Touch Pro Battery life!!! Post your reviews!!

[freeza]

All i know is, the battery better get better with this damn phone. i couldn't even go half a day without dropping down to 20%

[AB33]

My battery life seems worse when compared to the Mogul battery life with the 6.1 update. I don't know if it is because I use it more, or maybe all the bells and whistles drain the battery faster.

[gobmonster]

Okay, one thing that can increase battery life is cutting off the light sensor controlled backlight option. It literally is in constant polling and eating away at the battery

[Cicatrize]

Originally Posted by gobmonster

Okay, one thing that can increase battery life is cutting off the light sensor controlled backlight option. It literally is in constant polling and eating away at the battery

You can also change the registry setting for it as well to make it poll less often. I think the default is 500ms. Change that to 2000 or so and I'm sure you'd see a slight improvement, but I can't imagine this feature would eat too much battery life.

[TheMostToys]

In general, my Touch Pro is drawing more power (will have less battery life) than my Mogul.

At idle (with the screen on set at a fixed brightness of approx 20%.) I have both configured similarly (Wifi off, bluetooth on but not connected) and the Mogul will draw between 85 to 130ma with the TP drawing between 150 to 180ma. If I enable automatic brightness on the TP, the power draw goes up based on how bright the screen gets (obviously but the average in my office goes to 180 to 210ma. The interesting thing is that with the screen off, in standby, the Mogul drops to 40 to 80ma and the TP goes to 17 to 50ma. So in standby, it would seem the TP would outlast the Mogul, but those savings are quickly eaten up with very little use.

I collected this data using nuePower & batterystatus YMMV.

At the end of the day, the TP is lasting the day for me, so I'm happy but I'll need to be more careful than I was with my Mogul. The occasional nights where I'm "too tired" at the end of the night to plug my phone in may now be more painful the next day. But at least I have the option for a second battery.

[chedda_chez]

is it bad to charge your phone through the night?

i really hope they come out with an extended battery version. id jump on that in a heartbeat, actually two of em.

[Cicatrize]

Originally Posted by TheMostToys

The interesting thing is that with the screen off, in standby, the Mogul drops to 40 to 80ma and the TP goes to 17 to 50ma. So in standby, it would seem the TP would outlast the Mogul, but those savings are quickly eaten up with very little use.

I noticed this as well. When my TP is on standby, the battery doesn't barely drain at all.

[TheMostToys]

Originally Posted by gobmonster

Okay, one thing that can increase battery life is cutting off the light sensor controlled backlight option. It literally is in constant polling and eating away at the battery

The light sensor does not take much energy (I have not been able to record any difference with it enabled or disabled, I'm sure there is some, but it's less than 5ma and most likely less than 1ma.) However, if you allow the light sensor to adjust the backlight brightness, now you are talking power drain.

[Cicatrize]

Originally Posted by chedda_chez

is it bad to charge your phone through the night?

i really hope they come out with an extended battery version. id jump on that in a heartbeat, actually two of em.

I don't think it's bad at all. I've been nightly charging my phones since I started using smart phones, and it hasn't had any negative effects.

[TheMostToys]

Originally Posted by chedda_chez

is it bad to charge your phone through the night?

No, it is ok to charge through the night, no worries.