My Detailed experience with Battery Life.

[ferniesp]

This might piss off Nate but I have to chime in once more. You are correct Nate, I did not buy this phone but I used it and my friends have them as I type this.

The TB only received a score of 8 from Endgadget where others that don't have 4 G, received higher scores. We can argue why such a low score till the sun don't shine but I think at the end of the day, the TB is just an oversized Droid with one small battery......and no, the extended battery is not the answer on such a huge phone. Why HTC continues to put tiny batterys on these phones is beyond me. You can cycle these batterys all you want but in time, you will see that it's a waste of time. What HTC should have done is put a standard battery of at least 2250 on such a huge phone.

For those that don't care about the battery, you have one sweet phone. Enjoy it.

 

[Casey Cheung]

I agree. Battery life is not very good. I wouldn't say horrible, but certainly not good. But I cope by keeping my Thunderbolt charged at my desk at work, and charged overnight at home. Plus I bought 2 extra stock batteries, extra AC charger and car charger! Sad, I know, but I was already prepared by expecting the Thunderbolt to be below average battery life, after my previous experience with an HTC Inspire by AT&T, which was only a little bit better in battery life versus the Thunderbolt. You almost need a dumb flip phone as a 2nd phone just to make simple phone calls!

 

[Tompoint0]

I can honestly say that it is just as bad on the Inspire "4G???". I think that all of these phones are the same way. At least you guy purchase an extended battery! The guys must have been on something when they designed ours

 

[Koato]

my mistake restocking fee for where I bought my phone is "25% or $35.00 restocking fee, whichever is higher"

Which makes me possibly have to bite a $65 bullet.. -$65 and a refund or $50 for a ugly ext. battery..

I'm seriously considering the fruit option, as much as I hate to say it.. I <3 the TB but it just isnt what I personally consider "functional" haha.

I'm on the fence atm...

 

[Joelist]

Oi oi oi.

I have done three battery drain down now. Conditions:

Screen on auto briteness

GPS on

Sync: Touchdown, HTC email, Facebook and weather

Use: Moderate web use, phone calls, Google Navigation

My battery life is working out to approximately 4 minutes 20 seconds per percentile. That indicates a battery life of roughly 7 hours and 20 minutes.

That is frankly not bad, and I still have some more optimizing to do (for example tweaking the GPS and cutting out the Facebook sync).

As to the X, it may have better battery life but in every other way the TB is a better phone.

 

[superlawyer15]

I dont know why soo many people are complaining about the battery

especially when they were selling the 2750mah battery for half off

 

[bmcclure937]

I would be patient... see what you can do.

Let's be honest. Everyone charges their phone at night... so why not charge after lunch as it sits on your desk at work (if needed).

Where I live does not have 4G LTE data coverage yet. I was able to take the TB off the charger this morning at about 6:30 and it lasted until around 6:30 this evening.

Granted, this was under fairly light use. But I can definitely handle that for now. I can charge right when I get home from work, if needed.

Once the battery becomes conditioned and I am able to root and run a custom ROM, custom kernel, SetCPU (to help optimize battery and CPU usage when screen is off, and under certain circumstances)... then we can talk about battery.

 

[shaddix]

Custom kernel will help. I have no issue personally. I just plug it in when I'm near power and also carry 3gjuice lunchbox for backup.

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[drummerman2008]

Okay what you guys don't realize company's will not make batterys so strong to the point you can a whole day with out charging especially if you a heavy user! Most people lose a charge so quickly bcuz they are constantly on the phone do stuff leaving wifi on, GPS, Bluetooth, I'm services all those things being on at one time can Darin your battery quick. So stop complaining about battery issues on every phone because they not going to have batterys like that so suck it up and deal with it.

 

[Koato]

Okay what you guys don't realize company's will not make batterys so strong to the point you can a whole day with out charging especially if you a heavy user! Most people lose a charge so quickly bcuz they are constantly on the phone do stuff leaving wifi on, GPS, Bluetooth, I'm services all those things being on at one time can Darin your battery quick. So stop complaining about battery issues on every phone because they not going to have batterys like that so suck it up and deal with it.

It's that companies can't at the moment make batteries that last a whole day for heavy users.. It is a combination of battery technology lagging behind hardware/software that requires large amounts of power.

Hardly using a phone and having the charge diminish so rapidly is fustrating and I assure you I'm not going to be the first to talk about this. In a week or two everyone is going to be talking about this problem. Hopefully you won't be telling all those posters not to complain as well.. Instead of embracing your own abhorrence towards those with higher expectations, maybe you can take a few minutes and type a little clearer so that others might understand exactly what it is you are trying to say without effort.. you would be doing yourself and everyone else a favor. Just some advice.

 

[nate44]

It's that companies can't at the moment make batteries that last a whole day for heavy users.. It is a combination of battery technology lagging behind hardware/software that requires large amounts of power.

Hardly using a phone and having the charge diminish so rapidly is fustrating and I assure you I'm not going to be the first to talk about this. In a week or two everyone is going to be talking about this problem. Hopefully you won't be telling all those posters not to complain as well.. Instead of embracing your own abhorrence towards those with higher expectations, maybe you can take a few minutes and type a little clearer so that others might understand exactly what it is you are trying to say without effort.. you would be doing yourself and everyone else a favor. Just some advice.

Condescend much? Like I said before, but it seems you overlooked it. Give it some time. The phone has been out for 1 day, and these constant complaints about battery life really do nobody any good.

There is a sticky thread with plenty of good info concerning this very issue. Have you read through it?

 

[Koato]

Condescend much? Like I said before, but it seems you overlooked it. Give it some time. The phone has been out for 1 day, and these constant complaints about battery life really do nobody any good.

There is a sticky thread with plenty of good info concerning this very issue. Have you read through it?

Yes, Every post so far. Experience is going to vary from area to area, user to user, based on alot of different variables. This is a thread about my paticular experience with battery life on the TB. I did infact read your first post(Which in itself, shows that you must have overlooked parts of what I had previously posted.) You made a good point about the spotty 4G possibly being part of the problem, however again that will be my experience for who knows how long until they expand 4G.

As far as me not doing anybody good? I could argue against that statement.

What won't do anybody good is calling people "Whiners".

If you wanna do everybody good, stick to posting constructive and informed opinions and fact(Without confusing the two as people often do.)

I started this thread to give a detailed view of my battery life experience at the time and vent some frustrations that I'm positive others share.. not to argue. I'd appreciate if that could be understood.

I just charged my battery with it being off to 100% and I am not going to turn it on until tomorrow for another test.

 

[leehblanc]

At this moment I am at 10% battery left, 16h 40m 37s since unplugged. This is with three long phone calls and a few short ones, quite a few texts, taking some pictures, browsing and downloading ringtones and wallpapers for about 10 minutes in Zedge, checking email, making a few facebook comments, reading a few articles from pulse, trying out multiple wallpapers, and looking up various settings to answer questions here in the forums. All in all it's see a good amount of usage. My screen is around 30-35% brightness, and I am on WiFi whenever possible. GPS on all day, Bluetooth turned on whenever I was in the car, turned off when at home or work.

 

[Koato]

At this moment I am at 10% battery left, 16h 40m 37s since unplugged. This is with three long phone calls and a few short ones, quite a few texts, taking some pictures, browsing and downloading ringtones and wallpapers for about 10 minutes in Zedge, checking email, making a few facebook comments, reading a few articles from pulse, trying out multiple wallpapers, and looking up various settings to answer questions here in the forums. All in all it's see a good amount of usage. My screen is around 30-35% brightness, and I am on WiFi whenever possible. GPS on all day, Bluetooth turned on whenever I was in the car, turned off when at home or work.

Is that in a 4G or 3G area?

I'm jealous.

 

[juniorfan]

My batter sucked with 4G, and I have 4G all the time bc I'm in NJ (Right next to NY) but I just changed the phone to 3G and the battery life seems similar to my Incredible.

Yes, keeping it on 3G sucks but i wanted this phone first and 4G second.

 

[leehblanc]

Is that in a 4G or 3G area?

I'm jealous.

3G. Wifi is much more battery efficient than the data network (especially in a weak signal area), and even with wifi on, the data network will connect when you leave the range of a known wifi network.

You have 14 days. I would play around with some of the settings I (and others) have posted that we've had success with and try them for a few days. I'd hate to see you give up this phone AND pay a restocking fee. Good luck, and if you have any other questions feel free to PM me.

 

[Koato]

3G. Wifi is much more battery efficient than the data network (especially in a weak signal area), and even with wifi on, the data network will connect when you leave the range of a known wifi network.

You have 14 days. I would play around with some of the settings I (and others) have posted that we've had success with and try them for a few days. I'd hate to see you give up this phone AND pay a restocking fee. Good luck, and if you have any other questions feel free to PM me.

Thanks, yea I was planning on using most of the 14 days to make my decision. I'd hate to pay a fee and leave android phones(until hardware catches up a little!) as well.

 

[pingb]

I had the phone just over a day and had enough. I reactivated my BB. Sadly, I never thought I'd be so happy to have my crappy Storm2 back. I've heard good things about the Moto's. I think I'll wait for the Moto Bionic coming out soon. I think HTC's suck up too much juice on fancy animations and bloatware.

 

[d1ez3]

I dont know why soo many people are complaining about the battery

especially when they were selling the 2750mah battery for half off

Where is it half off

 

[deadlydreamx]

I live in a 4G area and the 4G def drains my battery faster i believe. At home I use my wifi and it drains slower that way. I use the fone moderate to heavy and ive been fone. Only pluged it in for like 20 mins after 10 hours of use and right now at the moment my battery is at 10% life.

Im assuming he means this battery.. http://shop.htcpedia.com/htc-thunderbolt-extended-battery-door.html

that battery cover looks way too big for me to consider getting.