First Day with EVO

Speeeddemon99 · #1 (**permalink**) 07-01-2010, 07:46 PM

Ok let me try this AGAIN SMH....

Ok I been waiting almost a month for my EVO (pre-ordered) until my contract was up to get the "upgrade" price. Went to best buy soon as they opened to pick up my phone. Everything went smooth and painless! ( bye bye palm pre ) Went to Sprint store to pick up 16gig micro sd card...... finally got it home. Charged it up completely..... 2pm unplugged it...... 5pm i get a notice less than 15 percent battery left. Not bad giving the fact..... I ignored the OTA update! (im afraid to do it with all the issues i read) FriendStream on full speed! (twitter FB) GPS on, Bluetooth on (with motospeak and motorola h17txt earpiece) 3 SHORT phone calls (less than 5mins each call) A LOT OF TEXTING!!! ( i avg 20,000 text a month so you do the math on my daily texting LOL) a few app downloads from market, and alot of IMs from yahoo. I'm not complaining!!!!! i never expect to get alot of battery life. Never got good battery from my Palm Pre i just left today. Hope no one gets mad i started this thread. I'm just a "noob" happy to get my EVO

Thanks

jrob · #2 (**permalink**) 07-01-2010, 08:52 PM

welcome to the family!!!

neuteboomt · #3 (**permalink**) 07-01-2010, 10:27 PM

Welcome! It looks like you are already enjoying your new purchase. now all you have to do is fill up that memory card.

Westfire · #4 (**permalink**) 07-01-2010, 10:46 PM

Welcome! You should look at getting an extended battery to help or just have chargers everywhere.

**JDM_SOHC** · #5 (**permalink**) 07-01-2010, 10:48 PM

Damn 3 hours is all the battery lasted, from a full charge..!!! I may be thinking twice on gettin an Evo if it's really this bad, I've heard this from tons of people too about the shitty battery...

Carlitoxxx · #6 (**permalink**) 07-01-2010, 10:54 PM

Wow, my battery only last about 4 hours and i do the same thing as you.

**tokuzumi** · #7 (**permalink**) 07-01-2010, 11:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jdmsohc22

Damn 3 hours is all the battery lasted, from a full charge..!!! I may be thinking twice on gettin an Evo if it's really this bad, I've heard this from tons of people too about the shitty battery...

Assuming the 22K text messaging claim is legit, that's sending 45 text messages every hour (assuming 8 hours of sleep a day). And, assuming they are evenly spaced out through the day, and you don't push the power button to turn off the screen, the phone will never go into standby. To have all the radios on, and use the device constantly for 3 hours isn't horrible for the battery to last that long. But the battery will season a bit after a few charge cycles.

OP, you may want to go here, and tweak your phone to get better battery life.

http://www.goodandevo.net/2010/05/20...tery-life.html

pinkbunniz · #8 (**permalink**) 07-02-2010, 03:09 AM

You may also want to try making sure your phone is set to cdma and not gsm.
You can do this by:

~Go to your dialer and press *#*#4636#*#*
~Next you will see a screen and the top option is Phone Information choose that
~Then go to the bottom of that screen and make sure that it says CDMA if not hit the drop down menu and choose it.

I did this with my phone and it was set to gsm once i fixed it my battery life was slightly better. I also did a lot of the suggestions posted in the article that tokuzumi posted.

Welcome aboard!!!

**TheBundo** · #9 (**permalink**) 07-02-2010, 03:18 AM

I find the battery life to be better than the TP2. Just consider the heat the TP2 made, that alone is wasted energy. It's not intended to be a heater lol

#10 (**permalink**) 07-02-2010, 03:32 AM

I finally made it to the top of the list and received my EVO. No more TP2. What I did notice tho, the battery from my TP2 is exactly the same size, shape, notches and contacts all identical to the EVO battery, only diff is the color. I plugged EVO
battery into my TP2 and it powered up fine. Has anyone else tried this? Other than that, loving Android....cya WinMo!!! O, I also hit cancel when prompted for the OTA update.