This review is in response to the questions I received from my first review about battery life as well as tips to save your battery life such as: - modifying phone settings such as Auto Brightness off - Not using any LIVE Wallpaper - tweaking data usage - using alternate email retrieval - etc. Life of the battery throughout one day: 9:50AM - Unplugged phone for the day. 10:20AM - Just ended a 10 minute call and battery level is at 90%. 3:50PM - After two more phone calls and playing a game, I'm down to 50%. 9:00PM - the 15% batter life finally popped up and the phone went into power save. Conclusion - It looks like with normal to light calling and mild data usage (Background Data was turned ON), your battery life will be about 11 hours. NOTE: These results are all based on very mild data usage. I did not download any NEW apps from the market, nor create new email accounts, nor stream any media during this test. Doing so will further decrease your battery life. UPDATE: With Background data TRUNED OFF, I managed to get 13 hours of live in before the Power Save warning came on. If, however, I kept it going until it died, I would have probably gone another Hour or so. OTHER Battery saving techniques: - Turning off Animations - Disabling all Vibrate notification features. - Disabling 4G/LTE (See HTC Thunderbolt Review: How to Turn off 4G/LTE!!! Advanced battery saving Techniques. - Increasing the gap between updates with Email, Facebook, Twitter, Weather, etc.
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November 17th, 2011 at 1:40 pm
I have a droid by bionic and this phone has proved to be a piece of crap
November 17th, 2011 at 1:53 pm
is it true that anything you download to this phone will call it to run slow for the next couple of days
November 17th, 2011 at 2:43 pm
is it true that anytime you download anything to the phone that is closed the phone down for the next couple of days
November 17th, 2011 at 2:54 pm
@SuperWayno2010
November 17th, 2011 at 3:51 pm
@pineappleheadHQ
I have tested the Thunderbolt with the 4G/LTE disabled and didn’t notice any increase in battery life. However in many manufacture / website reviews, there are multiple claims that 4G/LTE will use more battery power. Based off of my experience I would say that 4G/LTE uses slightly more then 3G but not enough to worry about.
November 17th, 2011 at 4:15 pm
does 4g lte kill battery
November 17th, 2011 at 4:25 pm
Respond to this video…
November 17th, 2011 at 5:16 pm
@kikkyoass thats a bullshit lie
November 17th, 2011 at 5:22 pm
doesn’t matter how good the phone is if you can’t use it… Thunderbolt is the worst phone ever
November 17th, 2011 at 5:26 pm
No it won’t the phone will automatically stop charging when fully charged.
November 17th, 2011 at 6:07 pm
@kikkyoass Facepalm
November 17th, 2011 at 6:45 pm
DO NOT CHARGE ANY PHONE BATTERIES OVER NIGHT…. IT RUINS THE BATTERY AND YOU GET LESS BATTERY TIME AND IT NEEDS TO GET CHARGED FASTER
November 17th, 2011 at 7:40 pm
@5.57 “da, da, da, da umm stock Gmail spplication that comes with the phone”
November 17th, 2011 at 8:37 pm
HTC Thunderbolt batteries now sold at dreammarket .webs . [com] for $8.95 with free shipping.
November 17th, 2011 at 8:38 pm
is this phone only for verizon and at&t ? i really want this phone but i live in the netherland i this available in my country ? ..
November 17th, 2011 at 9:05 pm
Does the thumb help with the battery, lol?
November 17th, 2011 at 9:56 pm
@Ronzagaz
I’ve been using Tweet caster which you can set to update on a schedule. But with Peep, the best way to have it update with BD off is to select Update on Launch in the App settings under Send and Receive so it will update when ever you open the app or hit Update at the bottom of the Twitter widget.
November 17th, 2011 at 10:20 pm
What about twitter? How can I use that without background data
November 17th, 2011 at 10:31 pm
If I start with 100% battery, and then listen to music for 35 minutes, how low will the battery percentage go down?
November 17th, 2011 at 11:02 pm
MY phone went from 100% to 20 percent in about 2 hours even with tips on….I think something is up…
November 17th, 2011 at 11:24 pm
Ok let me drop some simple battery saving tips this is coming from a long time sense user since the HTC hero..
If you simply reduce your brightness to 1/3. only have your contacts and gmail syncd. don’t used graphic intensive widgets and don’t bitch when your phone is dead after you streamed YouTube for 2 hours on LTE.
4G will do that.. if you use your phone when you actually need it you’ll make it through your day with no problem
November 17th, 2011 at 11:26 pm
@ck3jr
With out auto sync, your email will not show up in the notification bar automatically. Just leave it on then go into the email app and tap Menu then go to Settings>Send and Receive>Update Schedule – there you can set how often new messages are downloaded and you are notified. To modify the name go into Menu>Settings> Account Settings – then just select Next with out changing any fields accept the last page where it says Account Name with a highlighted field. There you can change it.
November 18th, 2011 at 12:08 am
When using the email without auto sync are you suppose to get the email notification in the pull down bar? I dont and can not figure out why and also how did you name your email under the folder?
November 18th, 2011 at 12:19 am
@eaturcrap turn it back on lol, its not like android market should be in use 24/7, u can also go to the sync page and turn off auto syncing for the apps u dont care about
November 18th, 2011 at 12:34 am
@Yankees213 its more trouble than its worth, dont download