battery life good or bad

**Boo Boo** · #1 (**permalink**) 05-31-2010, 03:44 AM

would like to know what avergae usage people get? does it last a day? 8 hours/4 hours?

what are people getting for normal usage?

**themuffinman** · #2 (**permalink**) 05-31-2010, 08:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Boo Boo

would like to know what avergae usage people get? does it last a day? 8 hours/4 hours?

what are people getting for normal usage?

This question will always be an impossible question to answer accurately. First of all whats considered normal to me maybe different to you. There is also location, signal strenth, radios and so many determining factors that can help or rape your battery. But to fairly answer your question, with these type of phones, if you gonna use them on a regular you probably gonna need a quick midday charge to make it through the whole day comfortably.

Mbai2 · #3 (**permalink**) 05-31-2010, 09:23 AM

I'm able to get around 20 hours when I use it only when I need it. If there's a day that's packed full of conferences and I'm bored enough to surf the web for hours, it knocks it down to about 10 hours. If I'm going out afterwards, I need a second battery to last through the night.

2kmy477 · #4 (**permalink**) 05-31-2010, 11:18 AM

I have my EVO for about 3 days now,the battery life is pretty much the same compare to my TP2.I did a test yesterday to stream internet radio on both devices,TP2 lasted 3 hours 50 minutes vs EVO 3 hours 43 minutes both on good 3G coverage.

tool2269 · #5 (**permalink**) 05-31-2010, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by 2kmy477

I have my EVO for about 3 days now,the battery life is pretty much the same compare to my TP2.I did a test yesterday to stream internet radio on both devices,TP2 lasted 3 hours 50 minutes vs EVO 3 hours 43 minutes both on good 3G coverage.

using the same sized capacity batteries? (thought they were different)

newone757 · #6 (**permalink**) 05-31-2010, 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by tool2269

using the same sized capacity batteries? (thought they were different)

they use the same battery.

tp2, hero, and evo

**lipidfats** · #7 (**permalink**) 05-31-2010, 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Mbai2

If there's a day that's packed full of conferences and I'm bored enough to surf the web for hours, it knocks it down to about 10 hours.

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Originally Posted by 2kmy477

I have my EVO for about 3 days now,the battery life is pretty much the same compare to my TP2.I did a test yesterday to stream internet radio on both devices,TP2 lasted 3 hours 50 minutes vs EVO 3 hours 43 minutes both on good 3G coverage.

wow, then what the hell is techcrunch talking about with their "review from an iphone user" battery statement.

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Doing what I would consider to be moderate usage of the web, texting, taking pictures, etc. The EVO? Good luck getting more than 4 hours of moderate usage out of this bad boy. It’s almost unfathomable how bad the battery is in this thing.

4 hours of "moderate" usage? hmm... Sounds to me he really means continuous usage.

Anyway, if it's like the tp2 then that's good!
We need more evo users to chime in here and give their results. light, moderate and heavy usage stats please.

**TheBundo** · #8 (**permalink**) 05-31-2010, 11:48 AM

I also am encouraged that it will match the TP2.

**WarChild** · #9 (**permalink**) 05-31-2010, 11:57 AM

hell I would be happy with 10 hours...lol Im fine with matching the TP2 but my TP1 eww i was getting like MAYBE 4-5 hours...lmao

CW

ChrisH09 · #10 (**permalink**) 05-31-2010, 02:52 PM

1500mAH Battery isn't much these days....it's pretty much the standard for Smartphones. The Touch Pro 2 has the same battery if my mind serves me correctly...so I'm expecting the same if not a little worse with the Evo 4G. Like I've said in previous post I will be buying a 2nd battery, or a extended battery for the Evo so no big deal there.