Battery Life? - HTC EVO 3D

Now that the phone has been had a few days, what kind of battery life are you guys getting? Is it better than the Evo 4g at least?

A weeks time bro, but I'll comment. Out of 15 hours I am getting six hours of moderate to heavy use with 15% left... This phone's battery is looking promising.
Like I said though, we'll need a week before we all reach a consensus.

brienzee said:
Now that the phone has been had a few days, what kind of battery life are you guys getting? Is it better than the Evo 4g at least?
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I used mine in a poor reception building for a 9 hour work shift, texting constantly and taking 3d photos for novelty of random stuff. I left with 55%. The key is using data only when you want to. I turned off auto sync and only used data sparingly, since I didn't need it on all the time.

Right now I got about 7 hours. Not happy but ill give it a few more charges.
Also I did not accept any ota so that's one problem.
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21 hours off charger (TAKES FOREVER TO TURN THE LIGHT GREEN).
3 hours of use
48% battery left

I don't think any of use have put the phone down long enough to find out.

zone23 said:
I don't think any of use have put the phone down long enough to find out.
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Lmfao +1
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14 hours off battery as of right now after a full (green light!!!) charge. sent about 120 texts, made a half dozen phone calls, and just below 60%. WiFi/Bluetooth on ALL day, and connected to WiFi all day. Even downloaded the OTA fix for HTC Watch.
The battery is AMAZING, and this is stock. The reviewers were full of ****. Although I believe the latest OTA fixed a sync issue, so that was probably causing unnecessary battery drain.
I repeat, the battery life is great.

if this is true... and im sure screenshots will b posted shortly, think of what this will be like on CM7 running custom kernels.........

Amazing battery life for me - better than 0G Evo, and far better than Epic 4G - though I did constantly charge that battery to oblivion. Looking promising!

spunks3 said:
if this is true... and im sure screenshots will b posted shortly, think of what this will be like on CM7 running custom kernels.........
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suddenly bonar

A couple of things I've noticed right away.
1. CurrentWidget is inaccurate.
2. The upper limit on voltage during the charge scares me. On the EVO with an SBC kernel, we were always worried about going much about 4210 mV. On this EVO 3D, I noticed a 4275 right away. Seems to me that at 4300, it's all over, right?
3. I did not notice the precipitous drop from 100-90 or so that occured after taking the EVO 4G off the charger.

2 hours 27 minutes from full charge to "connect your charger" with everything turned on and video playing. About five minutes after plugging in video playback stopped and another message popped up stating that charging rate wasn't sufficient for current power usage. I wasn't using the included charger though.
Battery meter is flaky though. Reading 99% most of the time while charging and green light indicating full charge didn't come on 'til several minutes after battery status read full.
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hungryjoe said:
2 hours 27 minutes from full charge to "connect your charger" with everything turned on and video playing.
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if everything includes 4g, that ain't bad. If not, well... Not so good.

hungryjoe said:
2 hours 27 minutes from full charge to "connect your charger" with everything turned on and video playing. About five minutes after plugging in video playback stopped and another message popped up stating that charging rate wasn't sufficient for current power usage. I wasn't using the included charger though.
Battery meter is flaky though. Reading 99% most of the time while charging and green light indicating full charge didn't come on 'til several minutes after battery status read full.
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Sounds like you didn't calibrate it. The batteries don't need to be calibrated... but the phones software sure does.

ZachPA said:
A couple of things I've noticed right away.
1. CurrentWidget is inaccurate.
2. The upper limit on voltage during the charge scares me. On the EVO with an SBC kernel, we were always worried about going much about 4210 mV. On this EVO 3D, I noticed a 4275 right away. Seems to me that at 4300, it's all over, right?
3. I did not notice the precipitous drop from 100-90 or so that occured after taking the EVO 4G off the charger.
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It's a bigger battery first of all...not that much bigger, but, I don't see that voltage completely out of line...and it is OEM after all...typically nobody plays it safer than OEM...

14 hours 39 Minutes of the charger. Battery is still at 34%.
I was on and off of WiFi and used the phone more than i normally would because it is new. I checked facebook a bunch, texted as I normally do, surfed the web a bit, checked email, twitter, took several 3D pictures and a couple of videos, used a few apps....blah blah blah.
I am very pleased with the Battery life so far.

Is anyone using Juice Defender or other battery saving application, or are all of these numbers straight up battery use?

mevensen said:
Is anyone using Juice Defender or other battery saving application, or are all of these numbers straight up battery use?
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The only thing that i did was set facebook and email accounts to manual updates.

When you first get the phone to you full charge with the phone on or off
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So how's battery life?

Much better than the 4G? Someone...anyone?
a little too early to tell i would imagine.. i can let you know tomm
but kinda hard to compare it to my evo since i rooted the phone as soon as i could... spend a year with the phone rooted
so of course, the phone was better than a stock evo
i dont think this should be bad, as long as you turn your data off and all those other things you can do to save batt.
of course, at 1st everyone will be playing with the phone, so its hard to say but with normal use it should last as a phone like thing should.. smartphones have never been known for their batt
Ive had it on since I got it and its still alive
Battery life is a lot better than the stock Evos for sure. It is a lot better than the reviews you've been reading, or comments about it for that matter.
For know battery is great for me. But i can really tell you tomorrow if the phone still alive after work!
My bet is that they aren't regular Sprint users and don't see the "4G on" button as some sort of suicide switch like we do....they get sent a review phone to review.
Then they rag on Wimax for a while neglecting that it's in fact a relatively more robust protocol and it's the frequency involved that causes the horrible signal propagation characteristics Sprint/Clear's WiMax has become known for...
...and then they applaud Sprint for getting on board the LTE bandwagon, even though most (who understand) consider it the lesser protocol....even though Sprint's LTE will be high frequency and just as ****ty (or ****tier) as WiMax.
...WiMax with Verizon's LTE frequencies would be amazing...ahem....in theory, of course.
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but kinda hard to compare it to my evo since i root it the phone as soon as i could... spend a year with the phone root it..
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are you really saying "root it" instead of "rooted" ?
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are you really saying "root it" instead of "rooted" ?
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lol My EVO 4G was root it as well LMAO Good catch
Looks good so far. I have been using it heavily, youtube, spiderman , camera/video, etc... and I am only at halfway. I didn't charge it before I started using it so I am not sure where it was when it I started.
seems decent, was at home when I got off work. charged it to full been using heavy and still at 85% after 3 hours with Bluetooth,WiFi,gps off and hourly sync of fb twitter pulse and push gmail.
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I've been texting, youtube 3d, watching green hornet, xda, with WiFi on and it just now took a notch away from my battery and I've been doing all this for +2 hours. Personally for my level of usage vs my old EVO I can already tell a major difference in the battery.
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The jury is still out for me.
I took it off the charger at 6:00 (EST) this morning. Sent about 12 text messages, checked facebook, checked twitter (then closed app), did a few minutes of web browsing, listened to a downloaded podcast on my car radio via bluetooth (~45 minutes), wifi has been off, 4G off, bluetooth off after I got to work, and i'm at 70% right now.
EDIT: Forgot to add I use Push gmail and push active exchange from work set to "as mail comes in" on M-F 7a-7p then it switches to once every 30 minutes.
Did you guys calibrate the battery with the charge technique 8hours on 1 hour off and turn on two minutes then turn off and charge for another hour
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Is anyone's battery really bad? I woke up to the battery at 830am est at 80%. I took 2 3d pictures and use trillian for about 30mins. My 4g gps and wifi are off and tuned 3d off after taking the 2 pictures. I'm sitting at about 60% and it's only been about 2 hours. Not sure if it's just my phone and if i should exchange it.
Those with bad battery life, did you do the ota update? My phone doesn't sleep anymore.... Awake time and sleep time the same????
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Jeebus!! You guys are scaring me. I get mine at Noon tomorrow.
kkwus74 said:
Those with bad battery life, did you do the ota update? My phone doesn't sleep anymore.... Awake time and sleep time the same????
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Where do I check for this info. This is what my battery usage looks like right now:
4 hours on battery:
Display: 83%
Cell Standby: 5%
BeyondPod: 3%
Phone Idle: 3%
Android OS: 3%
Mediaserver: 2%
Bluetooth: 1%
EDIT: Just saw this:
Uptime: 11:57
Awake Time: 9:46
If I'm reading this right, the phone only slept for 2 hours last night? Is this normal?
Mine has been wonderful. Can't put it down... So my awake time is high. I think there is wake lock issue with facebook for HTC friend stream syncing. I don't use it now, but noticed it yesterday. Apps that were battery hogs on my 4G are not so bad on the 3D.. like word with friends.
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I was getting insanely bad battery life, I lost about 50% within 30 minutes. This is what I did to fix it, I applied the OTA (still was getting bad battery life) then I did a factory reset on my device and let it charge all the way up to 100% over night. So far I've had it off the charger for almost 2 hours, haven't really been using it a lot but I've lost only 4% in 2 hours. I can really tell a HUGE improvement.
i let mine charge all the way plus some then took it off the charger and starting messing with it.
as my previous post...ive been texting and doing calls rather heavy while having wifi on and i took it off the charger around 530 600 am and its now 2 here and im at half or so.
the battery is doing well for me. also this thing charges so damn quick.

I seriously thought my battery indicator was broke lol

So todays my 1st day at work with my evo3d. With my 4g id take it off my car charger at 6am with a full charge then by about 10am id have to stop using it to text or browse bc the battery was in yellow. So today im looked at the battery indicator at 7am....8am....9am lol and nothin changed. So i checked the battery in the settings and it actually dropped to 95%. Just to be sure i reset the phone and it was still at 95%. Wow im so amazed at how much better this battery is vs the 4g!
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That's what you get when millions of customers complain
If this phone doesn't last you atleast 8. Hours you're doing it on purpose
Bussin Caps from my 3D shooter
No kidding.
I look at my remaining battery when I go to bed and think, boy, could have used this thing much more.
The only problem is that I don't know that it will make it 2 solid days without a charge session. I'll have to see if that's possible on light use/strong signal days.
Mine so far, 4 hours with moderate to heavy usage and I have over half my battery left. Pretty good so far, much better than my OG EVO.
on the days that I think, "wow this thing has incredible battery life--it's barely moved at all since I unplugged it!" typically it will just plummet to like 50% without warning... the battery indicator is pretty much a joke if you ask me.
well...as soon as seido releases their extended slim battery i think it will be perfect...i have no complaints about the battery now and I was getting about 40 hrs on my OG EVO after putting cyanogen on it
ScrapMaker said:
on the days that I think, "wow this thing has incredible battery life--it's barely moved at all since I unplugged it!" typically it will just plummet to like 50% without warning... the battery indicator is pretty much a joke if you ask me.
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My 4g use to take that same dive.....so far this one drops bout 5% at a time
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I've been off the charger now for over 6 hours, WiFi on, Bluetooth on, about an hour and a half of phone calls over BT, 30 min browsing, push email, about 20 texts and checking Facebook and Linkedin about once a half hour and my battery is at 66%. My Evo 4G would have been dead by now with that kind of usage.
This weekend I was able to get 24 hours out of the phone both days. I'm very pleased with the battery on this phone to say the least.
Is all this great battery life with or without the updates?
ogrenator said:
well...as soon as seido releases their extended slim battery i think it will be perfect...i have no complaints about the battery now and I was getting about 40 hrs on my OG EVO after putting cyanogen on it
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+1 for the extended slim, can't wait to see that
It's funny, but I'm not quite jonesing to root my 3VO quite yet. This has got a lot of new technology (3D, asynch dual cores, 4G, etc.) that I want things fully baked. I know 4G's not exactly new, but considering how many ROMs for the OG EVO had issues getting it up an running (not to mention lost WiMax keys), I still consider it an extra challenge.
I had the 2000mAh GaliliO battery for the EVO 4G, and would go morning 7am to late evening without issues, 14+hrs with moderate use.
I would say the 3vo is comparable, but on a 1730mAh battery, It's scraping up to around 10hrs of moderate use, and I have not spare to swap out yet. Out of the box, the battery beats EVO out of the box last year, but still leaves something to be desired.
I've got a couple 1850mAh's on the way, hoping they don't blow chunks.
Battery Life -
My Battery Charges up to 100% - the light stays on - but it stops charging...
and actually losses charge.
thoughts?
mahalocat said:
My Battery Charges up to 100% - the light stays on - but it stops charging...
and actually losses charge.
thoughts?
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How much charge? Many have noticed the battery cycling between 95-100% once it's fully charged. If you're losing more than that, you might want to look into it a bit further.
awesomeindeed said:
I've been off the charger now for over 6 hours, WiFi on, Bluetooth on, about an hour and a half of phone calls over BT, 30 min browsing, push email, about 20 texts and checking Facebook and Linkedin about once a half hour and my battery is at 66%. My Evo 4G would have been dead by now with that kind of usage.
This weekend I was able to get 24 hours out of the phone both days. I'm very pleased with the battery on this phone to say the least.
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Funny, my Evo 4G would have been around 85% after that... unless I was in a fringe area, then all bets are off. I never ran Sense ROMs though, so it might not be a fair comparison.
mevensen said:
How much charge? Many have noticed the battery cycling between 95-100% once it's fully charged. If you're losing more than that, you might want to look into it a bit further.
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Thanks - I haven't seen it drop below 96 on the charger -
I will keep an eye on it though.
spencer88 said:
Mine so far, 4 hours with moderate to heavy usage and I have over half my battery left. Pretty good so far, much better than my OG EVO.
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Did you already install the OTA?

What's your mA draw?

My phone averages about -350mA according to battery monitor widget. Which seems very high compared to the -70mA average on my evo 4g. I just want to see if something is sucking the battery dry.
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I've never trusted that reading, according to that reading simple math says your battery should reach 0 in a little less then 5 hours.
Unless I'm understanding it wrong. The battery capacity is 1700ma, if your drawing an average of 350ma, thats 4.8 hours of use.
Chuki82 said:
I've never trusted that reading, according to that reading simple says your battery should reach 0 in a little less then 5 hours.
Unless I'm understanding it wrong. The battery capacity is 1700ma, if your drawing an average of 350ma, thats 4.8 hours of use.
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My battery life is pretty bad on the phone. Especially when I'm using it. It goes down like 3% every 5-10 mins. I'll install that app and see what mine is later.
Overstew said:
My battery life is pretty bad on the phone. Especially when I'm using it. It goes down like 3% every 5-10 mins. I'll install that app and see what mine is later.
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Check your accounts & sync, I haven't taken the OTA and had some pretty crappy battery life, and I'd uncheck all the accoutns I didn't want to sync, then I'd noticed they'd stay checked. So how I got around that was uncheck, press back, then go back into the same account to verify, then back all the way out, restart the phone and verify again.
the numbers you're giving dont make sense. you would never get 70 in standby unless there was an issue, standby gets around 2-8. and you wouldn't get 70 in use either thats going to be at least 150.
Chuki82 said:
I've never trusted that reading, according to that reading simple math says your battery should reach 0 in a little less then 5 hours.
Unless I'm understanding it wrong. The battery capacity is 1700ma, if your drawing an average of 350ma, thats 4.8 hours of use.
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Ditto. I use battery monitor and I like it, but the mA draw is way off on this phone. The 70-90 mA I used to get on my Evo 4G was reasonable, but this thing reads 300-350 all the time on the Evo 3D. I don't think the algorithms are correct yet for the 3vo: didn't even work at all at first and then it was updated and shows this 350mA all the time. I suspect they are still tweaking.
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Yea its got to be messed up,i have used this app forever. In my hd2 I would get 2-3ma in standby. This one is always high as hell. Maybe an update will fix it.
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Okay, after about an hour, I got an average of 369 MA draw...doesn't seem accurate, considering I'm still @ 95% power. But then again, I haven't used my phone at all.
No way thats right
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Yea it can't be right. Hopefully it gets a update to show the accurate information.
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The Developer is still working on it from what i understand.
Click the widget, then settings, then the bottom selection is Request mA support.
Click that and it will send the txt file with the system info that he needs to try to get that working right.
Thats the reply i got back from him when i started using it.
Mine is showing nearly 500ma draw with BT and 3G enabled, but not actively downloading.
Screen on for 22 mins, @ 84% battery. Auto sync is OFF, but I do have a stocks widget that updates every 15 minutes (pFinance, to be exact).
That's not very good is it? Battery been unplugged for 3 hours.
Ok been emailing dev. Btw great support from him. Got a reply in about 10 minutes.
Hello Nathan,
Your phone model is actually the PG86000 and I received many reports about it, unfortunately they all show the same behavior: Good charging data, but very high/inaccurate drain.
The data is provided in this file: /sys/class/power_supply/battery/batt_attr_text
Under that line: batt_discharge_current: 225
This phone and the HTC Sensation exhibits the same issue, inaccurate battery drain!
2011/07/06|09:23:29 AM|-143mA|89%|4132mV|31.8ºC|2|0
2011/07/06|09:28:29 AM|-183mA|88%|4132mV|31.3ºC|2|0
2011/07/06|09:33:29 AM|-310mA|87%|4099mV|32.2ºC|2|0
2011/07/06|09:38:29 AM|-163mA|86%|4090mV|31.3ºC|2|0
In the above extract, phone is loosing 1% every 5 minute, an average of 204mA. Looks almost accurate!?
2011/07/06|03:03:29 PM|-325mA|56%|3817mV|30.9ºC|0|0
2011/07/06|03:08:29 PM|-297mA|56%|3817mV|30.9ºC|0|0
2011/07/06|03:13:29 PM|-415mA|56%|3798mV|28.9ºC|0|0
2011/07/06|03:18:29 PM|-394mA|56%|3804mV|27.6ºC|0|0
2011/07/06|03:23:29 PM|-176mA|55%|3839mV|26.9ºC|0|0
Here it lost 1% in 20 minutes, an average of 51mA! So inaccurate!
Either I can figure out a link between those values and the % drops, determining a formulas that would give proper results or I have to discard the battery drain during discharge to replace it with estimated values, which are solely based on % changes, having it’s own draw-backs.
Investigating all reports will take a huge amount of time, while I receive many feature requests.
Will keep you posted if I can make a test version.
Regards,
Cedric.
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I'm gettin -51mA when idle using Current Widget. That seriously sucks, no wonder I can't get through the day.
Well, I'm at 40% and i was at 100% under two hours ago...
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i think im going to sell my evo 3d on ebay for 100.000.000 dollar. why?
it got 0mA draw while its unplugged and display is on and im playing games
great widget (not)
for Battery Monitor Widget to work go into "settings" - "monitoring" and change your "mA data update" rate to 1 minute or so, and change your "mA retrieval method" to HTC Evo 3d
For CurrentWidget just put the widget on your screen to get current; but enable logging to see what it is when the screen is off. Give it some time then check the log.
borgqueenx said:
i think im going to sell my evo 3d on ebay for 100.000.000 dollar. why?
it got 0mA draw while its unplugged and display is on and im playing games
great widget (not)
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Crazy Battery Life

I am wondering if this is some kind of fluke but my battery status shows 1Day 1Hour 39mins since last charge and my battery meter still reads 54%. Light to Moderate use. (Some phone calls, texts, fantasy football app, web browsing)
Normally seems like I get anywhere from 20-24 hours per charge.
I'm running the Infected Rom Eternity.
You serious bro…. lol….
Normally you get 20-24 hours (which is a day)…
And you are amazed that you just got 25 hours.
Hahahaha
Crazy! My mind is like….. bllowwwwwn
cobraboy85 said:
You serious bro…. lol….
Normally you get 20-24 hours (which is a day)…
And you are amazed that you just got 25 hours.
Hahahaha
Crazy! My mind is like….. bllowwwwwn
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re-read LOL he says he's still got 54% left
Wtf.. how ? I just switched to warm ROM from eternity cuz eternity was overheating my phone .. random reboots, lag, and battery drain.
Right now I'm at 70% after 3 hours since la
st charge.
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re-read LOL he says he's still got 54% left
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lawl... pwnd
Man, I'm guessing you've killed the 3G radio, wifi on, every service on manual update, GPS off, brightness to moleman mode + that usage?
I wish I could pull 1/2 that longevity without heavy sacrifice.
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Man, I'm guessing you've killed the 3G radio, wifi on, every service on manual update, GPS off, brightness to moleman mode + that usage.
I wish I could pull 1/2 that longevity without heavy sacrifice.
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It stays on Wifi whenever I am at home then I switch to 3G when I leave. Brightness is set to Auto. I never turn on GPS, (that's what my Garmin's for) and everything sync's normally. It's weird, some days I'll get this kind of battery life and somedays I'll get a lot less. Even with similar usage from day to day.
I get about two days of use with everything on. (No gps or bluetooth) Facebook sync on, texting, web browsing xda app, and a couple short games. I don't ever have any battery left though..
If I stay home I have closed to 60% left after 18-20 hours of regular usage----a few calls, browsing, games and texts----but I have wifi and an airave
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I am wondering if this is some kind of fluke but my battery status shows 1Day 1Hour 39mins since last charge and my battery meter still reads 54%. Light to Moderate use. (Some phone calls, texts, fantasy football app, web browsing)
Normally seems like I get anywhere from 20-24 hours per charge.
I'm running the Infected Rom Eternity.
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Simple. Take a screen shot of screen on time. Who cares how long your battery lasts, if you don't have alot of screen on time.
I read this trick from somewhere (possibly a myth?)
Charge phone to 100%
Unplug, allow 5% discharge,
Charge back to 100%
Experience supreme battery life.
I'm out 10 hours a day often (**** high school ) and I get about 17 hrs average
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When I first got my Evo 3D the battery life was just decent. After about a week, I put it on the charger after 18 hours and it's never below 70%.
norm12 said:
If I stay home I have closed to 60% left after 18-20 hours of regular usage----a few calls, browsing, games and texts----but I have wifi and an airave
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Norm man ha, what's up?? Hope all is good. Nice to see you over here.
Locked & Loaded
""shooter on Deck""
How much time was the display on for?
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My battery has been doing really good lately also. I went 24 hours with 14% left with above average use. Wifi on the whole time. No 4g or gps though. Brightness at 1/3rd as always.
Serren said:
My battery has been doing really good lately also. I went 24 hours with 14% left with above average use. Wifi on the whole time. No 4g or gps though. Brightness at 1/3rd as always.
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Once again, screen on time is what is important.
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Wow. Just wow. Light and every now and then moderate use I normally get 10 to 14 hours. Same across pretty much every ROM and kernel.
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zadias said:
I read this trick from somewhere (possibly a myth?)
Charge phone to 100%
Unplug, allow 5% discharge,
Charge back to 100%
Experience supreme battery life.
I'm out 10 hours a day often (**** high school ) and I get about 17 hrs average
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I'm not completely sure about this, but here is what I remember reading:
That was only useful on other phones when it would display 100% when really the battery was 90%. Doing this charged it to the maximum battery capacity. The Evo 3D stops at 100% when the battery is actually full so we don't need to do anything.
I think this phone does not register being plugged into the computer as being "plugged in." Therefore it does not reset the meter, and you get readings like this, even though there was some (computer-connected) charging in between.

My Magical Battery Improvement

Has anyone else ever had their battery improve over time?
My stock battery has overnight gotten amazingly better, and I can't explain it. Its on a stock amaze, everything stock, I was having some battery issues, it would charge and get to 99% then take a good 20-25 mins to get to 100%, so I got a battery calibrator off the market, a non root required one. So I get it charged, and 'calibrate' it, and I didn't think it would do anything. So it stayed at 100% for over an hour with the screen on. At night it was reading 70%, and I left it without charging, and in the morning was dead. Right away I thought the battery calibrator threw it off, so I charged it up agaon to 100%, and this time wanted it to drain to zero, and I thought I'd start over from a drained battery. Same thing happened when I had it at 100%, it would take forever to drain it, I was playing movies on it, sound turned up, screen full brightness, and the thing wouldn't drain. I had a movie looped all night, and for a period of 10 hrs of this, it was still going when I woke up! I find it hard to believe that this is legit, but I've tried it twice now to drain the battery and I'll wake up and it'll be at roughly 15% remaining.
The other odd thing I noticed is on my data tracker, I had about 80MB of data go through the phone that I can't recall doing anything with. It was at a time I was at home and on wifi, so I can't call telus and see what went through the network, but the phone had something big go through it that I didn't do. Maybe telus is secretly fixing the battery issue on these phones? The conspiracy continues…
Just thought I'd share. I attached a pic of the battery status as of today. I haven't charged this thing in over a day other then a little bump. Before, I'd get to 18-20 hrs of regular use and it would need a charge.
I've also got another amaze running energy rom, and faux and its been doing way better then the rooted amaze.
Hmmmm anyone with knowledge about battery life wanna chin in?
What's the name of the app, Guy?
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battery calibration, developed by 'professionals'
I uninstalled it, I had it on my phone for 20 minutes
This is my battery life.
AOKP + Lean
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andy55 said:
Has anyone else ever had their battery improve over time?
My stock battery has overnight gotten amazingly better, and I can't explain it. Its on a stock amaze, everything stock, I was having some battery issues, it would charge and get to 99% then take a good 20-25 mins to get to 100%, so I got a battery calibrator off the market, a non root required one. So I get it charged, and 'calibrate' it, and I didn't think it would do anything. So it stayed at 100% for over an hour with the screen on. At night it was reading 70%, and I left it without charging, and in the morning was dead. Right away I thought the battery calibrator threw it off, so I charged it up agaon to 100%, and this time wanted it to drain to zero, and I thought I'd start over from a drained battery. Same thing happened when I had it at 100%, it would take forever to drain it, I was playing movies on it, sound turned up, screen full brightness, and the thing wouldn't drain. I had a movie looped all night, and for a period of 10 hrs of this, it was still going when I woke up! I find it hard to believe that this is legit, but I've tried it twice now to drain the battery and I'll wake up and it'll be at roughly 15% remaining.
The other odd thing I noticed is on my data tracker, I had about 80MB of data go through the phone that I can't recall doing anything with. It was at a time I was at home and on wifi, so I can't call telus and see what went through the network, but the phone had something big go through it that I didn't do. Maybe telus is secretly fixing the battery issue on these phones? The conspiracy continues…
Just thought I'd share. I attached a pic of the battery status as of today. I haven't charged this thing in over a day other then a little bump. Before, I'd get to 18-20 hrs of regular use and it would need a charge.
I've also got another amaze running energy rom, and faux and its been doing way better then the rooted amaze.
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WOW @ THIS SCREENSHOT
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I could only get about 8 hours MAX with intermediate use =[ tried every rom & kernel
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fuego77 said:
I could only get about 8 hours MAX with intermediate use =[ tried every rom & kernel
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Same Nexus s 14h, not a galaxy nexus though.
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bendirkss said:
Same Nexus s 14h, not a galaxy nexus though.
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My brother has a galaxy s2 and gets about 18+ with intermediate use and 29 hours with low usage.... I get about 10 with low usage. It drives me crazy man!!!!
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andy55 said:
Has anyone else ever had their battery improve over time?
My stock battery has overnight gotten amazingly better, and I can't explain it. Its on a stock amaze, everything stock, I was having some battery issues, it would charge and get to 99% then take a good 20-25 mins to get to 100%, so I got a battery calibrator off the market, a non root required one. So I get it charged, and 'calibrate' it, and I didn't think it would do anything. So it stayed at 100% for over an hour with the screen on. At night it was reading 70%, and I left it without charging, and in the morning was dead. Right away I thought the battery calibrator threw it off, so I charged it up agaon to 100%, and this time wanted it to drain to zero, and I thought I'd start over from a drained battery. Same thing happened when I had it at 100%, it would take forever to drain it, I was playing movies on it, sound turned up, screen full brightness, and the thing wouldn't drain. I had a movie looped all night, and for a period of 10 hrs of this, it was still going when I woke up! I find it hard to believe that this is legit, but I've tried it twice now to drain the battery and I'll wake up and it'll be at roughly 15% remaining.
The other odd thing I noticed is on my data tracker, I had about 80MB of data go through the phone that I can't recall doing anything with. It was at a time I was at home and on wifi, so I can't call telus and see what went through the network, but the phone had something big go through it that I didn't do. Maybe telus is secretly fixing the battery issue on these phones? The conspiracy continues…
Just thought I'd share. I attached a pic of the battery status as of today. I haven't charged this thing in over a day other then a little bump. Before, I'd get to 18-20 hrs of regular use and it would need a charge.
I've also got another amaze running energy rom, and faux and its been doing way better then the rooted amaze.
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This picture tells nothing about battery usage/life. It just makes noobs wow.
fuego77 said:
My brother has a galaxy s2 and gets about 18+ with intermediate use and 29 hours with low usage.... I get about 10 with low usage. It drives me crazy man!!!!
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Me to! I can't even get 10. Its fine asleep but once its on I watch it go doooown.
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I get 8-12 hours depending on my use from moderate to heavy. I usually hook it up to a charger though if I am watching a flick or streaming music, unless working out, lol!
My mytouch4G I got between 12-14 hours, so not drastically different. I Just deal with it.
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Hmmm, sensation gave me much worse battery life, currently using energy ROM sense 3.0. I get about 12 hrs per day average use, data constantly on (unlimited), min 1 hr talk, few min of Twitter and responding to e-mails, checking stock. I plug it into my car charger for 10-30 min but it doesn't change that much.
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So I just woke up, been on my phone for ten minutes, checking emails , checking Twitter and on xda
My phones on 89%
The only thing I have syncing is my gmail account (contacts & calendar) and facebook (contacts and calendar)
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Been on my phone looking at forums and taking pics for 1h22m and I'm at 67%
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Ha keep checking this hoping someone else tried the the op has done and see if there's been any improvement... My battery life seems decent enough and I know to bring my charger if I'm going to be using it a lot and out all day.
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Bdix said:
Been on my phone looking at forums and taking pics for 1h22m and I'm at 67%
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Taking pictures uses a LOT of battery life i have noticed, especially when using flash.
The Screen was barely on and awake time is minimal as well. Everyone just says "Wow" when they see a day, but a day of barely using your phone is not a special thing to accomplish.
Truth when I spend all day at my job I can't use my phone, even with syncing on... I'll still have 70+ % after 14 hours or so...
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isaster1 said:
the screen was barely on and awake time is minimal as well. Everyone just says "wow" when they see a day, but a day of barely using your phone is not a special thing to accomplish.
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+1000000000000
So is this thread supposed to be based on a purely stock experience? I have yet to get less than 14 hours with the heaviest usage.. but then again I am not stock. But every rom I have used has given me at LEAST a 12 hour battery life, even if I am trying to kill it.
I realize from numerous threads that wiping battery stats doesn't really do anything, but even though my battery goes to 90% super quick(I wish I knew why, it hasn't always) I still usually get 18+ from my phone, with realistic usage.
If this thread IS just for people using stock.. why are you using stock? I am on bulletproof 2.5 with the latest kernel, and I get great battery life, with over 130 apps installed and regular use.
A random thought, on previous devices I disabled automatic time sync and saw a big difference. I did the same for the amaze since day 1.. maybe you should disable it too? After you synced to the server, what point is there to auto-time?
My 2 cents.. don't know what the complaining it about.
On light usage, I EASILY get 2+ days on one charge..

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