HTC Desire, not lasting a day!

_Jimlad_

_Jimlad_

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Just picked up a almost new one from ebay, charged last night and turned the phone off, tunred on at 7am today, 9 hours later battery asking to be charged :(

i tuned wireless off after about 3 hours, yeah played with it a fair bit today, and made three 5 min calls, jeeeeeeeeees is this a bug or fault?
 
Should last longer than that. Although if you play with most phones for a bit they will drain rapidly as well. I always find this with new phones. It will also take a few full charges and discharges to get the optimal battery life established...
 
Depends if you are using CPU intensive apps. Also turn down brightness and turn off live wallpapers. I have to charge mine daily.
 
the batteries need a few cycles from full to empty to bed in to full capacity.

Beyond that I'd recommend all the HTC Android tweaks like:

slow down all built in accounts sync interval.
install juice defender.
screen standby delay
install an app to cycle the screen from low manual brightness (indoors) to auto (outdoors).

On my Hero leaving the screen on and using a browser/book reader (even without using data) will kill the battery in just a few hours. But with juicedefender if I leave the phone it will do standby for well over a day easily. I've never measured as I can't stay off the phone long enough, but in standby the phone uses maybe 1% or 2% power per hour while still turning on data for 2 minutes in every 30 to check for mail .
 
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i was used to 3 days with the blackberry, think i will get a 2nd battery, thanks for the tips guys, i will adjust and string out the syncs and try this juice defender.
 
^^ ONE big help I've found is turning off 3g. As I'm usually in a wifi spot to enable the wifi when I need the net a lot, it's okay for me. Also, for the odd browsing, it uses whatever H stands for (I think) and the speed with that is not too bad.

-- speaking for Pulse Mini here..
 
Quite heavy usage from mine today and its on 74%, maybe some of them have dodgy batteries?

I'm far more impressed with it than I expected to be.
 
chiggz said:
^^ ONE big help I've found is turning off 3g. As I'm usually in a wifi spot to enable the wifi when I need the net a lot, it's okay for me. Also, for the odd browsing, it uses whatever H stands for (I think) and the speed with that is not too bad.

-- speaking for Pulse Mini here..
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Kreeeee said:
H is HSDPA and uses more power than 3G.
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guys what do the letters stand for on downloads, on my blackberry i used to have 3g in my common places like work, the misses, but i rarely see the 3g sign if ever (still one same network)

i just have 'h' or 'g' i think
 
_Jimlad_ said:
guys what do the letters stand for on downloads, on my blackberry i used to have 3g in my common places like work, the misses, but i rarely see the 3g sign if ever (still one same network)

i just have 'h' or 'g' i think
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I think it goes


G - E - 3G - H
 
By the time I am home from a day at work I still have 67% with moderate use checking emails, checking app updates etc.

I lift off the dock at 8AM and don't get home until 6:15~PM
 
If your using something like mini info or something to display your battery % then dont :p

It makes it seem a lot worse than it realy is.

I work 12 hours, and when i get home my bar is over half full and i use my phone lots at work.

If im streaming tv or watching a film etc. then i plug it in, but normal uses it's fine
 
xibinim said:
Think its E - G - 3G - H

I am using an X10 - but have never seen an H when browsing? Highest I have got to is 3G, is something wrong?
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I've only ever seen the H symbol on HTC phones...the X10'S 3G signal should also be achieving H in some areas but still shows up as 3G on the phone.

My sis has a x10 and i have a desire and we compared in the same spot.
 
xibinim said:
Think its E - G - 3G - H

I am using an X10 - but have never seen an H when browsing? Highest I have got to is 3G, is something wrong?
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In terms of speed it goes:
GPRS
EDGE
3G
HSDPA (shows as 3G+ on some phones and sometimes it shows as just 3G still)
HSDPA is a feature enabled on towers and as not all towers have it, you may not have seen it. It’s more common in big cities currently.
H is HSDPA and uses more power than 3G.
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Barely, also a higher transmission speed requires more power by default really. On the other side, it uses the radio for a shorter amount of time(as it got the data quicker).
2g is fine for smaller things like emails / rss updates but anything more and it’s a bit slow imo.
 
On my Nexus One I found my battery was struggling to last 8 hours before needing recharging. After a bit of an investigation I found the Facebook app was starting itself at random points during the day, even after I'd forced it to close, and using 80% of my battery.

I find if I turn off mobile networks (G, E, 3G etc) the Facebook app doesn't start itself, and my battery is now lasting up to 6 days between charges.
 
yeah im not impressed with the battery, i guess its a powerful phone and will have to get used to charging daily, just purchased a car charger, dock and spare battery from ebay :D
 
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