I really like the shift. I have a Droid 2 for a work phone and I have to say they are very similar. Here are the battery saving settings I use to get the most out of the shift.
EVO Shift Battery saving tips:
Under Menu - Settings ? Personalize:
Don't use a scene
Set home wallpaper to a picture or solid background or one of the provided pictures.
Under Menu - Settings - Wireless&Networks:
Wi-Fi off
Bluetooth off unless you use it
Sprint Hotspot off
4G off unless it is available
Mobile networks needs to have a check in the box
Under Menu - Settings - Sound:
Sound Profile set to normal
Volume, turn everything up all the way so your main sound controls the level of everything.
Vibrate uncheck
Audible touch tones set to off
Audible selection uncheck
Screen lock sounds uncheck
Vibrate feedback uncheck
Under Menu - Settings - Display
Animation set to use no animations
Screen timeout set to 30 seconds
Notification flash open and uncheck all the boxes unless you need them.
Under Menu - Settings - Accounts and Sync
News turn off if you don't use it
Stocks turn off if you don't use it
Weather turn off if you don't use it, (you may want the HTC clock/weather widget on your desktop
so you may want to leave weather checked and set the update schedule to every hour. If you want
severe weather alerts, you can go to the weather channel and sign up for severe weather alerts only and they will text them to your phone when they happen.)
Under Menu - Settings - Location:
Use Wireless Networks check this box
Location setting allow network to detect your position
Use GPS satellites uncheck and leave off unless you need it for navigation or Google maps. (If
anything needs it the program will prompt you to turn it on, just remember to go in and turn it
off when you are finished, you can also add a shortcut on your desktop to turn this on and off.)
Under Menu - Settings - Language&Keyboard:
Touch input then Text input you can turn on and off word prediction and text prediction for
all your keyboards on screen and the slide out keyboard. You could turn off vibrate for your
onscreen keyboards to save a little battery.
Under menu - Settings - Accessibility
Turn this off
Under Menu - Settings - About Phone
Battery you can see a battery graph in here as well as what is using your battery. It has a
total up time timer as well as how much your phone has been screen on. To reset these you
have to power off and pull the battery. Great way to tell how long your phone has lasted on
a charge and how much use you got out of it.
Tips
- Remove everything from all your home screens, just click and hold object until it highlights and then drag to the trash can that appears on the bottom of the screen. Anything that is out there can be put back on.
- Only put on the things you need like shortcuts to programs or people you call and text a lot and only use widgets that don?t seem to use much battery.
- If you setup email accounts using the built in email, there are some good settings in there for your accounts and it is the first phone I have not needed to use K9 mail on. You can set the days you want to sync, you can set peak time and off peak time hours like 6am ? 8pm sync every hour and then off peak would be 8:01pm to 5:59am and you can have it not sync at all or sync at a different rate. Under General settings you can turn off sync when I open mail to save some battery. You can also only ask for a sound and task bar notification for new email and turn off the vibrate.
- Once you have your phone setup like above, then maybe try adding apps or other things like scenes and see how your run time is affected. With my phone setup like the above, I got right at 50 hours of up time and right at 9 hours of awake time. Lasted me from 6am in the morning through day 1, through night 1, through day 2 and was dead shut off at 7:30pm evening of day 2. Monitoring 3 email accounts hourly, lots of texting and light use of everything else, market, internet along with a few calls here and there with Bluetooth on and connected during the days of use, volume all the way up. HTC clock and weather widget running with weather update set to 1 hour. No screen brightness adjustments, just set to auto.
EVO Shift Battery saving tips:
Under Menu - Settings ? Personalize:
Don't use a scene
Set home wallpaper to a picture or solid background or one of the provided pictures.
Under Menu - Settings - Wireless&Networks:
Wi-Fi off
Bluetooth off unless you use it
Sprint Hotspot off
4G off unless it is available
Mobile networks needs to have a check in the box
Under Menu - Settings - Sound:
Sound Profile set to normal
Volume, turn everything up all the way so your main sound controls the level of everything.
Vibrate uncheck
Audible touch tones set to off
Audible selection uncheck
Screen lock sounds uncheck
Vibrate feedback uncheck
Under Menu - Settings - Display
Animation set to use no animations
Screen timeout set to 30 seconds
Notification flash open and uncheck all the boxes unless you need them.
Under Menu - Settings - Accounts and Sync
News turn off if you don't use it
Stocks turn off if you don't use it
Weather turn off if you don't use it, (you may want the HTC clock/weather widget on your desktop
so you may want to leave weather checked and set the update schedule to every hour. If you want
severe weather alerts, you can go to the weather channel and sign up for severe weather alerts only and they will text them to your phone when they happen.)
Under Menu - Settings - Location:
Use Wireless Networks check this box
Location setting allow network to detect your position
Use GPS satellites uncheck and leave off unless you need it for navigation or Google maps. (If
anything needs it the program will prompt you to turn it on, just remember to go in and turn it
off when you are finished, you can also add a shortcut on your desktop to turn this on and off.)
Under Menu - Settings - Language&Keyboard:
Touch input then Text input you can turn on and off word prediction and text prediction for
all your keyboards on screen and the slide out keyboard. You could turn off vibrate for your
onscreen keyboards to save a little battery.
Under menu - Settings - Accessibility
Turn this off
Under Menu - Settings - About Phone
Battery you can see a battery graph in here as well as what is using your battery. It has a
total up time timer as well as how much your phone has been screen on. To reset these you
have to power off and pull the battery. Great way to tell how long your phone has lasted on
a charge and how much use you got out of it.
Tips
- Remove everything from all your home screens, just click and hold object until it highlights and then drag to the trash can that appears on the bottom of the screen. Anything that is out there can be put back on.
- Only put on the things you need like shortcuts to programs or people you call and text a lot and only use widgets that don?t seem to use much battery.
- If you setup email accounts using the built in email, there are some good settings in there for your accounts and it is the first phone I have not needed to use K9 mail on. You can set the days you want to sync, you can set peak time and off peak time hours like 6am ? 8pm sync every hour and then off peak would be 8:01pm to 5:59am and you can have it not sync at all or sync at a different rate. Under General settings you can turn off sync when I open mail to save some battery. You can also only ask for a sound and task bar notification for new email and turn off the vibrate.
- Once you have your phone setup like above, then maybe try adding apps or other things like scenes and see how your run time is affected. With my phone setup like the above, I got right at 50 hours of up time and right at 9 hours of awake time. Lasted me from 6am in the morning through day 1, through night 1, through day 2 and was dead shut off at 7:30pm evening of day 2. Monitoring 3 email accounts hourly, lots of texting and light use of everything else, market, internet along with a few calls here and there with Bluetooth on and connected during the days of use, volume all the way up. HTC clock and weather widget running with weather update set to 1 hour. No screen brightness adjustments, just set to auto.
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