Battery Life - The Good The Bad and The Ugly

[IXIShogunR1]

yeah no problems here
i'm now at 17hours and 47%

 

[RTan]

It will be a problem if you install a lot of rubbish apps into the device. Most of the apps from the Market are untested by HTC.

 

[RiverOfIce]

5 out of 5 apple fanboys agree what an unreleased untouched, apple phone is better then its competitors. Then they use an apple loving website to back up there claims. I have a claim for them. I am getting between 12-29 of battery per charge.

 

[RussianVodka]

Don't we have enough of these battery threads? Battery life is great, if your having bad battery life your doing something wrong...

I am just going to post this picture in all the battery threads from now on because it's really starting to seem like a bunch of iphone fanboys trying to spam the boards with false claims or something.

You keep posting that picture, and I still don't know which app it's a screenshot of .

 

[DUBious]

i dont know what all the complaints are about. It is completely on par to what i would expect from this Massive device. this is not a computer. Its not plugged into a wall 24/7. Learn how to kill apps that arent in use. Understand the power it takes for this phone to function. if you cant understand that keep your bitching to yourself.

trying to compare this to any other device besides the hd2 is crazy.

Love it or leave it.

 

[Sketchr]

You keep posting that picture, and I still don't know which app it's a screenshot of .

I'd like to know as well.

 

[VGPOP]

Who is that idiot and how was he able to land a job writing garbage?

 

[IXIShogunR1]

You keep posting that picture, and I still don't know which app it's a screenshot of .

its not really an app, its part of the basic EVO settings

menu>settings>about phone>battery>battery use

enjoy

 

[lyons238]

You keep posting that picture, and I still don't know which app it's a screenshot of .

+ shortcut - battery usage

its not an app, its a stock battery usage monitor

 

[mrk]

It's from the battery section in Settings.

EDIT: Beaten to the punch.

 

[monkeyinc]

Screen size has nothing to do with battery life. The back light is LED based. LEDs are extremely power efficient.

The problem is Sprints WiMAX which kills your battery in 3-4 hours.

 

[dieNASTY]

yea i feel like if you give it time the battery life will improve. when i first got it, the battery will barely last 3 hours. now that ive been using it, i get like 60-50% after a school day of fairly heavy use and it was like one 8 hours something

 

[JunBringer]

I hate that people post crap like that. It can seriously hurt a far superior device. I guess that's a disadvantage to the internet, more information allows more lies.

 

[Sketchr]

its not really an app, its part of the basic EVO settings

menu>settings>about phone>battery>battery use

enjoy

Learn something new about the EVO every day. Thanks

 

[IXIShogunR1]

Learn something new about the EVO every day. Thanks

no problem

 

[iamfunkyz]

After the rash of negative battey threads, I have something positive to say. It charges FAST. I go from dead battery (<%5 charge) to full in less than 2 hours. I also have my settings to the point where I'm comfortable with the battery life. As sort of a test, I took it off the charger with a full charge at 2am last night, went to bed, and made it to 7pm today with normal use. Is it great battery life? No. Is it bad enough to be a dealbreaker? Absolutely not. It's average and that's good enough for me.

 

[aliveon2legs]

It does charge incredibly fast, indeed.

 

[IXIShogunR1]

agreed....... more then enough power to get me through a normal day

 

[DUBious]

Again though. Try comparing battery life with the HD2. You'll find them to be very similar.

 

[trife]

I had about 24 hrs of uptime today with moderate usage. screwed up and turned it off cause of an update which messed up my screenshop op

once it got red i threw on pandora and ALL options i could find to kill the phone completely it lasted about an hour or so once already at 15%. I guess these guys got every option on or something.

so im thinking every option plus streaming for 6 hours. not sure anyone will do that so id say its not bad. moderate phone/web/txt usage lasts me 24hrs. is that poor for smartphones?

 

[emac]

I don't know if I just got a better battery than most people, but I have had 0 problems with battery life. It's better than I expected. I usually end up charging it once during the day just because I can, but I don't need to and I think I could probably get through the day without it. I also use the phone a lot.

 

[tt0h]

I wasn't impressed by the battery life initially, then I did a total reset of the phone and magically it's been MUCH better for me. Not sure if there was an app running from when they set it up or not, but it does grand now. I wasn't aware of the battery usage page at the time, so didn't check.

Luckily I didn't have much contact info to worry about at the time.

 

[musikat]

I like that it is slightly better than my Moment when I first got it and Miles better than the Moment after the 2.1 upgrade!

 

[Hrshycro]

I'm not saying this is the problem with your battery or that it will fix it, but I just came across this, can't hurt to try eh?

http://androidforums.com/tips-trick...killin-my-battery-life-most-likely-yours.html

Thanks! I saw this last night but then I saw the flickr thing and never got back to the talk one. I did it and will see if it helps. So far I've spent two hours on the phone, with the wifi on at home and I have about half of my battery left.

I have been using the wifi at home, but I can be 3 feet from the router and have 0 or 1 bars and be 5 walls away and have 1 or 2 and it's usually on 0 or 1 no matter where I'm at. It seems like the wifi chip in this phone also sucks ass.

 

[twospirits]

All Battery issue threads merged into one.

TS