HTC Amaze battery life

Ntchwaidumela · 02-09-2012, 11:31 PM

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Originally Posted by vsnlweb

I don't think it's very good... When it's done charging and I pick up my phone it immediately goes down like 5 percent... I don't think this battery is very well constructed... I don't know if anyone has the same problem or if it's just mine...

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Try this: First, run your battery all the way down; remove it from charge two hours after the green light comes on; turn it on and put it back on charge; take it off charge when the green light comes back on; turn it off and repeat this several times. Sounds like nonsense, but it works. Do it about once a month or so.

ggicollegepunjab · 03-12-2012, 06:56 AM

How much backup you are getting? You can use 3.5v dc battery to get long backup.

meredybanson · 03-19-2012, 12:46 PM

I came across many different feedbacks about this issue. As the result the ultimate solution will be to invest into the replacement battery. From my experience i would advice this [Only registered users can view links. ], it is universally compatible with different types of HTC, and in particular with Tmobile AMAZE 4G.
It might be only 13% more powerful in terms of juice than original battery, but this 13% are exactly enough performance improvement to ignore the tricky manual tunings of your phone or nonsences like draining and recharging the battery many times, it is unhealthy to discharge the battery below 15%, it ruins the lifecircle, battery starts to die faster and charges slower.
tuning the phone is efficient but is too complicated to find the right middle, doesnt save you as much juice as you hope, unfortunately. that is my experience

ChromeJob · 09:23 PM

I'm skeptical of stern recommendations to users to not charge all the way (which is tricky ... whaddya do, set an alarm to wake you up in the middle of the night while it's chargin?). I've been watching the performance of several chargers on my Amaze compared to the HTC charger. All the chargers are technically capable of 1000mA charging, but on the HTC charger, the phone takes up to 908mA (well, as displayed by Battery Monitor Widget). The Apple iPod charger doesn't show up as an "AC Charger" because Apple puts reference voltages on the D+ and D- lines that iPods recognize. Most devices recognize a direct short on the data lines to indicate the USB connection is a charger only, not a computer USB port (which is limited by the spec to 500mA, available in steps of 100mA). Another Duracell charger provides about 400mA - 600mA.

The charging records indicate that the HTC handset is intelligently governing the charging rate. As it nears 80%, 90%, and 100%, the measured current is reduced. Even if the mA gauge is not getting the data correct, look at the RATE if increase over the two-minute measurement intervals (the Y, or time, axis of the charts) ... it slows down a bit.

Both images are from overnight charge cycles, with screen turned off. Autosync and other periodic processes are disabled at night by Llama. Vertical indices represent one hour.

The top slope (last 10% of charging) seems shallower on the stock HTC charger than on others. I couldnt' tell you why ... I don't want to dismantle one to see if there are some intelligent feedback circuits in there in addition to the voltage conversion basics.

Battery Monitor has alarms for "Battery Full" and "Charging complete" and the "full" alarm follows the 100% by several minutes. The "charging complete" alarm has been as much as 20 minutes later. So if those alarms are triggered directly by phone indicators, then clearly the charging circuit is managing the charging process.

My take-away from this: I don't think you have to protect the phone from itself.

artj1977 · 04-08-2012, 01:03 PM

For anyone who is freaking out after buying the HTC Amaze and then reading this thread, don't! I thought I had made a mistake after I read all the posts here but decided to wait it out for a few days to see how it went. I love this phone and didn't want to take it back. After a few days I have not seen any difference in battery life compared to my last phone (mytouch 4g). And yes, I actually do use the phone. On any given day I am texting (50-100 texts), a few phone calls, taking photos, surfing the net, facebook, twitter, and just playing with the settings. I usually don't even drain the batter down to less than 50%. Now saying all that, I must also say, its a smart phone. In order to save batter life you have to make a few tweaks to the system. But unless you are a newbie, you know that already. It's funny, cause I was talking to the sales person when I purchased the phone about how everyone loves the phone they purchase when it's brand spanking new, but picks it to pieces withing weeks of it debut. It's sad, because the Amaze is a beautifully designed phone that works like a dream.

ChromeJob · 04-14-2012, 04:13 PM

It really depends upon what you're running. If you've got apps that sync, if you play games like Quell or Osmos, if you have the email client checking several mailboxes every few hours, if you run Waze while commuting to work or home,... you will see battery drain. I guarantee it.