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hi,
I would like to know how often you recharge your Hero?
With moderate to low usage I'm recharging every day and I'm thinking that autonomie on my Hero is really very bad. Before I used Polaris and I had to recharge every 2 or 3 days.
I'm thinking that maybe my phone have manufacture default. On official web page they say that autonomy on standby is 440 hours, its like 15 days, mine keeps barely 1 day, wtf!!!
Even during night when I don't use it all and put on plane mode battery loses 20%.
whitealien
i recharge everyday with mild usage. gaming - usually keep it plugged in.
with moderate usage i recharge my GSM Hero every 2-3 days. by moderate i mean, like 1h Wifi, 2h mp3, 0.5h phone usage, 1.5h online activity over 3G.
Thats about it. And even if i multiply the usage above by two, it will last two days.
During flightmode inthe night, it loses about 5-10%.
so it seems something is sucking really bad on your battery!
Cheers,
Chaos42
I would say I charge mine every 2-3 days. I'm a relatively low user but wifi is on all of the time and I use it for browsing a bit in the evenings when I don't have my PC turned on. GPS, mobile web and bluetooth is off for the most part.
My wife has the same phone and her battery life is a little shorter than mine but she has the mobile web on and uses hers a bit more then me so I would guess around 1.5-2 days.
My battery is rated at 1350mAh which I think is standard.
I have to charge it every day.
Unplug it from charger at 0700 and by 2200 it has less than 10% battery.
But I have WiFi on for over twelve hours a day, mobile web on and quite a few things updating online!
Background apps may be draining your battery
Hi whitealian,
Check the application list to see which applications are running in the background. One of them may be draining your power.
You can check the task list using Estrongs File Explorer (start the app, then menu->Task Manager). There are plenty of other task managers, of course...
In my case, I think it was ShopSavvy that was running in the BG. Once I removed it the battery performance was much better. See this post.
You can also use one of the apps that turn on/off wifi based on location. A quick market search finds "Y5 - Battery Saver". Haven't tried it myself yet!
Good luck!
mobile.dev said:
Hi whitealian,
Check the application list to see which applications are running in the background. One of them may be draining your power.
You can check the task list using Estrongs File Explorer (start the app, then menu->Task Manager). There are plenty of other task managers, of course...
In my case, I think it was ShopSavvy that was running in the BG. Once I removed it the battery performance was much better. See this post.
You can also use one of the apps that turn on/off wifi based on location. A quick market search finds "Y5 - Battery Saver". Haven't tried it myself yet!
Good luck!
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Thanks for advice. I was not using ShopSavvy, but I had doubts that either I got faulty device or some app is draining battery.
I called customer service and they advice me to put phone in safe mode and test it for awhile. It extended a little my battery life, but still recharge every day. Next step was to reset to factory default. This is what I did yesterday and now I'm at the end of second day since last charge and I still have 40% left, what seems to be normal, but still a little to early to judge that everything is good.
I still don't know from where battery drain was coming. Probably from some app.
I'm putting my bet on NewsRob - google feed reader. It was the only app that was using network in background (apart from mail and tweeter sync).
too often. mostly once a day.
but when i'm at home im ususally plugging the as adaptor in either way, because i'm afraid to have to little battery left if i leave the house without a 100% battery level. (this can happen fast if you sync a lot of rss feeds, surf the net, have an exchange server connection and gmail push and so on...)
They really need to make better batteries. They should last 2-3 days on full force usage.
Shahpur.Azizpour said:
They really need to make better batteries. They should last 2-3 days on full force usage.
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I wish it could
I think once every 2 days, but at night I have the ''phonestuff'' turned of using it as an alarm clock only. I do use the mobile internet connection all day. Tried once without that and got almost 4 days out of one charge.
I agree they have to make better battery's but I don't think the hero's that bad.
I had a diamond wich I had to charge almost twice a day when data was on...
So for me the hero's a big improvement.
I too get 2 to 3 days use out of a charge. Got rid of standard HTC Twitter client and replaced with Twidroid Pro. Only have Gmail push synchronization on.
I am pretty sure you are aware if the standard HTC SMS app battery drain issue?
Someone pointed out that HTCs SMS app constantly drains the battery, because it stopps the phone from entering standby mode. You can replace it by going into Applications menu, open "Messages", "Clear defaults" and install HandCent. As soon as a new SMS comes in, it will ask you which app you want to handle SMS messages. Choose HandCent, make it default and you are set.
Gave me a huge battery performance boost.
every day. that is the only bad issue of my hero.
I charge mine daily when I go to bed as it's usually giving me the 15% warning about 24hrs after I last charged it.
The joys of smartphones
At least once a day.
I've got a desk stand so it sit's in that for a constant juicing up, when im in the car I put it on to charge.. At work its on USB charge.. Basically I just juice it whenever I can..
I dont think theres anything wrong with yours.. they just have bad battery life.
If you think thats bad try the fossil palm powered watches.. i have to take it off every couple of hours to charge it!
Too often. Exchange, gmail, 1 additional pop3 inbox, facebook every 2hrs, twitter every 2hrs is enough for my phone to barelly hold a charge for a day. But when actually using the phone (music, calling), it doesn't hold even a day.
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I am pretty sure you are aware if the standard HTC SMS app battery drain issue?
Someone pointed out that HTCs SMS app constantly drains the battery, because it stopps the phone from entering standby mode. You can replace it by going into Applications menu, open "Messages", "Clear defaults" and install HandCent. As soon as a new SMS comes in, it will ask you which app you want to handle SMS messages. Choose HandCent, make it default and you are set.
Gave me a huge battery performance boost.
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Tried it. I installed Handcent, but when I want to want to make it default, the button is greyed out. What am I doing wrong?
klaus27 said:
I am pretty sure you are aware if the standard HTC SMS app battery drain issue?
Someone pointed out that HTCs SMS app constantly drains the battery, because it stopps the phone from entering standby mode. You can replace it by going into Applications menu, open "Messages", "Clear defaults" and install HandCent. As soon as a new SMS comes in, it will ask you which app you want to handle SMS messages. Choose HandCent, make it default and you are set.
Gave me a huge battery performance boost.
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That's a US only thing though, right? The European ones don't suffer with that issue AFAIK.
...Which I'm glad about as I sometimes have to charge my hero twice a day. Data is on all the time when I'm out and I'm a pretty heavy user of it. In terms of calls perhaps an hour a day, and not a huge number of texts (more than ten would be unusual). I do use the phone to listen to music quite often too.
I think the apps in the background thing is what needs to be checked. I use a news widget and Facebook and Weather and a travel one which I think adds up to a lot of refreshes. I'm thinking about making a Sense Profile (or whatever it's called) that has nothing on the homescreens at all for times when I might want to be a bit more frugal with battery life.
I do think it's somewhat ridiculous that the phone is capable of doing so many things but that if you have it do them it withers and dies. I would've thought the way to calculate battery life would be to have the phone doing the things that people will want to do with it and work from there. It seems that battery life is calculated by turning the phone into as dormant a state as possible and then tip toeing around it trying not to disturb it.
I get by though.
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That's a US only thing though, right? The European ones don't suffer with that issue AFAIK.
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Well, I cannot confirm that. I have a European one and mine drained the battery. I searched the net and with this trick I came from ~1 day to over 2 days with moderate usage and push enabled all the time.
tombond said:
Tried it. I installed Handcent, but when I want to want to make it default, the button is greyed out. What am I doing wrong?
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Well, have you cleared the default for message application?
You probably want to google it or just read over this posts:
http://www.phonenews.com/improving-sprint-htc-hero-battery-life-9720/
My battery went even better once I configured Locale to go into airplane mode during night time and stopping sync services during work time. I don't need push when I am at work (timescal set, no GPS), because there I have all my mailboxes open and directly connected.
Some more tipps to improve battery performance.
Disable 3G - Set to "only 2G" in mobile network settings
Set display timeout to 30s or lower
Remove as many widgets from your homescreens as possible (I only have calendar)
use task killer app to check which apps are still running in the background and try to tweak their settings to not autoload or don't notify you on updates - and of course kill them
disable screen animations
uncheck WLAN for location checking
don't check your mailboxes too regular
disable vibration totally. disable haptic feedback for the keyboard as well
So just got my incredible today, after the initial tooling around i charged it (was taking forever on my computer, anyone else have this issue?)
and now i took it off, and answered some texts and changed a couple settings but otherwise didn't touch it much. Like around a half hour later it is now at 88 percent..... seems a bit much.
only widgets that i have pulling from the internet are engadget, htc weather, and the facebook widget. Think it might just be the early status of the battery? anyone else have good reports or any battery life saving tips?
edit: also brightness is like at half, and gps/wifi/bluetooth are not on
Yeah, I have also noticed that it seems to take forever to charge it. I drained it from fully charged down to about 35% in less than 4 hours of moderate usage. I have had it plugged into my USB port for 2 hours and it is only back up to 52%.
Not so great.
I plugged it into the wall after a bit on my pc and it charged alot faster, must be just a pc charging issue, though it is disappointing.
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So just got my incredible today, after the initial tooling around i charged it (was taking forever on my computer, anyone else have this issue?)
and now i took it off, and answered some texts and changed a couple settings but otherwise didn't touch it much. Like around a half hour later it is now at 88 percent..... seems a bit much.
only widgets that i have pulling from the internet are engadget, htc weather, and the facebook widget. Think it might just be the early status of the battery? anyone else have good reports or any battery life saving tips?
edit: also brightness is like at half, and gps/wifi/bluetooth are not on
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Your PC USB doesn't supply as much power as the standalone charger. It will always take significantly longer to charge using the PC USB as opposed to the standalone charger.
Anyone know when the VZW extended battery is coming (2150mAh) and how heavy/large it'll be?
th3drow said:
So just got my incredible today, after the initial tooling around i charged it (was taking forever on my computer, anyone else have this issue?)
and now i took it off, and answered some texts and changed a couple settings but otherwise didn't touch it much. Like around a half hour later it is now at 88 percent..... seems a bit much.
only widgets that i have pulling from the internet are engadget, htc weather, and the facebook widget. Think it might just be the early status of the battery? anyone else have good reports or any battery life saving tips?
edit: also brightness is like at half, and gps/wifi/bluetooth are not on
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anything that pulls anything from the internet will eat your battery. personally i don't need to be that connected to tech, i run apps when i need them, turn off anything that pulls from the internet and update weather/email/and such when i need to.
if you want to be constantly connected to tech, its gonna come at a price. this is true with any smartphone. just be thankful you can have battery back-ups, haha. id' suggest picking up a spare
Ya i understand that, currently the only thing i have pulling from the internet at the moment is my weather, which does it once an hour,I took the other widgets off.
This morning i woke up, took it off the charger, took the alarms off and answered some texts adn i think checked the weather, like 15 minutes later it was at 90 percent, it went down like 3 percent within like a minute off the charger.....
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Ya i understand that, currently the only thing i have pulling from the internet at the moment is my weather, which does it once an hour,I took the other widgets off.
This morning i woke up, took it off the charger, took the alarms off and answered some texts adn i think checked the weather, like 15 minutes later it was at 90 percent, it went down like 3 percent within like a minute off the charger.....
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go to your sync settings and change the refresh time of your internet apps... stock setting is every 15 min.... I have mine set for every 4 hours... if you need info on the fly you can always manually sync it when you want it... my phone has been on for 10 hours and its only used 1 little bar since I set my settings this way... I do email refresh every 2 hours also like I did on my winmo phone
hmm when i go to accounts & sync i only have the backup assistant, google and weather. The only one that will let me change when it syncs is weather. I don't see where i can change how often it syncs my gmail/contacts/calender, or anything else. So i'm guessing you just cant change those
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hmm when i go to accounts & sync i only have the backup assistant, google and weather. The only one that will let me change when it syncs is weather. I don't see where i can change how often it syncs my gmail/contacts/calender, or anything else. So i'm guessing you just cant change those
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the google sync is your gmail which you can't change but it just pushed to your phone when you get an email... I dont use my gmail as my primary
click add account and it will give you a list of the auto sync apps... facebook... and facebook for htc sence(friend stream) , twitter, flickr
Wow, I was almost going to complain about being @ 35% battery 13 hours since a charge. Moderate use as well.
Anyway, do you have good reception where you are at? If it's ducking in and out of service, your battery will eat it quicker.
The following run in the background all day:
eBuddy
SipDroid
Advanced Task Killer (automatically set to kill apps)
Exchange/Active Sync
Gmail/Calendar/Contacts
Weather (set to 3 hrs)
Roughly 40 minutes of calling
For my settings:
WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS are all off.
Location Off
Privacy (My Location Off)
Brightness ~30% (Automatic off)\
Orientation disabled (likely has nothing to do with battery)
Haptic feedback off
All vibration settings off (drives me nuts anyway)
Audible selection/tones off
Screen timeout 1min
I have been an android user since almost day one and over the years those settings seem to yield the best results.
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Wow, I was almost going to complain about being @ 35% battery 13 hours since a charge. Moderate use as well.
Anyway, do you have good reception where you are at? If it's ducking in and out of service, your battery will eat it quicker.
The following run in the background all day:
eBuddy
SipDroid
Advanced Task Killer (automatically set to kill apps)
Exchange/Active Sync
Gmail/Calendar/Contacts
Weather (set to 3 hrs)
Roughly 40 minutes of calling
For my settings:
WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS are all off.
Location Off
Privacy (My Location Off)
Brightness ~30% (Automatic off)\
Orientation disabled (likely has nothing to do with battery)
Haptic feedback off
All vibration settings off (drives me nuts anyway)
Audible selection/tones off
Screen timeout 1min
I have been an android user since almost day one and over the years those settings seem to yield the best results.
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I have been a Windows Mobile user for many years. I have been Android user for about 3 days. I have pretty good reception where I am at.
I think part of the reason I drained my batter so fast was that I have everything like GPS, bluetooth, and wifi turned on all the time. I turned off wifi today and it was a little better. I also have no idea how you close a program. There was always an obvious way to do that with WinMo but can't figure it out with Android. Do I have to have a task killer app?
What are eBuddy and SipDroid? You have a whole bunch of setting turned off. I can deal with WiFi off but bluetooth and GPS are two of the things I really like with this phone. I guess I don't really need the haptic feedback. Do you think that is significant?
I will try some of those out and look up those two apps.
i charged this god damn phone 2 times in a day.....what the F is wrong with it. i got GPS, wifi, and bt all turn off already. i even used task kill.
I also have no idea how you close a program. There was always an obvious way to do that with WinMo but can't figure it out with Android. Do I have to have a task killer app?
What are eBuddy and SipDroid? You have a whole bunch of setting turned off. I can deal with WiFi off but bluetooth and GPS are two of the things I really like with this phone. I guess I don't really need the haptic feedback. Do you think that is significant?
I will try some of those out and look up those two apps.
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the back arrow will exit most things, you can turn off all haptic feedback in the settings.
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Yeah, my settings were similiar to others posted here- 10 hours consuming 85 percent of the battery..But then again, today was my first full day, and everyone at work wanted to see the hyped phone. Maybe it will get better on monday? After playing with my friends droid, i definitely noticed how much lighter the incredible was. I've always hated those stupid extended batteries because of the bulkiness they add to the phone. The extended battery isnt out yet, is it? I'd love to see some reviews on that.
buy more chargers one for the office one for the car and of course one for home problem solved. until they make batteries that are more powerful.... battery life on any phone is going to be the same.
With Heavy usage I got about a 10 hour work day out of it (30% when I got home). My usage is below-
Atleast two hours of Last.fm,
Atleast two hours of web browsing with multiple tabs,
Ebuddy on in background,
Skype on in background,
1 Hour Voice,
Alot of texting.
Im in good service area like 3 bars usually. This morning i took off the charger, played a 3 or 4 minute youtube video and it took it down to 90 percent, seems a bit much to me.
Android Central's forums have a possible solution: Menu-Settings-Wireless and Networks-Mobile Networks (the second one)-Enable always-on mobile...
Uncheck that. Can't post a link, but it's at
forum(dot)androidcentral(dot)com/droid-incredible/10987-battery-life-not-lasting-your-fix-here.html
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Android Central's forums have a possible solution: Menu-Settings-Wireless and Networks-Mobile Networks (the second one)-Enable always-on mobile...
Uncheck that. Can't post a link, but it's at
forum(dot)androidcentral(dot)com/droid-incredible/10987-battery-life-not-lasting-your-fix-here.html
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It was also discussed there that doing the *228 Option 1 to reprogram helped a few people with battery life as well.
Please forgive me if this is a duplicate thread, I searched and only found folks complaining of other things with battery, not the length of life. Feel free to move this if it belongs in another forum.
I was one of the early recipients so I've been using the Incredible for a week already. Here are my findings on battery life and opening to further suggestions to stretch this out some more.
I am using the standard battery that came with the phone. I have a wall charger at my desk at work and a car charger in my car, all in addition to the charger on my night-stand. Fortunately these carried over from my Omnia2 since they are Micro USB. However, I have to use these constantly.
I have been using a smartphone for quite a few years and this one is by far the best yet... however, it also bleeds the battery dry like any other smartphone. I am also a power user, Exchange connection for work calendar and mail, Gmail, internet use and Facebook app. I also use the camera a lot, which yields impressive photos for a phone.
Average day for me; if I unplug the charger at about 7:00am as I leave for work and do not plug it into anything for power, the battery bar turns orange at about 2:30-3:00PM. I use Advanced Task Manager to kill things I don't use and have removed apps I had installed but use minimally which start up on their own (Skype, Photoshop Mobile... etc.). I also keep an eye on the running services to ensure the minimum is running at any given time.
Before I used Advanced Task Manager I was getting to about noon before the battery bar turned orange.
With occasional use of wall and car charger I can get through a full day before I get to red and the "plug into power" warning message. This past weekend I bled it to the point that it turned off on it's own, which was about 10:00PM
I typically have 2+ bars of 3G in my area, at home I have a signal extender so I have full strength signal, if that is off I have 1 bar of 1x.
Anyone have additional tips or tricks on how to milk even more battery life out of my Incredible phone? I expected lackluster battery performance but would love to get through a day without having to keep a charger on me.
NOEAOMD
Try this - seems to be best trick with little or no effect on usability:
Settings > Wireless & Networks > Mobile Networks (2nd one down)-
Uncheck 'Enable always-on mobile data'. Does not affect my push Exchange, and dramatically helps battery life.
Credit is due to one of the users at androidforums.com.
That battery life sounds about right. Keep in mind that having all of that stuff syncing in the background is going to kill your battery life. Also, ATK could be hurting your battery life in general. You clearly have something that it's helping with, but if you're just killing every background process your phone will use more power reinitializing those programs than it would have just keeping them in RAM. In general, if something's not using any CPU time, it's better to leave it running.
My old phone was the touch pro 2. the battery equipped with it has a 1500 mah. The battery is slightly thicker but cover easily closes still and i can now enjoy my phone almost lasting the entire day p
also my friend works a tmobile and supposedly the HD2 also uses the same battery but with a higher rating. They throw them out after awhile and he said he will get me a few of them for free cant wait )
I had a similar issue...
I was having a similar issue where my Incredible wouldn't make it through the day without charging, and I found that Google Maps was eating the lion's share of my battery. I tried using Advanced Task Killer to stop it, but it didn't show up in the list of tasks, but if I checked my battery usage, it was always the task using the most energy (not just by a little...it would typically be responsible for 70-95%). I had turned the Locator feature on within Maps just to see how it worked, but even with it disabled the task would still be running. The only way I was able to rid myself of the process was to reboot Android. My battery life has improved drastically since then.
I'm not saying this will solve your issue, but it's something to look at.
Check this thread on androidforums:
http://androidforums.com/support-troubleshooting-incredible/72539-i-found-fixed-htc-incredible-battery-bug.html
I think the problem is battery Uptime vs Awake time. If they are the same then the battery drains like crazy.
I ended up turning phone off completely, charging, then killing the Calendar process (but I have read killing any process will do) after boot with Astro File Manager.
I am currently at 19 hours 42 minutes Uptime, with 7 hours 12 minutes Awake time (Phone was awake all night apparently and I ended up killing my last processes: Mint, Firewallet, Fianancisto as well as Calendar which showed up in the list again).
And I have GPS, location, syncing on and set to 4 hours for most everything (except for Gmail Contacts and Calendar which I turned off).
Anyway, hope this helps someone.
EDIT: Oh, and I have 60% battery (6 green bars). I'm not using any battery apps or any task manager apps apart from Astro File Manager to kill processes.
carlbettag said:
Try this - seems to be best trick with little or no effect on usability:
Settings > Wireless & Networks > Mobile Networks (2nd one down)-
Uncheck 'Enable always-on mobile data'. Does not affect my push Exchange, and dramatically helps battery life.
Credit is due to one of the users at androidforums.com.
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So far this has done the most good. You are right it doesn't really delay my Exchange much. I notice a few seconds more of a delay when I am at my desk but I will never have something so critical that a few seconds will matter.
carlbettag said:
Try this - seems to be best trick with little or no effect on usability:
Settings > Wireless & Networks > Mobile Networks (2nd one down)-
Uncheck 'Enable always-on mobile data'. Does not affect my push Exchange, and dramatically helps battery life.
Credit is due to one of the users at androidforums.com.
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would this effect google voice?
I am also curious to know what all is effected by disabling that setting...
i disabled it and my google voice works fine, my weather widgets work fine, my dictionary.com widget works fine all updating themselves.... i'm not sure what it changed
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would this effect google voice?
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My Facebook app only refreshes when I open it or manually, Skype IM shows me offline most of the time. Otherwise, just longer battery life.
For what it's worth, I disabled all of the htc widgets and sense (installed helix launcher 2) and I can get through pretty much an entire day on a single charge. Took phone off the charger around 7am and it's just now red at about 10pm.
I thought you couldnt disable sense on this phone.
Thanks!
theoneownz said:
My old phone was the touch pro 2. the battery equipped with it has a 1500 mah. The battery is slightly thicker but cover easily closes still and i can now enjoy my phone almost lasting the entire day p
also my friend works a tmobile and supposedly the HD2 also uses the same battery but with a higher rating. They throw them out after awhile and he said he will get me a few of them for free cant wait )
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Might I say- THIS IS BRILLIANT! Yes, the TP2 bat fits just fine and gives a bit more time on the life of the Incredible... good find!
My Imagio 1500 mAh and 1750 mAh batts also work fine in the Incredible .
Calibob2001 said:
Might I say- THIS IS BRILLIANT! Yes, the TP2 bat fits just fine and gives a bit more time on the life of the Incredible... good find!
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Np man I knew it would help someone :0p I knew i wasnt the only one to swap over lol
We got two Incredibles on Wednesday. The Boss Lady's went through the "select language, etc" drill described in the user's guide on first startup after charging. Mine went straight to the Home screen without any setup options. So I did a hard reset and was walked through the setup.
We left them both on chargers during the night.
Yesterday, after two hours off the charger and doing NOTHING, mine had used up more than a third of the battery.
Boss Lady's was still pegged.
After four hours, still doing bupkiss, mine started begging for the charger. I put it on a car charger. Also fired up Advanced Task Manager (the only app I installed on it), and killed off every app in its list. Some of them, like HTC Checkin and People, just would not die or would restart immediately.
Since we were travelling, Boss Lady spent the trip setting up contacts, texting, checking the weather, and hitting the interwebs.
After a six-hour drive, Boss Lady using hers and mine on the charger, her battery was still nearly topped off. Mine would start begging for the charger five minutes after being disconnected.
Last night about eleven PM, Boss Lady's bettery was still at about 75%. Mine still begging for the charger. Put mine on the charger overnight. (Hers charged for about 30 min this morning). Two hours after taking mine off the charger, and again doing nothing, battery was half gone.
Oh, and during all this, the battery was VERY warm while charging and would immediately warm up considerably when the screen was on.
I checked the battery timers on both phones. Boss Lady's up timer was somthing like 12 hours, awake timer showed less than 7 min.
My timers both showed the same time and were updating in tandem.
I called support, described the Incredible Shrinking Battery. A new Incredible is on its way to my house.
Boss Lady's is still "bone stock" (no special settings) and her battery is chuggin right along...
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I thought you couldnt disable sense on this phone.
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Im running GDE because helix2 kept force closing on me but same result. My battery now only runs down if I'm actively using the phone. With sense running it was burning through the battery. Huge improvement.
I was also able to replicate every sense widget but one and that being the contacts widget.
The way to do it is just set helix or GDE or whatever as your default and then restart the phone. As long as you don't manually launch sense after that it will stay turned off.
The reason people think you can't disable sense is that they didn't include some aspects of vanilla android. The messaging program and browser and a few other things aren't there and the artwork for others like the notification bar. You won't have access to the HTC widgets but you will still be able to use the HTC apps.
Anyway long story short. My battery life is MUCH improved with sense disabled.
carlbettag said:
Try this - seems to be best trick with little or no effect on usability:
Settings > Wireless & Networks > Mobile Networks (2nd one down)-
Uncheck 'Enable always-on mobile data'. Does not affect my push Exchange, and dramatically helps battery life.
Credit is due to one of the users at androidforums.com.
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THIS SOLUTION WORKS FANTASTICALLY! I am still at 90% when I used to be 35% by this point in the day. Thank you so much.
Try this - seems to be best trick with little or no effect on usability:
Settings > Wireless & Networks > Mobile Networks (2nd one down)-
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I don't think this is 100% accurate. When you disable this setting, you disable data services after your phone goes to sleep (turning off the display). It does not happen right away, but after I put my phone to sleep and wait a few minutes Gmail and ActiveSync don't push notifications to the phone. If the phone comes out of sleep for some reason (text message, phone call, etc).. Then the notifications works again, because it reconnects to the data network. I have also used K9's push feature, which also stops working after the phone is sleeping for a few minutes.
Also, when you turn off the always-on mobile connection setting the data symbols (3G/1X) go away in sleep. If you wake your phone, you can actually see the data symbols are gone but eventually return.
This is my first android phone and I'm wondering if I am doing anything wrong. Yesterday I charged my phone and it was at 83%. I unplugged the phone and went to sleep, when I woke up this morning the battery was completely drained.
This happens a lot. Even if I am not doing anything it still drains like crazy. I just text, make some phone calls and it barely makes it through the day. I don't play any games, no gps, no Bluetooth or anything. With my plan, I don't have a data connection so I can't connect to 3g/4g so that shouldn't drain anything.
What could I be doing wrong? When I'm done using the phone I tap the power button on top, the screen goes black - to sleep I presume and I put it away. I had an iphone before this and I did exactly the same thing and the battery lasted for 3-4 days on one charge.
Whenever I see what's using up the battery, the display tops the list. The display is using up 75-80% of the battery. If the phone is asleep for most of the time why is the display using up that much battery? Am I not putting the phone to sleep correctly?
Faizt20 said:
This is my first android phone and I'm wondering if I am doing anything wrong. Yesterday I charged my phone and it was at 83%. I unplugged the phone and went to sleep, when I woke up this morning the battery was completely drained.
This happens a lot. Even if I am not doing anything it still drains like crazy. I just text, make some phone calls and it barely makes it through the day. I don't play any games, no gps, no Bluetooth or anything. With my plan, I don't have a data connection so I can't connect to 3g/4g so that shouldn't drain anything.
What could I be doing wrong? When I'm done using the phone I tap the power button on top, the screen goes black - to sleep I presume and I put it away. I had an iphone before this and I did exactly the same thing and the battery lasted for 3-4 days on one charge.
Whenever I see what's using up the battery, the display tops the list. The display is using up 75-80% of the battery. If the phone is asleep for most of the time why is the display using up that much battery? Am I not putting the phone to sleep correctly?
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If you cant connect to 3g/4g, you should turn it off in settings. Otherwise, Your phone will constantly look for a signal, draining your battery.
Battery life is all relative. Every single person will experience different battery life. The apps you have installed, the amount of time you spend on it and the time you spend on/in each app, distance from cell towers, distance from Wi-Fi sources, settings you have for every app and things like sync and what not.
The first thing to check is if your phone is being affected by the init or suspend bugs. The good news is the former has an easy fix, and the latter can be temporarily fixed by a reboot.
First, download & install Watchdog Lite from the market. Then open its preferences and check "include phone processes," "monitor phone processes," and "display all phone processes." Then just use your phone as normal. It may take a while before you get an alert from Watchdog (and maybe you never will and it ends up you have a different problem). But if you do, note the process that is the culprit.
If it is the init process, go to settings>applications>development> check "usb debugging."
If it is the suspend process, reboot the phone. It should keep it from happening again for a while.
I know the second answer isn't really an answer, but so far it's all we've got for that problem. There is more information on the 2 problems in these threads:
Init:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=839935
Suspend:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=872839
Good luck...I had both of the problems and my phone didn't last to dinner time. Now I get better battery life than the iphone 3GS I had before this...about a day and a half of moderate use.
EDIT: also you'll probably want to go to settings>wireless & networks>uncheck "mobile network" since you don't have a data plan. No reason to have that on since you don't have a data plan.
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First, download & install Watchdog Lite from the market. Then open its preferences and check "include phone processes," "monitor phone processes," and "display all phone processes." Then just use your phone as normal. It may take a while before you get an alert from Watchdog (and maybe you never will and it ends up you have a different problem). But if you do, note the process that is the culprit.
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I installed this using the Moderate setting, and then selected those options as recommended in preferences.
Does Watchdog use a lot of system resources when running in this manner? Will it cause the battery to drain noticeably faster?
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I installed this using the Moderate setting, and then selected those options as recommended in preferences.
Does Watchdog use a lot of system resources when running in this manner? Will it cause the battery to drain noticeably faster?
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Completely unnoticeable, IMO.
I installed watchdog lite and I have had couple of alerts. I got suspended couple of times and I also got Android system once.
Android system - 50.1%
Foreground
Suspend - 54.4%
Linux Process
I turned off the data usage from the settings and it did help save battery. The display is not using so much battery life anymore. It went from using 70% to 35%.
Edit: Battsatt reported that the battery was at 93%. When I saw the two alerts above I rebooted the phone and Battsatt now starts reporting the phone is fully charged.
Make sure the GPS is turned Off, too...
All these answers and the easy ones were not mentioned..
Make sure you shut your AUTO SYNC off...
Make sure you lower your brightneess....
Make sure you turn off GPS(was stated above me)
Turn off your wifi if you are not using it.. make sure you are not transmitting your hot spot stuff...
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Suspend - 54.4%
Linux Process
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You just summed it up right there. You are experiencing the 'suspend' issue, period. There is no app you can install to fix it. There is no app you can uninstall to fix it. There is no setting you can adjust to fix it. There is no fix for the 'suspend' issue, literally.
I started the following thread in an attempt to consolidate posts and hopefully work toward flushing out what the real issue is...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=872839
This is a real, legitimate issue with Android 2.2.x Froyo. As I linked in my post, this is Issue # 11126 on Google Code...
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=11126
If there was an app or setting that fixed the 'suspend' issue, we wouldn't even be discussing this right now. There are fixes/workarounds for a lot of things, but right now, the 'suspend' process issue truly is a mystery. No one, not a single person has yet to post, "this is the cause of the issue," let alone a fix for it.
I wish you had a fix man, I really do. My fiancee experiences this and there's only one way she's found to sort of workaround it, sort of - she reboots her phone every morning. This seems to keep it at bay, at least more so than when she doesn't reboot each morning, once she takes it off the charger. She still gets it though and she's just used to looking for Watchdog and checking her processes now.
This thread could go on and on forever but it comes down to this:
- The MT4G does not have insane battery drain and will give you about 12 hours of life, under normal>medium usage. If your battery is draining insanely quickly AND if you're seeing the suspend process jacked up so high, then there.is.no.fix.yet.
There might be a ton of other replies after this about uninstall this, install that, change this, don't use widgets, use widgets, etc. Those attempts will be futile.
I received my phone 2 dags back, and i spent most of those days setting it up. Charging it when needed and not quite keeping tabs on the battery life. The phone also used to get hot these few days amd i assumed that it must be the tedious setying up that was making it hot and dischargibg it rapidly.
Today was my first proper day of usage.
I unplugged the phone at 7am and by 12:30, it was 0%.
I'm attaching the stats.
Is this normal? What steps do i take to fix this? because this isn't something i can live with.
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I received my phone 2 dags back, and i spent most of those days setting it up. Charging it when needed and not quite keeping tabs on the battery life. The phone also used to get hot these few days amd i assumed that it must be the tedious setying up that was making it hot and dischargibg it rapidly.
Today was my first proper day of usage.
I unplugged the phone at 7am and by 12:30, it was 0%.
I'm attaching the stats.
Is this normal? What steps do i take to fix this? because this isn't something i can live with.
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That's definitely not normal by any means. I was going to say something until I noticed the screen ON bar at the bottom...seems to me that it's either a rogue app or multiple rogue apps.
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That's definitely not normal by any means. I was going to say something until I noticed the screen ON bar at the bottom...seems to me that it's either a rogue app or multiple rogue apps.
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This is what im being shown. Any help would be much appreciated.
th3discodancer said:
This is what im being shown. Any help would be much appreciated.
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Not sure if you're rooted, but there's specific apps to help narrow it down, for that hopefully someone else more knowledgeable can chime in. I do know however that both Facebook and Facebook Messenger are horrible when it comes to maintaining good battery life. So an option would be uninstalling those and logging into Facebook through Chrome or any other Web Browser that you use. And now it gives you the option to notify you through the browser for new notifications.
I'd also reboot the phone once you've done that, charge to 100%, take it off the charger and reboot again and let it drain. Give it a charge cycle or two and so how it goes.
I would recommend GREENIFY app , even for non-rooted devices you can manually or even automatically force close any apps which are not necessary to remain active all the time (e.g WhatsApp and messaging apps should not be included). You'll be surprised how many apps keep running and using cpu and network resources even after you "close" or stop using them.
I join the recommendation about FB and FB messenger - same for Instagram - these are memory hogs. Your situation is absolutely not right - please report - would like to hear how you are doing.