Interesting HTC TOUCH Test

[Primenall]

Originally Posted by diomark

I'm seeing different results then this. My Touch lasts *much* longer then my Mogul ever did...
-mark

Same here, much longer, with and without the battery hacks.

I've only once ran my Touch down with regular use to the point of needing an immediate charge, where as with my Mogul it happened frequently.

My Theory is that Phones of the same model most likely vary themselves along with batteries themselves varying.

They need to do a test with like 10 phones of each model and then average the results.

[wldthng842]

I can't even get past about 2pm. No where near 2 days. I also hardly use the phone for actual talking. Just email and internet. I do have the email set to check every 5 minutes. I am sure I could reduce this and get better performance.

[jlaudio]

WOW...... The things you can read on the Internet. Anyone on this forum that has owned a Mogul and has moved to a Touch can probably agree it has a better battery life. Even though they are almost entirely the same the keyboard on the Mogul is what i believe is the factor in the difference.

Phonescoop.com is also touting the Mogul has a way better battery life. They are quoting 5.4 hours of talk time..... Where did they get that number??... Magic Land?? My Mogul box clearly states 4.1 hours which is still a number taken from a test enviroment and one that I dont think i have ever seen.

Bottom line there are a million and one factors in battery life when not in a controlled enviroment.

[robby37]

Originally Posted by lawman08

yeh.... i dont believe these "tests" very much. First off what does comparing GSM to CDMA smartphones prove? Yes we all know GSM gets better battery life no matter what its the nature of the technology. Misleading info to place in there and not discuss.

Secondly, the touch OEM battery is 1100mah, mogul 1500mah. 1100/1500= 73.33% so the Touch has 73.33% the battery life of the Mogul. Remember the phones are running identical hardware but maybe little difference in screens. 3h 11min= 191min talktime for the touch, 5h 30min or 330 min for the mogul. 191/330= 63.66%

So how is it the theres 10% less talktime then there should be? whered it go? i dont trust the accuracy of the test. By the numbers, should be getting 242 min by the math on the Touch. This would be just over 4 hours (4.033 hours) which is what its rated at.

And how did the mogul last 11hr 12min or 673 playing music but the Touch only 4h 45min or 285 min? Do they not realize the phones run the SAME hardware and no radios connected? This just isnt possible the mogul lasted more than 2x the time the Touch did just simply playing only music. (Remember the battery is only about 25% bigger in capacity). Once again if the mogul lasted 673min the Touch should have lasted 494min or 8.24 hours..... 4h 45min? Rigggght recrunch those numbers. Explain how you can play as much music as time using the cellular radio too.... Music lasts double that if not more. Do you not see the complete idioticy in their statements yet?

Now the web browsing...how did the Mogul go from magically lasting almost twice as long in other tests and go to 4 hours 8 mins vs 3 hours 17 mins which is very close (how the numbers should look by the capacity difference in batteries).


As Ive just proven, I smell big mess up in the numbers for talktime and music. They dont seem to know what theyre doing.

Youll get about 4 hrs talktime straight, 8.25 hours of music or just over 3hrs browsing. Take that test with a VERY big grain of salt because its not accurate at all IMO or by simple math

You forget something very important touch is running twice the ram also when everyone says they get different results what rom/radio are you using battery hacks screen brightness etc. oz im is a big battery drain their are alot of variables.

[blackrook]

The Touch Vogue is the CDMA version, which has a 400mhz CPU. If any of you are getting talk time of +5 hours you're probably using the other touch, the Elf, which has a 200mhz CPU. It obviously uses less juice.

I ran some battery life tests on my Bell HTC Touch, to get the amperage usage of various scenarios.

-Low LCD, nothing running = 35-40mA
-High LCD, nothing running = 100-115mA

-Bluetooth on Standby = peaks at 80-90mA, then down to 40-45mA
-Bluetooth Stereo with Music = 150-160mA

-Low LCD, EVDO Browsing = 300-450mA
-High LCD, Phone Call = 300-550mA

while running these tests, totalling 30 minutes, i used 55mAh (Milliamp Hours).

Hope this helps.

oh, and since the internet stays connected for several minutes even after its done downloading all your mail, having it set up to download your email every 5 minutes is going to KILL your battery. It'll keep you at 400mA constantly, draining your battery 10x faster than standby. do you really need to have your email that quickly? if so, have your email forwarded to your sms. (for Bell, your address is ##########@txt.bell.ca). I have mine set up to download every 2 hours. My battery lasts through the day unless i'm on the phone more than 2 hours.