[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mjz147:
This thing is reallllyyy pissing me off. Before people say "are you happy now, see ya later, or the iPhone sucks"

Their are serious issues with the Android OS and the Battery is the main problem with the EVO.

Now if someone can give me a fix for this I would greatly appreciate it and continue to love using my phone again but untill then Every little thing is going wrong with this phone to make me want to switch.

Here it is:

I am NOT rooted! I have 4G turned off, WIFI, bluetooth, and GPS turned off, I also have the screen brightness set to automatic. I have no widgets on the home screen that require an internet connection, and have all syncing turned off, on everything! that includes contacts, facebook, mail (stock and gmail) weather, and news.

I even have "enable always-on mobile data" turned off.

I am currently using Launcher Pro, but was using ADW launcher before that and then stock 2.1 android (no sense turned on, on all of them)

My battery barely makes it 8 hours without being on low.

under the battery category, for the past week or so plus, I havent really checked into that, So i can't tell you when it started, as been on 100%

So my uptime and my awake time have been the same.

I have turned the phone on and off 5 times already, used a task killer, turned on airplane mode, and no dice.

The only definite fix, is going one by one and deleting an app, turning the phone on and off, and looking at battery usage, I have easily 25 apps and that will take forever. Or doing a hard reset, something I do not want to waste my time doing again, reconfiguring my phone, and reinstalling a bunch of apps and settings.

An example of todays usage, I am not exagerating any of this.

I unplugged it at 10:30 AM, 25 total text messages (going in an out) no phone calls, 4G was on and connected for a total of 2 Minutes.

Now I know if you leave 4G on and you are not connected it kills the battery, but I had it off, turned it on for 2 Minutes because I was in chicago, and wanted to see how fast it was ran 3 speed tests, and turned it off.

I refreshed my email 4 times, That means opening up the mail app, clicking menu and refresh, same thing with facebook, refreshed my news feed 5 times. and at 6:30

I have 2 out of the 5 bars left.

That is absolutely rediculous, I am past my 30 day return time.

An OS that allows certain apps to keep the phone on and make the battery life horrible is rediculous.

This is a list of all apps I have both from the market and off:

advanced task killer

AK notepad

akari

astro

better cut

betterkeyboard

dictionary.com (offical App)

facebook

find my phone

Flikie wallpaper

fox news

handcent sms

keeper

leet speak

live scores

memory trainer

news and weather (from nexus one, but refreshing is on manual)

pass phrase

pda net

picsay pro

qik

ringroid

shazam

speedtest

status notes

texas hold em

tip calculator

tv listings

urban dictionary

zedge

I have notice one thing tho with launcherpro, for some reason when I go into an app or hold down the home button to bring up the multitasking 6 app menu, and then click home after, the setting to come up that asks which home launcher I want

HTC sense or Launcherpro

comes up all the time, like 10 times a day, and I always click choose this action for default and click launcher pro and sure enough after opening a couple apps, and clicking home the box will come up, may be that has something to do with the battery I dont know tho.

If anyone can help me I would greatly appreciate, and you would save an evo from being thrown into a wall.

thanks.