Please HELP with battery 5% in 10 minutes

[themuffinman]

Originally Posted by syanni85

these are normal issues with the charger from the wall to the phone. Once i'm off the charger, my battery shoots down to 80%-ish within an hour or so. This IS because it doesn't continuously charge when its finally full.

I bought the 2 batteries and wall charger(which mounts a battery in it) for $12 bucks from hong kong, and that is truely the way to charge to full. After i pop in one from the HK charger, it will stay at 100% for atleast 20-30 mins.

It is definitely HTC's hardware/software implementation to make sure this doesn't happen


there is no issue. But a spare external battery charger is the way to solve this problem if it is really beatin you up inside.

also, if you rooted your phone, after wiping the battery stats, could potentially show you different behavior then before. I don't wipe my battery stats (just FYI)

Damn, awesome pic. Anyway I guess we are all having different experiences. With both my evos, and two other girl friends that have evos, this doesn't happen. Once its charged the light stays green indefinitely. Also when the phone is taken off the charger(after being on the charger fully charged for hours) it takes a while for the phone to lose that much juice even with lite to moderate use, again this is with me testing out 4 different evos so who knows.

[dmora01]

Originally Posted by cmdauria

Once the phone is fully charged...It stops charging. For example, lets say you put the phone on charger before you go to bed and then at 3am it is fully charged. When you take it off the charger at 8am it has essentially been off the charger for 5 hours. What I do is as soon as I wake up, I unplug the phone for a minute then plug it right back in. Now, when I go to work the phone has a full charge. I hope this makes sense.

What if we use a different charger? Sprint send me a motorola charger with the evo replacement, The original htc charger is 1 amp and takes 3 h to charge the battery now if I use the motorola that is 0.5 amps is going to take 6 h to do it, that means less time in the green led. ??? we can use the low amp to overnight charge and the htc for fast charge???

[stparker38]

Also if you have a custom ROM you may find that some are better on battery life than others. I had one custom ROM and I was getting horrible battery life and my phone was getting really hot really fast. I switched to a different ROM and it was far better and the phone does not get hot, even after a 2hr phone conversation. The phone gets incredible talk time. This is funny that people rarely complain about the battery lasting for conversations....because we do so much else with the phones. Realistically, internet and games and all the other things we do with the phones drain the battery. I like the advice about the recharge before going with your day because I wasn't aware it stopped charging once it had a full charge. This will explain the drop w/just turning on the screen.