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[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] greyhulk:
Before I bought the Vivid, I read every review that was out, even the customer reviews on AT&T's site. There was a common theme in all of them: Battery life is bad. Even the glowing reviews had "battery life" as a con or said they wished it was better.

Needless to say, my expectations weren't high. I have had HTC phones in the past and battery has never been their strong suit.

Imaging my surprise when I tell you that after a 10 hour work day, I go home with an average of 60% battery. I text throughout the day, have seven e-mail accounts syncing, widgets that pull data on my home screen, etc. I am definitely using the phone. I leave Wifi on all the time and I have LTE access wherever I go, so the LTE radio is always on.

Am I really that unique? Is anyone else getting good battery life with the Vivid? If the Skyrocket is supposed to have way better battery life, I can't imagine how long it would last compared to my Vivid, at least with my use.

Overall, very happy with this phone. Battery life is what always drove me away from Android and that is not an issue here.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Jaxellis:
I would say I unplug my phone around 7 and it gets to 10% around 7 so 12 hours ? I would say thats pretty good battery life I came from the inspire and it would die after 7-10 hours so I would say its a lot better! Though I cant wait for a cm9 or 7 rom since i was getting a full 24 hours + With that.... So im very excited to see!
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] strose09:
I am also getting about 10 hours with heavy texting use throughout the day. I have friends overseas and we text via Whatsapp and sometimes Skype. Otherwise it would last even longer since I the screen display wouldn't always be on. I am not complaining getting 10 hours of use though since I'm coming from an HTC Aria which was about half that.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] brucegil:
Almost as good

With the standard battery that came with the Vivid, I am getting 24-48 hours on a charge, but I don't use it as much as described above. I have WiFi on at work, but I don't do a lot of e-mailing from the phone. (I work at a desk all day, so I have e-mail on my PC.) But I do look up a lot of things. I suspect I use the phone for at least a few minutes 6-8 times during the work day and 2-3 times in the evening (with WiFi at home). I am not a heavy data plan user, partly because of WiFi access. I use Bluetooth to connect to my car's sound system during my 30-minute commutes. I usually put it into Airplane mode at night, cutting down on the battery consumption. So, I would expect to get somewhat better battery usage than someone who is on their phone much of the time.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] greyhulk:
Just out of curiosity: Why put it in airplane mode at night? Why not just plug it in to recharge?

I have a lot of days like you where I use it lightly. I have noticed that the idle drain on this phone isn't nearly as bad as past Android phones I have owned.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] megatronisabeast:
Yesterday I got 16 hours out of my phone. That is with me syncing three email accounts, running a live background, using data to read news articles, downloads from the android store, browsing the web, and making around 30 minutes of calls. It is much better than my cappy was. I made sure to charge the battery when I first got it all of the way before powering it on. I also have let it run down completely to cycle the battery.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] pside15:
When my phone was stock the battery life was OK, not terrible, but not great either. With a custom ROM the battery life has increased greatly. I unplug it around 8am and when I go to charge it at night I usually have around 40% left. That is with moderate to heavy use, at least that's what I consider my use.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] megatronisabeast:
Failed to mention I am on the stock Rom.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Jirv311:
I got around 17 hours last night and was only down to 70% left. Quite a bit of use too. It's actually better for me than my GS2 was.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] randong:
I'm always getting 20+ hrs on my vivid with med. Use with the stock Rom my battery was pretty good but with rumraider its going on about 30 hrs with 40% left ....wow and I haven't even charged it since I flashed
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] NIKKG:
I think alot of the differences in battery life have to do with how strong of a cell signal you have. The weaker the signal, the quicker the battery dies since your phone is constantly trying to stay connected. Also, if your signal is bad, than that usually means your internet data is slower too and thus it takes longer to download news, email, and web pages, thus killing your battery even further.

Although, my signal is usually at 2-3 bars, the battery seems to last much longer than I was led to believe from reading reviews. Overall, I am pretty happy with this phone.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Brau0303:
Just a suggestion, I am getting fairly good battery left, I am on a rooted stock rom with most of the bloat ware & processes frozen thru Ti Backup, I have wifi on all day but limit sync schedule (with refresh on use enabled) I have noticed that the battery stays at 100% for a while then starts to drop off. Today running about 7.5 hours and currently have 95% charge available. I also have Juice Defender free helping out with ballanced profile enabled.

Cheers

BR
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Aus_Azn:
Simple rundown:

I text fairly frequently, do a reasonable amount of web browsing (read: where I don't have access to a computer), sync 3 email accounts, check XDA and play GameBoy on the thing. Weather is on hourly autoupdate with location; news is on demand when the widget is viewed.

The only daytime charging I do is when I'm using my phone as my car's AUX input, where it is plugged on the charger (although still draining according to the battery graph).

I end the day with 52% battery life, off the charger at 7:45 AM, back on at 12:00 AM. Much better than my Captivate. Prior to root, custom ROMs and SetCPU, it would clock in at around 38%.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] penguinfishies:
What are your settings for setcpu? This is my first root and I have yet to test the app. And it is useable after root, correct? Just need to purchase from the market? Thanks!
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] dashingdon:
I also would like to know the setcpu settings which are working for you. How much overclocking we can do on Vivid ?

Thanks

-Dash
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] mohcho:
I totally agree with this. My office is in the basement of our building and I get fairly poor signal - maybe 1 bar but I still can access the LTE network. When I turn my wifi on, by the end of the work day, my battery is much less drained vs not having it on and my phone searching for signal from the mobile data network.

At home, I have a pretty good signal, but there's not LTE coverage yet, so the battery does last longer throughout the day.

Even on the bad days I would get home and keep it running until I plug it in before I go to bed, so that's an average of about 17 hours in total per day that it's running on battery and on average I'd have like 30-40% battery left.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] greyhulk:
I was using an iPhone 4s before I bought the Vivid and I used to go home with about the same amount of battery after a full work day. Granted, the 4s gets worse battery life than the 4 by far, but I still think it's impressive that an Android phone, especially an HTC does this well and it makes me wonder why all of these people in the reviews have been getting such bad battery life.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] mohcho:
It all depends on what it's relative to. When I had a BB, I'd go almost 5 days between charges, but there's no comparison between a BB and a 4.5" LCD screen.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] WonkotheSane:
This is a key point. The big screen is a huge battery sink. The battery widget in Beautiful Widgets gives a percentage battery use for components. With mine, the display's battery usage is always at least twice as big the next nearest battery sink. It is not uncommon to see that it is using 90% of the juice. I think this explains a lot of the early complaints about battery life. We all spend hours playing with a new phone and getting it set up to our liking. That means the display is lit up for hours. That means people get lousy battery life when they first get their phone.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] brucegil:
I was trying to see how long I could go on a single charge. Airplane mode shut down radios that might otherwise continue to run, trying to pull data I would not see while asleep. Also, I would occasionally run the battery all the way down before recharging. I generally plug it in at work, in my car or at home when it gets down around 10% remaining.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] BangyaHead:
i do this with any smartphone to conserve battery life..

put a good anti-glare protection film..

decrease display light to very low..
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Brau0303:
Something else to consider

I forgot to note that I do not live in an LTE enabled area, I have setup a APN for HSPA+ so that my Vivid will not even look for LTE signal ( I realize that the Vivid will auto sync down to 3/4g if no LTE is found but that does drain battery, why waste it on something that's not there) also, the reviewers likely have not even attempted to reduce battery waste on services not used and likely have every service available syncing frequently. please consider that many of the reviewers are not truely power users, have a limited time with each device, also they are unlikely to risk rooting and really tweaking the demo hardware that they have to return in good working order. (Having done product reviews/evaluations, I know a little about this)

Cheers

BR
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] BizzLeonDaCouch:
I came from an iPhone 4, battery life is almost identical. Ya, the vivid drains a little faster, but not by much. So glad I made the switch, got sick and tired of jailbreaking to do want I want with it.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] slimslim:
Very good battery life, don't need to charge during the day with moderate use, which is not bad for a 4.5" device.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] greypimps:
Wow for me constantly searching the web only last three hours or so. I don't watch movies or listen to music online or off..
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] colonel187:
I will tell you exactly why people get great battery life and many others don't. Bloat removal is key. also stick with stock. I have never ever had better battery life on custom roms, it seems better because bloat is gone but all the tweaks are worse and usually cause custom problems. My $0.02

You don't need to sync face book, notifications come weather you sync or not. Don't use built in social cr-apps, they sync constantly.

Stop using app killers they kill your battery, sales reps are idiots.

On a side note I love my skyrocket but damn my wifes vivid has a Purdy screen, and I love sense.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Aus_Azn:
I'm using 648max/192min ondemand for general use, and 384/192 on-demand for screen off.

It's free on XDA for members, you must have root.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Mac98sho:
I get about 24+ hours on the average. I have my email sync every hour, weather syncs every hour. My screen is set to auto adjust. I dont have LTE here yet. The worst I got was when steaming Direct TV Sunday ticket in metal building on 3G+. I did still manage to go home with 30%.

I will say this using the google Maps (Navigation) is the biggest drain i have come across on the phone, so i just plug it in when using it in the car.

I would say my avg phone use is low-moderate.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Vetdoctor:
Before my vivid I had an HTC Evo. Now where you're talking crummy battery life. . Happy with my visit I get 12 and 16 hours on it each day. This is with stock ROM and unrooted Vivid.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] brucegil:
However, if I'm running a lot of apps

I had GPS turned on with a couple of workout apps (Endomondo and Runkeeper) measuring my walking. Also, I had the music player going. In less than an hour, my battery dropped from about 60% to 33%. Talk about sucking up the juice. So, battery life is great - if you don't use it.:rolleyes:
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Several Zombies:
I have no problems with battery life at all. Coming from a Captivate that just barely made it a day, I appreciate the fact that with average use I can get almost TWO out of the Raider. I'm not disappointed with it at all.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] mark72501:
Battery life on the Vivid is not near as bad as most of the reviews made it out to be. With my Captivate I would take it off the charger at 7:45am and by 5pm I'd be down to 30-40%... syncing one email account (push), Facebook (1 hr), Twitter (30 min), a weather widget, etc. Emails read and replied to some, some texting but nothing crazy...it was pathetic. If I didn't charge at work during the day with the Cappy I'd be dead (or so low I was afraid to touch it) by 8pm if I didn't go home right after work to charge.

With the Vivid it's night and day. With all factors above the same (including times), by 5pm when I'm leaving work I'm still 60-70%. I don't have to charge until I am ready for bed about 10:30pm and still have 30% or so at that point.

If people say their battery is draining fast it's because they're running an app that is draining it. Don't run a power hungry app then complain that your battery is draining like crazy...kill the app or expect the battery loss. ;) I'm not saying it isn't frustrating, just that there are factors leading to it. Look at the battery stats and see what's using it...
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] jebise101:
I got my Raider over the weekend, so today was the first day i actually used it like my SGS.

With my SGS I leave around 7:30AM and by 9:00PM battery would be 20% or so which i find is not bad, for the Raider it was significan;y less with an half hour charge in-between because i did not want the phone to die on my commute home.

With any new device its important to cycle the battery (charge it up full preferably when off and let it die completely take out battery pop back in and charge while off) at least for the first week. I remember my SGS would not even last 6 hours when i first got it. So i hope that after a month or so I will get the same amount as my SGS. I just need it to last from 7AM - 11PM and i would be a happy camper.

I don't think i'm a heavy user 1-2 hours of music, texting, hour worth or TV shows including games (not very often) and basic surfing/facebook. This is what i consider normal usage, but with the Raider 1 hour of music and texting the phone was at 10% at 6:30 and had a small charge in-between.

Mines is rooted with all bloatware removed, used System Panel to kill all unnecessary services, weather syncing every hour, email every 15 minutes on peak time otherwise 4 hours, htc sense set to sync every day.

Its not the greatest battery life, I wish it lasted for at least 16 hours.

PS to the rooted, have you tried wiping battery state from CWM?
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] jebise101:
after a full cycle what a difference
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Apatche69:
Do you have an extended battery? I'm only able to get 15 hours with light to moderate use. running debloated ciq free stock rom
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Pirateghost:
Nope. Just my Rom

Sent from my HTC PH39100
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] kxhawkins:
Stock battery, RR11, kx kernel.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Pirateghost:
hells yeah....
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] kxhawkins:
Yea I get phenomenal battery life with my vivid. Better than my inspire with cm7.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Pirateghost:
were you able to fix the broken camera with the kernel? last i checked on it, that was still the glaring item. i NEED my camera...but i would LOVE a new kernel in this beast.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] jebise101:
how are you guys getting 11 hours and still at ~60%, do you guys not use the phone for 11 hours?
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Pirateghost:
text messaging, a few phone calls, touchdown email all day, little bit of tapatalk. i would call that light to moderate usage....
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] jebise101:
ahh that is very light usage.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] twizz619:
I love the vivids battery life i do have it rooted though with RumRaider which has sped up my whole phone and extended my battery quite a bit. The vivid while overclocked with heavy use i get about a day and a half of use underclocked it goes easily 2 days with heavy texting and games and all the other stuff i do. I'm constantly on wifi also have GPS on plus im getting 47 mbps on the lte. GREAT phone
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] mark72501:
Any idea why my "battery use" detail would say that Bluetooth has used 1% battery when bt wasn't even on? And not just today... The last few days I've been checking it always shows it. But it isn't even turned on nor have I used it at all on the phone yet...
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] mark72501:
I have tested this some more and it is still occurring. Do the rest of you see this, too? I just find it strange...I haven't used bluetooth at all during these test periods and it still shows a 1% use.

I know that's not killing the battery or anything, just mysterious that it would show up. Is the phone checking the BT settings routinely for some reason?
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Devin.Morris.007:
It really all depends on my usage. I work 4 10s on 3rd shift, so if my vivid is fully charged, I can work all night and the my phone still has a great charge, usually at least 60 percent, and thats with me using it practically non stop on my breaks and my hour lunch. Now, on my days off, when I tend to actually use it more, the battery life kind of drops off a little bit, but it still will last me all day with usually a good bit of battery to spare, usually 30 percent. For anyone concerned with battery life, just turn off any unneeded services, such as bluetooth, wifi (if you arent using it) and your GPS location tool. Also, use a good task manager program to monitor your phones performance. I use SystemPanelLite, which is probably the best one on the market other than SystemPanel Pro. But to make an already long story short, like I said, it all depends on the usage.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] one7dchevy:
What kind of screen on time are y'all getting??
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] jtitan0:
I've had my vivid for just over a month and been using Rumraider for about 2 weeks. I use my phone to talk approx. 2-3 hrs collectively during ny work day, touchdown email a couple times an hour, handful of text messages an hour, and the occasional camera and GPS use. I CANNOT get through a 8 hour day without my vivid dying. I love the phone (converted from iOS though so not too sure how it is compared to other phones) but battery is definetly ****ty.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] mark72501:
This is not typical. I am stock OS - I unplugged at 7:45am and have used the phone for Facebook, Twitter, Gmail on push (and sending some), texting (like your usage) and right now (7:00pm) I am at 55% remaining...and I've heard Rumraider is even better battery life.

Not trying to sound accusatory here but it sounds like you maybe have something else running that's hogging battery life or have the screen brightness all the way up (unnecessary when inside) or GPS and wifi and bluetooth, etc., all on all of the time or something. I'd be checking the battery stats toward the end of the day to see what's eating it up. Sounds like you're getting a lot less life than you should be.

Just my .02...
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] jtitan0:
I'm thinking the same thing but not sure what it is. I only turn on GPS when I am trying to use maps, I turn WiFi off if there isn't any I know around and only use WiFi when it is available (i go so far as turning 4g off and I live in Hawaii where there is no LTE). I use auto brightness otherwise I tend to forget to adjust, I have no Bluetooth so its always off, and I habitually use the stock task manager to x out any apps I'm not using (not too sure about the real validity of this feature). Any thing else you can think of that might be an issue?

Btw...I returned my first vivid a week after getting it and after replacing the original battery. This second phone is significantly better but not even close to as good as my iPhone was.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] CasualStarlord:
okay after a few days, I am getting AWESOME battery life.

I leave BT and wifi and gps on all day, I dont use sense home though I use ADW and I use ATK to keep memmory clean, I live in a non-LTE area, and sync 2 gmail accounts and 1 exchange acount all in push
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] jul644:
auto brightness is what is killing you, htc auto brightness is to bright for the screen
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] pauley:
No I actually get pretty good battery life on my Vivid also. I took this screenshot yesterday to brag to a friend who has Sprint's Evo. I have enabled auto-brightness, wifi, gps, auto-sync, & always-on data. 2 Gmail accounts, Facebook, Tweetcaster, Google Talk, Google Voice, HTC Hub, Ebay, Weather Bug, & HTC Weather all are background syncing.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] Apatche69:
What rom are you running?
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] formicae:
I don't really understand the significance of that screenshot. It doesn't tell us anything about your battery life. For instance, here's mine.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] pauley:
I'm running the stock AT&T rom.

Point = 44 hours running on single charge w/details mentioned.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] formicae:
I get that. That screen counts the uptime as 'since last reboot' though, unless I'm very mistaken.

If you tap on 'Battery use' it'll tell you how long it's been off the charger at the top of the screen.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] willgill:
From all the phones and ROMs I have used, the two overwhelming battery killers are display and talking on it.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] jul644:
same but im getting 15 hours at 30% left with over 300 texts a day viewing emails and tweets plus light browsing .

im making a guide to edit your auto brightness settings to set them a bit lower and it helps alot (i have noticed )

here is guide

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=22336726#post22336726
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] kozmikkick:
Do see anyone pointing it put but that doesn't mean 44 hours since last charge. It means 44 hours since last reboot. Mine says 169 hours which would mean I had insane battery which isn't true.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] pauley:
It was 44 hours since I both took it off charger & rebooted it.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] mark72501:
I don't think anyone is necessarily "calling you out" here or anything, so don't misunderstand me or them, but I think what he was trying to say is if you press "what's using the battery" or whatever it says it'll then show the time off the charger. In your case it's probably the same but the screenshot you posted could* be with intermittent periods of charging. Posting this screenshot, instead, would be a more accurate portrayal of battery life (and what is using it up...).

*Such as the post where he says his shows 169 hours...
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] jul644:
this is what people should be posting to show battery life!

*note that calling kills the battery as our raiders are only ratted for 5 hours

this is with wi-fi Bluetooth and gps enabled all day, and i live in a building with basically zero reception
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] willgill:
I'm looking forward to using your post, but I don't plan on it making a huge difference.

Using a phone as a phone just kills it. I manually turned the brightness down to where I could barely see it. I decreased all updates to rarely ever. I still couldn't go all day on a charge. I simply use my phone for work and talk a lot.

However, I enjoy reading the guides to get the best battery life possible.

From now on, when I read new phone specs, I skip right to the battery size. If it is under 2200mah =fail.
[HTC Vivid, Raider, Velocity] colonel187:
My wife's vivid is getting great battery life, all stock just rooted and only att garbage deleted