i know what you're thinking this issue has been repeated so many times, but i am at the end of my rope here. There is no way i would want to trade my Tilt for any other phone, if someone could help me with battery life I would greatly appreciate it. I searched for battery drain, battery, battery life, battery life tips and maybe i missed something but none of that really helped me.
Here's what I'm doing:
Bluetooth is never on (except for a quick file transfer then off again)
Wi-Fi is rarely on, unless i know i'm going to find a hotspot and then i'll use it for maybe 5 or 10 minutes.
There is a mixture of 3G and EDGE in my area
My backlight is a little less than half brightness.
I've followed all the tips in chapter 13.7 of the kaiser manual (i'm running the kaiser rom with updated radio (.17))
I've used kaisertweak and made some changes that are supposed to increase battery life.
I have no idea what to do anymore. Just now with my phone in flight mode i took about 5 3MP pictures and the battery life went down by 4%. Is there something that I'm missing here? I've had my phone since October 22nd and this poor battery life is really annoying me. If necessary I can provide more information.
Thank You for your future help.
you probably have a defected battery, you ever considered that?
i just took 5 3mp pictures on my phone and the battery% didnt even budge. also 2 hours of music takes about 15-25% of my battery if that helps.
conclusion? your battery is defected
Solution? get a new battery.
BT has minimal effect, screen brightness is a factor, the lowest that you can accept is the best for battery.
Using an appropriate comm manager, turn off 3G except when you need it. 3G is the biggest battery drainer next to WiFi. Use it only when needed.
your battery life should increase about 20 percent after the first charge/discharge cycles; mine only lasted a day on standby with bluetooth on at first (100-15 percent), now i get about 3 days with bluetooth on (100-5 percent)
Hi guys,
Recently installed GPRS monitor that came with HTC tytn II... and on the main screen theres a little indicator telling you your battery life...
Mine reaches a maximum of 3:00... 3 hours?! is this normal????
can anyone shed light on this?
I usually have the phone connect to a laptop so I am not sure what my battery life is...
Joe
Mines starts with 1.5 hours but last few days......dont know why but this spb gprs monitor (the version that came with my o2 Stellar) used to work great, for some reason it does not work anymore......well the battery life indication bit any ways....
battery life is only an estimate when used in optimum conditions with only standard usage so i wouldnt worry about it too much unless you notice it drain as fast as it states
i think i read somewhere in the kaiser forum that sometimes with gps reciever turned on there is some abnormal battery power drainage .. Other day i was using google maps with gps turned on and my battery went from 100 to 25% in half an hour .. yikes. However haven't had it happen using yesterday and this morning. Battery at 80% currently no charge.
hope this helps shed some light.
peace,
sire
Hi all,
I have been testing (sofar day 5) how long can my HTC Diamond last on standby without needing to recharge.
Phone is constantly on (day and night). It is on standby i.e. screen off, but the power is on. So every time I tap the little power button it shows me how much (%) of the battery is left.
I am on day 5 and the battery is 66%.
Will update tomorrow.
I don't know if anyone done this before, but I am trying to find out, how long will battery actually last in real world (in standby).
Cheers.
Are you just using Flight Mode?
And none of them is turning on ?
1. 2G / 3G phone (stay at one place / moving day & night )
2. Wi-Fi
3. Bluetooth
day 6
DAY6......checked battery status this evening.....52% left.
Phone is on standby (screen off). Everything else is on.
This is just my little experiment. Probably does not make sense to many, but maybe someday,someone would wanna know that, how long the battery lasts this way
to ykwong
sorry did not notice someone has replied.
phone is essentially in flight mode.....phone itself is off (no calls coming in or out)
but, Bluetooth and WIFI is on. Everytime I check for battery status....it notifies me of my WIFI connection.
If your mobile is in standby Wi-Fi and Bluetooth even if they are turned on are in standby too (except when you turn it on to check battery charge) thus they don't consume power.
Ive been testing mine aswell andi've found i lose 6% every 8 hours, thats with minimal use and screen off once used. radio 1.25.00.5 and the offficial 1.93 rom and with settings from shcaps advanced config.
wifi is turned off automatically when in standby mode, and turned on when you activate the phone again unless you've done a registry hack to force it on.
Moreover this test is quite useless as battery life consumption depends on the power of the signal, your battery can easily last half the usual time if the signal is weak and twice longer if you just under a cell
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wifi is turned off automatically when in standby mode, and turned on when you activate the phone again unless you've done a registry hack to force it on.
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Indeed, thats true.
Battery life is poor
I got Diamond 2 days ago. What I noticed was the battery life is appalling actually. I charged full and with normal usage (ie, 5-6 calls lasting about altogether lasting less than an hour and some pplaying around) it doesnt last more than a day. Battery shows 10% at the end of the day. Is that normal? Or is it just mine. (By the way 3G on, Wifi, bluetooth off)
I charge mine twice a day...
i have to charge mine everyday after work and im not using in THAT much, some calls and checking some mails. the batterytime really sucks, my old phones have loads of better batterytime, so what if i surf some on the net and checking some videos to do i have to charge it every hour or what? really sucks :/
htc has released a new battery for longer standby time. the battery volumn is 1350MA, with a back cover. the price is around 40 pounds.
unlike the third party battery some of us have bought, does the gps still work with this one?
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htc has released a new battery for longer standby time. the battery volumn is 1350MA, with a back cover. the price is around 40 pounds.
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How much volume and weight doe it add up to the sleek diamond? Does it not kill the joy? What will be the difference then b/w diamond and raphael thickness and weight??
day7
today.....power at 43%
to posters: I know that this test may sound pointless to some. All I am saying that someone someday may find this informative.
If you have the phone off, there's no point in this test - at all. When the screen turns off, wifi turns off as well. This would be the most battery consuming application you have, so it would last a long time regardless of battery or phone.
My settings shows fully loaded battery but the ROM update screen tells me that i have less than 50% available. Who is correct? And is there a way to unload the battery totally w/o having the diamond on all the way (already tried, is not working) to refresh it from base? Thanks!
day 8
battery at: 29%
........I will check and finish this test tomorrow , I assume it will we under 20 %
I'm starting such a test myself today, see if I can make it to Monday. I will be using my phone for calling, i.e. the phone function is on (except when I sleep, don't want to be disturbed ), the occasional internet (checking train schedule, maybe using it as a router for my laptop for 5 minutes), and maybe 5 minutes of teeter or something. The average day use I'd say.
Question: how do I see the percentage of my battery charge?
Test starts as of NOW, 15:47 in Amsterdam, which is 13:57 UTC. It's fully charged, so I don't need a percentage reading on this one
Hi everyone,
I know that the Captivate doesn't have the best battery life in the world, but somewhat recently I've been having some severe issues that seem out of range even for the usual battery suckage. I've trawled various forums looking for insight but can't really build a coherent picture, so I think I should just state my issues directly to the community.
The issue seems to be that when I am out and about and on 3G data, my battery usage goes through the roof. We're talking on the order of 14-15% an hour, barely using the network, not using the phone, with GPS turned off. I stepped out tonight at 7pm and had 68% battery life. I got home at 10pm with 25%. I think this is a huge problem. It sucked almost half of my entire battery in three hours! Note: My data comes from Juice Plotter.
It did this to me the previous night as well, so I let the phone run completely dry and in the morning, bump-charged it a couple of times and wiped battery stats. This is why I'm concerned. Things should be BETTER, right?
If you look at the curve on Juice Plotter, you can see a nice, flat and gradual decline while the phone is at home, with a considerable drop when I took a call. I stepped out at 7pm and you can see a dramatic steepening downwards until I got the phone home again and connected to wi-fi at 10pm when it leveled off again.
So is 3G data usage the culprit? I did some e-mail fetching and web browsing while I was out. I've read about possibly the Yamaha motion sensor being an issue, so I just now disabled auto-rotate. With the phone in my hand, the sensor process never consumed more than 5% CPU, but it was constant. Could that have been it? Bottom line -- is there a fix?
For background, I'm using Di11igaf's v6.0 ROM. That's a JL2 modem, JPY base. I'm not running any active widgets or task killers. I've verified that the only network processes active were GMail and Google Sync. My screen brightness is permanently set to 0% using a screen brightness widget.
Anyone have issues with high Cell Standby? My cell standby is at the top of my list with "time on 8h 12m" (pretty much my entire time off the charger) and Time without signal is 0% (so i haven't lost connection plus I've been on Wifi at home the entire time)
Ive also only have about 52 mins of screen on time with light use and I'm down to 79%. The drain seems very high considering how I've used the phone. I just don't understand why the standby is so high or whats causing it. Im stock rooted and have r17 Franco Kernel installed, it seemed to have started when I installed the latest r17 but I'm pretty sure it would be a coincidence since the cell standby was always kinda high on my list but not as bad as lately.
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Anyone have issues with high Cell Standby? My cell standby is at the top of my list with "time on 8h 12m" (pretty much my entire time off the charger) and Time without signal is 0% (so i haven't lost connection plus I've been on Wifi at home the entire time)
Ive also only have about 52 mins of screen on time with light use and I'm down to 79%. The drain seems very high considering how I've used the phone. I just don't understand why the standby is so high or whats causing it. Im stock rooted and have r17 Franco Kernel installed, it seemed to have started when I installed the latest r17 but I'm pretty sure it would be a coincidence since the cell standby was always kinda high on my list but not as bad as lately.
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If you don't use the phone and keep it away, obviously the cell standby will come first but that much battery should not be drained. I can notice max 2-3% of battery drain from 100% over-night on stock
If you don't charge your phone up all the way to 100%, the battery stats don't reset.
Otherwise I think it's sounds reasonable.
8hr stand by, a little under 1 hr screen, wifi on the whole time.
That's about 9 hours total + wifi for 21% or 676.2 mah used. I usually run with a huge stand by time, not so much SOT. I get about 35%~ a day so I charge up every three days.
If you're on WiFi and cell standby is that high then you probably have a weak voice signal connection. What colour is it on your graph? You can also check your signal level in Settings > About Phone > Status