Battery life is a joke - Page 8

mixxy · #71 (**permalink**) 12-23-2008, 11:02 PM

after calibrating my battery with juicy's rom, im getting about 2 days without dying on moderate usage (no data, only wifi)

robotphood · #72 (**permalink**) 12-24-2008, 02:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Torx

with stock sprint rom and radio batt life is piss poor.
with telus radio and ntt/juicy rom batt life is piss poor.

i got all the tweaks down like mail set to manual download, backlight down/shutdown after x-mins, beam off, closing all open apps, etc etc. everything i can think of including built in rom tweaks by the creators.

i can fully charge the phone to 100%, let the phone auto-off and i wake up after about 8-9 hours and the phone is down to 90%

WHAT the EFF

what can possibly be draining the batt that much when its off??

How long does it actually last with usage? Standby?

**Trident** · #73 (**permalink**) 12-24-2008, 02:21 AM

After my first trial without regular charging today I can confirm that my battery life is still pretty bad.
I spend the day at Disney World. A few calls and a few texts and mostly nothing for usage and after 7 hours I had 13% of battery left. My son's Blackberry with almost constant texting and a few calls had about 80% left and his had been off the charger for at least an hour more! My little Fusic still had an almost full charge and I used it for most of my calls.
Currently using Juicy's 4.3 ROM with a few mods that should have nothing to do with battery.

jpeepers · #74 (**permalink**) 12-24-2008, 09:35 AM

I am a moderate user of the phone and I can barley make it home in the afternoon before it dies. I use Exchange server mail and probably get 12-15 emails a day, make about 3-4 10 minute calls, surf the web for 20 minutes max. I am also running Mighty Mikes latest ROM and the battery life still sucks IMO. Better then stock but still unacceptable in my book.

The battery life on this phone Sucks, plane and simple! Worst I have ever seen in a phone.

This is completely unacceptable and how can HTC market something like this? The claimed battery life is a joke. There is no way I could come close to what they say it will do.

Everybody has advise on extending the battery life but it basically consists of turning off all the phone features so what good does that do? We bought these phones to use all these features, if I can't use them why did I spend all the extra money for this phone? I could have bought a simple flip phone?

If I turn off WiFi, Blue Tooth, don't surf the web, don't use exchange server, don't text, don't use GPS I'll get good battery life. Heck, why don't I just turn the phone off, I'll bet it will last for a few days?

Sorry, had to rant about this

doctorPDA · #75 (**permalink**) 12-25-2008, 01:04 AM

jpeepers, thanks for the post. Sorry to hear about your troubles. Is there a PDA/phone that you've had that lasts through a day with the usage you mentioned?

I actually was happy with your comment: "If I turn off WiFi, Blue Tooth, don't surf the web, don't use exchange server, don't text, don't use GPS I'll get good battery life."........... If I do as you said, will I get good battery life (i.e. more than 1 day)???

I'm not a hard core user. I expect to turn the backlight down to the 2nd lowest setting and turn off WiFi (I've done this on all my prior PDA's--> otherwise I could not get a full day of use, even with bigger batteries than the Diamond's battery). I will only use internet for very short time. GPS only when I'm lost or need to find something. No e-mail. An hour or two of phone calls. Seems like I would last through the day. I'll give the Diamond a try. I was holding off because of the battery life "issues" and the reports of weak signal strength.