Hello!
I've had my HTC EVO 3D for 16 months. Everything is stock . 1 Week ago my battery begun to drain awfully fast, up to 2%/minute at lowest brightness. Charging the battery with screen on keeps the battery at the same % or sometimes it goes slowly down. I tried to factory reset the phone (thought there was an app eating my battery) but it didn't help. Everything excluding mobile network is turned off. "what has been using the battery" tells me:
Screen: 78%
Cell standby: 12%
Phone idle: 10%
Is it time for a new battery or?
Question 2:
I've heard about many screen problems with the EVO 3D. My bottom part of the screen doesnt work (buttons does). I tried the draw test and it's impossible to touch the bottom of the screen. Anyone got this problem?
i had a similar problem. my battery drained WAAAY fast. only lasts about an hour on use, and 4 hours on standby. drain rate equal to yours as well. you say your EVO is 16 months, mine is 8. maybe my problem was the same as yours but half (lol). my screen was non responsive on the bottom at times as well. i also had this little dark spot on the screen. like a smudge right in the middle. it didnt affect anything but it was bothersome to look at. i got similar battery usage, but what the phone doesnt tell you is the truth about the radios. i live in a place with poor signal. and just recently i discovered that the worse the signal is, the more the battery will drain. because the 3G or 4G radio has to stay on for longer to retrieve data, which eats the battery in a flash. in your case it could be out of plain usage. i dont know. anyways. i checked the battery to realize it had a bump. like a little swollen. i also realized that with the battery cover off the battery kinda sticked out a little, unlike when i got it. realized as well that with the cap off the smudge on the screen disappeared, and the touch interface was not giving me trouble. then i arrived to the conclusion that poor battery life was due to poor reception, and the screen problems were caused by my battery applying pressure to the display from the inside. i bough a pair of replacement batteries from Anker, and i dont have any problems. the battery life is a little longer as well.
maybe that could not be the case with you, but check your battery just in case. and also try to run your phone for a while on airplane mode, and if you see a great battery life increase like i did, then its the reception. if not, the battery either went bad, or you have a battery vampire app lurking around. and if that is the case, try the greenify app (root required) so you can hibernate all apps while you dont use them, and eliminate their background process. and if after that you dont see any battery increase, or you notice your battery being a little swollen like mine was (if you dont see it swollen try putting it on a flat surface, and see if its laying flat), then yes, its time for a new one. it cant hurt getting a new one, using the same battery for 16 months should have decreased the battery's performance anyways. but note that if the battery life problem is due to network connectivity, a new battery will only help a little.
hope i helped!
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can anyone who is lucky enough to have a Hero already comment on the battery life?
i find that the 1.5 port i have on my Polaris tears through the battery like i have never seen before. (even with all widgets disabled)
don't forget the hero has a 1350 battery fitted as standard
i have no problems with my hero and battery life....so far
As long as you dont enable GPS its fine. I get through the day with about 1/4 left.
And I Browse through wifi for about 1 hr on it. few calls, lots of txts. Few games. few apps like wifi fixer, locale
thanks for the info...
The battery life is better then my Touch HD and deffinetly better then my Diamond, and even when I keep wifi running I can get through a day without trouble,
I'm really surprised how long it lasts, wasn't expected at all,
Imagine how good it will be when an 1500mah or higher battery comes out
hi guys
im thinking of having the hero
jast a small Q
is the hero battery size is the same one as the touch HD battery size ???? (i didnt mean the capacity i mean the size of battery)
Aqrab said:
hi guys
im thinking of having the hero
jast a small Q
is the hero battery size is the same one as the touch HD battery size ???? (i didnt mean the capacity i mean the size of battery)
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No, its thinner but longer. The HD is Shorter but fatter.
One thing I would add about battery life, and that is that when on standby it is excellent.
My Hero came off charge yesterday at about 11am and essentially sat on my desk barely being touched for the rest off the day - a couple of phone calls, a text message, and a few emails. According to the meter on the phone status, I'm at 70%, which means I'd probably have no qualms picking it up and going out now without worrying too much about my battery life.
On my G1, I know that had I left the phone for 24 hours on standby, I'd probably be down to less than 25% by now.
Regards,
Dave
I have not had my Hero long enough to make much of a comment on battery life though I had nothing to complain about until this morning.
I went to bed with about half battery life indicated and I just left the phone. When I got up this morning it had low battery - very unexpected.
I left WiFi off but I have left most settings at their default which means that the phone will be auto syncing my Google account for instance. Can anyone. suggest anything that will help me?
Thanks
My phone has been off charge now for 48 hours, and although it has been idle most of that time, it is still showing 40% battery life - uptime is 50hr 47mins, and awake time only 2hrs 21mins.
Are you sure you weren't running something that would drain the power? Also, check to see if the phone is continually dropping from 3G to 2G and back again as this will drain power significantly.
Regards,
Dave
foxmeister said:
My phone has been off charge now for 48 hours, and although it has been idle most of that time, it is still showing 40% battery life - uptime is 50hr 47mins, and awake time only 2hrs 21mins.
Are you sure you weren't running something that would drain the power? Also, check to see if the phone is continually dropping from 3G to 2G and back again as this will drain power significantly.
Regards,
Dave
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Well, to be honest, anything is possible! I dont have amazing reception at home but I still think that was unusual battery drain. Has your phone been constantly connected? I know mine is all the time because of the auto sync with Google.
I guess so - I'm getting 3 bars HSDPA where it is currently sitting, so I guess the 3G signal is sufficiently strong for it to stay on 3G.
Regards,
Dave
To save more power -
Goto 'settings' > Wireless controls > Mobile Network settings - then switch off 'enable always-on mobile' and if you can 'Data roaming'
You may have other apps that constantly check and refresh, change them to check at longer intervals - like twitter.
I can still browse internet and Market fine this way and battery time is extended.
Hi peeps
had my hero for about 1 month now this is second hand set and so far battery life is good about 2-3 days light use on idle i get 6-7days which i think is prtty good for what it dose on normal use i get 1-2 days
I'd suggest to charge the hero everyday. For Lithium-ion batteries it's best to keep them over 40% for a longer life-time. They don't suffer if you charge them very frequently.
And don't leave them off at 100% because that will have a negative effect on the life-time.
Hope that helps keeping your batteries in good shape
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I'd suggest to charge the hero everyday. For Lithium-ion batteries it's best to keep them over 40% for a longer life-time. They don't suffer if you charge them very frequently.
And don't leave them off at 100% because that will have a negative effect on the life-time.
Hope that helps keeping your batteries in good shape
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yeah it true its better to keep them topped up but for most people thats not alway possible. And in past i have let batterries go be low that and still got like 18months out of them
Wonder why but my HTC hero battery life not very good at all
doesnt last even a day with hardly any serious usage....maybe 30 mins wifi browsing, 30 mins phone browsing, less than 30 texts and maybe 10 mins call,
i had an app called battery status (full version) i wonder if this has been causing the problem....
its hard to effectively test the phone due to diff usage paterns ..any one had any prob with this particular app?
Greetings,
First off I'd like to say that I absolutely love this device. I had the Evo 4G prior to this but about 3 months ago I dropped it on accident and destroyed my screen, then tried to replace the screen myself and it didn't go so well so I have spent the last 3 months using a Rumor touch to tide me over (). I'm happy with the Evo 3D beyond belief but I had a few questions to ask because I am not getting the amazing battery life that people have been so thrilled about.
First off I have background data disabled, auto sync is tuned down but not turned off completely (though it is turned off for things like htcsense.com and the like, only on for gmail and weather). I have adjusted the screen brightness down to around 20% but occasionally bump it up in high-light situations. I've also installed Juice Defender which helped a great deal, but I'm still noticing some strange behavior.
Is it common for the screen to be hogging the battery life like none other? I was able to go 14 hours yesterday with Juice Defender on, but i was also working for 12 of those hours and using my phone very little, so i'm willing to say that 80% of the time the phone was in standby/sleep mode (and i verified this by looking at up vs awake times). The thing that baffles me about this is that the battery usage says that the display used up 80% of my battery. How is this possible when the phone's screen wasn't even on that entire time, does the screen really pull that much power when its on?
My capacitive buttons are on full brightness while the screen is on no matter the light situation, is this as intended or could this be a defect drawing too much power?
Anyone else having battery problems?
i have issues when im at work with little to no signal which zaps the battery pretty hard, do you have issues with signal? (you can check under the batter graph, cell standy should list a percent without signal, mine yesterday was like 44 percent from being at work)
Other than that how long have you had the phone and have you calibrated the battery? It should improve over the first few charges, especially if you've calibrated.
That's odd, i have pretty decent signal here but under the "cell usage" i have 75% time spent without signal but the cell usage only was 8% of total battery use, and still 70% used for the screen. Does JuiceDefender turning off the 3g account for any of that 75% time spent without signal or is it truly phone signal loss
Sorry yeah I did calibrate the battery before the 14 hour period i was referring to.
I get about 7 hours of battery everyday through medium usage and my battery drains quite a lot when I am revising and listening to music. I have a 1900 battery instead of the stock 1650 and it does improve battery life but is there anything else I can do? I find it a bit stupid that my battery drains so much when I'm just listening to music!
I am running CM9.
Whats the signal strength like in your area? Aside from the screen (put screen brightness down), 3g seems to drain my battery most in weak signal areas, where the signal bars are continuously on 1 or 0. I put my 3g / data off and my phone can easily go hours before any drop in battery percentage, I got 4 days battery life with 3g off using it sparingly or wifi when i could to check my emails. Only other thing i did was calls and texts, but that was just as a test.
But i like to keep data on, and gps, all the time. I often get 4 hours screen time and approx 24 hours battery life with my 2000mAh Samsung battery.
Aside from that, last time i checked cm9 was a battery drain, may have moved on a bit.
the only real way you can save battery "during use" is with some restraint. Ie turn brightness down if screen is on, listen at lower volumes if it's playing music. The more voltage it's using the faster it drains. So less brightness or volume output = less power used.
7 hours is around the average use for battery life savy users around here. Even with the extended battery I'd say your right about on the money for battery use (based on what I assume you do and don't know at this stage). But there is certainly room for improvement .
Now before I go on, you probably won't notice any significant difference to battery life during use from these steps. My only hope is that in-between use it'll save more power, and squeeze out a bit more usage time for you.
First/easiest thing would be go to check if it's sleeping properly. Just don't use it for say an hour, then go to the battery monitor in settings. Check the screen on and awake times, they should be almost idenical. If there are several awake records in between screen on's, then you have a problem.
If you use sounds like unlock sounds etc, go turn them all off.. this was/pretty sure still is an issue in CM9 (causes audio_out1 to continuously wake up the phone from deep sleep and drains the battery like a mofo). Also getting rid of facebook (if it's installed) will help.. it loves waking the phone for no obvious reason.. even with every form of sync, background data, and mobile data in general turned off .
^^ you don't have to do that step but I'm pretty confident you'd have to anyway, so it's just easier to do it straight up. Then you can look for other problems.
Next, install "better battery stats". If you like to support developers, you can quickly buy it off the market. Otherwise it's free here if you search for the official thread.
Reboot your phone, then leave you phone for an hour or two, then check out whats happening in better battery stats. I'm not going to pretend I unerstand what half of the stuff it bangs on about is, but I digress. Select "since charged" and then check each different tabs of data (partial wakelocks, kernel wakelocks etc). You are really just looking for anything that stands out as a red bar basically. small amounts aren't a real worry/bound to happen. If it's bigger than say 1cm long, it's probably an issue. Then it's up to you to find out what the app/process is doing the damage . So either google or the better battery stats thread will be your friend at that stage. It was obvious what is was for me cause it said facebook but you might have a different experience.
Hope that helps. But the only way that's going to make a real dent would be trying to use it less.. lol.
Oh and if possible, turning on airplane mode would save a bit of battery in use. And of course the obvious ones like turn of wifi, gps, bluetooth, data, auto sync, soft key backlight and anything else you can turn off
Just do it what i say .. Download the full version of app. called juice defender from play store..install it and then see the magic by yourself ..i have been using the same ..it almost double up the battery backup through its advance settings.
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So across all roms I have tried the display literally destroys the battery life of my phone. While the screen is off I get fine battery life. But when the screen is on I can watch my percentage decrease about 2-3% every minute so after a half hour of browsing my battery is gone.
I have an extended battery as well but that just prolongs it slightly. The brightness is about half right now. Is this normal?
Does not sound Normal but display is the largest user of battery( unless one can use the phone with display off
I had as video streaming yesterday for 30+ min from 80% it went to 14%
haven't tried keeping just display on should try that ...test for tomorrow
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So across all roms I have tried the display literally destroys the battery life of my phone. While the screen is off I get fine battery life. But when the screen is on I can watch my percentage decrease about 2-3% every minute so after a half hour of browsing my battery is gone.
I have an extended battery as well but that just prolongs it slightly. The brightness is about half right now. Is this normal?
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I have my brightness set to 15% and it still sucks about half of my battery use. The display is unfortunately nearly unstoppable when it comes to battery drain. HTC and others are like "BIG PHONE DISPLAY!!!1!111!" we're all like "I can haz batteries?"
That description is the best description of our issue.
But an answer to your question, drop you brightness to as low as you can stand it and if possible try to limit the amount of times you wake the display in a day the juice it requires to turn it on is greater than it needs to sustain the screen on.
I would say yes for the most part. We have a fantastic and power hungry display...the price for greatness?
That being said, its not so bad dropped down to 25% or so, and easily viewable, except if you're outside.
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Alright thanks. I just wanted to make sure my phone wasn't experiencing something that is atypical. Other than that I do love this phone and the developers
It's hard to say. With screen on I loose about 1% a minute even with auto-brightness turned off and the screen at around 25%.
There are others on the forum that have made rather amazing battery life claims so it may come down the the individual device.
I have debated about returning mine for a different one to see if I get any better performance.
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It's hard to say. With screen on I loose about 1% a minute even with auto-brightness turned off and the screen at around 25%.
There are others on the forum that have made rather amazing battery life claims so it may come down the the individual device.
I have debated about returning mine for a different one to see if I get any better performance.
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I'm not sure I would bother chasing longer battery life with new devices. A lot of those are very optimized use cases -- either all on wifi, all in areas with great signal, or lots of screen on time but they don't mention what brightness. The fact of the matter is the phone has a tiny battery and uses up a lot of power for the display and radios. I get somewhere between 12-16 hours on a stock battery, depending on where I am and how much I use the phone (generally I'm a pretty light user, but I do leave 4G and Bluetooth on all day).
Hi guys, I got my new LG P769 at Bestbuy two days ago and I think my phone have a huge problem with battery life.
As you can see a picture, it discharges so fast. There are three cliffs of its batter life in the picture, two big cliffs and small one.
It seems to be abnormal. further, battery was 75% when i went to bed last night but i noticed it went down by 35% while i was sleeping.
of course i didn't use it at all for 6 hours. The second cliff was occurred at that time,
Do I need to go to complain? Please let me know how to deal with that. Thank you!
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Hi guys, I got my new LG P769 at Bestbuy two days ago and I think my phone have a huge problem with battery life.
As you can see a picture, it discharges so fast. There are three cliffs of its batter life in the picture, two big cliffs and small one.
It seems to be abnormal. further, battery was 75% when i went to bed last night but i noticed it went down by 35% while i was sleeping.
of course i didn't use it at all for 6 hours. The second cliff was occurred at that time,
Do I need to go to complain? Please let me know how to deal with that. Thank you!
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Hello Mate,
I too felt same feeling when I purchased this phone first.
But later I realised few things.
1) When you have inactive card with no signal, It keeps on searching for the network and drains a lot
2) The DISPLAY is by default at 100% and if you take it to 50% that is sufficient for indoor use, You save A LOT battery.
Now when I take the display to 100% it feels too much for me. When you are outdoor, you can raise it to readable level.
3) Keep on cleaning tasks and running apps. They DO EAT power even when you are not using the phone.
4) Same applies to the widgets. I really could not find personal implication of Weather widget that have storming animations and lightening data usage. (I am not a pilot nor sailor. No pun intended)
5) When your battery is new, you have to charge it to 100% at one go and use it till it discharges completely before you charge it for the next time. I read its called Conditioning of the battery. means telling it its limit of upper and lower value. This helps long lasting battery life.
6) last but not list and common. When Not in use keep WIFI, Bluetooth, GPS turned off.
They are hardware on our fone and demand their share of power. If you are too wary you can disable the autorotation also, that means one more sensor off and boon to battery. I dont turn it off. I need it a lot and often.
Some Few Tips I did more
1 Disable the Vibration
Vibration = mechanical Motor = Horse Power to eat your battery grass
2 Keep a dark wallpaper.
Light = Power to Light White bulbs on screen
Remember you are running a Dual core 4+Inches beast so you can not expect battery specs like simple fones. You can only smartify it to last longer through the day.
Bipin
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2 Keep a dark wallpaper.
Light = Power to Light White bulbs on screen
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False information. This device does not have an OLED screen so the pixel color has no effect on battery life.