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evo dislikes?

battery life.... that's really about it. htc really dropped the ball when it came to that. i have never been able to achieve decent battery life, even on custom kernels.
what about you guys?

I have no issues whatsoever. I get about 12-16 hours on a stock rooted EVO. I also have an extra Hero battery that I can pop in my back pocket if need be.
Simply love this phone

really, bad battery life, because i use Vaelpak with netarchy 4.2.2cfs havs less and i get a fulll day with normal to a little heavy usage, and on light days y get like 30 hours, by light i mean checking my email 3 times a day, facebook also 3 times a day a few minutes worth of call and couple dozen texts, also a few online searches on sports schedules and so. so i dont know how some people still say battery sucks. any how my dislike is probably my evo doesnt have my coffee ready when it wakes me up

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really, bad battery life, because i use Vaelpak with netarchy 4.2.2cfs havs less and i get a fulll day with normal to a little heavy usage, and on light days y get like 30 hours, by light i mean checking my email 3 times a day, facebook also 3 times a day a few minutes worth of call and couple dozen texts, also a few online searches on sports schedules and so. so i dont know how some people still say battery sucks. any how my dislike is probably my evo doesnt have my coffee ready when it wakes me up
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most of us have no idea how some of you achieve the 30+ hr battery life. even with a 2000mAh battery & sbc i get no where near that.

couldn't really point it out, you know with this my final set up i wiped, installed rom, booted, wiped, erased battery stats, flash kernel, boot, set cpu profiles, turn mobile data always on to off used the 3g tweak where you go into ##3282# and changed the last prl to 0 and 0.0.0.0, turn my screen brightness down use launcher pro, and after doing all this i let my phone discharge till it hit 15% and charged to full did this the next 3 charge cycles, and after testing it for a week i realized that if i didnt use my phone it would only drop 1% every 2 hours and when i was using it it would drop about 1% every 5 minutes

fixxxer2008 said:
most of us have no idea how some of you achieve the 30+ hr battery life. even with a 2000mAh battery & sbc i get no where near that.
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Well, that's because most of us don't use the Evo to play 3D games that push the GPU to the limit, watch Sportscenter using the Slingplayer while you're at work, constantly flash different things just to see what they do or it looks like, HDMI mirroring, etc. If all I did was check my emails a few times a day and send out a few texts, my phone would last 30 hours, too. During off peak hours that my phone isn't constantly syncing and I'm asleep, it will go down from 100% to maybe 92% overnight. The thing is, I never put it down during the day so I (and people like me) have to keep it on the charger at all times or keep extra batteries. I do both. lol
Asides from that, my only complaints include the annoying pop-up window that comes up with the OEM verison of Swype. I also wish that Sense had landscape support for the home screen and that the camera wouldn't take 5 seconds to focus and shoot. But the pros greatly outweight the cons IMO.

Yes on stock battery with juice defender and sbc i get 15-16 hours with normal use.. less if I play a game or 2. Really have nothing bad to say about the evo
from my phone duh

To be honest, I've had sooo many phones and id have to say the evo is hands down my favorite phone ever. I will say its hard to say what I dislike because this phone literally does EVERYTHING. I don't expect battery life to be amazing given it has a 4" screen but if I had to choose id say the power/volume buttons. HTC could have done a better job on the quality; being a rom flasher tears these buttons a new one.
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emcp422 said:
really, bad battery life, because i use Vaelpak with netarchy 4.2.2cfs havs less and i get a fulll day with normal to a little heavy usage, and on light days y get like 30 hours, by light i mean checking my email 3 times a day, facebook also 3 times a day a few minutes worth of call and couple dozen texts, also a few online searches on sports schedules and so. so i dont know how some people still say battery sucks. any how my dislike is probably my evo doesnt have my coffee ready when it wakes me up
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I don't believe these claims for 1 minute..... with your heavy or "Light" usage.
Checking email 3 times a day, it's a smartphone(should be able to check emails when you want), should be able to check facebook when you want. To make calls when you want and not worry about your phone being dead in 4 hours.
The EVO is still my favorite phone to date, I buy a new smartphone every 12 months when allowed...
I have so many different roms/kernels and give them a few days to settle down. I have try the battery conditioning tips, etc..... There is no way, unless your barely using your smartphone that ANYONE get's that good of battery.
I sync my emails every 2 hours, facebook every 2 hours, have weatherbug synced, tweetcaster(twitter) 15 minutes and my 2 games of wordsmith and wordfeud.
I did a test last night, charged my phone to 100%, turned wifi on and set my phone on my night stand all 11pm. I woke up at 9am and my batter way down to 24%. I had many missed notifications, text, emails, game moves, etc..... That much of a drain with wifi on and on standby is crazy!
I will be getting the nexus 4g and then the EVO 3D, I hope one of those phones batteries will be improved than the EVO 4G.

I don't believe these claims for 1 minute..... with your heavy or "Light" usage.
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I have so many different roms/kernels and give them a few days to settle down. I have try the battery conditioning tips, etc..... There is no way, unless your barely using your smartphone that ANYONE get's that good of battery.
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Believe it. I can get about 40 hours on my phone with light usage. 20-30 texts a day, 2-3 times checking facebook, and a few emails sent and received all day. I can get this with Myn's 2.2 rom, and with using Setcpu to gradually scale the cpu down as the battery goes down.
ANd I probably could go 48 hours if I was on wifi and not 3g.

sitlet said:
Believe it. I can get about 40 hours on my phone with light usage. 20-30 texts a day, 2-3 times checking facebook, and a few emails sent and received all day. I can get this with Myn's 2.2 rom, and with using Setcpu to gradually scale the cpu down as the battery goes down.
ANd I probably could go 48 hours if I was on wifi and not 3g.
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Pics or it didn't happen .......
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fixxxer2008 said:
battery life.... that's really about it. htc really dropped the ball when it came to that. i have never been able to achieve decent battery life, even on custom kernels.
what about you guys?
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I agree at first that battery life was less then spectacular. But after rooting and using custom Roms as well as setcpu my battery life is very good. I would consider myself a moderate user (50 -60 emails, 40-50 texts, 20-30 calls, some internet searches etc) and my battery after unplugging at 7am and getting home at 6pm is still 50-60%.

I have to say that I am disappointed with the camera, low light shots/making videos isn't as good as some of the other phones out there. I was looking forward to the camera when I got the device, and it took such good pictures in the store - it hasn't been that horrible using it or anything, I have gotten some good pics and all, but these days I usually have to take 5 pictures to get one good shot.

I can't stand the ****ty speakerphone. I use it every day while driving and I have to lay the phone on my chest to hear the person. If the Evo 3Ds speakerphone is this ****ty they better toss in a bra with the phone purchase.
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love the phone, but I've had it replaced twice (thanks insurance) for build quality issues, light leak, screen splotches, cracked buttons, etc.
Battery life has been horrible since day 1 (bought on release date), but 2 spare batteries gets me through the day.
The cameras are great, but the FFC sucks without bright lighting, and the rear cam is great until it's pitch black out. Also for video it's not the best.
Kickstand is awesome but unstable at times
it wasn't free? lol I don't know what else to say it's my favorite phone I've ever owned so far!

imex99 said:
I did a test last night, charged my phone to 100%, turned wifi on and set my phone on my night stand all 11pm. I woke up at 9am and my batter way down to 24%. I had many missed notifications, text, emails, game moves, etc..... That much of a drain with wifi on and on standby is crazy!
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You battery should have been above 90%, and you shouldn't have missed any notifications.
Your phone is obviously defective.

i wish this screen would show detailed, but my phone only shows system as a whole, haven't looked for a more detailed way, don't really need it as dont need to prove my battery stats to none

I can't really say that the battery is an issue with mine. I almost never use wifi, have gps on all the time. Sync twitter, weather and gmail, and play at least 2 Wordwise games a day. I take the phone off of the charger at about 8:00 AM and it lasts until I put it back on around 12:00 PM. If I play two or three hours of games it won't make it that long, but neither will any other smartphone that I have used.
My only disappointments with this phone are, the mediocre camera, the lack of internal memory, and Sprints crappy data speeds. I have had mine since launch day and have only replaced one speaker that went bad, other than that it has worked flawlessly.

CAMERA SUCKS. 5mp iPhone camera mops the floor with the POS camera on the Evo. Evo is still a better phone, but my god, the camera blows.

My complaints are that HTC doesn't like us very much anymore and that hardware isn't user upgradeable lol. The first one doesn't matter since we have xda, and the second industry is just unrealistic lol. But my battery life is normal, get about 9 hours per battery which is fine since I have 2.

Sorry but I find this hilarious

I've been seeing numerous posts in different threads by people bragging about their battery life and how their battery lasts 43 days and still has like 19% left and such. Usually a picture attached or something. Funny part is at what point is that impressive when you don't use your phone!? If you only use it as a book end or paper weight its really not that great that your battery lasts long.
From the Beast : Galaxy Note

no kidding... i haven't gone a day without having to recharge my phone. i can hardly put this thing down!

Yeah a heavy user has to charge nightly...i think people don't use their phones much for a day just for a screenshot....lol

Man, here I thought it was just me! I have to charge mine every day as well, though I use a pair of Motorola bluetooth headphones to listen to music at work all day.

i have to charge mine twice daily, i just can't get my hands off it

Featherbeard said:
Man, here I thought it was just me! I have to charge mine every day as well, though I use a pair of Motorola bluetooth headphones to listen to music at work all day.
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I can't remember the model what ones and how do you like them?
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sprintuser1977 said:
how their battery lasts 43 days and still has like 19% left and such.
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43 days??? No way!

DMax99 said:
43 days??? No way!
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Lol, I know man its insane ain't it
From the Beast : Galaxy Note

Lol 43 days is hilarious, I have 3 batteries and 2 charger cradles, I love this thing so much that I can't bear putting it down and this way all I have to do is swap batteries around, cbf waiting for the device to take its time charging lol
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I charge twice a day!
I am not complaining about the battery life, considering how hardly i put my phone down, i might have to charge 4time a day with any other phone.
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I just don't see the point of having a device like the Note if you're not going to utilize it. Get a damn slivr or sumfin.
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I have a mate's Note (now and ex-iPhone user ) and having rooted and set it up for him, I will give it back soon. He does not care if it is this week or next . Frankly I can't see how he can wait that long!
BUT, having tried this out, we are on 3 1/2 days now with 70% battery left ....

I'm sorry, but I call stinky sticky diarrhea if you claim more than a full day of battery on heavy use. There is no way.
From the Beast : Galaxy Note

My battery, post root, gives the following stats:
On for 13 hours,
Data mostly Wifi, Push Sync on, FB, Twitter syncs hourly. No GPS
Voice Calls : 36 minutes
Display On : 3 hours 14 minutes
Battery left : 33%
I think this is the best battery I've every had. Can't really complain. Though do find some people's claim of battery lasting two days bit over the top.
Though, must say, saw remarkable difference post root.
Ciao.
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sprintuser1977 said:
I've been seeing numerous posts in different threads by people bragging about their battery life and how their battery lasts 43 days and still has like 19% left and such. Usually a picture attached or something. Funny part is at what point is that impressive when you don't use your phone!? If you only use it as a book end or paper weight its really not that great that your battery lasts long.
From the Beast : Galaxy Note
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the biggest use is so that you have a clean slate to determine what minimum drain is. I.e. do you have a rogue app bleeding battery.
turning on things/running apps will of course use battery - but you should be able to break it down to what is using how much.

I find it equally amusing that you had to start a thread to laugh at people claiming great battery life. I mean talk of the irony here.
No, I dont get 43 days of standby. But it does last me one full day with heavy use (no GPS). Even if I have more than 50% left on easy sunday, I would still connect it to charger before going to bed. Regardless of what phone I have, I like the assurance of getting out of home with full battery. I even charge my secondary Nokia daily which can go 5 days easy without recharge.
But that does not mean you need to make laughing stock out of people who dont use their phones heavily and get days of standby. My friend goes 2 days on his note without recharge. He is just a moderate user who does not use 3G, but still loves his Note.

More like 43 hours. Must be a typo. 43 days is super ultra exaggeration to the max.

Yes, sarcasm and joking around is just so wrong and terrible. Give me a break. With all the trolling, flaming, name calling and other bull that goes on a little light hearted laughter is needed. Get the corn cob out of ...
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And our definition of heavy use is way different or there's no way you'd go a full day
From the Beast : Galaxy Note

sprintuser1977 said:
Yes, sarcasm and joking around is just so wrong and terrible. Give me a break. With all the trolling, flaming, name calling and other bull that goes on a little light hearted laughter is needed. Get the corn cob out of ...
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And our definition of heavy use is way different or there's no way you'd go a full day
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If you call close to 5 hours of screen time, couple of hours of music, 20-30 odd minutes of youtube video, 2+ hours of calls, 2 gmail and one company email account with sync on as light use, then sure. Our definitions are different.
There are 2 ways to use your phone. without giving it a second thought, and secondly learning to use the things at your disposal to intelligently manage your battery.
Most of the sites I read / follow have their own apps or pulse support. I use pulse rather than standard browser and set it to dark mode(it uses black background in dark mode ). Use applications of my daily newspaper with dark background support, use dark skin, turn on wifi only when I need to download some heavy stuff and keep it on 3G network for syncing (3G standby actually uses less power than wifi kept on and data needed for sync is very less. Using wifi for that is waste of battery resources).
Same with Tapatalk Pro. I use it in black background mode.
There are easy ways to save battery with AMOLED displays and it is to use darker background wherever possible.
You do this and even with heavy use you can easily go 1 full day on note. As long as you dont touch GPS, its all good. If you use GPS for even 30-60 minutes a day, there is no way even note will last one day.
Same with camera. Too much video recording and your battery will go down. These 2 things I dont use too much every day. Mostly camera is for snaps only and short 2-3 minutes clips once or twice a week.
With this use I am left with more than 20% battery by the time its time to go to bed. Thats enough. This is first phone other than iPhone that has given this much backup time. My SGS2 needed recharging in car on my way back home.
This is all on checkrom with FM2.0 kernel with on demand governor. (This is the best combination that I have settled on. Tried every ROM in the developer section and every kernel. Nothing gives battery life like this particular combination on my Note. I would love to see your usage statistics and see how you are eating your battery.

mine is around 15hrs of medium usage with office exchange email connected with 3G 24/7. i did saw few Note user posted the SS about their battery life lasting for almost 3 days. the story is completely unacceptable coz we all knew that 3G draining our battery alot. As usual, the screen display is the top in my battery usage report.

[Q] Battery life question (before buying)

I'm considering buying Nexus 4 and after reading various reviews and user opinions my only concern is - how is the battery life?
Some are saying it's great, others are saying it's crap... See me confused.
I've got no intention of using it for watching movies or heavy gaming, but would still like it to last me at least whole day without charging (24 hrs).
Currently, my SGS2 lasts from 1,5-2 days without charging (I'm using JuiceDefender).
Can anyone comment on the subject, especially compared to SGS2?

I had a galaxy s2 before the nexus. Compared to my s2 the nexus pisses through power mainly on WiFi and surfing the web. Location services and google now use battery a lot too + overnight i loose more power compared to thr s2. I'm hoping its software related and Google improve battery in updates to JB.
I don't believe those who say the battery is great for one minute.

Pretty damn good so far for me my SGS2 would be dead in half the time, even with the screen off!

People with bad battery life are just watching porn on their phones..

myorks1127 said:
People with bad battery life are just watching porn on their phones..
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Who watches porn on a small screen vs a huge monitor? :silly:
Depending on the apps you use, battery drain can be a huge downer for this phone. I use eBuddies for aim chats at work and that thing drains through, so does GChat. Navigation apps such as Google Maps or Navigon also burn battery like there's no tomorrow.
So the question of battery life really is dependent on your daily needs. The difference with other phones is that some have removable batteries.
Expect to invest in a mobile recharger, or to have spare charge cables always on hand with this phone.

I don't do much with my N4 during the day and came over from an SGS2. SGS2 by far outperforms the N4 on battery life from my experiences.

It seems the N4 has fantastic idle battery drain. I let it sit a full 7 hours over night and lost 3% battery, but it seems when you're actually using the phone, the battery is middle of the road. I'd say its still better than my S2 and as good, or slightly better than my S3. :good:

[Q] Thinking about buying this phone [Looking for advice]

Hello,
I currently own a LG Optimus 4X HD and I really do not really like the battery life, which is quite bad for me (Around 2h SOT, 3 if I'm lucky). I'm on the market for a new phone and I've been looking at the S5, HTC One M8 and Note 3.
I already looked at the main battery life thread, but what should I expect with medium usage throughout the day and little to no social app use and also with stock firmware, only root, Greenify and disabling the bloatware?
How do you think this phone compares with the other two listed? I am leaning towards this phone mainly because of the IP67 protection it offers.
I would be buying this phone in Europe.

Seems a rather pointless exercise, given that you've read the battery use thread. Medium usage is a vague description. Battery life is highly dependent on what apps you use as well as how long they are used. And it only takes one or two bad apps e.g. Tunein or Skype to put a big dent in your battery life.
One person will tell you that his medium usage takes him 14 hours. And another will say that medium use sees the battery run out in 8 hours. To answer your question something like 10 - 11 hours total, including 6 - 8 hours of screen time. But the error margin on any such guess..
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Thanks. Yes I realize that it's hard to predict the battery life, but that would surely last me long enough. Also, is Skype really a battery hog? I never heard about that one.

Then you don't read the forum much as there have been a lot of threads about Skype. Presumably because Skype is constantly polling the camera and connection status. The problems may or may not have been resolved in recent updates, but a lot of people have had Skype put a big dent in their batteries recently.
e.g. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2660470
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i have owned the m8 and now have the s5
I would say battery wise for me they were both on par with each other and both would last me the day with medium to heavy use (streaming tv, watching the odd youtube video etc)
The thing i would say is that with the s5 you do have the option to go for a larger battery not that i have done so myself yet as have not had the need...all i ask is that it gets me to the end of the day having done whatever i needed it to do.
If your not really an app intensive user then it will easily get you through the day and beyond...assuming your in a reasonable signal area. I have personally found that the biggest drain on any phone ive had has often been down to having poor or weak signal in the area i have been in.

is my battery faulty?

hey,
Im a new tablet user.I own a nexus 7 and im so disappointed with its battery life that i cant take it anymore so i have to ask.its just been a couple of days since i bought it. the maximum on screen time i get is 5-6hrs.i scrolled over battery life posts of others on this forum and i was shocked to see many of them actually have good battery life which made me worry even more.Maybe its the battery's fault or something.it had some heating issues then i did a factory reset now its fine but the battery still sucks.i have disabled all google apps,location,maps,books..etc all that i dont need but still its no good.please suggest something.shoud i ask for replacement or is it something like the model whose price go down are geared up with cheaper hardware and stuff cos i bought this one recently and this probably came out last year.
The third screenshot was taken after watching a full movie on earphones with full battery.it went down 32 % of the battery.wifi was off.
Please suggest

It's you usage. That's all. Games take a huge toll on battery life on any device.
You have no issue.
Try one full charge with zero gaming. See how you do then. ?

That's about average, as LJ says games really suck battery the most. My typical usage consists of web browsing, XDA forum on Tapatalk browsing, pocket, twitter, fb, etc nothing too heavy really. I get about 4-5 hrs screen on over about 2-3 days. Im usually only on my tablet in the evening and so it sleeps the rest of the time with WiFi and autosync off.
You can always experiment with other ROMs/kernels to see if you can tweak things further.
Also, 5.0 is on the way, you could always flash the factory images for a full fresh lollipop experience. [emoji2]