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DesireHD - Can someone give us a review already??
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Hi folks,
I have had the DHD since Wednesday and it's great. But today when the screen goes black/off as usual from some inactivity when I press the button on the top to bring it back to life it just stays black! It stayed black for a few hours, even though I could hear text messages being received. I took off the battery flap and put it back on and the screen worked again then so it is probably not something physically wrong, is there a known issue? I've googled but those problems appear to be with rooted devices, mine is not rooted. Hopefully it is nothing serious as i'd hate to have to give it back to the shop
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I'm having issues with my Desire HD which is a great phone but... not sure if it's my specific phone or is this common to all DHDs - it seems to be unbelievably slow to charge, you are talking a good few hours and the battery percentage is only going up 1% every couple of minutes.
This isnt my first smartphone, i used to have an iphone 3gs which would charge fully in a fraction of the time it takes to do the DHD. THe other worrying thing is that any usage of the phone while it is connected to the charger (even light web browsing) drains the battery much quicker than the charger appears to be capable of putting power back in so the battery actually goes down and it is quite possible for the phone to die while plugged into the wall.
While I havent tried it yet, i have a horrible feeling that using this device as a wifi hotspot would kill it in about 20 minutes while plugged in. Using it as a GPS in the car while plugged into a car charger will kill it in about an hour.All the above refers to the actual 3 prong plug charger and not USB laptop charging. I also had it connected to a car charger driving from Dublin to Cork and the battery only increased by about 10% over the whole journey.
Surely this cant be right, im nearly tempted to take it back to the shop and ask for a replacement device. Battery life is also terrible allthough I was kind of expecting that - not a hope of getting a whole day out of it just yet but am hoping this improves as i put it through more charge cycles.
All of this sounds weird... regardless of how I charge my "DHD" as people call them now apparently ;D, it charges.... I've been developing/playing games/music on it for the last few nights with it on 100% brightness and plugged in to my pc or plug. Each time it always charges up VERY fast. Usually about 30mins to go from 0-2% to 90-100% even while i'm using to do stuff, like install and play new games while I'm bored.
Your problem sounds very odd. Did you let it charge fully before using it? sounds like the battery may be having some trouble.
Perhaps you've just got a load of apps running ...and I mean a load, get a task manager and take a look, my friend had a similiar problem until he got a task manager.
All else fails bring it back to the store it can't hurt to ask.
Decided to give this a little test, as I was up all night reading manga with a cool app so my phone is dead after about 20 something hours straight usage.. so it's plugged in now, at literally 0% lol. I'll give it some juice and watch youtube with speaker and so on.
Starting at 12:04, as soon as I plug in the usb it hits 1%,
just waiting for it to turn the wifi on to watch the videos.
As usual my router betrayed me and I had to restart it XD.
Finally have wifi access at 12:06, battery is at 2%
Fired up youtube app, and found a video and cranked the speakers
and brightness up to 100% ;D. at 12:07
Boring long video found ;D and watching at 12:09.
Video ends at 12:11 at battery is at 3%. So it's charging..
now to turn on gps and look at some locations and google maps.
Ok fired up gps and locations to take me from dublin to London,
I followed the route in the sorta 'helicopter mode'.
and at 12:14 I still hav 3% battery hmmmm
I fire up google maps at 12:15.
plot and follow a similiar route and at 12:16 I seem to of obtained 5% battery
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Ok that's enough from me ;D basically it should be charging... it's certainly a lot slower as the average full charge takes about 30mins for me... however if you have brightness at 100% and locations running it seems to slow righttt down.
I used it as a wifi hotspot when gaming on my laptop with some mates from college, it was plugged in, and I came away with about 50% going in to a 100% when leaving after about 2 hours gaming. The phone wasn't being used on top of that though.
Reducing the brightness to 40% I found a good improvement, perhaps you just need to be wiser with how you use it?0 -
All of this sounds weird... regardless of how I charge my "DHD" as people call them now apparently ;D, it charges.... I've been developing/playing games/music on it for the last few nights with it on 100% brightness and plugged in to my pc or plug. Each time it always charges up VERY fast. Usually about 30mins to go from 0-2% to 90-100% even while i'm using to do stuff, like install and play new games while I'm bored.
Your problem sounds very odd. Did you let it charge fully before using it? sounds like the battery may be having some trouble.
Perhaps you've just got a load of apps running ...and I mean a load, get a task manager and take a look, my friend had a similiar problem until he got a task manager.
All else fails bring it back to the store it can't hurt to ask.
Decided to give this a little test, as I was up all night reading manga with a cool app so my phone is dead after about 20 something hours straight usage.. so it's plugged in now, at literally 0% lol. I'll give it some juice and watch youtube with speaker and so on.
Starting at 12:04, as soon as I plug in the usb it hits 1%,
just waiting for it to turn the wifi on to watch the videos.
As usual my router betrayed me and I had to restart it XD.
Finally have wifi access at 12:06, battery is at 2%
Fired up youtube app, and found a video and cranked the speakers
and brightness up to 100% ;D. at 12:07
Boring long video found ;D and watching at 12:09.
Video ends at 12:11 at battery is at 3%. So it's charging..
now to turn on gps and look at some locations and google maps.
Ok fired up gps and locations to take me from dublin to London,
I followed the route in the sorta 'helicopter mode'.
and at 12:14 I still hav 3% battery hmmmm
I fire up google maps at 12:15.
plot and follow a similiar route and at 12:16 I seem to of obtained 5% battery.
Ok that's enough from me ;D basically it should be charging... it's certainly a lot slower as the average full charge takes about 30mins for me... however if you have brightness at 100% and locations running it seems to slow righttt down.
I used it as a wifi hotspot when gaming on my laptop with some mates from college, it was plugged in, and I came away with about 50% going in to a 100% when leaving after about 2 hours gaming. The phone wasn't being used on top of that though.
Reducing the brightness to 40% I found a good improvement, perhaps you just need to be wiser with how you use it?
90% charge in 30 mins?? I'd be lucky to get 10% in that time if even - there must be some kind of hardware issue with my device or the battery that came with it!
As I mentioned before, I'm not new to the smartphone thing, been tring lots of stuff - have screen brightness turned right down, no gps, wifi, practically nothing sync'ing, all the usual tricks etc etc. Task killer is actually counterproductive on this version of Android as it just starts the apps back up again and actually drains even more battery...
Combining this slow charge issue with the fact that the battery discharges so quickly means the phone is rendered pretty much useless as when the battery runs down you cant re-charge it quickly enough to actually get out and do stuff with it - I am giving this phone one week from when I purchased (last wednesday) to sort itself out, otherwise it's back to VF stores to get myself a new one.0 -
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unknownlegend wrote: »Hi folks,
I have had the DHD since Wednesday and it's great. But today when the screen goes black/off as usual from some inactivity when I press the button on the top to bring it back to life it just stays black! It stayed black for a few hours, even though I could hear text messages being received. I took off the battery flap and put it back on and the screen worked again then so it is probably not something physically wrong, is there a known issue? I've googled but those problems appear to be with rooted devices, mine is not rooted. Hopefully it is nothing serious as i'd hate to have to give it back to the shop
cheers
Did you do the upgrade? if you havnt Go settings->about phone->System software updates->check now and download. its an update to help with the proximity sensor issues.0 -
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extremehalo wrote: »where can you go to find your percentage battery?
Use the "Mini Info" app extremehalo its excellent and uses little resources
Question for the people that know, ive failed to install Google Sky app, it downloads and goes through the install procedure, then reports as unsuccessful, tried many times, is is possible to download apps and manually install them?
Sorted, app site said to remove the memory card before installing if ur on 2.2 android, now must fine out how to transfer the app lol0 -
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