garyb01
Senior Member
Have I missed something?
I got myself a Desire on Saturday after researching all the phones on the market in the similar "high-end" classification. I am by open admission a cell-phone junkie and own about 17 of the things, have four different HTC devices alone, and I must be honest when I say that I am very disappointed with this phone.
I am not really a stranger to Android, I ported Android ROM's to both my TyTn 2 and my Touch Diamond, replacing Winmo with these ROM's, so I knew what to expect to a degree. This expectation and the praise that has been heaped on the phone all over the net made me choose it over other phones like the HD2.
Now I am not saying that it is not a ''classy'' device. Its lightning fast and can do a lot, but you basically have to carry around a ruck-sack with a car battery in it and keep the thing on charge most of the time just to be able to use half of the features available and this is my gripe.
What is the use of having a phone that has stunning live wall papers, fantastic internet browser, live social network feeds that syncs your friends and contacts from across many platforms in one "friends feed", that has live news updates and the like, when you cannot use much of this because of the battery life?
Basically, to be able to use this phone as my primary phone for a full day, I have to:
*Turn off automatic sync'ing of the feeds, weather and everything else,
* Disable live wall papers
* Put the screen brightness on the lowest and as it is, on the brightest setting its hardly visible in the day in the sunlight.
* Reduce my email functionality to manually send and receive or have the phone do so not more than once an hour, where I was accustomed to all day long "push mail" on my other phones, all of which are half the spec of this one!
* Make sure that I have a car charger ready at all times.
* Place it on charge as I get home or at he office, just in case I go somewhere again and need to have my phone with me, which is all the time.
* Make sure that I do not have GPS, WI-FI, 3G or anything else like this runnning for anything longer than a minute or two.
* Install a task manager to "Kill" tasks that run in the background and use the CPU, preventing the phone from "sleeping" so that the battery is not used.
* The above and quite a few other things that I will not bore you with here.
So my question is, why manufacture and sell a phone while advertising ALL of these amazing features, when in reality the user cannot even have 25% functionality of these features because the battery life is so poor? Why own a phone with all these features when practically, you cannot use 75% of them at any given time because doing so means that you will be stuck somewhere with a dead phone?
I know that everyone says that Android + phone like this = battery problems, but wow, 5 hours? Dead? Come on! Then to top it all off, with 2.2 now on, the phone as yet cannot be rooted (hopefully soon) so any additional steps that I could actually take to sort this problem are locked away from me because as the OWNER of the phone, I do not have administrator rights to it, and have to resort to ROOTING to do have this??
Nope, HTC for what its worth, I am one customer who is bitterly disappointed with this whole situation and I really hope that as a company, you are working hard at updates that will resolve this situation, because until then, this expensive Desire, is not desirable and will be left in the drawer while I go back to my trusty Nokia with 5 days battery life, running full steam on GPS, HSDPA, push email and skype and chat to mention but a few, running all the time.......
I got myself a Desire on Saturday after researching all the phones on the market in the similar "high-end" classification. I am by open admission a cell-phone junkie and own about 17 of the things, have four different HTC devices alone, and I must be honest when I say that I am very disappointed with this phone.
I am not really a stranger to Android, I ported Android ROM's to both my TyTn 2 and my Touch Diamond, replacing Winmo with these ROM's, so I knew what to expect to a degree. This expectation and the praise that has been heaped on the phone all over the net made me choose it over other phones like the HD2.
Now I am not saying that it is not a ''classy'' device. Its lightning fast and can do a lot, but you basically have to carry around a ruck-sack with a car battery in it and keep the thing on charge most of the time just to be able to use half of the features available and this is my gripe.
What is the use of having a phone that has stunning live wall papers, fantastic internet browser, live social network feeds that syncs your friends and contacts from across many platforms in one "friends feed", that has live news updates and the like, when you cannot use much of this because of the battery life?
Basically, to be able to use this phone as my primary phone for a full day, I have to:
*Turn off automatic sync'ing of the feeds, weather and everything else,
* Disable live wall papers
* Put the screen brightness on the lowest and as it is, on the brightest setting its hardly visible in the day in the sunlight.
* Reduce my email functionality to manually send and receive or have the phone do so not more than once an hour, where I was accustomed to all day long "push mail" on my other phones, all of which are half the spec of this one!
* Make sure that I have a car charger ready at all times.
* Place it on charge as I get home or at he office, just in case I go somewhere again and need to have my phone with me, which is all the time.
* Make sure that I do not have GPS, WI-FI, 3G or anything else like this runnning for anything longer than a minute or two.
* Install a task manager to "Kill" tasks that run in the background and use the CPU, preventing the phone from "sleeping" so that the battery is not used.
* The above and quite a few other things that I will not bore you with here.
So my question is, why manufacture and sell a phone while advertising ALL of these amazing features, when in reality the user cannot even have 25% functionality of these features because the battery life is so poor? Why own a phone with all these features when practically, you cannot use 75% of them at any given time because doing so means that you will be stuck somewhere with a dead phone?
I know that everyone says that Android + phone like this = battery problems, but wow, 5 hours? Dead? Come on! Then to top it all off, with 2.2 now on, the phone as yet cannot be rooted (hopefully soon) so any additional steps that I could actually take to sort this problem are locked away from me because as the OWNER of the phone, I do not have administrator rights to it, and have to resort to ROOTING to do have this??
Nope, HTC for what its worth, I am one customer who is bitterly disappointed with this whole situation and I really hope that as a company, you are working hard at updates that will resolve this situation, because until then, this expensive Desire, is not desirable and will be left in the drawer while I go back to my trusty Nokia with 5 days battery life, running full steam on GPS, HSDPA, push email and skype and chat to mention but a few, running all the time.......
mine is all good, although i temporarily disable some apps its not as bad as you make it sound.
