HTC One (M8): My battery life sucks what's wrong?

[chickweedblur]

If you have a "clean" setup, the only thing I can think of is signal strength - cellular or wifi. I have found that loading a bunch of seemingly harmless utilities or widgets is fine right up until it isn't. Schedulers, apps that take over notifications, widgets, etc in some combination always seem to have a big impact on performance and battery life. After the initial charge, I loaded alot of apps, setup Nova launcher, messaging, etc and after 2 days of alot of playing, it was 19% after 48 hours - best I've ever seen in a phone. Off the charger for 3 hours this morning, checked email 3-4 times, a couple txt's and brief browsing and I'm still at 99%.

 

[buckifvr]

Have you checked and adjusted your settings?

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[Jun Alcanites]

The last 2 days I have noticed that when I am at work where I have very poor reception(1 bar), my battery sucks. I work at the inner part of the building right outside the computer room. When I am at home, my battery seems to last a lot longer.

I unplugged my phone from the charger at 7:15 AM at 100%. It is now 10:51 AM and I am down to 79% with minimal useage.

 

[law2010]

I bearly watched YouTube. Should I take my device to carrier for replacement?

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If they will give you one, it could not hurt. Mine has great battery life.

I suspect you may have an app draining your battery. It may be an app that is not optimized well.

By the way, I don't believe in sacrificing all of your services to conserve battery life. It defeats the purpose of having a premium phone.

The only battery saving technique I use is auto brightness unless I am watching a video or taking pictures.

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[J-Dam]

I did read it and factory reset twice. My android system is using alot of my battery
Is this normal?

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Not sure, but mine is quite high today.

 

[law2010]

Not sure, but mine is quite high today.

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It is not unusual to see the operating system take up the majority of your usage statistics. Please remember, even when it says 90%,it does not mean that it drained your battery 90%,it is just 90% of whatever percentage has been drained.

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[brava27]

Re: My battery life sucks what's wrong ?

After almost 12 hours of light use, I still have 80%

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Ha! Do you even use your phone at all?

 

[Skyway]

My battery life is great, I regularly get 7 hours screen on time. I use my phone pretty heavily too, I'm constantly on this forum, web browsing, gaming, watching movies, etc. It has held up extremely well imo



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[buckifvr]

Re: My battery life sucks what's wrong ?

Ha! Do you even use your phone at all?

Absolutely that was a light use day, yesterday I was on moderate to heavy use and got 16.5 hours and had 2?left before I charged

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[J-Dam]

Re: My battery life sucks what's wrong ?

I can't exactly say the same just yet. Do you mind sharing some of the battery saving tips that worked for you?

i watched the Samsung Galaxy tips video from above, and adjusted settings from my experience with the Thunderbolt (ie: turn off assisted dialing, as well as a few others). My Location is in battery saving mode (if and when i need it i switch to high accuracy). i keep it on wi-fi when i can and don't need to be notified when it is available(i can check myself). Wi-fi optimization is checked..etc. i manually sync. Signal strength has a lot to to with it also. it is a work in progress and i am constantly reading tips that others have posted here.

 

[buckifvr]

If you have not already done so, I would also reduce the screen brightness. The screen uses the highest percentage of batter.

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[Xenus87]

Re: My battery life sucks what's wrong ?

Hi guys, i have this phone from friday, 2nd time in charge.See this pic:


When i see a 1-2 min video on youtube my battery go down 1-2%.

 

[Kwesi Yasay]

Re: My battery life sucks what's wrong ?

What I've noticed with mine is that it drains pretty quicky with about 15 hours of use and 2 1/2 of screen time with the "4g lte" ON.

From from i've observed from other users they don't have the "let" turned on just the 4G.

I'll try to switch mine with just the 4G. Cheers!

Side note: Gps ON, Sync ON, Wifi ON,a couple of YOUTUBE, Some MANGA reading, FB, BLinkfeed

 

[Axefire]

Re: My battery life sucks what's wrong ?

Ditto - after roughly 10 hrs, including about 2 + hrs of talking, many texts, some internet, 4G LTE (VZW), wifi, and about an hour of the talk time on bluetooth in my car, I'm anywhere between 55% and 70% - this is by far the best phone I've owned to date....I can go 2 days before worrying about a charge (but I still fully charge it every night)...

 

[MartialText]

I have read all great reviews on the battery life but mine only makes it about 9 hours then I have 20% left that's with playing no games about 15 mins of calls a few texts and a little YouTube it just keeps draining it is new so I don't know if batterys have to run threw a few cycles before it gets better but if some could help me out I would appreciate it greatly.

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I had to return my first unit after a day. Had the same problems you are having. I should have known something was up when it came out of the box dead. The Sprint girl had to charge it just to get it activated. Exchanged it without incident and the new one works just fine. I've been getting about 36 hours before needing to charge with moderate use.

 

[Kwesi Yasay]

I had to return my first unit after a day. Had the same problems you are having. I should have known something was up when it came out of the box dead. The Sprint girl had to charge it just to get it activated. Exchanged it without incident and the new one works just fine. I've been getting about 36 hours before needing to charge with moderate use.

Any print screen sir?

 

[jkdem85]

I can't stand when someone claims they got 30 hours with heavy or moderate use. That is impossible. A true power user barely gets a full day of battery on a light use day. Look at battery tests 8 hours on screen time kills virtually any phone battery and a true power user does this every day.

 

[Jesus Janica]

I can't stand when someone claims they got 30 hours with heavy or moderate use. That is impossible. A true power user barely gets a full day of battery on a light use day. Look at battery tests 8 hours on screen time kills virtually any phone battery and a true power user does this every day.

funny,because i have posted screen shots,i have gotten nearly three days on a single charge,without using any sort of power saving mode,and that's with moderate to heavy usage.

 

[JohnstonCrazy]

Re: My battery life sucks what's wrong ?

My HTC has never lasted more than 3 hours with use. If I don't use it I can get 12 hours. I lose about 1% every couple of minutes with any use. If I'm on the phone with it plugged in it actually loses battery faster than it gains.

 

[thepurpleturtle]

Re: My battery life sucks what's wrong ?

My HTC has never lasted more than 3 hours with use. If I don't use it I can get 12 hours. I lose about 1% every couple of minutes with any use. If I'm on the phone with it plugged in it actually loses battery faster than it gains.

I'd do a factory reset

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