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im on my 3rd hero now. the first had dust, the second would not update the profile or provision. ive had my new one for 3 days now and the battery life is horrid, even with an extended 2000mAH battery. i had the phone fully charged this morning and within 2 hours without any use it was down to 93% while sleeping? i went ahead and disabled auto syncing, changed my yahoo email to sync at 1 hour intervals instead of every 10 minutes and uninstalled some apps to see if there is a difference. it's been off charge since 4am and now it's sitting at 80% with very light usage and no calls today. is this normal or should i notify sprint? by the way im using the pancake 1.5 rom, usually i had pretty decent battery life until now.
if it"s the phone i know i can know request another phone model since id be going on my 4th replacement, i love the hero but im tired of sprint and there problematic phones. ill request a new moment or a new tp2. worse comes to worse in may my wife and i will leave sprint and go to t-mobile, i hear they don't check credit there to activate new service.
any thoughts guys?
nevermind, I should do more reading before posting sometimes
Did you initially prep your battery by allowing it to fully discharge and recharge before relying on the battery indicator?
Las_Vegas said:
Did you initially prep your battery by allowing it to fully discharge and recharge before relying on the battery indicator?
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the battery is like 2 months old, initially i did, yes. like i said this is my 3rd hero, my last one was running the same rom and the battery life was much better. damn sprint and their refurbished "new" phones.
I'm running ZenHero and I unplugged my phone at about 730 this morning..and as it sits right now im at 50% with syncing set to every hour
smoother2010 said:
im on my 3rd hero now. the first had dust, the second would not update the profile or provision. ive had my new one for 3 days now and the battery life is horrid, even with an extended 2000mAH battery. i had the phone fully charged this morning and within 2 hours without any use it was down to 93% while sleeping? i went ahead and disabled auto syncing, changed my yahoo email to sync at 1 hour intervals instead of every 10 minutes and uninstalled some apps to see if there is a difference. it's been off charge since 4am and now it's sitting at 80% with very light usage and no calls today. is this normal or should i notify sprint? by the way im using the pancake 1.5 rom, usually i had pretty decent battery life until now.
if it"s the phone i know i can know request another phone model since id be going on my 4th replacement, i love the hero but im tired of sprint and there problematic phones. ill request a new moment or a new tp2. worse comes to worse in may my wife and i will leave sprint and go to t-mobile, i hear they don't check credit there to activate new service.
any thoughts guys?
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You need to keep getting replacements until you find one that works fine. Also, the ROM you're running can contribute to battery. If you're on a Sprint leak rom, make sure to do the *#*#4636#*#* trick.
scriz said:
I'm running ZenHero and I unplugged my phone at about 730 this morning..and as it sits right now im at 50% with syncing set to every hour
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well yeah the 2.1 roms have worse battery life, im running 1.5 without sense installed. not sure if it's a good comparison. im just trying to figure out if this is normal or if i should call sprint?
Check for common things like time without signal and awake time.
I have my email, twitter, fb, weather, etc. set to check fairly often and they seem to do little to battery life.
My phone comes off the charger at 7:15-7:30 am and is used as a music player for the majority of my 8-9 hours at work, I tend to send about 10-20 texts a day and spend about a half to hour on the phone, by the time I am heading out the battery is usually at 60% or so, some days it is lower some it is higher, right now at 3:45pm the battery is at 73%. On avg the battery is at about 30% when I go to bed at midnight.
Currently running Fresh 2.1d w/ lwp
smoother2010 said:
well yeah the 2.1 roms have worse battery life, im running 1.5 without sense installed. not sure if it's a good comparison. im just trying to figure out if this is normal or if i should call sprint?
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Ahh..ya my nandroid is 0.1 Pancake with sense and i usually get a full day and I'm at about 25-30%.
Honestly..you are better off with a hero. I came from a moment and a tp2 and neither were "my cup of tea". The moment is plagued with bad support from Samsung and the tp2 while a nice phone..I used it after coming from an android phone and was disappointed in what WM6.5 did not have when compared to Android.
HeroMeng said:
You need to keep getting replacements until you find one that works fine. Also, the ROM you're running can contribute to battery. If you're on a Sprint leak rom, make sure to do the *#*#4636#*#* trick.
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what trick?
I am running damage 2.0.7.2.8.1.57.5783.5468.4.∞
I was up at 7 this morning, unplugged it first thing- its 15 til 5 PM here now.
I am at ~80% with moderate use. Downloaded about 10 Apps from the market, constant emails coming in (gamil and exchange), facebook, texting, 3 or 4 phone calls.
Wait..you are at 80% after 12 hours? I'd say consider yourself lucky...I'm not at 12 hours yet and im below 50% with just texting.
Kcarpenter said:
I am running damage 2.0.7.2.8.1.57.5783.5468.4.∞
I was up at 7 this morning, unplugged it first thing- its 15 til 5 PM here now.
I am at ~80% with moderate use. Downloaded about 10 Apps from the market, constant emails coming in (gamil and exchange), facebook, texting, 3 or 4 phone calls.
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good lord thats some nice performance there im assuming you get good reception?.....i unplug at 8am and i use my phone constantly at work texting browsing market, internet, prolly 20 mins worth of calls a day (ballpark) but by the time i get home at five im sittin at around 50-60%....im running matrix rom but its been about the same for all the newer 2.1 bulids TBH....i have two batterys because i hate being chained to a charger so aslong as i make it thru work im good and it surves its purpose
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Wait..you are at 80% after 12 hours? I'd say consider yourself lucky...I'm not at 12 hours yet and im below 50% with just texting.
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yeah but it's draining when im not even using the phone at all today, not even texting. this is also on an extended battery. i guess ill call sprint, they told me this was a new phone and it's a refurb...got over 579 calls made under my settings and it says it's a refurb date of 1/10/10. they flat out told me my replacement would be brand new, my 2nd one was.
scriz said:
Wait..you are at 80% after 12 hours? I'd say consider yourself lucky...I'm not at 12 hours yet and im below 50% with just texting.
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Don't worry, as soon as I hit the interstate on the way home it'll drop 30% just durring the drive, I think I roam the whole drive home. Then when I get there I have full 3G....stupid cell towers.
Ok I know this has got to be a JOKE thread. You are just messing with us right? If my phone was at 80% after 12 hours of light use I would be writing HTC and Sprint telling them how awesome they are. Tell me your just pulling everyone's leg.
redram38 said:
Ok I know this has got to be a JOKE thread. You are just messing with us right? If my phone was at 80% after 12 hours of light use I would be writing HTC and Sprint telling them how awesome they are. Tell me your just pulling everyone's leg.
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no it's not a joke thread, im asking you guys. i had better battery life with my last hero. it drained 20% without any use today. im asking if that's normal on a 2000mAh battery?
smoother2010 said:
no it's not a joke thread, im asking you guys. i had better battery life with my last hero. it drained 20% without any use today. im asking if that's normal on a 2000mAh battery?
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Without any use my battery is at ~50% after 12 hours on a normal battery. I don't think theres anything wrong with the phone, other than them lying to you and saying it was new.
if its that andida battery, I wouldnt be surprised.....mine seemed to last longer , until it hit 50% then it dropped 1% every 90 seconds
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no it's not a joke thread, im asking you guys. i had better battery life with my last hero. it drained 20% without any use today. im asking if that's normal on a 2000mAh battery?
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I took my phone off the Charger at 6:30am and it's now 2:30pm i'm currently at 70% battery.
this is with around 500+ texts a couple phone calls checking of emails updating a couple of APPs and running Google Buzz
Firmware: 2.1-update1 (sprint 2.1 leak)
Baseband: 2.42.00.03.10
Build: 2.20.321.1 CL157175 test-keys
Software: 2.20.651.1
PRL: 60663
and made sure i did *#*#4636#*#* and made sure it was on CDMA auto PRL
and have "Use Wireless Networks" turned off
Has anyone noticed a severe drop in battery life with the new over the air update? Since the new update my phone lasts around 12 hours before I'm running looking for a charger.
Yup, having the same problem and I can't figure out why.
Keep an eye on this post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=9931380#post9931380
Thanks topdawgn8, that seems like that is probably the issue. Unfortunately I am not rooted and it doesn't look like I can revert to an old PRI or software version w/out unlocking. =/
My friend actually had his evo battery die suddenly while it was on the charger after the OTA, he showed me a thread on sprintuser forums that showed several other people having the same problem.
He tried my battery and his phone worked again, his battery didn't work in mine, so his battery just completely died and would not charge, wouldn't boot up for more than a split second either.
He took it in today and asked them to replace the battery, they were out of stock and the sprint salesman gave him the battery out of an evo he was holding lol.
Battery life for me is about the same after the update, but my is phone completely stock.
I've been running EE03 since it was leaked.
The reason I stuck with it was because I saw EXCELLENT battery life (compared to SRF1.0.2. which I was running previusly) with the same usage (for me)..
Gingerbread was laggy at times, had some minute bugs that were tolerable (during my usage patterns) but I fell in love with the battery life.
On SRF 1.0.2 I would put my phone in airplane mode overnight to keep the battery from dying while i slept.. while it was a workaround (for me) it wasn't the most desirable solution.. I felt adventurous one night while on GB and left the phone sitting, no airplane mode, just to see how far the battery would drop compared to SRF... i only lost 5% overnight.. THAT was the ticket for me.. so i kept it and ran it.. haven't flashed a thing since.. no new apps, no new configurations.. it was working beautifully (as well as a leaked build could be expected to ) .. but it was very tolerable for me..
Until the last couple days... I noticed (all of a sudden) that while I'm sitting next to my computer, phone plugged in to charge before bed, the phone would disconnect/reconnect to the computer.. it would make that sound when you plug it in.. it would do this no matter what percent of charge it had.. for no rhyme or reason... I wiggled the cord in both the phone and computer in case the cord was to blame.. nothing.. i couldn't 'force replicate' this anomaly.. Further, at night around 4 in the morning the phone would vibrate and pop up that it was going to die, please plug in charger... the second night, I put the phone in airplane mode overnight and I STILL got the pop up at 3am that it was going to die...
So I decided (at 11:30) last night to ODIN back to EC05, then root w/ CWM 3.0.2.5. and flash SRF 1.1.1 .... I'll see how it goes.. hopefully battery life on this build is better than what I experienced on 1.0.2 lol...
Sorry for the long post.. I just wanted to share my frustration and see if anyone else had this weird anomaly w/ EE03.
/venting and pissing off the rest of XDA for long post
ive had the same problems with the disconnect/reconnect sound off. on top of what you have mentioned i have also had the problem of the phone being fully charged but showing the red charge light instead of the blue fully charged light. additionally the phone seems to get much more hot on this rom, i can simply be playing a game or something and the phone will get so hot that the charging is forced to be stopped, never had this problem untill the ee03,
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ive had the same problems with the disconnect/reconnect sound off. on top of what you have mentioned i have also had the problem of the phone being fully charged but showing the red charge light instead of the blue fully charged light. additionally the phone seems to get much more hot on this rom, i can simply be playing a game or something and the phone will get so hot that the charging is forced to be stopped, never had this problem untill the ee03,
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I had the same issues , I was worried my phones charging port might be damaged but a quick flash back to srf proved it was the EE03 rom
Besides that, everything ran perfectly for me.
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I've had problems with the phone not charging all the way. It will show 100% charge and then stop charging. When you unplug, it then shows the actual battery level, which has been as low as 35%. I've tried lots of things like wiping battery stats, but it keeps happening randomly.
EE03 is still fairly buggy. Some days my battery life is fantastic. Other days, it drains like a sieve. Even when I have fairly similar issues. Seems to correspond to how "hot" the phone is running that day. Also, phone calls just eat battery life.
going back to EC05 too... gonna be a long few weeks (hopefully only that). Awesome, just too hot, buggy, and I get PISSPOOR battery life.... but I have horrible reception at home, and even using roam control it still sucks down the juice. Also, I cant remember, is the settings process supposed to be permanenty running??? mine is, maybe that explains the settings not sticking... go samsprint go!
Its going to be hard for me to leave EC05. Full bars on my 4G. Wifi Tether is insanely fast and reliable. Bluetooth pairs properly. This has been the best modem for me by a mile
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Yeah, the most I was able to get out of EE03 was 8 hours of idle time with the battery calibrated.
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Yeah, the most I was able to get out of EE03 was 8 hours of idle time with the battery calibrated.
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initially, I was getting stellar battery life, but the last couple days of using it, I noticed my phone getting hot. I have no idea why things were slick as snot for a long time, then it all went to hell in a handbasket.. good thing is it's easy enough to change to something else LOL (thanks Epic Devs )
EE03 has been strange for me at times. I've noticed when it's charging and it makes the charging sound, the battery life will be terrible the next time I take it off. However, if I just reboot it, it usually stops making the sound at random times, and the battery life is giving me 12+ hours/day.
daddymikey1975 said:
initially, I was getting stellar battery life, but the last couple days of using it, I noticed my phone getting hot. I have no idea why things were slick as snot for a long time, then it all went to hell in a handbasket.. good thing is it's easy enough to change to something else LOL (thanks Epic Devs )
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So true. The first day of switching over to it I got over a days worth of battery but lately it hasn't been that awesome though it is still better than it was before
I didnt at first, but ever since updating to kitkat this constant rebooting problem and slow charging is driving me crazy. Not to mention the other problems. I bought it directly from tmobile. Do you guys no if theres any way i can get a refund for my phone or maybe a different phone from tmobile?
Sonic Marvel said:
I didnt at first, but ever since updating to kitkat this constant rebooting problem and slow charging is driving me crazy. Not to mention the other problems. I bought it directly from tmobile. Do you guys no if theres any way i can get a refund for my phone or maybe a different phone from tmobile?
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Something probably went wrong because I get better battery life with KitKat, try factory data reset, or maybe you have some errant apps causing wakelocks.
Also disable location services and sync when not necessary as they drain battery,
abhinav.tella said:
Something probably went wrong because I get better battery life with KitKat, try factory data reset, or maybe you have some errant apps causing wakelocks.
Also disable location services and sync when not necessary as they drain battery,
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no my battery life has improved since updating, but it takes foreverrr to charge. Ill charge my phone overnight a solid 6 hours and wake up and itll be hot and not even fully charged! ive tried various outlets, i tried at my friends house too when i spent the night same issue. The phone is definately messed up and i dont even want a replacment becasue i know LG is crap in quality. I had the G2x and had it replaced 3 times! ill never buy another LG phone
Sonic Marvel said:
no my battery life has improved since updating, but it takes foreverrr to charge. Ill charge my phone overnight a solid 6 hours and wake up and itll be hot and not even fully charged! ive tried various outlets, i tried at my friends house too when i spent the night same issue. The phone is definately messed up and i dont even want a replacment becasue i know LG is crap in quality. I had the G2x and had it replaced 3 times! ill never buy another LG phone
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Wow, sorry you had such a bad experience, mine charges in about 3-3.5 Hours in reviews too the G2 was said to charge pretty fast. I generally have had nothing but solid stuff from LG even dropped my O2X on pavement like 2-3 times it was fine. LG is bad at updates though.
Whatever phone you do get just don't get a Sony, the same Sony Exmor series cameras in the phones like Galaxy S4, iPhone 4/5/S, G2 take better pictures than the Z1 which shows how bad Sony optimizes software not to mention horrible battery life. In my med school in India in 2007, most of my friends had Sony phones not one lasted 1 year without problems, all now have Samsungs or HTCs.
Constant Reboot - DO a factory Reset
Slow Charging - Use a 5V 2A adaptor. Mine charges in 1 hr from 0
F320L
I love my G2 but i hate that i bought the F320L version..can't find a working custom recovery for my device
Moved into a new house last year around the same time my phone at the time, the droid maxx, got kit kat....initially thought kitkat killed battery life on the phone and as a result i eventually sold it and got a g2, tried out a couple other phones as well, but they were smaller battery phones, s5, m8, x etc...ended up staying on a g2 until the note 4. The note 4 battery was so bad i thought i had a defective unit and had verizon swap it...same issuse. I then swapped the note 4 for a turbo and im STILL dead by 5pm even with this things massive battery.
Finally occurred to me, its likely my location since it started with the maxx when i moved here.
Called verizon on it suspecting i may be dead center between two towers and the phones are constanrly switching between them, killing the battery quickly. On the phone with them they had me check the mobile data battery bar for breaks, which i hadnt noticed before because the break color is barely different than the non break color, but WOW, CONSTANT BREAKS throughout the bar.
Verizon says they are i"nvestigating", sending an engineer to my location to test etc, but i have little faith in them so thought i would ask here if anyone knows of a way to resolve this bouncing between towers?
Also, put the phone on my tylt charger last night (it was at 8% and I had already fully charged it again mid-day) around midnight, at 7am it had only managed to get 60% charge due to this issue.
Any thoughts, ideas how to resolve? I already use wifi all the time at home, with no effect on battery (as again, it seems to be the bouncing between towers thats killing it, not lte usage).
I'm 100% convinced its a tower bounce causing this, my 4g LTE signal bounces between 95dbm and 108dbm or so...stays on 4g most of the time, but bounces constantly from tower to tower.
Thanks in advance!
Dang, that must be a pretty heavy power draw. My TYLT gives me the illusion of my turbo charged. Seems faster than a normal charger.
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Try downloading LTE discovery from the play store. It's supposed to lock you on a tower when you're not getting signal, and its worked well to do that for me on multiple devices. I don't know if it will lock to a specific tower though, I feel like radio auto-switching would take precedence. I don't know if just turning off LTE would help either.