However, just this morning I used K-9 to check some email and clean some of them up. I'm in a strong 4G area and in that 8 minutes of use I dropped from 97% to 90%.
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unless you're using an sbc kernel, a fast drop like that in the first 10% is practically expected. that's because of the way the evo charges it's battery. 90-100% does not accurately reflect the battery life. you can unplug at 100% and it's actually at 90% so you'll see it drop real fast to catch up to the actual value. some people seem to believe an sbc kernel can damage the battery, so i've stopped using them... no need to exacerbate my battery issues.
You should give it a few charge cycles. You can't tell a whole lot after switching to a new ROM/kernel if you're not going to charge it up to 100% right after. I would say charge it all the way up, do a bump charge with it off, wipe battery stats if you're paranoid (I don't think it really does what everyone claims), turn it back on, do that a couple times, then get your baseline.
but how can i survive that long without my compass, metal detector, and heart rate monitor?!
lol jk. ok so i'll give it a couple cycles and see what's up, then, if it looks good in a couple days, begin restoring my apps in clusters to see if my battery life drops.
Well it depends. Go through a couple charge cycles after making that many changes. Let's see how your average battery life is rather than analyzing such short periods of time.
Okay, so the only things you changed between then and now was installing a few apps. Yeah, no need to go through more charge cycles, then. Under spare parts, what do you see now for network usage? Also, how does your time without signal (the %) look? I know you checked before, and it was fine, but it can't hurt to verify again.
I've been checking it, it is usually 0%. About two days ago I checked it randomly and it was at 37%, although I had signal the whole time. It eventually went down though and I haven't noticed it being unusually high since. As for today, I just plugged in a few min ago so I'll have to just unplug and check later.
Network usage since boot (since I just unplugged but I rebooted between the first two posts of today)
Dialer
0
Android System
Spare Parts
Whenever I try to click on the 0 I get a force close.
Okay, that's nothing to worry about. Maybe just to isolate the problem, make a nandroid backup, then just wipe data, and use the phone for a bit. That will be exactly what you have now, but without any apps. Let's see if it gets any better or worse.
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