Tips to Help Improve Battery Life on ThunderBolt

[vzdroid13]

Does anyone think the 1600 mah baytery

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[scaner]

Did a bump charge 40 min ago at 9 pm..now its 9-49.and now its just put down next to me and its 92%...without do nothing......

 

[guitarchris123]

So I used WiFi last night for about an hour before bed then shut it off so I wouldn't forget to when I went to work this morning. About halfway thru my shift today I checked spare parts to see how my apps were acting and it said WiFi was running since I unplugged it. (100%) I double checked to make sure my phone said it was off and it did so I toggled WiFi again then checked spare parts and WiFi on started decreasing. I'm not sure what made it stick on but it did so I suggest for you guys with battery problems make sure your WiFi isn't sticking by downloading spare parts and checking it out.

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See 1(f):
[FONT=&quot]WiFi – turn off when not near a WiFi signal for an extended period of time, but always use when available (faster than 3G, uses less battery), go to settings/wireless & networks/WiFi settings, press menu button and tap Advanced then WiFi Sleep policy and select[/FONT][FONT=&quot]“[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Never[/FONT][FONT=&quot]”[/FONT][FONT=&quot], this sounds counter-intuitive, but it actually uses less power because when WiFi sleeps 3G or 4G wakes up to sync, get email, and retrieve other data (WiFi connection disables 3G/4G)[/FONT]

Do you have "never" selected or not? I have it set this way, and my WiFi still turns off when I use the toggle. Maybe your particular toggle is not working properly. Try placing 2 different WiFi toggles on a screen at the same time to see if one works and the other doesn't.

Supposedly WiFi uses less battery than 3G, but only if you have a good signal. If you have a bad (or no) WiFi signal, go ahead and toggle it off to switch to 3G.

 

[jntdroid]

One of these days, manufacturers will realize there is a benefit to actually building strong battery life into our wireless phones...

 

[want a droid]

One of these days, manufacturers will realize there is a benefit to actually building strong battery life into our wireless phones...

One day :/

 

[scaner]

now its 10-22..and its drop 2 % more....wtf

 

[manilaboy1vic]

i got 8 plus hours on my TB today.. played a bunch of Ninja Rush... Some browsing.. some phones calls.. on 4g All day...

im coming from an INC.. I can easily get 8hrs off a single charge.. while being on 4g all day... depends on how much you use it.. cycle the battery a few times.. it will improve.... i do play with the brightness too.. i dont have it at full brightness ever.. that too bright anyway... if its dark.. i turn off brightness.. or have it at about 20%..

i do not have any pop email, no facebook, no twitter.. just gmail, calls, txt, games, browsing..

 

[Forgetful]

now its 10-22..and its drop 2 % more....wtf

What do you have syncing? Under battery usage what does it say?

Download Spare parts and follow the instructions in this thread-

Juice Defender and Blockbuster Help - Page 2 - Android Forums

 

[WorldOfJohnboy]

I owned a Droid X and now have a Thunderbolt. I made the display settings the same and have all of the same accounts syncing on my TBolt that I did the DX. I am not in a 4G LTE city, so they are both connected to 3G. I get just as much battery life out of my TBolt as I did my DX on the standard battery.

 

[jntdroid]

I think it's safe to say, based on pretty much every post on every thread I've seen the past few days anyway, that 4G/LTE is one heckuva battery sucker... and this clearly was not common knowledge prior to it being released - among Verizon "rumors" anyway.

 

[Z06_Mir]

I'm at 2 hours 10 min since unplugged. I'm at 50% with 30 minutes of display use, no phone calls and five texts. Also only 3 minutes of a game. I just cut all ny sync in half and am gonna suffer through not instant stuff, axed friend stream and only have 1 widget. Verizon is getting a visit from me tomorrow.

Update. 3.5 hours of use, 1 hour 10 minutes of display use. I was using it moderately on here, some other forums and games. I recently installed that juice program too.

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[Purgatoiry]

Still having issues it seems. I was at 90% battery, used it for about 20 minutes, now i'm at 95%. Probably gonna go back to verizon tomorrow and replace it.

 

[slinky]

i got 8 plus hours on my TB today.. played a bunch of Ninja Rush... Some browsing.. some phones calls.. on 4g All day...

im coming from an INC.. I can easily get 8hrs off a single charge.. while being on 4g all day... depends on how much you use it.. cycle the battery a few times.. it will improve.... i do play with the brightness too.. i dont have it at full brightness ever.. that too bright anyway... if its dark.. i turn off brightness.. or have it at about 20%..

i do not have any pop email, no facebook, no twitter.. just gmail, calls, txt, games, browsing..

This is what worries me - 8 hours is very poor. That's not even 1 typical business day and doesn't cover the morning/evening commute. Email other than Gmail is a typical business necessity. The Incredible had dreadful battery life. With the update and conditioning one could expect almost the same with 3G - barely getting through the day and worrying about the phone going dead in the mid afternoon.

 

[lockman]

Slinky, what you are describing sounds pretty typical for a smartphone running at this clock speed with this size battery. I've had several D1's, a Fascinate, an X and now the Thunderbolt. I also carry a Blackberry that I use heavily, that gets stellar battery life. So, for me at least, I knew what I was getting coming in, and view the battery shortcoming as part of the price of admission.
Just my 2c

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[geoff5093]

Still having issues it seems. I was at 90% battery, used it for about 20 minutes, now i'm at 95%. Probably gonna go back to verizon tomorrow and replace it.

Yours goes up in percentage as you use it eh? I want your phone

Yesterday I had 15 hours on my phone before I went to bed, unplugged at 8AM and went to bed around 11PM and still had 40% battery life left. I don't know why everyone else is having poor battery life, I use this just like my D1 but that got half the battery life.

It's awesome to have a phone that only needs to be charged at night