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[Merged] HTC Evo 4G / Supersonic / Sprint Evo

Yep, as I said before, people getting only 4-8 hours battery life are doing something wrong for sure. They dont know how to run their phone correctly and leave unnecessary things on or running. I have no task killer and easily get 10-12 hours with moderate use on the stock battery. Here is what its like with my 1800mah battery in. Not running 4G, BT or GPS but wifi has been off and on when I needed. I also dont have my twitter, facebook, friend stream and all that other stuff updating every hour or two. Changed it to once a day and I can always manually update if I want. 11hrs 35mins off the charger with moderate use and I am still at 63% :)
 

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-- google sync is set to manual. I update it when I need to
-- imap pull every 15 minutes
-- screen on half brightness majority of the time (using the power widget available in the market)
-- 3g on all the time
-- Bluetooth on all the time
-- Wifi on when I need it.

I also rooted and installed the Modaco r3.1 rom which seems to be better optimised than the stock HTC Rom - less battery hungry.

Right now I charge until 8am in the morning and at 8am the next day I have about 35/40% left. That usually takes be to 8/10pm where I stick it on charge again.

More than happy with it. On a smartphone anything over 24 hours is a bonus.


MadeTheSwitch said:
Out of curiosity, do you remember which settings you tweaked? That's a nice amount of battery life.
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mbell75 said:
Yep, as I said before, people getting only 4-8 hours battery life are doing something wrong for sure. They dont know how to run their phone correctly and leave unnecessary things on or running. I have no task killer and easily get 10-12 hours with moderate use on the stock battery. Here is what its like with my 1800mah battery in. Not running 4G, BT or GPS but wifi has been off and on when I needed. I also dont have my twitter, facebook, friend stream and all that other stuff updating every hour or two. Changed it to once a day and I can always manually update if I want. 11hrs 35mins off the charger with moderate use and I am still at 63% :)
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This is why most people like the iPhone. You don't have to "fiddle" with it. Lol. Why have a phone if you're going to keep wifi/gps and all that off? Why pay for features you keep off?

If you want awesome battery life - go back to a dumb - flip phone. You will get AWESOME battery life. Days and day of stand by. Hours and hours of talk time.

If you have to "tweak" it to make it work - it's pointless.
 
Pared said:
Did you have multi-tasking enabled?

I have 4.0 jb with MT and wallpapers and I'm seeing better battery life than I did with 3.1.2jb and other things running. Nothing from cydia installed at all, just jb to allow MT and walls.

Did you upgrade? I set up as a new Phone and didn't restore. That seems to be key with every single update.
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Yea. I did enable MT, but I had Backgrounder installed before.

I did a restore though. I need to set it up as new again. It's going pretty slow.
 
I switched from my Moto Droid to the EVO on launch day. To get to the point, my iPhone 4 is on a plane as we speak! The EVO is a great piece of hardware but it just doesn't have the software to make the fantastic hardware enjoyable to use. The front facing camera is a pain to use and the battery sucks. It just sucks. I'm no moron and am very technically inclined. I can not get this battery to last long at all. I hope you guys enjoy your EVOs, but I am going back to the iPhone.
 
AbSoluTc said:
This is why most people like the iPhone. You don't have to "fiddle" with it. Lol. Why have a phone if you're going to keep wifi/gps and all that off? Why pay for features you keep off?
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What you call fiddling, I call being able to control and customize every bit of my phone and I wouldnt have it any other way. Why would I have GPS on sitting in my house? Why would I need Wifi on while I am sitting at my computer and not even using the internet on my phone? :rolleyes: I only turn these on when they are needed.

16hrs 45mins off the charger and still at 35% battery life :)
 
mbell75 said:
What you call fiddling, I call being able to control and customize every bit of my phone and I wouldnt have it any other way. Why would I have GPS on sitting in my house? Why would I need Wifi on while I am sitting at my computer and not even using the internet on my phone? :rolleyes: I only turn these on when they are needed.

16hrs 45mins off the charger and still at 35% battery life :)
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I understand that if you aren't using them they serve no purpose on being on, but the fact that you have to fiddle to get good battery life is something most people have no interest in doing. I certainly don't want to switch my WiFi on and off, but more power to you if you do!
 
mbell75 said:
Yep, as I said before, people getting only 4-8 hours battery life are doing something wrong for sure. They dont know how to run their phone correctly and leave unnecessary things on or running. I have no task killer and easily get 10-12 hours with moderate use on the stock battery. Here is what its like with my 1800mah battery in. Not running 4G, BT or GPS but wifi has been off and on when I needed. I also dont have my twitter, facebook, friend stream and all that other stuff updating every hour or two. Changed it to once a day and I can always manually update if I want. 11hrs 35mins off the charger with moderate use and I am still at 63% :)
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Man, you're, like, running nuthin'...
 
JayDH said:
I switched from my Moto Droid to the EVO on launch day. To get to the point, my iPhone 4 is on a plane as we speak! The EVO is a great piece of hardware but it just doesn't have the software to make the fantastic hardware enjoyable to use. The front facing camera is a pain to use and the battery sucks. It just sucks. I'm no moron and am very technically inclined. I can not get this battery to last long at all. I hope you guys enjoy your EVOs, but I am going back to the iPhone.
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I feel your pain, brah, I really do. To bad you can't stick it out a little longer. Is coming next month and that will be a help.
 
DeathChill said:
I understand that if you aren't using them they serve no purpose on being on, but the fact that you have to fiddle to get good battery life is something most people have no interest in doing. I certainly don't want to switch my WiFi on and off, but more power to you if you do!
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It not called fiddlin' it's called options.
 
mbell75 said:
Yep, as I said before, people getting only 4-8 hours battery life are doing something wrong for sure. They dont know how to run their phone correctly and leave unnecessary things on or running. I have no task killer and easily get 10-12 hours with moderate use on the stock battery. Here is what its like with my 1800mah battery in. Not running 4G, BT or GPS but wifi has been off and on when I needed. I also dont have my twitter, facebook, friend stream and all that other stuff updating every hour or two. Changed it to once a day and I can always manually update if I want. 11hrs 35mins off the charger with moderate use and I am still at 63% :)
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I have no problem with battery usage on my EVO, either. But I don't even use Task killer, I just close out everything manually. Doesn't task killer itself use a considerable amount of the battery?

Oh, I'm also getting the iPhone 4 :cool:
 
DeathChill said:
I understand that if you aren't using them they serve no purpose on being on, but the fact that you have to fiddle to get good battery life is something most people have no interest in doing. I certainly don't want to switch my WiFi on and off, but more power to you if you do!
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I wouldn't call it fiddling, the same things should and are done on the iPhone in the interest of saving battery. Personally I just turned off 4G when I got the phone, and have left pretty much every thing else stock. I don't go through my day managing my phone to maximize battery life, I just use it and at the end of the day it is still going strong.
 
Sketchr said:
I have no problem with battery usage on my EVO, either. But I don't even use Task killer, I just close out everything manually. Doesn't task killer itself use a considerable amount of the battery?

Oh, I'm also getting the iPhone 4 :cool:
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I am not using a task killer either. Android devs just put out a blog a few months back explaining why its not needed.
 
FX120 said:
I wouldn't call it fiddling, the same things should and are done on the iPhone in the interest of saving battery.
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Exactly.

Some people have short memories of all the battery tweaking threads we get each time major iOS versions have come out... especially when "push" anything is added.

Apple has a page dedicated to the ways of saving battery, which pretty much includes disabling half the phone:

•Turn off 3G
•Turn off WiFi
•Turn off Bluetooth
•Turn off the equalizer
•Turn off push email
•Don't fetch email as much
•Don't use third party apps
•Don't use location services
 
I think the difference here is that it's definitely easy to make it through the day without turning all that off (at least I have it all on and make it through the day pretty easy!), whereas the EVO it sounds like you HAVE TO turn it all off and actively manage things to get anything approaching good battery life.

However, I am no expert. I'm just going off of how I use my phone.
 
DeathChill said:
I think the difference here is that it's definitely easy to make it through the day without turning all that off (at least I have it all on and make it through the day pretty easy!), whereas the EVO it sounds like you HAVE TO turn it all off and actively manage things to get anything approaching good battery life.

However, I am no expert. I'm just going off of how I use my phone.
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The only thing I turn off is the 4G radio because most of the time where I am, I don't have 4G coverage and there is no reason to leave a radio on constantly searching for signal. I leave all the other radios on, including wifi and have no problem making it through a full day.
 
AbSoluTc said:
This is why most people like the iPhone. You don't have to "fiddle" with it. Lol. Why have a phone if you're going to keep wifi/gps and all that off? Why pay for features you keep off?

If you want awesome battery life - go back to a dumb - flip phone. You will get AWESOME battery life. Days and day of stand by. Hours and hours of talk time.

If you have to "tweak" it to make it work - it's pointless.
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+1 I totally see where you are coming from, and I agree with it. I do see how android guys like the "control" but I don't like the idea of having to always tweak with settings in order to achieve decent battery life. Imagine in a car you had to turn off your power steering, power windows, and various other things to get 25mpg. It's always much nicer to just have it there running and ready all the time vs having to "fiddle" with it all the time.

On top of that, I've used android w/sense and I am just not impressed.. It feels so unpolished IMO. It does have some features I'd like apple to adopt. Like notifications, and widgets, but overall apple IMO has a much better product.

To each his own though :)
 
AbSoluTc said:
This is why most people like the iPhone. You don't have to "fiddle" with it. Lol. Why have a phone if you're going to keep wifi/gps and all that off? Why pay for features you keep off?

If you want awesome battery life - go back to a dumb - flip phone. You will get AWESOME battery life. Days and day of stand by. Hours and hours of talk time.

If you have to "tweak" it to make it work - it's pointless.
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so you're telling me you kept your wifi and bluthtooth on your Iphone and kept a great battery? Don't think So.
 
Apollo 13 said:
so you're telling me you kept your wifi and bluthtooth on your Iphone and kept a great battery? Don't think So.
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I do...I take my iPhone off the charger at 5 AM and put it back on at 10 PM. Everything's on and it is used constantly all day and I always have >20% before I put it on the charger.

EDIT: Want to note it's a 3G. Have no idea on the 3GS battery.
 
kdarling said:
Exactly.

Some people have short memories of all the battery tweaking threads we get each time major iOS versions have come out... especially when "push" anything is added.

Apple has a page dedicated to the ways of saving battery, which pretty much includes disabling half the phone:

•Turn off 3G
•Turn off WiFi
•Turn off Bluetooth
•Turn off the equalizer
•Turn off push email
•Don't fetch email as much
•Don't use third party apps
•Don't use location services
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Wow. Turn off push email, 3rd party apps and location services? You basically have a paper weight that text messages at that point. None of my friends with iPhones get very good battery life really. My iPad does though.
 
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