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[Q] Desire HD battery life question before I buy

Hi,
I'm planning on buying a Desire HD, but just curious about battery life before I lay down a grand on it.
At the moment I have an HTC Hero, when they were in their heyday many people complained about the short life on them. I can get 2 days out of mine, with syncing over wifi enabled the whole time. I put the complaints down to people with background apps sucking CPU or too much twitter/facebook/whatever crap syncing as well.
Now most of the reports of poor Desire HD battery I life are from people on their first charge (who clearly don't understand the characteristics of Li-ion batteries), people who expect to be able to thrash the phone all day with the screen on without it dying and generally people who just don't sound like they know what they're talking about.
I know there are two bugs which peg the CPU at 100%, the one fixed by having debugging on and the calendar bug, which sounds like it can be fixed by clearing calendar data or leaving syncing off. I think these were affecting some of the people who were complaining about the short battery life.
So my question for Desire HD owners is, can you last at least 6 am till 10 pm with a bit of use (something like 10 min browsing, 20 min IM, email syncing all day, 1 hr music, 20 min calls) without it dying? Currently my Hero does this fine and a full day without a charge is a requirement for me.
Thanks.

Yes, if you set it up correctly. From your post it sounds like you know what your doing when setting it up.

Before i tried the battery calibration i was getting from 8am to 9pm with moderate usage. TBH i was put off by using it as I thought it would just die on me too soon.
After the calibration (search forum for it) i got from 8am to 4pm the following day where the 15% warning hit. So do the calibration and you'll be as happy as i now am with it. I never got my iPhone 4 to last that long!

Thanks for the info guys, exactly what I wanted to hear!

I haven't taken any precautions to save battery life and I am getting 25-26 hours on a full charge...and now having had the phone for 2-3 weeks it seems to be getting even better!! I've been getting 36 hours out of a full charge these past 3 days.
I do not turn wifi off. I have screen brightness on auto. Syncing lots of stuff hourly (even weather!). I use 3g when I go out but this is about 2-3 hours tops on week days cause I have wifi everywhere i go. battery life has never been an issue for me and I use my phone frequently...play games for 20-30 mins. watch videos via. skynews, listen to some music etc. etc.
As for the bugs...I do not have usb debugging turned on and I have never had the /INIT problem...perhaps it was fixed in the last update? and the calender bug...never had that problem either and I use my calander with google calander, facebook, holidays and person agenda.

I think you'll easily last a day with the usage you mention. As a rule, I think you normally get up to 4 hours display on usage off a charge (browsing, messaging, watching vids etc).
I'm travelling from Ireland to NZ on Monday, which will equate to 36 hours travelling with probably no access to a charge, and lots of time spent sitting around using my dhd. There's no way the phone will last right through, so have bought a 5000mAh USB battery pack for £20.
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Might be useful to you -
http://hemorrdroids.net/battery-calibration/
http://hemorrdroids.net/htc-desire-hd-battery-life/
I'm currently at 22 hours and still at 42%.

I get 2 to 4 hours depending on useage from full charge. 8 - 9 hours if left on standby and not used for anything.
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AndyCr15 said:
I'm currently at 22 hours and still at 42%.
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I'd be interested to know what kind of usage that's with?

xspyda said:
I'd be interested to know what kind of usage that's with?
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Well...I think I have had similar results....
flash one of the custom roms, with one of the OCUV kernels and setting max. speed to one of the UV speeds (mine is set to 1.1 Ghz which is UV 50mV), also setup useful profiles in Setcpu (I have set screen-off to use max 384 mhz - which does cause a 1-3 sec lag when screen is on again) and <20% battery etc...
of course, if you play heavily with your dhd you will not get these results, so you can put wifi on with this , but need to think of what you want to do, because using your DHD for 2 days, does require limited screen usage (imho, this uses a lot of battery)

l0w said:
I get 2 to 4 hours depending on useage from full charge. 8 - 9 hours if left on standby and not used for anything.
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8-9 hours on standby???????????
even 2-4 hours whilst using it is terrible!!! When I got my HD and unpacked it I didn't put it down after a full charge and I got 8 and a half hours with non-stop heavy use.
I think you have a faulty battery!!

jbrizz said:
Hi,
At the moment I have an HTC Hero, when they were in their heyday many people complained about the short life on them. I can get 2 days out of mine, with syncing over wifi enabled the whole time. I put the complaints down to people with background apps sucking CPU or too much twitter/facebook/whatever crap syncing as well.
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I too moved from a Hero to a DHD and I can say that with similar usage, the DHD loses to the Hero by a decent margin..maybe u might get a couple of hours less of usage compared to the Hero but the difference isn't very drastic
Moreover on the Hero I'm using CM6.1 Froyo overclocked and the DHD is on Sense, so logically speaking the Hero should get slightly better battery life on CM6.1 compared to Sense. I'm sure after rooting and flashing CM6.1 and undervolting/underclock the DHD, i'd get better battery life because the DHD is like much much faster than the Hero, so I'm sure even if i underclock it, it'll still be super fast.

ccart said:
8-9 hours on standby???????????
even 2-4 hours whilst using it is terrible!!! When I got my HD and unpacked it I didn't put it down after a full charge and I got 8 and a half hours with non-stop heavy use.
I think you have a faulty battery!!
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The battery is 'fine' i'm using current widget to track and its performing to around 1100 mah which is not too far below spec. The problem is the current draw. In use i'm drawing 500 to 800 mA and in standby around 80 to 300 mA. These figures are consistent with the battery life I'm seeing and the battery working close to spec (1230mAh i think?)
There are lots of bundled apps like Maps running all the time in standby drawing current and I haven't yet figured out how to stop them. Stopping them with task manager just sees them restart with even bigger current draw.
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Something is definitely wrong (as I'm sure you're aware) with only 9 hours on standby.
Out of interest, remove ALL widgets and see what difference it makes. Also, give us an example of what processes are running?
I would get rid of all task killers and also anything monitoring your system. Those themselves can draw more than you think.

l0w said:
The battery is 'fine' i'm using current widget to track and its performing to around 1100 mah which is not too far below spec. The problem is the current draw. In use i'm drawing 500 to 800 mA and in standby around 80 to 300 mA. These figures are consistent with the battery life I'm seeing and the battery working close to spec (1230mAh i think?)
There are lots of bundled apps like Maps running all the time in standby drawing current and I haven't yet figured out how to stop them. Stopping them with task manager just sees them restart with even bigger current draw.
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wow well I'm no battery expert but it really sounds like something is not right there. I don't have any battery drain from apps in standby and I do use maps.
I got 1 day and 16 hours from a full charge today (just put it back on charge now).
Thats with wifi on for 31 hours (always on, doesnt sleep when the screen locks), 1 hour and 24 mins of talk time and the screen on for 4 hours and 5 mins.

l0w said:
The battery is 'fine' i'm using current widget to track and its performing to around 1100 mah which is not too far below spec. The problem is the current draw. In use i'm drawing 500 to 800 mA and in standby around 80 to 300 mA. These figures are consistent with the battery life I'm seeing and the battery working close to spec (1230mAh i think?)
There are lots of bundled apps like Maps running all the time in standby drawing current and I haven't yet figured out how to stop them. Stopping them with task manager just sees them restart with even bigger current draw.
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thats definitely wrong somehow.. should never drain that much, perhaps it is because you let currentwidget drain it all the time
(na dont know why it is like that but it definitely is way too high)

official firmware, medium screen brightness, default sync widgets
heavy use: 12-15 hours
light use: 24 to 36 hours
this is how its been for me ever since the battery calibrated, needs around a week or use the battery calibration trick

I too have just moved from a Hero (running VillainRom 12) to the DHD (stock Sense over FroYo) and even though I have only had it a week, the battery easily lasts a whole day with the moderate use you describe. Unless I get stuck into a session of " Angry Birds ", which seems to kill the battery pretty fast. But ABs had the same affect on my Hero. Constant screen time on that beautiful 4.3" display sucks the battery. I find the same thing when using the DHD as an in-car gps. The warmth of the back of the case is testament to how much energy has been expended. So I connect to the car charger now. I have also bought a portable backup battery (plugs into the microUSB) just in case.
I don't regret spending NZD1000 on the DHD. My son is looking forward to inheriting the Hero.

Well I charged it up overnight when I got it, my first full day was today and I got 7 am till 8:30 pm using it almost constantly (quiet day at work). I don't know how people can run them flat a day with normal use. And I know it'll improve a lot after a few charge cycles.
It doesn't look like it's going to be much worse than my Hero.

Thanks for all the advice. I uninstalled all widgets and it improved a little. But still things like maps/maps sync were constantly burning juice and no way of stopping them running.
I installed Launcher Pro and can report that my battery life has approximately doubled. Typically i was getting 4 - 6 hrs use and sometimes only 2 (light use). Now getting between 8 and 12 hours of fairly heavy use. Its still not up to some of the figures others are reporting but Launcher Pro has helped a lot as all those constantly running apps that were draining my battery just dont start themselves up any more!
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One X battery fix?

Okay so I presume all of you one X power users have noticed a the horrible battery performance. I only got my one x yesterday and I'm already frustrated with the fact that i yet again have to carry my charger around with me. Is there a fix? I have root and custom recovery. So if there is a fix for this please someone let me know.m

Since I flashed the Revolution HD I got excellent battery performance. Without doing too much stuff (just calling and texting), battery remains > 50% at the end of the day. I would really recommend that rom.

I've just flashed it, going to see how it goes. But I would've expected HTC to bang a beast of a battery for the beast of a processor and massive screen its gotta run. Oh well, still early days, hopefully we'll see massive software improvements.
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Stuart.upton666 said:
Okay so I presume all of you one X power users have noticed a the horrible battery performance. I only got my one x yesterday and I'm already frustrated with the fact that i yet again have to carry my charger around with me. Is there a fix? I have root and custom recovery. So if there is a fix for this please someone let me know.m
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18 HOURS ARE THE BEST BATTERY PERFORMANE THAT I EVER SEE... I DONT KNOW WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT lol

wolfraim said:
18 HOURS ARE THE BEST BATTERY PERFORMANE THAT I EVER SEE... I DONT KNOW WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT lol
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I'm getting 6-7 on a full charge at the moment, but that's down to me being a power user.
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Stuart.upton666 said:
I'm getting 6-7 on a full charge at the moment, but that's down to me being a power user.
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And also you just got the phone yesterday. Batteries take about 10 charge cycles to reach full potential.

Stuart.upton666 said:
Okay so I presume all of you one X power users have noticed a the horrible battery performance.
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Not really, no. Personally I did not unlock device, neither root it, neither installed any fix. And I must say that I'm more happy with battery life than I was with my previous phone SGS2. More then 16 hours here with 4 accounts synchronization on, 3g/wifi on, and sometimes gps + music on (for Endomondo). I'm really happy with my One X.

ARHD Rom, auto-brightness, plain wallpaper, no haptic feedback, no roaming, managing syncing, and a few other tweaks will leave this devices battery life as one of the best.
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bought the phone yesterday... my battery drains very quick even if its locked.. its stock i installed the ota update and if i use wifi or just browsing i am losing 1% per min (maybe more %).
anyone else got this problem?
will this get fixed after some full charges?
thnx

patomo09 said:
bought the phone yesterday... my battery drains very quick even if its locked.. its stock i installed the ota update and if i use wifi or just browsing i am losing 1% per min (maybe more %).
anyone else got this problem?
will this get fixed after some full charges?
thnx
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Yep. Relax. I got 6 hours from first charge, 10 hours from second charge, 12 hours from third charge...
After over two weeks I'm now getting between 18 and 24 hours. Give it a couple of weeks before judging battery life.
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wnp_79 said:
Yep. Relax. I got 6 hours from first charge, 10 hours from second charge, 12 hours from third charge...
After over two weeks I'm now getting between 18 and 24 hours. Give it a couple of weeks before judging battery life.
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thnx man.
. should i let it to go 1% to charge it or charge it anyway?
(for night)

patomo09 said:
thnx man.
. should i let it to go 1% to charge it or charge it anyway?
(for night)
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I try to use as much as I can the first few days, and time it so that you have about 10-30% charge left when you reach home from work/school and then I let it charge overnight.

I know quite a lot of time was spent idle, but 60% after 7 and a half hours isn't too bad http://twitter.com/Dev_Meltus/status/194082996767309825/photo/1/large
I've not really had a problem with battery life so far.

Meltus said:
I know quite a lot of time was spent idle, but 60% after 7 and a half hours isn't too bad http://twitter.com/Dev_Meltus/status/194082996767309825/photo/1/large
I've not really had a problem with battery life so far.
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how did u use it on those 7 hours? idling?

Have been seriously contemplating getting the One X.
My first choice had been the Galaxy S3..... but the One X seems the better choice.... I have had the iPhone 4 for almost 2 years, so now it's almost upgrade time If the Galaxy S3 had no physical home button I would be taking it.
Had been worried about the battery life of the one x but after reading these and a few others it seems worth it and it's available in black (dark grey but darker than S3 metallic blue)
I Just hope I don't have issues with app incompatibility for the apps I use on iPhone.

With normal usgae, I've got more than 10 hours after one charge. Not so happy with it but it's good enough for me.

sy573mx said:
Have been seriously contemplating getting the One X.
My first choice had been the Galaxy S3..... but the One X seems the better choice.... I have had the iPhone 4 for almost 2 years, so now it's almost upgrade time If the Galaxy S3 had no physical home button I would be taking it.
Had been worried about the battery life of the one x but after reading these and a few others it seems worth it and it's available in black (dark grey but darker than S3 metallic blue)
I Just hope I don't have issues with app incompatibility for the apps I use on iPhone.
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have you got yourself the One X? if so, how is it compared with your previous phone?
i also want to swap my iphone 4 with One X and looking for different experiences especially with the battery life

I've turned everything off and left my phone on idle, my battery issue has persisted for over 6 months now (I bought it in Singapore on release day). With screen on min brightness, static wallpaper, most apps off, my battery drains fully within 6 hours. If I actually do anything with it like make phonecalls, it drains in hours. The battery phone is constantly hot, when on charge It's almost too hot to hold. If while on charge (AC) I use it to make a call, it complains that it's not receiving enough power. Should I look to get a replacement from HTC? I'm still using stock rom so it should be covered under warranty?

Sounds like the htc amaze battery overheat..
Also get gsam battery app.. it will tell you what apps are using what % of battery.
I also use advanced task manager from play store.. it proved to me how much gmaps Facebook and other bloat was ALWAYS RUNNING!.. I got root and froze it all with big improvements
Some of us who htc amaze w no warranty bought a new battery and that fixed it
e-Sex.. All of the carpral none of the tunnel

3piece said:
I've turned everything off and left my phone on idle, my battery issue has persisted for over 6 months now (I bought it in Singapore on release day). With screen on min brightness, static wallpaper, most apps off, my battery drains fully within 6 hours. If I actually do anything with it like make phonecalls, it drains in hours. The battery phone is constantly hot, when on charge It's almost too hot to hold. If while on charge (AC) I use it to make a call, it complains that it's not receiving enough power. Should I look to get a replacement from HTC? I'm still using stock rom so it should be covered under warranty?
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Aside from your time travel/exaggeration, I suggest better battery stats, finding out what is causing wake lock, and killing.it.
Your phone is fine, but you have some crapware on it.

Batt bad bad bad

I´ve just moved from th GS2 to the HOX and even though I had read reports about the battery not being so good I was really surprised at how bad it is! I mean with the GS2 I would watch about 1 hours of videos, navigate a little bit, check my calendar several times and talk a couple of times and I would get home at the end of the day with about 80% full batt...I do the same with the HOX and it´s almost half that! Plus it takes forever to charge when compared to the GS2, GS1 and the Atrix. Is it really that bad or is my unit faulty? Is there a mod or an update that can probably address this?

If you used to get all of that use out of 20% of your sgs2 battery, you probably had a really good sgs2 because I could never achieve anything like that.
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So you just got it and reporting a bad battery after a first charge probably? Use it more and report again then...

Well I´ve had several other smartphones that didn´t have this issue after I "just got them".

I think you GS2 is incredible

Cycle the batt
The hox has wayyy better batt life than any samsung
I don't miss the 3% increase an hour it took for any samsung to charge once they are dead forget about getting a fast charge may as well have a spare charged n ready or how about the can not use camera bs!! because the battery is to low... to function the cam
Lol all that crap is history.
Charge the phone with data toggled off
Set screen to 15sec time out
I'm getting 15-16 hrs out of mine on heavy use
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I must have faulty unit then because I really don´t see it. I´ve used the GS2 for an year and the battery was supperb. And I had the screen set for maximum light ALL THE TIME.

rawfa said:
I must have faulty unit then because I really don´t see it. I´ve used the GS2 for an year and the battery was supperb. And I had the screen set for maximum light ALL THE TIME.
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I came from the SGS2 which was running VillainRom with an underclocked CPU with under volt. (Auto Brightness)
.... and my stock HOX gives better battery life whilst having a much brighter default auto brightness.
Under my usage, I would never get over 3:xxhrs screen on time, so if you used 100% brightness, you can probably half that.
Also regarding streaming (as I do a lot of it), my ex SGS2 would die after around 6hrs whereas the HOX can do 9+hrs, ive tested these thoroughly.
So, I really don't understand this thread.
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rawfa said:
I must have faulty unit then because I really don´t see it. I´ve used the GS2 for an year and the battery was supperb. And I had the screen set for maximum light ALL THE TIME.
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Remember that you have a li-po battery in the HOX ... you need some charging cycles to get the full performance of the battery

muamers said:
Remember that you have a li-po battery in the HOX ... you need some charging cycles to get the full performance of the battery
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Thanks. I didn´t know that. I will work on it.

HOX= HTC One X ??? how long can batt use??

Well even me coming from the SGS2 I can say it had the better battery life with an extended battery. Could easily get 4-6 screen on time on various things. HOX is fine but not as good as SGS2 with extended battery.
Currently in Turkey on roaming and idle time in this is quite excellent the 5th core works fine in idling.
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My battery was ****e for the first week of having the phone. Can't complain now though, it definitely out performs my previous handset (Sensation XE)
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@liberator 72 - What settings did you have for screen brightness? Was it auto or did you set it manually to a low value? I am asking as I can't get past 3h of screen time, about 10 days after I bought the One X.

StefanCelMare said:
@liberator 72 - What settings did you have for screen brightness? Was it auto or did you set it manually to a low value? I am asking as I can't get past 3h of screen time, about 10 days after I bought the One X.
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Auto brightness. Pretty much standard stock setup with only a few of the bloatware apps disabled in the apps settings and haptic feedback turned off. All accounts setup to auto sync too! It took a good couple weeks for the battery to last that long but now on moderate use I can get 2 days out of it.
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It's all about charge cycling the battery and adjusting settings
Sync off screen time out display background data etc....
It will get better my silver hox right now is new but I have a white hox that has awesome batt life
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Not too shabby. Virtual constant use with WiFi and GPS both on.
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If you want to be sure that you don't have a faulty battery you can always perform the HTC test , type *#*#3424#*#* in the phone and look for battery test.

Tried that got the O2 woman.
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edit: working. I just have fat fingers.

Not really now
I used to get only 8 hours out of my HOX with it getting extremely hot. But then someone suggested me to perform the following steps in exactly this order.
1. Turn Wifi Off, set sleep mode to "always".
2. Turn 3G data On
3. Turn 3G Data Off
4. Turn WiFi back on
5. Close Maps, Gtalk and any other Google service when not using the same.
I am getting 48 hours on an average with 3 hour screen On time. I am On 1.28 Stock.

Average battery life

Hi,i see the topic of the battery stats,but this is a little different:how much is your average battery life?I don't want to know what's that consume a lot of battery. what that is real important is the daily use.
For this I made this poll
I hope that this will be usefull for all

I can miss a night's charge and still have some juice left, with an average of around 1-1,5 hours of screen on time

I'm quite happy with mine to be honest, contrary to people having problems I haven't had one. Battery is currently running at about 4 and a half hours. I do have a lot of the bloat ware turned off though, and I don't mind minimum or auto brightness. But I do spam the browsers and plume and tasking widgets though. I prolly get around 24 hours of battery too. Have gone longer but average around 15 hours before I stick the charger in. Still have around 30 battery when I do though as I very rarely get down to 20%.
Sorry for the ramble, but I really am quite happy with me little phone
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I'm happy as well.

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I'm happy as well.
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Wow, we must be the only ones in the whole forum.
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I am heavy user and btw it can last for me at the average rate of 15 hours +

Hows that for a non batterytime?
This phone, so far, is a good joke
P.s. minimum or autobrightness for the whole... Hour
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According to the Poll, the battery live rocks on One X.
@Op, what do you mean with battery live?
How much it will last in years or about the duration in hours?

I think I get great battery life with my HOX (latest firmware). I'm usually at 40% around 17hrs or so regular use. Heavy use I get about 9hrs. I also have an HTC Inspire and that thing died way faster.
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With normal usage the battery lasts around 48 hours.
Think that's pretty decent.

After 6 month, the battery performance get worse

I just want to know is there any guy like me, have used one x for 5~ 6 months. Now the battery performace get worse？
I have not changed the rom for 4 months. Same usage pattern. Before after full charge, the battery go down from 100 to 90 take more than hour. Now just few minutes it drop fast to that. Also screen on time seems only 2.5~3 hours compare to before is 3.5~4 in average.
I do not hope to get a reason why this happen, but just see is other old user of one x has same experience see the obvious battery performace down.
Thanks for your input!

I own hox since it came out and what I can say about battery is that it is very inconsistent, it all depends on where you use phone more home, work, bad signal areas etc. Sometimes I get 4 hours screen time on 24 hours standby, sometimes only 2. I can't really tell how it should be. All I care is that I'm feeling ok with its battery. Although I'm really liking the idea of being able to put in onex+ battery, but I couldn't do it myself
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I have my hox since May, no problem at all, flashing aprox 2 roms per day...battery is the same as first day but lasts more thanks dev work
SkyDragon Sense Rom V1

I have Evo Lt, almost same phone but krait s4 dual core and 2100 battery. After 6mo., I swear I'm seeing degradation.
hurled from my AOKP'd Evo LTE. Enjoy.

mmx6688 said:
Before after full charge, the battery go down from 100 to 90 take more than hour. Now just few minutes it drop fast to that. Also screen on time seems only 2.5~3 hours compare to before is 3.5~4 in average.
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2.5 hours screen on time is a drop of 10% every 15 minutes. Not every few minutes.
Try installing better battery stats to see.if anything is using the battery when.it shouldn't be.
Also, it could be something like signal strength.

I have been destroying my battery in many ways: overcharging, playing games while charging, discharging completely...but it still doesn't get worse...
Look after apps you've installed in last month, they are the evil...(the worst of them a those with notifications
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