Long story short. Some guy extensively tested the batteries and found the Seidio to be "overstating" the mAh. Seidio didn't defend itself in the forum although I think they were around. I think the 1750 came out around 1450 or something like that. Big brouhaha over there some months ago.What happened with those?
What happened with those?
I got one. I'll post back with stats in about a week.
I've seen one or two people already with the OEM extended battery, you should hit up a corporate store and see if they have it.
No way is this HTC TB Stock battery going to cut it for me, im getting absolutly terrible battery life. Granted its only been a day with the phone, But I seriously doubt its going to improve that much after a week of charging. This is just the way it is with HTC and there phones. Im addicted to the speed of this phone, so I have to say that right now, its just something that I will take the hit on, and place an order for the Seidio 1600mAh battery. Come on HTC, stop being so friggin cheap! A 1600 or 1700mAh battery should have been stock with this phone. Between screen size and 4G, that's just common sense IMO.
I wonder how heavy and bulky it is with the extended battery?
And I think HTC puts in a tiny battery to make the phone lighter and smaller. Not to be cheap.
1. Bump charge to condition the battery
2. It'll get better once the phone learns the battery stats
3. Turn off stuff you're not using (BT, GPS, Wifi). Use Wifi when available because it uses less battery than 4G.
4. Gingerbread will probably bring additional improvements.
Myself and others seem to think this phone will level out at about 10-12 hours a charge with moderate/heavy usage in a 4G area. If that's not good enough, then you're really not going to be happy with most Android phones.
To be Frank, I've owned the Nexus one, EVO, Incredible, Droid X, Fascinate, Atrix , and ofcourse now the thunderbolt. I understand a lot about Android and how it works! But I will tell you right now, there is no way this phone gets 12 hours out of the stock battery with heavy to even moderate use in an LTE 4G area...lol, no way! Think about that statement, the EVO shipped with a 1500mAh battery, and 4G (wimax) wasn't even released yet here in NYC, and it was still terrible. The TB ships with a 1400mAh battery and 4G is alive and well here in NYC. Sorry man, I have to disagree! I just can't see it lasting that long with use on 4G! If Motorola can ship the Atrix with an 1850mAh battery , so can HTC! It's called being cheap.
No way is this HTC TB Stock battery going to cut it for me, im getting absolutly terrible battery life. Granted its only been a day with the phone, But I seriously doubt its going to improve that much after a week of charging. This is just the way it is with HTC and there phones. Im addicted to the speed of this phone, so I have to say that right now, its just something that I will take the hit on, and place an order for the Seidio 1600mAh battery. Come on HTC, stop being so friggin cheap! A 1600 or 1700mAh battery should have been stock with this phone. Between screen size and 4G, that's just common sense IMO.
My Droid 1 did the same thing when I first got it. I think I was getting about 4-5 hours a charge. I settled into about 10-12 after everything settled down.
Battery life sucked on that one but they did a D/L and went from crap to pretty damn good.
Sean,
I highly recommend NOT Buying the 1600 mah battery by Seidio because you are not adding that much and you will not be happy. I am guessing you should give the phone a little more time and if you still aren't happy look into an extended 2500 or 3500 with the larger back cover.
Battery issues on most phones(including the Thunderbolt) are a combination of stock settings being very draining and the user not fully understanding everything that is going on with their current configuration. Users need to do extensive research(or perhaps I should make a really big in-depth thread so I don't have to repeat myself 50 times with long battery advice) to see what they need to do for long battery life.
The Thunderbolt has pretty good battery life from my own tests. Probably at least 50% better than the Incredible. I'll be blunt and say anyone having horrible battery life at this point just doesn't quite know what they are doing with the phone. These are computers, not feature phones. You can make a laptop last hours or 30 minutes depending on what you do with it. The exact same ideas apply to ultra high end smartphones. They in all likelihood left the phone mostly at stock configuration(which is very very bad for battery life), installed a bunch of apps that they left running in full on mode instead of sleep mode(Significant majority of people on this forum don't know the difference), and probably had stuff like Facebook set to sync at really silly intervals.
Some people might take offense to that, the more clever ones will see it for what it is and attempt to learn and improve their battery life significantly. I work a 9.5 hour shift. Used the phone pretty moderately throughout the day. More than an hour of web browsing over 3G, I listened to music for about 5 hours. Periodic checking of email and such. Didn't come down to anywhere near 50% battery level.
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