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I'm buying my dad an evo and I have a few questions
1)Will its battery last from 6am to 12pm with heavy calling and virtually no txts and internet use?
2) what would be good under volt settings for this phone?
thx
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1. Yes. Six hours is fine even with really heavy usage (though every phone is different and I'm sure somebody has some horror story to refute me). Just tell him how to turn the radios off that he's not using. For me, I never use Bluetooth, rarely use WiFi, and when I do, they can be toggled on. Don't turn on 4G if you're not in a 4G area, that radio kills the battery. Just don't leave them on if you're not using them, let them be more "on demand". Rooting and getting a tweaked ROM/kernel will also help. I suggest VaelPak 3.2 with Netarchy, or better yet, Vaelpak GB with SavagedZen. See my sig for a link if you're interested.
2. Most people are good with -75mV, some can go higher (100 to 125 in one or two cases) but -75 seems to be the consensus. In addition, you can set different min/max CPU speeds (this is a native option in the latest VP GB beta). That way, the CPU will scale its speed based on usage. Most people go somewhere around 245mHz min to 998mHz max, or you can overclock a bit, or you can underclock so the max is only in the 500-600s. It actually doesn't make a noticeable difference in performance for some people, unless you're gaming and then you can bump it up again anyway.
LOTS of stuff to play around with to get the best battery vs. performance balance.

You misread bro
Its 18 hours
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One more question
does sense 3.O come with ota gingerbread
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gtuansdiamm said:
You misread bro
Its 18 hours
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How did he misread BRO?!
YOU GOT 30 DAYS to TRY THE PHONE OUT BROOOOOO!!!
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gtuansdiamm said:
One more question
does sense 3.O come with ota gingerbread
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No it does not BRO.
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novanosis85 said:
How did he misread BRO?!
YOU GOT 30 DAYS to TRY THE PHONE OUT BROOOOOO!!!
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He wrote 6 hours
My dads not the type to return a thing especially if I give it to him.
Even if it hassles him like crazy he'll treasure the phone.
I'm getting him this phone because I want to make his life easier so the 30 day return thing won't really work for me.
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gtuansdiamm said:
He wrote 6 hours
My dads not the type to return a thing especially if I give it to him.
Even if it hassles him like crazy he'll treasure the phone.
I'm getting him this phone because I want to make his life easier so the 30 day return thing won't really work for me.
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So how many hours it talk time and stand by time?
He might need an iPhone or a BB.
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18 HOURS is asking a lot from a smart phone. It's not possible with the batt tech atm.
If the talk time is low then maybe.
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gtuansdiamm said:
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does sense 3.O come with ota gingerbread
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No.
And as far as the phone lasting from 6 A.M. to 12 P.M. .... I believe it has about 6 hours of talk time (continuous). Take that for what it is, and given his situation. Can he not utilize a charger? Situation won't allow? As said, there are things that can be done to help 'manage' battery life, but that isn't going to yield some insane results. If he doesn't need data he could disable data, keep voice open, and see how that goes. I couldn't see that necessarily doubling the talk time. As mentioned, also, you can trial it for 30 days.
edit: slow on the draw
Maybe the Evo isn't right for him. Especially if you can't wrestle it from his old man grip for a return. Could a BB do?

He doesn't like bb because of the small buttons
I think I might just buy him an extra battery car charger and then under volt it od
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gtuansdiamm said:
You misread bro
Its 18 hours
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6am to 12pm is 6 hours. You mistyped bro. Had it been 6am to 12am then it would be 18 hours.
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I'd you are buying new. Buy the EVO 3D. Battery life should be much better than the EVO 4G
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Op mistyped. Either way, I would just wait a week for the 3d.

Evolution 3d probably wont have better battery life. You should buy him extra batteries with an external charger. He'll be fine with about 6..
Gimme a couple a days to come up with a new sig that is cool.

Lol yeah 6 am to 12pm is 6 hours.. 12pm would noon, so according to all the clocks I've ever looked at, it would be 6 hours. And yeah wait for the 3D. Probably same battery but might as well get a newer model.
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gtuansdiamm said:
You misread bro
Its 18 hours
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Learn to count bro
6am
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6 hours bro.
And no, the evo can't last 18 hours of heavy use. Get him a crack berry
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Get an extended or spare battery?

bjb_nyj101 said:
Learn to count bro
6am
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6 hours bro.
And no, the evo can't last 18 hours of heavy use. Get him a crack berry
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Lmfao crackberry. I had one, and I'm not ever ever ever ever going back. That white screen of death was a pita.
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bjb_nyj101 said:
Learn to count bro
6am
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6 hours bro.
And no, the evo can't last 18 hours of heavy use. Get him a crack berry
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You blew my mind bro.
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Battery life?

Hey guys a friend of mine got this phone about 3 weeks ago and is having some serious battery drain. Like from fully charged to the red in about 3 hours with minimal use. I told her to take it back and get another one. What I would like to know is if this is normal for this phone or just luck of the draw and got a defect. Thanks and apologize if this was already posted or is in the wrong place.
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Exodian said:
Hey guys a friend of mine got this phone about 3 weeks ago and is having some serious battery drain. Like from fully charged to the red in about 3 hours with minimal use. I told her to take it back and get another one. What I would like to know is if this is normal for this phone or just luck of the draw and got a defect. Thanks and apologize if this was already posted or is in the wrong place.
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You can go under settings>about phone>battery>what's using battery and see what the highest percentage of use is. That may narrow it down to an app or android process causing the drain. Is the phone rooted or unrooted?

Unrooted completely stock and the screen eats about 97%of the battery. I dropped the brightness to its lowest level disabled wifi and everything else I could think of but the battery life really had no improvement
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It seems it would be the phone..I suggest replacing it.
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Yeah that is what I was thinkin
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Exodian said:
Hey guys a friend of mine got this phone about 3 weeks ago and is having some serious battery drain. Like from fully charged to the red in about 3 hours with minimal use. I told her to take it back and get another one. What I would like to know is if this is normal for this phone or just luck of the draw and got a defect. Thanks and apologize if this was already posted or is in the wrong place.
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try a different rom there is plenty out there to choose from

Systemfraud said:
It seems it would be the phone..I suggest replacing it.
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the speeds on your sig got me jealous. damn is that accurate

Exodian said:
Hey guys a friend of mine got this phone about 3 weeks ago and is having some serious battery drain. Like from fully charged to the red in about 3 hours with minimal use. I told her to take it back and get another one. What I would like to know is if this is normal for this phone or just luck of the draw and got a defect. Thanks and apologize if this was already posted or is in the wrong place.
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try this room!my battery stats have me at 31 hours and counting with 15% left.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1078558

Sprint looks to be upgrading their network hard

I had little to no service at my home for almost 2 weeks where I would usually get full bars but as of yesterday I get full.signal again and my 3g speeds have never been better. 2.5/1.2 mbs. Sprint seems to be getting things together
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Nice
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Tgrable said:
I had little to no service at my home for almost 2 weeks where I would usually get full bars but as of yesterday I get full.signal again and my 3g speeds have never been better. 2.5/1.2 mbs. Sprint seems to be getting things together
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Holy **** that's 3 g?
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formula84 said:
Holy **** that's 3 g?
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Yeah, if that's 3G then that's pretty impressive
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formula84 said:
Holy **** that's 3 g?
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i hope they do that soon here. Thats how 3g was before the EVO and Epic came out with "4g"
although 4g definitely is a lot better these days...i get 8mb/s with a ping of ~50...Its NEVER dipped below 190 until a week ago.
Whatever this network vision thing is, im liking.
Now hopefully they can fix the problem where i go from 3 bars to 0 when i send a text or make a call and then get my bars back AFTER i hang up -_-

A_Flying_Fox said:
i hope they do that soon here. Thats how 3g was before the EVO and Epic came out with "4g"
although 4g definitely is a lot better these days...i get 8mb/s with a ping of ~50...Its NEVER dipped below 190 until a week ago.
Whatever this network vision thing is, im liking.
Now hopefully they can fix the problem where i go from 3 bars to 0 when i send a text or make a call and then get my bars back AFTER i hang up -_-
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I would love ping to drop to that level, more than 50%. Never seen it less than 100 on any test, anywhere.

DroidApprentice said:
I would love ping to drop to that level, more than 50%. Never seen it less than 100 on any test, anywhere.
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Me neither. I think 112 is the lowest I have seen
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I was in Corpus Christi, TX the last few days. I remember the first night I got about 1.2Mbps dl and the next days or two I could barely get 100kbps. On the last day the speeds went back up. I'm pretty sure it was just my modem being lame (EG22).

Judging from similar topics in the past few months, this improvement seems to be the trend.

Jayavarman said:
Judging from similar topics in the past few months, this improvement seems to be the trend.
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I don't think they have anywhere to go but up...its at rock bottom already.

If I remember right, a few months ago my signal and speed turned to complete crap. I tether while I'm at work so I can see the difference, and it was SLOOOOOWWWWWW.
About a month after that all of a sudden my 3g speeds jumped up and, most of the time, it's like I'm using the internet at home (aside of the random hiccups in speed). Now I'm hoping for 4g soon in my area

A_Flying_Fox said:
Now hopefully they can fix the problem where i go from 3 bars to 0 when i send a text or make a call and then get my bars back AFTER i hang up -_-
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Pretty sure that is the Radio in your phone crashing and has nothing to do with Sprint's network. What Radio and ROM are you using? There have been known problems regarding this with the Gingerbread radios... EG22 still has this problem on my phone although not as frequently.

D`Nyed said:
Pretty sure that is the Radio in your phone crashing and has nothing to do with Sprint's network. What Radio and ROM are you using? There have been known problems regarding this with the Gingerbread radios... EG22 still has this problem on my phone although not as frequently.
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Its been like that for a while. I'm running stock ec05, but I tried the gb modems andthe same problem. Its really annoying :/ likejus a little wile ago I left my house and its sunny as **** in nyc right now and I called my friend and all my bars dropped and the call was lost -_- I had to toglle airplaneon and off to get it to stop
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But I agree it might just be my modem always crashes but then how will I fix that??
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Hoping something like this hits my area. I don't get BAD reception, but I don't think I've EVER seen all service bars full

EH06 -_____-

I take back every good thing I've said about EH06 working with Bamboozle. I went on my bi-weekly trip to NYC and had no problem locking gps. But it would drop after 5 minutes and I'd have to close Navigator and restart the trip. I received poor wifi signal in places where I normally am fine. And finally, and this one blows my mind....I lost 4G every 15 min. I'm in New York City. The best city in the world. In broad daylight. In the heart of downtown. I've never not had 4G in NY since I got this phone. I didn't like EG22 with bamboozle because it slayed my battery life and I don't like EH06 because it sucks. I'm gonna try EE03 with it, then back to SRF if it doesn't work out.
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Could you not have postedthis in the EH06 bug thread? -.-
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Sorry about that. Just venting and giving a testimony.
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froyotlbw88 said:
Sorry about that. Just venting and giving a testimony.
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Did you try the nvram clear in Noobnl's post?
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where in Noobnl's post

nvram where and what post

sirj00 said:
nvram where and what post
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1226074
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i live in nyc and earlier i couldnt get a 4g signal for the LIFE of me. Eventually after like an hour i got a lock but it went away after a few minutes.
I dont think its eh06 cuz ive had amazing signal everyother day BUT today.
eh06 actually gives me better reception than ec05...

Video Run Down Test

Has anyone ever tested their battery life by using a video run down test? I put it on half brightness and played Mission Impossible 4 and it ran the whole movie and most of it once I restarted. So in total I was able to get about 4 hours and 2 minutes in display on time. Which seems very low compared to other phones like for example the iPhone 4 can get about 8 hours of video playback.

Getting over 4 hours of screen on time with the tiny battery and inefficient hardware in the mytouch 4G is good. Get an iPhone if you don't like that.

estallings15 said:
Getting over 4 hours of screen on time with the tiny battery and inefficient hardware in the mytouch 4G is good. Get an iPhone if you don't like that.
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If only this contract would end.
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Ksunnyv1011 said:
If only this contract would end.
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+1 I'm sooooo ready to get a new phone that has dual core and a bigger screen in the neighborhood of 4.7 or 4.5.
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eqjunkie829 said:
+1 I'm sooooo ready to get a new phone that has dual core and a bigger screen in the neighborhood of 4.7 or 4.5.
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Exactly and the battery life to go with it.
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You need a droid razr max bro. Cnet raites it at 20 some hours of video playback

THEindian said:
You need a droid razr max bro. Cnet raites it at 20 some hours of video playback
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With the monster battery it has you ought to be able to brute force your way into the pentagon, off charger. Lol.