Loosing Battery when Turning Back on

[Iceycold]

Hey guys, quick little issue I have here.

I turn off my TB in school, when I get out at 2:30 PM, (I turn it off since like 6:45-7:25 A.M), It losses like 5-10% battery why is that, hasn't it been off the whole time?

 

[Thunder_Struck]

Yea this seems to be a common problem. I guess it takes that much battery just to boot up? I don't know but its pretty annoying

 

[Iceycold]

Lol yeah.. that thunder screen is beautiful but power consuming if that's true

 

[zshazz]

Well, Doc Brown says a bolt of lightning is 1.21 gigawatts of power. If that's 5-10% of the battery, I'd say that's pretty impressive.

 

[Iceycold]

lol..

Anyone have solutions?

 

[paulmike3]

I guess it takes that much battery just to boot up?

This is correct. This is also why I LOL at people that bump charge. All that powering up and down and recharging is really just refilling the battery they used by powering up and down.

 

[htowngator]

I posted about this the other day. It really takes around 8% away even on a simple restart. It's amazing.

 

[dubge]

reminds me of the BB storm when it rebooted I did a reboot yesterday and noticed the drop was 10% and was pretty surprised because my D1 and DX were hardly noticeable

 

[viatorvoice]

What I found to work, its to charge the phone on. Then turn the phone off, charge till green, turn the phone back on and charge to green. I have gotten great numbers. Up time 35 hours, Awake time 9.5 hours and display on for 4 hours with 9% battery left Also this is after condition the battery (7 charge cycles, only one with the method above)

 

[shellguy05]

Well, Doc Brown says a bolt of lightning is 1.21 gigawatts of power. If that's 5-10% of the battery, I'd say that's pretty impressive.

HAHAHA Nice!

 

[HawaiiD]

Lol yeah.. that thunder screen is beautiful but power consuming if that's true

Not only that but the powering up of the OS and apps drains the battery too.

Also,thats why with Froyo an app killer is not really recommended.

Because, there are certain apps that will turn back on in a matter of
seconds after it is killed. When the apps start back up it drains
the battery further. So if you have it set to kill
frequently? the more battery it will drain more frequently.

Since I have deleted my Advance Task Killer.

I noticed with my Evo once you turn down all of your sync settings
to what you need? and then disable autoroaming,wifi scanning,gps,back ground data(only need this access the Android Market).

My battery goes 12-14 hours down to about 30-40% charge left moderate usage.

 

[d1ez3]

I always thought it was just an error on calibration, there is no possible way to use that much power (mA) that fast, the battery would be on fire

 

[Iceycold]

so it's normal to loose 10% when turning back on?

 

[thecackster]

so it's normal to loose 10% when turning back on?

well not normal, but consistent.

 

[Slapnpop826]

I always thought it was just an error on calibration, there is no possible way to use that much power (mA) that fast, the battery would be on fire

I have come to the same conclusion. I believe the meter reading is off. It just doesn't seem plausible for such a huge drop to occur just by turning the phone off and on.

 

[tarheelDan]

I'm with you guys on the meter being wrong. Heck, I've even seen the meter go up a little over time after a reboot. And someone, somewhere (I know, sounds needlessly mysterious) had a chart I saw of the batt level going back up after a recharge or maybe dropping slower and eventually matching trend.