HTC-battery life SO BAD!!! May have to take back

[onmyhols]

OK, so got a HTC desire yesterday.

Sales lady persuaded me as I'm not keen on touch screen phones and had heard battery life was poor. Like the lemming I am, I let her persuade me as I also fell in lust with it as soon as I saw it.

Charged it fully overnight. As of 10 minutes ago, it's saying I need to plug in charger. I have fiddled a bit with the internet and sent a few texts and a couple of e-mails but 9 and HALF HOURS on a full overnight charge??? I can't be charging it all the time....

Also, anyone else have a problem with the buttons (on screen obv) being really small. I keep hitting the one next to the one I want and having to delete. It's taking me AGES to type messages-it's driving me nuts!

The lady in the shop said I have a week's cooldown period. I've never been offered this before. I'm wondering whether they've had a lot of people bringing them back. I can't see the point of having a phone with all this amazing technology if the battery is a lot of rubbish and you have to charge it twice a day.

Anyone else have one? What do you think?

Do you have 3G on? Because 3G sucks battery life like a cheap hooker.

The real issue is that battery technology is just not up to Smart Phone technology.

Also, turn down the screen brightness, the lowest you can still read it. That's another battery drain.

I have an iPhone, not an HTC, but I find if I do the above, my battery lasts much much longer.

No idea on the keys though!!!

Yes, i think I've got the 3G on! What's that for? How do I switch it off?

Will have a fiddle and try and switch down the brightness.

3G is what you use when you can't get a Wifi connection, to get to the internet. So if you're pretty much anywhere in the UK, you don't really need it, as you can usually find a Wifi hot zone.

There should be something in your settings to turn it off.

I have no idea where that might be on your phone. Did you get a manual?

I've found it-thank you! Have also turned brightness down. Will see how it goes.

Still thinking about taking it back and getting a bog standard phone with buttons!

Do you like your i phone? Do you find you use the apps/internet etc. a lot?

I've also just had a message telling me I've almost used all of my 25mb allowance. Is this the allowance I have for using the internet etc? I've hardly been on it. If I have to buy more allowance, then that will be the clincher for me-it's just not worth it.

I'm also put off - DH has a Desire and has to charge it every night. In fact, if we go out in the eve, and he hasn't had a chance to charge it, it runs out part way through the evening.

I have a Blackberry and I charge mine once every three days.....

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I looked at the Blackberry Pearl. I'm a bit frightened of Blackberries though-they seem like a businessman's phone.

Can you get decent internet on it as my DH doesn't bother-he says you can't read the text.

i love mine. i'm on it loads. i do charge it every night, don't see it as a problem.

the typing is fine, it learns your common words. have you enabled predictive texting and are you using qwerty keyboard or phone keyboard?

25mb data limit is very low. i have 500mb. what are you paying each month?

I love love love my iPhone. I find it easy to use, easy to read and the keyboard is a nice size.

I do have the issue with sometimes needing to charge it every day, it depends on what I am using it for.

And I have unlimited data. Got my contract just before everyone started putting on data limits!!

I love my Blackberry. I can read the text without difficulty. I can certainly type on it far more easily than I can on my mum's Iphone and DH's HTC.

I bought a nice little Cath Kidston case so it doesn't look too blokey....

ruddynorah, I'm with vodaphone and paying £25 for 500 mins and unlimited texts. I thought i had unlimited internet too, but obviously I wasn't paying attention (too busy swooning over my new phone)-I'll have to check that.

Having sent a few texts tonight (while phone was plugged into wall charging (pah!)), I'm feeling a bit frustrated with it. I'm constantly deleting as it types out nonsense words because I keep hitting the wrong button.

I've got it on predictive text as that's what I prefer and I use the phone keypad. Tje qwerty keypad has even smaller buttons.

I've had it. It's def going back. Been charged twice today and still needs more charge-greedy!!

Hi TeamEdward.

I changed back to vodaphone from T-mobile! The lady did do a bit of fiddling with the tariff (basically gave me a business tariff) which reduced the insurance and gave me another 300 mins extra.

I just want a phone I can carry around for a couple of days without panicking about where I can charge it if I'm going out.

The battery life gets better the longer you have it and there is an app that ha just come out today that increases battery life by 400 odd %

I have a HTC hero, bought it second hand and I love it , the battery life is fine , do you have a taskiller app? I use that all the time to save memory/ batt life. To get the most out of the keypad you need to use it qwerty, it really does know what you want to write 99% of the time without touching let's accurately at all, magic.

Knickers - do you know what that app is called?

OP - get a widget app for a wifi on/off toggle so you can have a button on your homescreen to turn wifi off when not in use. Go into settings and turn your location thingys off as well. You don't need them unless you're using google maps or similar. They all drain battery.

I have a Desire and charge overnight and it will last me all day with phone calls and some internet surfing. My Tomtom broke today coming back from Devon and I had to use it as a Satnav and 90 mins of that killed the battery. But generally it will last me all day. I've got a car charger as well so can plug it in for a quick top up on school runs, etc.

Also download an app called thickfingers. It'll help with the texting.

If you have the screen on full all the time then any smartphone battery will run down quickly. I borrowed an HTC desire off a friend a few weeks ago and used it for a week and it was fine. My current phone HTC Touch HD2 is pretty good with the battery as well. I loved the desire and will get one when my current contract runs out.

Keys even, naughty phone

[Grin]

been informed that it isn't an app, its an update.

I must say though that I have just downloaded over 300 full music Travis from the net and my battery still has plenty of life on it, and that's using WiFi.

ooh thanks for the latest posts!

I only have until tomorrow to decide what to do-whether to stay with the desire or get something else. I'm a bit torn now.

For me though, the most important thing is to have a long battery life.

How can I get the update to increase?

Have just done a search for the thick fingers app but it hasn't come up.

Onmyhols please can I ask how you turned 3g off? I've had the desire for a week and am also struggling with battery. thanks

Sure! I went into settings, then "Wireless and Networks", then pressed "Mobile Network" so that the green tick goes off. (hopefully that's how you do it!!)

I have definitely found the battery life increases/improves 'with age'. But you do have to charge more often than a BlackBerry.