Desire battery performance

[Glenn]

I read the following and found it hard to believe, but thought what do I have to lose. So last night I tried.

1) Turn your device ON and Charge the device for 8 hours or more.
2) Unplug the device and Turn the phone OFF and charge for 1 hour.
3) Unplug the device Turn ON wait 2 minutes and Turn OFF and charge for another hour. Your battery life should almost double.

So far today, my phone has only used 11% of its power, rather than 20 - 30%, with the same usage.

[Rik]

Intriguing. It must be fooling the charger circuit.

[Glenn]

I was thinking, maybe it conditions the battery.

[Rik]

Possible, but if it's a lithium, it shouldn't need it.

[rgt247]

Thanks Glen I will try on my new HTC Wildfire. I have just charged my phone up for a few hours till the light went green. When discharged I will try the above to see if it lasts longer. I will post back soon.....   

[Simon]

Intriguing. It must be fooling the charger circuit.

Perhaps more intriguing, how did they find this out?

[Glenn]

It came from HTC, Simon. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=712990

[rgt247]

I followed the instructions above on Saturday night /Sunday morning my phone only lasted 13hrs 45 min and it was on 30%. So not sure if will improve over time.

[Glenn]

Rich, try adding JuiceDefender from the Marketplace to it.

[rgt247]

Thanks Glenn will give it a try and see if battery life improves.   

[Simon]

This isn't just Android,but if there are apps to improve battery life, it makes me wonder why there needs to be, and why the phones aren't performing optimally out of the box?

[Rik]

Cost-cutting on the design?

[Simon]

Trying to boost app sales?

[Rik]

Or that...

[pctech]

Quite surprised considering as Google are supposed to be so energy conscious with their million+ servers.

[Glenn]

This isn't just Android,but if there are apps to improve battery life, it makes me wonder why there needs to be, and why the phones aren't performing optimally out of the box?

JuiceDefender actually switches parts of the phone off when not in use, like the WiFi when the phone is idle. http://www.androidtapp.com/juicedefender/

I think the main problem - it affected mobile phones throughout their history - is battery technology evolves slower than the handsets.

[Rik]

Quite surprised considering as Google are supposed to be so energy conscious with their million+ servers.

Do no evil, you mean?

[pctech]

You've misquoted their creepy sounding mission statement there Rik, its 'don't be evil'

[Rik]

I was accusing them of being Hippocratical.

[pctech]

ok.