For far too many days, blogs everywhere, including here, have been writing how to get the MOST out of your EVO battery. Well, today we tried a different challenge – how quickly can we KILL the EVO battery. So, without further ado, our wonderful scientific test…
Our test begins at 8:57 am with a 100% charged battery. We flipped on Sprint TV, Bluetooth Audio and started our 3 hour tour…
30 Minutes in our JuicePlotter grid shows us down 17% to 83% battery remaining. With the usual drop when the EVO is unhooked, this isn’t too far from what we expected.
An hour in, the battery has dropped an additional 12% to 71%. A 12% drop in the second half hour really made us wonder how long this will hold. That’s a 29% drop in hour number 1.
Now drifting into the hour and 30 minute mark, the battery has dropped below the 60% mark and fallen an additional 12%. This seems to be a pattern of about 25% per hour on Sprint TV, regardless of if you are using Bluetooth Audio or not.
Finally getting to the 2 hour mark, and surprisingly we are only down to 44% – even if we missed it in the screen capture above. A bit more severe drop, as we were down 15% in this half hour period, but it’s still holding steady at that 25% per hour discharge.
Finally, at 18% remaining at 2 1/2 hours in, the battery is done. It played TV for about 3 more minutes before the 15% battery warning kicked in and the TV stopped. So, the full battery life for a maxed out EVO is about 3 hours tops – but closer to the 2 1/2 hour side of that measurement.
We’d love to see your results of the stress test like this – email us at smartphonedeals@gmail.com and let us know how your EVO does!
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