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[Sprint HTC One (M7)] Felnarion:
Yes this is the case. Check anandtechs review.

Brian speculates just as you do that it is for longevity.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] lse4:
So how is the battery life for everyone? Hopefully it's good since it takes time to charge
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] riceatusc:
First day I got 15 hours. That was the usual installing apps and watching YouTube videos and showing my phone off to everyone at work. Will probably be awesome once I don't have such heavy usage.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] Nbonne:
If I'm not mistaken, the phone has a smart battery or a circuit inside the battery that prevents it from drawing too much current. It is pretty much a standard among smartphones these days. Therefore, even though you use the 2 amp charger, you may not charge faster at all.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] hcyplr29:
I have a 2.1amp charger and it took about 4hours to fully charge from 15%.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] LPChris:
Horribly slow charge times on mine as well. I think the GS3s super fast charge ability spoiled me.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] khaoskosmos:
My Galaxy S3 definitely charges faster with a 2AMP charger than 500 mA charger.

Do not charge from a computers USB port, they are going to be slow as **** without fast charge.

Just use a 1+ amp charger. Pretty simple people.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] youkosnake:
Don't put excessive work load on the device while charging in the car either
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] Nbonne:
The way people are talking, it seems that simply having GPS and navi going are too much.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] youkosnake:
I've found thats too much for most phones. It all depends on the charger(most car adapters are crappy), I'd assume. I've had the same with Evo, Optimus, GS2, and GS3. If anything is running alongside gps/navi, it destroys the battery
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] adrianr514:
Did you turn yours off? Because I turn mine off when I go to charge it to 100 and I work at a sprint store so I have many toys to play with in meantime

Sent from my HTCONE
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] eXplicit815:
Mine lasted 26 hours according to my battery chart.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] hcyplr29:
No. I need it on for my alarm in the morning but I did put it in power save mode. It seems to take much longer than my S3. Different type of battery I guess??
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] rtoodeetwo:
I just did 6 hours and a half from 100% to 10% with heavy usage, like google music streaming over the network, about 1 hour of car navigation, 1 12 min youtube video and lots of playing around with the phone(facebook, tweeter, browser). I'm pretty sure I can squeeze about 10 with regular usage and If can save my song on my thumbs up playlist on the phone.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] youkosnake:
Dear lord do not set this thing to max volume as an alarm. I woke up before my alarm went off this morning. I was in the shower. It was so loud and obnoxious while i was IN THE SHOWER that i had to hop out and cut it off
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] Fadakar:
The same thing happened to me today! 6 AM and I'm ****ting myself in the shower cause I thought something seriously wrong was going on in my room.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] felacio:
Well..... at least you where prepared for that situation by being in the shower.

So, there's that...
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] HotInEER:
My battery life has been good. Every bit as good as my S3. Charging has been fine but I've read others and a review that said getting to 90% was around 3 hrs and the last 10% takes another hr or so.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] KiamatDusk:
Yeah, I noticed the slow charging, too, so I just use a spare iPad charger and it goes a lot faster.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] chkr:
bl

my battery life is sad. one day and gone. :( tried tweaks and guvernor changes, but won't budge.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] youkosnake:
Is this your first android? A whole day is decent. :D
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] TheNexxuvas:
Sprint Product Ambassador here, supporting the launch of the HTC One for Sprint, I finally got to give my phone a full day of use since I picked it up Thursday.

SO for me, on Friday I worked my evening shift after being up early to get kids ready for school, so roughly around 16 hours of usage. During that 16 hours, I was still finishing configuring a few extra home screens, I also have 3 emails, 1 exchange, 2 gmails receiving all day (around 200 emails a day), twitter feed running all day on TweetCaster, Two 45 minute commutes listening to podcasts/music. Several, I'd say around 35 or more demonstrations of BoomSound, connecting 4G for You Tube + using mVideoPlayer on the phone with self made mp4's.

I'd say I powered the screen up around 100 times to show someone something, maybe around 2 hours tops of downtime, where phone was just on standby, screen off sitting on my repair bench. Lunch consisted of 45 mins worth of Turbo Dos gameplay (Space Quest 3 for those wondering), and around 3 rounds of Solitaire. So I did get some gameplay on that screen too.

This left me with 51% battery at 11:30pm, after being turned on at a little before 7:30am when I drove the kids to school. Granted I don't always work an evening shift, but I am up as early as 6 in the morning and usually turn on phones around 7 ish to get my emails started and cleared from the night before.

I was on the Launch Team for The Note 2, and continued to use it as a daily driver, and my typical day left me with 61% to 65%, doing around the same stuff, maybe a few less demos of course. So there's that for comparison.

Looking forward to seeing what my 3rd nights charge brings.

Enjoy!
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] n3x1s:
Battery life on mine is not very good. But I could just be used to having custom ROMs and kernels. I went to bed last night with a full charge. The phone sat idle, screen off, in the same room as the Airave with full signal, wifi on and connected for 8 hours and the battery dropped to 50%. Not good for never turning the thing on....

I'll get a better idea next week when I get back into my work routine. So far, not impressed though. (But I've never been impressed with battery life from any stock HTC Android phone. Thats why we root! :D )
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] D3luSi0n4L:
That sounds wrong... very wrong. The past month I've been reading just about ever review possible and the same has been reported by a majority in not all. The HTC One overnight would drop just roughly 1-3% overnight with no use. You must have an app using data, processing, something to keep the juice flowing. I'd plug it in to 100% and unplug right before you goto bed. Wake up and its more than say 10% check in the Battery stats what used all that power.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] champ052005:
I'm pretty sure it's an app. Mine only went down about 3% over night.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] chkr:
x

yes. 1st xD
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] LG710S34LYFE:
I have seen some good battery life out of mine. I used it full for the first time yesterday from around 8 am to about 7 pm and had about %15 left. I was doing heavy usage though. About 2 hours of Pandora, 5 hours of photo taking and videos including a 27 minute 1080p video, about 20 or so facebook checks, a few texts and calls, and various things here and there. So i would say thats really good for very heavy use. I get almost as good out of my GS3 but what helps me out a lot on both phones is the DS Battery Saver app. It simply turns off your Wi-Fi, GPS, and 3G/4G connection while you screen is off and will turn the 3G/4G connection back on for a specific time and then back off. It works really really well and saves me a ton of battery. It has various settings and tweaks to your liking and the free version is plenty enough for me. Check it out

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rootuninstaller.batrsaver&hl=en
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] robfactory:
HTC

HTC has had that problem since the OG EVO.

I remember having my Navigation and screen on and the battery slowly diminishing. Even as I had it charging through the USB.

That is unfortunate and is something I wanted to cover in my review when I get the unit. With the GS2 & GS3 I never had problems.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] grrmisfit:
I'm really surprised they used a lipoly battery or as they are also called "lipo". This would explain the slow charge time but it should have great endurance. The problem with lipos and why I'm surprised is they are very volatile..one bad charge or over drain and its toast...they don't take to bumps very well either... These baterries literally will burst into flames and burn right thru most material. So don't try to charge them to fast else you might get a bad surprise. YouTube some videos on Lipo fires. Also I'm betting its maybe a 10c rating Lipo which puts max charge at 1amp anyways which is about 90 mins to 2 hrs to charge 2300mah
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] adrianr514:
Lithium polymer is the same thing in the options G

Sent from my HTCONE
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] Htc1er:
Well the charge time does blow. Seemed like the last 10% took soooooooooooo long. I've been working mine like a slave. On it all day. I've had it synchronize everything, emails, fb, instagram, Dropbox. It's always alerting me to something. I can't complain about the batt life. For how much work I make this awesome device do... It's got an above average time line for the batt life, in my opinion. I came from OG evo with an extended battery. That thing worked like a beast, and lasted most of the day. This device has surpassed all the tests I've thrown at it. Once we get root and drop "senceless" should squeeze another hour or more. Still happy.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] grrmisfit:
Its also the same battery that's used in the new Boeing airliners that were grounded..go figure lol
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] dredd731:
I have been pretty happy with my battery life and charge time. Coming from GS3 (for the last month or so I've used an evo 4g lte) and iPhone 5.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] champ052005:
My battery life is pretty good. I've noticed posts saying it takes 4 hours to charge the phone....mine only takes a hour and a half from 15% to 100%.

Curious why the big difference
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] fernando sor:
Yeah I'm one of the lucky ones also. Mine charges fast
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] liggid:
Not Quite Sure

When i got it on friday it had about 50% out of the box. I drained it in about 7 hours i think. (Heavy usage)

Charged it up over night, the next day used it heavy (about 7 hours again)

I charged it last night woke up this morning (its at 95% when i took it off the charger) i thought thats odd but whatever.

Listened to some music on my phone (not streaming, actual music i put on the phone) Noticed by the time i got to work I was at 90%

I don't know if this is good battery life in the HTC community but im a little worried about this. (i have not had a htc phone since the first evo by the way)

My gs3 did just fine with the battery but i know there are different factors here. I dont want to go back to having to worry about always having a charger with me im going to give it a couple more days and full charges etc but this could potentially be a deal breaker for me. I actually love the design of this phone it is a beast, i hope this issue im having is momentary.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] enik_fox:
Mine did that and it was the GPS gobbling up battery
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] jjd2022:
My battery life is very good. I can use it a full day on one charge while playing games here and there listening to pandora and just doing every day stuff. Though the charging takes forever.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] fifedogg:
I highely doubt its that sensitive or they wouldn't be using it so much now a days. Either way I hope it bursts and burns me, I'll be set for life :D

P.S. Any and All batterires have the potential energy to explode...

You have to let these things charge/dis-charge about 10x to get full potential on the storage of the battery. I can already tell this phone is going to have amazing battery life...
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] Cuppeerr:
My battery life is amazing and I'm using this phone like no other right now.... Also my phone is charging as fast as my evo lte if not maybe faster....
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] grrmisfit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9mcNvOGKtI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Give you an idea
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] too758:
After 10 hours and 29 min, I'm at 48% remaining. I wish I had a screen on time for you guys but it's not in my battery usage like the S3 and N2. This is my third power cycle so we'll see if things get better tomorrow. When i had the N2, I wouldn't get to 48% till the next morning almost.

Also, I haven't seen the problem with the slow charging. Plugging up to my computer, It was slow a moment ago but plugging in the wall didn't seem any different from the N2 or GS3. My only problem is that I still cant figure out why i can't send mms with the stock messaging app. Handcent works so i've been using that but I don't know what the deal is with the stock one. Anyway, i digress. Battery life is has been solid for me.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] Nbonne:
The 787 uses a lithium-ion battery. Check the FAA website.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] champ052005:
Like I said before....amazing battery life. Charges as fast as EVO LTE
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] volk9029:
You can use gsam app from playstore for screen on time.

Sent from my lair.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] sheek360:
Did the same. Same results too
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] bvang89:
After hard usage over the weekend I can gladly say I've made it through the work day and still have plenty if juice, unlike my evo3d. Usual internet browsing, Facebook checking, games and even an hour or two of streaming music. And also showing off the cool features to fellow employess too. I'm satisfied. But even with hard usage over the weekend I still went 6-8 hours before it hit 15%. Hope everyone is happy with their battery life.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] too758:
Eh....about 2.5 hours on screen time. That's not that good if you ask me. Anybody can get their phone to last for 2 days if you don't use it. I used to get 4.5-5 hours on screen time with my note 2 to reach the same pcentage. We'll see if it gets better. It also might be cause I was rooted and romed with my note. I any case, I have no major a complaints as I can still make it the day with the moderate usage I do.

Update:

Forgot to put my phone on the charger last night. Went from 15% to 96% in just under 2 hours. I'm actually using my GS3 charger. Not sure if that makes a difference but I'm having no complaints with the charge time.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] edub186:
Thought I was the only one having these problems. Charging is horrible.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] Nkapoor124:
Mine is pretty decent.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] subvelocity:
Since unplugged this morning right before 7, I'm at 90%. Mostly on 3G, but since Day 1 the power usage indicated HTC Services and HTC Sense as the main apps consuming battery. I don't have many services or accounts set up through Sense, the main one is only my email through Exchange. I don't have Blinkfeed configured. Yesterday, before I charged it overnight I was at 19 hours on battery and at 12% charge. That was with what I consider light usage, mostly wifi, some web browsing, some youtubing, about 2 hours of screen on time total. I'm not sure I'm getting all I could be out of the battery, but I'm not sure what else I can do.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] Kilmar:
I am freaking impressed with the battery, at least compared to my old phone. Bought the phone on Friday. Unplugged on Sunday 8:30 AM with a full charge. Went to hole up with the girlfriend. Didn't use the phone too much except for some pics, videos, Youtube, FB, email. I finally heard the battery warning on Monday 7:00 PM. With my old HTC EVO 3D, I would not have lasted 2:00 PM on Sunday with the same usage.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] JoeNeckbone:
I charged my phone overnight.....in the morning streamed from youtube over WiFi about 4 mins of 1080p video on max brightness and loud volume (rest of day brightness was at around 35%), a few texts....than streamed music for 90 minutes straight over WiFi, turned the screen on only to skip to next song which was VERY often (had a wake lock from jango radio for about 20 mins after I was done using it), a 5 minute speakerphone call on loud volume....after 6:43 hours I had 42% left...to me this is great battery life considering the heavy usage.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] riggsandroid:
comparing the One with the Note2 is dumb. just stop.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] Digitalkarma:
Coming from the original HTC Evo 4G. the stock battery life on the ONE is a definite improvement over the old one.. loving this upgrade.

i'm getting from anywhere between 13 to 15 hrs off the charger with medium use(several hrs of browsing, checking FB every 20 min. on average, watch a couple youtube videos etc. with auto-sync and power-save on). at the end of a work day i still have +60% battery left. longest i've gone before putting the ONE back on charger my battery meter showed 1 day, and 4 hrs with medium usage

on my Evo when i first got it would be more like 6-8 hrs medium use and +30% at the end of a work day.

i haven't done any power-using tests yet on the ONE, but with the EVO watching videos or playing games straight thru until the battery reached 2% would give me about 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 hrs of life. i would imagine doing this on the ONE would be around 6-7 hrs.

so far today i have fully charged my ONE three hours ago and not really used it all. just turning it on every hour and checking the power usage, made one phone call and check gmail. battery is at 97%. at this rate, for roughly every hour passing it drops 1%. I would continue this test but i don't think i would have the patience to neglect my phone for that long lol.

but the charging is something i'll need to get used to. it would take about an 1 1/2 hr on the EVO with phone off, but around 3 hr for the ONE. it's weird on the 1st charge it seem like it took almost 4 hrs, then on following charges it has dipped to under 3 hr, 30 min.. just an observation :)
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] too758:
Lol. Please tell me why making a comparison between two high end smartphones is dump.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] HoosierInFL:
My battery life has been amazing. With all the radios on and LTE on all day long, and using it throughout the day, I've never had less than 45% battery left at midnight. That's 8am to 12 midnight of usage.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] Fadakar:
Because the Note has far more real estate to house a bigger battery? It's not even close how much of a difference there is.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] too758:
Fair enough. I was thinking bigger battery but has to power a larger screen with a more power hungry processor. But you all made your point. I really was trying to give those people that were coming from the note a real world expectation of what they would be giving up as I'm sure I'm not the only one who just left the note.

Side note, it's always peculiar how some of you all call people out who try to offer their 2 cents of input.

Moving back to the topic, my phone must have needed a couple power cycles to get going cause I'm getting 16+ hours a day now with about 30% left. No complaints here.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] qualitymove13:
After second full charge I had over 5 hours screen time today as well as 30 minutes of calls...
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] tigernamedtony07:
This was taken yesterday morning... i had taken it off charger tues morning... used moderate email push texting some youtube some bluetooth music in car used as a remote and even have a live wallpaper on at all times. tues night didnt charge it woke up wed and only list bout 1 percent while sleeping and went the entire day same process and by 4pm i was low so i didnt use it and will wait to put in charger thur morning but here ya go
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] akrod2as:
Phones have been using lipo batteries for quite some time...
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] JoeNeckbone:
Just took a 5 and a half hour trip....left at around 11am....had internet radio streaming the entire time...with it switching between 3g/LTE and no signal (was at 40% after done streaming)....took a bunch of pics and Zoes and used GPS to find local places once I got here, had 25% left when I plugged it in...at around 10pm...anyone getting bad battery has bad settings or wakelock.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] raptoro07:
Yeah. I'm getting great battery life on mine.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] sailio:
First charge it was dead after 5 hours but after a few full cycles I'm getting this. I'm not doing anything differently
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] scottspa74:
Yours could actually be doing way better. You've got something waking Android almost constantly. Not a wakelock per se, cuz it is off and on.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] sailio:
It could possibly be me, not being able to leave it alone idk.

Maybe not cuz I was sleeping at the beginning lol. I have wakelock detector
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] volk9029:
It can't be you. If you look @ the graph, you can see that before 6 am and almost until 12 pm, your phone was awake, on and off, without screen on. Something was waking your phone constantly.

Sent from my lair.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] raptoro07:
I have 2 imap emails, one exchange on push, weather, facebook, twitter, and just about any other thing on. :) That's the kind of stuff that keeps you waking. I still and getting good life. I'm in strong signal areas mostly.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] sailio:
This is what wakelock detector says
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] Felnarion:
Stop syncing facebook so often.

Aside from that, the battery life doesn't look bad at all. 88%, 2 hours off charger, with phone calls and texts?
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] sailio:
Indeed, with GPS on and screen brightness all the way up. No WiFi since my LTE is waaay faster than Starbucks next door.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] riceatusc:
Just got 23 hours. I used it pretty moderately last night.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] elrey75:
Here. Got it a week ago.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] themodafokinley:
This was mine from yesterday preety sweet for me.... Mostly texting,YouTube browser and watched a episode of game of thrones. Screen on time is awesome.

Can't post pics yet.....
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] himeshkaul:
start ur day with power saver on, it underclocks CPU to 1.2 Ghz

it would help i m sure :)
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] crazymook:
I'm on my second charge and I'll hopefully get 8 maybe 9 hours.... I expect it will get much better with a few more cycles but it's pretty pathetic so far.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] Jeepzor:
556. mendmhu

First charge got me 12 hours, with about 2 hours screen on time. Not very good if you ask me, I'd call that light-moderate use. Checked facebook and jeepforum, and took some pictures and tried to stream some slacker but for some reason even with full service its not fast enough.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] Fadakar:
Just wanted to weigh in since I was so disgruntled at the phone's launch. I haven't had a single issue with the battery since the week I got it. I'm seriously impressed at how well 2300 mAh holds up. Bravo to HTC, I'm a believer.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] motoelliot:
Awesome. I get about 19 hrs with moderate use. That's sufficient for me. No complaints.

Sent from my aluminum T.A.R.D.I.S!
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] TurboX2:
Its basicaly the same as my HTC EVO LTE once i restore all the apps and app data.

They need to optimize the way the OS works when "sleeping" to start seeing really good battery life
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] crazymook:
Pulled off the charger this morning...phone does great when idle, going into deep sleep no problem...but as soon as i start actually using it, I'm burning through battery...like just flipping through the phone settings eats up a %...maybe im just spoiled from my s3, but this is pretty pathetic. How many cycles did you guys have to go through before you saw a noticeable change? This will be my , i guess, second full cycle...aside from this, i really like the phone. I'm wondering if Ive got another issue at play. My wakelocks arent bad, I dont see anything running rouge...
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] PandaNuclearAttack:
Took the phone off the charger at 0700 saturday, and its now 1550. After moderate use the whole time i am at 2%, very happy with the one.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] bpschoon:
Went nearly 38 hours this weekend with almost 3.5 hours screen on time. Use the power saver mode. It seriously works.