Test your battery life

[anheuer]

I now understand that there are people who own the Diamond at the moment.
I hear a lot about the battery not being strong enough to last the day.

But then again, some say it does.
I would like for people to test this.

So post here the time you disconnected it from the charger (charged 100%)
What did you do with your phone during the day
- how many calls
- how long were the calls
- sms
- gps
- 3g
ect ect ect.

and what the battery status is when you check it again in the evening.

I think this is the best way to see how long it will last.
And if various users do this (one calls more, one internets more ect)
Then people can compare this with there own phone usage.

Thank you for your inputh

[sandervanzijl]

a dutch htc touch, i am still waiting for it. where did you get yours?


i am looking for performance with:
3g off (only connect when using the internet),
no pushmail (a lot of people that complain are using push mail)
no gps
no wireless
no bluetooth

does this mean i actually plan to use this as a phone???????
yes, with the extra of sometimes using internet and gps.

[anheuer]

I my self dont have a diamond yet.

I first want to know how bad this battery realy is befor i do buy it.

Will it last 1 whole day, then its ok.
but if it doesnt last 1 whole days (and be able to use it! ;))

Then i will definitly wait for the Pro

[Baronic]

HTC TOUCH DIAMOND BATTERY LIFE for an SMS junkie

UPDATE ON BATTERY REVIEW : I did this test, based on what a student (like me) would probably use. More sms than calls. Here's a rough estimate.

TOTAL HOURS BEFORE KONKING OUT TOTALLY = approximately 9 hours, give or take
TOTAL SMS-ES = 120
TOTAL TALK TIME = approximately 15-20 mins
TOTAL LIGHT GAMING TIME (Hexic) = 45 mins.


Its actually pretty impressive.

My verdict is that with backlight on "auto adjust" and with the dimlight dimming within seconds after not being used, there is a HUGE amount of power saving from running the VGA screen. Also, it could be possible that with its graphic accelerators, gaming also consumed less power than usual.


MORE STUFF HERE: http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/711698

[MickyMax]

Have you tested BattBench.NET ? :D

[Dark Fire]

HTC TOUCH DIAMOND BATTERY LIFE for an SMS junkie

UPDATE ON BATTERY REVIEW : I did this test, based on what a student (like me) would probably use. More sms than calls. Here's a rough estimate.

TOTAL HOURS BEFORE KONKING OUT TOTALLY = approximately 9 hours, give or take
TOTAL SMS-ES = 120
TOTAL TALK TIME = approximately 15-20 mins
TOTAL LIGHT GAMING TIME (Hexic) = 45 mins.

As another student, that sort of performance will do me! :D

[anheuer]

So the battery only lasted for 9 hours on one full charge?

[moobox82]

ok.. i charged my diamond yesterday night at 1030pm.
under locked modes and suspend...
no calls no msg no nothing.. i just left it sleeping there
now 330pm it's still alive at half cell.

[wb9999]

Yesterday I used my Diamond for about 15 mins of calls, push email all day, connected to 3g half of the day, browsed the web for 20 minutes on HSDPA, browsed the web for 30 minutes on WiFi, played Teeter for 10 minutes (fantastic game).

By 7pm my battery was still at 50%. I'm happy with that. As a previous mentioned, the auto backlight feature seems to work very well.

[Baronic]

So the battery only lasted for 9 hours on one full charge?

different people will get different amount of time, for each person's usage is different.

SMS takes up a lot of power, because for the amount of sms i made, lets say 1 minute to type one sms, thats already more than an hour's worth of HTC Diamond's light being switched on. So it consumes battery

[Yzord]

please do understand that your battery will be better after some cycles!!!

[sub69]

I'm busy throttling mine...

Streaming music via WiFi from my laptop, and I'm listening to it via Stereo Bluetooth Headphones.

Surfing the internet or installing and testing a few third party programs at the same time. I've made a couple of 10 minute phone calls, sent 17 e-mails (using push e-mail), and only two text messages.

I'm in a 2G-only area (my living room) with my phone set to "Auto" to supposedly keep searching for 3G. So far it's managed four hours, but I get a feeling it will be turning itself off in about half an hour.

Certainly seems to be getting pretty warm. Hopefully it won't blow up on me when I try and charge it...

[ronaldkc]

HONG KONG DIAMOND WWE VERSION BATTERY REVIEW

Network - 3G, HSPDA
unplug charger at 11:00am with 100% charged
--> Connect bluetooth handset for two hours
--> talk on phone with bluetooth for 20-30 mins
I usually use bluetooth when driving.
GPS ON for 20 mins
SMS, 10-20 per day, both send and receive
talk without bluetooth around 1-2 hours
a little bit HSPDA connection for internet, e-mail(not push) every hours and update weather.

When I was home at 4:00am, 30% battery left.

[Icefeldt]

okay, can someone plz:

- CHARGE the Phone to 100%
- GO TO SLEEP / WAIT 10 Hours (and do NOTHING)
- then CHECK again what the battery says

:-)

cause:


ok.. i charged my diamond yesterday night at 1030pm.
under locked modes and suspend...
no calls no msg no nothing.. i just left it sleeping there
now 330pm it's still alive at half cell.


is very much in terms of battery drain


and can someone plz use the Battery Benchmark

BATTBENCH.NET

and post the results?!

thanks in Advance

[chaos42]

i charged my diamond last night before i went to sleep. i even turned of the phone (flight mode). when i woke up (after 8 hours) the battery was down to aprox. 50 % and my diamond was switched on (screen was illuminated). so i think it must have been on for quite a while during the night which causes the battery to drain.
Thats annoying. It reminds me of my firts days with my tytan. The screen tunred on rendomly as well and drained the battery realy fast.

[richardirv]

As stated above the battery seems to get better each time I charge it.

My first charge was hopeless only lasted half a day but each time I charge it, it gets better, its still not amazing battery life but for the size of it and what it does its not too bad.

[danwpeters]

Can someone post how many hours of music play you can get out of the Diamond?

[turt]

Yesterday I unplugged my Diamond at 9am.

- it was constantly on Direct Push mail on a 3G/HSDPA network
- I've made around 40 minutes of calls
- I've used Google Maps with GPS active for 15 minutes
- I've transferred 2 albums (around 30 mp3) and listened to music for 20 minutes with speaker on (not headphones).
- I've shown my phone to friends (teeter, touchflo3D, ...) for half an hour
- I had my phone connected to my bluetooth car handsfree for half an hour
- I have surfed the net for about an hour
- Fortunately I didn't have to work yesterday, when I add up the time I've used my Diamond ;)

When I went to bed at 11pm, so 14 hours later, there was 30% of the battery left. I think it's quite good!

ROM version: 1.35.401.3 WWE
ROM date: 05/28/08
Radio Version: 0.93.25.NS26

[Dark Fire]

When I went to bed at 11pm, so 14 hours later, there was 30% of the battery left. I think it's quite good!

That is quite good. I currently get that sort of performance out of my Touch (only roughly speaking, as it doesn't have all of those features). I think that, perhaps, the screen is the big battery drain and that people don't realise how much power they're using while typing texts, hence the differing opinions on the battery. Also, people haven't taken into account the light conditions that they've use the device in - the light sensor automatically adjusts the brightness of the backlight, as far as I'm aware.

[chaos42]

slightly off topic:
how long does ist take for you to fully charge your battery?
i am just asking because mine takes about 5 hours to fully charge (phone turned on) and about 3.5 hours (phone turned completely off), with the supplied wallcharger. and this seems to be pretty long for an 900mAh battery.

thanks,
chaos42

[a_friend]

I am convinced that there is battery drain why here it goes

Fully Charged at 11 am today
3.45pm receive text msg
3.46pm reply to text msg
4pm phone dead

that's all I did

ROM version 1.34.831.1
The battery has never reached this state ever even after phone switched off for 12 hours and on charge

'After the battery
has been fully charged, the Navigation Control LED shows a solid white light'

[kiowa79]

Could someone make this test about gps draining battery?
Conditions:

Wifi, bluetooth and 3G or HDSPA off
Screen always on and 100 % brightness
GPS on running any navigation software, ie Tomtom, googe maps, navigon, ozi explorer...

Would be quite appreciate :D

[Optika]

it goes on for 2 hours
i have car charger, and it is the only chance to get somwere using GPS.
The battery was only good at day 1
not happy with the battery!
But happy with the phone

[Icefeldt]

and can someone plz use the Battery Benchmark

BATTBENCH.NET

and post the results?!

thanks in Advance

[jehlinger]

OK results from BattBench.NET:

it ran 876 segments to drain the battery 3% (standard test)

Total Battery Life in this condition: 34 minutes

[anheuer]

OK results from BattBench.NET:

it ran 876 segments to drain the battery 3% (standard test)

Total Battery Life in this condition: 34 minutes


Soooo... what does this say?

That its pretty good or sucks?

[jehlinger]

dunno, I've nothing to compare it to, battbench wise.

Just doing Icefeldt a favor. He asked to run it. Maybe he's got comparison numbers?

[Icefeldt]

OK results from BattBench.NET:

it ran 876 segments to drain the battery 3% (standard test)

Total Battery Life in this condition: 34 minutes

You also deactivated, that the backlight shuts itself off?
(like it says in the Test screen?)
And the device stayed on all the time?



HTC Artemis Touch 4.01 ROM (3rd Party - 1500mAh Battery)

I get around ~1500 segments

[JeeHaa]

Just for reference for anyone wondering what efffect a VGA display has on battery life: on my E-ten X800 with a custom WM6.1 ROM (VGA smartphone with GPS and 500MHz Samsung processor, 1500MAh battery) I can get:
- 3-4 days standby (a few minutes of calls, bit of UMTS per day)
- 5.5 hours of GPS (TomTom 6) with screen on
- 7.5 hours of MP3 playing with backlight dimmed

It's certainly not a speedy device, but battery life is very decent IMO!

I am looking at upgrading to the Diamond, but battery life has me really worried. I'm afraid the faster processor (even if it has more power saving features ) and almost half the capacity may not even last 2 days standby, which is not enough for me.

I would really like to know how long battery life with light usage is (some minutes of calls/umts per day, but mainly standby). I really hope a higher-capacity battery (1200MAh or so) will be released soon. That will get rid of the ugly diamond-back at the same time. ;o)

[jehlinger]

You also deactivated, that the backlight shuts itself off?
(like it says in the Test screen?)
And the device stayed on all the time?



HTC Artemis Touch 4.01 ROM (3rd Party - 1500mAh Battery)

I get around ~1500 segments

Yes, kept the backlight on as suggested.

[Icefeldt]

Yes, kept the backlight on as suggested.

then we have some comparison figures!

[ratcom]

OK results from BattBench.NET:

it ran 876 segments to drain the battery 3% (standard test)

Total Battery Life in this condition: 34 minutes
Ive just run this same test on my Kiaser running "L26_Kaiser_Diamond_V6" (Hard reset'ed, 100% charged, nothing setup email ect, 1 bar of HSDPA/UMTS) with backlight ON at 100% brightness

it ran 906 segments to drain the battery 3% (standard test)
estimated battery life 267 minutes

[Pilot1]

Can someone maybe try to see how long it stays on while playing music with all radios off -> flight mode.

And also maybe watch a video while in flightmode... will you be able to see a full movie on one charge?

Thanks in advance!!

[me_the_recker]

10 minutes call and between 135- 150 minutes of avi fullscreen , phone ON , bluetooth , wifi, 3g OFF, level 3 backlight on scale. 60% volume on speaker



8 min call and more than 10 hours radio on headset max vol , backlight off ,phone ON , bluetooth wifi 3g OFF.

[fraham]

This is day #3 on standby test after charge. Battery is down to 70%.

NO: GPS, WiFi, Blotouth, GPRS, 3G and other connections. No Manila installed!

Phone is manual set to GSM, and 15 minutes phone usage in this 3 days, 3 allerts/day, 3 times/day for calculator usage á 2 minutes.

I think with this usage and my settings my Diamond can run up to between 5 and 7 days per charge.

The problem of the low battery lifetime is some of running background software. (what installed by first start of device)

update:
end of day #3: 50%! => 20 minutes telefon use + 20...25 minutes using other tasks after the check with 70%. I think it is acceptable, that i lost 20% energy by this use.