Battery Life nochem or dcd - Page 3

Ticklemepinks · #21 (**permalink**) 04-26-2008, 02:19 AM

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Originally Posted by nick aguas

i dont know if its just me, but ive been using DCD's roms since i got my 6800, and the battery life is never less than half. took off the charger at 6 this morning, and its 68% right now under heavy use. i cant imagine n2c's could be much better.

honestly I've been getting way better battery life outof No2chem... 5062 is probably gon be the best

BetaMan · #22 (**permalink**) 04-26-2008, 10:41 AM

I have DCD's ROM and a 3200 mAH battery (from Seidio) and 5 minutes after I take it off charge, it reads 96% without even using the phone at all!

With light usage, AND plugging it in when I'm in the car between stops, my battery will be almost dead when I get home! I don't use wireless sync or push email. Also, I did install cody's performance/battery cab.

Somthing is KILLING my battery...

chappy · #23 (**permalink**) 04-26-2008, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by BetaMan

I have DCD's ROM and a 3200 mAH battery (from Seidio) and 5 minutes after I take it off charge, it reads 96% without even using the phone at all!

I'm pretty sure they all do that. Mine has done it with nuerom, DCD, and I'm pretty sure the stock rom would too if it showed the battery in 1% increments.

As far as your other problems, it may just be a bad battery, or poor signal coverage. Are you inside constantly where you have poor signal?

BetaMan · #24 (**permalink**) 04-26-2008, 10:58 AM

I am inside most all the time. I am a self-employed Network Engineer and I travel around a lot. When I travel, I have the phone plugged in the car. Sometimes, when I have my laptop on, at a client's office, I have my phone plugged into the usb port on my laptop. I am a heavy user, but I charge it frequently throughout the day.

It's getting old...

chappy · #25 (**permalink**) 04-26-2008, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by BetaMan

I am inside most all the time. I am a self-employed Network Engineer and I travel around a lot. When I travel, I have the phone plugged in the car. Sometimes, when I have my laptop on, at a client's office, I have my phone plugged into the usb port on my laptop. I am a heavy user, but I charge it frequently throughout the day.

It's getting old...

USB charging is a very slow trickle charge, FYI. Nothing like the wall charger.

Matt · #26 (**permalink**) 04-27-2008, 02:20 AM

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Originally Posted by BetaMan

I have DCD's ROM and a 3200 mAH battery (from Seidio) and 5 minutes after I take it off charge, it reads 96% without even using the phone at all!

With light usage, AND plugging it in when I'm in the car between stops, my battery will be almost dead when I get home! I don't use wireless sync or push email. Also, I did install cody's performance/battery cab.

Somthing is KILLING my battery...

How do you have your roaming setting set? If it is set to Automatic and you have no need to roam, change it to Sprint Only. You will notice a huge difference in batt life, especially if you live in a highly populated cell phone tower area (cities).

Under Settings->Phone->services->Roaming.

Bluetooth, keep that off if you are not using it.

If your screen's brightness is pretty high, see about turning it as low as you can stand.

If you don't use it for GPS, turn location off, in the same place as you would find Roaming.

(I know you have probably tried some of this tips, but I wanted to make a decent list for you and other's benefits.)

With the HTC Extended battery and these tips, I can make it *almost* two full days WITH push email, occasional bluetooth, decent amount of talk and plenty of texting and web usage with NO car charging or charging thru out the day.

Past that, you may just have a bad battery. I know the adapter my Sprint store's batt tester fits the HTC extended battery, but not sure about Seidos. You might see if your local sprint service center can test it and send that bad boy back if it has too high of cell resistance.

(Also as far as the 96% off the charger, that is a fault with the battery drive that no2chem designed that DCD's rom is using. When it reads by single digits of percentage, it isn't always 100% accurate.)

BetaMan · #27 (**permalink**) 04-27-2008, 05:41 PM

Thanks for your tips. I already have most of that set already. I use Verizon and it doesn't have a "roaming" setting. Other than that, the rest are set. I use Bluetooth heavily and leave it on.