HTC Thunderbolt: How to Get Better Battery Life

The HTC Thunderbolt is a pretty amazing phone, but the first 4G LTE phone on Verizon’s network has a major problem — it can drain a standard battery in 4 hours while browsing in a 4G network area. While many will see their Thunderbolt last longer, since they won’t be browsing the web four hours straight, many users have complained of poor battery life. 

This is a list of ways to get better battery life on the HTC Thunderbolt. These tips and tricks include easy to tweak settings, Apps that can help you get longer battery life, battery solutions (cheating a little) and the more extreme method of rooting your Thunderbolt to install optimized ROMs, kernels and even a new radio. The standard HTC Thunderbolt battery is rated for almost two weeks of standby time and talk time of 6.3 hours. These tips will help you get better battery life on the HTC Thunderbolt.

Screen Brightness: By default, your HTC Thunderbolt is probably set to be pretty bright. To turn on auto brightness on the HTC Thunderbolt you need to go to Menu -> Settings -> Display-> Brightness. There you will see a slider bar and a checkbox to turn on auto brightness. Just check that box and you are good to go.

Turn off unused Radios: You can also turn Bluetooth and WiFi off when not in use to conserve a little more battery life. If you are in a 4G area, the connection is likely to be a fast as WiFi anyway. You can use the widgets that come pre-installed, also you can visit Menu -> Settings-> Wireless Networks

Sync Settings: By default the Thunderbolt has a mess of apps set to sync in the background including the Blockbuster app. upi can cutting this list down to the essentials. Keep what you are use, but the rest of the apps can go.

Turn off 4G: If you need to make your battery last longer, and you don’t need 4G speeds, use the free LTE OnOFF app to switch to 3G only mode. The app makes it easy to switch back and forth between 3G and 4G via a menu option. 

If you really want to get down and dirty to get batter battery life and unlock new functions and looks for your Thunderbolt, you may want to Root the Thunderbolt and install a new ROM and kernel. There are numerous specially optimized ROMs which can be combined with undervolted and overclocked kernels which allow your phone to run faster while using less power.