My battery doesn't make it to lunch... does yours?

[mhelfer]

I take my phone off the charger around 7:30am, I have 4g, wi-fi, bluetooth turned off and gps on (but i'm not using maps or forsquare etc). I have a gmail account added so I get push gmail. I also run gtalk in the background. However I removed my facebook account and twitter for this experiment, so no notifications from them. I have spent < 10 minutes talking on the phone, sent 3 text messages, < 10 messages in gtalk and browsed the web for 30 mins. The screen brightness is almost to the bottom of the slider (no automatic brightness), I run advanced task killer, spare parts, and changed to an static background. My phone has died completely before 1pm two days in a row with almost the same usage. Which as you can see is very low.

Is this really how bad it is, or do i have a bad battery? Even if I was to carry two batteries each giving me 5 hours I would not make it to dinner.

There is absolutely no way I can keep this phone if this is common experience. I've read all the battery life posts and I am doing everything there doing.

 

[EVO1Android]

You can see the sticky about battery life. Those tips have helped me alot.

 

[2CupsWithString]

I take my phone off the charger around 7:30am, I have 4g, wi-fi, bluetooth turned off and gps on (but i'm not using maps or forsquare etc). I have a gmail account added so I get push gmail. I also run gtalk in the background. However I removed my facebook account and twitter for this experiment, so no notifications from them. I have spent < 10 minutes talking on the phone, sent 3 text messages, < 10 messages in gtalk and browsed the web for 30 mins. The screen brightness is almost to the bottom of the slider (no automatic brightness), I run advanced task killer, spare parts, and changed to an static background. My phone has died completely before 1pm two days in a row with almost the same usage. Which as you can see is very low.

Is this really how bad it is, or do i have a bad battery? Even if I was to carry two batteries each giving me 5 hours I would not make it to dinner.

There is absolutely no way I can keep this phone if this is common experience. I've read all the battery life posts and I am doing everything there doing.

That is not typical to my experiences with the Evo at considerable more usage. I've been killing my phone all day today with installing apps and have received around 90 - 100 push emails. I've also had Pandora going strong for a good 3 hours and my battery meter just went orange.

 

[cpolism]

I'm with you there. My battery is getting crushed. But it seems to have improved just a bit. I do have facebook connected, and twitter. But they only update as I open them...or so I think. Sent about 30 or 40 texts so far today and did some roaming around on the net, stocks and other things and i'm at about 50% right now. Took it off the charger at 7:30. I understand everyone says to disable this and this and don't let this run in the background...but the crappy part is that is part of what makes this device so cool. So it seems pointless to disable all that stuff, unless you don't use it through the course of a day.

 

[dpg]

signing out of google talk helped my battery life. but from the sounds of it, its not an option for you

 

[ArkAngel06]

I take my phone off the charger around 7, after sending a.few texts, and quite a bit of web browsing, my phone is around 50% at lunch time. That is very acceptable to me, since that's about how my iPhone would do.

 

[Sph33r]

Everyone with battery life, can you check to see if your awake time is the same as your uptime? Menu-Settings-About Phone-Battery will show you this.

If my phone isn't sleeping, I experience horrible battery life somewhat close to what you're talking about.

Today I pulled my phone off the charger at 9:30 am, sent probably 20 texts, checked email repeatedly, installed a few programs, took a few phone calls, and I'm at 69% battery life left after 7 hours. This is how it should be. Unfortunately it seems like when HTC fiddles with things, the wake lock bug pops its head up and everyone spends the first few months of owning a new phone complaining about battery life until the bugs get ironed out by the cool developers on sites like this one.

 

[neon8]

7 hours 39 min since last charge. Battery at 86% . Wifi on. Gps off have gps in my car. 4g off as no 4 g here. All notifications off. Checked 4 email accounts 3 times. Read and answered about 50 emails. Checked facebook x1. Download one app. Live aquarium wallpaper running. Brightness 35%. About 10 texts and one short phone call. 30 min of web news browsing. I leave wifi on because better wifi signal at home and work than 3 g. Battery report says cell standby 38% wifi 28% phone idle 27% android system 5% display 5%. This is fairly normal day for me. Sometimes more use. Since getting phone the battery at bedtime when charge is between 40-50%. So battery works for how i use phone. Might not work for all. I dont need push notifications and email. I check when have time. Some may need or want instant notifications and may not get the same battery life. I am now sorry i bought and extra battery cuz not likely to need.

 

[mhelfer]

So it sounds like I have a bad battery because from my experience with the phone everyone else is flat out lying about their usage . 3 text messages 2 emails, a little gtalk and a 10 minute phone call should not kill the battery by lunch.

 

[tdubby#AC]

Took mine off today at 6am it's now 145Pm and i'm at %20 left with alot of texting and minor surfing and twitroid running.. My blackberry tour was about that same.

 

[Edge767]

Took my phone off the charger at 8 a.m. I used the phone moderately (a few phonecalls with bluetooth, some without totaling around 30 minutes, some browsing, calendar use, text messaging, and some playing around while bored in a meeting) and now at nearly 4 p.m., I've got 65% battery left. I did not charge during the day, and I did not baby my phone; I used it as much/often as I have used any of my phones (if not more).

The only things I do/have done to help battery life is shut-down talk and I manage my radios (turn off WiFi when I leave the house, turn on mobile networking, then turn off mobile and turn WiFi back on when I get to the office; reverse process when I go home).

No complaints from me so far about the battery. It's lasting as much as I need it to.

 

[badbradd2]

I unplugged at 7:30ish with 100% battery life, it's now 2pm and I'm at 70%. So 30% decrease in 6.5 hours isnt bad at all.

 

[jam4775]

I also unplugged my phone at 7:30am this morning and I still have about 2/3's of my battery left now at 4:00pm. So far, I've browsed through the pictures and videos of the baseball game that I went to last night for about 15mins today... spent about 40mins browsing the web... spent about 25mins viewing 3 different PDF documents while I was in a meeting... sent/received 6 texts... sent/recieved about 20 exchange email and about 6 gmails... sent/recieved at least 10 google talk messages... received over 10 factbook updates... and scheduled a meeting. I'm also using the water live wall paper.

I haven't done anything special to my phone and I'm not using any task killers. I have the following things turned off... 4G, Wifi, Blue-tooth, and GPS... I also have my screen brightness at the second to the lowest setting using the android power control widget. I have the following things being synced... exchange (as items arrive), facebook (every 2 hours), gmail (default), weather (every 3 hours)... and I have disabled sync on everything else.

I would turn off GPS on your phone and see if that helps... your phone is still using GPS for weather updates even though you are not using any mapping software.

 

[machjuan#AC]

To me, GPS is the biggest problem. I always keep that off unless im going to need it for something. I did the same when I had my pre and saw much better battery life. I dont have a problem with wifi being on, I just turn it off when I know im not going to be around a hotspot for a while. I also get better 3G with the evo than I did with the Pre. Im getting a full day of use, so im good.

 

[neon8]

You really have to check to make sure all stuff running in bacKgroud is off unless you want it. Go to accounts and sync and look at all. Very long list. Also check settings of every app and see if set to phone home. Found lots of unknown stuff running in apps.

 

[badbradd2]

Up until today I have been using a task killer. I uninstalled it and am trying today without it, and honestly, battery life seems better for me when I'm not killing applications all the time. From what I understand when you kill apps, it uses more battery to reopen them, rather than take them out of their paused, chached state android puts them in when you aren't using them.

I think Maps is one of the only exceptions to this though as it will remain running in the background regardless.

 

[adebo]

No complaints here. My phone lasts all day. Emails, Microsoft Exchange, texting, browsing, exploring market, calls, etc. I don't charge my phone over night though I charge it in the morning when I get to work and I am good to go so far until the following morning.

 

[njbianco#AC]

I think you have a bad battery or some app you got from the market is running in the background and is killing your battery because my phone always last from 7:30am(when i wake up and take it off the charger) until around 9:00pm-10:00pm every day since i got the phone on the 4th

 

[OptiPrime]

How do I make sure the device is asleep? I just tap the power button which turns the screen off...but I'm having battery issue too. Took it off the charger @ 7am & it was down to 10% by 11:30am with me using wifi, Facebook, friend stream, n internet

 

[jam4775]

You really have to check to make sure all stuff running in bacKgroud is off unless you want it. Go to accounts and sync and look at all. Very long list. Also check settings of every app and see if set to phone home. Found lots of unknown stuff running in apps.

Agreed, you really have to dig deep and find all the setting for each app... by going to menu/more/setting in many of the apps.