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Hi Everyone,
Quick question for all that have updated their Evos to 1.47.651.1-1.32.651.6, have you noticed an increase in battery life?
I can say unequivocally that I have, and it has made me fall in love with my Evo all over again.
Last night I did a test, on full battery life I left my phone unplugged for approximately 8 hours. The following morning I noticed it drained little more than 20%. Prior to the update, it would drain almost completely overnight.
Has anyone else noticed similar increases in their charge lifespan? I'm curious.
I have to give kudos to HTC...this being my second HTC phone after migrating from the G1 - the update is great and painless!! Can't wait for Froyo 2.2. :]
over 20% drop in 8 hours on standby? that is hardly positive. my EVo only drops between 3% and 5% in 7 hours of standby.
Mine has been fantastic, as per my post in this topic. Currently I'm at 95% after 3 hours of use.
oblivion0 said:
Hi Everyone,
Quick question for all that have updated their Evos to 1.47.651.1-1.32.651.6, have you noticed an increase in battery life?
I can say unequivocally that I have, and it has made me fall in love with my Evo all over again.
Last night I did a test, on full battery life I left my phone unplugged for approximately 8 hours. The following morning I noticed it drained little more than 20%.
Has anyone else noticed similar increases in their charge lifespan? I'm curious.
I have to give kudos to HTC...this being my second HTC phone after migrating from the G1 - the update is great and painless!! Can't wait for Froyo 2.2. :]
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Such a vast improvement huh? Well I guess I'll have to do that test for myself. I've noticed some improvements but not enough to miss my old iPhone's battery life. Could also be because I was one of those idiots dupt into buying the AMZER 1800mAh battery (Which let me tell you; gives you NO increase, at $50)
Prior to the update, I would lose nearly all my battery life after 8 hours. I could probably do a better job of managing apps and whatnot, but for a single update to add such a leap in battery performance I can't raise my nose to HTC!
Been off the charger for a little over 5 hours - just hit 90%. I usually have the quick drop into the low 90's within minutes - didn't happen today. That was a first!
oblivion0 said:
Prior to the update, I would lose nearly all my battery life after 8 hours. I could probably do a better job of managing apps and whatnot, but for a single update to add such a leap in battery performance I can't raise my nose to HTC!
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I hear you;
I love this thing.
I find it better than all my old iPhones but I gotta say: HTC has been in the game waaay longer then Apple, How come they haven't found that magic that Apple has with their battery life? Atleast offer a decent upgrade option to the standard...
PLESTIUC said:
over 20% drop in 8 hours on standby? that is hardly positive. my EVo only drops between 3% and 5% in 7 hours of standby.
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About the same here. Maybe double that if bluetooth is on.
Losing that much battery while in standby is not normal IMO. You should be losing around 5% during that time, 10% tops. Definitely check your sync settings and whatnot.
Vandam500 said:
Losing that much battery while in standby is not normal IMO. You should be losing around 5% during that time, 10% tops. Definitely check your sync settings and whatnot.
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I think 20% after 8 hours of standby is pretty great. 5% after 8 hours of standby would be insane.
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I think 20% after 8 hours of standby is pretty great. 5% after 8 hours of standby would be insane.
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Has the Evo lowered your standards? 20% for 8 hours is ridiculously low, maybe you are not managing apps and services properly. I can easily get a full night of rest starting at 100% and have 95% when I wake up.
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Has the Evo lowered your standards? 20% for 8 hours is ridiculously low, maybe you are not managing apps and services properly. I can easily get a full night of rest starting at 100% and have 95% when I wake up.
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That would be improbable to me. I've never gotten battery life like that with ANY mobile device I've had (and you can see that is quite a few). I'm assuming that when you say "standby" you mean sleeping with the screen off and not completely powered off. I could see it happening with the latter option but never the first--especially with the radio on.
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Has the Evo lowered your standards? 20% for 8 hours is ridiculously low, maybe you are not managing apps and services properly. I can easily get a full night of rest starting at 100% and have 95% when I wake up.
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Lowered my standards? Not by a long shot buddy. If anything at all, the Evo has been a testament to the Android platform's amazing scalability and robustness.
I'm coming from a G1, so buying the Evo was a major Android technology jump. I had big time complaints with battery life, and in less than two weeks I get a major update that significantly increased the device's overall life - all without having to shell out cash for a so-called "extended battery".
I'd say that's a pretty big deal, and HTC didn't have to tell me to "hold the phone differently." lol
kcasante said:
Such a vast improvement huh? Well I guess I'll have to do that test for myself. I've noticed some improvements but not enough to miss my old iPhone's battery life. Could also be because I was one of those idiots dupt into buying the AMZER 1800mAh battery (Which let me tell you; gives you NO increase, at $50)
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Exactly WHICH iphone was this? Because I had a 3g and a 3gs and the ONLY way I made it a whole day when I actually used the phone was to buy one of those mophie juicepack things. The battery was garbage on both. To the OP, my battery is definitely improved after the update. Been off the charge about 7 hours now with pretty moderate usage, emails/twitter/facebook all updating frequently, texts and using the cam and im sitting at 76% right now.
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Has the Evo lowered your standards? 20% for 8 hours is ridiculously low, maybe you are not managing apps and services properly. I can easily get a full night of rest starting at 100% and have 95% when I wake up.
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You must having NOTHING on to get that. Radio must be off too there's no way you're going to have data running and get that.
TheBiles said:
Mine has been fantastic, as per my post in this topic. Currently I'm at 95% after 3 hours of use.
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3 hours of use, or 3 hours off the charger?
I followed your advice in your thread too, btw. No task killer, only autostarts and battery saver profile in dconfig.
Went 1d15hrs (39 hours) without using a charger with about a 6hr awake time.
I'm waiting on a 3500 mAh battery to be released within the next week or two (supposedly) for 70 bucks.
The 1800 mAh batteries do nothing. I was strongly advised against it at a local battery store here in town.
Either way, my phone did not receive the new update, so I can't see any difference in my phone life.
I'm not downloading it because I enjoy my root and wifi tether. I hope someone figures out a way to mod the update for us rooted users, after they release it again. Haha.
the update for root has been out since yesterday morning. used it on my phone, it works perfect.
I am noticing a better battery life after the upgrade also.
I bought the 2 batteries with charger from ebay for $10. they've been working great, almost the same as the stock battery.
I have a work issued iPhone 4 and the fascinate. I fully charged both phones and put them on my desk at 3pm yesterday and did not use them at all. This morning the iPhone was at 98% charge and Fascinate was at 30%... Both phones sync with a exchange account and both have very good signal strength at my home.
I've checked the battery usage on Fascinate and the top 4 items are: Display 49%, Media server 15%, Cell standby 14% and Phone idle 9%. How can standby and idle use so much battery? I also used task manager and killed all running programs yesterday.
So what could be causing this? I can literally watch the battery percentage click down 1% for every couple of minutes of use.
Running Blackhole v1.3 with JT's Stable 11/11 kernel.
After a full day's worth of average use my battery (off the charger at 9am, on the charger at ~1am) My battery rarely drops into the orange.
You mentioned you had a task killer, I'd blame that first and foremost. Also, I think there was something inherently wrong with your test... if a screen that was off used 50% of the battery...
It's also entirely possible that you're just trolling, because I know from roomate experience that his phone if left alone is not at 98% battery after 24 hours. Also, APPLE lists the standby time as up to 300 hours. That would mean that at best you'd be looking at an ~8% drop after 24 hours.
That 15% used by the media server probably didn't help much. What all was your IPhone running in the background...oh wait, nevermind.
I dunno about the iphone but I feel you on the fascinate. I left mine off the charger, no screen on, with airplane mode on, and the battery dropped 50% in 7 hours. With absolutely no use. I'm lucky to get 7 hours during the day actually using the phone. Three display is always around 70% usage of the battery even though I have brights all the way down and always turn off the screen.
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I use Ultimate Juice Defender and I take my phone off the charger at 6:30 a.m. and by 5:30 p.m. I am usually at 80-90%.
Not sure, you might just have a bad battery. I have been off the charger for almost 7 hours now (early day). I have been messaging (google talk and sms) had WiFi/BlueTooth/GPS running constantly I rarely turn them off.
Have been using google maps off and on for at least 20-30 minutes as well as voice. And about 45 minutes of phone calls.
For me:
Display 29%
Standby 26%
Idle 16%
android 12%
and then bluetooth, LauncherPro, OS and Google rounding out the remaining quantities.
Oh forgot and a solid 20 minutes of angry birds
i use a task killer but i allways set system apps to ignore except camera and google maps and autokill stuff like file explorer, root explorer, games and stuff.
I get up at 4am use my phone pretty often little of everything and can make it threw a day getting homr at 5pm might be 16-20% battery left but still good imo.
Removing bloat might help?
I went to lunch and played with the phone while waiting for the food. Just red some news and surfed the web a bit. Before lunch the battery was at 34% now its at 16%, I think there definitely is something wrong with my phone. I wonder if a different kernel would help.
Try resetting battery stats and reconditioning the battery. There's no way it should drop more than a handful of percent asleep in airplane mode... Maybe one per hour.
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How would I recondition the battery? I've reset the stats with a fresh battery before and have tried different kernels. I have two batteries and it's the same with both. I even took it to verizon but they said there was nothing wrong with it even though it dropped 30% on their test call.
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I'd definitely say its just a bad battery. My fascinate stock destroys iphone battery life. With a UV kernal it at least doubles iphone battery life. My work issues iphones so I get a daily comparison.
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I would say battery as well, my phone has been off the charger for 20 hours now and I'm at 50%. It's my work phone so its a stock kernel.
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I was in your boat. The first fascinate I had would be unplugged at 6:30am and dead at 3pm with very little usage. I hated this phone. I got juice defender and it would last until 6 or 7 with very little usage, and as I used the phone I would watch as the battery rapidly ran dry. I got two other fascinates and it was the same issue. Then I got the one that I have now and it uses almost no power in standby. with juice defender and it being on idle, I can get almost 2 days out of 1 charge. I know it sounds ridiculous to you, with your experiences and it being a smartphone, but samsung has done some kind of magic here. Keep taking your phone back until you get one that uses very little battery on standby. Apparently there are a lot of units with bad batteries. As of this writing, with Ultimate Juice, my phone has been off the charger since 5:30 this morning, did some flashing, which uses the battery open throttle, installed 5 apps, played angry birds for about 35 mins and I am at 91% at 10:09
Well my 30 days are up, verizon found nothing wrong with it and I have 2 batteries.
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Sithben24 said:
Well my 30 days are up, verizon found nothing wrong with it and I have 2 batteries.
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Try a different big red CSR, and if you fail again, try bricking it in a fixable way after backing up. If you come in with a force close loop, I but they won't have any idea whats going on and you'll have a high likelihood of getting a new phone. If it fails, just reflash and try another tack.
Haha perfect.
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I would honestly try one of the Stupidfast kernels if you really want bettery battery life, but honestly it sounds like some kind of hardware problem.
Stupidfast kernels really do give me better battery life. I was skeptical at first but after wiping the battery stats and rebooting after I unplug I've been getting GREAT battery life.
I'm a HEAVY user and I unplugged at 11 AM and 9 hours later I still have 31% left. With ANY other kernel, my phone would be at <20% by now, probably under 10%
I'm a believer, and will be donating come Wednesday when I get paid
Tried them all. But the stupid fast does seem to do the best job.
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I will say one thing, with the new DJ05 update my battery life is great. Best I've ever had. So when it is finally pushed to u enjoy. I feel like there has been some tweaks made in the upcoming update that make even a bone stock fascinate one of the best around.
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ksizzle9 said:
I will say one thing, with the new DJ05 update my battery life is great. Best I've ever had. So when it is finally pushed to u enjoy. I feel like there has been some tweaks made in the upcoming update that make even a bone stock fascinate one of the best around.
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+1 on that.
DJ05 + StupidFast 1.2.3 = a battery juice sipper !!!!
What rom (stock sense look) has the best battery overall. I rooted my moms evo to get her a great battery life but it still seems to be dying really quickly. I am using 4.3.1 kernel. She's only getting around 6-10 hours of battery before she has to charge it. I had the evo before and could get a full day and a half before charging it. I can't remember my setup since I switched to the evo shift. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
im using the cm7 rc 2 whatever kernal is package there is PHENOMINAL im at 60% @ about 12hr..... Moderate use between wifi and 3g
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That's the best you're gonna get with NORMAL usage and a REGULAR battery. All those users that say they get like a day or two are full of it. They get that long because their phones are sleeping most the time. I've used EVERY rom/kernel combo out there and the best I ever got was about 15 hours. I literally use my phone all day while at work from browsing, texting, calls, facebook ,twitter, and games. There should be a definition for moderate. I consider myself a heavy user; unplug at 7am and my phone last until about 6pm with about 20% left. Its not going get any better than that for a moderate to heavy user. From sense to aosp with the stock battery I just never achieved better results but I'm pretty happy since I get to work at 8am and get off at 5, buy 7pm its nearly dead and I just plug it up. You should invest in an extended battery imo.
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dirkyd3rk said:
That's the best you're gonna get with NORMAL usage and a REGULAR battery. All those users that says they gets like a day or two are full of it. They get that long because their phones are sleeping most the time. I've used EVERY rom/kernel combo out there and the best I ever got was about 15 hours. I literally use my phone all day while at work from browsing, texting, calls, facebook ,twitter, and games. There should be a definition for moderate. I consider myself a heavy user; unplug at 7am and my phone last until about 6pm with about 20% left. Its not going get any better than that for a moderate to heavy user. From sense to aosp with the stock battery I just never achieved better results but I'm pretty happy since I get to work at 8am and get off at 5, buy 7pm its nearly dead and I just plug it up. You should invest in an extended battery imo.
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I agree to a point. I mean, it all depends on usage. I can believe someone with light-moderate use can easily get a full day with the right setup. I do it now with CM/Savage, but I'm definitely not a heavy user.
I do see some people make wild claims of 2-4 days without a charge.. and I think it's possible IF you don't use your phone or you turn everything that makes it a smartphone off. Which is pointless IMO.
Nobody can really give you the perfect setup because every EVO seems to behave differently. We can only make suggestions. Make sure your mom s awareof all the things that can drain battery (push notification, updating widgets, weather updates etc etc). I would then research a good sense rom/kernel because CM7 is a definite WIP with different issues for different users, it may turn her off.
Maybe check out MikFroyo or Myns rom. I hear a lot about how good they are.
Rippley05 said:
I agree to a point. I mean, it all depends on usage. I can believe someone with light-moderate use can easily get a full day with the right setup. I do it now with CM/Savage, but I'm definitely not a heavy user.
I do see some people make wild claims of 2-4 days without a charge.. and I think it's possible IF you don't use your phone or you turn everything that makes it a smartphone off. Which is pointless IMO.
Nobody can really give you the perfect setup because every EVO seems to behave differently. We can only make suggestions. Make sure your mom s awareof all the things that can drain battery (push notification, updating widgets, weather updates etc etc). I would then research a good sense rom/kernel because CM7 is a definite WIP with different issues for different users, it may turn her off.
Maybe check out MikFroyo or Myns rom. I hear a lot about how good they are.
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+1, its just crazy I see people throwing crazy hours out there lol. I think if your phone is sleeping 75% if the time then you shouldn't even talk about your results since that doesn't fit into the norm for usage. Most people check their phone like every 10 mins(don't quote me) I know I do lol. People throw around like 36 hours and even longer its insane to me.
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+1, its just crazy I see people throwing crazy hours out there lol. I think if your phone is sleeping 75% if the time then you shouldn't even talk about your results since that doesn't fit into the norm for usage. Most people check their phone like every 10 mins(don't quote me) I know I do lol. People throw around like 36 hours and even longer its insane to me.
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I have a 3500mah battery and I get a full day with heavy usage. With the stock battery I could never get a full day.
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I have a 3500mah battery and I get a full day with heavy usage. With the stock battery I could never get a full day.
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I've always wanted an extended battery but I keep my phone in my pocket; are they super bulky? I really want 1
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I don't know about not being able to get more than a day of battery life and use your phone. Using MIUI with a Savaged-Zen kernel I was able to go almost 2 days without even plugging it in once (I'm specifying this, because I've seen screenshots where people claim crazy battery life, but the graph clearly shows that the phone was plugged in and charging several times throughout that time period), and my display usage was still 44% of my battery. That was still minimal usage for me. I posted the screenshot in the MIUI thread if you care enough to check.
I do mostly agree, though. Most people posting outrageous battery life have display percentages around 5-10%, clearly never removing the phone from their pockets.
Anyway, as for the OP, the biggest missing variable is that we don't know at what percent your mom considers it necessary to charge her phone. If she plugs it in around 50% to be sure she can make it through the day, that means she could have gotten another 5-8 hours of battery life (assuming she's not draining it down to 0%). This fact could make the difference between bad battery life and a paranoid mother.
Try the ava froyo z3 I love it best rom I've used so far so guess I'm sticking with it o and get her juice defender with ultimate juice and lock it down so it kills anything she's not using
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calibrate the battery.
read up on some of this.
http://androidforums.com/1383478-post1.html
this is my oem 1500mAH
with moderate use.
that was 1.5 hrs of justin tv, 3 hrs of tune in radio, fb, text phone and maps.
edit: 0003hw running rooted odex with net 4.3.2 cfs-sbc-lesshavs
double post...sorry.
dirkyd3rk said:
I've always wanted an extended battery but I keep my phone in my pocket; are they super bulky? I really want 1
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I have the Sprint 2600 extended battery and it isn't as bulky as you would think. I actually think it is less bulky than my 1500 with a case on it. I don't notice it at all and I carry it in my front jeans pocket.
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I don't know about not being able to get more than a day of battery life and use your phone. Using MIUI with a Savaged-Zen kernel I was able to go almost 2 days without even plugging it in once (I'm specifying this, because I've seen screenshots where people claim crazy battery life, but the graph clearly shows that the phone was plugged in and charging several times throughout that time period), and my display usage was still 44% of my battery. That was still minimal usage for me. I posted the screenshot in the MIUI thread if you care enough to check.
I do mostly agree, though. Most people posting outrageous battery life have display percentages around 5-10%, clearly never removing the phone from their pockets.
Anyway, as for the OP, the biggest missing variable is that we don't know at what percent your mom considers it necessary to charge her phone. If she plugs it in around 50% to be sure she can make it through the day, that means she could have gotten another 5-8 hours of battery life (assuming she's not draining it down to 0%). This fact could make the difference between bad battery life and a paranoid mother.
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This is exactly the kind of post he was ranting about, dude. Unless you post your screen on time, usage time, up time, etc, then your 24 hours or whatever is a completely meaningless number. Completely. Meaningless.
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This is exactly the kind of post he was ranting about, dude. Unless you post your screen on time, usage time, up time, etc, then your 24 hours or whatever is a completely meaningless number. Completely. Meaningless.
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Also display did not use 44 pct of your battery. It was responsible for 44 pct of your battery drain. Big diff.
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PS sorry if that seemed a little harsh, I was trying to be emphatic, not mean!
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My display uses all of my batt lol
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I agree with most of you people. Initially went to FreshEvo by Flipz when I rooted and battery life did not change much from when I was running stock. I have since switched to CM7 and battery life is significantly improved. Now getting 12 hours on a single charge with moderate use. I always turn 4G and wifi antenna off when not performing any data-intensive use. But I refuse to kill my 3G data connection when my phone is in my bag or desk while at work. Reality is that it IS a smart phone and killing the data to save battery life defeats the smart phone bit, no email no Facebook syncing no MMS etc. The only time I kill 3G is when I am in the mountains skiing.
My problem is that I work a 12 hour shift so 12 hours of bat life is not ideal. I have invested in an extra charger but would obviously be happy to not use this. I have heard lots of testimony that the savaged Zen kernals show some promise in improving bat life. When CM7 final drops I plan on flashing one of these kernals with the new ROM on wipe. I will stay away from the SBC version though for fear of improving battery charging but having my phone melt down or pop on the night stand next to me while I sleep... or worse in my pocket!
I will report back if I get any significant results.
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I have the device on auto-brightness settings. I will say that the auto-brightness IS pretty bright with EC05. MUCH brighter than other versions. Anyone else noticing this?
I came from EB13 and I got excellent battery life. So far, today, while getting full bars:
Time on: 7 Hours 21 minutes since unplugged
Time on display: 56 minutes (86%)
Voice calls: 8 minutes
Total battery left: 32%. That's a far cry from what I was getting with EB13.
Otherwise, I'm pretty happy with this version! Although, EB13 was awesome as well. I just had a bit more force closes here and there on EB13.
Took mine off the charger around 8am with moderate use mine tanked around 6. I also live in an excellent 3G/4G area.
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Be patient, it will get better in couple weeks.
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Any reason why?
Its probably the brightness broham. Try turning it on manual and keep it as low as possible. The screen is the biggest stress on the battery. The brighter the background the worse the battery life as well.
re: waiting a while... the battery gets 'conditioned'... look up one of the MANY threads on that subject on here... some you have to be an astrophysicist to understand, but interesting nonetheless. Re: brightness, yeah, turn it on manual, set it on lowest poss setting, indoors most of the time its plenty bright, and if your ROM didnt disable it (idunno why they would) hold down your status bar and a little drop thingy comes down, slide L or R for brightness, like for outside, or if you really wanna make an EVO user sad and show off the AMOLED mmmmm..... contrast ratio and black levels....
This is some of the best battery life I have gotten out of this phone period. Its so good I dont even want to flash a custom ROM. I have brightness turned down. F that auto brightness..I hate that feature. I unplugged today at 6 in the morning...Played on it before work....Played while at work.....Some more after work...A little while driving...(dont judge me) ....... And now Im on it playing poker online. I love it. Im so serious about not flashing a custom ROM. I am loving this new update and its battery life.
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I have the device on auto-brightness settings. I will say that the auto-brightness IS pretty bright with EC05. MUCH brighter than other versions. Anyone else noticing this?
I came from EB13 and I got excellent battery life. So far, today, while getting full bars:
Time on: 7 Hours 21 minutes since unplugged
Time on display: 56 minutes (86%)
Voice calls: 8 minutes
Total battery left: 32%. That's a far cry from what I was getting with EB13.
Otherwise, I'm pretty happy with this version! Although, EB13 was awesome as well. I just had a bit more force closes here and there on EB13.
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This is EXACTLY my usage patterns and battery for the last 2 days. The only way I'm getting 14 hours out of this thing is if I don't turn it on once. And fixing the brightness isn't going to help me too much if it loses 80% just sitting there idle is it? I'm pretty close to just flashing it back to DI18, declining updates (or flashing the Syndicate rom from that era) and just living with it. For the record, I also had miserable battery with everything DK28 and EB13. Perhaps my phone just doesn't like Froyo?
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This is some of the best battery life I have gotten out of this phone period. Its so good I dont even want to flash a custom ROM. I have brightness turned down. F that auto brightness..I hate that feature. I unplugged today at 6 in the morning...Played on it before work....Played while at work.....Some more after work...A little while driving...(dont judge me) ....... And now Im on it playing poker online. I love it. Im so serious about not flashing a custom ROM. I am loving this new update and its battery life.
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No playing on the phone while driving.... lol I do it all the time too. Im on here alot while driving.
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I keep hearing about not all batteries are equal I wonder how true that is. I just flashed the ACS SyndicateROM Frozen 1.0.2 and I am curious to see how my battery life is on the road tomorrow..errr...today at this point.
I know if I am using it off and on pretty constantly I get no more than 6hours with moderate activity (email, web, occasional phone call) we will see what happens now that I am on this ROM.
I told myself I wouldn't go to a non-factory ROM but this is stable, runs the processor with less power @1GHz and with the click of a button you have on-demand 1.2GHz.
A few other things I noticed is the interface is MUCH snappier even though I am using the TouchWiz launcher and the "Fully Loaded" Version I can't wait to see how it goes.
After 2 days on EC05 my battery life is ok, but not as good as when I used a custom undervolting kernel. After 12 hours I'm at about 40%. Today I'm going to try using setCPU to run a different profile and see if it works or makes a difference.
i havent seen good battery life since 2.1 :/ i used to get 24 hours of use with epic experience and the phoenix kernel.
no way im going back to 2.1 just for battery life. although it is the most important thing to me
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I have bad battery life with EC05. Tested today with only 3 texts, and two 10 minute phone calls.
8 hours of standby time and I've burned 5.25% of battery per hour.
Wifi on 99% of the time and within range. Policy = never sleep
Same usage for the weekend on DI18 I'd be around ~85% rather than my current 57%.
My battery life is even worse for work days when I have Lotus Notes Traveler sync scheduling every 15 minutes.
DI18 end % of 8 hours of work = ~70-75%
EC05 end % of 8 hours of work = ~43%
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Took mine off the charger around 8am with moderate use mine tanked around 6. I also live in an excellent 3G/4G area.
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Just to follow up, I flashed back to Bonsai 4.0 and unplugged at the same time today(8AM.) it's now 8:00p and I'm at 66% battery with just about the same amount of moderate usage.
usfslacker said:
This is EXACTLY my usage patterns and battery for the last 2 days. The only way I'm getting 14 hours out of this thing is if I don't turn it on once. And fixing the brightness isn't going to help me too much if it loses 80% just sitting there idle is it? I'm pretty close to just flashing it back to DI18, declining updates (or flashing the Syndicate rom from that era) and just living with it. For the record, I also had miserable battery with everything DK28 and EB13. Perhaps my phone just doesn't like Froyo?
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Take it in and tell the sprint rep. Maybe you could get a new battery for free. if not you may want to buy one.
Automatic Brightness says that it will hurt your battery more then manually setting your brightness. Gosh, no wonder why so many people complain about battery life. No one can read anymore. Seriously, my battery life is the exact same as DI18 as it is on EC05. Learn how to use your phone efficiently.
Also take into account EC05 is Froyo, and DI18 is Eclair. A big difference in how they have to be treated. You will hurt your battery more doing certain things in Froyo then you did in Eclair, one example is Task Killing.
And if you dare to have the nerve to disagree with me, I'll redirect you to "Poor Battery Life" threads from EVERY SINGLE DEVICE on XDA. I doubt every carrier and company is making the battery life horrible, nah just the users.
Does that mean we should NOT kill tasks on froyo?
hold down your status bar and a little drop thingy comes down, slide L or R for brightness, [/QUOTE]
See, thanks for that info. I thought that feature was disabled on froyo builds. Even with you saying it works, its very rare that it works for me. On 2.1 it was so easy to swipe and adjust it....
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I'm getting some pretty good battery life with ec05 so far. Right now I'm at 13% battery and here's the usage:
23hrs 39mins
display 78%, 1hr 49mins
cell standby 12%, tws 30% (I still get that bug from time to time, but not always like before)
voice calls 7% 19mins
phone idle 4% 21hrs 50mins
I had odin'd back to di18 and got ec05 ota friday morning, still not even rooted. I keep brightness at the lowest setting and use a black background.
slybarman said:
Does that mean we should NOT kill tasks on froyo?
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Yes, you should not kill task or applications at all in froyo.
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I flashed myns synergy rom a couple of weeks ago and have been getting decent battery life. Today my battery life is blowing me away. Going on 11 1/2 hours since being unplugged with my normal usage and still have 22% battery left. Not heavy use by any means but moderate at least. I have never seen this kind of battery life on any other rom I have flashed. Any other synergy users seeing good battery life?
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Yeah, I am a pretty light user but I can get two full days
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I got decent battery life on Synergy, but its nothing compared to my battery life on my current CM7.1 setup. 20 hours of moderate use and I still have 48% on the stock battery.
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Im at 54% now took it off the charger at 1030 am i set words with friends to not update and it seemed to help.
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Neitmrh15 said:
Im at 54% now took it off the charger at 1030 am i set words with friends to not update and it seemed to help.
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There's a great battery guide in the Q/A section, all kinds of tricks. Might find the guide to kernels there too, another way to drastically improve battery life. The new GB kernel sprint released is garbage, try netarcy-toast "brand" kernels
No where near CM7's battery life, but still very much a daily driver. I usually plugged up at around 40% battery after at least 12 hours usage.
Pretty decent for a Sense rom.
I've had my Evo unplugged for the last 2 days and still sitting at 43%. This is with sending about 60 texts, facebooked, got on frostwire for a bit, made like 12 calls, played a couple of rounds of Angry Birds and been on wifi about 95 percent of the time. Never has this happened with other roms. And I have tried a lot. Only thing disabled was 4G(none in my area)
Unplugged Sunday at about 2pm, it's now Tues at noon, I'm still at 49%.
Light to moderate usage since then, about 200 texts, a few short phone calls, and about two hours combined of facebook and twitter. VERY good life for 2 days worth of usage.
I just recently switched over from CM7 to Synergy RC1... I loved when I went away from Sense to AOSP and was reluctant to switch back. But very pleased and battery life I can confirm is excellent for me as well. My only gripe now is that I'm getting the darn unread email count showing up on my home screen icons even though there is no unread emails. I have found online that it is a known issue and mostly seen in 2.3.3? Can anyone confirm that?
Thanks!
I have tried several sense 2.1+3.0 roms, Virus Kingdom revolution, and mik g I have never been more happy than once I began using Synergy. Heck I even devoted a whole post on Google+ about it. Very stable and my battery is ridiculous. I took my phone off the charger at 6:30 am cdt its now 12:15 pm and I'm at 78%. That's with heavy usage. Great job devs.
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Seems like people are getting better battery life now that its been out for awhile, aging like a fine wine
Neitmrh15 said:
Seems like people are getting better battery life now that its been out for awhile, aging like a fine wine
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When I first flashed I was goeeting okay battery life, the past few days has blown me away. I am used to seeing my battery drop like mad...but it does not do that anymore. I did nothing that I have not done on other ROMs, it just seems to work better after being on the phone a couple of weeks. This will be my ROM for quite some time now!
I'm really trying to get to the bottom of this display usage issue. My display usage stays extremely high compared to everything else. The more I use the phone, the higher it goes. Say if I use the phone a lot, it will be around 90%. If I barely touch the phone, it will go down to 50% but it's still a LOT higher than everything else. And it drains the hell out of my battery. If I barely use it I can get maybe 12 hours at most. If I do use it, I'll be lucky to get 7-8 hours.
It starting happening to me on MikFroyo but it didn't use to do it before. And now I'm noticing the same thing with Synergy. This is driving me nuts because it's keeping me from using my two favorite roms as a daily. I'll post three pictures. One is what my battery life/usage used to look like, one on MikFroyo 4.62, and one on Synergy RC1. I would really appreciate any insight to this.
Edit: It's only these two roms (that I've tried at least) that gives me this issue, and I think MikG if I can remember correctly. CM, Salvage-Mod, and a few other older Sense roms do not cause it.
This is with MikG 1.5, with my usual fairly heavy use.
AMAZING battery life, and 100% stable in my experience.
I have tried many, many ROMs and this one beats all.
no idea how people get battery life like that. i'm lucky to make it a 14 hours~ with similar usage
spanglmd said:
no idea how people get battery life like that. i'm lucky to make it a 14 hours~ with similar usage
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I was getting maybe 14-16 hours, then I removed the check mark from Always On Data, and the battery life doubled. (again, this is with MikG only.)
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ncfastls1 said:
I'm really trying to get to the bottom of this display usage issue. My display usage stays extremely high compared to everything else. The more I use the phone, the higher it goes. Say if I use the phone a lot, it will be around 90%. If I barely touch the phone, it will go down to 50% but it's still a LOT higher than everything else. And it drains the hell out of my battery. If I barely use it I can get maybe 12 hours at most. If I do use it, I'll be lucky to get 7-8 hours.
It starting happening to me on MikFroyo but it didn't use to do it before. And now I'm noticing the same thing with Synergy. This is driving me nuts because it's keeping me from using my two favorite roms as a daily. I'll post three pictures. One is what my battery life/usage used to look like, one on MikFroyo 4.62, and one on Synergy RC1. I would really appreciate any insight to this.
Edit: It's only these two roms (that I've tried at least) that gives me this issue, and I think MikG if I can remember correctly. CM, Salvage-Mod, and a few other older Sense roms do not cause it.
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let me start by saying that i used to think the same way your thinking untill one of the guys on the synergy post broke it down for me. it's simple, you keep thinking that the display% is an issue but it's only a number and it doesnt represent your actual battery drain. if you hardly use your phone, lets say u make a couple of calls, check some mail and browse the web. well the percentage is correct, your display was on longer than any other application. so it's going to be higher no question. the real question is are you getting good battery life or not? i'm on synergy RLC1 and after some suggestions that i upgrade my PRL, PRi, and wimax. which i did, now im getting great battery life even though my display percentage is still the highest application.
treedog5 said:
let me start by saying that i used to think the same way your thinking untill one of the guys on the synergy post broke it down for me. it's simple, you keep thinking that the display% is an issue but it's only a number and it doesnt represent your actual battery drain. if you hardly use your phone, lets say u make a couple of calls, check some mail and browse the web. well the percentage is correct, your display was on longer than any other application. so it's going to be higher no question. the real question is are you getting good battery life or not? i'm on synergy RLC1 and after some suggestions that i upgrade my PRL, PRi, and wimax. which i did, now im getting great battery life even though my display percentage is still the highest application.
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That is only the case if it's maybe a little higher than the rest of the things. It's a percentage of what has used the battery. When the display is at 90% and everything else is at 3% or less, there is a problem. And no, I am getting HORRIBLE battery life. Like I explained, on ROMs that don't have the extremely high display usage I can get 20-30 hours on one charge. The way the battery drains when I'm using it is extremely noticeable. The picture I posted that has been on for 14 hours with 48% left, that's how my battery usage should look. Granted I hadn't used the phone as much as normal that day, it still would be around the range of everything else.
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ncfastls1 said:
That is only the case if it's maybe a little higher than the rest of the things. It's a percentage of what has used the battery. When the display is at 90% and everything else is at 3% or less, there is a problem. And no, I am getting HORRIBLE battery life. Like I explained, on ROMs that don't have the extremely high display usage I can get 20-30 hours on one charge. The way the battery drains when I'm using it is extremely noticeable. The picture I posted that has been on for 14 hours with 48% left, that's how my battery usage should look. Granted I hadn't used the phone as much as normal that day, it still would be around the range of everything else.
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ok, may i suggest that you upgrade all PRI, PRL, wimax etc.. you know all that stuff and give it 2 days to see if that helps. it made a major difference for me..