soooo had it with the Rezound!!!

[ShaggyKids]

I've now been on my phone deleting dup contacts and a long phone call and a few other things. It's just after noon and I've still got about 3/4 of a charge *and* a case of the giggles I'm so happy with my phone now!

I'll stop bugging you people with happy updates now, time for bed.

 

[xxfallacyxx]

Why stop bugging us? Why not post some battery use screen shots to share the fact that it is possible to get great battery life out of a HTC phone

 

[amadkins]

Why stop bugging us? Why not post some battery use screen shots to share the fact that it is possible to get great battery life out of a HTC phone

Along with what steps accomplished what. Looking for ratios of increased life per action taken, so I know where to focus my efforts.

 

[idiotekniques]

my guess is the thing that helped the most was taking it out of LTE/CDMA and into just CDMA.

I have my phone rooted, all bloat frozen, setcpu and my battery life is still not so great. This is with any one of 3 stock HTC batteries. The display is the biggest battery sucker by far, and the most beautiful thing as well.

 

[xxfallacyxx]

Along with what steps accomplished what. Looking for ratios of increased life per action taken, so I know where to focus my efforts.

Simple things really help. Starting with a hardware aspect:

Things to disable if not in use:

WiFi
Bluetooth
GPS
4G LTE

Things to alter:

Screen brightness (if you're indoors or using the phone at night, you can probably get away with the lowest setting.)

Another member suggested monitoring which apps sync when, if it's something like a game which you won't be touching during work hours you may consider turning off the sync feature for that application.

Animated screen backgrounds take more power. In a sense of "hypermiling" your battery life, technically a darker background requires less energy to display.

 

[xxfallacyxx]

my guess is the thing that helped the most was taking it out of LTE/CDMA and into just CDMA.

I have my phone rooted, all bloat frozen, setcpu and my battery life is still not so great. This is with any one of 3 stock HTC batteries. The display is the biggest battery sucker by far, and the most beautiful thing as well.

What kind of life are you getting?

 

[idiotekniques]

What kind of life are you getting?

I keep GPS on at all times since it seems that Android manages that very well. I keep WiFi on only when I am on a WiFi network, which is primarily at home - when I leave the house i turn it off. I use bluetooth while driving and keep it off all other times, I do spend about 2-3 hours driving between 8am and 3pm. When i get to a destination I turn BT off. I keep Auto Brightness on during the day and keep it at 20% while indoors and at night.

I can leave the house at 8am with 100%. I use the phone for about an hours worth of calls. I have push email on two Gmail Accounts going. FB is installed but not synced. Twitter via Plume is set to refresh every 30 minutes. Weatherbug is set to update every 6 hours. I use it for maybe 5-10 Square Credit Card transactions between 12-2pm

I have tried ADW & ADWEX but they FC a lot so I am now on Go Launcher with Sense frozen via Titanium Backup. Bloat is frozen as I am rooted, well besides Kindle and NFL Mobile which I use and don't consider bloat to me.

I use the phone to check the web and stuff, post on Twitter, for probably about an hour. By about 3pm I am down to 40% battery life. Display is always the number one battery killer. I check app usage via Spare Parts, there do not seem to be any culprits really.

 

[xxfallacyxx]

Ah. You're a heavy user. Getting 7 hours from 60% of battery life isn't bad though, especially with how you use the phone.

 

[Deron Baker]

Yes, I am thank you. Got home and still had a full charge after about a total of 10 hours. Amazing! What a huge difference! I can go back to loving my Rezound and got my sanity back. Looking forward to putting some of my apps back on that I'd removed and seeing how that goes.

Fantastic. Glad you were able to find a solution. Cause there ain't nothing worse than a dumb smart-phone. And quite frankly, a phone that only gives you 4 hrs of battery life isn't so smart.

I suspect the phone's constant search for an LTE signal was the main culprit.

Sent from HTC Rezound using Tapatalk.

 

[brad419]

Didn't read through the whole thread but if already haven't, go to settings then data, click through all the apps one at a time that you don't need to connect throughout the day and turn them off. Example: words with friends, you don't need it to connect and tell you when a move you made when you can just check it yourself. Do so for every game really.

Can't find data under Settings

 

[ruger141]

Hi there,

I don't know anymore if the it's the freaking phone, the OTA, lousy batteries or HTC phones in general but I've really had enough of this CRAP......
Deb

This is the whole reason I figured I would try the iPhone out when my Ne2 was due a few weeks ago. I have had Blackberry, Android and now my iPhone 4s so I have had a good taste of the different offerings. My Previous device was an HTC Incredible and my wife currently has the Samsung Charge. I noticed something over the last few years just by owning the devices and reading other peoples experiences and that is that each brand has its known issues and they NEVER get solved HTC=Bad Battery Life, Samsung=Very Cheap Feeling, GPS Sucks, Motorolla=Horrible Cameras, dull UI and sub par screens. A new phone is announced and people drool over it for months only to find out that its the same ol same ol just with other added features ie Dual Core, bigger screen etc(sounds similar to the presidential election lol). The core problem does not get fixed though for some reason. I personally think they are releasing too many devices too fast with Android and instead of focusing on fixing their main issues and getting things a little more polished they focus on pushing the envelope in other areas. This also doesn't make sense to me now that we are stuck with only having the option of 2 yr contracts. The length of time the consumer has to wait until they can get a new device is severely mismatched to the rate new devices are being released so you end up with people feeling stuck with old technology. Something needs to change imo.

 

[markymark]

Bad battery life is not inherent with HTC phones. It's all about how you configure it, how you use it and what apps you load. Many people, including me, use HTC phones and get very good battery life.

This thread is proof, the OP made a couple small tweaks and removed a few problem apps and BINGO...problem solved.

 

[Postoid]

Simple things really help. Starting with a hardware aspect:

Things to disable if not in use:

WiFi
Bluetooth
GPS
4G LTE

Things to alter:

Screen brightness (if you're indoors or using the phone at night, you can probably get away with the lowest setting.)

Another member suggested monitoring which apps sync when, if it's something like a game which you won't be touching during work hours you may consider turning off the sync feature for that application.

Animated screen backgrounds take more power. In a sense of "hypermiling" your battery life, technically a darker background requires less energy to display.

Had to chime in on those 2 truths...Screen Brightness and use a non-animated background with a dark color. I don't use my phone as much as many here in the forum but I really find it fun to squeeze as much time out of the device as I can using many suggestions posted here. I use Auto Brightness all the time except at night. Then it goes down to where there's just a smidgen of green showing on the adjust bar. The great screen still makes it easy to read too.

 

[whiteshadow001]

the thunderbolt left a bad taste in my mouth with htc so I went with the galaxy nexus and haven't thought about turning back.

 

[isdaako]

What changes to your phone, after all the suggestions, do you think were the ones that worked?

I was unable to glean that from the post.

Thanks

 

[rootbrain]

Didn't you say you don't have 4G service in your area? I assumed that since you can only obtain a 3G signal, that leaving the phone in "CDMA/LTE" mode would cause the phone to constantly try to connect to 4G, thus draining more battery. By staying in CDMA-only the phone quits trying to find a 4G (LTE) signal, which shouldn't be an issue since you said you have no good 4G service anyway.

Every month or so, you can turn your setting back to "CDMA/LTE" mode for 10 minutes to see if you can grab a 4G signal. Also, you can check somewhere on the verizonwireless website to see if the LTE network is available in your area (you can type in a specific address to see if it is available). Until that happens, just keep the phone in CDMA-only mode.

Same thing with the WiFi. Are you leaving the phone's WiFi radio on when you leave the house? If so, the phone is constantly searching for a wireless router to connect to when you move away from your home's connection. And since there are a lot of wireless routers out there, as you walk the dogs or drive around town, the phone will be constantly exposed to different routers and try to read the output from them, which takes battery power.

I keep my wifi turned OFF as default, even at home (although I do get LTE at home). I have the unlimited data plan so there is no need for me to use wifi except when I can't get any radio signal at all. wifi is also a battery killer, although not as much as other things.

 

[rootbrain]

It must be because in my mind it seems like they would have had enough of all the complaints, the sending out of replacement phones & batteries etc and doooooo something about this thus saving them money. They could offer folks a choice of no additional apps, maybe a gamer phone w/game apps, a business phone w/biz apps, a sports version w/sports stuff and that way people get more of what they MIGHT even use, LOL! They'd do away w/the expense of replacement this and thats and wind up with happier customers. But that's just me.

Nice thought but that would be an even more expensive support nightmare. Do you imagine them doing that on all the phone models they sell? 4-5 different configurations on 10 different models of smartphones? 1st question from support person, "Are you on the sports, business, gamer, student or housewife configuration?" LOL.

The manufacturer would just tell them "meh, you're on your own"

 

[xxfallacyxx]

I keep my wifi turned OFF as default, even at home (although I do get LTE at home). I have the unlimited data plan so there is no need for me to use wifi except when I can't get any radio signal at all. wifi is also a battery killer, although not as much as other things.

WiFi uses less juice than LTE.

 

[markymark]

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WiFi uses less juice than LTE.

LOL.....

That gives new meaning to "pear"ing your phone.....

Yes you should use wifi whenever possible to extend battery life.

 

[idiotekniques]

I keep my wifi turned OFF as default, even at home (although I do get LTE at home). I have the unlimited data plan so there is no need for me to use wifi except when I can't get any radio signal at all. wifi is also a battery killer, although not as much as other things.

wifi is more efficient power wise than any cell radio. part of that reason is the distance. think of how far your phone has to send a signal back to a cell tower while you are utilizing data. now how close is your wifi access point. your phone needs far less power to use wifi than LTE or 3g.