[juck]

I got 5 hours today from a full charge and minimal playing around. Its awful. I am about to go buy the fruit.

[Moscow Desire]

I got 5 hours today from a full charge and minimal playing around. Its awful. I am about to go buy the fruit.

5 hours on a full charge??? Are you controlling air traffic??? I think somebody,,,,, is over-stating facts. I can run full Wifi, Gps, and get better than 5 hours.

[acmorris]

One more thing I like to add to this is I noticed and forgot about it. Temperature can reak havoc on battery conditions as well. Go outside and it will be warm and cause the phone to heat up, the battery drains more and then come inside where it is cool and the battery cools back down a couple degrees.

[RetiredJedi]

5 hours on a full charge??? Are you controlling air traffic??? I think somebody,,,,, is over-stating facts. I can run full Wifi, Gps, and get better than 5 hours.

Yea, I didn't charge mine last night and did my first charge this morning from 6am to 730am, had about a 95% charge and instead of working I did a Tango call with the wife, texted all morning, surfed the net to setup my bookmarks, took some pics. When I left for the gym basically playing with it for 4 hours the HTC battery widget had me at 72% remaining. I have GPS off while I'm at work, have my screen at 25%, turned off all of the little vibration feedback crap, screensaver comes on at 1 minute, I still get email push, and I grabbed a few things from the Android Market in that 4 hour time frame.

[eye4ni]

I got 5 hours today from a full charge and minimal playing around. Its awful. I am about to go buy the fruit.

If battery life is a major concern, you won't be disappointed with the iphone. Like I said in my previous post, I love Android, I like it wayyyy more than iOS, but Apple has really upped the ante with battery life, and these HTC phones are not even coming close....

On my Evo, the battery percentage would drop at least 4-5 percent per hour in standby, and if I had weak signal, it was more like 5-10 percent (4G OFF)... The iphone, on the other hand, loses LESS than 1 percent per hour in standby. When I take it off the charger in the morning it will stay at 100% for over 2 hours until I actually use the phone.

Google/HTC need to get this figured out real quick. It is my only major complaint. I want Android back

[d1ez3]

I got 3 hours and 17 minutes last night playing with it almost constantly. that was my first time using it after 100% charge. Today I went from 100 to 53 in 4 hours while listening to pandora with the screen off and 3 texts.

[ufmace]

Battery life seemed pretty awful for me yesterday, even when I wasn't playing with it constantly. Today, it's been doing pretty well. I have the settings pretty much how I like them and I haven't messed with the phone much - a minute or two on the phone, I think a couple of texts, took a pic and sent it to my computer over bluetooth and checked Facebook for a few. With all that and unplugging it at 9AM, it is now 1:30 PM and I'm at 86%.

I should also note that my office here usually gets awful cell signal which can kill batteries, but the LTE signal seems to be strong. I've actually been pretty impressed by the LTE coverage so far - I went a good ways outside of town and still had service; I don't think it's ever been outside of LTE service.

Also, I have auto-brightness on, Weatherbug is the only data widget I'm using, I don't see the relevance of GPS since it doesn't run unless I'm using maps anyways, and I have exchange sync off for now. Facebook and Google are the only syncs I have on right now.

[jonnyfive]

Im at 6 hrs since unplugged, 17% battery left. Been on and off it all day. This is my first smartphone.

[LdotAdot13]

when i went to sleep my HTC TB was at 80% wheni woke up 6 hours later it was DEAD.........

Totally the opposite for me! i charged it, sent a few emails and texts went to bed, 6 hours later it was at 87% (im using circle widget) im currently at 36% and it has been unplugged since 1am with moderate use. i also went into phone info and turned of LTE since im not in an LTE market.

[mcs1990]

Yesterday the phone went dead in 3-4 hours. Of course that was heavy usage, but today I didnt play with all the apps and used it as a form of communication and not a toy. Unplugged at 8:30 am and its at 68% right now. I'm satisfied with the battery life. This was on LTE and there was one hour in where there was 3g/4g hand off ( i was in a basement).

[racedog]

I haven't really done much with the phone but I did get the 2750 maH battery. I don't know if I'm going to keep it because it is HUGE. I don't like the size or weight of the unit with a battery this large.

I'm going to fully charge both the standard battery and the extended and try them out for a few days. If there is a large difference in usable time I might keep the 2750 but I'm hoping I can get by with the standard or maybe something a little larger that doesn't require and mammoth new back cover.

R

[Moscow Desire]

Yea, I didn't charge mine last night and did my first charge this morning from 6am to 730am, had about a 95% charge and instead of working I did a Tango call with the wife, texted all morning, surfed the net to setup my bookmarks, took some pics. When I left for the gym basically playing with it for 4 hours the HTC battery widget had me at 72% remaining. I have GPS off while I'm at work, have my screen at 25%, turned off all of the little vibration feedback crap, screensaver comes on at 1 minute, I still get email push, and I grabbed a few things from the Android Market in that 4 hour time frame.

Sounds like normal usage to me. I've done about the same, still on 35% and I unplugged 17hrs ago. I don't need gps unless I'm lost on the streets of Moscow (often). I think the newbies, just need to chill, charge the battery from a dead state a couple times. And turn off all the senseless BS apps I am sure have been installed when they got the phones. Heck, we don't need the phone searching for updates every 15 minutes. Do it manually every 5 days or so. They ain't gonna come that often!

[Moscow Desire]

Oh man, get the $49 2750mah battery, I left GPS running all day yesterday and couldn't put it down and it was still at 30% when I went to bed....It just gives it a little more weight in your hand(I'm used to an alum cased Devour so it's the same weight) and makes it easier to hold onto and you have more of a handle with the larger battery on there. What other phone can you get a double battery with....definitely worth it.

Would love to get a larger battery, but, wife got me a custom case, and I would hate to throw it away.

[cdejesus1119]

racedog you may want to check out the 1600mah battery from seidio. It gives you little more juice and but no added size. After 6 hours of moderate use, facebook, text messaging, talking, a couple of widgets..screen at 85% bright. I have 80% battery. Just remember to charge the battery before use, and leave charging 2 hours after the green light turns on (this is seidio's instructions)

[pheatton]

If your in an area that does not have LTE service should you turn off LTE in the service menu?

[racedog]

If battery life is a major concern, you won't be disappointed with the iphone.

Have to disagree with you there! Both my wife and I had iphones and your're correct about the long battery life. But that is not the only point on which I base a decision on a phone. I'm not going to be one of those who badmouths the iphone, it really is a nice device and a good choice for some users. But, for me, I wasn't a happy camper with it, there were too many other downsides that overshadowed the lower battery life of android phones. And, to be honest, there is one major thing about the iphone that I will spend a little hate on, and that is itunes. I HATE itunes and that was a major part of the dealbreaker for me. The other was Apple's really bad notification system, those two along with a few other niggling little things made me leave the iphone fairly fast.

On the other hand, my wife loved her iphone and used it for quite a while. When she moved over to Verizon I gave her my old Dinc and she has come to like it a lot but I told her just this morning that I will get her whatever phone she wants. She's going to hold out until summer to see what iphone 5 looks like and then she'll pick a new phone. She really liked the larger screen on my DX and she will either go with a larger screen android phone or she'll get another iphone is the new 5 comes with a larger screen which I think it is supposed to have.

R

[Moscow Desire]

Have to disagree with you there! Both my wife and I had iphones and your're correct about the long battery life. But that is not the only point on which I base a decision on a phone. I'm not going to be one of those who badmouths the iphone, it really is a nice device and a good choice for some users. But, for me, I wasn't a happy camper with it, there were too many other downsides that overshadowed the lower battery life of android phones. And, to be honest, there is one major thing about the iphone that I will spend a little hate on, and that is itunes. I HATE itunes and that was a major part of the dealbreaker for me. The other was Apple's really bad notification system, those two along with a few other niggling little things made me leave the iphone fairly fast.

On the other hand, my wife loved her iphone and used it for quite a while. When she moved over to Verizon I gave her my old Dinc and she has come to like it a lot but I told her just this morning that I will get her whatever phone she wants. She's going to hold out until summer to see what iphone 5 looks like and then she'll pick a new phone. She really liked the larger screen on my DX and she will either go with a larger screen android phone or she'll get another iphone is the new 5 comes with a larger screen which I think it is supposed to have.

R

I'm holding out for the new HTC Pyramid. Dual core processor. With either Cornbread, Wheatbread, or the awesome Ryebread OS.

[juck]

5 hours on a full charge??? Are you controlling air traffic??? I think somebody,,,,, is over-stating facts. I can run full Wifi, Gps, and get better than 5 hours.

okay now this charge seems to be lasting a lot better. i turned the blockbuster updates off.

[withravenoushunger]

I have done pretty much everything I can software wise to save battery and its still terrible. It only lasted about 7 hours and I only used it for maybe 3 of those. Its almost at the point where I might as well just use it as a passthrough. Has anyone found a fix or compromise for the poor battery life? I thought I was waiting all that time so they would fix the battery. Also, why did they never think of putting a bigger battery in it? They could have easily put a 1800mah battery in it and solved a lot of the problems. I'm thinking about just buying a portable charger

[Koato]

juck, how did ya turn that off??

[nate44]

Read the sticky thread

Or just get an extended

[Moscow Desire]

okay now this charge seems to be lasting a lot better. i turned the blockbuster updates off.

Yeah, fortunately here in moscow, I get the normal phones. I suspected the "branded" phones have a lot of stuff running that most people don't need. News feeds, auto-updates and stuff. It's just like getting a new computer, you have to clean all the junk from it

[juck]

Its bad dude. i am starting to lose patience. i have the big 2750 battery coming monday. we shall see. i really wanted to use this as a portable media device too.

[frettfreak]

So.. I dont have a thundferbolt, but i have had an evo since launch day and have rooted it.

Guys, on first boot of a new rom (which all you have on your brand new phones) the kernel and os have some settling in to do. Its trying to get all your data sync'ed and your playing with it MUCH more 9because its a new phone and you love it)...

Give it a few days to settle in and get used to how you are using it.

also.. once its rooted... i am SURE some of the devs will make VAST improvements to your kernels. I can get a full day on my evo now with medium usage.

[rohdawgeleven]

Learned the hard way with my incredible. ...just get the extended battery. All the tricks in the book don't fix an HTC devices battery. Just a fact.

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