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Tips to Help Improve Battery Life on ThunderBolt
- Thread starter guitarchris123
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Here's a write up I did on battery life for Droid X, alot of it should still be applicable to the thunderbolt;
How to Optimize Battery Life & Speed
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How to Optimize Battery Life & Speed
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3G and 1x here, no WiFi.
Javaknight
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I was playing with my phone all day yesterday but turned off all wireless whenever not in use and just for chuckles didn't charge the phone overnight - and it still had a charge this morning! I'll have to see if this continues but so far not having a bad battery experience...
I'm in 3G, and I'm getting the same battery life that I would get on my OG rooted droid. I went 7.5 hours yesterday, screen on 2 hours, was around 50-60% battery life. Bluetooth/wifi/sync off, gps on, brightness on auto. I was doing speed tests against my friends iphone, running facebook, and a lot of texting. I think the main culprit to all of these problems is the 4G. Once they come up with a switch to turn it off, I bet all of these battery issues will be gone. Its still not going to have great battery life but I bet it won't be anywhere near like the problems everyone is having now.After my spring break I go back to a 4G area and I'll see how it effects my phone and if I get different battery life.
I am in LTE most of the time. WiFi @ home. Work we have T1s so the speed is horrible for Wifi.
I can tell you I put my phone on charge with fat battery all night. At about 4AM I unplugged, turned it off and plugged it back in. I let it charge for about 2hours, then I turned it back on.
With Facebook, email, texting, a couple of video and pic uploads and some bluetooth, the battery is still at 90% as of 11:20AM. I've been using it since 6 or 7AM.
And I've only had the phone since Friday.
I hate the fatness of the phone now...but I like using it...so fatty daddy it is.
I can tell you I put my phone on charge with fat battery all night. At about 4AM I unplugged, turned it off and plugged it back in. I let it charge for about 2hours, then I turned it back on.
With Facebook, email, texting, a couple of video and pic uploads and some bluetooth, the battery is still at 90% as of 11:20AM. I've been using it since 6 or 7AM.
And I've only had the phone since Friday.
I hate the fatness of the phone now...but I like using it...so fatty daddy it is.
Could be although I'm seeing weird drops I'll have to check over time. I don't know that there is a solution but we didn't buy the phone to turn off 4G now, did we? It's hard to believe the Thunderbolt has a smaller capacity battery than the EVO and is more powerful. Perhaps an incentive not to use 4G? We need something that turns off 4G for non-browser activities, e.g. mail checking etc. Still no excuse. As Motorola did, perhaps a larger capacity battery is the solution.
Yeah, your right. It uses battery the way it should, the problem is the pitiful battery. I think that comes with this being the first 4G phone on verizons LTE, and did verizon really know how it was gonna act as far as battery goes? Maybe they weren't expecting this kind of drain, and it was too late to change batteries in the production phase. Not sure exactly how it works. But yeah, on 3G I can't complain and maybe once I get too 4G I'll have a different opinion. I sure hope htc/verizon helps us and either gives an update to optimize it for us or at least give us a nice 1800 battery option for us.
Alright guys. I need serious help. Mine keeps getting worse and worse. Around 3am I went to bed with the phone at shot 80% I woke up at 930 to find it totally dead. In my room it is on 4G but never searching for signal. Night before last I left it unplugged all night and it only dropped 20% or so. I noticed yesterday that it was stuff a lot faster than before especially when it was on idle. Today after I had my phone plugged in I went trgh ny email while the radio was still off. Then again when the radio was back on. So I'm assuming by email stamp times t died between 4 and 5 am, just two hours after t was at 80% what should I do?
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I may have to even modify my words... it may be worse than I thought. This is not the first time:
- 100% charge after bump charging twice
- Took off charger, viewed 10 pictures, deleted 2, sent 2 with gmail
- Phone now at 90%
I have no idea what is going on. I do have k9 installed checking email every 10 minutes on one account, per hour on the 5 others. Even if it checked all the emails once, there is no explanation for this.
His only recommendation - bring it into a store.BigMcGuire
Active Member
I just hope these updates coming out next week will help the battery life issue.
CsonkaBear
Member
Any details on the updates?