Goodbye evo

[Donatom3]

Originally Posted by mlin

I listened to music all day yesterday on my phone, talked for ~30 minutes, sent ~ 20 text, and browsed the internet/market/emails for a total of about 40 minutes. I have "Data Always On" turned off as well as "Background Data." After 16.5 hours of use yesterday I was at 13% battery remaining, just in time to go to bed. I am perfectly happy with the battery life of this phone.

16.5 hours off the charger and you're at 13% with that usage. You should be getting better, but for me too, I'm happy as long as it gets me through a day.

[mlin]

Originally Posted by Donatom3

16.5 hours off the charger and you're at 13% with that usage. You should be getting better, but for me too, I'm happy as long as it gets me through a day.

I forgot about an hour of gaming (Tower Raiders & Air Control) and roughly an extra 30 minutes of web before bed. Nonetheless, I am still pleased.

[i360]

Check to see if maybe you've installed some sketchy stuff in the last week or so. I've found that some apps on the market will drain your battery and/or refuse to suspend you phone when the screen is off.

[peepeesea]

yea i dunno man... i have my phone in basically stock form and use it quite vigorously all day and only have to charge ever other day.

for what its worth... at least you can change the battery unlike the iPhone

[Karl]

Dude the phone is only like 20 days old from the release date its still a baby 6 hours works for me
buy a car changer. plug in at work, buy a bigger battery hell buy two battery's..

what do you want HTC to do build a mini nuclear reactor for it

[Mazzakre]

Originally Posted by dsuarez1979

I had my EVO few weeks a go, and I'm retuning the phone tomorrow, its very nice looking phone, good performance, but the battery is a total disaster, first 2 week battery was fine but on the third week I was getting only 6 hours max, I seen a lot of threads giving advices about how to save battery power.

Now why would you pay for a phone that you need to have GPS always off to save power, auto data off, and few other thing off. we has a costumers need to force HTC to fix all the issues with this phone and any other HTC phone, now I`m moving back to HD2 for now , I love the HD2 but I hate T-MOBILE service.

would like to see how many people agree with me.

IF WE WANNA BEAT I-PHONE WE NEED TO FORCE HTC TO GIVE US A PERFECT PHONE.

You think HTC puts out bad phones but youre moving to the HD2 which is another HTC phone? If you really wanna show HTC that youre serious about wanting them to fix their phones dont get another HTC phone get a droid or something.

[lipidfats]

i dunno, i have my brightness at 60%. Only other things i turned off was 4g and gps. I get over 24 hours of light use... standby gets crazy life. Is the "6 hours max" use that you get light, moderate, or heavy use?

edit: again, if you were fine with battery for two weeks then it just went to crap, then you did something, not android or the evo. just saying...

[TREmp77]

If we want to beat the Iphone? EVO destroys the Iphone. It used to be that the Iphone just works, well Android just works and you can do soooo much more than the Iphone.

It used to be with my friends, when I had the Diamond, can your phone do this? My answer was probably not, but it could do something similar. EVO can do anything Iphone can do but better. Bigger screen makes the IPhone look like a little toy, using gps my icon moved as I did up and down my driveway...my friends IPhone said he was two blocks away. Just two examples but still in comparison to the EVO the Iphone fails.

[jpwhre]

it's the apps. I am using my evo as a second line while I wait for my rebate from sprint before I swap my main number over. So I basically use it for Pandora for my car traveling back and forth to work and play with it from time to time. I have advanced task killer to auto shut off tasks every half hour. Once while changing songs in Pandora I saw it say 32 apps killed. The only thing so far I really hate about android is it turns on apps by it's self. Major batt killer. And for it to launch 32 apps, WTF? I had 1 running. I miss my wm (yet still using it as it is broke and works half the time) and I only switched to android as I didn't like the way wp7 was going. but windows never launched apps on its own. My 30 day period isn't over yet and am still considering returning the evo. Not happy paying for 4g when it isn't even avail in this state. And I get a 0.05 mb/s net while my touch pro is at 1.0 mb/s sitting next to each other.

[GoodThings2Life]

Not to burst anyone's bubble, but the iPhone battery is no better, no matter how many keynotes Steve Jobs' uses to claim otherwise. I have a number of friends and coworkers with iPhones that are constantly complaining about battery life, and yes, they have to make the exact same concessions with power settings and sync options that we have to make.

It ALWAYS comes down to YOU and how YOU use your phone. I want to USE my phone, but I am sensible enough to configure it to ration my power conservatively by default and still allow me to spend battery life like Congress spends tax dollars when I want to geek out and show off to friends.