soooo had it with the Rezound!!!

[idiotekniques]

today was a so-so battery day. 8 hours off the charger. BT & GPS on the whole time.

display was on autobrightness so pretty bright. spare parts shows display on for 53 minutes. this took 55% of battery

55 minutes of phone calls, all on bluetooth. voice calls took the next big chunk of battery life.

3g only. a few texts. a tweet or two.

BT & Go Launcher were just 2% of battery use. that was it.

down to 50% after 8 hours. doesn't that seem a bit crummy?

 

[xxfallacyxx]

8 hours = 50% battery life.

Assuming you could get a full 16 hours on that usage level then no, that's not crummy at all.

We can not forget that we're not just using a phone, it IS a handheld computer. It has a 1.5ghz dual core processor, a GPU, 1gb of RAM, internal storage, a 720P HD resolution, etc etc. All of these things require power, lots of power on a phone scale.

 

[idiotekniques]

8 hours = 50% battery life.

Assuming you could get a full 16 hours on that usage level then no, that's not crummy at all.

We can not forget that we're not just using a phone, it IS a handheld computer. It has a 1.5ghz dual core processor, a GPU, 1gb of RAM, internal storage, a 720P HD resolution, etc etc. All of these things require power, lots of power on a phone scale.

8 hours means nothing. it's very relative. you could do nothing with your phone or a lot with your phone.

so if i spoke for 1 hour and 50 minutes and had my screen on for 1 hour and 50 minutes that would be essentially 100%. that is kind of bad actually. no 4g. 3g only.

 

[ghess517]

I'm gonna try pulling mine off charger at 530 am, and see where I'm at at 630pm. Without a bumb charge in between. Guess it means no 1/2 bleach episode at lunch tomorrow.
***edit***
At 78% at 1pm. Might make it the day yet.

 

[putney1477]

I understand your frustration. The Rezound is a great phone but the OTA has really caused alot of problems. I'm unlocked and rooted and running CleanROM 2.3 ICS and get about 16 hours out of stock battery with mild to moderate use. Emails, blogs, texting, surfing. The basics.

Sent from my HTC Rezound using Tapatalk

I must be doing something wrong, I have the exact same set up as you and I barely get 5 hours, and thats on light use. I only have gmail to push.....

 

[xxfallacyxx]

8 hours means nothing. it's very relative. you could do nothing with your phone or a lot with your phone.

so if i spoke for 1 hour and 50 minutes and had my screen on for 1 hour and 50 minutes that would be essentially 100%. that is kind of bad actually. no 4g. 3g only.

Considering that you explained your usage and got 8 hours with the usage you described, it does mean something. Want more battery life? Turn off bluetooth when not in use, turn off GPS when not in use, and lower screen brightness.

I'm gonna try pulling mine off charger at 530 am, and see where I'm at at 630pm. Without a bumb charge in between. Guess it means no 1/2 bleach episode at lunch tomorrow.

Haha Tomorrow's Wednesday though, that means a new subbed episode should be out

 

[Postoid]

I'm gonna try pulling mine off charger at 530 am, and see where I'm at at 630pm. Without a bumb charge in between. Guess it means no 1/2 bleach episode at lunch tomorrow.

I've got the notion to do something like that here:
Running apps after battery charge:
~ Settings
~ Sync Service
~ Htc Location Service
~ Mobile IM
~ Htc DM
~ Touch Imput
updated after checking email
~ Google Services
~ Facebook
~ Verizon Location Agent
TOTALLY stock phone. Stock battery. Auto Brightness box checked. No email push.
Battery fully charged @1830 pacific time. Day off of work so a few phone calls to make tomorrow (no home phone). Update time reset. Running latest OTA update. No downloaded apps at all. Will post photo of battery use.

 

[idiotekniques]

Considering that you explained your usage and got 8 hours with the usage you described, it does mean something. Want more battery life? Turn off bluetooth when not in use, turn off GPS when not in use, and lower screen brightness.

no it really isn't. i keep BT on because i need it. i check battery usage every day, it does not utilize much of the battery when not used. and i only made less than 1 hours worth of calls. the screen was on for less than an hour. zero 4g usage throughout this time. android is excellent at managing GPS when on, it does not waste battery when not utilized. i make sure apps that sync like weather with GPS only do so once or twice a day. as far as data, all my social media apps and others sync on wifi only. all bloat is frozen.

with setCPU when the screen is off i have MAX CPU clock at around 700mhz, same with when on phone calls.

so no. 8 hours with less than 1 hours of calls and 1 hour of screen on is not acceptable to go down to 50% in my eyes. that means less than 2 hours calls, little data usage, the screen on for less than 2 hours = no battery left. with no 4g on even for a second.

i think this is one of the best phones out there. but i am not too much of a fanboy to not know the weaknesses. it seems you are.

 

[xxfallacyxx]

no it really isn't. i keep BT on because i need it. i check battery usage every day, it does not utilize much of the battery when not used. and i only made less than 1 hours worth of calls. the screen was on for less than an hour. zero 4g usage throughout this time. android is excellent at managing GPS when on, it does not waste battery when not utilized. i make sure apps that sync like weather with GPS only do so once or twice a day. as far as data, all my social media apps and others sync on wifi only. all bloat is frozen.

with setCPU when the screen is off i have MAX CPU clock at around 700mhz, same with when on phone calls.

so no. 8 hours with less than 1 hours of calls and 1 hour of screen on is not acceptable to go down to 50% in my eyes. that means less than 2 hours calls, little data usage, the screen on for less than 2 hours = no battery left. with no 4g on even for a second.

i think this is one of the best phones out there. but i am not too much of a fanboy to not know the weaknesses. it seems you are.

You must be right, what could I possibly know about getting use out of the phone's battery. As a sign of gratitude for bringing me to this realization I'll share with you my photo denials, which must have all be completely fabricated by my extreme fanboyism.

That was completely stock, no root, all bloat, prior to the OTA. I use my phone every day for music, internet, bluetooth audio streaming to my car when I drive (40 minutes a day on average), and at least 1 hour phone call per day.

This was after root and freezing bloat. Same usage.

Finally I ended with this:

Data mode was left in CDMA/LTE for all of those btw, even though I spend 8 hours of my day in an area without 4G.

So yea, I'll take my fanboyism out of your way.

 

[veevans01]

You must be right, what could I possibly know about getting use out of the phone's battery. As a sign of gratitude for bringing me to this realization I'll share with you my photoe denials, which must have all be completely fabricated by my extreme fanboyism.

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That was completely stock, no root, all bloat, prior to the OTA. I use my phone every day for music, internet, bluetooth audio streaming to my car when I drive (40 minutes a day on average), and at least 1 hour phone call per day.

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This was after root and freezing bloat. Same usage.

Finally I ended with this:

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Data mode was left in CDMA/LTE for all of those btw, even though I spend 8 hours of my day in an area without 4G.

So yea, I'll take my fanboyism out of your way.

Wow! Interesting . Pretty good results. I use a widget bar to manage my battery life. I just purchased my Resound and I am averaging 12 hours with moderate use. That usage is with 4g on the whole time. I work about 10 hours a day and use bluetooth to make a few calls to vendors and otber businesses. I am not rooted but am considering rooting for wifi tether.

 

[ShaggyKids]

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.

Found that out over the past day or so. I'm back on wifi when I'm at home.

 

[panda1594]

I missed it, how did you fix it Deb?

 

[panda1594]

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.

How? I have not so good battery life

 

[ae1990]

Root it ftw...running ics for the last two weeks and haven't looked back battery life is pretty good the is is very fast and fluid I'm on nilsp business sense ice v 1.3 for my rezound...just a hint keep the am on ra recovery don't go to cwm it causes aess if you let your battery drain all the way.

 

[markymark]

How? I have not so good battery life

Read through this thread and some of the battery life threads.

The biggest thing is if you don't have 4g in your area, or don't have a strong 4g signal, set your phone to only use 3g (cdma). So your phone won't be constantly searching for a signal. And use wifi whenever possible.

Look at what is using your battery and maybe you have some problem apps that are sucking your battery life.

Worst case, back up everything on your phone and do a factory reset. It will wipe your phone clean. See how your battery life is when the phone is stock. Then start adding your apps back slowly to see which ones make the battery life worse.

 

[Postoid]

I've got the notion to do something like that here:
Running apps after battery charge:
~ Settings
~ Sync Service
~ Htc Location Service
~ Mobile IM
~ Htc DM
~ Touch Imput
updated after checking email
~ Google Services
~ Facebook
~ Verizon Location Agent
TOTALLY stock phone. Stock battery. Auto Brightness box checked. No email push.
Battery fully charged @1830 pacific time. Day off of work so a few phone calls to make tomorrow (no home phone). Update time reset. Running latest OTA update. No downloaded apps at all. Will post photo of battery use.

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Update:
Just finished. 1st day a couple of phone calls, light internet, emails. 2nd day pretty heavy phone calls most of the morning-less in the afternoon (day off from work) some net use. Lots of phone on/phone back on standby. Auto Brightness left on for 2 days. 3rd day no calls and couple of emails and little bit of 'net in the evenings with Auto Brightness off and <15% brightness adjustment. 4th day no calls just reading emails - Auto Brightness back on during the day, off at night w/ <15% adjusted. All 4 days had many phone on/ off and back on standby. The screen brightness seems to be the biggest drain for me even though there's still a little bit left in the tank. Same 10 processes running as above + clock widget.
I'll stay with the stock battery...for now

 

[xxfallacyxx]

I applaud your battery use sir. Proves that if you use it like a phone, it's possible to get extremely great battery life.

 

[ShaggyKids]

Read through this thread and some of the battery life threads.

The biggest thing is if you don't have 4g in your area, or don't have a strong 4g signal, set your phone to only use 3g (cdma). So your phone won't be constantly searching for a signal. And use wifi whenever possible.

This I think was the biggest thing - searching for *anything* that wasn't available but wifi was prolly the biggest culprit. I don't have 4G here yet, didn't know my phone would search for it. That's another big one I think.

I didn't have to do a factory reset to accomplish this either. I uninstalled a few apps that I'll prolly put back on, reset my mail checks (I really don't use my phone to much for email anyway). Stuff like that. It's been pretty darn amazing battery life ever since. Also, don't leave your screen-on set to high. I think mine's at 2min and if it goes on for an alarm or something I'll turn off the screen asap before it fades out.

 

[idiotekniques]

for your screen use Screebl Pro. it's an awesome app.

i keep my display settings to 30 seconds, and the Screeble settings to the fastest screen off. if i put my phone down flat it turns off the screen in like 6 seconds. and because screeble keeps the screen on when i am using the phone, i don't have to put on a higher screen timeout time so it doesn't shut off on me in the middle of reading.

Screebl Pro is worth the money. been using it for 2 years.

 

[rsage]

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Update:
Just finished. 1st day a couple of phone calls, light internet, emails. 2nd day pretty heavy phone calls most of the morning-less in the afternoon (day off from work) some net use. Lots of phone on/phone back on standby. Auto Brightness left on for 2 days. 3rd day no calls and couple of emails and little bit of 'net in the evenings with Auto Brightness off and <15% brightness adjustment. 4th day no calls just reading emails - Auto Brightness back on during the day, off at night w/ <15% adjusted. All 4 days had many phone on/ off and back on standby. The screen brightness seems to be the biggest drain for me even though there's still a little bit left in the tank. Same 10 processes running as above + clock widget.
I'll stay with the stock battery...for now

Would you mind posting a screenshot of the battery details screen (the screen you get when you tap the usage graph)? Thanks for the info.