Battery Issues Any Better Now?

[plumcrazy]

at 4:44pm i had a full charge, had one 2+ minute phone call, 6 texts, 1 email and it is down to 73% at 9:44pm.

5 hours and that much battery life with that usage is not good by any standard IMO. weekends are BY FAR my slowest days.

I am going to put a different battery in and test it out tomorrow and see what it does.

 

[Ryukashin]

On average I get about 9-10 hours a day before I get home for the night and throw it on the charger, even then theres always at least 45% left. Best I've gotten was 14 hours with about 40% left, but that was on constant WiFi all day.

Today I went into work (for city Aquatics) I don't really need data for anything at work since I'm rarely on the phone there, but I went almost 8.5 hours and only lost about 10% battery.

 

[plumcrazy]

just woke up, fully charged. unplugged, checked 4 emails, restarted the phone and i am now at 89%

 

[Ryukashin]

just woke up, fully charged. unplugged, checked 4 emails, restarted the phone and i am now at 89%

don't restart your phone lol, for some reason I usually lose about 10% per restart. I've even done the whole deleting batterystats.bin thing and it didn't help that.

 

[jellybean420]

This is definitely a thunderbolt issue not an HTC issue. I switched from the tbolt to the Droid Incredible 2 and have great battery life. The tbolt just can't handle the battery properly. Especially after reboots.

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[Strik3r8ty5]

Most people done realize that Droid phones are exactly like a.laptop in ur hand. Unplug a laptop and go to town rumning multiple apps and the battery life last 3 to 4 hours. Same with Android phones, some better then others. Main thing is make sure that certain settings that ur not using are off, such as WI FI, GPS ect second make sure ur using an app killer, it ur not then ur batt life will drain quick bc the apps love to run in the back ground. Third even if ur running an app killer doesn't always shut down that app. Make sure u got into ur apps management and force close apps ur not using, this will save a lot of battery time. And forth, if ur not in a 4G covered area u can input a encryption code and get into the phones settings and toggle off the 4G LTE radio and run strictly 3G until ur area is covered, doin this to my TB help out a lot. Today last charge I had on my phone was 9pm yesterday which was 5/7 and just now plugged it in at 4:30pm on 5/8 and that was with some pretty heavy use, was playing games on it last nite at the bar, had a 45 min phone call last nite and been textin all Damn day, I got my batt life under control..... That's my advice.


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[Mustang02]

Most people done realize that Droid phones are exactly like a.laptop in ur hand. Unplug a laptop and go to town rumning multiple apps and the battery life last 3 to 4 hours. Same with Android phones, some better then others. Main thing is make sure that certain settings that ur not using are off, such as WI FI, GPS ect second make sure ur using an app killer, it ur not then ur batt life will drain quick bc the apps love to run in the back ground. Third even if ur running an app killer doesn't always shut down that app. Make sure u got into ur apps management and force close apps ur not using, this will save a lot of battery time. And forth, if ur not in a 4G covered area u can input a encryption code and get into the phones settings and toggle off the 4G LTE radio and run strictly 3G until ur area is covered, doin this to my TB help out a lot. Today last charge I had on my phone was 9pm yesterday which was 5/7 and just now plugged it in at 4:30pm on 5/8 and that was with some pretty heavy use, was playing games on it last nite at the bar, had a 45 min phone call last nite and been textin all Damn day, I got my batt life under control..... That's my advice.


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Your advice is wrong. Android Phones are not ANYTHING like windows. Task killers are not recommended to be used and waste battery. Yes some apps don't close correctly but most just sit idle. The Android OS handles memory usage very well. Search the forums about task killers.

Under 3G you will get better battery life but that's not why 80% of us bought our TB's. We wanted the 4G.

 

[plumcrazy]

i know something on my phone is syncing or phoning home too often but i cant figure out what it is....

 

[Strik3r8ty5]

First off man, I never said Android OS is anything like Windows. Second off, I'm just giving advice of what worked with my TB, Im getting upwards of 20+ hours of batt life out of my stock phone. And third i don't care what the forums say about task killers, when the apps run in the background they take up virtual memory on the phone in turn u get enough programs to run in the background, ur phone will run like crap and drain ur TB and in turn u will have to reboot ur phone in turn wasting more batt life. And as far as the 4G, if u read my first post carefully I said for those who r not in a 4G covered area here is an option for u to toggle the 4G LTE Radio off till ur area has 4G available to save some batt.....but as far as the task killer, I have to disagree with u and the forums here bc programs run in the back ground slow the progress of the phones down and use battery life. And yea some apps do idle, and there r quite a few that don't u have to select that program and look at what its doing. So its all a matter of opinion that's all.


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[Ryukashin]

two things... First, yeah i have a problem with syncing too, the auto sync never finishes and uses a lot of battery.

Secondly, He's right android phones are nothing like a laptop. Plus my macbook (yes i'm sorry about the apple reference) will last my 6-8 hours watching video, surfing the web, typing notes, and lots of other use all while unplugged at school. My old Droid easily went 16 hours with heavy use on 3G data and some GPS usage. There isn't any reason an android phone can't go a full day of heavy usage without charging.

4G uses a lot of battery and hopefully with some network tuning and OTA updates on Verizon/HTC's part they'll get the power usage down. The screen uses so much power. My buddy's Droid X has a slightly bigger screen and uses less power than our screen does. design flaw? Second hand parts?


I like watchdog, its similar to the app killers only it doesn't really kill. It alerts you to apps that are using too much CPU and then you have the option to ignore it or force close/kill it.

Some people like Juice Defender, it turns off your networks while they aren't being used. I really don't like it because I still want to get my emails and stuff while the phone's screen is off and its in my pocket.

 

[Ryukashin]

i know something on my phone is syncing or phoning home too often but i cant figure out what it is....

then only option I know of until whatever it is gets fixed is to turn off auto sync and do it manually for now, I'd probably just turn off the individual accounts except for the email accounts.

 

[plumcrazy]

got each email syncing at 2 hours except my exchange account, i need that to do its thing. everything else is shut off. im not a twitter/FB guy.

anything else i can do ?

 

[Kid A]

Was in New York City all day yesterday. Turned my phone on at 1 PM and when I got home at 11 I had about 40% battery life remaining. I live in 3G coverage so for about 8 of those hours I was on 4G and with what I would call medium usage (primarily internet browsing and texting). Keep in mind I'm using the standard battery and my phone isn't rooted.

To have my phone on for most of the day in 4G coverage and nearly half a full battery left when everything's said and done is good enough for me.

On a side note...

Just wanted to say that I dig your screen name Kid A.... Thom Yorke is a genius.

Haha, glad somebody caught the reference. I love Radiohead and Kid A is definitely my favorite record of all time. Thanks!

 

[Ryukashin]

This was light to medium usage today

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[attoycity]

The phone is nice, fast , and i do also like it