Second day with the battery. I ran it down today to the point where it shut off and wouldn't turn on. I charged it with the phone off for about 30 minutes and turned it back on. The charge was 54%. Did it really charge that fast?
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I just checked mine and it shows that over the last 20 minutes mine has gone from 1-99% & that's just ridiculous.
Also it seems that even after 2.5 hours of charging with the phone off (first two times with the anker) it still doesn't turn the led to green
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Same issue..
I have the same issue...ran Anker battery down and recharged for 5 minutes, battery widget showed 54% charge, the System Returned charge was like 5% so there is an obvious disconnect there. I get a green light if I charge for 3+ hours, just left it charging at work. Until we get the Sensation rooted and can reset the battery stats, this probably will remain an issue.
I guess you can temp root it and reset the battery stats but I'll wait for perm root.
I read somewhere in this forum that you have to configure the phone to somedegree to show the correct battery status, no idea how though
unixman2000 said:
I have the same issue...ran Anker battery down and recharged for 5 minutes, battery widget showed 54% charge, the System Returned charge was like 5% so there is an obvious disconnect there. I get a green light if I charge for 3+ hours, just left it charging at work. Until we get the Sensation rooted and can reset the battery stats, this probably will remain an issue.
I guess you can temp root it and reset the battery stats but I'll wait for perm root.
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My Anker should be here in a few days. As you suggested, you guys just might need to reset the battery stats. So you'll know, I used a battery calibration tool and it worked great under temp root. With stock battery, my % would spike pretty quick one way or another....it did help give me more steady readings. No worries there....
I have a similar issue with the stock battery, if I'm charging and I restart it the battery % jumps.
Just charged up my new anker yesterday for about 9 hours. Popped it in this morning. I will do three full overnight charges and full dicharges and report back. My chichitec got the same conditioning and its lasting about 25 hours for me. We will see. Got this thing for 9.50 so it won't be the end of the world. Seems good so far. At 99% and had it off the charger for three hours. Phone call and some email and xda.
Once we get root ill be wiping the battery stats for sure though.
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unixman2000 said:
I have the same issue...ran Anker battery down and recharged for 5 minutes, battery widget showed 54% charge, the System Returned charge was like 5% so there is an obvious disconnect there. I get a green light if I charge for 3+ hours, just left it charging at work. Until we get the Sensation rooted and can reset the battery stats, this probably will remain an issue.
I guess you can temp root it and reset the battery stats but I'll wait for perm root.
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Use battery calibration app it wipes stats.
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Hoggles said:
My Anker should be here in a few days. As you suggested, you guys just might need to reset the battery stats. So you'll know, I used a battery calibration tool and it worked great under temp root. With stock battery, my % would spike pretty quick one way or another....it did help give me more steady readings. No worries there....
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care to walk me through how to do this (not the temp root) so I can reset my battery stats?
I'm having this issue with my Chichitech battery. There's no damn way it's at 99% after letting it charge from 0% 3 hours ago.
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I've installed the Yelp, Movies, and Amazon app, nothing else, and I'm losing around 15% an hour with light/normal usage.
I've let the battery run down to 0 and recharged completely, I've turned off gps and wifi, and still get really bad life. I live in the Bay Area and get a solid signal all of the time. There's really no excuse for it.
Please don't tell me to flash to a rom, because that's obviously not fixing the issue. Light browsing and the occasional Google Maps has my phone at <20% by the afternoon.
Battery stats just show android system and screen brightness taking up power. What's the deal?
I also constantly have at least 255 / 328mb in use even with all applications closed.
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The mb usage is normal i noticed this on stock because of Verizon apps that run in background. As far as not using the phone and only getting 6 good hours of use. i would take to the store and ask if they could change out the battery. Hope this helps.
+1 for that, sounds like you have a defective battery.
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Thats about how long my battery gets me.
And if I forget to power down my phone at night, or put it on a charger it is dead by morning no matter how much of a charge it has before I go to bed.
I have an extended battery starring me in the face and can't use it yet since I couldn't find a door and had to have one shipped from Samsung.
Hopefully the extended battery cures my issues.
(I am running Gummy Charged 2.3.3 Beta, currently waiting for the 2.3.4 release)
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Thats about how long my battery gets me.
And if I forget to power down my phone at night, or put it on a charger it is dead by morning no matter how much of a charge it has before I go to bed.
I have an extended battery starring me in the face and can't use it yet since I couldn't find a door and had to have one shipped from Samsung.
Hopefully the extended battery cures my issues.
(I am running Gummy Charged 2.3.3 Beta, currently waiting for the 2.3.4 release)
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I am curious as to what you guys are running. And if you go to bed with your phone on , and its dead by morning I can PROMISE you there is either something going on with your phone, or you are doing something wrong (i.e. you have your phone set to never sleep, your screen is set to maximum brightness, your are leaving your phone in desk cradle mode, etc etc etc.) But it's not the phone. May be a bad battery, but without being at your house and seeing what you are doing, I have no intelligent answer for you.
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I am curious as to what you guys are running. And if you go to bed with your phone on , and its dead by morning I can PROMISE you there is either something going on with your phone, or you are doing something wrong (i.e. you have your phone set to never sleep, your screen is set to maximum brightness, your are leaving your phone in desk cradle mode, etc etc etc.) But it's not the phone. May be a bad battery, but without being at your house and seeing what you are doing, I have no intelligent answer for you.
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charge phone to 100%, boot into clockwork recovery and wipe your battery stats, then use the phone until you completely drain your battery until it shuts off. Then charge back up completely. This will calibrate your battery. try running a customer rom such as gummy charged or humble to see if you get bettery battery life... thousands of users have reported great battery life with both
I had same crummy battery life. I followed the calibration instructions and i went from about 5-6 hr batt life to ( right now im at almost 11hrs with 66% battery left on wifi with moderate use). Ill test tomorrow on 4g only and see how it does. I would get like 4-5 hrs before.
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danalo1979 said:
charge phone to 100%, boot into clockwork recovery and wipe your battery stats, then use the phone until you completely drain your battery until it shuts off. Then charge back up completely. This will calibrate your battery. try running a customer rom such as gummy charged or humble to see if you get bettery battery life... thousands of users have reported great battery life with both
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I am running the latest humble and my battery drops really fast. If I go into task manager and clear my RAM, I get better battery. I calibrated per the instructions as well about a week ago or so and saw no improvement. Please note that I have not been scientific about it at all.
Stopping Data obv helps a million and clearing RAM seems to help as well.
EDIT: I am recalibrating in case it was not done properly before. Hopefully it will help. I am hopeful!
I charged my battery to full, booted into clockwork recovery and wiped my battery stats.
When I rebooted my phone it shows a 73% charge?
Abradax said:
I charged my battery to full, booted into clockwork recovery and wiped my battery stats.
When I rebooted my phone it shows a 73% charge?
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If you are on humble 1.x then that means your battery stats were way off. Basically your battery still needs 23% more charge before its full... thus better battery life... because you had a miscalibrated battery, your phone is erroneously reporting a full charge... charge it back to 100% then discharge fully then charge all the back up
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I'm on Gummy Charge GRE, but I assume the same reason?
I exchanged my battery at verizon. So far it seems better. Ive let it drain and am recharging now. I will also try uninstalling g+ if the new batt hasnt solved the problem. I will post back with an update.
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I switched out my battery 2 days ago, and I'm still getting under 6 hours with moderate use.
Has anyone had luck with ROMs drastically improving battery life? I can't imagine it being the phone itself, but I might try exchanging it too.
EDIT: it seems like the new battery charges a bit faster. My old battery would take around a minute for one percentage gain. Can anyone comment on their charge times?
Hey Guys
I bought my HTC Sensation about 3-4 days ago. No root, No S-OFF. For past few days, i followed battery charging procedure, drained battery completely, left phone off, and charged it. I did same procedure few times. Doing this procedure really improved battery life on HTC Incredible S.
Anyway, last night, battery was running low 30% after 14 hr use. I needed alarm for morning so, at 10pm i plug phone to charger and left it on. 4:30 am, got up, and orange led light (charger indicator) still on. Check phone, and it still charging. Checked battery and it shows 50% charge. Anyway unplugged it, fetched to work put on charge, after about 1.30 hr still at 60%.
Decided to restart phone, as soon i did restart, battery went back to 100%.
Does anyone experienced this?
Nope, that sounds weird. I would suggest battery calibration for you if this is a reoccuring thing.
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Do i need S-OFF or rooting to get battery calibrated?
Is any other way to get it calibrated without root or S-OFF?
Oh crap. I think you do need to be rooted to use the calibration app. My bad. Try using the search button? I would do it, but I'm not on my computer now.
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My battery took forever to charge the 1st couple of times... After about 3/4 charges it sorted itselft out. Good luck
I am kinder hoping it was one of software glitch, hopefully it won't happen again. Will report back after few more charge cycles.
animaleyes76 said:
My battery took forever to charge the 1st couple of times... After about 3/4 charges it sorted itselft out. Good luck
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Mine also took a long time the first few charges (probably 5 hours or so). It now charges in well under 3 hours.
Same here. When new & after a factory reset, it will take a LONG time to recharge. But will sort out after a few cycles.
Thanks guys,
I don't know what happens, but after 5hr use (heavy use), few voice calls (one about 30 min) emails sync every 15 min. Battery shows me that i used only 9%, impressive! I installed battery widget to see if some software issue, but seems to be only 1% out. Phone shows 90% life left, widget 91% (but still calibrating)
I have read every possible thread you can imagine on battery calibration and can never seem to do this correctly, is it a myth? No matter what I do, if I restart my phone, I end up going from 100% down to 85-86% EVERY SINGLE time.
This is after "bumping it". (letting it drain all the way to 0% and then fully charging again).
This is after using BATTERY CALIBRATION in the market which was told works well. (again, advises you charge to 100% then "calibrate" it via the APP).
This is after charging it to 100% and restarting it, recharging up to 100%, restarting and recharging (repeat, repeat, repeat), and then going into bootloader and wiping battery stats.
None of these have worked, does someone have a sure fire EXACT way to do this properly or is at ALL just hype? Help.
Your battery will never say 100% after a reboot. It sucks up a lot of juice on a power up and the battery doesn't charge during powering on. I usually drop about 10% on a reboot using the rezound battery. That is normal behavior. If you can charge to 100% with the phone on then you're fine.
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Interesting because I've never lost 15-16% consistently although I guess it using some juice to cycle makes sense. Anyone else seen 10+ every restart? Thanks for the help man in either case.
Hmm, never seen this before. On my phone which is running skyraider uc to 768mhz and uv only loses 1percent on reboot or doesn't even lose charge at all. Not sure why your phone is doing that.
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I am running G3D uc to 768mhz and on restart I may lose 1 - 5% at most depending on if i made any changes that take a longer restart. I bet you are overclocked? no need, under clock to 768mhz and your phone will run as smooth as 1.2mhz..maybe smoother while using less battery
Running liquid 3.2.1 on my T-Bolt with the Rezound battery and I only lose 1% battery at boot up. Never lost more...oh and I have never calibrated my battery. Also I get about 8-10 hours of moderate to heavy use too. All stock clocks btw
Just to double check - or reword... do it this way - if you aren't already.
Charge to 100%.
Wipe Batt stats
Drain to zero without recharging in any way (AKA let it drain until it shuts off on you).
Recharge until 100% (till it says 100%, not just "green."). And unplug.
And you're good! Try that and check back in.
Battery Calibration doesn't work
Ignore the % number, it means nothing. Use the battery monitor widget or another program that will show you the actual battery voltage. A fully charged battery will be somewhere around 4200 mV and a discharged battery between 3600 and 3200 mV. I've also noticed that the rezound battery throws things off as the mAh rating doesn't match up to either of the thunderbolt batteries. This is why the battery monitor widget shows the rezound battery as 2750 mAh instead of 1620.
What I recommend to my Evo peeps [which I have] is this:
-Charge battery to 100%
-Wipe battery stats in recovery
-Let the battery drain, so it manually powers off
-Charge to 100% again, and good to go
Battery Calibration doesn't work
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By this I mean Google Developers have came out recently and said battery calibration does not increase or have any effect on the state of battery life. All wiping the battery stats does is wipe the stats as to what has been using the battery, etc.
still handy for when you flash a new rom to wipe the stats, but it doesn't improve battery life at all.
smoody said:
By this I mean Google Developers have came out recently and said battery calibration does not increase or have any effect on the state of battery life. All wiping the battery stats does is wipe the stats as to what has been using the battery, etc.
still handy for when you flash a new rom to wipe the stats, but it doesn't improve battery life at all.
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Actually, the post from Dianne @ Google said nothing about calibration. She only talked about wiping or deleting the battery stats file.
You are correct, however all the battery calibration apps available only delete the battery stats file. So like I said it doesn't affect battery life.
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Just to double check - or reword... do it this way - if you aren't already.
Charge to 100%.
Wipe Batt stats
Drain to zero without recharging in any way (AKA let it drain until it shuts off on you).
Recharge until 100% (till it says 100%, not just "green."). And unplug.
And you're good! Try that and check back in.
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This is what I thought I had done but will do again. The problem is even after its 100% and in between your 1st and 2nd step when I reboot into recovery, it's no longer at 100% and sometimes down to 85%ish. I will try again tho, thanks!
http://rootzwiki.com/_/articles/wiping-battery-stats-is-pointless-says-google-r316
That pretty much says it. Wiping stats and calibrations are placebos.
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That pretty much says it. Wiping stats and calibrations are placebos.
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Yeah I read that too. But when I flashed my first rom on the tb I got abysmal battery life. 25% in like 20 min. I recalibrated and it got so much better. If its a placebo its a good one.
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all that says is the the deleting the batterybin file doesn't help. The battery is handled by each by software outside of android itself. So, following the battery calibration from the manufacturer of your phone still might help.
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Yeah I read that too. But when I flashed my first rom on the tb I got abysmal battery life. 25% in like 20 min. I recalibrated and it got so much better. If its a placebo its a good one.
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25% in 20 minutes means nothing. The % is an estimated number. Find an app that reads the battery voltage if you want a true reading on the battery's charge. Full is 4.2 volts, dead is between 3.0 - 3.6 volts. Battery life should only be measured in hours from full to dead. I've seen my phone stick on 100% for several hours before as well as sticking at 20% for several hours. Ignore the %. Anyone spending all day looking at a % to judge their battery life should go back to a battery indicator that doesn't show %.
My battery has been acting funny lately. Some nights I go to bed with the battery at 100% and when I wake up it's still at 100%. Other nights it loses 10-15% (in about 9 hours). I don't have anything running in the background that I'm aware of that would cause such a discrepancy. A couple nights ago the battery lost 10-12% overnight with the phone turned off! Still the phone was apparently awake all night. How is that possible?
I'm too lazy right now to post a screenshot since xda only accepts urls.
The same here after flashing a new custom rom.
After turning on the phone and making this screenshot percentage immediately went down for 10 to 15 %.
You can check things like that pretty good with apps like Battery Monitor Widget.
Did both of you try to recalibrate the battery?
Do a full cycle charge to 100% use it till 10% then wipe battery stats and charge phone to 100 again
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k1llacanon said:
Do a full cycle charge to 100% use it till 10% then wipe battery stats and charge phone to 100 again
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Why would you only go down to 10? Might as well drain the battery completely. It's not going to damage anything unless you let it sit around dead for weeks, possibly even months.
It's never good to completely drain a lion battery
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k1llacanon said:
It's never good to completely drain a lion battery
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Actually, for a proper cell calibration, it is best to drain the battery completely. Many agree and I have never heard a dev say that draining it dead hurts the battery. It is essential for each cell to be empty in order to properly and fully charge a li-ion battery (without this, % figures will be non-calibrated over time). Just like it is of good practice to let the device charge and extra hour or so once the indicator light turns green (to ensure 100% after trickle mode).
Rule 1: Battery calibration does absolutely nothing. Deleting battery stats will never, ever do a single thing to help your phone's battery calibration.
Rule 2: Standby drain is almost always because of partial wakelock or kernel wakelock. Install Betterbatterystats to figure out what the issue is.
Rule 3: If your phone is in a good reception area and still experiences heavy standby drain, charge the phone until it reaches max voltage (4.2 or 4.3), then use it until it shuts off, then go to hboot until it shuts off, then charge to full again, preferably with the phone off. Wait about an hour after you first see the green light to turn it on.
After that, enjoy. If you still have issues, I would suggest backing up everything and attempting an ruu flash with the battery at 100%.
I failed to mention it, but I haven't rooted or installed a custom rom.
I'll try better battery stats to see what I can find out with that.
Hello, i'll recieve a new battery tomorrow. (original htc sensation one)
Do i have to charge it with the phone closed for like 2 days before actually using it ?
No need
Just take couple of charging cycles..
Do a full charging at 1st , use cellphone till battery downs to 6-7%
Recharge again to 100%
Do this 3-4 times to see battery backup
Itsakash said:
No need
Just take couple of charging cycles..
Do a full charging at 1st , use cellphone till battery downs to 6-7%
Recharge again to 100%
Do this 3-4 times to see battery backup
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Ditto. This procedure should be just fine. Use your phone as you would normally. When it gets low, plug it in and charge it up to 100%. Do this another 2-3 times and you should be set.
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Ok, just got my battery.
I didnt charge it since i got it. So i simply charge it to 100% when it gets to 2%.
After a few charges it should recognise the new battery, right?
Its not like i have to clear battery cache or let the phone to discharge completly and afterwards to let it charge closed?
Edit: it already lasts much longer