Serious Battery Drain while talking on the phone

[J-Dam]

Would bad signal strength be the cause of this? I am currently in AT&T country and just had a 7 minute phone conversation that chewed up 10% of my battery. I notice when i am back home with good signal strength it will still go down a fair amount, but not this much! Never had a phone have such a touchy battery. This Thunderbolt is a livewire!

Sorry mods, i have absolutely no luck with the search function. I wish they would design them to spit out a little more info without having to type in exactly what was was posted in the past.

 

[zshazz]

I've noticed this too. A 10 minute phone call drains as much if not more battery than 30 minutes of active use (including 50% brightness screen).

 

[J-Dam]

Anyone else seeing this?

 

[streetstrip01]

yup

 

[alfieferenzo84]

yup with 4g on 30 min killed my hole battery from 81%. With 3g on it was not as bad prolly get 3-4hrs of call with screen off.

 

[J-Dam]

Brutal !!

I am on 3G and it burns up pretty quick. Just gonna have to deal with it i guess.