Thread: HTC's fault or Sprint's or Android??? Battery life SUCKS.

I hope someone mentioned above puts out a fix for this. I'm tired of recharging my battery every 4 - 6 hours off of standby. I don't want to hear about any tweaks and about closing widgets cause i run almost all of them. This should have been adressed before the phone was put out into the wild and fixed. This is just insane that i need to keep a house charger and have to own 2 car chargers to keep my phone on. What good is a phone that can do everything but dies in several hours after barely using it? I'm not even in a 4g area.

Yes some of you say you get good battery life, but there is alot that don't. Like mentioned above i use my widgets. I shouldn't have to turn them off to get a half day life. I should be able to get atleast a day out of the battery.

I do not want to spend extra money on a bigger, heavier, no protective case fitting battery. I def give it to the iphone on this one...and i hate giving them any type of credit.

Please FIX this asap.

. I think it might be the battery, I have a phone from the second batch and my battery last all day long got about 15 hours out of it, where as my wife's phone drains kinda fast (first batch). Soon as my local sprint store gets more batteries in, I'm going to have them replace hers.

Yes, I'd love to see a little better battery life but to be fair the user (us) has to be moderately responsible with power management. If I use my EVO basically as a cell phone with light-to-moderate e-mail I can go most all day with usable battery life. If I have a 2-hour teleconference then I expect my battery to take a hit. Likewise, if you make heavy use of the radio with gobs of data, or use the GPS receiver (which is likely precipitating data downloads as well, read "maps") you're asking the device to work it's ass off. Function comes at a price and it really does not surprise me that the battery tanks. If I am doing those sorts of tasks I keep a power cord handy, just as I would with my Tom Tom, netbook, and camcorder. The amazing functionality packed into this tiny, integrated package sets the stage, IMHO, for some unrealistic expectations. I expect to see a high-capacity battery and alternate backshell available soon but in the mean time getting into the habit of taking a regular "hit" off of a charger when it's near is not a hard habit to form.

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To curb battery drain, use a task manager with autokill that kills tasks in the background from time to time. I use Advanced Task Manager. Also, some apps are big battery hogs. I found that Google Maps will drain my battery quickly. So I have it closed by my autokill app. Add a shortcut to the Battery Use app to your homepage. Check it from time to time and you'll see which apps are draining your battery. Avoid widgets that grab data from the net. Use the 4G toggle to activate it only when you need it. Turn on auto-brightness to optimise your brightness and battery.

I also bought two extra batteries and a wall charger for $15 bucks on eBay for my Hero last year. These phones share the same battery so I use them for my EVO too. I get through a full day when I just use phone, email, texting, and light web browsing (no 4G). If I'm watchign video podcasts or downloading big files on 4G, I can't make it through a full day and need to bring an extra battery with or charge the phone at my desk/car.

There are also non-OEM higher capacity batteries for sale that fit in the same slot and don't need a special oversized battery door.

I feel I get an appropriate amount of battery life relative to my usage. I wish it was better. In fact, while I'm wishing, let's just make the battery life infinit. If the EVO had a bigger battery, users would be complaining that the phone is too big and heavy. You can't have it all.

I think of this phone like a Ferrari. Beautiful, fast, and will do anything and everything I demand of it. If I take it easy (i.e. not have 30 apps running all the time) the battery easily gets me through the day. If I push the pedal to the metal, like a car, it runs out of gas much quicker. More power = less economy. As much as I would love to have a battery that would let me use the phone to it's full capacity and last a week between charges, I don't really want nuclear materials in my pocket. Or pressed against my head, for that matter.

I think a bag phone with a car battery is what you are looking for.

If you are having battery problems get the Seidio Innocell 3500 mAh Extended Life Battery for HTC EVO 4G (Black)...I ordered mine from Amazon.com....check out the reviews

its good to read all the coments but the problem in having with my battery is,i have a sensation and without any use and without any widgets or internet use its been running down in about 5-6 hours iv killed all the apps and still the same but when i turned the phone off and back on again it charged up alot naster and lasdted for about 3 and a half days before it needed charging again so all i can think is there is somthing starting up in the background without me knowing and running the battery down really fast has anyone else had this problem, cpo;d it be a software problem ??