Battery life with Froyo

[ForensicDroid]

When I was on 2.1 I would have a full day of heavy usage our of the phone and still come home with 70-80% battery. Today I used it the same way and came home with 40%, then after the gym it was at 5%! FIVE...I've never seen the battery that low. I've used Advanced Task Killer multiple times today, still was low.
It's now been charging for nearly 3 hours and only at 40%.

Anyone know why the battery is so much worse?

 

[Graywolfscv]

There's an issue with the version of Froyo that leaked out off the Google servers. Hopefully get the patch soon.

 

[ForensicDroid]

So you're saying I should have waited for the OTA?

 

[patrickgerry]

Yeah. I thought the google release would be the same as the OTA release? No?

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[Graywolfscv]

I found my issue was my task killer was causing it. Uninstall if you have one and see if that helps

 

[ForensicDroid]

I found my issue was my task killer was causing it. Uninstall if you have one and see if that helps

Task killer really? I thought that was the app which was supposed to help with this by stopping app that battery drain?
What I have noticed is that even when I kill my dolphin HD browser with it the app won't die. It's a zombie!

 

[Graywolfscv]

For some reason, Froyo and the Task killer fight each other, keeping apps open, or making apps randomly open. After I uninstalled, ALOT of my problems with Froyo disappeared

 

[ForensicDroid]

Ok. I uninstalled advanced task killer. We'll see what happens.

 

[Avidity]

Just curious. What happened after uninstalling the Task Killer?

 

[mgautrea]

One of the people I work with had a problem with the battery drain. When all else failed, we did a hard reset and re-installed all of her apps. The problem went away, so far.

 

[dbu]

You dont need to use task killers with android. It will manage your memory on it's own and kill things as it sees fit. It's just another app running in the background that is not needed using resources...

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[alucardx]

When I was on 2.1 I would have a full day of heavy usage our of the phone and still come home with 70-80% battery. Today I used it the same way and came home with 40%, then after the gym it was at 5%! FIVE...I've never seen the battery that low. I've used Advanced Task Killer multiple times today, still was low.
It's now been charging for nearly 3 hours and only at 40%.

Anyone know why the battery is so much worse?

i have this same exact problem with the official Verizon OTA 2.2 update that I just got a few days ago..

battery life is piss poor on 2.2 compared to 2.1 and nothing has changed on my phone. I've checked battery stats in settings and in spare parts app and I can't find the cause.

 

[SevereDeceit]

Glad I held off getting Task Killer, I heard a few guys at my work saying there was a confliction with 2.2, it appears they were right...

 

[evildroid]

i have this same exact problem with the official Verizon OTA 2.2 update that I just got a few days ago..

battery life is piss poor on 2.2 compared to 2.1 and nothing has changed on my phone. I've checked battery stats in settings and in spare parts app and I can't find the cause.

I noticed the battery wasn't very good after updating to FRG01B. Installing SetCPU and setting it to 250/800 helped quite a bit.

 

[applejax2]

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my battery stinks too! i got the phone TODAY, and fully charged it 3 times - once before i turned it on, again 2 hours later, and again 2 hours later! after the third time i got rid of taskiller - as you guys said. ill let you know if i see any improvements!

EDIT: so i check on my phone, is has been running for almost 2 hours, and only lost 40% of the battery! obviously not GOOD, but MUCH better than when taskiller was running! keep in mind that i have been using the phone for almost the entire 2 hours...but i was using it for the whole time before too! this makes me happy ....to all....UNINSTALL TASKILLER