HTC Desire HD

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Grand Master

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Great review. Made better by the fact you opened the music menu to show The Boy With No Name, I applaud you.

I'm always a bit concerned about battery as often times when I'm out and about, I don't have the option of charging or I need to use it a lot, would a battery change really enhance the battery life to like 2 days of light to moderate usage?

Lol, thanks I picked that totally at random :p

The battery life is admittedly, less than stellar, but you should get about that out of it if you pick up a 1600 mAh battery (think that's the highest capacity aftermarket battery available at the moment)

I found the battery appalling at first, for example one night I took it off charge at 1.45 and went to sleep, woke up at 9.10 and found it was on 6%!

Since then, I've left stock and put a different ROM on (with Sense), new kernel and a different radio. That improved the battery life to about 30 hours with moderate usage. Not totally satisified, I stopped using the HTC Sense sync as it's still buggy and has never worked properly for me and purchased Green Power. I managed to make 2d 5h to 10% with moderate usage when testing it. I've since allowed syncing more often etc. and with fairly heavy usage (games, internet, calls, sms, e-mail etc.) I still have no trouble making it 24 hours with heavy usage. In fact, since I just switched networks to one with far more data I've been using it more than ever for Internet stuff.

It is quite possible to reign the battery life in massively, but I've found a happy medium now. :woot:

I use a custom ROM as well, with a UVOC kernel. I sync my data over WIFI when I am indoors, but when I am out I turn wifi off. Battery life is definitely better with a custom ROM, but I am still looking forward to getting my higher capacity battery

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Finally got mine today! After rooting/unlocking, installed a couple different custom ROMs to test them out, and I think my favourite so far is CM7. I'm still toying with certain things, hoping to get it just how I want it, but... I've had to restore it a few times already because installing certain things makes it hang on boot. That said... I'm loving it so far--it's a great little device. :)

Grand Master

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Finally got mine today! After rooting/unlocking, installed a couple different custom ROMs to test them out, and I think my favourite so far is CM7. I'm still toying with certain things, hoping to get it just how I want it, but... I've had to restore it a few times already because installing certain things makes it hang on boot. That said... I'm loving it so far--it's a great little device. :)

The apps causing that are probably not Gingerbread ready as of yet

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The apps causing that are probably not Gingerbread ready as of yet

I was mostly trying to install a CM7 theme that had been ported from another device--it didn't seem to play nice with this one. Ah well.

The one thing I've noticed--and I'm not sure if it's just me, but the Facebook app doesn't seem to pick up notifications. Every time I try it gives me an error message. News Feed and everything else work fine though. :unsure:

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You'd be better trying to reduce your drain on the battery, I have kept the stock battery and can usually easily last a minimum of 24 hours with moderate use. Of course, if you're playing lots of games and videos etc. the screen saps some power but I usually turn the brightness down provided I'm indoors.

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