All HTC Evo Battery Perfomance Talk

[sarcigon]

Originally Posted by emfreakz

Have you guys done the below? any downsides? does it really help with battery life?

suggestion:
press HOME, and bring up the dialer. Dial *#*#4636#*#* (Do not press "Call"). After a second, it should bring up the "Testing" menu.

Go into Phone Information, press MENU, and tap "select radio band." You should experience a Force Close, don't panic, this was supposed to happen. Scrolling down shows that the preferred network type is GSM auto (prl).

What this means is that even though you are connected to a CDMA network, your phone is trying to find a GSM network, preventing the radio from sleeping, and causing excessive battery drain.

Remedy this by tapping GSM auto (prl), and changing it to CDMA auto (prl).


Now your done, your TWS should drop dramatically, and you should experience much better battery life!"

When I hit this numbers combination, nothing happended on my phone.

[stroths]

Originally Posted by sarcigon

When I hit this numbers combination, nothing happended on my phone.

Not sure which ROM you are on, but CM6 doesn't have phone codes built in. The workaround for to get to the Radio Info screen is to download the network app from the market which will take you to the screen mentioned.

LINK

[PropagandaX]

Originally Posted by sarcigon

When I hit this numbers combination, nothing happended on my phone.

me either. Running stock 2.2 sense rom.

[PropagandaX]

I seem to get more battery life by going into the Mobile Network Settings and disabling "always-on mobile data". Now my 3g is actually turning off when its nots needed. This is the way my TP2 worked dont know why it would be set always on by default.

[Wesley762]

Originally Posted by PropagandaX

I seem to get more battery life by going into the Mobile Network Settings and disabling "always-on mobile data". Now my 3g is actually turning off when its nots needed. This is the way my TP2 worked dont know why it would be set always on by default.

Buy doing that do things update like weather, e-mail, Facebook and things like that?

[Riley]

Originally Posted by Wesley762

Buy doing that do things update like weather, e-mail, Facebook and things like that?

Hey Wesley. first of all, love the avatar. Secondly, not sure about that. I think it will update weather and facebook but it didnt work out so well for me with exchange push email.

[PropagandaX]

Originally Posted by Wesley762

Buy doing that do things update like weather, e-mail, Facebook and things like that?

Originally Posted by rileyd5

Hey Wesley. first of all, love the avatar. Secondly, not sure about that. I think it will update weather and facebook but it didnt work out so well for me with exchange push email.

Yes all of those work perfect! I have exchange, gmail push, news, Facebook, yahoo mail, weather all work fine.

[Wesley762]

Originally Posted by PropagandaX

Yes all of those work perfect! I have exchange, gmail push, news, Facebook, yahoo mail, weather all work fine.

Thanks, My battery is getting better the more and more I do. Right now I am getting to about 12 hours with mediocre use, I just would like to stretch that to about 16 hours with average use for me and I will be good. Just don't want to have to put it on the charger before I go to bed.

[PropagandaX]

Originally Posted by Wesley762

Thanks, My battery is getting better the more and more I do. Right now I am getting to about 12 hours with mediocre use, I just would like to stretch that to about 16 hours with average use for me and I will be good. Just don't want to have to put it on the charger before I go to bed.

Let me know if it helps, I still have to charge when I go to bed and in the car to/from work, my only headache with this phone right now.

[pask2155]

Yeah I would love to get better battery life, hut sometimes turning everything off makes the phone not do all it is supposed to do...