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There's conflicting evidence on this issue. Once I set my battery profile by draining it completely then recharging it with the power off, my battery life has

by arjuan 16y ago

There's conflicting evidence on this issue. Once I set my battery profile by draining it completely then recharging it with the power off, my battery life has been just fine. I left my phone on, unplugged, last night, drove to work listening to a podcast, and have been at work for about two hours and my phone still reads a full charge. Advanced Task Killer is showing 18 apps running in the background (power user here :) ) Also, if you read the EVO forums there are plenty of other people who are getting great battery life out of this powerful device.

nt 16y ago
Same here, got two EVO's on a family plan both have about than 1/2 charge left at the end of the day after heavy usage throughout the day. As other people have said it's easy to see what drains your battery on android phone, but I guess the author of the article was more interested in sensationalism than chasing after facts.
cubicle67 16y ago
From what I remember (and I may be mixing up phones here) it was use of 4G that chewed battery life. Are you using 4G at all?
- masklinn 16y ago
  > From what I remember (and I may be mixing up phones here) You don't, but it's not entirely correct: from the early review, the Evo had a bad battery life (as in, noticeably under average for the category), and if 4G was turned on it went from bad to utterly terrible.
- arjuan 16y ago
  I had 4G turned on overnight as well (where I have full 4g/3g service). I've heard that leaving 4G on while in a 3G-only area will drain the battery, but hopefully that problem will be fixed with an update.
ergo98 16y ago
>There's conflicting evidence on this issue. Once I set my battery profile by draining it completely then recharging it with the power off, my battery life has been just fine. This has been my experience with three prior HTC devices: Originally the battery life is horrendous, but after several cycles it gets better and better. It's still far from great. I mean if I forget to plug it in at night after a day of intermittent use, it will be dead before the end of the next day. I'd rather it ran forever without being plugged in, but I've learned to deal (though it's a major PITA when camping or the like. You really have to baby it). It's also too bad that people keep always holding their experience with bad battery life as a universal experience. When my phone is in my basement, for instance, battery life is TERRIBLE unless I turn it to airplane mode. Clearly it's straining to talk to the cell towers, causing a significant increase in consumption. The experience is completely different when it's upstairs. So if you live in a condo with big thick concrete walls in a bad reception part of town, expect your battery life to be worse. You'll note that many people with very poor battery life find "Cell Standby" to be the biggest consumer.

by arjuan 16y ago

nt 16y ago

Same here, got two EVO's on a family plan both have about than 1/2 charge left at the end of the day after heavy usage throughout the day. As other people have said it's easy to see what drains your battery on android phone, but I guess the author of the article was more interested in sensationalism than chasing after facts.

cubicle67 16y ago

From what I remember (and I may be mixing up phones here) it was use of 4G that chewed battery life. Are you using 4G at all?

masklinn 16y ago
> From what I remember (and I may be mixing up phones here) You don't, but it's not entirely correct: from the early review, the Evo had a bad battery life (as in, noticeably under average for the category), and if 4G was turned on it went from bad to utterly terrible.
arjuan 16y ago
I had 4G turned on overnight as well (where I have full 4g/3g service). I've heard that leaving 4G on while in a 3G-only area will drain the battery, but hopefully that problem will be fixed with an update.

ergo98 16y ago

>There's conflicting evidence on this issue. Once I set my battery profile by draining it completely then recharging it with the power off, my battery life has been just fine. This has been my experience with three prior HTC devices: Originally the battery life is horrendous, but after several cycles it gets better and better. It's still far from great. I mean if I forget to plug it in at night after a day of intermittent use, it will be dead before the end of the next day. I'd rather it ran forever without being plugged in, but I've learned to deal (though it's a major PITA when camping or the like. You really have to baby it). It's also too bad that people keep always holding their experience with bad battery life as a universal experience. When my phone is in my basement, for instance, battery life is TERRIBLE unless I turn it to airplane mode. Clearly it's straining to talk to the cell towers, causing a significant increase in consumption. The experience is completely different when it's upstairs. So if you live in a condo with big thick concrete walls in a bad reception part of town, expect your battery life to be worse. You'll note that many people with very poor battery life find "Cell Standby" to be the biggest consumer.