I know the battery life is already pretty bad, but what are your experiences with battery life and bluetooth.
I will keep it in my pocket connected to bluetooth headset, without using the phone much.
Is the battery drain fast or is it slower?
In your estimation how much battery life do you get with bluetooth on listening to music.
jms_209 said:
I know the battery life is already pretty bad, but what are your experiences with battery life and bluetooth.
I will keep it in my pocket connected to bluetooth headset, without using the phone much.
Is the battery drain fast or is it slower?
In your estimation how much battery life do you get with bluetooth on listening to music.
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it will drain faster obviously but there is nothing to worry about. For example i lose around 10 percent after 2 hours of music with a wired headset
ExCuTioN said:
it will drain faster obviously but there is nothing to worry about. For example i lose around 10 percent after 2 hours of music with a wired headset
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I feel like the cover is going to break off, since putting in my pocket is not as easy as I would like.
It's always in the way and never flush, I'm using an L shaped cable.
I need maybe 5 hours max of music.
2 hours on bus to school, 2 hours back.
I can always have it charged while at school.
Should be able to get enough.
Everything you turn on will drain battery, but my phone is every day the whole day in my pocket, while connected to Bluetooth hands free in car and connected to TomTom navi using Bluetooth tether (for getting real-time traffic info on my data connection) and I'm pretty satisfied with battery life.
At the and of a whole day ive got still left 70%.
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Can anybody tell me how strong a drain on the battery Bluetooth will have if it's simply left on but not being used? I usually just leave Bluetooth on all the time even if I don't have my headset with me...will this kill the battery? Everything I've read in the past indicates that Bluetooth in this state isn't much of a battery drain at all.
Thanks!
Not By me.
I have BT on all the time and go throught two full days of usage.
CJNYC said:
Can anybody tell me how strong a drain on the battery Bluetooth will have if it's simply left on but not being used? I usually just leave Bluetooth on all the time even if I don't have my headset with me...will this kill the battery? Everything I've read in the past indicates that Bluetooth in this state isn't much of a battery drain at all.
Thanks!
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I've always made a lot of thorough battery consumption tests. In new(er) HTC devices, BT battery drain has been a non-issue.
Please also see my articles - I've published a LOT of info on all these (and similar) q's.
Thanks Menneisyys!
Also no problem here.
I also use A2DP alot when at work and usually still don't need to charge the device at all. Sometimes it will sit in it's sync cradle and get a extra battery life but I'm usually not at my desk long. If you were to leave it on discovery mode it will use a little extra but the BT chips nowadays are excellent for minimal battery consumtion/power drain.
I also use a BT carkit which I guess I'm connected to for about 1 hour each day and still see no major battery drop. My old JasJar used to have to be charged upto twice a day with all the above use.
I've had the TyTN now for over 1 month and never had to shut it down due to low battery.
Gav.
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If you were to leave it on discovery mode it will use a little extra
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Let me disagree. I've also thoroughly tested this and found no difference. (See my power & battery consumption-related articles.)
That is, you can safely leave BT discoverability on.
Let me repeat that again,
"it will use a little extra" not LOADS extra but a little. I'm pretty sure of that but I agree with you that you will probably not see much difference in general use, just thought I'd mention it.
Just think though - you will be broadcasting/transmitting BT identity information when in discovery mode which you were not when discovery was off.
Gav.
I just order touch hd , and waiting for it. but I wonder how about battery drain on touch hd.
I got diamond one and it terrible on standard battery.
better than diamond thats for sure ما شاء الله
with extensive outdoor usage (gps running, wlan enabled but home wlan unreachable) my Blackstone is drained in less then 4 hours.
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bla3603 said:
with extensive outdoor usage (gps running, wlan enabled but home wlan unreachable) my Blackstone is drained in less then 4 hours.
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I'm almost have to recharge my Touch every single day! And in mine opinion I don't use it very extremely. Didn't have that issue with my TyTn!
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Didn't have that issue with my TyTn!
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With my TyTN II (Kaiser) I have the same bad experience, drained in less then 1/2 day. Same with some other devices. But I think this is typical for this device class. With some directives the battery power can be saved:
- disable WLAN when going outwards
- reduce display brightness
- disable/shutdown GPS apps if not used
- buy a car kit ;-)
In my opinion WLAN and the display are the most power consuming parts.
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thanks for the advice, normally i have recharge pda-phone every single day with normal usesage. hope to not worry about battery like a normal cellphone ;/
Don't have any problems with drain, even after steady use I still had 3 bars left :O
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normally i have recharge pda-phone every single day with normal usesage.
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You are welcome. I am still playing with my new Blackstone, but I think with "normal" usage the operating distance will be 2..3 days.
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Had a problem trying to charge it in my car for the first time. On a 3 hour journey with about 1/4 battery level left and running pocket player and TomTom when I got home still only 1/4 (or maybe even less) battery power left. I charge it through the USB port in the car stereo. Never had that problem with Polaris under same conditions. Seems ok at home running the same programmes and charging through the mains.
Any one else having trouble charging in a car?
I hope it stands more than one day only. Xperia has better values, my friend told me, it lasts two days more...
friend of mine just got a Xperia. will catechize him...
with heavy usage but turning off WiFi outdoors battery life has been pretty good lasts a day and a half.
In 3G mode, only with two full charges and a bit of heavy usage, cause I only have my HD from last friday, it's been lasting for about 1,5 day. I'm going to test it about one more week and then I'm going to test it in normal GSM mode.
With heavy usage lasting about a day.
2 hours movie
1 hr mp3
30 min calls
10+ text messages
1 hour internet through wifi
12 hrs standby
5 minutes google maps
Maybe 1 hr playing with my new toy (screen lit)
Probably about 2-3 days when my usage goes back to "normal".
I've charged my HD @ 15 o'clock and now is on 72% of battery
opps sorry wrong section, ment to be in the dream not blackstone how do you delete posts?
I have usually a heavy use on it (i.e. too much talking over BT headphone, regular wifi email exchange, rss update etc.).
I used to see it drain easily until I used the advance configuration to fix sd management, connection management etc. For some reason everything was off on mine.
Now with (fairly) regular use it can go one and half day almost.
bla3603 said:
With my TyTN II (Kaiser) I have the same bad experience, drained in less then 1/2 day. Same with some other devices. But I think this is typical for this device class. With some directives the battery power can be saved:
- disable WLAN when going outwards
- reduce display brightness
- disable/shutdown GPS apps if not used
- buy a car kit ;-)
In my opinion WLAN and the display are the most power consuming parts.
regards
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True, no need for WLAN to be on when on the move. It's the most power consuming antenna in your phone. You can set it to disable if it can't find an access point for 1 minute. Bluetooth is also a killer... These phones are stuffed with radio's, don't turn them on all at once.
Oh, and my phone easily lasts a day, and I tinker with it all the friggin time, and use it quite a bit. But I only activate stuff when I need it, such as wifi, bluetooth, direct push. I rarely use GPS, yes of course this drains your battery in 4 hours, just like when you would place a call or watch a video or browse the web for 4 hours. Anything that uses a lot of radio activity or a lot of screen on-time will drain your battery fast.
I optimized power saving modes with schaps advanced config and turn the thing off at night.
Push email on winmo or apple phones is a joke. The way it requires to keep a GPRS connection alive is ridiculous. Blackberry understands this a lot better.
If you don't use it, you might as well turn GRPS auto attach off using schaps advanced config tool since that too will save a lot of battery time.
Recharged 20 hours ago. Normal use. GPRS Data Connection on, e-mail push each hour (i have flatrate) and i have 85% of battery left.
Hello,
I understand people complain about the battery and search around here for issues regarding it and find many.
But mine seems to be shockingly bad. I have HSDPA on, weather, stock updates every 4 hours, twitter every hour, and tend to use Palringo on constantly (maybe this is the issue?). With about 2 hours of FM Radio, maybe an hour of music... the phones battery only lasts for about 7 hours which is not great.
Is this about right for the phone? Or is this shockingly bad compared to others? Its hard to quantify from searching about what the "par" for this device really is.
This is not much, but not shockingly bad. Have you enabled the power saving mode in Palringo?
(I actually don't know what it does, but there is one )
Palringo and beejive on my HD2 sucked the battery like a over active dyson vacuum cleaner!
Nimbuzz seems to be better for battery life but not perfect.
On sunday I managed to kill my battery <5 hours so 7 hours is better than what I get sometimes
another post. geeee
i had asus p750 which battery last for a day or so with minimal usage
i had se w910i while only on 2-3h of phone calls i had to charge the battery every 36 hours
i had an iphone 3g which i had to charge every 2 days with very gentle using
a friend of mine is using htc mda something with the hardware keyboard and has to charge the phone every day
anyway - i can charge my hd2 every night if necessary - it is a very good phone anyway
That might explain it then
I can appreciate that hammering the data connection or whatever Palringo does will not do the battery much good sadly. anyone else use Palringo and get better battery life?
I have the power / data saving mode enabled, although as you said, quite what that does I dont know
Thanks for the replies....
My HD2 is significantly better than my T-Mobile G1 I had previously - that phone definitely needed charging every day and I hardly used it really. I get a good 2-3 days with light usage from the HD2.
I had the same poor batter life before when I first had it. But last couple of days I finally realized that it's the 3G data connection sucking the battery life like nothing. No I only enable data connection whenever there's no wifi for me. But I keep the WiFi on constantly with push mail. The battery life lasts almost about 2 days. So I'm more than satisfied with it now. The iphone/ipod touch needs to be charged every single day mind you. So my advice is to avoid data connection whenever possible since wifi doesn't really suck much battery juice it seems.
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In my case using palringo the battery drain is 8 % per hour. Without palringo running is 4% so double battery life. I ve repeated the test many times with same result...
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In my case using palringo the battery drain is 8 % per hour. Without palringo running is 4% so double battery life. I ve repeated the test many times with same result...
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Thanks mate, this is exactly what I was hoping to get confirmed. I'm seeing something similar, I guess short of not using Palringo there isnt much to do. I do have a charger on my desk at work, so I'll just plug it in.
Interesting I did see that with it plugged in charging and turned on (set to Disk Drive mode) at work the charge barely increased 1% over a period of an hour or so. (I did check that the option to not charge when connected was not ticked). So it wasnt that, just caught me by surprise as it seems it barely charged.
well I couldnt grumble about the battery issues on the hd2 since i changed to a Momax battery but since buying a new blutooth headset my battery life is absolutely rubbish, from 100% at 7am to 40% by 12noon.
If i dont have my blutooth on the battery lasts all day easy !
so my question is? do blutooth devices vary power consumption
Hit a new low with a dead battery twice in one day, couldn't help myself from posting. Stay away from this stupid phone. And oh yeah, stock software and never been rooted or anything like that... Bought the phone for the speedy updates (lol?)
Whats your SOT and seems like Bluetooth is own , do you use an smart watch ?
You're an anomaly. I get about 4-5 hours screen time and it lasts me from 7am to about 8-10pm.
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You're an anomaly. I get about 4-5 hours screen time and it lasts me from 7am to about 8-10pm.
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I havent gotten more than 3 hours of SOT. Any tips on how to prolong your battery? are you rooted or greenifying apps?
I was able to get almost 6hours of SOT. Using stock 5.1 retail br on my xt1097!
Don't own a smart watch. I keep Bluetooth on cause my car has Bluetooth. When I took the screenshot it was randomly connected to a bose Bluetooth music player that I had just recently turned on. I attached the screenshot I took of my screen on time. Keep in mind that my second charge didn't bring me to 100 percent so this SOT would be for the whole day...
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Don't own a smart watch. I keep Bluetooth on cause my car has Bluetooth. When I took the screenshot it was randomly connected to a bose Bluetooth music player that I had just recently turned on. I attached the screenshot I took of my screen on time. Keep in mind that my second charge didn't bring me to 100 percent so this SOT would be for the whole day...
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Man you need a laptop or desktop which are always connected to power source for such usage in a day if its you regular usage pattern.
I don't get more than 3 hrs on single recharge with everything on except Bluetooth and I don't have complains with the battery because I know others won't do any better than that.