Sam
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Yesterday my phone was low on battery so I charged it completely.
This morning I go to use it and it's been turned off! Turn it on to find out the battery has completely drained so am currently charging it as we speak.
Normally the phone lasts about 4-5 days before needing a charge, WTF could have made it die so quickly?
It's my new HTC Wildfire, BTW. 
I check the battery app and it says the battery is "good", the only things it did yesterday were to update a couple of apps (something to do with Google, and Twitter).
I just leave the phone on constantly instead of turning it off/on every day, could that be the problem do you think?
The only thing that seems to be running is the Wifi (which has always been on and not caused any problems before). Phone is running Android 2.2.1 if that helps.
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adiohead
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turn shit off when you're not using it.
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noshua
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Could have been doing something in the background? If there's some sort of task manager kill everything
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Sam
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I shall keep an eye on it today, see what happens...
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Matty SRi
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I Have the same phone pal but mines fine. Use task manager and close what you dont use.
Also put wifi on your home screen so it comes up as a button and can turn wifi off easy. Also turn background data off.
Any chance the charger wasnt turned on?
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Steve
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mine does this sometimes, i put it down to something running in the back ground thats not shut down properly, usually restarting my phone sorts it
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brebaz
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quote:
Originally posted by noshua
Could have been doing something in the background? If there's some sort of task manager kill everything
Like the iphone has
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dannymccann
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My desire did thus yesterday at work, I think I remember catching the shazam app and it must have been recording all day long 
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AndyKent
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Had the same with my desire a few weeks back. The camera app had crashed but was still drawing full power. Phone died in about 2 hours from 75% charge.
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PaulW
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You need to connect the phone to the charger (wall charger, not PC) with the phone powered on, and allow the phone to charge until the notification LED is green, indicating the device is fully charged. Disconnect the phone from the charger, and power it off. Reconnect the phone to the charger with the phone powered off, and allow the phone to charge until the notification LED is green. Disconnect the phone from the charger and power it on. Once the phone is powered completely on, power it off again and reconnect it to the charger until the notification LED is green. Disconnect the phone, power it on, and use it. You need to use this sequence only once.
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Sam
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Bloody hell Paul I'll give it a go when I next have to charge it.
I installed an app called Task Killer, but I don't think it kills apps properly?
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dannymccann
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Paul trick genuinely works, extended my life by a good few hours
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Neo
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quote:
Originally posted by Sam
Bloody hell Paul I'll give it a go when I next have to charge it.
I installed an app called Task Killer, but I don't think it kills apps properly?
Set it up, leave it running and docked and then after using a few apps (say at lunch you send a few texts, use facebook, play a game, check emails etc) just open it and hit "kill selected apps". I have mine set to Auto Start, Auto Kill Level at Crazy, Auto Kill Frequency at Screen off and security level at high. All I have in the ignore list is the program itself (Advanced Task Killer Free), 3g watchdog, Weather and Clock.
Battery life lasts fecking ages now.
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PaulW
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I'm using a different method on my Desire though to calibrate my battery now.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=702167
Battery calibration tool, as far as I know, only works on phones with a "patched" ds2784 battery driver in the kernel. Not sure if it's compatible if you manually patch & build a kernel for other devices...
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John
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My Desire battery has always only lasted a day.
Randomly checked the battery usage there, not bothered up until now as I can always charge it anyway.
Live maps wallpaper has been 88% of my battery usage today
It'll last for about a year with that off.
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