on my phone (i'll save that for when i get on my computer), just a select few for my phone. I know these are not totally battery related, but it would be appreciated!

Thanks!

Gmash · Jul 5, 2011

Onmitsu said:
Eboni1956 said:

. . . the most I'm getting out of it is 6 hours, I'm wondering what else I can do.

I got up this morning and unplugged my phone and turned it on around 6:45 am. I answered two text messages and listened to one voice mail. I then went to church. Used my phone to read the scripture during service. Received two voice mails during church. Called my friend after church and talked to her for maybe 15 minutes. By 1:30 this afternoon, I was down to the 10% battery warning. I turned it off, charged it all afternoon to 100%. I just made another 15 minute phone call, listened to two voice mails, and I'm almost at 50%. According to the phone's battery use information, it has been 11h 17m since it was unplugged (I unplugged it about an hour ago), and the phone has been awake for a little over 5 hours.

For settings:
Wifi - off - unless I want to stream movies or music - haven't been able to do that much because of the battery
Bluetooth - off unless I'm driving
Mobile Data - it's set on, but it's my understanding that JD enables and disables this - however, I do have a widget on my home screen so that I can disable it, as well as the wifi and bluetooth
Display - not sure how you tell the percentage, but I have it so dark that nobody else can read it but me (I've got pretty good eyesight for an old woman *smile*)
Screen timeout - 30 seconds
Flash LED for notifications
Background data on
Auto-sync off
GPS - off
I'm running Juice Defender Ultimate on Advanced mode

In the time that it took me to type this, the battery has drained even more and I'll be getting the 20% warning very soon. It drains even when I'm not using it.
QUOTE]

Mysterious . . .

I have very similar settings on my Inspire. I unplugged it at 8am this morning, and now at midnight it is showing about 65% battery. I have made several phone calls, checked voice-mails, lots of texts back and forth, checked my email throughout the day, read news feeds throughout the day, surfed the web, played Angry Birds, played my jewels game. This is typical usage, and I plug it in at bed time with nearly always more than 50% battery after 16 to 18 hours unplugged.

Wi-fi always on, mobile always off except sometimes away from home or work if I need it, GPS off, Bluetooth off, Display maybe 30% bright, live thunderstorm wallpaper, always manually switch off display when finished. Right now I am showing 5 bars H+ at home - do not know about work signal. I tried leaving the mobile on all day Saturday, and ended the day with maybe 40% battery.

I don't think my usage is different from many light/medium users. How other phones are dying after 5 hours essentially doing nothing is a puzzle.
I don't know if I am just lucky, or if there is a magic setting . . .

Onmitsu.

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Get rid of Juice Defender and watch your battery life improve.

ianskate · Jul 14, 2011

My phone just stopped working entirely. I've had it since March. Time to visit AT&T for a replacement phone (or battery). FTW.

shorepatrol · Aug 7, 2011

Download the new GB and you'll be amazed at your battery life.

MGM-Droid · Aug 9, 2011

shorepatrol said:
Download the new GB and you'll be amazed at your battery life.

+1 - waaaaaay better than before GB... Get it..

fun841 · Aug 9, 2011

After about 11 hours of medium usage (texting, Internet browsing, some gaming) my battery went down from 65% to 33%. This isn't that much imo. (only a 32% drop)

StandingCow · Aug 10, 2011

I don't notice much of a battery life change while in idle... I am gonna try a phone restart and see what happens.

StandingCow · Aug 10, 2011

Restarted my phone, that seems to have fixed the issue.

StandingCow · Aug 11, 2011

Hmmm, unplugged for four hours with wifi enabled, battery is down to 83%, no usage. So, at least with wifi, I am not noticing a huge increase.

I disabled it to see if it improves.

kerriberri · Aug 12, 2011

I just installed the update this morning and my battery dropped 40% in 3 hours, before the update it was doing pretty good. I have only had the phone a few days but it hasn't ever dropped that fast. What can I do? I can't have a phone that sucks battery life THAT fast

KenG10 · Aug 14, 2011

GB update is great for battery life, I must say. BUT after making a receiving a call, the "Dialer" app stays open and causes battery drain! People are saying the only way to fix is to restart the phone. The dialer app keeps polling the sensors apparently.

andrews317 · Aug 14, 2011

I got my Inspire last friday. This is my experience so far with the battery:

I got the phone friday at noon, charged it all the afternoon until 5 pm. I used it the whole night downloading apps, setting the phone, texting, facebook, navigating and some phonecalls. At 11 pm battery was at 20%. All this was on wifi connection.

I charged the phone the whole night, woke up at 7 am and unplugged. Wifi off, only mobile network on. Made several calls at work, texting. At 11 I got home and checked social networks, news and played angry birds (wifi). At 3 pm battery was al 14%. Charged it until 7. Then I went out, calls and texting. At a party I took a lot of pictures with flash, uploaded some to facebook (mobile network), and a lot of texting. I got home 1 am, updated to GB. At 1:30 am battery was at 16%.

I charged the whole night again. Today I woke up at 8 am. Ive been using it for some texting, social networks and played maybe 30 minutes angry birds (Wifi). Its 12 pm and my battery is at 88%. When im home my wifi is always ON. I cant tell that my battery life is better after the update because I used Froyo por one and a half days. But its a fact that my battery life is better than yesterday.

I also have to mention that I bought the phone as "like new", so the battery and the whole cellphone had at least a month been used.

andrews317 · Aug 14, 2011

Something I have always done with the phones Ive got is "training your battery". If you leave yout battery to drain as much as you can you will notice a better performance. Do this at least for a week:

Charge your phone at night. Unplug it and use it the whole day. Dont charge it again until you are going to bed again, even if you have to let it die before going to sleep. Your battery gets this kind of syncronization and it definitely works. Ive done the same with these cellphones: HTC touch 2, Sony Ericsson Vivaz, Iphone 3Gs, Nokia E71, LG GW550. I am doing it with my HTC Inspire because I got it 2 days ago. After the week, try to keep this routine, except if its really necessary for you to charge it before.

StandingCow · Aug 14, 2011

andrews317 said:
Something I have always done with the phones Ive got is "training your battery". If you leave yout battery to drain as much as you can you will notice a better performance. Do this at least for a week:

Charge your phone at night. Unplug it and use it the whole day. Dont charge it again until you are going to bed again, even if you have to let it die before going to sleep. Your battery gets this kind of syncronization and it definitely works. Ive done the same with these cellphones: HTC touch 2, Sony Ericsson Vivaz, Iphone 3Gs, Nokia E71, LG GW550. I am doing it with my HTC Inspire because I got it 2 days ago. After the week, try to keep this routine, except if its really necessary for you to charge it before.

These batteries do not have a "memory". You are thinking of the Nickel Cadmium (NiCd) Batteries.

steviej893 · Aug 29, 2011

Not sure how people are saying the battery life is longer. For me, its about the same if not shorter. Within 45 minutes of unplugging, with a full charge, I lose a tick of battery power and its still only lasting about 4-5 hours before completely drained. This, despite adjusting power settings and downloading Juice Defender, which a lot of people are saying helps, but so far nothing. As for the update itself, nothing spectacular so far. I also notice a lot more dropped calls too. Never had this problem with my previous phone which was a Blackberry Curve 9310. If I'm missing something please help. thanks

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