Does warm EVO equal bad battery life?

[gbh]

Trying to do a poll here of people happy with their battery life, and those unhappy.

I own two EVOs that drain totally differently. These two phones are largely configured with identical settings (per all the things mentioned in various articles to help battery life. And, these two phone have mostly the same apps installed. I have swapped batteries in the two phone (they are different part number), and the bad battery drain DOES NOT follow the battery. One phone drains way faster than the other. I've used ATK on both, and it pretty much had no noticeable difference for me on either. One drains fast (4-6 hours standby), one is fine (all day useage, for the most part).

The fast drain phone is always noticeably warm to the touch. The "good" phone is pretty much never warm to the touch. This includes charging, standby, and use.

Primarily I'd like to hear from people with "warm" phones if they feel they have a battery drain issue, and if people who have "cool" phones ever have a battery drain issue.

I suspect some phones inherently draw more current than others, and I'll probably be bringing one back this week, as I don't think any settings, tweaks, task killers, can fix this issue for me.

[lipidfats]

did u check to see if the bad phone has gsm set for preferred network (using the free app in market called Network)? it's supposed to be set to cdma auto.

i would like to know how many hours of nonstop use people are getting...

[gbh]

Originally Posted by lipidfats

did u check to see if the bad phone has gsm set for preferred network (using the free app in market called Network)? it's supposed to be set to cdma auto.

i would like to know how many hours of nonstop use people are getting...

Yes, I tried this, along with probably every other "possible fix" detailed here and in other forums, and online articles.

[dumpringz]

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Originally Posted by gbh

Yes, I tried this, along with probably every other "possible fix" detailed here and in other forums, and online articles.

U r not the only one that tried every fix. Idk how every one else is seeing success with oc widget . I have it set as recommended n dont see squat as far a better life .... the whole cdma auto setting is n has been set to that n ... i read about phone maybe not sleeping when i think it i supposed to be but i cant find that as a cause either. Frustrating is the word i use for evo battery

[aznmode]

When I replaced my battery this morning I noticed when I got to work (20 minutes later) that my phone was warm. Checked battery and saw that it was down to 97%. Then to 96 in the next minute. I then ran task manager and killed all apps and charged the phone. Once the LED was green I unplugged the charger and made sure it was 100%. 15 minutes later I checked again and it was still at 100%. So something was running that made the phone warm after soft reset that was causing significant battery drain. I still can't figure it out.

[thomson]

I had the same problem with the phone getting. Found out the Google Sync for my contacts was hung up. It happened again and I put it on a chager and left it. 12 hours later it was still trying to sync. Disabed sync and next day re enabled it. All went fine and no problem since. I would have though that after a minute it would give up but it does not.

[arsmithsr]

I have been having this problem but only on the last couple of days. I got a backbeat 903 stereo bluetooth headset and sense then battery has sucked. FInally had to turn bluetooth off. I have used a bluetooth headset sense I got the phone and it was never a problem but sense pairing the backbeat something got turned on I can't find. I even unpaired it but still didn't help. I am flashing the new fresh tonight so that should reset things.

[rainfreak]

Mine only gets warm if I am on long phone calls (over 30 minutes) or I leave it on the charger for more than 8-9 hours. Other than that, I am getting 18-24 hours out of a full charge. Running OMJ 1.4 (though switching to Fresh .53 today), autokiller on Agreesive setting and setCPU with profile of Sleep/Standby at 245 MHz.

[jye75]

I had the same issue as the OP (minus the warm factor) so I reset the one with the drain issue to factory, reinstalled the apps from before, and now it's right on par with mine as far as battery goes.

[Karl]

anyone tried Ultimate juice?