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Battery life? Is it really that bad?

Gizmodo and MobileCrunch have pretty much bashed the battery life to make it sound like if its not on the charger, it will die in a matter of an hour or three. For the people who got one from the I/O or other means. What do you get from the phone during a normal days usage? If its that bad, have you guys use SetCPU/Locale/App Killers etc? Thanks.

With light to moderate use, it lasts through the day. A bit worse than Nexus One in that respect, but not too bad.

Agree with sergey.povzner.
Android central had a great review on this. I have heard a mixed bag of battery life. Some sounded very good some didn't. But it's the most power smartphone out there so additional drain is expected.
http://www.androidcentral.com/review-sprint-htc-evo-4g-android-smartphone

It not as good as my n1 but its close. It gets a lot better with custom roms without sense.

Uptime 10:08:35
Awake time 1:46
I had it plugged into computer for about 25 mins to transfer a movie.
I have 80% battery left.
No bluetooth, no GPS, no WIFI.

I don't have anything extra except gmail and another account frequently syncing. I get 4-5 hours of browsing and email with 4g on or off, wifi off, gps off. Standby time doesn't seem to have significant effect though I'm sure it would be measurable if you left it in standby for a day. Adequate to get me though a day, but I hardly use voice.

What if you are watching full length movie on HTC Evo, how long will the battery last (especially if I put it on airplane mode)?
I am planning to switch from from Xperia X10i to HTC Evo. My x10 has the usual battery drain problem but I have controlled it with task killer. However, I am yet to run a full movie on it. If x10's battery life has more survival time (with task killer on it of course) then HTC Evo then I might think twice.
Also can the 'task killer' improve HTC Evo's battery life?

Does anyone know if the Evo uses the HTC Touch Pro size battery like the Hero?
If so then I've already got an external charger and three extra batteries!

Honestly if anyone is that worried about battery life get another battery as a backup. Its been said many times on these forums that a HTC Touch Pro 2 and also a HTC Hero all use the same batteries as the EVO. (Confirmed). You can pick them up on ebay for around 7 or 8$. Which is pretty cheap! Nothing better than having an extra juice pack laying around waiting to be used! Hope this helps somewhat

Stunna4life888 said:
Honestly if anyone is that worried about battery life get another battery as a backup. Its been said many times on these forums that a HTC Touch Pro 2 and also a HTC Hero all use the same batteries as the EVO. (Confirmed). You can pick them up on ebay for around 7 or 8$. Which is pretty cheap! Nothing better than having an extra juice pack laying around waiting to be used! Hope this helps somewhat
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LOL we posted at the same time, thanks for answering my question! I'll keep a backup in my glove box and one in my back pocket. This method worked great with my Hero.

danknee said:
LOL we posted at the same time, thanks for answering my question! I'll keep a backup in my glove box and one in my back pocket. This method worked great with my Hero.
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Great minds think a like. Ya man wont get to hot in that glove box either. Its always nice to have a little something extra especially when we will be showing this bad boy off 24/7 to anyone that wants to see it! Cant wait to "Officially" get mine lol. Im about 17 hrs and 3 minutes form my appt.

Stunna4life888 said:
Great minds think a like. Ya man wont get to hot in that glove box either. Its always nice to have a little something extra especially when we will be showing this bad boy off 24/7 to anyone that wants to see it! Cant wait to "Officially" get mine lol. Im about 17 hrs and 3 minutes form my appt.
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i'm so excited, wish I had an extra battery though, it'd be nice
8hrs 15min till i get mine!

Gotta say this thing blows my old Moment's battery out of the water... 4.5 hours hard and heavy use... 60% left - no 4G coverage area (but it was left on by accident - ooops) and no video watching, but heavy text, email, and facebook/twitter activity.

I ordered the extended slim battery from seidio.com. 1750 vs 1500. Should give a bit more in the long run.
Its been decent for me though. Just dont jack up your brightness, keep it on auto.

Wifi kills my battery. The signal never settles even though the coverage should be good all over my house.

You want to go into advanced wifi settings and change WiFi sleep policy to never otherwise your phone will shut off WiFi after 15 mins of screen being off and you'll be using 3g which will use a lot more battery.
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donatom3 said:
You want to go into advanced wifi settings and change WiFi sleep policy to never otherwise your phone will shut off WiFi after 15 mins of screen being off and you'll be using 3g which will use a lot more battery.
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Its already set to never.

Mybattery was pretty terrible. Lose 10% per 40 minutes on standby mode alone. After messing around with it for a while I discovered the culprit was the location services. I turned them off and now I lose about 2% per hour on standby.

tadda said:
Mybattery was pretty terrible. Lose 10% per 40 minutes on standby mode alone. After messing around with it for a while I discovered the culprit was the location services. I turned them off and now I lose about 2% per hour on standby.
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I'm curious, how exactly do you go about turning off the location services? Unless it's included with the GPS tab of the settings, I haven't been able to find such an option on my brother's Hero.

Mecha2142 said:
I'm curious, how exactly do you go about turning off the location services? Unless it's included with the GPS tab of the settings, I haven't been able to find such an option on my brother's Hero.
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It's under settings , location and then location setting. This does not disable the 911 location which is good.

no battery life with the 2.2 update

My battery made it to 1:00 o'clock today with the new 2.2 update that i did last night. It normally lasts till 11 - 12 at night. Whats up with that?
FYI - All the same apps,widgets, and settings
**UPDATE**
Doing a factory reset fixed the problem for me!!

opie2l said:
My battery made it to 1:00 o'clock today with the new 2.2 update that i did last night. It normally lasts till 11 - 12 at night. Whats up with that?
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Strange, I'm sitting at 75% after 5 hours off the charger and using it for moderate text usage (probably less than 80 messages today). Usually around this time it's sitting closer to 60%.

i have the .3 update and went from about 24 hours to about 8-10 hours. Battery life cut in half. My friend who has .3 is having same issue too. So much for increasing battery life.

formulabird said:
i have the .3 update and went from about 24 hours to about 8-10 hours. Battery life cut in half. My friend who has .3 is having same issue too. So much for increasing battery life.
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Wow. Have you searched the forum to see if anyone else has the same issue? If not I hope it's not an isolated incident. Then again if it's isolated maybe you can get support on it better...? Good luck finding a solution.

You gave us zero information to help you. So thus, you will not get any help.
There are about a billion threads on here about battery life and how to tweak it. When you flashed 2.2 you will need to do those steps again.

yeah some people are reporting bad battery life after update. most people i know are on .3. don't know if .6 fixes this hopefully we get update soon

I did a test last night. Dropped 13% between 1130 and 3:30am With wifi on (got up cause of baby), then only 10% between 330 and 8am with wifi off. So a drop of only 23% overnight.
That's with one exchange account, one gmail account (both syncing as items arrive), htc news set to not sync, but newsdesk and feedr both syncing. Facebook for htc set to sync contacts only.
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I had the same issue on all 2.2 ROMs I tried.. i am now going through the apps one at a time to see which one is the issue.
right now I am 7 hours in and sitting at 75% very light use ( read about 7 emails, 5 new articles and little to no Web surfing). installed 10s so far other than the standard with Fresh latest ROM that is.

I've actually had very good battery life, I'm running the .3 release. Battery life for me has been very comparable to running Baked Snack 9.6, with its underclocking/undervolting power save features. Moderate use of the phone for 8 hours (wifi, browsing websites here and there, one navigation route, texting, bunch of short phone calls, playing some games), my battery was around 65 or so, same as I had before for similar usage.
I did do a full wipe though, and haven't calibrated my battery since updating.

Aridon said:
You gave us zero information to help you. So thus, you will not get any help.
There are about a billion threads on here about battery life and how to tweak it. When you flashed 2.2 you will need to do those steps again.
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I am just stating a observation on my part. And i know all the little tricks of how to get better battery life. But like i said, before the update i was getting a full day of battery and now after the update i am getting half. With the same settings and the usage on my part.

opie2l said:
I am just stating a observation on my part. And i know all the little tricks of how to get better battery life. But like i said, before the update i was getting a full day of battery and now after the update i am getting half. With the same settings and the usage on my part.
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maybe because some of the htc sync stuff that you might have disabled before re-enabled.
Check that.
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diomark said:
maybe because some of the htc sync stuff that you might have disabled before re-enabled.
Check that.
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Yeah, i already went through all the settings last night.

Aridon said:
You gave us zero information to help you. So thus, you will not get any help.
There are about a billion threads on here about battery life and how to tweak it. When you flashed 2.2 you will need to do those steps again.
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This is not directed at you personally, but at the words you chose to use:
I am sick and tired of "tweaks and settings and cutting things off." I used them and got over 30 hours on both DamageControl and Fresh.
I paid Sprint/HTC good money for this awesome phone (and am committed to pay them a whole lot more over the course of the next 22 months).
While I can understand the 4G thing, why should I have to cut off Data-WiFi-Bluetooth, power down the CPU, not use it a lot in order to get... in short, drive it like a Toyota Prius when then phone is billed as a Maserati? Why should I have to try out this app and that app(Overclock widget, SetCPU, System Manager, Task Killer, Autostarts etc which all use battery too) in order to get the phone to do what it should have done on June 4, 2010?
Most of the battery draining apps and widgets come pre-loaded with sense (i.e. the Favorite widget, Friendstream etc). Why should I have to resort to rooting my phone or not using it in order to get the thing to last all day?
I'm keeping my EVO cause I love the device, but maybe Sprint/HTC need a little of the medicine that Jobs/Apple is getting in the form of lawsuits due to over-promising/under-delivering.
/off_my_soap_box

You should send that rant to HTC and Sprint... I think we all stand behind you on that one.

there are lots of reasons a battery might not last. there are way to many tweaks out there which is why you have to do it yourself.
First set the phone up like you normally have it and test the battery life. if you can live with it your good. if not start looking at the settings. Read the tweaks but don't just take them as golden as everyone is different and uses their phone different. Ask yourself if you real need that setting. (I like my screen time out at 2 min. do I need it NO 1 min is fine). When done with the settings move to the apps. load the flat ROM no apps and run for a hour and track your battery life. then add the apps 1 at a time or in small groups and let run an hour and track. there are was if find what apps are using the CPU or Battery but many do this normally and yet don't effect the battery much. Only way i have found is old school add them one at a time. When you find a bad one decide if you need it or can find a replacement.
I am done with Sense as Launcher Pro Plus is awesome and now with the only Widget I was missing (Calendar). Once I done going through my app list I will create a new thread in General to list the bad application I found unless someone else has or does before I done that is.

From what I have gathered from using .3 that apps auto sync/update on their own now with "always on mobile data" turned off. if you use advanced task killer, do a kill of all apps then turn the screen off. If you wait for a few minutes and turn the screen back on you will notice that apps like news, messages, Twitter, Facebook clock, weather and others will be active. From what I gather the decrease in battery life is from apps like those will send/receive data on 2.2 while on 2.1 apps would not update/sync until you manually refreshed or opened the app, as long as you didn't have "always on mobile data" enabled.
Edit: this reason is why I uninstalled fring. Just too bad I cannot uninstalled qik.

trojandnc said:
This is not directed at you personally, but at the words you chose to use:
I am sick and tired of "tweaks and settings and cutting things off." I used them and got over 30 hours on both DamageControl and Fresh.
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It is a mini-computer. You don't use it like a "phone" anymore. You shouldn't expect more than 15-20 hours on it. Do you get angry when your laptop runs out of life after 5-6 hours? If you don't want to do tweaks, then don't. Keep a micro-USB at your desk at work and charge it there. I, myself, enjoy rooting so I don't mind tweaking it. I also get 30 hours of life on it due to this. If you don't like to do that, you get what you put into it.
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I paid Sprint/HTC good money for this awesome phone (and am committed to pay them a whole lot more over the course of the next 22 months).
While I can understand the 4G thing, why should I have to cut off Data-WiFi-Bluetooth, power down the CPU, not use it a lot in order to get... in short, drive it like a Toyota Prius when then phone is billed as a Maserati? Why should I have to try out this app and that app(Overclock widget, SetCPU, System Manager, Task Killer, Autostarts etc which all use battery too) in order to get the phone to do what it should have done on June 4, 2010?
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Again, you have unrealistic expectations for a smart phone it seems. All I have is Set CPU running on my phone with Fresh 3.0.1 and works just fine. I still use my phone like a "Maserati", it just lowers the CPU when the screen is powered off. That is like saying you want your car to idle when you get home at night until the next morning. It doesn't change how you drive it, just how you store it in the garage.
trojandnc said:
Most of the battery draining apps and widgets come pre-loaded with sense (i.e. the Favorite widget, Friendstream etc). Why should I have to resort to rooting my phone or not using it in order to get the thing to last all day?
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You don't have to use them though. You can remove friendstream and go with either the twitter or FB update app or go without either and just check facebook like anyone else. As far as favorites go, you don't have to use that either. You can just make shortcuts to each person's phone number on that same screen if you think that is sucking all your battery life. There are always other options or fixes, but again you expect the phone to come out of the box perfect without any customization. You are getting away from what Android really is. Something tells me the Iphone would have been more your liking since it is built around lack of true customization. This isn't a rip, but just saying if you want cookie cutter phone reliability, it is hard to beat Apple. If you want the ability to tinker with the phone, the power to change things, and the power to make your phone yours, then that is more Android.
trojandnc said:
I'm keeping my EVO cause I love the device, but maybe Sprint/HTC need a little of the medicine that Jobs/Apple is getting in the form of lawsuits due to over-promising/under-delivering.
/off_my_soap_box
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I can understand your frustration, but nothing was ever promised to us on purchase. I don't remember anywhere seeing something saying the battery would last 30+ hours out of the box. Apple had an actual structural issue with their phone, that is why they had the lawsuits and PR nightmare. This is just the phone doing what most would probably expect(at least anyone who had a G1 or Hero or any of the earlier Android phones). You love the device enough to keep it even with your frustration, something tells me it works quite well for you. But I have yet to see any over-promising/under-delivering on the Evo myself.
And no, I don't work for Sprint or HTC. And no offense meant to you as a person, just I didn't understand your motives on your frustration. Guess we will have different opinions on the Evo so far.

diomark said:
maybe because some of the htc sync stuff that you might have disabled before re-enabled.
Check that.
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I had the same battery problem after updating to 2.2. After 3 hours my battery was at 50%. Normally it'd be at 50% after 9 to 10 hours of usage.
I did find that some settings had been reset. Once I turned off all the crap syncing, gtalk logging in, Sprint Zone, etc my battery usage has seemed to flatten out.
I made it an hour and only dropped 2% which is much more like it. This is all with very little usage going on.

Buy a new battery! Best solution!
No joda!
Sent from my EVO!

very funny just pluged my phone in using flipz newest after 19 hours
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Froyo (2.2) Increased My Battery Life

I know one of the major concerns regarding the EVO has been the battery life. It was the reason that I rooted my phone in the first place, granting me the ability to rip out bloatware to conserve battery life. It wasn't until Saturday that I got around to noticing the rooted version of the official 2.2 release. All I did was download the ROM and delete all the apks/odexes I didn't want from the zip file, load it, charge my battery. Currently, I've been going almost 70 hours and am still at 60% battery life under normal use. That's a significant increase. The best I ever got was after the rooted second OTA at about 40 hours pushing the battery down to about 10%. Have other people been seeing battery life increases like this?

No, we have not. Quit bragging..

Serious? Experiment with more use of battery life
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I have noticed better battery life but not as good as you say. I've tried many different roms and kernels also.

do you actually use your phone on a daily basis? do you have any emails being synched? gmail? exchange? do you use facebook? browse the internet every 4-6 hours to see whats news on BGR or usatoday/cnn? do you text msg.. etc etc
if i leave my phone sitting i can have great battery life too, don't get me wrong i'm not trying to bash you, just trying to understand how you use phone so i can guage if this can apply to me. i know people who haven't installed one single app on their evo yet, usuage is different for everyone.....

Did you say 70 hours? Is that a typo? That's 2.916666666666666666666667 days and you've only dropped 40% battery life?

IceCreaMan said:
do you actually use your phone on a daily basis? do you have any emails being synched? gmail? exchange? do you use facebook? browse the internet every 4-6 hours to see whats news on BGR or usatoday/cnn? do you text msg.. etc etc
if i leave my phone sitting i can have great battery life too, don't get me wrong i'm not trying to bash you, just trying to understand how you use phone so i can guage if this can apply to me. i know people who haven't installed one single app on their evo yet, usuage is different for everyone.....
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I was super nervous when I suggested the evo to my aunt's family over the iphone 4. AT&T doesn't even have 3g where they live though. Asked them if they had any battery issues with their 4 evo's and they looked me like I was crazy. Then I found out that they all only had like 1 app installed. They get great battery life on their stock 2.2 phones. If I play around with my phone, and I do, I usually am riding the red line by the end of the day.
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I don't use my phone that much for phone calls, actually. Several hundred texts a month, several megs of data a month. It's synched with gmail, I have a separate phone for everything else (work). At work I'm always on 3G, at home wifi. The only time it's not actively connected to a network is when I'm sleeping (sleep profile is only for the alarm). Outside of synching, I use the internet for random browsing periodically, usually sports related, or anytime I'm not at home or work and want information.
When I put this ROM on, I stripped out over 60 files from the zip file (almost 20megs) and only installed about 8 apps that I use regularly. After I configure my phone for all my settings, I remove all the widgets everywhere and setup just three screens with my widgets.
Even though I'm in Dallas, I rarely use 4G (the higher wavelength doesn't penetrate well in the urban areas I work or live in), only turn on GPS when I'm using Google Maps to drive around, and never have both wifi and 3G (Mobile) on simultaneously. I have my profiles setup so that the only time my screen brightness is above 0 is when I'm in my car or on a need basis (separate Bright profile).
I probably would have rooted my phone eventually but I did it about the third day I owned it because of the battery life. Most of the settings and ways I use the phone revolve around making sure I don't tax the battery. My real goal was being able to leave home for more than a day and not having to worry about minimizing my usage of anything, and now it seems I've easily done that.

jdh012400 said:
I know one of the major concerns regarding the EVO has been the battery life. It was the reason that I rooted my phone in the first place, granting me the ability to rip out bloatware to conserve battery life. It wasn't until Saturday that I got around to noticing the rooted version of the official 2.2 release. All I did was download the ROM and delete all the apks/odexes I didn't want from the zip file, load it, charge my battery. Currently, I've been going almost 70 hours and am still at 60% battery life under normal use. That's a significant increase. The best I ever got was after the rooted second OTA at about 40 hours pushing the battery down to about 10%. Have other people been seeing battery life increases like this?
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Hey I did not even know you could get that much time out of a single charge.... I am going at least 17 hrs before empty but thats enough for me in a full day. Hey honestly a car charger is on $13 at Walmart.

well i tried the "shut the phone off" mod and ive been getting weeks of use out of my phone on a single charge.
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[BUG] Battery woes ;( ... tracking down Apps & Services Draining the Battery

The two screenshots below say it all. I didn't really tax my phone that much.
Facebook is set to update every hour (while pushing messages to me too)
Twitter is set to update every 15 minutes
Sync was on full blast
Had only two long voice calls throughout the day (1h:30min)
Screen brightness set to lowest all day
Q: Why did my battery go UP when it wasn't on a charger all day until now?
Q: Why did my battery get used LESS when it was awake more later on the day?
Q: Is this chart no longer reliable?
PS: I tried an experiment in which I turned sync and background data off at night and I checked this chart in the morning. My "Awake" state would flux at night. What's going on that's keeping my phone awake besides cell standby?

BlindWolf8 said:
The two screenshots below say it all. I didn't really tax my phone that much.
Facebook is set to update every hour (while pushing messages to me too)
Twitter is set to update every 15 minutes
Sync was on full blast
Had only two long voice calls throughout the day (1h:30min)
Screen brightness set to lowest all day
Q: Why did my battery go UP when it wasn't on a charger all day until now?
Q: Why did my battery get used LESS when it was awake more later on the day?
Q: Is this chart no longer reliable?
PS: I tried an experiment in which I turned sync and background data off at night and I checked this chart in the morning. My "Awake" state would flux at night. What's going on that's keeping my phone awake besides cell standby?
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Sorry to intrude on your thread but regarding Facebook and its push notifications, those are independent of the notification settings? I have notifications turned off but i still get push notifications some times, not all the time but some

slowz3r said:
Sorry to intrude on your thread but regarding Facebook and its push notifications, those are independent of the notification settings? I have notifications turned off but i still get push notifications some times, not all the time but some
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No problem at all. I'm actually wondering that myself. I seem to get them at a random interval (haven't been tracking) but it's definitely more often than one hour at a time. I don't see any setting to adjust when the app checks for new notifications. It's all very strange.

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No problem at all. I'm actually wondering that myself. I seem to get them at a random interval (haven't been tracking) but it's definitely more often than one hour at a time. I don't see any setting to adjust when the app checks for new notifications. It's all very strange.
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doesnt really bug me, i turn update interveal off itself turning notifications off to try and save some battery cuz im anal like that No big deal i just didnt know if i was the only one

Battery woes ;( ... tracking down faulty Apps
Here are my first two days of use. I had auto-brightness on, and I kept on wifi when I was in range. I got pretty solid life (better than my EVO on CM6.1.1). You can see I used it fairly frequently throughout both days:

I don't have the stats to back it up but I have seen a considerable increase in battery life over my N1.

By the way, is the second battery stats screen new to Gingerbread? I don't remember it in Froyo, and I like it.

TheBiles said:
By the way, is the second battery stats screen new to Gingerbread? I don't remember it in Froyo, and I like it.
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Yes
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Would you happen to have looked at the actual screen on time? Over the course of owning my Vibrant gathered that I can get about 2 and a half hours of actual use out of the phone on a single charge. I'm curious about the Nexus S.

regP said:
Would you happen to have looked at the actual screen on time? Over the course of owning my Vibrant gathered that I can get about 2 and a half hours of actual use out of the phone on a single charge. I'm curious about the Nexus S.
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I would like to know the same thing but from what I have seem so far it looks to be the same as vibrant.

regP said:
Would you happen to have looked at the actual screen on time? Over the course of owning my Vibrant gathered that I can get about 2 and a half hours of actual use out of the phone on a single charge. I'm curious about the Nexus S.
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I'll give it a look tonight.

regP said:
Would you happen to have looked at the actual screen on time? Over the course of owning my Vibrant gathered that I can get about 2 and a half hours of actual use out of the phone on a single charge. I'm curious about the Nexus S.
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Wow, that sucks. I can get at least 6-7 hours of constant use out of mine(screen on time use), so long as it's not gaming or other real heavy cpu intensive programs. I average 14 hours a day. Not bad for the nexus.
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Right now I'm at 32 minutes of screen-on time with 84% remaining.

Mine is not charging to 100% it gets to like 95% and stays there. U guys?
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I've noticed the battery is quite good as well, but for some reason Google Maps (latest version) is using a lot of wake time... its pegged at 20% of battery, right under display which is only 25%, and the wake time says over an hour! Pretty sure google maps on my other phones didn't act like this...

ajftl said:
Mine is not charging to 100% it gets to like 95% and stays there. U guys?
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Yeah, mine only goes up to 97% usually. You can "top it off" by unplugging when it gets to 100%, re-plugging, and repeating a few times.

This may be very hard to believe, but I got 34 hours on one complete charge. I always have the brightness on full blast too. Of course, that was on very few phone calls, but lots of downloading and text messaging though. The best I ever got on the Nexus One was 26 hours.

TheBiles said:
Yeah, mine only goes up to 97% usually. You can "top it off" by unplugging when it gets to 100%, re-plugging, and repeating a few times.
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I noticed that too the first time I charged it. I powered the phone off then rebooted and it started charging again.

dinan said:
I've noticed the battery is quite good as well, but for some reason Google Maps (latest version) is using a lot of wake time... its pegged at 20% of battery, right under display which is only 25%, and the wake time says over an hour! Pretty sure google maps on my other phones didn't act like this...
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Do you have it set for navigation? That stays on even when you switch to another app.

Help, google voice update sucked my battery dry.
I just installed a google voice update on my NS. After I installed it I notice a big drop in my battery, and soon there after my battery was dead. Any ideas why?? I have since removed the update, and everything seems back to normal.

PSA for T-Mobile Priv users

Hey guys! I hope you're all enjoying your new Priv! I got mine on release day, so I've been tinkering with it since I got it. A few things bothered me about the device: the battery would take forever to charge, even using a Qualcomm certified quick charger, and the battery would drain abnormally fast. Even with no apps running, Antutu would only score 40,000 to 50,000 and 800/2500 in Geekbench.
I found out that the T-Mobile MyAccount app was always running in the background and took up 6% of my phone's battery, just above android OS. After I disabled that app, I found that a full charge would only take about an hour, versus the 2 hours it took before. Battery life also skyrocketed from about 8 hours to 14+. Antutu scores went up to 60,000 to 67,000 (I tested several times) and Geekbench now consistently scores 1200/3500 for me. The phone also doesn't get NEARLY as hot as it used to.
One other thing I did was to change all my accounts in the hub to sync every 15 minutes instead of push, which also seemed to help with the battery life. Hope this info helps you turn your Priv into the best phone it can be!

Zer0.exe said:
Hey guys! I hope you're all enjoying your new Priv! I got mine on release day, so I've been tinkering with it since I got it. A few things bothered me about the device: the battery would take forever to charge, even using a Qualcomm certified quick charger, and the battery would drain abnormally fast. Even with no apps running, Antutu would only score 40,000 to 50,000 and 800/2500 in Geekbench.
I found out that the T-Mobile MyAccount app was always running in the background and took up 6% of my phone's battery, just above android OS. After I disabled that app, I found that a full charge would only take about an hour, versus the 2 hours it took before. Battery life also skyrocketed from about 8 hours to 14+. Antutu scores went up to 60,000 to 67,000 (I tested several times) and Geekbench now consistently scores 1200/3500 for me. The phone also doesn't get NEARLY as hot as it used to.
One other thing I did was to change all my accounts in the hub to sync every 15 minutes instead of push, which also seemed to help with the battery life. Hope this info helps you turn your Priv into the best phone it can be!
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I heard that some people on Blackberry forums were reporting that T-Mobile My Account app could/is causing battery drainage. I didn't like my account app showing me notifications and went to options in that app and remove all the check marks from the there. I had no issues with battery, but as a precaution I always disable apps that I never use.

Thanks for the heads-up. Finally picked one up today and felt that it did indeed heat up quicker than it should and definitely wasn't charging as fast as I thought it should be. Hopefully this helps!

My Priv's battery has been an utter nightmare - gonna give this a shot. Have you noticed any adverse effects from disabling the app? My main concern is if BingeOn will still work. I'm okay with not being able to disable it (not a big video guy) but free music streaming is super important to me - streaming music at work constantly during an 8hr shift, in the car during my commute... yeah, I need that.
And, before anyone says anything, it's not the music streaming doing it. In fact, the battery seems almost better when I'm doing that since I've just got the phone sitting in my pocket. Wakelocks are an absolute nuisance though - "awake" time is well over 10x SoT.

Trevorq243 said:
My Priv's battery has been an utter nightmare - gonna give this a shot. Have you noticed any adverse effects from disabling the app? My main concern is if BingeOn will still work. I'm okay with not being able to disable it (not a big video guy) but free music streaming is super important to me - streaming music at work constantly during an 8hr shift, in the car during my commute... yeah, I need that.
And, before anyone says anything, it's not the music streaming doing it. In fact, the battery seems almost better when I'm doing that since I've just got the phone sitting in my pocket. Wakelocks are an absolute nuisance though - "awake" time is well over 10x SoT.
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BingeOn doesn't require any T-Mobile bloat to run. It's handled on the network side, not on the device itself. Also, unless they recently changed something, you don't need BingeOn enabled to get free music streaming. Music streaming is free regardless.

Thanks for that. So far the Priv is doing a fine job keeping itself alive now that app is gone. Nice to know I won't be blowing past my data allowance. I'm new to T-Mobile and so far, so good. Well, other than their app destroying my phone of course.

Trevorq243 said:
Thanks for that. So far the Priv is doing a fine job keeping itself alive now that app is gone. Nice to know I won't be blowing past my data allowance. I'm new to T-Mobile and so far, so good. Well, other than their app destroying my phone of course.
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You'll get all that bloat with any carrier
I do want to point out that the Priv does an awesome job of standby. It makes sense that a 2K screen could drain the battery quickly, but I've gone 9 hours with only 40% drain when I barely use it, so it stays alive well when you aren't actively using it. I was also streaming music the whole time, but since the screen itself was off it saved my battery.

Zer0.exe said:
You'll get all that bloat with any carrier
I do want to point out that the Priv does an awesome job of standby. It makes sense that a 2K screen could drain the battery quickly, but I've gone 9 hours with only 40% drain when I barely use it, so it stays alive well when you aren't actively using it. I was also streaming music the whole time, but since the screen itself was off it saved my battery.
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Yep, that's been my experience. On for ~16 hours with 3hrs SoT. Not bad, really. I wouldn't mind a little more longevity but hey, that's what power banks are for.

Here's my own battery experience. I only removed the t-mobile apps and using Facebook on chrome and not the app. I'm a moderate user 2.5 hrs of on screen time!

cronojay said:
Here's my own battery experience. I only removed the t-mobile apps and using Facebook on chrome and not the app. I'm a moderate user 2.5 hrs of on screen time!
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The screen is a killer on this device, but it shouldn't be quite that bad. Are all your BlackBerry apps up to date? Some people have to manually check for updates for some reason.
Also, I disabled every T-Mobile app except visual voicemail. No idea if that'll help or not but it's worth a shot.
Finally, how long have you had the device? Phones always seem screwy battery-life wise during the first few days, regardless of system health.

I disabled all bloatware, this phone dies WAYYYYY to fast compare to my prior note 5.
I really dont, but i'll need to trade back in this phone if I don't get this solved. A man needs a phone with a battery!

Trevorq243 said:
The screen is a killer on this device, but it shouldn't be quite that bad. Are all your BlackBerry apps up to date? Some people have to manually check for updates for some reason.
Also, I disabled every T-Mobile app except visual voicemail. No idea if that'll help or not but it's worth a shot.
Finally, how long have you had the device? Phones always seem screwy battery-life wise during the first few days, regardless of system health.
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How about this one for a little bit over 2 weeks and so far it's been phenomenal for me 1 degrees in love with a good battery life is I disabled Facebook and I just use the web to look at Facebook so that save my battery by at least 20%.

techprint said:
I disabled all bloatware, this phone dies WAYYYYY to fast compare to my prior note 5.
I really dont, but i'll need to trade back in this phone if I don't get this solved. A man needs a phone with a battery!
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Other than battery life, how are you liking the switch? I like but don't love my note 5. I hadn't had a note since the original version, but I'm finding again that I just don't use the spen. I'm thinking about jumping back into a blackberry with keyboard.
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crawldit said:
Other than battery life, how are you liking the switch? I like but don't love my note 5. I hadn't had a note since the original version, but I'm finding again that I just don't use the spen. I'm thinking about jumping back into a blackberry with keyboard.
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I'll take back what I previously wrote, as of yesterday I managed to get 24 hours on phone battery. at standby this phone doesn't use any sort of battery, I killed 20 percent in 40 mins on youtube though..
Going to give it a solid week, if not i'll return it and hopefully pick up the new s7 if release by then. I was on the same boat as you, got tired of the note and just wanted a switch. I'll keep checking back leaving my reviews here

techprint said:
I'll take back what I previously wrote, as of yesterday I managed to get 24 hours on phone battery. at standby this phone doesn't use any sort of battery, I killed 20 percent in 40 mins on youtube though..
Going to give it a solid week, if not i'll return it and hopefully pick up the new s7 if release by then. I was on the same boat as you, got tired of the note and just wanted a switch. I'll keep checking back leaving my reviews here
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I'll second this - screen off, next to zero battery used. Screen on, battery tanks like crazy. I think I'm gonna stick with it though I'm tempted to give the V10 a shot - I need a tough phone and this most certainly is not.