The HTC EVO is the hottest Android phone for now, but it is plagued by the much debated battery issue. Clearly, it’s a monster of a workhorse, and battery life will depend on one’s usage patterns: you can’t expect a whole lot if you get background updates from social networks every 5 minutes and watch HD video for hours.
But the real divisive issue is battery life on stand-by: some claim their EVO’s die in Sleep mode in a matter of 5-6 hours, while others swear battery life is not worse than that of the iPhone. TechCrunch goes as far as warning people: Don’t Buy The HTC EVO, It Is A Seriously Flawed Device.
Wow, that’s a heavy statement – and I have to disagree, because I had experienced all the trouble myself, than started to research, experiment and went from 5 hours to 2 days standby time.
But I don’t want to argue – I don’t have to. I have proof. Just look at the image on the right: after almost 2 days my EVO still has 40% battery left.
I’d say that’s as good as you can get, from a powerful little computer that happens to allow phone calls, too. 🙂
Can you please tell me how you got your phone to do this? I am a moderate internet user, have Juice Defender and Advanced Task Killer yet I can not seem to get my phone to last more than 3 maybe 4 hours.
Also, in stand-by mode, my phone loses power rather quickly. I do not have 4g, wi-fi,bluetooth or even gps on to conserve battery yet the phone dies so often, I carry my charger with me everywhere I go.
Please help!!
Marcus, you don’t need ATK, just follow the basics, see here.
This doesn’t prove anything. Uptime is the amount of time the phone has been up and running, including while it is being charged. My EVO is currently showing 85 hours of up time and 12 hours of awake time and I charged it last night. I’ve actually been on the battery for about 6 hours.
AndroidTester,
You are right – you need to move to the next screen, by touching “Battery use”, then you get more details, and the top line will say something like: 47h 45m 32s since unplugged.
But if you follow my link under “from 5 hours to 2 days standby time” above, you’ll see that I charge my EVO turned off, so for me uptime always = unplugged time.
OK – It would have been good for you to show the Battery Use screen as well in your post to make this clear. I will try charging mine powered off tonight to see how much of a difference it makes.
Not sure if you guys have experienced this but my battery life dies even when the phone is powered off.. and i mean completely off. why? I have full charge prior to shutting off my phone at night. i wake up in the morning and turn my phone back on and noticed that it’s got less than half battery life left.. what’s going on?
Is there a good extra life battery for the Evo, and if so, what’s it called?