The Official Battery Life Thread

[evo4gMN]

8.2 hours? I think that's still pretty good if you're using the browser continuously for 4 hours on 3g! If you cut that out, or lessen the time you are on your browser, you should definitely see better battery life. Even use wifi instead of 3G. 4 hours is a long time!

I would agree!

 

[androidpirate]

8.2 hours? I think that's still pretty good if you're using the browser continuously for 4 hours on 3g! If you cut that out, or lessen the time you are on your browser, you should definitely see better battery life. Even use wifi instead of 3G. 4 hours is a long time!

I don't know what is considered good battery life for the evo line of phones, I'm coming from the touch pro 2 where the battery wouldn't drop as drastically from just browsing the net, then again the screen was only 3.7".

 

[kcpowercat]

I was using the phone (browsing xda/ac forums) when it happened and did check task manager to kill all except opera mobile.

Yeah I missed that part of your post. Browsing nonstop for 4 hours? I would expect your battery to go quick....just as you stated with display eating up most of it. I'd turn down your brightness and get on wifi if you expect to browse that long and want your battery to last 20 hours.

 

[Jay005]

I'm coming from an EVO 4G, too early to tell for me......

Same here. I'll give it a week or two to see how battery life is.

 

[Jay005]

I've been using my 3D pretty heavily since I took it out of the box. I'm still holding on to my Og EVO & swapping things such as apps & backups out manually between them. I'm noticing far better battery life on my 3D at the moment. I'll give it some more time when I'm not contiuously downloading/installing/configuring things on it & see how it really compares to my old EVO.

 

[aaronpoweruser]

Can any one look to see I'd they are getting a wake lock while charging . You can check be going to settings?about phone? battery and looking at the awake time vs time since boot . I am having a wake lock when I am charging from ac and usb it might just be my phone though
Thanks

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[Verdes8891]

I have noticed that even though i have turned off my phone and done one battery pull that my up time and awake time has not reset back to 0 like it did with my old EVO.

 

[ballajb]

The battery life is way better then the Evo 4g one.

 

[M3wThr33]

I took it to Disneyland and it was the first realtime without charging during the day.

Went from 12:30 to 1AM.

I set the power saver to turn on at 30% and it was at 8% by the end of the night with casual Foursquare check-ins and a LOT of 3D photos. (Also was futzing around with shutting down services for crap I didn't care about, which ultimately killed a lot)

I'm pleased with that.

 

[FrostyGTA]

It's been sitting here most of the day at work idle, aside from 2 quick 3d videos on youtube(for a total of 2 minutes), sent 3 text messages(one of a 2d photo), checked email a few times. It's been on wireless all day and used the stock task killer to keep apps closed....from 98% down to 66% as of 30 seconds ago. So from 6:30AM to roughly 2:00.

IMO, for me that's garbage. I'm going to drain it completely down tonight then give it a fresh charge and see what happens.

Does that sound about right? To me it sounds bad compare to what some people are getting.

 

[bobdude5]

It's been sitting here most of the day at work idle, aside from 2 quick 3d videos on youtube(for a total of 2 minutes), sent 3 text messages(one of a 2d photo), checked email a few times. It's been on wireless all day and used the stock task killer to keep apps closed....from 98% down to 66% as of 30 seconds ago. So from 6:30AM to roughly 2:00.

IMO, for me that's garbage. I'm going to drain it completely down tonight then give it a fresh charge and see what happens.

Does that sound about right? To me it sounds bad compare to what some people are getting.

before you leave your house, while youre getting ready, discount the charger and reconnect it. It will turn orange, once its green again disconnect and enjoy your day

 

[FrostyGTA]

Been there, done that...even did a hard reset last night. I never did completely drain it(though these new batteries don't have a memory) but I might give it a shot.

 

[reminiz]

It's been sitting here most of the day at work idle, aside from 2 quick 3d videos on youtube(for a total of 2 minutes), sent 3 text messages(one of a 2d photo), checked email a few times. It's been on wireless all day and used the stock task killer to keep apps closed....from 98% down to 66% as of 30 seconds ago. So from 6:30AM to roughly 2:00.

IMO, for me that's garbage. I'm going to drain it completely down tonight then give it a fresh charge and see what happens.

Does that sound about right? To me it sounds bad compare to what some people are getting.

mine was on par with with you are experiencing, but something changed for me on Saturday. Today I've done about the same amount as you, and talked on the phone for about an hour total. In 6 hours, I'm still at 80% battery life.

When I first got my phone, I think I had to charge it 2x a day. I remember one night, I left it off the charger and it went from 90% to 50% overnight (6hrs) of doing nothing.

 

[chaguewood]

It's been sitting here most of the day at work idle, aside from 2 quick 3d videos on youtube(for a total of 2 minutes), sent 3 text messages(one of a 2d photo), checked email a few times. It's been on wireless all day and used the stock task killer to keep apps closed....from 98% down to 66% as of 30 seconds ago. So from 6:30AM to roughly 2:00.

IMO, for me that's garbage. I'm going to drain it completely down tonight then give it a fresh charge and see what happens.

Does that sound about right? To me it sounds bad compare to what some people are getting.

Lol Um. I unplugged my phone at 530am this morning with 100%. It is now 1pm PST and my phone is at 35%. All I have done is exchange about 50 text messages and browsed the internet for less than 5 minutes.

So far I am having SLIGHTLY better life than my OG Evo. Definitely not as good as you are getting today or what others are reporting. I did the battery calibration so I don't know what is up. I even unchecked background data and have only synced my accounts once today. Not cool.

 

[reminiz]

One of the only things I've did different is, if I am not at my house I turn the wifi radio off.

 

[irock1985]

I was using the phone (browsing xda/ac forums) when it happened and did check task manager to kill all except opera mobile.

In general I would suggest the TapaTalk app for forum browsing....

It's been sitting here most of the day at work idle, aside from 2 quick 3d videos on youtube(for a total of 2 minutes), sent 3 text messages(one of a 2d photo), checked email a few times. It's been on wireless all day and used the stock task killer to keep apps closed....from 98% down to 66% as of 30 seconds ago. So from 6:30AM to roughly 2:00.

To me if you extend those numbers out sounds like 22 + hours on a charge... I would consider that very normal and very good!

 

[SeanBlader]

To me if you extend those numbers out sounds like 22 + hours on a charge... I would consider that very normal and very good!

I was thinking the same thing, he went from 6:30am until 2:00pm, which is 7.5 hours, and he only used 33% of his battery. He'd probably end up making it to 20 hours pretty easy at that rate.

I thought my drain was decent, but I wanted to fully drain it today, so I unplugged it at about 8:30 while wi-fi tethering over 4g and when that wasn't going fast enough I set it to leave the screen on. It still lasted over 4 fricken hours! Although for the last hour I took it out to lunch so tethering was off, but while waiting for my burrito, I played a bit of Assassins Creed, and didn't end up actually getting to have the phone power itself off until like 1:00pm.

 

[youngzayiles]

My battery life has been great... I have downloaded about 150 MB today.. Listened to a hour and a half podcast. Talked on the phone for about a hour and 10 mins.. Ive been rearranging my widgets and what not all day and I still have 44 percent... Im impressed.. Ive been using my phone way more then I normally would because its still like my new toy.. Once I go back to normal usage Ill be good.. I left it uncharged one night and juiceplotter showed alot of flat line while idling for about 2 hours so thats really good.. I didnt put it on the charger the other night and from 12am-8am I only lost 10 percent... A big step up from the previous evo..

 

[leegarson]

I run juicedefender plus on extreme (x1.91) battery boost and in 12 hrs of normal use I was at 77% which blows away my old EVO 4g...I am a happy camper...I strongly recommend juicedefender plus (1.99) at market

 

[MGoerke]

8hours 33 min i was at 9%, medium usage for me, probobly 20-30 min of phone on a BT Hend 4g in 1 headset, found 4g in 1 ares so that was on for 30min. (i turned it on as i drove arond different places checked if 4g avalible then turned off) sent probobly 50-100 txts showed about 3 min of 3d movie, 2-3 3d pictures, some messing with settings for 10 minutes. all location services on, Bluetooth on all day untill 30% then shut off .