I usually get 10-12 hours with light/moderate usage....mainly texts, email, and calls. Some days even with light usage my battery drains faster, but it sounds like I need to do a lil more tweeking to get a little more life out of my battery.
How long does your battery last?
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12 hours? PFFT i snicker at thee. where is the 12+ option?
launcher pro, no autokill. live fishies. home/work use... gmail, web, sd & youtube vids, photo editing, bunches of app updates.... 49% after 13 hours. i think it could make it to nearly 24 hours like that.
we need a thread for apps that continue to eat batter after being cached. a long youtube vid ate up 2% and continued to nibble while cached.
launcher pro, no autokill. live fishies. home/work use... gmail, web, sd & youtube vids, photo editing, bunches of app updates.... 49% after 13 hours. i think it could make it to nearly 24 hours like that.
we need a thread for apps that continue to eat batter after being cached. a long youtube vid ate up 2% and continued to nibble while cached.
Yeah, I remember the poll a long time ago where the last option was 10+ hours.
I snicker
But I can't say much right now... cyanogen is killing my battery, lol.
I snicker
But I can't say much right now... cyanogen is killing my battery, lol.
My battery indicator just turned yellow, though I haven't yet gotten my 15% battery warning. Time since unplugged: 49 hours.
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I usually get about 12-13 hrs of moderate usage. For me that would be about 5hrs out of the 12. Mainly, email, web surfing, texting, downloading apps, watching short YouTube videos, a couple of phone calls (usually under 20 min), and some light camera use. Email is set to sync every 30 min. WiFi is always on; gps is always off as well as 4g.
I don't think I've ever had more than 3 bars (of 6 possible) of signal strength. That works out to about -95 dBm signal strength, which isn't terribly good. I nearly always have *some* signal, even though it's weak. My out-of-coverage time is often 0%, sometimes 1% or 2%.
Part of me thinks that you're asking the wrong question. In my experience, I've gotten the best battery lifetimes with good wifi connections, the 3G connection is irrelevant. I have good wifi coverage both at work and at home. My personal usage patterns are data-centric, I don't actually talk on the phone much at all, hence the importance of data connectivity to my battery life.
The posts in various battery threads telling people to shut off all their radios, including wifi, are sensible only if you have no wifi access point available. If you do have wifi access, absolutely turn your wifi on. When connected to an access point and not scanning, wifi uses less power than 3G.
My wife got 2 days, 1 hour and 48 minutes on her EVO. But keep in mind she does not use it too much and i turned the 3g and gps off. I personaly get about 12 hours of hard usage. I have a pic of her phone showing the time but don't know how to upload it on here. i can email it to someone if they can post it for me. just DM me your email address.
running latest Fresh, get 23-24 hrs without having to put it on the charger, i text all day and i mean like two texts every five minutes from 7AM to midnight. i browse the internet a couple of times a day 20 min each, Facebook every hour or so. The one thing i dont use my Evo for is phone calls, i have a Touch Pro 2 for that.
I usually get between 15 and 18 hours of moderate to heavy use, which includes 2 e-mail accounts on push (gmail and EAS), texting, phone calls, and web surfing. Some days, when my usage is relatively light, I can get over 24 hours.
Today, for example, I've emailed and texted frequently, web surfed for about 20 minutes, let my daughter watch cartoons for about an hour on our morning commute and I'm at about 37% after over 10 hours. Oh, and I'm running Cyanogen's latest nightly. Before flashing to Cyanogen, I was getting over 20 hours per charge with moderate to heavy usage.
Today, for example, I've emailed and texted frequently, web surfed for about 20 minutes, let my daughter watch cartoons for about an hour on our morning commute and I'm at about 37% after over 10 hours. Oh, and I'm running Cyanogen's latest nightly. Before flashing to Cyanogen, I was getting over 20 hours per charge with moderate to heavy usage.
I just got my 5% warning and plugged in. Time on battery: 55 hours (2d 7h).
My use during this time:
- Browsed app store a bit.
- Updated 3 apps I think.
- Installed a new app.
- Watched a short streaming video in the Discovery channel app.
- Had a few phone calls of just minutes each.
- Had about an hour-long call, used my bluetooth headset for this call.
- Browsed the web for a bit, maybe 30 to 60 mins total.
- Listened to a couple voicemails.
- Synced with my work IMAP email every 5 minutes (16 hrs a day), every 15 minutes (8 hours a day).
- Received push gmail messages.
The phone was up the entire time. I don't power down at night.
My use during this time:
- Browsed app store a bit.
- Updated 3 apps I think.
- Installed a new app.
- Watched a short streaming video in the Discovery channel app.
- Had a few phone calls of just minutes each.
- Had about an hour-long call, used my bluetooth headset for this call.
- Browsed the web for a bit, maybe 30 to 60 mins total.
- Listened to a couple voicemails.
- Synced with my work IMAP email every 5 minutes (16 hrs a day), every 15 minutes (8 hours a day).
- Received push gmail messages.
The phone was up the entire time. I don't power down at night.
I travel for a living and I go in and out of great signal area's and into bad/roaming or even no signal area's all the time and still average 16+ hours with about 20 - 40% remaining.. I spend my lunch hour surfing the internet and then get and send e-mail and text messages through out the day as well. I only talk 20 - 30 minutes per day on the EVO as I do have a "Work" phone but it's a basic cheap LG flip phone... I talk on that one a good 2 hours a day and I charge it up on Sunday and it will make it to Friday most weeks.
Now my home area has great Sprint Service.... According to Sprints maps there is a tower maybe 400 yards from my house... I can see it but Verizon and T-Mobile both boast a tower in that location... Which I am sure they probably "Share" the tower because it has many antenna on it..
Seriously though, unless you're a heavy heavy media user, I wouldn't worry about battery.
And even if you are a heavy user, then the $10.00 Ebay (2 batteries + 1 charger) deal sounds good.
And even if you are a heavy user, then the $10.00 Ebay (2 batteries + 1 charger) deal sounds good.
I don't think I am any where near a "Heavy" user. So far in two months I average about 2.7 GB of Data per month... Mostly uploading pictures, web, texting and e-mail/facebooking. I have seen people posting 10, 20, 30+ of data use per month.... I am NOT in that area....
just because of early reviews I actually ordered and got a spare battery and charger for charging the battery with out the phone BEFORE I even had the phone.. Just in case....
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I'm always on my phone so it lasts me about 3-4 hours before I have to charge.
Swyped from my EVO 4G using Tapatalk
Swyped from my EVO 4G using Tapatalk
Please don't hurt me!
I realized that after I created it. Judging by how many people voted for 12 hours, I def should've added many more options higher than 12 hours. Appears I can't edit it, though if someone could, that'd be great. Mmmmods!
Take a look at the response above this post and see why I had 4 hours as an option.
35 hours sounds awesome. I hope I have the same experience. I plan on using the browser A LOT though.
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mine usually will last more than 12 hours with normal usage.some internet browsing. emails as they arrive, facebook and that's at 3g. no 4g here in tampa fl but I'm sure the battery life will drop.
After applying the update, the last couple of days I hit 20% battery left after about 14 hours. In what I'd consider fairly light usage: a few phone calls, a whole lot of exchange emails, and a moderate number of gmail emails, a few SMS, and maybe 30 minutes of web browsing and 30-45 minutes of playing with the phone. About 3-4 hours of that with GPS and BT turned on, about 3-4 (different) hours on WiFi.
Before the update? Probably not quite as good, but the difference isn't huge.
One interesting thing, I think, about the update. I'm pretty sure pre-update I got a low battery warning at about 30% left. Today, I didn't get a low battery warning even when I hit 20%. That'll certainly make it seem like the battery lasts longer, without actually changing consumption at all.
For the life of me, I don't know how anyone can get 50-60 hours unless they don't do anything with the phone. No email syncing, no weather or news syncing, no facebook or twitter, and only turn the screen on for 30 minutes a day.
Before the update? Probably not quite as good, but the difference isn't huge.
One interesting thing, I think, about the update. I'm pretty sure pre-update I got a low battery warning at about 30% left. Today, I didn't get a low battery warning even when I hit 20%. That'll certainly make it seem like the battery lasts longer, without actually changing consumption at all.
For the life of me, I don't know how anyone can get 50-60 hours unless they don't do anything with the phone. No email syncing, no weather or news syncing, no facebook or twitter, and only turn the screen on for 30 minutes a day.
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I would actually call ~ 3GB/mo to be heavy usage. Those with 10+ GB of use are streaming a lot of video and music. 3 GB for just browsing and email is a lot of use. It's not outrageous by any means, but pretty high nonetheless.
I think average use for browsing and email would be 750 MB - 1 GB. Remember that something like 98% of smartphone users use less than 2 GB/mo.
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