Varying battery life - Thunderbolt General

Battery life seems to have gotten better, but its definitely inconsistent. Unplugged today at 9:30 am, it's 4:00 and am at 72% with a few calls and emails on 4g all day. Not bad. Yesterday I was around 40% at this time. Has to be signal.
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i know where i sit at work all day has horrible signal based on my experiments with my droid. just makes it all the more difficult to ascertain how good/bad the battery life on this is. tomorrow im gonna spend all day on 3g to best simulate how much time i got out of the droid

Yeah the Battery gets better as the days go on. Also there is a huge placebo effect people have instilled

fillyo said:
Battery life seems to have gotten better, but its definitely inconsistent. Unplugged today at 9:30 am, it's 4:00 and am at 72% with a few calls and emails on 4g all day. Not bad. Yesterday I was around 40% at this time. Has to be signal.
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Pretty much the same experience as what I had today with my battery life vs. yesterdays.
I just bought mondo extended battery too. I guess if it will vary from day to day like this its probably still a good idea to keep it though.

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Bartery life.... how is it?

I have the g2 and the battery life is great. Blows my old vibrant off the planet.
THinking of getting the MT4G due to radio issues on the G2.
How is the call quality and battery life on the MT4G?
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You should probably check out the other thread here in this section.
I came from the G2 as well with data and signal problems and floppy hinges. The battery is not as good as the G2 but not bad. I'm still waiting on my OTA update that is supposed to help the battery and some other issues.
I don't regret the change to MT4G
Thanks. I'll search for the link when I hit the computer. Rally like the g2 but man the radio is bad.
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Even though the G2 has a smaller battery, the G2 will have better battery life because the CPU is clocked at 800 Mhz as opposed to the 1000 Mhz of the MT4G.
How's the call quality/radio?
First phone I can make it through a full day on with moderate/heavy use.. Buh bye vibrant... Better call quality I am told by sone people I have called...
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I am seeing remarkably bad battery life. I am coming from the MyTouch 3G and that device lasted longer then the 4g.
Every six hours the device needs a charge.
I talked for 17 Mins and used it lightly this morning. Unplugged at 7:30 AM back on the charger at 1:30 PM. This has been the same way since I got the phone. I have also swapped the battery for a new one as well and got the same results. I cannot imagine that it matters but this is the purple device.
Perhaps I have a defective phone? Is that possible / likely?
Prospero
prospero98 said:
I am seeing remarkably bad battery life. I am coming from the MyTouch 3G and that device lasted longer then the 4g.
Every six hours the device needs a charge.
I talked for 17 Mins and used it lightly this morning. Unplugged at 7:30 AM back on the charger at 1:30 PM. This has been the same way since I got the phone. I have also swapped the battery for a new one as well and got the same results. I cannot imagine that it matters but this is the purple device.
Perhaps I have a defective phone? Is that possible / likely?
Prospero
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Did you condition your battery?
mlockman said:
Did you condition your battery?
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How is this done?
mlockman said:
Did you condition your battery?
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I did condition it, both batteries in fact were conditioned and showed the same issues.
Thanks
Prospero
prospero98 said:
I did condition it, both batteries in fact were conditioned and showed the same issues.
Thanks
Prospero
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Weird, while I'm not getting quite as bad a battery drain as you, I have noticed an increase since I've turned off any auto sync option that I don't require, which is pretty much all of them.
The first day I had my phone it was almost dead in ~12 hours with moderate/light usage... it's been lasting longer and longer every day since... yesterday i got ~22-24 hours out it i think and i charged it finally at like 15%. This wasn't the heaviest usage but i'd say it was at least medium as i didn't use it at all for about 5 hours but then I had it on wifi calling and using it for angry birds and stuff for quite a while later in the day.

3300MAH seidio battery rating

Anyone know of it's true rating?
Or should I stick with yoobao
For the price I'd personally just stick with the Yoobao.
Would seidios back work with yoobao?
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My seido 3300 doesn't last as long as my evo's extended life battery. The eco battery isn't advertised that its higher capacity than the epics either. I suspect that the seido is over rated and the epic screen really can kill a battery. What I am basing this on is an eight hour charge with the phone off. Then about how much battery I'd left at bedtime. The eco always has more juice left at the end of the day. I can't explain why either, I'm just guessing.
I have the seido...def better then stock but not twice aa much at all. Running acs and still prob couldnt make it 24 hours at all.
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My seido 3300 doesn't last as long as my evo's extended life battery. The eco battery isn't advertised that its higher capacity than the epics either. I suspect that the seido is over rated and the epic screen really can kill a battery. What I am basing this on is an eight hour charge with the phone off. Then about how much battery I'd left at bedtime. The eco always has more juice left at the end of the day. I can't explain why either, I'm just guessing.
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sceptor said:
I have the seido...def better then stock but not twice aa much at all. Running acs and still prob couldnt make it 24 hours at all.
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I have it as well I am seeing more than double life. I would get 6-8 hours stock, and couldn't even make it home from work. Now I can easily get through my whole day, and have enough left over to make it through the whole night.
You letting it charge even past the blue light?
Ya and I'm on acs with drm being killed. Guess my phones a whore
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I own this battery, and it give you a real noticable difference, the stock battery is rated at 1500mAh and this is 3300 mAh, so you would expect, logically, a little more than a 2x increase in battery life. Ill let you know that it will let you extend into the 3rd day with your average web browsing, simple games (ie. words with friends) mms, and of course, phone calls. I have pushed the phone into the 3rd day. The good news it it gets better and better if you get a good kernal for the epic 4g that has the potential to save battery un noticeably.
Sorry for the spelling mistakes,
Aaron

[Q] battery life of chacha

hey can anybody tell me how's the battery life of htc chacha
shreyasharusia said:
hey can anybody tell me how's the battery life of htc chacha
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We are getting about a days worth of heavy use, mostly on wifi. Can get 2 days worth of moderate use.
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My friend can only use it for less than a day..
heavy user
I only manage a day at best - no better than my legend was actually!
I got this yesterday, was playing on it several hours.. and battery life is about 18-20hrs for heavy usage. Wall charging is quick, about 2hrs max charge.
It gets warm easily when accessing web. Is this normal on HTC Android smartphones?
Yes its very normal :=)
Just got mine for almost a week. The battery lifetime is 2-3 days (normal use). I hope though that after a few complete charges it will rise to 3-4 days...
Can testify to the same experience of warming up (especially when using wi-fi).
At first, the battery life of the HTC ChaCha was really crap! It couldn't even last 1 day (heavy use). But now I have this feeling that it is getting a little bit better after a few full charges. And it also recharges very quickly.
And what do you mean by "full charge"?
2hrs or more?
I'm not sure how ya'll are getting more than 12 hours of battery from this phone. See my thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1171136
Well, it lasts for me longer than 12hrs
I expected to have around 48hrs with it.
If awake time is how much is it up after charging, it say: 18hr 57min. Battery left: 44%.
So those of you getting a FEW days out of this, do you ever turn it off (say at night) or is the handset always on/idle?
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So those of you getting a FEW days out of this, do you ever turn it off (say at night) or is the handset always on/idle?
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On mine, everything is on, including push.
Battery life isn't great but after my Captivate I can deal with anything.
Great phone.
EpicEric said:
Battery life isn't great but after my Captivate I can deal with anything.
Great phone.
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You ditched the Captivate for this phone....
pamaguin said:
You ditched the Captivate for this phone....
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I ditched the Captivate a while ago. Just sick of typing on a screen.
Switched to the Blackberry 9700 and now this phone.
I think the Blackberry 9900 will be a sexier device but I definitely prefer the Android over over Blackberry OS6.
During high usage battery life about 12 hours...
My father played angry bird for 1 hour and the batt drop to less than 50% (after full charge)
Update: Battery life of this device is ridiculous. Seriously.
Switching back to my BB 9700 soon.
I can get up to 3 days of batter life when the phone is completely idle. This doesn't happen too often so with regular use, I can get up to 2 days of battery life.
Heavy usage gives me around 6-8 hours of battery life, which is still much better than Blackberry phones. My old Blackberry was at 60% and it literally died within an hour of using GPS and turn by turn navigation.
Overall, it's a pretty decent battery life, but it does get pretty hot at times like others have pointed out!

My battery life is awful!

So I'm enjoying my overall experience with my Sensation but it's really not cutting it in the battery department. I've upgraded from the G1 and the battery life isn't any better. The G1 was great for a while but after being 2+ years old the battery would barely last a full day with minimal usage and every setting off, I could no longer take it. It became so frustrating I had to upgrade for mostly that reason, not to mention the lack of features, and the fact I've had the phone since launch lol. Needless to say, I feel like I'm having the same battery issues as before. For instance I took the phone off the charger this morning and started reading some post here on XDA via the app and after 1 hour and 36 minutes my battery life went from 100% to 67%. I love the phone and while yes battery life is important to me I almost refuse to handicap my phones full potential for it. What should I do?
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So I'm enjoying my overall experience with my Sensation but it's really not cutting it in the battery department. I've upgraded from the G1 and the battery life isn't any better. The G1 was great for a while but after being 2+ years old the battery would barely last a full day with minimal usage and every setting off, I could no longer take it. It became so frustrating I had to upgrade for mostly that reason, not to mention the lack of features, and the fact I've had the phone since launch lol. Needless to say, I feel like I'm having the same battery issues as before. For instance I took the phone off the charger this morning and started reading some post here on XDA via the app and after 1 hour and 36 minutes my battery life went from 100% to 67%. I love the phone and while yes battery life is important to me I almost refuse to handicap my phones full potential for it. What should I do?
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Search here and in the Q/A forum about getting better battery life and what to expect out of your battery. There are a ton of discussions already with a lot of helpful information for you.
Remember if your device is new... it takes a number of discharge/recharge cycles before your battery gets good life.
edgewoodzgimp13 said:
So I'm enjoying my overall experience with my Sensation but it's really not cutting it in the battery department. I've upgraded from the G1 and the battery life isn't any better. The G1 was great for a while but after being 2+ years old the battery would barely last a full day with minimal usage and every setting off, I could no longer take it. It became so frustrating I had to upgrade for mostly that reason, not to mention the lack of features, and the fact I've had the phone since launch lol. Needless to say, I feel like I'm having the same battery issues as before. For instance I took the phone off the charger this morning and started reading some post here on XDA via the app and after 1 hour and 36 minutes my battery life went from 100% to 67%. I love the phone and while yes battery life is important to me I almost refuse to handicap my phones full potential for it. What should I do?
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plenty of battery threads already.. 1:36 with a 33% battery drain would extrapolate to >4.5 hours of display-ON time. Most ppl consider that pretty (or even VERY) good. If you are going to play the "won't handicap" card so soon, probably no hope for you except get some other phone for which it is easier to get a monster/fat battery.
I came from a G1 as well. I think battery life is MUCH better on the Sensation.
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Remember if your device is new... it takes a number of discharge/recharge cycles before your battery gets good life.
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Mine was bad at first but after a week of running it until it powered off then charging to 100% its much better, now I just put it on charge over night and it lasts all day
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The only way to get through a whole day of moderate-heavy use with this phone (and most Android phones) without crippling it is to carry a spare battery or plug in the phone throughout the day when near AC power... Sad but true..
edgewoodzgimp13 said:
So I'm enjoying my overall experience with my Sensation but it's really not cutting it in the battery department. I've upgraded from the G1 and the battery life isn't any better. The G1 was great for a while but after being 2+ years old the battery would barely last a full day with minimal usage and every setting off, I could no longer take it. It became so frustrating I had to upgrade for mostly that reason, not to mention the lack of features, and the fact I've had the phone since launch lol. Needless to say, I feel like I'm having the same battery issues as before. For instance I took the phone off the charger this morning and started reading some post here on XDA via the app and after 1 hour and 36 minutes my battery life went from 100% to 67%. I love the phone and while yes battery life is important to me I almost refuse to handicap my phones full potential for it. What should I do?
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follow this bro it will help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1159184
I disabled HTC Sense Sync and I can get a good 7 hours use out of my Sensation 4G.
heygrl said:
I disabled HTC Sense Sync and I can get a good 7 hours use out of my Sensation 4G.
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7 hours of screen on time? That's not possible with this phone.
juice defender try it
According to these benchmarks, the Sensation battery is 97% of the Verizon iPhone 4 (the only Iphone variant which had data for comparison)
http://www.laptopmag.com/review/cell-phones/htc-sensation-4g.aspx?mode=benchmarks&cids=2642,pa
i found this thread to be useful...
edgewoodzgimp13 said:
So I'm enjoying my overall experience with my Sensation but it's really not cutting it in the battery department. I've upgraded from the G1 and the battery life isn't any better. The G1 was great for a while but after being 2+ years old the battery would barely last a full day with minimal usage and every setting off, I could no longer take it. It became so frustrating I had to upgrade for mostly that reason, not to mention the lack of features, and the fact I've had the phone since launch lol. Needless to say, I feel like I'm having the same battery issues as before. For instance I took the phone off the charger this morning and started reading some post here on XDA via the app and after 1 hour and 36 minutes my battery life went from 100% to 67%. I love the phone and while yes battery life is important to me I almost refuse to handicap my phones full potential for it. What should I do?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1160545
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7 hours of screen on time? That's not possible with this phone.
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I'm with you. I can get 8 hours out of the phone if I only have 2 hours of on screen time. My average, with medium to heavy use, is 6 hours and change with 3 - 3 1/2 hours on screen time. And this is with the screen brightness down to 75%. There is no way there is 7 hours straight of on screen time with this thing IMO and from experience.
NOTE: I am piggy backing, but i am not sure if the person is referring to 7 hours on screen time or 7 hours in general.
Buy an 1800mHa evo 3d battery and profit, like 13$on amazon
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stefan.buddle said:
Buy an 1800mHa evo 3d battery and profit, like 13$on amazon
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Link please....but eBay preferably. I hate Amazon lol.
I get 10hrs daily
More life wouldn't hurt
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I'm assuming this is it:
http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_from=R...3d+extended+battery&_sacat=See-All-Categories
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steve austin said:
I'm with you. I can get 8 hours out of the phone if I only have 2 hours of on screen time. My average, with medium to heavy use, is 6 hours and change with 3 - 3 1/2 hours on screen time. And this is with the screen brightness down to 75%. There is no way there is 7 hours straight of on screen time with this thing IMO and from experience.
NOTE: I am piggy backing, but i am not sure if the person is referring to 7 hours on screen time or 7 hours in general.
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I'm pasting a post I posted in another thread about my battery life:
Ok... I have a total of 3 OEM batteries. One that came with my phone and 2 other spares. The one that came with my phone is about 3 weeks old, My newest one is only 3 days old and the middle child one is about a week and a half old. I basically charge them fully then wait until it drains fully and turns off before switching the batteries.
Someone said that after a while battery life gets better. I am proof of that. When I first got my phone I was lucky if it lasted 8 hours and amazed if it lasted 10! Last night my 3 week old battery lasted over 14 hours with moderate use! The middle battery that's a week and a half old lasts about 10 with moderate use (same like the first, only getting about 8 in the beginning) The newest one (still going through the 5 charge conditioning cycle) only lasts about 6-7 hours tops.
I dont know if it helps(or hurts) but since I always have an extra battery with me I never half charge them(especially during the first 5 or 6 charges). I always will let it drain then switch
I moved from the HTC Evo 4G and batterylife is much much better with the sensation. Light to moderate use after a 12 hour day i have between 20 and 40 % left. I ordered 4 extra batteries and xtra chargers so i would have extra full batteries at home and at work but i havent needed them. I was so used to the evo that i wish i would've waited on ordering all the batteries... I just assumed it would be about the same...Way better than the evo though. I have friendstream (twitter and facebook) syncing every 3 hours, weather 3 hours and at unlock, mail/calender syncing.( no news, no tell htc, no android backup) i was amazingly surprised. yay sensation!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=15527276
Check out the above for a possible cause of excessive drain.
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I'm pasting a post I posted in another thread about my battery life:
Ok... I have a total of 3 OEM batteries. One that came with my phone and 2 other spares. The one that came with my phone is about 3 weeks old, My newest one is only 3 days old and the middle child one is about a week and a half old. I basically charge them fully then wait until it drains fully and turns off before switching the batteries.
Someone said that after a while battery life gets better. I am proof of that. When I first got my phone I was lucky if it lasted 8 hours and amazed if it lasted 10! Last night my 3 week old battery lasted over 14 hours with moderate use! The middle battery that's a week and a half old lasts about 10 with moderate use (same like the first, only getting about 8 in the beginning) The newest one (still going through the 5 charge conditioning cycle) only lasts about 6-7 hours tops.
I dont know if it helps(or hurts) but since I always have an extra battery with me I never half charge them(especially during the first 5 or 6 charges). I always will let it drain then switch
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I have specifically held off from getting another battery cuz I wanted the original one to settle. Now that I have a decent idea of the life span I will look into a new one. I am not sure if I want to by the off brand 1800 one every is talking about or get raked over the coals for an HTC one. decisions...
here's what I've found after having the Sensation since day one. If you are at 2.5 hours of screen on time in the battery stats, chances are your battery is below 30%, and most likely below 20%, no matter what you were doing with the phone (barring constant video playback). I average about 2-3 hours of display on time each day, and I get about 14-16 hours consistently. I sync gmail, email and facebook, pulse and weather auto update. I use wifi and wifi calling constantly.
I set my screen brightness to about 40%, give or take.
I can live with this as it gets me from 5am when I go to work until when I go to bed, which is really all I expect.
I will look into the evo 3d battery though, as that seems like a logical replacement given its higher capacity and compatibility with the Sensation.

just switched from sprint and htc EVO..

i dont know if i should get this phone or wait for the lg thrill 4g?
i just got att 3 days ago and they gave me a iphone 4..since i got it half off cause of where i work. anyways the screen on this phone looks pretty nice and the size is another plus..but im HUGE on the battery life.
looks like people are complaining about the batt life the most..which is kinda turning me off.
can this phone run the mock sense widgets? that were custom made in the evo forum??
mainguy21 said:
i dont know if i should get this phone or wait for the lg thrill 4g?
i just got att 3 days ago and they gave me a iphone 4..since i got it half off cause of where i work. anyways the screen on this phone looks pretty nice and the size is another plus..but im HUGE on the battery life.
looks like people are complaining about the batt life the most..which is kinda turning me off.
can this phone run the mock sense widgets? that were custom made in the evo forum??
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This is the wrong place for this post. Please post in Q/A or General next time. The battery life isn't bad for me. I get about 20+ hours a day with medium use.
Mod please move.
oh snap i thought i was in that section.
edit: wtf i cant delete my own thread..
gay.
Coming from an Evo you'll probably think the Infuse has amazing battery life. People complaining usually have a rogue app or are victims of the random Gingerbread battery bug. I've experienced great battery life on both my rom and CM7. By great I mean ~16 hours with heavy usage... 4-6 hours of display on time (browsing and other random stuff) and 1-2 hours of listening to podcasts or music with the screen off. I'm usually connected to wifi except when I'm on the road and brightness is usually set to auto, sometimes to 30 or 40 percent. People have reported 2-3 days without charging if they stay connected to wifi and use the phone very lightly.
Yup, I've gone 3 days with light use and still around 30%. Of coarse, that's on infused though
I get 3-4 days on my captivate with 3000mAh battery makes my phone a lot thicker though
Not sure if they have good extended batts for infuse but the stock battery is a good size. This is my next phone when i resign next month.
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I came from the evo....battery life at first was awful....but after some tweaking (thanks to you gtg,bedwa,entropy and linux_bozo) it is pretty comparable.
Tiered data= suck tho haha...just went into my 3rd $10 charge this month
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xijar said:
I get 3-4 days on my captivate with 3000mAh battery makes my phone a lot thicker though
Not sure if they have good extended batts for infuse but the stock battery is a good size. This is my next phone when i resign next month.
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So far no extended batt has tested at more than 2500 actual (despite claiming to be 3500).

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