Awesome battery life

[worwig]

For the last 4 or so days, the battery life on my TB has gone from so so, to amazing.

I used to get about 10 hours. Getting through an 8 hour work day occasionally needed a charge.

I have a Seidio 1600MaHr battery. It never really impressed me. At least it was not worse then the original.

About two weeks ago, I uninstalled Pandora. I would get an occasional forced close, even though I wasn't running Pandora. So I assume it was running in the background and I uninstalled it. That appeared to help the battery.

I started using WiFi almost full time. That appears to have helped a bit.

Then last week, I got the latest update. That appeared to help a little.

But last Friday, I power it down, pulled the SD card (and the SIM card). Put the SD card in my PC and ran a disk check on it. It found and fixed a few lost clusters on the SD card.

Since then, my battery life has been awesome. I am currently at 83%, and just over 7 hours of usage. I've never seen anything like this, and it is every day since Friday. From lucky to get 8 hours, to well over 24 hours. That is different.

No idea what is going on, or why the change, or if it is my imagination, but it is what it is.
I'm wondering if a bad directory structure on the SD card could eat up a lot of processor time or something? Or maybe it was just the battery pull after the update.

Anyone with poor battery life, check the SD card for lost clusters. Report back after a couple of days.

Now watch, mine will go to crap.

Edit: I am not in a 4G area and normally keep it turned off.

 

[yodatom10]

For the last 4 or so days, the battery life on my TB has gone from so so, to amazing.

I used to get about 10 hours. Getting through an 8 hour work day occasionally needed a charge.

I have a Seidio 1600MaHr battery. It never really impressed me. At least it was not worse then the original.

About two weeks ago, I uninstalled Pandora. I would get an occasional forced close, even though I wasn't running Pandora. So I assume it was running in the background and I uninstalled it. That appeared to help the battery.

I started using WiFi almost full time. That appears to have helped a bit.

Then last week, I got the latest update. That appeared to help a little.

But last Friday, I power it down, pulled the SD card (and the SIM card). Put the SD card in my PC and ran a disk check on it. It found and fixed a few lost clusters on the SD card.

Since then, my battery life has been awesome. I am currently at 83%, and just over 7 hours of usage. I've never seen anything like this, and it is every day since Friday. From lucky to get 8 hours, to well over 24 hours. That is different.

No idea what is going on, or why the change, or if it is my imagination, but it is what it is.
I'm wondering if a bad directory structure on the SD card could eat up a lot of processor time or something? Or maybe it was just the battery pull after the update.

Anyone with poor battery life, check the SD card for lost clusters. Report back after a couple of days.

Now watch, mine will go to crap.

more then likley the battery pull did some good and the wifi also plays a big role. are u in a 4g area if your not u will almost always get better battery life

 

[Bond32]

Are you in a 4G area? I have actually noticed that now that I have 4G my battery life has improved... Strange but true.

 

[nat72sherman]

my pc has a xD/SD/MMC/MS/MS Pro slot, I could never figure out how to use it. The SD card fits into that without an adapter?

 

[yodatom10]

my pc has a xD/SD/MMC/MS/MS Pro slot, I could never figure out how to use it. The SD card fits into that without an adapter?

No u need a adapter if u don't use one u will be spending your free time fishing for a micro SD card

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[vols fan]

How do you run this disk check?

 

[RJSAdvisors]

For the last 4 or so days, the battery life on my TB has gone from so so, to amazing.

I used to get about 10 hours. Getting through an 8 hour work day occasionally needed a charge.

I have a Seidio 1600MaHr battery. It never really impressed me. At least it was not worse then the original.

About two weeks ago, I uninstalled Pandora. I would get an occasional forced close, even though I wasn't running Pandora. So I assume it was running in the background and I uninstalled it. That appeared to help the battery.

I started using WiFi almost full time. That appears to have helped a bit.

Then last week, I got the latest update. That appeared to help a little.

But last Friday, I power it down, pulled the SD card (and the SIM card). Put the SD card in my PC and ran a disk check on it. It found and fixed a few lost clusters on the SD card.

Since then, my battery life has been awesome. I am currently at 83%, and just over 7 hours of usage. I've never seen anything like this, and it is every day since Friday. From lucky to get 8 hours, to well over 24 hours. That is different.

No idea what is going on, or why the change, or if it is my imagination, but it is what it is.
I'm wondering if a bad directory structure on the SD card could eat up a lot of processor time or something? Or maybe it was just the battery pull after the update.

Anyone with poor battery life, check the SD card for lost clusters. Report back after a couple of days.

Now watch, mine will go to crap.

I had a similar experience also starting last Friday. I shut down the ThunderBolt and then pulled the battery, the SIM card, and the micro SD memory card and let them sit for about 15 minutes. After I put everything back together and charged the phone, my battery life improved dramatically. I also find that my battery actually does better when I am in a strong 4G signal area at work. At home the 4G signal is weak, and the phone often switches to 3G, which seems to drain the battery faster. Perhaps this is because everything I download at home takes a lot longer to download at 3G speeds. Anyway, the ThunderBolt's standard battery is working much better right now, and I am usually able to make it through 14 to 16 hours of moderate use without needing to recharge the standard battery. Hopefully, when Gingerbread finally arrives it will improve the ThunderBolt's battery life even more.

 

[yodatom10]

I had a similar experience also starting last Friday. I shut down the ThunderBolt and then pulled the battery, the SIM card, and the micro SD memory card and let them sit for about 15 minutes. After I put everything back together and charged the phone, my battery life improved dramatically. I also find that my battery actually does better when I am in a strong 4G signal area at work. At home the 4G signal is weak, and the phone often switches to 3G, which seems to drain the battery faster. Perhaps this is because everything I download at home takes a lot longer to download at 3G speeds. Anyway, the ThunderBolt's standard battery is working much better right now, and I am usually able to make it through 14 to 16 hours of moderate use without needing to recharge the standard battery. Hopefully, when Gingerbread finally arrives it will improve the ThunderBolt's battery life even more.

I envy all of u im lucky if I get 6hrs but I am in a 4g market.

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[tropper]

I envy all of u im lucky if I get 6hrs but I am in a 4g market.

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I doubt Im going out on a limb on this, I assume you have android experince. Are you an extremely heavy user? I know the 4G radio is power hungry but is it really that bad? I got to use LTE for five hours a week ago and I had similar batt useage to using 3G.

 

[cliffh44]

I had a similar experience also starting last Friday. I shut down the ThunderBolt and then pulled the battery, the SIM card, and the micro SD memory card and let them sit for about 15 minutes. After I put everything back together and charged the phone, my battery life improved dramatically......

It's funny that you mention this. My wife and I both had BB Tours prior to our Thunderbolts. For no apparent reason, her Tour began sucking the life out of the battery. After an overnight charge, the battery would only last 5.5 hours.

As crazy as it sounds, I took out the battery, SD and Sim cards, then let it sit for a while. Once I put it back together, the battery life returned to normal.

Go figure.

 

[FrankXS]

How do you run this disk check?

The way I prefer to run it is manually. Put the card (with adapter) into your PC card reader. Assume it comes up as drive I. Open a command prompt and type "chkdsk I: /f" sans quotes.

-Frank

 

[yodatom10]

The way I prefer to run it is manually. Put the card (with adapter) into your PC card reader. Assume it comes up as drive I. Open a command prompt and type "chkdsk I: /f" sans quotes.

-Frank

Thats the way. I have done it and found it to be most effective

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[vols fan]

Will it fix itself or do I have to do something?

 

[OhioG]

can you mount your phone as a disk drive and check for errors or do you have to pull the sd card out?

 

[worwig]

For those that asked, no I am not in a 4G area. I keep 4G turned off most of the time.

can you mount your phone as a disk drive and check for errors or do you have to pull the sd card out?

I find it best to pull the card, put it in an adapter, plug it into my PC. Then in My Computer, right click it. Go to properties, Tools, Check now. Check "fix" but do NOT check scan for bad sectors. (you can, but it isn't a great idea on flash memory I suspect). And run that.

There is easily a tool that does it right in the phone, but I didn't look.

 

[yodatom10]

For those that asked, no I am not in a 4G area. I keep 4G turned off most of the time.



I find it best to pull the card, put it in an adapter, plug it into my PC. Then in My Computer, right click it. Go to properties, Tools, Check now. Check "fix" but do NOT check scan for bad sectors. (you can, but it isn't a great idea on flash memory I suspect). And run that.

There is easily a tool that does it right in the phone, but I didn't look.

I might have to try this latter. I would love to get Better battery life

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[vols fan]

For some reason I can't get my computer to see the memory card. Do you have to download some kinda drivers for the memory card?

 

[android06]

is there a scientific/technological explanation to why removing the battery, sd card and sim card helps the battery?!

 

[mightyfacundo]

is there a scientific/technological explanation to why removing the battery, sd card and sim card helps the battery?!

I'm curious about this as well.......

 

[cliffh44]

I'm curious about this as well.......

I can't think of any reasonable explanation and honestly wouldn't believe it if I hadn't seen it first hand on a Blackberry. In that particular instance, the battery life went from 5.5 hrs back to 2 days.

I haven't tried it with my Thunderbolt because I haven't been having battery issues.