GOODBYE Thunderbolt - After 1 week of constant battery drainage, i gave up

[atlrus]

I just got 18 hours of good use out of my battery . The op is nothing more than a whiner and thunderbolt nation says good riddance
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Impossible, unless we have quite different understanding of "good use". I just did a little over an hour trip with the Navi on and it ate half the battery...(in 3g)

Now that's funny, I have to keep my magellen navigation plugged in all the time because it drains the battery so fast, I wish I could get an hour on half a battery charge on that thing


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Wow! When i used my TomTom I can get through 3-4 states before the need to plug in. Granted it's 80+mph or nothing with me

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[FlyFishinX2]

Impossible, unless we have quite different understanding of "good use". I just did a little over an hour trip with the Navi on and it ate half the battery...(in 3g)

Now that's funny, I have to keep my magellen navigation plugged in all the time because it drains the battery so fast, I wish I could get an hour on half a battery charge on that thing


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Wow! When i used my TomTom I can get through 3-4 states before the need to plug in. Granted it's 80+mph or nothing with me

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That's impressive considering that I get two hours max out of the magellen :...........and for the record this is the second day.in a row that I've gotten 18 hours out of the bolt

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[atlrus]

Do you get full bars, as well?

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[CsonkaBear]

We have full bars when at home. I don't know what type of signal she gets at work since she can't use her phone at work.

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I am enjoying this thread. I feel strongly both ways. (is that possible?)

I'm really wondering how you like your Xoom. My wife and I have i-Pads and were thinking of switching.

We're rich, like you and your better half....lol.

Serious question, though. Thanks.

 

[UNC]

Now that's funny, I have to keep my magellen navigation plugged in all the time because it drains the battery so fast, I wish I could get an hour on half a battery charge on that thing


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Wow! When i used my TomTom I can get through 3-4 states before the need to plug in. Granted it's 80+mph or nothing with me

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That's impressive considering that I get two hours max out of the magellen :...........and for the record this is the second day.in a row that I've gotten 18 hours out of the bolt

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I used to have a Nuvi 255w (I think?) And it lasted from Northern Virginia to Southern NC. (Approximately 4.5hrs) routinely without being plugged in.

I have great 3g coverage, but no 4g as of yet. My battery sucks. I definitely understand the return...

I've got to ask though, do you still have the 4g plan? I will return the TB if I can keep the 4g plan!!!

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[UNC]

With the mid range use my wife gives it she only charges it every other night.

Why buy your wife a $250 smartphone when she won't even use it? In order to only have to charge any smartphone every other night, then you literally have to just use it as a paper weight. Honestly, you could save $250 and get her a free feature phone which would be just fine for her.

Ok, normally she has to charge it about midway through the second day, my wifes phone habits aren't really the point though, stop trying to change the subject.

Through constant heavy use (me trying to run the battery down) I got 7 hours on it. That's fairly average for a smartphone.

It seems to last almost as long with heavy usage as light!

On the D1 heavy usage ran it down really fast as it taxed the processor. The TB last longer under heavy usage. But the TB sucks at an idle... No matter what the TB runs out in 10-14hrs. The D1 would last 20hrs for me. But with really heavy usage the D1 only lasted 6-7hrs.

So for heavy usage the TB is good on the battery. For light usage, its one of the worst phones ever in that regard.


With that being said, I just rooted yesterday and I'll see what some setCPU profiles can do.

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[alboboy10]

I'm getting the 2750 battery, yea it will look like a camel with a huge hump on its back but who cares...in the front it says 4G

 

[Dxun]

Amazing! My phone overnight with wifi drops almost 70% in 8 hours. That's no use just sitting idle. Your wifes phone lasts 48 hours? No way what you claim is possible.

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Obviously you have something updating in the background draining the battery. My phone only loses between 2% and 5% overnight...


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Any ideas how i could figure out what is draining my battery? Display is the only major draw when i look in battery use.

 

[motty69]

To everyone having a lot of battery drain during idle, disable auto-updating for everything you don't need, turn off the data connection when not in use and use wifi when at home.

Using these changes I'm getting great battery life. Took my phone off the charger at 5:00am, light to moderate use during the day, including streaming video, browsing the web and a lot of texting, left work at 64%. Went home, cooked dinner, played with the kids, etc, when I picked my phone back up (2hr later) I was at 63%.

I know some of you want to just leave everything on all the time to save yourself a few seconds, but I think I would rather spend a few seconds hitting a toggle than cutting my battery life in half.

Guess I should also note that I don't have 4G in my area yet, so I'm using the phone info tweek to run in CDMA auto mode.

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[CsonkaBear]

I didn't believe it. I didn't want to believe it. I turned off 4G and my battery is over 90% after almost 2 hours. In 4G it would have been around 70-75% at best.

I am going to keep it in 3G mode and I still have 11 days to take it back.

I hope they send us Gingerbread soon. Or a better battery.

Incredible2 is sounding better all the time.

 

[dfuser312553]

^Newz flash!

 

[CsonkaBear]

^Newz flash!

Huh? Clarification.

 

[dfuser312553]

^Newz flash!

Huh? Clarification.

Sorry thinking more than typing. I was referring to you saying that when you turned off the second biggest drain on your battery your battery life got better.

 

[motty69]

^Newz flash!

Huh? Clarification.

I think that's his way of saying you stated the obvious. But still good info IMO.

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[shortsxit]

To everyone having a lot of battery drain during idle, disable auto-updating for everything you don't need, turn off the data connection when not in use and use wifi when at home.

Using these changes I'm getting great battery life. Took my phone off the charger at 5:00am, light to moderate use during the day, including streaming video, browsing the web and a lot of texting, left work at 64%. Went home, cooked dinner, played with the kids, etc, when I picked my phone back up (2hr later) I was at 63%.

I know some of you want to just leave everything on all the time to save yourself a few seconds, but I think I would rather spend a few seconds hitting a toggle than cutting my battery life in half.

Guess I should also note that I don't have 4G in my area yet, so I'm using the phone info tweek to run in CDMA auto mode.

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Yeah, I don't quite understand the people who are saying that turning off certain radios or widgets or whatever means you're not using it as a smartphone. I see no reason to keep things running that you aren't using. It just seems like a waste.