htc tp2 battery is weak - Page 2

ObsoleteE · #1 (**permalink**) 09-15-2009, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Gulanowski

What are the chances that it's the phone and not the battery? I mean, how often is the phone the culprit and not the battery? It sounds to me like it would almost be exclusively a battery issue. How could the phone be the issue?

Right now we're all just getting use to the TP2. It wouldn't surprise me though if a month of two from now we start finding out that HTC had some issue's with batches of batteries and thus there are some of us experiencing issues.

I don't own a TP2 yet, but my Touch/Vogue has a battery under 3 months old. Today it was off of the charger at 7am, full charge. I sent and received 4 text messages, and read 2 emails. My battery was at 10% at 4pm. In my case, its the phone.

Gulanowski · #2 (**permalink**) 09-15-2009, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by ObsoleteE

I don't own a TP2 yet, but my Touch/Vogue has a battery under 3 months old. Today it was off of the charger at 7am, full charge. I sent and received 4 text messages, and read 2 emails. My battery was at 10% at 4pm. In my case, its the phone.

But how do you know it's the phone? I'm not calling you out bud, I'm actually wondering how do you know? I was told that I can go to a Verizon store and they can test the device to see if it's the phone or battery. Either the technical support woman was talking out her @ss or they really do have a method for testing, I don't know. I'm gonna look into it though.

ObsoleteE · #3 (**permalink**) 09-15-2009, 10:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Gulanowski

But how do you know it's the phone? I'm not calling you out bud, I'm actually wondering how do you know? I was told that I can go to a Verizon store and they can test the device to see if it's the phone or battery. Either the technical support woman was talking out her @ss or they really do have a method for testing, I don't know. I'm gonna look into it though.

I actually had the phone tested at a Sprint store. It's required by them before they will replace the battery for free. Here is the issue though. They said it would take ~45 mins, so my girl and I went to lunch. Came back 30 mins later, so I knew I had a bit of a wait time ahead of me. So we waited for another hour or so. I finally got fed up and asked a rep what the deal was. She came out with my phone a couple minutes later. I am thinking my phone got pushed to the side, and missed. I complained, and they just threw a battery in there to appease me. Before all this, I bought a battery from Radioshack, and had the same short life span issues. So, 3 batteries, and battery life under 12 hours, do the math.

sonofliberty · #4 (**permalink**) 09-16-2009, 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Gulanowski

The battery on my TP2 blows. So I called Verizon and they shipped me out a new battery, I should have it by thursday.

Did Verizon asked you to send back your battery or you keep it as a spare one ?

pastert33 · #5 (**permalink**) 09-15-2009, 08:22 PM

My touch pro 2 has incredible battery life! I've got 2 bars left at 8:20PM, took the phone off the charger at 9 or so this morning. On the Pro, it would have died awhile ago or it would have been put on the charger by now.

rdcrds · #6 (**permalink**) 09-15-2009, 08:31 PM

I paid $6 delivered each for 3 extra batteries from china, they work perfectly around 3.5 hours of heavy internet use/browsing etc....

saflang · #7 (**permalink**) 09-15-2009, 09:52 PM

Do you mind sharing where you bought these?

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Originally Posted by rdcrds

I paid $6 delivered each for 3 extra batteries from china, they work perfectly around 3.5 hours of heavy internet use/browsing etc....

**themuffinman** · #8 (**permalink**) 09-15-2009, 09:57 PM

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Originally Posted by saflang

Do you mind sharing where you bought these?

Probably ebay

2kmy477 · #9 (**permalink**) 09-15-2009, 11:46 PM

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Originally Posted by rdcrds

I paid $6 delivered each for 3 extra batteries from china, they work perfectly around 3.5 hours of heavy internet use/browsing etc....

I also paid $17 to get 2 batteries and a charger from a Chinese seller at eBay,the battery lasts 3 1/2 hours on internet radio stream,4 hours on OEM battery,so the Chinese made battery not bad at all.

sonofliberty · #10 (**permalink**) 09-16-2009, 06:16 PM

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Originally Posted by 2kmy477

I also paid $17 to get 2 batteries and a charger from a Chinese seller at eBay,the battery lasts 3 1/2 hours on internet radio stream,4 hours on OEM battery,so the Chinese made battery not bad at all.

do u have the ebay link ?