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[Desire General] hot-fuzz:
What do you use to show what % the battery is at, i cant find it in the settings to show numeric?

Also, i use the Settings widget with the "Mobile app" to turn off 3G, Wifi, Syncing etc but i still lose battery overnight, probably only 1-5%.

Nothing syncs on its own, so it must be the searching for an O2 signal and my widgets (only have 2 on).
[Desire General] ephumuris:
If you go to settings, about (at the bottom), then battery. Then there is an option to "see what's using the battery" and the actual time since unplugged is at the top.

EDIT: Just realised if you mean for % wise then in the battery info each block represents 10%. There are 10 blocks.
[Desire General] pscomp:
I agree, was getting 9 hours out of the battery now i'm over 36 hours and still going
[Desire General] Raminder1992:
Hi,

Well today this is what happened!

I charged my phone to full and took it of about 1pm.

I then used it for about an hour for music and wifi and a few texts until 2pm.

I then turned my 3g off and sent a few texts.

At 3 I turned my 3g on again however I did not use it a lot of the time. I was at the Birmingham Liverpool Match and I checked my facebook one or two times to update my status. I turned my 3G off at the end of the game (about 5).

Sent a few texts again etc and my phone was between 40-50%

I did not use my phone much until 9pm - I sent a few texts ... Used internet for a few minutes (and i turned my 3g on then off)

ANd then it went into the red zone.

When I had my 3G on ... I did not use it much and my sync and background sync was all turned off!

I consider this as bad battery life!

What am I doing wrong?
[Desire General] Quazar0:
Hello, maybe the update on the HTC generic rom improved the battery life?

We shall wait and see when the t-mobile update comes out (if ever :/)
[Desire General] who_me:
I didn't realise just how much battery power I use on this phone. Thought I ran it down pretty quick first few days because of heavy usage & setting the phone up. But last night after charging I went on WiFi for about 20mins then turned WiFi off, turned data off, the phone went into standby/sleep mode and this morning wake to having 60% battery life left! I don't have that many widgets on, the weather 1 updates every 6hrs, mail every 1hr but assume it won't do that if both WiFi and 3G is off right? Just trying to think of ways to improve battery life...going to have to charge it now as I'm out for he rest of the day and don't want to be without power!
[Desire General] hot-fuzz:
I turned everything off last night and i dropped by 5% in 8 hours. OK for an overnight consumption, but would prefer it to be 1% or less.

All i had on was a live wallpaper, twitter widget (that didnt update), news widget (that didnt update) and mail that polled every 4 hours (but didnt pick anything up as i had no data connections.

Im going to turn live wallpapers off tonight and see if that makes any difference.

Im using some Battery widget that supposedly doesnt use up much battery to view my % :confused:

I guess one option is to wait til a high capacity battery comes out. Id be happy for everything to be on and it last for 1 day, as i will charge every morning/evening, its a small price to pay for ALOT going on in this phone.
[Desire General] tomeeq12:
i found this:

w ww.nexusoneforum.net/forum/nexus-one-accessories/3570-seidio-3200-mah-super-extended-battery-nexus-one.html

w ww.seidioonline.com/product-p/bacy32hnx1-bk.htm

and i wonder, if the desire is brother of nexus one, battery should works. All what they have to do is the back protector, and voila! i think its good idea...
[Desire General] gogol:
Wow ... 3200 mAH, that is more than double ... That could be useful during long hour flight!

But it does not specify the thickness of the phone after adding the extended battery.
[Desire General] hot-fuzz:
Reading the forum the battery is about twice as thick, but getting mixed reviews.
[Desire General] angues:
I'm starting to think there is something seriously wrong with my phone. Yesterday I went to bed with it fully charged, set a couple of alarms to wake me up and went to bed...8 hours later I didn't wake up because my desire had switched off because the battery was completely dead!!

Wifi wasn't on (because for some reason it wouldn't even see my wifi network, even though my laptop was connected) and I don't use live wallpapers or anything.

After creating a thread on lag in the program menu it now seems to just be generally sluggish all round - sometimes just moving through the home screens pauses momentarily :\

However, I beleive my handset is just faulty and that a replacement will fix everything :-)
[Desire General] cez10:
i have charged my phone yesterday, unplugged it about 5:45pm then rang t-mobile about returning my phone cuz of the pink tint, then played around a bit with profile app, and watched some videos for testing for about 10 minutes + a bit of WiFi and facebook and today at the moment im on 72% and i did some texting earlier, but the battery level seems good enough for me now :)

/e of course all updates are turned off, manually turn them on when willing to go online etc

in sleep mode phone barely uses the battery, over night only used about 1-2% :)
[Desire General] Raminder1992:
That is good :)

I was not happy with my battery life and there was a problem with my screen as well.

So I rang them up today and they are going to replace it :)

Are they going to replace yours?
[Desire General] cez10:
yeah they said they will ring me to arrange the replacement when they get more stock so hope its probably tomorrow,

i am only replacing it hoping to get the pink tint solved ...
[Desire General] scotch whisky:
I stongly suspect that there is a problem with the T-mobile software. My battery performance has significantly improved since upgrading to the generic ROM which has itself been updated.

I suspect T-mobile are aware of this which caused it to be "pulled" just before it was due to go on sale with a "quality" issue. I was told by T-mobile that the software needed replacing. Rather stangely it was suddenly put back on sale. Sounds to me like someone higher up the food chain overruled the original decision.

It certainly seems like only T-mobile users have serious problems with the battery.

I'm not saying that the battery performance is now great but it only drops 2 or 3% overnight.

I guess the only options at the moment are to wait for T-mobile to issue an update or load the Virgin/Generic ROM.
[Desire General] Raminder1992:
Yeh, saying that they did not query me about my battery. They suggested to me to change it. I said I had problems and they said we can replace it :).

I did have other problems but they only cared about the battery life.

T-Mobile have been very good to me so far :)
[Desire General] Raminder1992:
Is your pink tint bad?

Yeh, they are ringing me too! :)

The good thing is that you do not have to send your phone of first.

Also it will be the new ROM etc so fingers crossed :)

However I read that the next time they might have stock is 7-10 days. But at least we have one to play with unlike others lol
[Desire General] sh500:
Ok, reading the last few pages of this thread, it seems that quite a few people have said that a non-T-mobile/generic ROM improves the battery. Up until I couldnt see a good enough reason to switch to the custom ROM but I seriously have to consider it- first Android phone to be flashed :eek:

@scotch: Was it your thread that details how to go about this process?
[Desire General] adjei7:
Well, I guess that's done it for me too. I'm on T-mobile, and I've been loosing 10% overnight! I'm glad it seems to be a ROM problem and not just the phone itself. If it was, I still would have kept it, but it would have been a pain living with a crap battery.

I wanna hold off changing the ROM for now though, and see if I can get T-Mobile to exchange the phone. Does anyone know if the Desires T-mobile are giving out now have a different ROM from their first batch?
[Desire General] Quazar0:
Whens t-mobile giving us the update!!
[Desire General] cez10:
have you had the pink tint before? if yes do you still have it after installing the generic ROM ?

i think people are just silly about the battery, this is my 2nd day on the battery and i still got 40% left, didnt use it very heavy, quite few texts and a bit of wifi,internet, but most of the time phone is on sleep and then the battery almost doesnt drain, and mine also goes like that over night so im happy with it :) of course all updates switched off etc.

no, its only visible on the htc.com gmail facebook and white to black gradients

i already got updated software though.

my phone is perfect apart from that tint :rolleyes:

as long as i get it fixed ill finally start enjoying the phone 100% :)
[Desire General] dahmmy:
battery life

40 hours and counting!!!

tips:

Display: all the way down

HTC Flip clock : OFF

account syn: OFF (use it when you have to)

Network mode : use GSM

Task killer (do not install)

Widget updates : once a day

Location settings: OFF switch on when you have to
[Desire General] sh500:
Yes, I'm loosing about the same over night too.

I did see a post somewhere on the forum about someone getting a T-Mobile Desire more recently and the ROM version does end with the latest .11. I wonder if this device's battery performance is better...
[Desire General] sh500:
Personally, I think it defeats the purpose of having such a device if the majority of the sync'ing/update functions are switched off.

'Network mode: GSM' - thats got to be the worst out of all of them :eek:
[Desire General] dahmmy:
not necessarily

gsm.... i live in a good catchment area i dont need to be on 3g all the time

syncing, do you really need to sync every five minutes??

(unless your a facebook fanatic!)

when you need to sync you can switch it on.

my post was only a guide.

just because your phone has all the functions does not mean they have to be kept on 24/7. granted sometimes you would like to be on all the times, everyones lifestyles different
[Desire General] sh500:
Yep, each to their own.

Not too bothered about facebook, I've got that to update once or twice a day but I do need to have emails on frequent updates.
[Desire General] cez10:
yeah mine desires time at the moment is about 44h and still got 40%

used a bit of internet, wifi, phone calls and texts but all updates are off all the time but when i want to go on fb or twitter i turn them on and all good :)
[Desire General] dahmmy:
another option

sometimes its good to have a second phone with email, which has a strong battery life, perhaps one of the nokia E series?

and use the desire as an ace in the hole. when your mate pops his iphone out, you pop yours out and he/she says whats that? and you reply , if you dont know then you dont need to know! :)
[Desire General] adjei7:
I think it's reasonable to have dahmmy's setup. I use a similar one. I'm not on facebook or twitter, and only used google to sync my contacts and calendar, so sync once in a while if at all, now I have all my details. I still seem to be draining quicker than I woudl like though. :(
[Desire General] bridgstfer:
Ive had my phone about a week now and getting pretty good battery life - it can certainly last more than 24hours (more like 36) maybe 4 lots of 30mins heavy use.

I assume you have seen the power widget where you can easily switch on/off wifi, gps, sync and adjust the brightness?

Do you know if there is an app which will monitor what programs are using the internet? I have everything I can think of switched to non regular updates (4 hours or so) but when i unlock the phone i see it is using the web in the status bar.

Thanks for any info
[Desire General] manks:
I remain convinced their is something wrong with my battery so much so that I am sending my desire back.

I left the phone in standby last night at 82% and when I woke up this morning it was on 35% (its now on 22% and I've done nothing but check the battery status!).

Cell standby 30%

Phone idle 31%

Calendar 18% (why!??? i haven't been using the calendar! and mobile internet was switched off)

Android sytem 10%

Sweet Dreams 7% (Had it enabled last night)

Display 2%

Wifi 2% (Had a play for about 20 minutes last night)

I'm on the stock T Mobile battery but everything was switched off as it should be. Is it me or is this shocking? "Batteryleft" app shows that I only get 9hrs 55 min of full battery life anyway based on previous charges and is listed as 'accurate'.
[Desire General] er_yeah:
Just out of interest did you switch off the mobile data connection too? I find that uses up quite a lot of battery even if you switch data sync off, but the connection is still on.
[Desire General] bridgstfer:
Must be something definitely up with your phone/battery. You know someone else who's battery you can try?

Try to get in the cycle of charging it overnight and see if it lasts a full day.

I still cant find what app is using my data all the time (ive got no syncing, facebook or any updates scheduled). I did do some searching around and found that the Gmail app is using Push and this cant be turned off unless you disable the google sync altogether meaning you have to manually refresh each time you open the app (ie no periodic refresh). Shouldn't use the battery that much though.

Wish i could see which program was using my mobile internet - you know of any apps which monitor this?
[Desire General] Raminder1992:
I was loosing a lot of battery over night and I had disable everything!

I rang up T-Mobile and they are replacing it today :)

So just do that!
[Desire General] jm997:
Well, actually when syncing it doesn't really use much data, so you can easily just use 2G (EDGE) to do your mail and facebook syncs. Sure it'll take longer to sync, but the battery life really increases. Remember the first iPhone really only had EDGE, yet syncing still works fine.

I've been using my phone like this for a year now and the only time I really notice (and switch to 3G) is when downloading stuff or attachments.
[Desire General] oawalker:
improve battery life

My battery didn't last very long, but i improved it abit and now it last longer.

I did this be draining the battery down to around 5%-10% turned off my phone and putting it to charge overnight while its off for around 7-8 hours, and i've seen a improvement in my battery life. it doesn't drain it as fast as it did before.
[Desire General] zonkkk:
I have the slight impression that you'll have to replace the new one for the same reason poor battery life...

Sent from my HTC Desire using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Desire General] adjei7:
I agree with the above. I'm on t-mobile and I was experiencing poor battery life. I was reading all the conflicting methods about how to get better battery life, and phoned up t-mobile about it. They said they would send me another battery (i wanted another phone but hey).

However, after totally running down the battery a few times and charging it till full overnight, I've noticed a huge improvement. I used to lose 10% overnight, but now I only lose about 3%.

I think the secret is not how long you charge it for (as the phone stops charging when full anyway), but at what point you charge it. Charge it only when totally empty, and it's probably best not to use it when charging too, for the first 5 or so charges. See how that goes.
[Desire General] Raminder1992:
Hi, I have just got my replacement phone.

Can I turn it on while it is charging or not?
[Desire General] oawalker:
i would advise you to charge it for 6-8 hours before you turn it on so you don't have any problem with the battery life
[Desire General] Raminder1992:
Ok, thank you. I may only be able to do it for 4/5 hours. It has been left on for less than 2 hours and the light has already gone green lol
[Desire General] adjei7:
Once it goes green it stops charging automatically. So I'm not quite sure what the point is of leaving it for too many hours after that. I may be wrong though. 4 or 5 should be ok I guess.
[Desire General] gogol:
Here is mine:

After I received my HTC Desire, I plugged to the wall charger. While charging, I started played around with it, settings, checking, etc. I left it plugged for about 8 hours.

Unplugged at 19:00 and turned on Wi-Fi all the time. Played around almost everything, downloading some apps from the Market, camera, tested GPS, played Doodle for about half hour.

The battery went to 68% at 22:30.

So, about 10% for one hour quite heavy usage.

Went to sleep :D ... Woke up early 05:30 ... Battery was 65%

Pretty good, I like it ... but I stopped WiFi and Mobile network before went to sleep, no auto-update.

I prefer to update manually. I dont care with weather every hour or so. Once a day is enough. I cannot be bothered with email. I will check when I want to check.

Played around this morning for about 1 hour, and went down to 56%, wifi on, market, web browsing, etc.

For me, it looks good for my usage and habit :D

I think the biggest factor is auto-update of everything, that will drain the battery the most.

Now, I will wait until below 5% (but not 0% !!! never ever!!!), before charge it again to full!
[Desire General] Kiiv:
I've found that : http://desirefanatics.wordpress.com/2010/04/08/the-htc-desire-battery-test-a-day-without-a-charge/ :)

Describe battery level evolution during a day with normal use. Interesting.

(sorry if it was already posted)

EDIT : there is a second test on the blog with everything turned on.
[Desire General] contdeforum:
before desire was samsung i8000. battery capacity 1500mAh. With a medium usage I can keep running for 2-3 day without any problem.

medium usage: 1hour calls/day, 10-30min web surf via wifi or edge/day, 10-30 min playing movie/day, a few sms.

Now Desire at second charge:

exactly 1 day: 30min calls, 1hour websurf via wifi, 10min gps, 10min playing movie.

widgets-android watch, a few links, black background, gsm-no3G, constant closing applications via eRay, brightnes 30% (auto).

So, the battery life is not bad, IS VERY BAD. Samsung has almost the same proc 800Mhz and also amoled same 3.7" resistive and battery drain is super.

I think whatever I do the battery will keep maximum 36 hours.....

We are waiting for update....
[Desire General] dahmmy:
patience

Mate give the battery at least four charges.

My battery is going on for 60 hours. Think taskkillers put more strain on the battery..
[Desire General] Eggcake:
First battery charge:

Lasted about 11 hours today. About 1 hours surfing (3G), 1 hours surfing (WLAN), 10mins Games, 10mins Maps/Google Earth, mails checking (15 or 30min interval), weather widget active, facebook active,...3G was active about 6 hours (also when internet was turned off), rest of the time 2G was active. So that was not optimal, just forgot to switch back after surfing.

Don't want to put a final statement yet, it's charging now, let's see how it long it will last tomorrow :)
[Desire General] bridgstfer:
I promise you it will get battery as I was getting the same initially. Go through all the sync settings and put them to something reasonable (do you need facebook/weather updates every 15mins/1hr?). Also see if any apps you have installed are constantly using the net/still open.

Yesterday after taking off charge at 8am my battery was still on 90% when i got home 12hrs later with some light text/email usage throughout the day!
[Desire General] TieT:
My thoughts about this,

I received my desire yesterday and only did 1 full load cycle.

Took it of the computer yesterday @ 5pm and played with it from 7pm till 10pm

the usual stuff like 3G / Wifi / Internet / Msn / Texting / Games and went to sleep without recharging the battery.

Now my battery is @ 50% and online for 12hours, im gonna use it normally now and see how long it lasts.

Also i dont know what the fuss is about, its a 1Ghz snapdragon and 3.7" Amoled screen on a cell phone of course the battery life isnt what it used to be on your nokia 3310...

It could be better, i admit.. but the speed and the nice screen makes up for the low battery life.

Maybe an update can fix it with better app management ?

If you close the app, it should close and not remain in the memory and drain battery power.

Time will tell, ill keep you updated !
[Desire General] slybeans:
Closing apps won't save battery as far that I'm aware.

Sent from my HTC Desire using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Desire General] TieT:
So you are saying that open apps dont use battery power ???

Could you explain this ?

I get good battery life when i turn everything off, app synch, wifi, 3g and all the other stuff i also check that they are not in the running process list to make sure they are closed.
[Touch2 ROM Development] Johan Kraczmar:
New ROM is ready for flashing without bugs (i test 2 days everything).

Removed : Marketplace, Bing, CoPilot

Added : Black dailer (thx to TangerineTractor)

THX to all for feedback and possibility to improve :D

Link ---- HERE ----

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6.4.2010 added new ROM 6.5.3_23541_WWE_based

Based rom 6.5.3_23541 WWE with original theme

Added : Black dailler

Quick QPS

ArkSwitch

Opera 10

Removed : Task manager

Link ---- HERE ----

Don´t forget to make HARD RESET after flash.
[Touch2 ROM Development] TangerineTractor:
Don't thank me - I just found it somewhere on XDA-Dev!

Do we have any more 6.5.x themes, ones that don't have the borders around the softkey buttons - I really don't like them! Could do with a way to make the softkey font smaller...
[Touch2 ROM Development] TangerineTractor:
This is by far the fastest of the ROMs published to date. No bugs yet either, very impressive - give it a try!
[Touch2 ROM Development] emotionalhaze:
do this rom have phone keypad and compact qwerty?
[Touch2 ROM Development] emotionalhaze:
and one thing if i already flashed rom with rom 6.5.5...do i to make hard spl again to flashed this rom?sowy..i newbie..i don't no nothing about this
[Touch2 ROM Development] emotionalhaze:
can u add opera 10 and windows 2010?
[Touch2 ROM Development] Frank C:
No you don't have to.....ones HSPL you have "opened up" the phone.....;)
[Touch2 ROM Development] mirost1:
The strange think i see in the picture posted is 56 free RAM, its not much or i dont see well..
[Touch2 ROM Development] Johan Kraczmar:
Just for you :)

Trust me or not, this ROM is fast enough. ;)
[Touch2 ROM Development] are-red:
could you please..please make theme like default.. i really love like defauly cause it more look like OEM.. :) hope u hear me..thx very much
[Touch2 ROM Development] iczboi:
Please upload to another host ?
[Touch2 ROM Development] zvoner5:
why isn't there fuss about this ROM?

I tried this ROM today. It is fantastic!:eek: It's much speedier than the stock one, it brings 6.5.3 which we've all been waiting for and it has only minor bugs. I found some of them to be: 1.quickgps is missing(this is important for us who use the incorporated gps). Could you add that please?

2.Could you make the default htc volume bar available when we press the side volume keys? Instead of that now an ancient volume slider appears when the volume keys are pressed. Although, I noticed that the htc one is available when you press the windows flag from the dropdown menu in the top. Weird, because all that's missing is the connection between that and the hardware keys.

3.Some weird chinese input modes are available in the keyboard menu(I think that's where the ROM originated), but it would be nice if they weren't present in the WWE version of the ROM.

If these would be sorted out this ROM would be PERFECT! Because believe me, everything else is just how it's supposed to. This is much better than chris's 6.5.5. That one is still full of bugs. So thank you for making this available and if you could please solve these(minor) bugs I would be so grateful and I think I'm not the only one. :D

P.S. I would also like the default theme available :rolleyes:
[Touch2 ROM Development] zvoner5:
Not to be naggy or anything but I forgot in the previous post. Kinetic scrolling is missing. But I don't think that it can be as easily fixed...:confused: