Sprint's HTC Evo 4G Available Now, Battery Life Still an Issue

Anybody who feels that their battery in their cell phone drains fast is just experiencing the phone working as intended... The cell phone companies just need to get realistic about how they run their estimates on battery life. The numbers they put in the user manuals are always way the hell off.

Actually I got my evo, and was able to go from full charge charging to "Plug in your phone" about 26 hours, from about 8:30 PM until 10:30 PM the next day. I turned off everything, including gps and wifi though which I don't use on a regular basis. GPS was the major battery hog actually. I had it on the previous day and it lasted about 10 hours, that and playing with it.

So what's with all this BS over the battery life of the Evo 4G? I use my phone for work (which means texting, emailing, video recording, pictures, phone calls, EVERYTHING) and I'm sitting, RIGHT NOW, and I'm sitting @ 1 day, 7 hours, 26 minutes, 14 seconds since last being plugged in.

I'm sitting @ 10% battery life remaining right now, too.

Wow, pretty impressive, @dowardspeace. You running on 4G? Wi-Fi on?

My battery life has been fine, I'm getting 14 plus hours and the size of the EVO is what attracted me to it. I find I can actually type on this virtual keyboard and I like the size of the viewing area. It would be nicer if I could see better when outdoors, but hey I'm impressed with this phone. It so far outclasses every other smartphone I've seen and I think competes on very even footing with the new Apple 4.

I use my Evo as an Access Point throughout most of the day. While doing so I get no additional charging capacity. I just unhooked my Evo from the charger, took a 20 minute break and got a low battery warning. I'm seriously considering a return. Coming from a Samsung Instinct S30 with 3+ days battery life, what good are all the features if you can't use them without being tied to a wall outlet? Same with the FIVE Sprint Overdrives I went through. At this point the USB data cards are looking reeeeeeeeally, really appealing.

I have had two main issues so far. 1. Battery Life and 2. Phone mysteriously shuts down/restarts on its own. I have contacted Sprint about both issues and I am taking the phone into a Sprint store. Customer Support was helpful and informed of an app that I can use to "kill" any running background apps. I have noticed that using this app has helped sustain the battery life but I am still having issues with the phone mysteriously shutting down/restarting. At first, my fiance (who also has the same phone but no issues), thought it was a built in updater but I assume that wasn't the issue when I was in mid conversation with my brother and the phone decided to shut down/restart on its own. Again, I noticed this in the middle of the night when the phone is plugged in to the charger. It woke me up three times shutting down and restarting! Furthermore, I also noticed that this happened when it was not connected to the charger. Mind you, I have only had the phone for 5 days and I am new to it. At the moment I am "playing around" with certain variables to see if it is something I am doing. So far, I have not seen a distinct pattern. I am taking the phone into Sprint tomorrow and I will post an update.

Well, I went into the store today and a technician looked at my phone. Ironically, while I was describing the issue to the woman at the counter, my phone reset three times. The touch screen decided not to work as well as the buttons at the bottom. She just looked at me and said "we will have our technician look it over and it will be ready in an hour." So, I went back into the store and it was VERY crowded. I gave them my ticket and within just a few minutes the technician came out to talk with me. I was pretty impressed with the service considering the line was pretty much out the door. I was told that my phone was not fixable and I was guaranteed a new phone by tomorrow. Apparently, some phones are just not up to par. Kudos to Sprint, though, for jumping on the issue as quickly as possible. My advice to anyone who purchases the EVO (or for any phone of that caliber and price)...get insurance and make sure that if you encounter issues within the 30 day return period...take it into the store. They fixed me right up and I am sure they will do the same for you, as well. I am frustrated that my phone turned out to be a lemon but at least Sprint is doing its best to fix the issue.

the battery life is fine if you make some well thought out adjustments. the initial evos were sent as if they were active newborns with all screaming high metabolisms - everything going. 4G, GPS, constant background monitoring of every app, faceboob, flickr, wifi scan, 4G scan, HTC sense contact integtration, weather, etc. i turn of background data and still use three email accounts including an active sync set at 15 minutes and it works fine. if you change all of this to reasonable settings then everything is fine. also many were shipped as auto searching for gsm networkds which clearly doesn't make sense. this kills battery for no reason. switch to cdma only save a ton. these were clearly mistakes or not well thought out by sprint or htc, but are still things that can be overcome so you can enjoy a great phone.

I had an EVO for 22 days.. and I returned it... dismal battery life is an understatement.. fantastic device that I couldn't ever use because it was always "almost" dead.. 1500 mAh battery is WAY to small.... with a device of this caliber it needs at least 3000mAh or more.. To go along with the battery life is HEAT, when pushing a LiPo this hard they get noticeably hot.

I returned it with the final thought of "battery eating pocket brick"

It's a Ferrari with a 8 oz gas tank.... really fast, around the block.

I bought a new battery for my Evo 4g (Sprint) and I use the phone all day, facebook, gps, and more all day, by the end of the day my phone still have half of the battery...

Do not buy this phone, the battery life is annoying beyond belief. After it "turns it self off" after dying, you plug it in to your car charger and you then have to wait 5 to 10 minutes for it to charge enough to use ANY of the features. You cant even call anyone! I feel that if I ever had any kind of emergency and relied on this phone in any way... the outcome would be grim.

I went into a meeting at 2 pm the other day with the battery life about half full (after only using the phone for a few texts-wifi and 4g off). I was in my meeting for about an hour and a half where I didnt look at my phone. When I went to check it... DEAD. Could not even turn it on. Very annoying to have to go out to the car, plug it in, wait 5 minutes... and THEN check my messages. Whats the point?

I am going to return this sucker.