Desire s batt drain with screen off - HTC Desire S

Hello fellow users
My gf got herself a desire s today and i installed battery monitor on it and saw that the device have a drain of 14-18ma with screen off
I have a desire hd and got a drain of 3-5ma with my screen off
Is this because i have a custom kernel?
I sometimes have this with my dhd and when i whipe dalvik its cleared again to 3-5ma
Can you guys check how much drain you have with screen off?
Thanks
Miniterror
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I just recorded a idle curent of 10 to 12mA on my Desire S
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Haven't had a problem so far with battery life, it's been great actually. Maybe try quiting idle Apps? I am looking forward to a root soon and hopefully a Rom... fingers crossed!
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Thabks for the reps.
You have a little lower then my gf.
Gonna ask her how she gets out of apps.
As for closing bsckground apps i believe the gb taskkiller should do that on its own atleast froyo does on my phone so cant imagine they taken it out although its htc
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I got drain from 8mA to 22mA in idle wih a Median of ~13mA
WLAN is off during day
GPS is off most of the Time
3 Accouns syncing every 15 minutes
3 Widgets running
Maybe this helps
Regards
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14mA with WiFi always on and 2 Exchange accounts syncing every 5 minutes plus GMail account syncing constantly.
You might take all background syncing processes under consideration. Also bad wireless reception may cause higher currents.
...number of active widgets, live wallpaper,...

Download an App Killer, they are probably just staying in the background and eating the battery.

Oo Alias oO said:
Download an App Killer, they are probably just staying in the background and eating the battery.
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since froyo there is a built in app killer so gingerbread also has it and it and therefore using another one will eat extra batt
Xda is full with threads why not to use a app killer
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miniterror said:
Hello fellow users
My gf got herself a desire s today and i installed battery monitor on it and saw that the device have a drain of 14-18ma with screen off
I have a desire hd and got a drain of 3-5ma with my screen off
Is this because i have a custom kernel?
I sometimes have this with my dhd and when i whipe dalvik its cleared again to 3-5ma
Can you guys check how much drain you have with screen off?
Thanks
Miniterror
Sent from my HTC Desire S using XDA App
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this is what i was curious about. my nexus one gets between 3-5mA of idle current draw during the night with wifi on. but the thunderbolt for example, with the Sense UI ROM, has some weird problem where the current is 34mA idle on stock ROM, and that is what everyone is seeing. i collected 7 days worth of current widget data from TWO units, both identical results.
so is the new desire s something to do related to the new sense UI? or is the thunderbolt just a fluke? 18mA is too high for idle. and especially since the new HTC inspire i've gotten it to 1mA during idle at times, which is mind blowing. so i always attributed that to the new snapdragon efficiency. i was hoping the desire s would be even better, and get superb battery life with 1450mAh battery and normal sized screen at 3.7".
please post more results when you can!

RogerPodacter said:
this is what i was curious about. my nexus one gets between 3-5mA of idle current draw during the night with wifi on. but the thunderbolt for example, with the Sense UI ROM, has some weird problem where the current is 34mA idle on stock ROM, and that is what everyone is seeing. i collected 7 days worth of current widget data from TWO units, both identical results.
so is the new desire s something to do related to the new sense UI? or is the thunderbolt just a fluke? 18mA is too high for idle. and especially since the new HTC inspire i've gotten it to 1mA during idle at times, which is mind blowing. so i always attributed that to the new snapdragon efficiency. i was hoping the desire s would be even better, and get superb battery life with 1450mAh battery and normal sized screen at 3.7".
please post more results when you can!
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I have no idea what is causing iti have a desire be myself and there are plenty desire s ports out and all give me the drainage I'm used to(3-5 ma) maybe the defs have some tweak to save batt
It could also be the debugging tools that are in a Rom and are disabled in custom roms
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Currentwidget and Battery monitor widget logs that the phone use around 20 mA (8 hours log) whit the screen off.
and after 8 hours the battery is drained from 1450 mAh to 1435 mAh.
This is just not possible whit a steady use of 20 mA
1 hour of 20 mA = 20mAh and after 8 hour it needs to be 160mAh

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E-Tech said:
Currentwidget and Battery monitor widget logs that the phone use around 20 mA (8 hours log) whit the screen off.
and after 8 hours the battery is drained from 1450 mAh to 1435 mAh.
This is just not possible whit a steady use of 20 mA
1 hour of 20 mA = 20mAh and after 8 hour it needs to be 160mAh
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How did you measure it ? Something must be wrong : the battery drainage or the battery use. In the best case you have battery use about 2mA and that's just awesome. If it's not the case you just drained 160mAh as you say it should be. Hope that it's the be first one.

Yeah I just figured it was a typo or mis read his mAh, I can't see any other answer. I would do another over night test and try to confirm.

diwad said:
How did you measure it ? Something must be wrong : the battery drainage or the battery use. In the best case you have battery use about 2mA and that's just awesome. If it's not the case you just drained 160mAh as you say it should be. Hope that it's the be first one.
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I did logged whit Currentwidget and Battery monitor widget. And i did calculated the 160 mAh on my own.
The widgets both say that the device use 20 mA messured every 60 sec. After a hour that will be 20 mAh and 8 Hours it will be 160 mAh (8*20mAH=160mAh)
But Battery monitor widget olso did says that my battery is drained from 1450 to 1435 after 8 hours. ( I started whit a full battery)
Last night over 8 hours the device used about 1%=14.5 mAh
2011/04/17|01:27:28|-23mA|68%|3917mV|29.3ºC
2011/04/17|09:27:28|-20mA|67%|3902mV|20.8ºC

I wonder why the desire s gets such high current drain. The original desire, and my nexus one, get 6 mA during idle screen off.

After some days of BatteryMonitor logging I can say, that the current with screen off never drops below 14mA. Often it's even higher (over 30mA).
The Gingerbread on board battery consumption overview shows Maps as a major consumer. Even if I never used the Maps application since the last complete battery charge, it is there as one of the most bat drainers. I have the feeling that it's this behaviour after updating Maps from the shipped 5.2 to the current 5.3.1
But that's OT. The battery drain is too high even without the Maps app.

normal idle screen off should never be higher than 6 mah.....
so what the hell is up with this thing :O ?

i'm experiencing the same issue too

i was experiencing some horrific battery time also, like 30% drain in 7 hours screen off while my iphone only drained 7% in that time. I believe the culprit could possibly be the "use best wifi performance" button coupled with wifi not sleeping.
Ive now turned off "best wifi performance " and set wifi sleep to 15 minutes and im now getting 18-22mA - i understand this is still bad - i cant spot any other apps using battery.
Will update again later today.

All feed back and information appreciated and we all appear in the same boat.
Although I have wifi turned off during the day and still get battery drain
Thanks
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Battery life

What is your standby drain? I'm looking @ 3.5%/hr.
hah2110 said:
What is your standby drain? I'm looking @ 3.5%/hr.
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Mine is more like 7%/hr, which is totally unacceptable, I have all sync turned off, except exchange... with my HD2 running Froyo, I could do 2%/hr with the same settings.... I am still trying to figure out what's draining my battery...
I have also noticed high data usage.. I've tracked it down to T-mobile's AppPack. I've never used the program but it's constantly draining away my data... Is there a way for me to remove the app or disable it?
Thanks!
Get Watchdog from the Amazon appstore to find out what's draining your battery. I believe it costs, but it is a thoroughly useful app
Don't think we can remove carrier apps until we have root...that said, you could try adb pull, but I'm not sure whether it will have any effect. May need root for ab pull, in which case we can't get rid of carrier apps :/ sorry
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What is your standby drain? I'm looking @ 3.5%/hr.
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2-3%
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4g with extreme prejudice
On my hd2, it was like 1% on idle on android, here it seems to be more , like 3-4% on idle.
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its funny how some people report 0% battery drain in 9 hours and other get 3-4% drain per hour.....
please post how many charge cycles you went through, its important.
I am personally using HD2 and battery live is amazing. and its only 1250
this has the best battery life ive ever saw. I'm in 0ma all the time the phone yesterday lasted from 530 am til 7 pm at night with a lot of text and playing games like homerunbattle 3d. If you play that game you know how much of a battery hog it is. Best battery life. Battery was soo good i barely charged it went to work with a 40% battery and it easily made it through a day with moderate texting all day!!
Gotta say... coming from a TBolt this thing is like sex in a tin can.
Idle is 1-2%/hr probably. I would get 10%+ on my TBolt at times... if not more. It was bad.
kolyan said:
its funny how some people report 0% battery drain in 9 hours and other get 3-4% drain per hour.....
please post how many charge cycles you went through, its important.
I am personally using HD2 and battery live is amazing. and its only 1250
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I did three full charge/discharges .
I lose about 25% in 9 hours at work mostly idle/ minimal use.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4g with extreme prejudice
Darn it...
Seems like I'm the only person with excessive battery drain...at 7%/hr....
Just wondering, when you go into battery stats and extend the graph, does your phone stay awake when the screen is off?...
Mine seems to be awake all the time even though the screen is off.
I got Watchdog yesterday, I didn't notice any apps with high CPU usage...
Me too.. I lost about 8%/hour in 2g standby mode... Totally unacceptable comparing to my previous galaxy s...
Hope next FW update will improve it ..
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today is the first time I'm having issues. Only 4 hours since charge & down to 40%. The Awake time shows as 99% of Up Time. Is that normal??? Also, anytime I look at the task manager it shows wifi calling running even though I have it shut off
I've got an Asian model sensation (ie. 3g and not 4G model ) and I find my battery isn't really calibrated properly so its hard to comment on average percentage drop per hour. I've recharged my battery 3 times already and i find the battery stays at 100 percent for around 30 minutes of constant on web browsing, then it will drop at a rate of 10 percent every half an hour with constant use and will fluctuate.
To report on a rough usage breakdown, with all background syncing disabled, I managed to get 10 hours standby before my phone dropped below 10 percent. This was with 5 hours of screen being constantly on doing mainly web browsing on 3g and one 15 minute phone call using my wireless Bluetooth handsfree.
I can report the battery life with constant usage is better than what i got with ny hd2. Running android ROM, it used to do around 3 hours of constant web browsing before the battery will fall under 15 percent. In standby my hd2 used to drop around 1% per hour, which was quite excellent.
xnifex said:
today is the first time I'm having issues. Only 4 hours since charge & down to 40%. The Awake time shows as 99% of Up Time. Is that normal??? Also, anytime I look at the task manager it shows wifi calling running even though I have it shut off
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Those are the stuff I'm talking about, it appears that one of the settings and/or app is constantly using the processor, which causes the phone to stay awake even when the screen is off... I just haven't figured out which app is causing the problem.. I am suspecting it is one of the Tmo apps.
I'm looking at a full battery life of 11 hours, 49 minutes with moderate usage (some calls, decent amount of texting, some games). I use the app/widget "Battery Left" to do its own independent assessment of battery usage and life.
So far the battery reminds me of my early days with my Nexus One -- before I had it rooted and optimized and undervolted. Once rooted and optimized, I saw a good 50% increase (at least in battery life).
If you'd like some relief right now (before we get it rooted), I recommend Juice Defender on the market. It turns off data (among other things) every now and then to save battery, and with this I can squeeze out 18+ hours with moderate usage.
how are you checking the percentage? when I looked in the settings menu, all I see is a long green battery bar, no actual numbers. Or are you all estimating from that?
I don't monitor my standby time, but I'm sitting at what looks like 40% after 13 hours of fairly moderate usage during the day, I'm impressed.
Ive been getting about 9 hours out of a full charge. Had to put my phone on the charger today at around 4 o clock because it was dead. I dont have much more info other than that. I will keep an eye on my processes over the next few days. I have only 3-4 cycles on the battery though.
To check the percentage of the battery life u have to download some battery widget in the market.. I.e smart battery monitor or battery percentage s.th like that...
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You can also check battery level by opening Phone and dialing *#*#4636#*#* and then select Battery information.
I'm using Juice Defender and I have to say it really does the job : my Sensation lasts More than one day and a half (30min calling a day, texting, Android Market, Angry Birds...). Without the app running it would last a day (Angry Birds drains...).
Juice Defender says it is increasing battery to 1,53% and it is very close from reality.
I've been owning the phone from 24th of May.

[Q] Battery usage Sensation compared to other Android phones

My previous phone has been a Desire HD. Battery usage on this device while the screen was turned off has always been around 1-5 mA
On the Sensation batery usage while the screen is turned off is around 130-200 mA
I've tried various ROMs including stock.
Is everybody experiencing the same battery drain or/and can anyone explain the huge difference between these 2 devices?
the same numbers also here( 130-200 mA) i guess this numbers are not real because in 6-7 hours of standby the battery is emty... anyway htc sensation have the worst battery i ever had...maybe we get some good results with another rom battery friendly
My HTC Sensation's battery drains to 50%-40% in 9hr-10hr - with minimum use. All sync is turned of except weather and exchange account which set up to sync every 2hr - 3hr on weekends. Which is not bad comparing to SGS2, where i experienced terrible battery life 8hr max, but terrible compared to my HTC Incredible S, running with same settings i did see 2 days battery drain on one charge. I will put Sensation on proper test tomorrow, when i start my work.
Thanks for the quick replies
I'm just curious where the difference between 1-5 mA and 130-200 mA comes from?
I understand that the Sensation has a different feature set but this standby usage is outrageous..
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On the Sensation batery usage while the screen is turned off is around 130-200 mA
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Is this mA calculated by an app? It's well known that mA readings on the HTC Sensation with, e.g. Battery Monitor Widget, don't work. It's an archived thread somewhere on XDA forums.
Better way to measure it is this:
Leave your phone on sleep (screen off) for 2 hours or so (make sure the phone is actually in sleep mode!! If you don't know what that means, look for a thread on BetterBatteryStats as that could be your problem).
Then, find out how much of your battery drained at this time (make sure you didn't start the experiment at 100% because % battery is displayed extremely incorrectly between about 100% and 95%).
Finally, divide your battery capacity (1580mAh for stock) by the amount of hours the device was asleep by and then multiply the result by the % battery drained in that time.
E.g. phone asleep for 2 hours, 5% battery drained.
Average mA = (1580/2)*0.05 = 40mA
I dont experience any of the same battery issues... not that i know my mA draw.. but im going to start looking into. I can make my phone last easily a full 24 hour period with average use id say... But i froze all useless clutter apps no carrier or useless apps just what i use. I keep mostly everything off cept data randomly when im on irc/aim etc
Last charge 1d 10h and battery was at 49% :|
33% display
22% wifi
22% cell standby
20% phone idle
3% voice calls
Now didnt use phone very much in that 1d 10h though
found alot of useful information on this thread when it came to freezing apps i know there are a few tools in the development forum that will remove a bunch for you but i didnt like that method since i used some :|
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1150805
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Is this mA calculated by an app? It's well known that mA readings on the HTC Sensation with, e.g. Battery Monitor Widget, don't work. It's an archived thread somewhere on XDA forums.
Better way to measure it is this:
Leave your phone on sleep (screen off) for 2 hours or so (make sure the phone is actually in sleep mode!! If you don't know what that means, look for a thread on BetterBatteryStats as that could be your problem).
Then, find out how much of your battery drained at this time (make sure you didn't start the experiment at 100% because % battery is displayed extremely incorrectly between about 100% and 95%).
Finally, divide your battery capacity (1580mAh for stock) by the amount of hours the device was asleep by and then multiply the result by the % battery drained in that time.
E.g. phone asleep for 2 hours, 5% battery drained.
Average mA = (1580/2)*0.05 = 40mA
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I've used current widget for this.
I'll give the method you describe a go
Still strange that this battery seems to drains so much faster then my DHD although it should hold about 300 mAh more.
Why strange? Dhd has only one processor core and smaller screen resolution which should take less power to render, in theory at least.
Sent from my Cyanogenmod hungry Htc Sensation.
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Why strange? Dhd has only one processor core and smaller screen resolution which should take less power to render, in theory at least.
Sent from my Cyanogenmod hungry Htc Sensation.
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The screen resolution should not matter in standby/sleep I suppose.
To be clear; I'm only talking about standby/sleep power consumption.
For the dualcore I would expect it to be around 10-20 mA compared to 1-5 mA. Not 130-200 mA..
Battery is atrocious no matter what radio, rom, settings whatever. Stick kernel, custom kernel everything. Straight up **** battery life on those device. Of course tour battery will last longer if you don't use it at all. But who got the sensation to just leave it I'm your pocket?!?
The future will bring better battery life on sure so we'll see
Sent from my HTC Pyramid
raycaster3 said:
Battery is atrocious no matter what radio, rom, settings whatever. Stick kernel, custom kernel everything. Straight up **** battery life on those device. Of course tour battery will last longer if you don't use it at all. But who got the sensation to just leave it I'm your pocket?!?
The future will bring better battery life on sure so we'll see
Sent from my HTC Pyramid
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Sounds like you've got a duff device
raycaster3 said:
Battery is atrocious no matter what radio, rom, settings whatever. Stick kernel, custom kernel everything. Straight up **** battery life on those device. Of course tour battery will last longer if you don't use it at all. But who got the sensation to just leave it I'm your pocket?!?
The future will bring better battery life on sure so we'll see
Sent from my HTC Pyramid
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What kind of battery life are you talking about?
E.g. anything over 4-5 hours of screen on time is quite good. On standby anything over 24 hours is very good.

What's your Battery drainage - Your Average mA - Battery monitor widget beta APK!

Hi, I've been having battery issues with my sensation so I've tried all options in kernels and more but nothing seem to work for me. I would like to know how much mA (milliampere) our sensation should be draining depending on your setup of course.
You can find out using BATTERY MONITOR WIDGET or CURRENT WIDGET (enable log opt) they are free on the market and great if not the best tools for battery monitoring:
SEE POST ON PAGE 2 FOR THE BETA APK :')
PLEASE POST YOUR SETUP : your rom and kernel, if you're using 3g or wifi, having the sync on, animations, basically anything that would affect the battery.
Hope we can get and more accurate idea of what to expect with different configuration and find solutions so everyone can get the most out of their battery!
Edit: I've contacted the developer of battery monitor widget and he as accepted the invitation to come explain sharing a beta version that show the correct mA values for our sensation. NOW IM GETTING MORE THEN 12H WITH 70% SCREEN ON 3G AND SYNC...
Hi my name is DloBrown and Im A nightly addict who've been sober for too long!!!
I'm on Melvin's latest Beast rom and Faux 0.1.2 N_1.56ghz kernel with 3g and sync always on, screen set to auto, animations off and 5 homescreens full of widgets... I have an 1730mA evo 3d battery and I get about 300mA on average and 150mA screen off that about 6hours of heavy heavy usage
Hi my name is DloBrown and Im A nightly addict who've been sober for too long!!!
Even in airplane mode over night I'm losing about 200mA on average and like you nothing I can do seems to be able to change this fact. According to the Enlarge your battery life post it ought to be less than 10mA.
mic180 said:
Even in airplane mode over night I'm losing about 200mA on average and like you nothing I can do seems to be able to change this fact. According to the Enlarge your battery life post it ought to be less than 10mA.
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Wow... I know I'm a heavy user but even on airplane mode??? On my desire hd I. Could get 8-30 mA while in sleep mode wifi on... It's seems the sensation don't sleep properly. In sleep mode still draining like crazy. Thx for your post!
Hi my name is DloBrown and Im A nightly addict who've been sober for too long!!!
Why is our battery history in spare parts doesn't show the "partial wake usage"...?
I'm on a Android Revolution HD 3.0.2 with 3G watchdog and JuiceDefender running constantly, data on only while the screen is on, nothing else is on and I get an average of 250mA losing. When I do smth with my phone, it jumps up to around 500-600. Lowest at 120 for some brief moments.
I am a medium user with some internet on the go [ which uses more battery because of the signal strength changing every couple of seconds ], a lot of calls [ a lot calling me too ], few sms messages, gmail syncing every 30 mins, a little gps and this kind gets me through the day about 15hours.
But when I use the internet fully for a whole hour, the battery drops down to about 55%,
Very unstable battery drainage.
Using Superlite 1.4 and the lowest mine has ever been is 120mah in flight mode (LeeDroid was 220 at lowest).
I've tried nearly every ROM now and can't get any more than 12 hours use. This is a real problem when you're away for 18 hours with no access to a charge point
Didn't use the phone at all yesterday (maybe turned the screen on half a dozen times for a few seconds) and it went to 30% in 18 hours.
Only thing I have running is POP email (15 minute pull) and the rest is stock.
No Wifi, no bluetooth, usually 3g.
Sadly, I didn't keep the stock ROM long enough to see how much it drains..... I just had to flash
Stock Rom stock kernel. I have 1850 mAh 3d EVO extended battery I just got. Drained it and charged fully. I got 19 hrs no sync brightness all the way up WiFi on the whole time 3 hrs of display time. Hour or so of call time. Moderate usage I think. Stock battery I would only get about 10 hours out of it.
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I thought it was pretty common knowledge that all of those current reading programs don't report the current drain correctly on the sensation.
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I thought it was pretty common knowledge that all of those current reading programs don't report the current drain correctly on the sensation.
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That's correct, theres no app currently out, that can show the correct mA drainage.
..I mean if it really drain 200mA in an hour overnight it should be dead after about 8 hours sleep - simple calculation ^^.
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I thought it was pretty common knowledge that all of those current reading programs don't report the current drain correctly on the sensation.
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Oh I'm using both battery monitor and current widget... Only issues with reporting mA on sensation was in standy mode... I'm using a beta version of battery monitor widget and It's fix i've got more than 12h with 70% display...my phone got as low as 13mA in sleep mode!!! ... Got 3g sync, my 5 homescreens of widgets...I'm amazed first time I'm getting those numbers
I'll contact the app dev and ask I'm if I can share the beta version that he sent me because don't know what he did but it worked for me!! I'll post a screen shot later today.
THANK YOU for posting guys! Remember to put rom/kernel and screen shots if possible
Hi my name is DloBrown and Im A nightly addict who've been sober for too long!!!
Battery Monitor Widget - beta APK for Sensation devices
Here is a beta APK (official update over the week-end).
This will fix the wrongly reported mA usage during standby... 200mA in standby means 8 hours max on standby with a 1500mAh battery! I got 40+ hours of standby/use.
To take advantage of the update, you have to enable the 'mA corrections' in the monitoring settings! Indeed there's a bug on Sensation battery driver/hardware, and HTC doesn't seem to want to fix it! It's fixed on the Evo 3D though!
One more note, I don't recommend using both BMW and Current Widget. Current Widget is a nice widget but it consumes more than BMW. You can verify that using System Tuner recording feature!
In future posts, it might be a good idea to post screen shots of the graphics showing times with screen on/off!
EDIT: Pro users should have received the update through Market, if not just check Market manually!
ccounotte said:
Here is a beta APK (official update over the week-end).
This will fix the wrongly reported mA usage during standby... 200mA in standby means 8 hours max on standby with a 1500mAh battery! I got 40+ hours of standby/use.
To take advantage of the update, you have to enable the 'mA corrections' in the monitoring settings! Indeed there's a bug on Sensation battery driver/hardware, and HTC doesn't seem to want to fix it! It's fixed on the Evo 3D though!
One more note, I don't recommend using both BMW and Current Widget. Current Widget is a nice widget but it consumes more than BMW. You can verify that using System Tuner recording feature!
In future posts, it might be a good idea to post screen shots of the graphics showing times with screen on/off!
PS: For Pro users I don't deliver the APK online, but expect the release this week-end at the latest!
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Thank you for accepting my invitation and sharing the beta with them...really amazing work again thx!
Hi my name is DloBrown and Im A nightly addict!!!
To all of you guys...I really hope it will help resolving the drainage issues that we been having ... you guys are welcome
Hi my name is DloBrown and Im A nightly addict!!!
Sorry...
Hi my name is DloBrown and Im A nightly addict!!!
I was concerned when I first started reading. I don't have the device yet, so I didn't know there was a bug with mA reporting (which should be very low in standby - like, less than 20). I'm interested to hear more people chime in.
Simba501 said:
I was concerned when I first started reading. I don't have the device yet, so I didn't know there was a bug with mA reporting (which should be very low in standby - like, less than 20). I'm interested to hear more people chime in.
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The bug is actually in the kernel reporting the value... It keeps saying 200-300mA incorrectly even when you get a 1% drain every 3/4 hours!
The app is trying to work-around this issue to provide accurate reading no matter what. Only Battery Monitor Widget is able to do that right now!
Now, some are having battery issues... happens with every phones anyway!
For the Battery Monitor Widget Pro users, the update has been released on Market, so please feel free to report on the app thread or the app web site.
And report your Sensation's drainage here too
Try juice defender
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Try juice defender
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using XDA Premium App
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What's the benefit of it?
If you are having battery issues on a stock ROM. Check the htc sense sync interval under accounts and sync. Stock setting is "push", that killed my battery initally. I disabled it entirely and my battery life is great.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using xda premium

[Q] battery usage... Again lol

Hi, been using ic as a daily not had my sensation long, i know there's loads of these topics i've even helped people in others. But I think my issue is different
I'm not sure if it's related to the rom, ive tested a load of roms but I can't get the battery life stable, ive read a lot and tried everything, but I can't get below 40mA in standby and the percentage drops are inconsistent (drops a few percent here and there, obviously its difficult to get accurate battery stats on the Sensation.
I'm running leedroid atm with no extras ive gone through two full cycles, i have no extra apps installed apart from xda premium and bmw I can't even get below 40 in standby by with radio off,
I'm using recommend radio and have come from a full wipe.
I do generally have a weak signal. But they doesn't mean anything because I've tested with radio off
I have the xe so i have the 1730mA battery.
When I charge I get green light on 100% but bmw still reports me dragging 60mA from the charger?
Do I need to change any script because i have a bigger battery?
I have had the phone for 2 weeks, ive probably ran the battery through 35-40 cycles.
I have no ext partitions on my sd
Could it be sd related (16gb class6)
I'm using bmw 1.8beta and i have mA corrections in with the other thing set to auto. I have also set my battery capacity to 1730mA
Please will someone give me a little bit of there time.
Edit/ is it normal for cpu1 to always be online with leedroid kernel no tweaks
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I too am getting high battery lose in standby. I have heard that any app like Current Widget can not measure the outputs correctly on the Sensation. Coming from the HD2 where I was getting around 2-6mA, I can't tell where all the power is going. Like you, I have tested with everything off and nothing running and still get over 40mA. I know that drain is high even if the output readings aren't correct. A huge issue with the HD2 had to do with the video drivers causing high drain. Could that be the issue here?
I don't like bumping :-( but I'm desperate :-(
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I don't have any answers, but I have the same problem. My battery will never get below 25 mA even after 24 hours on the charger. I have about decided that it is a measurement error. I have put the phone in Airplane mode, turned off all sync, turned off or uninstalled every app on the phone except BMW and the log still shows nothing lower that 25 mA.
My stock battery is the 1525 mA and with even moderate use it will drain down to 10% in 6 hours or less. With no use at all it will drain down to 10% in 8 hours. If I get some long winded guys calling me several times it might not last 4 hours.
My solution has been to buy two 1900 mAh batteries and an external charger. At least I can now have use of the phone for about 8 - 10 hours and have two charged spares in case the first one drains down.

Whats your Normal battery Drain in ICS ROM?

During sleep mode or the screen off I have a 54mA drain this is too far from my Android ROM HD2 it only has 3-6mA drain. I have the latest firmware 3.32, AOSP nonsense. I worried this drain to much even with cpu underclocked to 916Mhz, Minimal Rom.
I used Battery Monitor with graphical history.
Just my own experience, but I haven't really heard of a sensation owner getting 3-5 mA battery drain. The lowest mine generally gets is in the 40s and 50s. I'm more than willing to be corrected on this however, if other sensation owners are getting significantly lower battery drain then I am definitely interested to hear about it
When my sensation was still stock it wouldn't even get below triple figures and the battery life was woeful. Since rooting and so forth I'm seeing the 40-50 mA I mentioned before. With moderate use I'd get about 36 hrs out of a charge.
Maybe have a read of this if you want to look into it? It is a Desire thread, but that makes no difference to the process being used.
Ignore the reported mA values, the battery driver doesn't report them so your widget/app has to interpret what it can best guess. Even the percentage remaining is only an approximate value. Standby times will vary depending on how much time the phone is awake but after going from 100% to 10% you should get around 5hrs 'screen time on' with a senseless ROM and stock battery - 3 or 4hrs with a sense ROM. If you are getting less than this you may have a signal issue or a rogue app, otherwise don't worry about the mA values.
I came from the HD2 also, I spent a while trying to replicate it's standby consumptions on the sensation - I've now uninstalled all the battery monitors as they were useless on this phone.
I am using CurrentWidget and i get drain like 10 mA in sleep.
Also mine active use time of Sensation XE (stock accu) with insert coin 5.1.4 rom is more then 24 hours right now (after removing all unused by me services, and performing battery calibration + 8+1+1 charge cycle) + I always charge it for hour or two after it is showing 100%. So basically i unplug it @ morning ~ 6 AM, listen music for hour +, then all the day wifi + twitter + facebook + icq are active + some phonetalks, may be some photo\vid recording, reading e-mails and etc + hour of music on way back home, and after all that when i come home @ evening I usually have 60 - 50% left. No games are played, they are the only thing that can drain fast.
All i did - spent few days reading forums and internets about battery use, then selected all that made common sense and did it. Now I am very happy with mine phone performance. (also quattro gives mine device ~2800 score in benchmark). And active use time feels for me like 3x or even 4x of what I experienced on a stock system when I bought phone.
goatee84 said:
Just my own experience, but I haven't really heard of a sensation owner getting 3-5 mA battery drain. The lowest mine generally gets is in the 40s and 50s. I'm more than willing to be corrected on this however, if other sensation owners are getting significantly lower battery drain then I am definitely interested to hear about it
When my sensation was still stock it wouldn't even get below triple figures and the battery life was woeful. Since rooting and so forth I'm seeing the 40-50 mA I mentioned before. With moderate use I'd get about 36 hrs out of a charge.
Maybe have a read of this if you want to look into it? It is a Desire thread, but that makes no difference to the process being used.
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No the 3-6ma is from HD2 device,
WOW 36hrs thats too good what ROM version you are using Mine with Virtous no sense last only 16-20 hrs with 2-3hrs wifi, 3.5 hrs screen on time with lowest brightness.. I also maximize the cpu for battery eg. lower down the frequency to 800-1000, samplling rate, treshold etc,,,
cozmer said:
I am using CurrentWidget and i get drain like 10 mA in sleep.
Also mine active use time of Sensation XE (stock accu) with insert coin 5.1.4 rom is more then 24 hours right now (after removing all unused by me services, and performing battery calibration + 8+1+1 charge cycle) + I always charge it for hour or t.
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and performing battery calibration + 8+1+1 charge cycle.
What does dis mean? can you direct me to link to this.
I'm impress with your battery performance! - stock accu u mean kernel?
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No the 3-6ma is from HD2 device,
WOW 36hrs thats too good what ROM version you are using Mine with Virtous no sense last only 16-20 hrs with 2-3hrs wifi, 3.5 hrs screen on time with lowest brightness.. I also maximize the cpu for battery eg. lower down the frequency to 800-1000, samplling rate, treshold etc,,,
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Check my sig, I'm using Darkforest 6.1.0. OC'd to 1.5 GHz on-demand, powersave on screen off. Auto-brightness. Right now I have 52% battery left after 17hrs moderate use today. Goes alright
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