How about we stop complaining and start a poll to figure out which Rom has the best batter life for us more than average users.

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Originally Posted by cwininger

i'm not following you logic here. the droid x is a direct competitor. we're talking apples to apples here. it's significantly better in the battery area. i had an original droid before that and it was much better. how can that be irrelevant?

your notion that "this is just how smartphones are. you knew what you were getting so deal with it" is just plain wrong. we are discussing whether the battery life on the thunderbolt is a weakness or not. look at posts #5 and #6! you're telling me that's normal?

the idea that there are more people praising battery life on this thing than are complaining about it is wrong too. pop over the the htc forums and see the number one beef is over there. go into a verizon store and mention "thunderbolt battery life" to a tech and watch them roll their eyes.

bottom line: the thunderbolt is great in a lot of ways, but for a large percentage of us the battery life is pretty crappy, and for no good reason.

As mentioned before....different battery sizes. It's not apples to apples.... Usage of the phones can be similar but when u have a 1400 vs 1540.... That not apples to apples. So far using virus Rom with ziggy's bus kernel, I'm going 16 hours at 59% with moderate usage (browsing, texting, occasional words game play) as far as idle...haven't checked. Will update when I do.

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Originally Posted by th3_g00b

As mentioned before....different battery sizes. It's not apples to apples.... Usage of the phones can be similar but when u have a 1400 vs 1540.... That not apples to apples. So far using virus Rom with ziggy's bus kernel, I'm going 16 hours at 59% with moderate usage (browsing, texting, occasional words game play) as far as idle...haven't checked. Will update when I do.

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i meant apples-to-apples in the sense that both phones should draw similar power and are capable of similar usage.

besides, a 10% larger battery is providing 60% more battery life? how does that add up? i don't necessarily think the problem is with the size of the battery, i think the problem is more likely with something in the utilization.

btw, i'm running das bamf 1.4 with adrynalyne's kernel, did all the tweaks, tried juice defender and did the bump charge. i'm not getting anything like the battery life some of you guys are reporting and judging from the conversations going on elsewhere a lot of others aren't either.

Originally Posted by cwininger

i meant apples-to-apples in the sense that both phones should draw similar power and are capable of similar usage.

besides, a 10% larger battery is providing 60% more battery life? how does that add up? i don't necessarily think the problem is with the size of the battery, i think the problem is more likely with something in the utilization.

btw, i'm running das bamf 1.4 with adrynalyne's kernel, did all the tweaks, tried juice defender and did the bump charge. i'm not getting anything like the battery life some of you guys are reporting and judging from the conversations going on elsewhere a lot of others aren't either.

Yes, you are correct that the issue lies in the utilization. I have copied and posted a posted from Roger Podacter from earlier in this thread"


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Ok guys I apologize. A week ago I setup the current widget on 2 thunderbolt units here at the local Verizon store. Both collected data for a full week.

I just looked at the data and both phones stay at 34mA during idle time. Day after fly, over and over the results were identical, on both units. And they stayed on during the night too!

The bad part is that I did the same on the stock inspire at ATT, and that phone hit 1-3mA doing the same idle use. Which is a superb result. My nexus one stays around 5 mA.

So no wonder the thunderbolt sees worst battery life. You are gonna have to try a different ROM, or remove the crap stuff running.

Interesting though, perhaps Verizon has something running on the ROM. Go stock!

Ok so checking back in, I idle at about 44... And do we have evidence that 10% battery size increase gives a good amount more of battery usage? Not instigating from a previous post, actually curious if anyone has seen this other than on the Droidx/Thunderbolt

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