HTC Desire HD Battery Life - Fix.

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jsut tried ti and will see if it helps!
 
33L said:
jsut tried ti and will see if it helps!
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Looking very good here so far!

Just a headsup - if you're currently running Advanced Task Killer you need to delete it and install the free version of Juice Defender as advised in the original link. It seems Advanced Task Killer and Juice Defender are incompatible installed together and Juice Defender does a far better job of conserving battery power anyway.
 
Will try this when I get home. Thanks for that. Still waiting for the impending update :(
 
Does seem to be working on my Normal desire. Although it had lost charge over night, not sure till i give it a full charge and see if it lasts me the night.
 
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Does seem to be working on my Normal desire. Although it had lost charge over night, not sure till i give it a full charge and see if it lasts me the night.
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I've installed Juice Defender as well as ticked the USB Debugging box. It looks like I'm comfortably going to be getting a day and a half to 2 days out of it between charges. That's with Bluetooth on in the car about 2 hours a day, a few phone calls and text and possibly using the mp3 player or radio.- I'm not a heavy user.
 
Thanks for the info - sounds interesting - I'll give it a trial and see what happens.

Apologies in advance if I'm stating the obvious but did people know that if you go to "About Phone - Battery - Battery Use", it gives you a breakdown of what's been using the power most?

(thinking about it I am stating the obvious)
 
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Thanks for the info - sounds interesting - I'll give it a trial and see what happens.

Apologies in advance if I'm stating the obvious but did people know that if you go to "About Phone - Battery - Battery Use", it gives you a breakdown of what's been using the power most?

(thinking about it I am stating the obvious)
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Well it's that obvious, I'd had the phone about a month before I noticed this feature. :D

If you've not had the phone long another good thing is to run the battery right down to the red flashing warning. Do this a few times and it seems to make a big difference to how it holds the charge.
 
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another good thing is to run the battery right down to the red flashing warning. Do this a few times and it seems to make a big difference to how it holds the charge.
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Thats been hapening daily! my battery is well conditioned :p
 
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Thats been hapening daily! my battery is well conditioned :p
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LOL. I know what you mean - when I first got mine the battery life was atrocious.
 
I've had this on from pretty much the day I bought it, so I can't really tell you if it's made a difference but I'm reasonably happy with the battery life I get from the phone.
 
1.5 days till it went red, mind you that wasnt from a full charge. so i think its made a marked improvement.
 
Jan has a Desire non HD and is seeing good improvements from the same fix. Having had time to assess the fix now - with my normal usage I'm comfortably going to be getting two days off a full charge - possibly three at a stretch.

I was charging nightly before so it's working well for me.
 
The stock ROM is pretty poor for batteries on the Desire range unfortunately.

For the original Desire, rooting with www.unrevoked.com and then using something like the Cyanogen Gingerbread ROM (or Modaco Froyo one if you want to keep Sense) is much better on the battery.

Also, if you root you can use SetCPU to preserve battery and have no need for apps like Juice Defender.

All down to how much you are willing to play with them really I guess. But its another option if anyone is interested.
 
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I'm trying this on the incredible s as well, battery's crap on it too.
 
I find keeping the screen brightness down is the best battery control measure. Even at 20% brightness, it sucks 50% of battery usage.
 
To be honest I have never had a problem with mine. On average I use approx. 5 1/2 hours of talk time a day, bluetooth is always on and so is wireless. I charge it every night and by the end of the day I have approx 50% left.

I do however turn all the background data off so I have to manaul synch my emails and calendar when needed, this seems to make a massive difference.
 
I'm going to give it a go. I'm running juice defender and uninstalled app killer - will the free version do enough to conserve power or do I need a different app killer in tandem?
 
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I'm going to give it a go. I'm running juice defender and uninstalled app killer - will the free version do enough to conserve power or do I need a different app killer in tandem?
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I'm noticing a big improvement now with no App Killer installed, but IIRC when I installed Juice Defender- it advised getting rid of the app killer I had installed, (as incompatible) but did recommend another, although I can't remember what it was now.
 
I was always under the impression that any Android phones running Froyo and above did not need task killers as their own app management was more than up to the job. Plenty on the net about it, 2.2 made them basically unnecessary.
 
No noticeable difference on my phone. - 1st gen Desire
 
I will give try on my 1st. gen Desire too... will post results after a few days.
 
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