So I ended up getting that $10 ebay battery kit that comes with two batteries and a wall charger. I was excited about the wall charger more than having two extra batteries to be honest. For those that may not know the Evo seems to have a problem when it charges. For some reason once the phone is fully charged, the phone starts using the battery for power even though it's still connected to the charger. It'll still show a green light, but in reality it's not fully charged because the phone is now using the battery for power. This explains why some people have noticed the battery charge drop as much as 10% sometimes more within only a few minutes of it being pulled from the charger. What I would do is "bump" charging which basically means you keep putting the phone on the charger, wait til it goes green, unplug it, wait a few minutes and put it back on the charger, wait a few minutes, pull it, then put it back on the charger so forth and so forth until you THINK the battery is at a full charge. It's really ****ing annoying. With the bump charge though I'd get over 12 hours of life still. WELL...
Last night I put the original battery in the wall charger and put one of the extra batteries in the phone for overnight. In the morning I put the original battery back in and I can't BELIEVE how drastic my battery life has improved. After 15 hours of medium-heavy use I STILL had 37% left!! There is no doubt in my mind I could have gotten to close to 20 hours. I have the grass live wallpaper, twitter updating every 5 minutes, tweeted about 15 times, received about 100 tweets (I follow a lot of people lol) went on facebook (not the app but the full web browser page) probably a total of an hour, browsed for about another hour or so on other websites, checked the engadget app about 10 times, used the huffington post app for about an hour, saw about 30 minutes worth of youtube videos, made and received a total of about 200 texts, made about 30 minutes of phone calls, used the Buzz Deck app for about half an hour, I have about 10 widgets, 6 of which are active and was on the market for about half an hour downloading new apps and updating current ones. I also have the GPS on, mobile network on, used wifi a few times, brightness on auto, and all the good stuf left on. No cheating by shutting all the useful stuff off. Of the 15 hrs 17min of up time, 9hrs 49min was awake. Everyone has their own idea of what heavy usage is but I would say that's at least medium-heavy closer to heavy. I ended up taking out the battery at 37% because I'm going to bed. I'm gonna be up early tomorrow so hopefully I'll be able to get the battery down to 5% by the end of the day. The best battery life I've gotten with the phone before was 18 hours and got it down to about 5%. I definitely didn't use the phone anywhere near what I did today. So hopefully this is a legit cure for the battery bug. I'll post the total time tomorrow. Hopefully I can get to the 20 hours.
Even after just one day I can honestly say this was the best $10 I've ever spent. Better than that hooker in NY that one time..
lol jk..
Last night I put the original battery in the wall charger and put one of the extra batteries in the phone for overnight. In the morning I put the original battery back in and I can't BELIEVE how drastic my battery life has improved. After 15 hours of medium-heavy use I STILL had 37% left!! There is no doubt in my mind I could have gotten to close to 20 hours. I have the grass live wallpaper, twitter updating every 5 minutes, tweeted about 15 times, received about 100 tweets (I follow a lot of people lol) went on facebook (not the app but the full web browser page) probably a total of an hour, browsed for about another hour or so on other websites, checked the engadget app about 10 times, used the huffington post app for about an hour, saw about 30 minutes worth of youtube videos, made and received a total of about 200 texts, made about 30 minutes of phone calls, used the Buzz Deck app for about half an hour, I have about 10 widgets, 6 of which are active and was on the market for about half an hour downloading new apps and updating current ones. I also have the GPS on, mobile network on, used wifi a few times, brightness on auto, and all the good stuf left on. No cheating by shutting all the useful stuff off. Of the 15 hrs 17min of up time, 9hrs 49min was awake. Everyone has their own idea of what heavy usage is but I would say that's at least medium-heavy closer to heavy. I ended up taking out the battery at 37% because I'm going to bed. I'm gonna be up early tomorrow so hopefully I'll be able to get the battery down to 5% by the end of the day. The best battery life I've gotten with the phone before was 18 hours and got it down to about 5%. I definitely didn't use the phone anywhere near what I did today. So hopefully this is a legit cure for the battery bug. I'll post the total time tomorrow. Hopefully I can get to the 20 hours.
Even after just one day I can honestly say this was the best $10 I've ever spent. Better than that hooker in NY that one time..
lol jk..
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