My battery life experience and the stock battery

[Mordecaidrake]

So it's been a week or so now of breaking in the phone and while the battery life was slightly annoying, I had to share yesterdays experience. I unplugged my phone at 5:30am, for some reason Verizon felt the need to set my time an hour ahead, so I was up an hour early, I decided to hook my laptop up to my TV and watch an old episode of Doctor Who. While doing this I used my phone for Gmote to control my laptop, while the episode was on I got caught up on Facebook, Twitter and Google Reader, a solid hour of constant use. I then went to work and used it pretty moderately throughout the day, Facebook, Twitter and a few texts.

After I got out of work at 5:30, I then drove the 45-50 minutes the gym near my house streaming Tinyshark (Grooveshark free app). Then while at the gym I was listening to music for another hour, stored on the SD card. My service is flaky in the gym, it's apparently a bomb shelter, so my 3g was constantly switching from 3g to 1g(lawl). After the gym I went home and continued to use Gmote with my laptop hooked up to my TV, while doing intermittent Facebooking, Twittering and GChatting. I went to bed at roughly 11pm after playing a few levels of Angry Birds at that time my phone was reading yellow and my battery widget says it had 23% life.

Problem with the battery, I fail to see it.

EDIT: I also somehow forgot to turn WiFi off, so it was on all day long.

 

[cheeta186]

I find that my battery use is very hit and miss, some days its wonderful, and others, it's less then desirable, But I will learn to live with it. I just charge it whenever I am in the car, and sometimes at home.

 

[xeon711]

I hope this is the case after using the phone for a week or two. Yesterday (day 2) I had to charge the phone three times throughout the day. Just unplugged it less then an hour ago and its already at 81%!

 

[fdisker]

There's been so much talk about battery life on this phone. The number of threads about it in this forum alone is enough to keep a newb reading for days. IMO, what we're missing is concrete data as to what specific function on the phone is eating the battery.

I'm new to the Android world. In real life I manage a team of sysadmins that run servers. If we're having a performance problem on a host the first thing we do is turn up logging. We identify which app (or subsystem ... disk, memory, etc) is causing the problem and attack it.

Is there a comprehensive app in the android world that measures power draw at the android system level? If so, the community should be directing folks to install the app and report the data back to these forums where it can be analyzed and real conclusions can be drawn. What we have instead is a hit or miss recommendation system where the community recommends ten different ways to figure out what's going on with a specific device. Just seems like the process is broken or that there is no real process.

There are so many smart people on this forum and it feels like we can do better than what we're doing today.

 

[androidburn]

Guys... it's 1400 mAh!!! It was built to cause problems, just like the Incredible. 4G is a major power sucker which is why, in HTC's wisdom, the 3G Incredible 2 will have a larger battery capacity than the Thunderbolt and why after realizing the issue with the EVO 4G, HTC made the Thunderbolt battery smaller.


Note: HTC had tens of thousands of extended batteries available for sale on the day of the launch. Is this a coincidence? Methinks that HTC has pegged most of us as suckers.

 

[mc21]

you mentioned you were using 3g and had wifi on all day. for all your know you were mainly using the wifi connection, which would save a bit of battery. and if you can get that kind of battery usage then more power to you. i woke up to a text, unplugged, read, put down on nightstand, slept another 3 hours and woke up to 44% battery life from 100% 3 hours prior and no usage at all.

 

[mc21]

Guys... it's 1400 mAh!!! It was built to cause problems, just like the Incredible. 4G is a major power sucker which is why, in HTC's wisdom, the 3G Incredible 2 will have a larger battery capacity than the Thunderbolt and why after realizing the issue with the EVO 4G, HTC made the Thunderbolt battery smaller.


Note: HTC had tens of thousands of extended batteries available for sale on the day of the launch. Is this a coincidence? Methinks that HTC has pegged most of us as suckers.

are you sure about this extended battery being available by the boat load? i called 15 stores and went into 5 more before giving up as none of them had it. they all said that the factory doesn't even have them so they couldn't order it. maybe this is just my area but who knows.

 

[Mordecaidrake]

you mentioned you were using 3g and had wifi on all day. for all your know you were mainly using the wifi connection, which would save a bit of battery. and if you can get that kind of battery usage then more power to you. i woke up to a text, unplugged, read, put down on nightstand, slept another 3 hours and woke up to 44% battery life from 100% 3 hours prior and no usage at all.

I was on 4g at work, I had wifi on but there isn't a wifi at my work. So it was searching all day long.

 

[Droid_Evo_8]

So it's been a week or so now of breaking in the phone and while the battery life was slightly annoying, I had to share yesterdays experience. I unplugged my phone at 5:30am, for some reason Verizon felt the need to set my time an hour ahead, so I was up an hour early, I decided to hook my laptop up to my TV and watch an old episode of Doctor Who. While doing this I used my phone for Gmote to control my laptop, while the episode was on I got caught up on Facebook, Twitter and Google Reader, a solid hour of constant use. I then went to work and used it pretty moderately throughout the day, Facebook, Twitter and a few texts.

After I got out of work at 5:30, I then drove the 45-50 minutes the gym near my house streaming Tinyshark (Grooveshark free app). Then while at the gym I was listening to music for another hour, stored on the SD card. My service is flaky in the gym, it's apparently a bomb shelter, so my 3g was constantly switching from 3g to 1g(lawl). After the gym I went home and continued to use Gmote with my laptop hooked up to my TV, while doing intermittent Facebooking, Twittering and GChatting. I went to bed at roughly 11pm after playing a few levels of Angry Birds at that time my phone was reading yellow and my battery widget says it had 23% life.

Problem with the battery, I fail to see it.

EDIT: I also somehow for got to turn WiFi off, so it was on all day long.

What was your display setting?

 

[Mordecaidrake]

What was your display setting?

It's at about 25%

 

[major_works]

are you sure about this extended battery being available by the boat load? i called 15 stores and went into 5 more before giving up as none of them had it. they all said that the factory doesn't even have them so they couldn't order it. maybe this is just my area but who knows.

My wife and I bought a pair of Thunderbolts last Saturday. We asked about the extended battery and were told it would have to be ordered. None in stock, never were.

 

[Iceycold]

a quick question to the original poster, do you use juice defender?

 

[Mordecaidrake]

a quick question to the original poster, do you use juice defender?

No sir I don't.

 

[Iceycold]

interesting, I might just take off juice defender, beacause my battery is good now, and I HATE the lag when I unlock the phone because of it

 

[scorpiodsu]

Anyone use Juice Defender? Looks like it manages the power consumption components pretty well.

 

[Iceycold]

I used it since day 1 but i am going to take it off and see how battery is now without ti

 

[Buzzy42]

I've been using juice defender since my 2nd or 3rd day and it definitely has seemed to really help; the downside is sometimes it seems to prevent the radios from coming back online and I have to mess around with various settings to get things back to "normal".

I'm tempted to take it off for a while but also feel like it makes a huge difference...

 

[major_works]

Anyone use Juice Defender? Looks like it manages the power consumption components pretty well.

Looked it up in the Market and reviews say that it doesn't work on the Thunderbolt. Is this true?

 

[Iceycold]

u have to use Juice Defender Beta not battery battery dosent work atm

 

[bdragon]

Got my phone on the 21st and today is the first day that I actually got good battery life. I have JuiceDefender and CPU Tuner running, but I think it's due to the fact that I finally started conditioning the battery. I usually charge it before it dies(around 20%-30%). I cycled it 3 times in the passed 2 days and each time, the battery life got better. Right now it's sitting at 37% with a up time of 12:40 with moderate usage. 4 of those hrs it was sleeping, but no battery what so ever drained while it was sleeping, which is a first since I got it.