Getting hot and draining battery

[robh2]

If you have the Evo in your pocket and you are lying on the couch and it doesnt get signal, (leg covering it up) it burns through the battery in just over an hour and it is hot.

I am guessing that is is constantly looking for a cell signal. Can that be adjusted somehow? Everyday I find something that makes me miss my dependable iPhone. Did I make a mistake getting 2 Evos?

Please help, on the fence to return these things but addicted to the screen size.

Thanks.

 

[Gekko]

i haven't heard anyone else complain about this problem. how's your 3G signal? where do you live?

 

[EVO1Android]

If you do not have cell service of course it will waste the battery searching for a signal. Why not just take it out of your pocket?

 

[robh2]

Fell asleep. Never happened when sleeping with the iphone in my pocket.

 

[rem_kujawa]

Are you sure its not a palm pre, no but seriously that stinks. Are you in good coverage?

 

[ksuwald]

I can't even make it more than 5hrs without my battery dying. And that's with minimum usage. No live wallpapers, 4g, wifi all turned off. I went out today at about 12:30pm and by 5:00pm my battery was dead.

 

[rem_kujawa]

I can't even make it more than 5hrs without my battery dying. And that's with minimum usage. No live wallpapers, 4g, wifi all turned off. I went out today at about 12:30pm and by 5:00pm my battery was dead.

Wow something is running, I fully charged mine before bed last night and then I unplugged it to see what it would drain over night. I was at 93% after 9 hours.

 

[robh2]

I turned off Qik yesterday and both phones are still pretty full today. I looking into Qiks settings today and found it updates every 15 min by default. I hope that is what is killing me.

 

[Gekko]

I turned off Qik yesterday and both phones are still pretty full today. I looking into Qiks settings today and found it updates every 15 min by default. I hope that is what is killing me.

glad you found it. best practice is to shut it off if you aren't using it or don't need it.

 

[pwnst_r]

If you have the Evo in your pocket and you are lying on the couch and it doesnt get signal, (leg covering it up) it burns through the battery in just over an hour and it is hot.

I am guessing that is is constantly looking for a cell signal. Can that be adjusted somehow? Everyday I find something that makes me miss my dependable iPhone. Did I make a mistake getting 2 Evos?

Please help, on the fence to return these things but addicted to the screen size.

Thanks.

Who puts their cell phone in their back pocket? Unless of course you fell asleep laying on your stomach?

 

[robh2]

Pwnst_R--It was in her left front pocket and she was on her side sleeping. Leg covered it up and she woke up because it was so hot on her leg. :O)

 

[pwnst_r]

Ouchies

 

[Brett636]

Thats odd, because every new phone I have purchased over the last several years had an auto off feature where if it can't find a signal it automatically shuts off and or stops searching for said signal after 10-15 min. Does the EVO not have this feature?

 

[robh2]

Good questions Brett. I have not found a setting for that.

Instead of using a task killer, I am watching my running applications and everytime I see something different on the list, I track it down to see if it has a sync type setting and check that I like the frequency that it syncs.