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Solution to DHD battery problems. Contact HTC!

Hey guys! I'm a new user on this forum and I also a completely new android user, I have just gotten the HTC Desire HD. And I'm really really enjoying the OS. The way you can customize the OS is amazing! And Therefore I feel like I have been missing out for a while.
However there is one single problem about the HTC Desire HD and sadly it's a pretty big problem. (You guessed it,) the battery life. I'm not gonna lie, if i cut some features i can easily get through a whole day. But whats the point of buying a phone with lot's of features if you can't use them, and whats the point of having a 4.3" screen if you can't have the brightness level at 50+.
To the point!
HTC have already made updated batteries that have a much higher capacity than the original batteries, these are for some of their other products.
(just look at the higher capacity HD2 batteries by HTC, they have a higher capacity than the original HD2 batteries.)
That's why i suggest that we all contact HTC and let them know that we are both aware and annoyed by the horrible battery. And then request a better and improved battery for the Desire HD.
If you look at their updates, they have a pretty good history of listening to their customers.
And if their customer service department get about 300 requests in one single day I am absolutely sure that we will see a result in a month or maybe even faster.
I live in Denmark myself and I've seen a similar thread in
a Danish forum and in two days time we have had 183 people send mails to the Scandinavian HTC customer service.
Now there is only about 2000 active users on that forum so that's pretty good for two days. And with such a huge success in a Danish forum, I'm sure a big forum like this would do even better!
So if you have the time to write a little email to the HTC customer service telling them about the poor battery life and then make a request for a better battery, I (and probably every DHD user) would appreciate it.
And even if you are one of those lucky users that can go for days without charging while having standard settings,helping us wouldn't hurt.
Thanks in Advance

Well....although I do get your point, I am not sure that I, and probably other people as well, agree entirely on the 'horrible' battery life.
Yes, at first, it does look to have poor capacity when you get your DHD out of the box.
But remember, a lot of people, if not allm are using their new toy a lot the first couple of days.
If you browse this forum and the DHD topics you'll see that people report a lot better battery life after a couple of charges.
In addition to this, when you get into rooting and flashing, you'll see that users with custom roms, custom kernels and special profiles setup in Setcpu (like less Mhz usage when the screen is off) actually even get better battery life out if their DHD....
In essence, from what I have read, most people are able to use their DHD for one day without charging, which in my opinion, is quite acceptable, considering the size of the screen, the speed of the device and the possibilities and syncing going on....
If I sometimes read other cells'threads, it appears to me that the battery life on the DHD is not that far off, or even is better, than other top devices....
Having said that.....the effort you take I understand for sure, I just am not sure that HTC will do anything about it (as I think what we get is what we should expect)...

Where is the solution in that? Infact there is no solution its how it is
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DHD battery life sucks.
There is no point defending it. Its a bloody mobile phone, it supposed to be able to work out of box, not a science project that u have to spend days tweaking it in order to last a day without the bloody adapter!
u can tell i m really crossed with DHD battery life...

cezent said:
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It does work out of the box. Did yours not turn on?
If you mean 'it's supposed to have the best possible life the first time I fully charge it on day one' then, no it's not. You are wrong.

I just don't get it this was my first proper Android phone after coming from a HD2 and an iPhone 4 and the battery life is on par with both out of the box however simply reducing the time some apps sync I mean can you really not wait the 2 sec ish Twitter etc take to update? Really does improve battery life I have my screen set to 30% brightness which is more than enough if not you need specsavers not a new battery.
At a push I can get 2 days out of my DHD and I would say I'm a average to heavy user about 30 min calls 50 odd text and a couple of hours playing games surfing the net
Gadget show last night drained an iPhone 4 from full charge to flat in 2 hours using the layer app
I don't use setcpu etc I've just used some common sense.
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AndyCr15 said:
It does work out of the box. Did yours not turn on?
If you mean 'it's supposed to have the best possible life the first time I fully charge it on day one' then, no it's not. You are wrong.
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well, i charged mine overnight, leave home at 7, phone dead most days by 5pm. u can defend the battery life as much as you want, and i m glad u like yours. less than 12hr of standard use makes any smartphone useless in my view.
wakers said:
Gadget show last night drained an iPhone 4 from full charge to flat in 2 hours using the layer app
I don't use setcpu etc I've just used some common sense.
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I use iphone4 along side my DHD, almost identical setup in terms of sync and updates. when my DHD battery flat out in the afternoon, iphone4 has typically over 80% left.
I dont think it takes a rocket scientist to see DHD's battery is an issue.

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less than 12hr of standard use makes any smartphone useless in my view.
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Yeah, I would agree.

cezent said:
well, i charged mine overnight, leave home at 7, phone dead most days by 5pm. u can defend the battery life as much as you want, and i m glad u like yours. less than 12hr of standard use makes any smartphone useless in my view.
I use iphone4 along side my DHD, almost identical setup in terms of sync and updates. when my DHD battery flat out in the afternoon, iphone4 has typically over 80% left.
I dont think it takes a rocket scientist to see DHD's battery is an issue.
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Unplug mine from charging about midnight, get home from work between 18.30 and 20.30 and most nights I have approx 30-40% battery left, LiOn batteries need multiple charge / discharge cycles to get the best out of them so no phone is gonna be at it's best outta the box.

There seems to be massive difference in peoples experience with there DHD mine defo lasts as long as the iPhone 4 I had how yours can last less than 20% there must be something wrong
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mine actually died last night (the first night i had it) i was a little surprised but i checked the battery usage and com.zxing..... used like 70%
lol it seems the barcode scanner didn't close and kept the camera on all night

I am a heavy user Facebook sync every hour a hundred odd texts a day few hours of internet browsing and I can get more than 12 hours mainly like 15 hours unplug at 7.30am and charge it 12.30am
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it seems that some people have a very good battery life even with heavy use,and some don't. I am new to android having come from windows mobile. In winmo devices,the radio version on the device can make a difference to the battery life on similiar devices.maybe this is the same case on DHD because I noticed there are several version of stock roms with different built of radio image.
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iznee said:
it seems that some people have a very good battery life even with heavy use,and some don't. I am new to android having come from windows mobile. In winmo devices,the radio version on the device can make a difference to the battery life on similiar devices.maybe this is the same case on DHD because I noticed there are several version of stock roms with different built of radio image.
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There isn't really a benchmark for "heavy user". I reckon its largely due to different interpretations. Throw the difference in batteries that are likely to exist due to the manufacturing process, and you'd get varying reported results.
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why do people complaint so much about battery life of DHD and other smartphone. when you look at their capabilities, you wouldn't switch your laptop on an expect it to last all day. cause its a smartphone doesn't mean it can do everything for you!
if the battery really bad, then the is a fault i.e faulty battery,app which is eating up resources, radio constantly changing from 2g to 3g which i think one of the biggest drain on battery or a set up which just going to drain battery faster etc etc. These phone when "out of the box" are set up to show the phone off, so yes its going to have it all sing and dancing at you! with everything switched on why you taylor the setting to meet your needs. please don't come back and say "but yes why have i got a smartphone and then i have to switch off all these features" you don't but don't expect it to last all day.
sorry about the rant but i think some people just have unrealistic expectations how long a smartphone can last. people who complain that the phone cant last 24hrs, why would you want it to last that long?. you telling me you don't sleep in that period of time if you want a phone to last 2 days get a nokia 8950! an if your a person who uses it as a business phone, come on what do you expect? your a heavy user. use some sense, have it so you can charge on the go or a get a nokia 8950 as your business phone, an use your smartphone as your own phone.

cattleprod said:
why do people complaint so much about battery life of DHD and other smartphone. when you look at their capabilities, you wouldn't switch your laptop on an expect it to last all day. cause its a smartphone doesn't mean it can do everything for you!
if the battery really bad, then the is a fault i.e faulty battery,app which is eating up resources, radio constantly changing from 2g to 3g which i think one of the biggest drain on battery or a set up which just going to drain battery faster etc etc. These phone when "out of the box" are set up to show the phone off, so yes its going to have it all sing and dancing at you! with everything switched on why you taylor the setting to meet your needs. please don't come back and say "but yes why have i got a smartphone and then i have to switch off all these features" you don't but don't expect it to last all day.
sorry about the rant but i think some people just have unrealistic expectations how long a smartphone can last. people who complain that the phone cant last 24hrs, why would you want it to last that long?. you telling me you don't sleep in that period of time if you want a phone to last 2 days get a nokia 8950! an if your a person who uses it as a business phone, come on what do you expect? your a heavy user. use some sense, have it so you can charge on the go or a get a nokia 8950 as your business phone, an use your smartphone as your own phone.
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True, but i honestly cant see why it would hurt to encourage HTC to make a new battery with higher capacity as a part of their accessory lineup for the Desire HD.

sorry yeah i do agree with you, that HTC sould bring out a higher capactiy battery and don't understand why HTC have not used a higher capactiy battery in first place. ive also have a X10(1500mAh) and BB storm2(1400mAh) both have higher capactiy, and X10 is the worst for battery life out of the 3 phones and DHD beats both these phone on battery life.
HTC have the reasons why they used that size battery for the DHD and if they do bring out a higher capactiy at least you can believe the claims of it being a 1800mAh, were these 3rd party batteries claim 1800mAh but really you only getting 1400mAh.
i was not aiming this rant at you, an im sorry, its to people that complain about battery life of todays smartphone and there expections of them.

Test it! You must not use more Power per Hour than 1%.If you are at 4% you do something wrong. In standby of course...
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walda said:
Test it! You must not use more Power per Hour than 1%.If you are at 4% you do something wrong. In standby of course...
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How would you test it?

walda said:
Test it! You must not use more Power per Hour than 1%.If you are at 4% you do something wrong. In standby of course...
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Mine is using about 4 an hour. But I figure that's cos I rarely properly exit apps.
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which for better battery life: Open Soju or GB-ns4G-deck?

Hi guys, I have a Sprint NS 4g. (saw another similar thread, but they are discussing ROMs for the other versions...) I stopped using it because the battery life is miserable even though I have 0% Time Without Signal. (My rooted Evo literally lasts 3x as long at this NS.) Therefore I am looking into alternative ROMs.
Any idea which of the above ROMs has better battery life?
Thanks!

I've been using mikeyinid's rom in the ns4g dev section. It's titled "updated 6/27/11..." using matr1x kernel. Had very good battery ever since he went to the new kernel and I'm using it as-is. No performance tweaks.
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Thanks - would you provide a link? I don't see that one. Thanks

You really get better battery on your evo? My ns4g lasts so much longer than my evo on any rom. I prefer cm7 for the options, with heavy use I can still get 20 hours
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Yeah, my Evo goes for 1.5 days with a lot of use. The recent roms are great on battery life.
My Nexus goes maybe 5 hours with heavy use.

brokentoaster24 said:
You really get better battery on your evo? My ns4g lasts so much longer than my evo on any rom. I prefer cm7 for the options, with heavy use I can still get 20 hours
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Broken, any tricks to get batt life that long? I have had two NS phones, each with dismal battery life.

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Broken, any tricks to get batt life that long? I have had two NS phones, each with dismal battery life.
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If you are using your phone non-stop, meaning you have the screen on straight periods of time, 5 hours is not bad, really. You have to remember that the SAMOLED screen sucks battery down. On the weekends when my phone is on all the time, I generally have to swap batteries 2 or 3 times in a day. Thats very heavy use, of course. During the week with moderate use, texts, gtalk, emails, and xda app, I get 10- 12 hours on a charge. Screen on time is a killer with the NS

Why does this thread get more hits than mine?
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I am trying Soju right now - so far it looks and feels elegant.

My NS4G gets way better battery life than my Evo did probably almost twice as long. But aside from that I have had good lick with open soju and Cyanogen. Open Soju was nice because it has voodoo control for headset audio which really takes advantage of the wolfson headphone amp built into the ns. Voodoo makes the audio like night and day once you have tried it you cant go back. Than Cyanogen is great many options but to get voodoo I had to use nets kernel. Both having great battery life but Cyanogen has more options but its still in beta.
Edit: I did not really answer your question about the GB-Deck because I have not used it but have heard good things you have to flash gapps with it like Cyanogen.

There's really something to be said for turning down the screen brightness. Also make sure you have wifi sleep on never. Try james bond kernel and let it settle for a couple days. First day or two of a new rom/kernel will be a little low on battery
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My Evo has been unplugged for 16 hours of heavy use, and there is now 28 percent battery remaining. This is with a current 2.3.3 rom. Well done Google.

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Thanks - would you provide a link? I don't see that one. Thanks
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Here you go...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1070383
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Thank you sir.

[Q] sgsII vs the rest

hey guys .. i'm coming over from milestone, my phones fcked so m planning to buy sgsII .. but few people told me the battery life aint tht good it just barely lasts a day on normal usage ( i knw it vaires from person to person but still )
i wanted to knw if ther r roms arnd which increase the battery life .. or are ther better options available out ther .. like mayb htc sensation or the lg optimus 2x
.. even droid 3 has come out now ..
thnx in advance

rrohanjs said:
hey guys .. i'm coming over from milestone, my phones fcked so m planning to buy sgsII .. but few people told me the battery life aint tht good it just barely lasts a day on normal usage ( i knw it vaires from person to person but still )
i wanted to knw if ther r roms arnd which increase the battery life .. or are ther better options available out ther .. like mayb htc sensation or the lg optimus 2x
.. even droid 3 has come out now ..
thnx in advance
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I'd get an O2X, I've heard great things about it.

Battery life is very dependant on usage, aka the more the screen is on the less time it will last.
I get 14-16hours on a charge, but I do lots of reading via google reader and web browsing, and some gaming.
The SGS2 has some of the best hardware out, an unlocked bootloader, CM hopefully coming so its got a bright future on the community side, and it even seems like samsung might push out a 2.3.4 rom soonish.
Tegra has some small advantages, eg in games, but with Chainfire 3D you can play any tegra games.
YMMV etc.

ive had the gs2 for five days now..and ive gotta say...i LOVE it. right out the gate, the screen smacked me in the face like a flying dildo..simply stunning. the os too is buttery smooth. i have updated through kies once to kf3. my handset is sim free. all stock widgets etc remain. one problem i have is 'software update' and the hubs appear randomly...so i close them, they reappear...i have been.thinking about rooting it, but ive been conditioning the battery. . if i root i can't update through kies..
anyhow, i'm getting roughly 22 hours use, with moderate usage. which is ok. i recommend this phone wholeheartedly...its simply awesome.
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Despite the less than stellar battery life, thisis my favorite gadget bar none .
The battery issue is said to be fixed with the new gb 2.3.4 .some also say that modded firmware helps solve this issue.
I'm still in unrooted stock fw and I have force stopped a wifi process . This seems to have stabilized battery usage somewhat. Still too early to tell.
But with battery issue or not, I can't see myself ever using another phone.
When I carry the sgs2 with me I feel like I'm carrying a part of the future- this is what mobile computing is.

If I didn't play around with my phone so much. ( and play so many gameloft games ) My SGS would last at least 2 days. At the end of a day, where I have sent some texts and called some friends, while playing almost an hour of games. I still have 40-50 battery left.
I can recommend this to anyone. (My mom just got the sensation... It's laggy, and bad battery. Standard HTC)

Holy Crap this thing is fast

Just got my Atrix this morning..and am loving how blazing fast it really is. This thing has more horse power than any phone I have ever owned..
I'm coming from a tricked out Captivate OC/UV to 1.3 and it pales by comparison..
I'm not just talking benchmarks....but while watching full hd movies..I can pause and fast forward right to where I slide it without any hesitation at all...no pixelation..no stalls..no FC's...no lag at all...I love it..
I don't have it rooted yet..and no custom rom yet..have to wait out the return period first..just in case it goes bonkers..but I gotta say...anyone on the fence about getting it..you really need to look at one..
I can't wait till I get to oc/uv this one..just to see how much smoother it really can be..
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Haha I remember you from the captivate forum anyway im loving my. How's your battery so far? When I got mine it would drain with in 3h now since I rooted etc it jumped to woopiing 16h with sync and data on the whole time.
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mac208x said:
Haha I remember you from the captivate forum anyway im loving my. How's your battery so far? When I got mine it would drain with in 3h now since I rooted etc it jumped to woopiing 16h with sync and data on the whole time.
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Well..I'm down to 85% in 4 hours of heavy usage...lots of game playing...watching movies..calling folks..and downloading apps..
I'm 100% straight stock right now anyway..don't know if this is normal for these phones or not...but I ain't complaining any about it..
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Mac11700 said:
Well..I'm down to 85% in 4 hours of heavy usage...lots of game playing...watching movies..calling folks..and downloading apps..
I'm 100% straight stock right now anyway..don't know if this is normal for these phones or not...but I ain't complaining any about it..
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Interesting battery stats. Are you on stock Froyo or Gingerbread?...
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ccrows said:
Interesting battery stats. Are you on stock Froyo or Gingerbread?...
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Gingerbread...2.3.4
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Just ran across your post and thought I'd share my impressions on the battery. I just picked up my atrix last week after returning my infuse 4g. My battery is a beast; this morning I pulled it off the charger at 8am and now its 1:46am...I am still at 50%. I am a heavy user and I am definitely surprised how long the battery last me. I am also 100% stock running gingerbread. (Also have juice defender running). If I had my infuse still and pulled it off the charger at 8am it would hit the 50% mark by 12pm.
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Mac11700 said:
Just got my Atrix this morning..and am loving how blazing fast it really is. This thing has more horse power than any phone I have ever owned..
I'm coming from a tricked out Captivate OC/UV to 1.3 and it pales by comparison..
I'm not just talking benchmarks....but while watching full hd movies..I can pause and fast forward right to where I slide it without any hesitation at all...no pixelation..no stalls..no FC's...no lag at all...I love it..
I don't have it rooted yet..and no custom rom yet..have to wait out the return period first..just in case it goes bonkers..but I gotta say...anyone on the fence about getting it..you really need to look at one..
I can't wait till I get to oc/uv this one..just to see how much smoother it really can be..
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If you like it now, you are going to LOVE it after you take time to mod it.
But then again - if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

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If you like it now, you are going to LOVE it after you take time to mod it.
But then again - if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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Even if it isn't broke...I will fix it.....
I want to have some of the nicer themes available for it..
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I've also got to chime in and say this is the best stock android battery experience I've ever had. Lasts all day with moderate usage, with over 60% when I go to bed at night. Even with heavy usage I'm not running low. I don't plug it in at work like I would my nexus one, and I only charge it in the car if I'm running navigation.

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I've also got to chime in and say this is the best stock android battery experience I've ever had. Lasts all day with moderate usage, with over 60% when I go to bed at night. Even with heavy usage I'm not running low. I don't plug it in at work like I would my nexus one, and I only charge it in the car if I'm running navigation.
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Gingerbread...2.3.4
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That's kinda wild. Many have complained about the big dropoff in battery life with Gingerbread compared to Froyo.
Interesting that a couple others here seem happy with battery life on GB too...
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That's kinda wild. Many have complained about the big dropoff in battery life with Gingerbread compared to Froyo.
Interesting that a couple others here seem happy with battery life on GB too...
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Well...considering I was getting fair life with my Captivate...this one just blows it out of the water...so I think I am getting pretty good stats so far...
I had 9 hours of showing this thing off...I watched 1/2 of Transformers in HD...made 5 phone calls..8 text messages..downloaded 8 programs..played 3 different games and surfed the internet for about 20 minutes..and I am at 60%...so...I guess it's way above average... ?
I'll charge it back up..and see if I get the same amount tonight at work...but I got to say...Moto did right on this one for me..and I am loving it...All the guys at work are miffed...only 2 said I should have held off for the SGSII...and I just laughed...
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With all the complaining going on, it's always nice to see people that have everything working and working well.
I am personally extremely satisfied with my self modded stock 2.3.4. The only thing that kind of annoys me is occasional lag of Motoblur. I might just try the Touchwiz port posted somewhere around here while I wait for CM7 final.

Go and install CM7 beta - you'll **** your self with how fast it is.

Mac11700 said:
Well...considering I was getting fair life with my Captivate...this one just blows it out of the water...so I think I am getting pretty good stats so far...
I had 9 hours of showing this thing off...I watched 1/2 of Transformers in HD...made 5 phone calls..8 text messages..downloaded 8 programs..played 3 different games and surfed the internet for about 20 minutes..and I am at 60%...so...I guess it's way above average... ?
I'll charge it back up..and see if I get the same amount tonight at work...but I got to say...Moto did right on this one for me..and I am loving it...All the guys at work are miffed...only 2 said I should have held off for the SGSII...and I just laughed...
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I'd laugh too, the SGSII apparently has absolutely atrocious battery life. They put it up next to an Infuse 4G with similar usage and such and the Infuse 4G took the cake. I think the Infuse's battery life is horrid, if the SGSII is worse I'll stick with my 30+ hour Atrix!!

Great to hear you guys are enjoying your new Atrices! As for me, i got mine the first day it came out luckily since everyone was so hesitant on getting it! As for the battery life, when i first got it, i would get 16+ hours on heavy phone usage over 8+ hours and with continuous wifi and data when i wasn't in the house.
Only when i started messing around with it by flashing different psuedo-roms did i notice that the battery life was shortened dramatically, so heads up to you new guys, dont forget to wipe your battery stats everytime you flash a new rom!

TfzSCVang said:
Great to hear you guys are enjoying your new Atrices! As for me, i got mine the first day it came out luckily since everyone was so hesitant on getting it! As for the battery life, when i first got it, i would get 16+ hours on heavy phone usage over 8+ hours and with continuous wifi and data when i wasn't in the house.
Only when i started messing around with it by flashing different psuedo-roms did i notice that the battery life was shortened dramatically, so heads up to you new guys, dont forget to wipe your battery stats everytime you flash a new rom!
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Well I had the opposite experience my battery was horrible on stock not rooted as soon as I flashed and did the battery fix my battery became way better but still doesn't last as long as my girlfriends Motorola triumph
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Got an Infuse and loved the size of the screen.
Had it for a few weeks and thought the size began to become annoying for things like my car cradle, pocket, etc. but I thought it was neat.
Wife's upgrade become available and she didn't like the size of the Infuse, so I told her to get an Atrix cause of the power (was Infuse, Atrix or Inspire and the Atrix made the most sense).
We got the wife's phone on Thursday. I went home, got her a different launcher, set up the stuff she would like on her phone, etc. She loved it. So did I.
It made my Infuse feel like it was running in slow motion. I played with my wife's phone for literally 20-30 minutes setting it up for her.
The next day, as soon as I got off work, I took mine back (had a week left in my 30 days), got my Atrix and (after having to take it back and get a replacement as my first one rebooted constantly) haven't looked back.
I can't believe this thing.

I was talking with a couple guys at work that had them..they got them when they first come out...they had battery issues too..but..I have had other phones with bad batteries before...and just this year .and went through 2 on my Captivate and a new charger...so..If you got one that the battery doesn't last long on..go get a new battery for it..Many folks over look this..and blame custom roms or the phones themselves for bad battery life..Just a FYI for those who have had bad luck with them..
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I recently bought a used Atrix and it had 2.3.4 already installed on it. Coming from a Captivate, I was immediately impressed with the blazing speed of the device. The first day, I ran the phone hard. After 14-hours it was down to about 20%. The display had been on for over 3-hours and I had more than 2-hours of phone calls.
Simply awesome. BL is unlocked and rooted but rom is stock.
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The One has the best standby battery life of any phone EVER.

I swear this thing does nothing when on standby. Screen on time is at just over two hours and yet the stats are amazing. Interestingly I'm on my third one, the other two were NOTHING like this.
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Yeah I noticed that too try using power save ... Seems to have even better standby when that is enabled. Very happy with battery life so far on mine.
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jbarrack said:
Yeah I noticed that too try using power save ... Seems to have even better standby when that is enabled. Very happy with battery life so far on mine.
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So am I. Typically 30 to 40% battery left. With my iphone and SIII, both were dead by the end of the day.
PS. I use the power saver function.

jaaystott said:
I swear this thing does nothing when on standby. Screen on time is at just over two hours and yet the stats are amazing. Interestingly I'm on my third one, the other two were NOTHING like this.
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Couldn't agree more... I am only on the first "One" . But battery life is fantastic compared to my S3. My current stats are showing 54% remaining after 26:25 hours. Estimated remaining time is 33 hours. That's with a little bit of 4G usage and 30 minutes talk time. Total screen time is showing at 1.03 hours.
By this time of the day, with similar usage, by S3 was sitting under 50% and would remain for another 6 hours. I was originally very worried about the non-removable battery, but with performance like this I am no longer worried!

jaaystott said:
Interestingly I'm on my third one, the other two were NOTHING like this.
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True. My first One was very disappointing when looking at battery life.
I hope the replacement will not have this problem

Fidelcastrol said:
True. My first One was very disappointing when looking at battery life.
I hope the replacement will not have this problem
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Sadly im one of those that seems to have got a poor battery life after swapping
My 1st unit was AMAZING, just like the screenshot in 1st post, i could go a full day at work with 80%+...now ive got my replacement unit I noticed the difference straight away
In about 30 mins im losing like 10%+ even on standby
My old phone I saw well over 1d 15 hours on battery before i saw it go into abotu 15% battery...win some lose some.
However I am getting another replacement...fingers crossed

The One has the best standby battery life of any phone EVER.
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No offence, but the Xperia Z is better. The One may be good, but it's not the very best.

It has really good battery life considering the 1080 p screen and those dual speakers with boom sound.
Guys please consider the battery to note 2, it is a phablet with a gigantic battery. It somewhat like comparin nexus 7 with HTC one, difference between the n7 and note 2 screen size is only 1.5 inches
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Best standby I have ever seen on a phone is the iphone5 to be honest. But the One definitely isn't far behind.

For me coming from an iPhone 5 and before that iPhone 4 and before that numerous other phones..this HTC one has been the best for battery life by far. I'm averaging battery life of 17 hours according to gsam battery app... I never would have imagined getting battery life like that and I am not on power saving mode. And as for the note 2. I would hope it bas better battery...it's not that much bigger (screen) and it has a 3100mah battery compared to 2300 in the one.
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I'm lucky to get 8 hours. I'm not impressed at all. I had to charge it twice just to able to do some photography.
My recent past phones were an iPhone 5, galaxy s3, and note 2. Only the 5 had worse battery.
I have undervolted, have lte off and It drains fast when the screen is on. Who cares about standby. How does it actually last with use.

the battery has been very inconsistent for me ever since i got the phone a few weeks ago. sometimes i can go the entire day just fine and other times i need to charge by 6 pm. it definitely wouldnt last an extra day if i forgot to charge it before going to bed.

KillaHurtz said:
I'm a developer, you know...
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Ha ha classic
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I don't have any hard evidence but this phone kills my Sensation. I would use about 1 hours of actual usage in a day while the rest of the time is in standby with wifi, and I can get through my 8 hour day with about 60% to 70% left. My sensation would have been near 20%, and I have to charge it if I use it more often. I am really impressed.

Mazzstrikers said:
No idea why you are here, bashing the One. HTC has had a bad reputation for notorious battery life, but the One is clearly solid in this aspect. Do not generalise based on HTC's past phones.Not sure about the Note 2 or S4 but I am darn sure my standby and screen on times beat my friend's S3 for good.
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My One also handily beat my friends' S3 and iPhone 4S as well. I have never used a phone which I didn't worry about the battery near the end of the day - this is the first.

Mazzstrikers said:
Erm yup that seems more fair. I also didn't claim One has the best battery life. I mean the term "best" is entirely arbitrary. The best battery life on an android would definitely be the Razr Maxx. It'd probably handle close to twice the standby times on the S4.
So in that case why are you so eager to prove that the S4 is better than the One? I mean if you really feel it's better go ahead and buy one. Point proven.
For me and the other One users here we are VERY satisfied with our battery life, thank you very much.
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I already have one. I am here to present unbiased facts, while some people seem to be blinded by ignorance. As previously stated I was in the market for an additional device for my fiance, and the One came up. Also if you actually read thru the responses from the One users, there is a lot of mixed responses not just praise.

KennyLegend said:
Don't be sorry
U lost 20-25% overnight? U clearly don't understand the basics of wakelocks. Nuff said.
I have the S3 as well as the One and my S3 and my One have approx similar screen on times but the S3 has longer total up-times with similar screen on time. With the H1, u need power saving on ALL the time to get decent battery life.
The S4 will eat up this phone in terms of battery life.
Getting back to my original point, the H1 does NOT have the best battery life ever of any phone.
I think we're done here.
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Ach, no. I'm very familiar with wakelocks. Again, I'm sorry my personal experiences don't meet with your expectations. My One battery life is much better than my S3 in both standby and gaming.
You. Just two more letters.

KennyLegend said:
This thread should be locked. The one is definitely not the best phone for battery. S3 is better and the Note2 is even better again.
Theres already a thread for battery stats.
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Agreed. I think people are trying to justify having the cheaper phone with meaningless stats. WOW "I had it on powersave all day and got rockin battery !" WOW I had my Note on full brightness for 2 days straight with over 6 hours of screen time. The battery stats on this device are not impressive by any means. The GS4 has this phone beat in every department.
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The OP only mentioned standby time, stop trolling, it's pathetic, especially for a RC

I too agree, it's been unrealistically good on standby. Granted I'm rooted with some bloat removed + Greenify.
Yesterday got 22 hours, 4:33H screen on, 4G on all day, power saver off.

mettleh3d said:
I too agree, it's been unrealistically good on standby. Granted I'm rooted with some bloat removed + Greenify.
Yesterday got 22 hours, 4:33H screen on, 4G on all day, power saver off.
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I use Greenify as well and it makes huge difference. Currently at 3 hours of screen time, with 60% left! Lost only 2% overnight.
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