Battery life REALLY sucks

[theRalph]

I have had many Android phones and I must say that the Rezound is one of the best (my favorite, adjusted for the era in which it was released has got to be the HTC Incredible followed by the Rezound). The Thunderbolt was one of my worst. Make no mistake though, the Rezound battery life sucks. I have 3 batteries and 2 external chargers. I lose count of how many swaps I do per day, but it is over 2. Even with LTE switched off it sucks. The only saving grace is a wifi network. That deactivates the 3g/4g radios and helps the device to last longer.

HTC, the batteries on your phones suck. The Droid charge lasted 10 hours sometimes. With the Rezound 6 would be considered great.

That said, I really do love this phone, especially rooted.

[coolbreeze]

I work at a place that doesn't get good Verizon service. Friday I got 1.5 hours betwen charges on my Thunderbolt. I got 6 hours out of my new Rezound yesterday and today.

[experiment626]

Battery life seems to be HTC's "Achilles Heel" when it comes to their standard batteries. I could not own this phone without the extended battery.

[fireguy0306]

I do completely agree with that. I did buy the extended battery and now i'm happy. Yes the phone does have some more bulk which is a pain at times, but it lasts forever.

[318sugarhill]

I LOVE my Incredible, but I'm hesitant to EVER give it up. Battery life was never great until I installed a senseless rom. It seems Sense is just a battery/resource hog. I WON'T get an HTC with 4g until they do something different about battery life. 6 hours is not realistic at all. I need at LEAST 12 with 18 being ideal. I get that now and more with my Dinc. 4g isn't enough to make me upgrade, especially since I use wifi whenever possible.

Unfortunately, I hate Moto, and touch wiz is not enjoyable. Vanilla is exactly that....eh, vanilla. Sensless right now is the way to go.....Until batteries hold twice the charge at half the thickness. I'm not carrying around a brick.

[Wanda]

I'm running a Sense based ROM (Nils' Business Gingersense v1.6) and I get a full day out of it. I'm what I would call a "moderate" user. I certainly don't NOT use because I'm afraid to use up battery.

I came off charger at 730ish this AM, texts, phone calls, web browsing, just general playing around with it and an hour and a half of streaming Pandora over LTE not WiFi, I leave my GPS turned on and my screen up to about 3/4 of the way to max bright...its almost 8pm and I'm still at 47%. Seems pretty good to me. I'd say my WIFI to LTE usage is about 50-50. Better than the stock Incredible battery anyway and I LOVED that phone.

Try getting rid of all the Verizon stuff (yes you'll have to unlock and root) and I'll bet you see an improvement.

[majorhunadadun]

Originally Posted by theRalph

I have had many Android phones and I must say that the Rezound is one of the best (my favorite, adjusted for the era in which it was released has got to be the HTC Incredible followed by the Rezound). The Thunderbolt was one of my worst. Make no mistake though, the Rezound battery life sucks. I have 3 batteries and 2 external chargers. I lose count of how many swaps I do per day, but it is over 2. Even with LTE switched off it sucks. The only saving grace is a wifi network. That deactivates the 3g/4g radios and helps the device to last longer.

HTC, the batteries on your phones suck. The Droid charge lasted 10 hours sometimes. With the Rezound 6 would be considered great.

That said, I really do love this phone, especially rooted.

Yeah the battery life is not as good since the update. I definitely noticed that. Radio is much better tho... Give and take! I'm a heavy user so I bought the extended and I keep 4G on alllll day!

[BygSii]

Originally Posted by experiment626

Battery life seems to be HTC's "Achilles Heel" when it comes to their standard batteries. I could not own this phone without the extended battery.

Agreed

[BygSii]

I prefer the bulk in the extended battery, slap on the original gel mold extended case, and it feels really nice. With the added hump comes added ways to hold the phone, I love that their are countless ways to hold the phone now, but my fav and most comfortable is pinky between bottom and hump, ring on hump, middle on hump, index between top and hump. Let's my thumb have full access to the screen with minimal effort.

[Dovahkiin]

Why is the Rezound catching so much flak over battery life? It's the smallest in terms of mAh, and yet it has longer life than the Nexus and pretty much equal to the Razr.
That "always find something to complain about" human characteristic is rearing its ugly head on the Rezound.