HTC Amaze battery life

[vsnlweb]

Can you guys tell me what you guys are doing about battery life and what your usage is like... Trying to get a feel of how you are getting around the battery situation....
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[vsnlweb]

Tried nice defender and got this... And all had 40 plus percent remaining

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[stixzadinya]

*This is my reply from another battery post and I don't use Juice Defender:

Before unlocking, I used to get about 13 -16 hours on a single charge and I'm more of a moderate to heavy user. Funny thing is my brother (also a moderate/heavy user) got the same phone at the same time as me but he only got about 9 hours or less usage time. The difference, I fully charged my phone (left it on the charger for two hours after green light came on) before turning it on and I let the phone completely drain before fully charging again while my brother didn't.

Here's some settings I use to help save battery:
*My network is on 4G only (Live in LA so 4g coverage is pretty good)
*Forward work POP email into a gmail account I've created so they Push and not Pull as they would if I were to set it up using the Mail App
*Facebook only sync contacts and calendar once per day and I turned off notifications
*Turned off automatic time update from network
*Turned off flip for speaker, pocket ring and lower ring when picked up (not sure exact phrasing in settings)
*Turned off phone locator. I use Where's My Droid
*I don't have Google backing up my phone. I use titanium backup
*I use accuweather from beautiful widgets and it updates every two hours
*Turned off Auto Brightness. Use Elixir toggle to control brightness and set to 10%, 25%, 50%, 75% and 100%. 10% I use at night or in dark rooms (don't want to go blind with a bright screen) 25% indoors and 50% or 75% outdoors (75% if I have my sunglasses on)

Hope this helps.

My phone is unlocked now and with moderate use I get about 24 - 30 hours on a single charge. If you understand how to unlock Amaze I would recommend you do that and flash a custom ROM but only if you understand what you're doing.

[going_home]

Moderate to heavy use, stock phone.

12+ hours.

I never turn off the phone unless theres something acting wierd.

I leave it on the charger all night.

The battery life on the Amaze is very good in my estimation compared to some other recently released phones.

I leave the screen brightness on the lowest setting 95 percent of the time unless I'm in bright sunlight.

[ChromeJob]

I'll have to try keeping the screen at 10%. I've been using Auto Bright, and letting Llama dim it later at night. Perhaps I'll have it set to 10% at Work and Home (location based profiles). I wish I could disable the soft-key backlights completely.

I also use Llama to reduce power consumption when I'm out and about. Unfortunately, the most time-consuming part of a post-factory reset is going into all the apps and telling them to stop friggin' syncing and updating every 30 minutes or something. Facebook, Google, Weather, you name it, today's Android phones have got a ton of crap installed that will immediately sap your battery unless you do something about it. NOT what I would call a great user experience.

All that said, I started using a replacement handset I got from T-Mo last week, and was using it on and off throughout the day while in all-day meeting/workshop at the office, and it only got down from 100% at 7 AM to about 30% at 6 PM. Better than the one I bought I think.

[vsnlweb]

Originally Posted by stixzadinya

*This is my reply from another battery post and I don't use Juice Defender:

Before unlocking, I used to get about 13 -16 hours on a single charge and I'm more of a moderate to heavy user. Funny thing is my brother (also a moderate/heavy user) got the same phone at the same time as me but he only got about 9 hours or less usage time. The difference, I fully charged my phone (left it on the charger for two hours after green light came on) before turning it on and I let the phone completely drain before fully charging again while my brother didn't.

Here's some settings I use to help save battery:
*My network is on 4G only (Live in LA so 4g coverage is pretty good)
*Forward work POP email into a gmail account I've created so they Push and not Pull as they would if I were to set it up using the Mail App
*Facebook only sync contacts and calendar once per day and I turned off notifications
*Turned off automatic time update from network
*Turned off flip for speaker, pocket ring and lower ring when picked up (not sure exact phrasing in settings)
*Turned off phone locator. I use Where's My Droid
*I don't have Google backing up my phone. I use titanium backup
*I use accuweather from beautiful widgets and it updates every two hours
*Turned off Auto Brightness. Use Elixir toggle to control brightness and set to 10%, 25%, 50%, 75% and 100%. 10% I use at night or in dark rooms (don't want to go blind with a bright screen) 25% indoors and 50% or 75% outdoors (75% if I have my sunglasses on)

Hope this helps.

My phone is unlocked now and with moderate use I get about 24 - 30 hours on a single charge. If you understand how to unlock Amaze I would recommend you do that and flash a custom ROM but only if you understand what you're doing.

Have you tried juice defender? And I don't think I would be putting a custom ROM cuz I love the sense GUI...

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[vsnlweb]

Lol.... Just read the tip of your post... That you'd don't use it... My bad...

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[stixzadinya]

I've tried Juice Defender before but I just didn't see a difference in regards to my battery life. A friend uses that program and it helps her but that's because she always leaves her wi-fi, bluetooth and GPS on all the time and JD can turn them off for you when you're not using them. If that's the type of user you are then I would recommend JD.

Regarding custom ROMs, it's really all personal preference but for me I like the ability to customize and the kernel/ROM tweaks to improve performance.

Chromejob, you should be able to change the syncing rules to those programs in settings/accounts & sync. From there, select on the account and you should be able to change the update schedule. For Facebook I update once a day and weather every 2 hours. Google pushes so it updates whenever there's a change. Other apps you should be able to change syncing in their settings as well. Like Pulse syncing options can be changed to sync every certain hours you pick, only when user opens app or wi-fi only.

Another thing, just because an app that you exited is still on your task manager or "running" doesn't mean that it's using CPU. It's in your RAM so the next time you open it so your phone doesn't have to use the CPU to open from it's memory/SD Card... in turn, saving battery life. Unlike a computer, keeping apps on your RAM is a good thing.

[donjunito]

I Bought an Anker 1900mah Battery on Ebay for 10 Bucks..... Problem Solved....

[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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