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[HTC ChaCha] qbert456:
Mine says nothing about dialer app, have just made a call so will check later.

battery is poor tho, won't last a day if I actaually use if for any thing other than text or email.
[HTC ChaCha] da-vid:
Hm, okay, thanks.

Yeah, the battery life seems to be quite bad for me as well even when the Dialer issue isn't happening. Oh well.
[HTC ChaCha] qbert456:
So since my last post I made a 3 sec call that was it.

Stats show, 10h since charge,

Dialer has used 96% !!! Of battery, that's why the standby is so bad, I'm going to email HTC.

Can the dialer app be changed?

Or is that a root luxury, cyanogen 6 had a decent dialer on my legend....
[HTC ChaCha] aca_coa:
On my phone, 49% is dialer app, and for me, it's too much, since I do not use phone for too many calls.
[HTC ChaCha] filipindiesurfer:
exactly the same here ... after 2 mins of phone call - battery stats said that it takes more than 60% of battery use... And the weirdest thing is, that I used internet browser, tweetdeck and greader before for more than 2 hours...
[HTC ChaCha] da-vid:
I suggest everyone write in to HTC support so they might get a fix out soon. I've already contacted them.
[HTC ChaCha] da-vid:
Another question: how much battery drains overnight while your phone is just on standby? Mine loses about 40% in about 9 hours overnight.
[HTC ChaCha] ThiloH:
Mine runs like forever, when i just use it for email, sms and a few calls.

I charged mine on Thursday and last evening the battery bar went to orange.
[HTC ChaCha] aca_coa:
In 7 hours of standby, battery dropped for about 3%.
[HTC ChaCha] filipindiesurfer:
Mine drains about 15-20% during the night (00:00 - 7:00)
[HTC ChaCha] aca_coa:
Is your mobile network turned on while you are in standby?

Go to settings - Wireless & Networks - Mobile network.

It's not checked here. I check it only when I want to use mobile operator data package.
[HTC ChaCha] da-vid:
Yeah, but why should I have to uncheck that?! I even have push email disabled during non-peak hours.

My iPhone loses like 5% overnight with push and full 3G data still enabled. I'm not expecting iPhone performance, but 40%? What could possibly be happening on the phone that it uses that much battery overnight? I checked my battery use page and my phone is in fact going to sleep when I lock it.

Ah well. I'll try to see if I can isolate this issue to a certain app or something when I have time.
[HTC ChaCha] aca_coa:
Well, I turned on mobile network, and I lost about 2% within 10 minutes in standby mode, but I will test this a little better tomorrow.
[HTC ChaCha] parno67:
My HTC ChaCha has the dialler issue.

I charge my phone overnight and would expect it to last all day, even with heavy usage. By 1pm (i leave for work at 7.30am) battery life is becoming a serious issue. I then have to charge the phone in order for it to last till i get home at 6pm.

The dialer is always using 95/96% of my battery.

I only make or receive 1 or 2 very short calls during the day.

This isnt such a problem in work as I can charge the phone, but im going away next week and wont be able to charge it every couple of hours.

I was going to buy another battery as i thought this would be a solution but its obviously not the battery, its something to do with the software.
[HTC ChaCha] aca_coa:
What is android version on your chacha? And software version? Mine is now on 62% of battery from yesterday 6am. I have turned on 2 alarms, had abou 10minutes of calls and sent around 20 messages. Sometimes I turn on mobile network or wifi to check if there is anything new on xda or to check weather.
[HTC ChaCha] parno67:
2.3.3 and 1.18.401.1

I dont think i should have to turn off data though, the phone should surely be able to last all day with data?

Maybe I'll have to try it. But my problem is definitely the dialer.
[HTC ChaCha] qbert456:
I contacted HTC online support and they logged it as a bug (the dialer app hogging battery that is).

I suggest others do the same so they know its a common issue.

And the advice to turn off mobile data is frankly ridiculous on a smart phone. It's like saying buy a fast car but to save money on fuel don't drive it!!
[HTC ChaCha] aca_coa:
Well, yes, it is stupid bug. And for the first time I see that my dialer is on 97%. Battery is on 60%. And as I said before, I turn off data because I think it's one of the main sources of draining battery... Like it stuck ON when you put cell phone on standby.

And I totally agree with qbert456 about turning off data. I have unlimited data with my mobile operator, and only reason I turn it off is because of battery.
[HTC ChaCha] da-vid:
HTC just told me that they found no issue. Ugh.
[HTC ChaCha] qbert456:
That's helpful of them!
[HTC ChaCha] EpicEric:
Mines 1.23.502.1
[HTC ChaCha] alvinwk:
Hi all, im getting chacha soon, just want to know on average how is the battery life. Will it last for a day with the data on? or without the data on? Pls advise thks!
[HTC ChaCha] ThiloH:
@alvinwk

Mine performs about 2 days on normal use with data on.
[HTC ChaCha] qbert456:
So HTC thinks that's normal? I haven't even rung anyone, just looked at the contacts!

Can you get 2 days if you actually speak to anyone tho?

One day max for me.
[HTC ChaCha] ThiloH:
When i tested that, i had 2 calls both around 20 minutes. when i remember right, the battery lasted 54 hours, before the alert come, to plug the cabel in.

In the battery-screen it also showed me around 98% on the dialer-item

right now, after 26 hours, i have around 70% battery left.
[HTC ChaCha] aca_coa:
First time I see too low dialer use:
[HTC ChaCha] EpicEric:
Turning off facebook chat plus the gmail app update has drastically increased my battery life. After a full day of use I'm at 66%. I use to not be able to get through a day.

Privacy Settings > Apps and Websites (Settings) > Click on HTC Chacha > Remove Access Facebook Chat.

http://technorati.com/technology/android/article/new-gmail-app-235-for-android/
[HTC ChaCha] EpicEric:
Oh yeah, sorry. Meant on the facebook website itself.
[HTC ChaCha] myxcon:
I can't get through a day either, but i do keep wifi on 24/7.
[HTC ChaCha] Ipcress687:
May have cracked it

Like many i have suffered with battery life in even light use of less than 8 hours, with no other fix working, i decided to take the battery out to do a 'soft reset'. a good 10 minutes should do it, and it certainly seemed to work. I had dialer taking up to 97% (as low as 72%) of the battery, after the reset it was not even appearing on the battery usage, a 7 hour run under light usage only cost be about 10% battery. I was a happy user.

This morning, we have gone back to dialer at 97% and used 5% of battery per hour, still better but not what it should be. I have talked this through with HTC UK live support and they do not recognise this as a 'known' issue, which i am hoping is down to normal bad UK customer service, and that a better fix may be found.

Interested to hear from other users to see if the soft reset offers even temporary improvement.
[HTC ChaCha] kohkindachi:
I've the same 97% issue too. Shhuuxxxxxxxx :(
[HTC ChaCha] shenlong85:
Guys, gingerbread issue!!! Help to vote:

code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=17383

Happens for Gingerbread 2.3.3. It's an issue that will happen to future versions as well. Workaround is to restart phone after receiving a phone call!!!
[HTC ChaCha] qbert456:
Hang on didn't HTC say it "wasnt a known issue"?????!
[HTC ChaCha] pitu_xque:
Hi, I'm from Barcelona and even with some difficulty I have read all your comments using the translation of google chrome hehe.

Less than a week I have the htc chacha (htc chachacha in Spain XD) the battery lasts me almost a day of moderate use of phone and the wifi on most of the day. I've been looking and I also I get the 97%
[HTC ChaCha] Growlie:
I've got one of these (just got it last week).

My battery, which was on charge overnight and has been used ONLY to send (admittedly about 50) texts has lasted 12 hours and 16 minutes before totally conking out.

My killers are dialer (49%) and android system (49%). Rubbish!
[HTC ChaCha] Growlie:
PS thanks for the Facebook chat tip, I HATE FB chat, nobody good ever wants to talk to me on there.
[HTC ChaCha] parno67:
The facebook chat is the killer of the battery I reckon.

Whilst on holiday I turned off mobile internet all day, just switching it on when I needed it, and the battery lasted most of the day.

But since I got back home and back to work, knowing that I can charge my phone through the day, I have been experimenting.

My conclusion is its facebook chat. If you turn it off on facebook.com your battery should last virtually all day.

Now all I need to sort out is the 512mb which is totally and utterly doing my head in.
[HTC ChaCha] EpicEric:
Everytime you logged into facebook on your phone it automatically logs you into chat.

You can go into chat, hit the menu key and go "offline"...but you'll have to do this everytime you check facebook.

It's a hassle but it does increase the battery.
[HTC ChaCha] aegisfreedom:
My wife's phone also has the same dialer issue..
[HTC ChaCha] ThiloH:
From which area is your ROM?

When i had the Superdroid-ROM installed, i had the dialer-issue. On the europe-RUU, i don't.
[HTC ChaCha] -ChaCha-:
Grrrrr, i checked my battery life, dialer is using 99%!!!! :eek:

It's like I'm using a laptop but not Smart Phone, charging every few hours!
[HTC ChaCha] raikesy:
Are you sure? I've found that it only logs you back into the chat element of Facebook if you open chat again on the Facebook app. Just using the Facebook app doesn't log you back into chat.
[HTC ChaCha] EpicEric:
You could be right.

There have been several times that I received a chat message on my phone when I thought I was logged out. I'm probably just doing it out of paranoia now.
[HTC ChaCha] bawbagg:
I had the battery problem, and was having to charge 3x times a day.

I read this thread, switched off chat on the Facebook website, and at the same time I also did a factory reset. I'm not sure if it is one or the other, but the combination of both of these things has made a MASSIVE difference to my battery life.

My phone came off charge 3.5 hours ago, and is still showing 100% (had 3 or 4 short phone calls, and it is on push mail and wifi). Yesterday it dropped by only 2 or 3% during the course of the day. Of course, it does drop more under use, but I currently estimate under light use that I could easily get 2 or 3 days.

YMMV ;)

BB
[HTC ChaCha] Alex C.:
Mine says Dialer is somewhere around 86%, but with this in mind I have lost around 5% overnight in stand-by, wifi always on. Battery lasted somewhere around 24 hours.

By reading through the thread I notice that most users with this problem have the 1.18.401.1 software number. Could it be that other versions are more stable?
[HTC ChaCha] bawbagg:
I'm on 1.22.61.1, and I definitely had the problem before I took the above actions.

Incidentally, my phone has now been on battery for over 11hrs and still shows 80% :). Happy days.
[HTC ChaCha] pitu_xque:
I sync after disabling all unnecessary and adjust the battery lasts me a day and a half with heavy use, wifi, whatsapp, facebook, any game, etc..

P.D: Google translator :$
[HTC ChaCha] ed-1980:
I have 1.18.401.1 and the current never goes below 37ma even in flight mode. My desire hd would idle around 4ma so this thing has something wrong. Ive tried all the tips here and none have improved it any :(
[HTC ChaCha] didge3:
My sister has a ChaCha and doesn't do anything to preserve battery at all, she leaves wifi on all day etc. She just about makes it through a day and I was confused as to why with such a small screen and a fairly low power processor. She has the Facebook chat app blocked from day 1 since she hated friends talking to her throughout the day when she was trying to work so take this into account first. Another thing to take into account is she plays a real-time based game which sends push notifications when certain things happen in the game. This obviously sucks up a lot of battery and she normally has to charge it when she gets home otherwise it will go flat before the end of the day. Other usage includes fairly regular texting and around 30 mins to an hour a day of calls.

I was so confused as to why it was draining so much power though, it has a larger battery than my phone and has lower specs and a much smaller screen and mine lasts about the same a mount of time with similar usage.

I definately think this is some sort of bug because it should definately last longer.

Oh and just one more thing, as far as I know when it says percentages of the dialer for instance, that's not how much battery it has used, its displaying how much the dialer has used out of the battery drain overall. E.g. if your battery has drained 40% from when you unplugged it at 100%. The dialer might display it has used 70%, this means it has contributed 70% of the battery drain so far, not that it has used 70% of the battery. Sorry if that was confusing or you already knew that. Just thought I would try and clear that up for people that might not know.
[HTC ChaCha] qbert456:
I've had a response from HTC re the dialer issue.

They want me to send them my phone to investigate and also want to know what I am doing that makes this happen on my phone!

Cos its just me, right?!
[HTC ChaCha] Alex C.:
How did HTC actually contacted you to ask you for your phone? If you do manage to send it, can you please tell them that there are more people out there with this problem?

@bawbagg, how do you turn off facebook chat from the facebook page? (I actually hate facebook; got this phone for the qwerty keyboard awesomeness :D).

I have also performed a factory reset and it seems now that the dialer droped to somewhere around 20%.
[HTC ChaCha] bawbagg:
In Facebook, click on your Account dropdown menu in the top right, and from there select Account Settings.

Then on the left menu on that page, select Applications, then Edit the settings for the HTC ChaCha application. In that page you can see all the authorisations that the ChaCha has, scan down the list for Facebook chat, and then you can Remove it. Facebook chat no longer appears in my list, so I can't remember exactly what the icon/text says on the Facebook page.

Incidentally, I'm not a big fan of FB either - I got the ChaCha for the keyboard too :).

BB
[HTC ChaCha] Alex C.:
Ah ok, got it. The problem (why I wasn't finding HTC ChaCha app in FB) is that after I performed the factory data reset I declined access to facebook from the initial setup. Therefore FB apps are now closed constantly.
[HTC ChaCha] qbert456:
I replied to the email (which was a no-reply address) with the subject as per their instructions and got a reply saying what am I talking about!

How useful, I've no way of actually contacting the operative who wanted my phone!
[HTC ChaCha] Log0:
Hi,

I bought the phone today and charged it for about 2 hours. Later when I was transferring data from my old phone to the new phone, I could see the battery getting consumed so quickly.

Later, I realised the call end button wasnt working. Thankfully it's under warranty so I should get it replaced.

I saw the Battery usage option and it showed me the dialler consumed almost 90% of the battery. I used the phone to make 3 calls that lasted for less than 2 mins!!
[HTC ChaCha] Alex C.:
I can confirm the above 3 days battery life now but:

- During these 3 days I have used Wi-Fi for about 45 minutes (max)

- no sms sent/received

- received a couple of emails

- Data connection off (always, focusing on Wi-Fi only as this eats less battery)

- Had some calls, about 10-15 calls.. less than 1h of talk-time in total

- No games played

Took the phone out from charge on Friday at 17:00. Today, Monday, at 11:00 I have 28% battery.

Using Wi-Fi (which I have at work and home also) allows me to keep track of my emails when I need. Also I use GO Launcher EX that has it's own task killer which I use once every 2-3 hours. I also have Advanced Task Killer Pro, set to Low security, Crazy and auto-kill when screen-off. I've set a very small ignore list (basically I am even closing HTC Sense and other stock features as I am using a different launcher). Almost all widgets are off.

Also, using Titanium Backup I have deleted facebook (everything), blocked twitter (it does not launch anymore), blocked HTC Likes, removed stocks and that's all I remember for now..

Observed:

- during the night, the phone lost around 2-3% battery

- launched They Need to be Fed once, played for about 5-10 minutes during which I have lost 10% battery which is quite lame.
[HTC ChaCha] d14b0ll0s:
I have just bought ChaCha and I have the same issue with 95%+ used by "Dialer" after making a call.
[HTC ChaCha] Alex C.:
That's because Dialer consumed 95% of the battery you lost. Which I presume was somewhere around 2-3%.
[HTC ChaCha] knowsnophones:
Does this phone still experience this?

Has HTC done anything to fix it?

Will Juice Defender provide some relief?
[HTC ChaCha] rihui:
the ChaCha my friend has also experiences the same high 'Dialer' batt use issue.

i have already complained to HTC. let's see how long it takes for them to fix this.
[HTC ChaCha] papamopps:
Updated the phone to Android 2.3.5

and same problem here.... 97%
[HTC ChaCha] qbert456:
You mention juice defender, for what its worth, green power is much better and has a far cleaner ui.
[HTC ChaCha] jackhayden:
Hey guys Im new here and new to ChaCha as well. I have sent the phone back once due to battery issue. I would like to know how is it considered as heavy usage? I just got my phone back now, after fully charged, I used wifi actively for WhatApp and to download apps. Batt dropped to 40% from full after roughly 3.5 hours. Is that bad? Personally im not satisfied but im new to smartphone so i dont know. Please guide me! Thank you. :)
[HTC ChaCha] princeton1:
My battery last's for a day and half. 30minutes wifi and the rest is call and sms.
[HTC ChaCha] jackhayden:
only 30 minutes on wifi? That is very poor indeed. So i guess its normal for my batt to drop half after 3 hours of wifi?
[HTC ChaCha] manimans:
I am facing Same dialer problem, it's consuming 90% of the battery, and I Am running out of battery very quickly. I Am on 2.3.5. Will changing launcher solve this issue? Anyone found any solution to it?

TIA.
[HTC ChaCha] manimans:
I am facing Same issue!
[HTC ChaCha] Flexmaen:
Are you sure it isn't a

bug of the power statistics

?

When I enter the Battery information it also says that the dialer uses 96%.

When I use

Android Assistant

and view the Battery usage there it says that "Phone" used 2,52% and Skype used 9,64% which seems to be true since battery dropped much mure when Skype was switched on.

Still the battery life is poor, I had WiFi and Skype switched on and lost about 50% in 3 hours while my Nokia E71 only seems to lose between 10-20% in the same time.
[HTC ChaCha] slangza:
On heavy usage I usually got 9 - 11hours of usage on a full battery with mobile data being on, chatting whole day via whatsapp. I underclocked the CPU to 480mhz and I now get a little more than 2 days from my battery. Yes the phone is alot more laggy now but at least the battery lasts longer! Im using the CM7 rom
[HTC ChaCha] skezza:
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this but going into account and sync and disabling auto sync helps massively
[HTC ChaCha] qbert456:
Or using an app like green power to reduce online syncing

sent usin' tapatalk innit.
[HTC ChaCha] manimans:
Switch to any other launcher. In my case i switched to go launcher and battery life improved ten fold. Seem s like sense was the non sense.
[HTC ChaCha] Flexmaen:
I do not really trust the battery statistics.

One night I started the audio recorder. After about 3-4 hours the battery was empty. The Nokia E71 would have lasted twice as long with audio recording...

However it was clear that the audio recorder drained the battery. The stadard battery-info just showed that Android System and Phone used up the battery, the battery info of Android Assistant just showed lots of Apps with less than 2% usage but no audio recorder. That means: if you counted al listed apps together you might reach ~20% but get no idea what really drained your battery.

So I think: Just don't trust your battery-statistics. The phone works about 1 1/2 days for me with normal usage, less an a day if I do GPS-Track recording and maybe only 2 hours if I do gaming with it. But I didn't note any difference regarding the battery usage of the phone module, I still think it's more a problem that the real reason is not resolved and just counts as "phone".
[HTC ChaCha] jackhayden:
Hello everyone, I have been using my phone for 2 weeks now. I had a problematic battery, but I insisted my dealer to change it for a new one for me, twice, until im satisfied. Now my phone can last a day with moderate usage, more than enough for me. I can even play games frequently.
[HTC ChaCha] musash1:
Ok, i've been doing some research on this, and while the battery stats are showing 99% of dialer consumption, but i have this stats on other program that shows me the right amount of battery drainage by background or foreground apps!

Ok, -Android System 10%

But -Htc Check in Service 10% also

And -Setting Storage 10% WTF

FFS -Google backup Transport 10% OMGWTF!

OMFG -BrcmBluetoothServices 9% (I DIDNT EVEN TURNED ON BLUETOOTH FOR 10 DAYS At least)

AND down below things i dont/havent used at all: -Flickr -Sim tollkit, etc , I DONT EVEN HAVE FLICKR! (u cant see that its below...and many more android/google nonsense apps and programs wasting our batteries that i dont even use!
[HTC ChaCha] jporch316:
thats not HTC chacha screen shot????? I dont even get any of those items on my handset????
[HTC ChaCha] casanovadevil:
try this

just select network selection to manual

gsm / wcdma /auto to gsm

and always on data to off

.. just change setting to wcdma and data to on when you want internet

data doesnt work but battery life is great
[HTC ChaCha] Nicraz:
I've been using the Status/ChaCha for just a few days but I bought it used and noticed that the battery didn't last long. I bought a replacement non-OEM battery on eBay and it lasts a little bit longer than the original HTC one. The difference isn't too much but I also bought a dock charging station for the battery, that way I'm always charging the extra one.
[HTC ChaCha] :
finally solution!!!

after some time searching on net for solution with dialer and battery problem i found some sorf of solution here:

code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=17383

comment No 204

program name is "Proximity Screen Off" (by Shailesh Soliwal)

dialer gets stuck waiting for response from proximity sensor - bug.

hope this helps!!!!
[HTC ChaCha] Einander:
I am facing Same issue!
[HTC ChaCha] Timark:
Hi, have you found this to be true consistently since the change in launcher? I have three Chachas in my house and the they all report high dialer usage and have quite low battery life.