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Battery Life: Doubling it.

Okay so i'm a new user with a HTC Fuze and i haven't customized it yet, just added a few tweaks. The first thing I noticed about this phone is that it's battery life is too short. I have "locked" data with AT&T to not get extra charges so i'm not connecting to Media Net and it still consumes a lot of battery.
I went out of my house at 2:30pm with 100% and kept texting people in a 1 hour bus trip (round trip) so 2 hours in total using the device and when I got home the battery was half-way gone.
I bet i could spend the battery of this phone in less than 20 minutes -> activate flash led + music in the background + wifi + bluetooth + 3g + texting at the same time / browsing internet.
Well after looking for tweaks and whatnot this is deff the best solution (however, a little expensive) for this phone:
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It's a 3000mAh battery. (Regular HTC brings a 1340mAh stock)
It costs 89.99$ (free shipping)
So for anyone interested in increasing their battery by the double, and even a bit more than the stock phone that's your best solution. If you combine this with a few tweaks your phone will be able to work moderate-high use for more than 15 hours.
PS. Another solution that i found is a portable charger (AA battery size) that you can connect to your device anywhere at anytime. You can perform almost 2 FULL charges with only 1 battery.

I have no problem getting at least two or three days out of a single charge. Stock ROM with the TF3D garbage scrubbed and replaced with SPB. Haven't disabled the 3G either, and it downloads my email every 5 minutes. I'm not otherwise a heavy internet user, though it sounds like I use it more than you. I maybe talk on it for 20 or 30 minutes a day.

I understand 100% what you mean. I do a fair amount of texting, but usually a full day, and by the end of the day (if the battery lasts that long), my battery is completely gone. Texting really does take up a lot of battery from the phone, and there isn't any way around it. Although some roms take up more battery than others (energy), and some take less (ROMeOS), your still gonna suck a lot of your battery by texting. I thought about that battery as well a while back, but after thinking about it, I decided that I really don't want to make my tp any thicker than it already is.

Install Advanced Config and take a look at the power options.. Advanced Config is a must have for Windows Mobile Phones.

After one hour of nonstop texting I have about 90% battery left. I would suggest to go with a different ROM.

jdwrrzmm said:
After one hour of nonstop texting I have about 90% battery left. I would suggest to go with a different ROM.
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wat rom are you using? i usually do hours of nonstop and my phone will just die out..

Loner2DEnd said:
wat rom are you using? i usually do hours of nonstop and my phone will just die out..
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you might have a data connection on continously... or something(wifi)...

djcaston said:
I understand 100% what you mean. I do a fair amount of texting, but usually a full day, and by the end of the day (if the battery lasts that long), my battery is completely gone. Texting really does take up a lot of battery from the phone, and there isn't any way around it. Although some roms take up more battery than others (energy), and some take less (ROMeOS), your still gonna suck a lot of your battery by texting. I thought about that battery as well a while back, but after thinking about it, I decided that I really don't want to make my tp any thicker than it already is.
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No, the battery is the same shape as the default one.
It just has more capacity, your phone will look the same.

Nope, not true, the Mugen Super Extended battery comes with a custom replacement back door !
See : http://cgi.ebay.com/MUGEN-SUPER-EXT...temQQimsxZ20081226?IMSfp=TL081226112001r31958
( just as reference and for pics )
Cheers,
JCE

thazeid said:
No, the battery is the same shape as the default one.
It just has more capacity, your phone will look the same.
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i don't think LiOn chemistry has improved so much over a year to pack three times the amperage on the same size...
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-EXTENDED-BA...trkparms=65:12|66:2|39:1|72:2128|293:1|294:50
they give you a new cover... it IS thicker
i myself am planning to see how much battery i need, and possibly upgrade to a 2200mAh battery (thicker too)

Oh, i didnt see that...
HTC Fuze is too thick to be even thicker...

thazeid said:
Oh, i didnt see that...
HTC Fuze is too thick to be even thicker...
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i hang my Fuze off my belt, so i think a little more thickness is worth it if i'm going far away from my charger...

might as well call it HTC Brick after you put that cover on it

I found s2u2 to be a massive batt drain on my fuze running current attsom. I was using 80-90 % of the batt in 9 hours. uninstalled s2u2, now using about 45% in 9-10 hours. Bummer, because I really liked ac's program. I think there must be some conflict with the att rom.

mthomas said:
I found s2u2 to be a massive batt drain on my fuze running current attsom. I was using 80-90 % of the batt in 9 hours. uninstalled s2u2, now using about 45% in 9-10 hours. Bummer, because I really liked ac's program. I think there must be some conflict with the att rom.
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I had the same issue. With the new version and WM6.5, I see no difference with using it....it is like it isn't there!

Loner2DEnd said:
wat rom are you using? i usually do hours of nonstop and my phone will just die out..
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My 4-5 days out of my Touch pro. Granted I don't use at all for voice, but browse the web over wifi (~1hr daily), watch movies and play games. Wifi is on most of the time and I get a lot of emails over the day.
One of the worst battery hogs I had was Fring. The reason was it stopped the phone from entering sleep and kept the data connection open at all times, but still would just shorten the bat life to 2 days.
Mind you, that's on a custom rom (Energy Rom).

Mugen battery dying?

hey guys i bought a 3600Mah mugen battery and its seem like its dying faster, anyone feels the same?
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kernel 2.6.35.14
rom xboarderMOD V3.0.1
android version 2.3.5
brightness: 60-70%
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i'm sitting on 30% right now
i dont think i can get a full day like most of everyone, i already delete the battery stat and its still not working

How long have you had it? New batteries should cycle afew times though before the gauge can be trusted.
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I get two days out of regular use from my mugen 3600. I've had it for about 5 months now. Still runs strong.
Sent from my T-Mobile G2 using XDA App

I get 2 days of regular use and over 3 days with little usage on my 1800mAh battery, you should get LOADS more on yours, 4 days at a minimum.
Charge up to 100%, let it rest on charger for 2 more hours.
Go to recovery and wipe battery stats.
Use the device as normal but do not charge until it dies at 0%.
Charge to 100% and again let it rest a bit, then resume your normal usage.
Every once in a while or after flashing a new ROM, let it discharge to 0 to get accurate readings.
And also be aware that google GPS-based apps have problems on CM7 based ROMs and the GPS sometimes stays awake or some such bug. It doesn't show on battery usage graph but every time you use google maps, google goggles or similar I recommend rebooting because there's a chance it's slowly draining your battery in the background.

nik3r said:
I get 2 days of regular use and over 3 days with little usage on my 1800mAh battery, you should get LOADS more on yours, 4 days at a minimum.
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My normla usage is more then your normal usage, end of story.
Play n64oid daily on your phone and see how much faster it dies.
Sent from my T-Mobile G2 using XDA App

G1_enthusiast said:
hey guys i bought a 3600Mah mugen battery and its seem like its dying faster, anyone feels the same?
little info:
kernel 2.6.35.14
rom xboarderMOD V3.0.1
android version 2.3.5
brightness: 60-70%
i'm sitting on 30% right now
i dont think i can get a full day like most of everyone, i already delete the battery stat and its still not working
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Just a thought: Do you really use google maps so much that it can account for 22% of energy consumption on a 3.6k mah battery? That seems kind of excessive to me.
I mention this since I used to have problems with google maps starting on its own in the background and it really drained the battery like crazy. (oddly enough it would only start whenever i opened the stock mail client.)

The latest google maps does not run in the back ground even after exiting like previous versions of maps (you would have to either reboot the phone or use a 3rd party app to manually kill everything related to maps).
So my recommendation is to do what the above said with the calibration and then make sure you are on the latest maps.

nik3r said:
Charge up to 100%, let it rest on charger for 2 more hours.
Go to recovery and wipe battery stats.
Use the device as normal but do not charge until it dies at 0%.
Charge to 100% and again let it rest a bit, then resume your normal usage.
Every once in a while or after flashing a new ROM, let it discharge to 0 to get accurate readings.
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A lot of people give the advice to drain the battery until it dies. Very poor advice, and you can kill the battery that way. Just drain to 20% or so. No need to go any lower, its not going to make the battery meter any more accurate.

Mog said:
My normla usage is more then your normal usage, end of story.
Play n64oid daily on your phone and see how much faster it dies.
Sent from my T-Mobile G2 using XDA App
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I do actually and I get probably 10 hours extremely heavy usage! Light usage to no usage I get 24 hours plus on 1900 mah chichitech. I've gone 4 hours before my phone ticked from 100 percent to 99 lol.

[Q] Need some help with battery

Hi all,
I am reading forum for a while.
I have purchased sensation 2 weeks ago (used one) and its full stock.
In my best i can get 12h from battery. 3-6 calls cca 5min, maybe 5min of surfing on wifi, 3g off, screen on 10%,...
And i turned off all sync and so (like i sad i read forum)
Next is Anker battery.
what do you recommend next?
and my friend and also have stock sensation and get day and half in light use...
Tnx to all
sorry for my eng, not using often

I bought an Anker battery set from Amazon for around £20 GBP it came with 2 Anker 1900mAH batteries and a charger so you can have the spare charging while not in use.
Since using the Anker batteries I have noticed a big improvement, I am able to have the screen at a usuable brightness and can happy use it for a full day without having to worry about pluggin my phone in ever chance I can.

Keza303 said:
Hi all,
I am reading forum for a while.
I have purchased sensation 2 weeks ago (used one) and its full stock.
In my best i can get 12h from battery. 3-6 calls cca 5min, maybe 5min of surfing on wifi, 3g off, screen on 10%,...
And i turned off all sync and so (like i sad i read forum)
Next is Anker battery.
what do you recommend next?
and my friend and also have stock sensation and get day and half in light use...
Tnx to all
sorry for my eng, not using often
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DEFINITELY Anker ! It's AWESOME.

With battery life that poor I'd say something is draining it far more than it should. When I first got my Sensation the sync icon was constantly on and the battery would just plummet, turned out that HTC Watch was constantly syncing and I had to remove the Watch account.
Go to Settings -> About phone -> Battery -> Battery Use and tap on the graph, if the Awake bar is blue consistently more than the Screen bar then you have a rogue app draining the battery.

so i order anker battery yesterday. ( i hope it will arrive soon)
today i was talking with guy in phone shop and in his opinion battery should last 2 days at least (none to light use)
and that my problem could be in software
any suggestion?

My Sensation XE has also experienced rapid battery loss since yesterday, such that from charging it maybe once day, I'm now needing to charge it twice or more per day. I purchased an App yesterday, which I discovered was then running constantly, so I unisnatlled that today. However, I was still experiencing fairly rapid battery loss, so I had a look for more running Apps which were using fairly large percentage of power, and uninstalled those which I decided I didn't need - but it seems that I may still have a rogue power-consuming App.
Any ideas on identifying it?
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Keza303 said:
so i order anker battery yesterday. ( i hope it will arrive soon)
today i was talking with guy in phone shop and in his opinion battery should last 2 days at least (none to light use)
and that my problem could be in software
any suggestion?
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Use a custom ROM.
Batterly life was pretty poor for myself on the stock ROM as well, but after rooting and using custom made ones, it's a hell of a lot better.
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That's Android 4.0.1, overclocked Kernel...

To install this anker battery do I need any special cover for it or does it use the same stock cover?

It works with the stock cover. Same dimensions as the normal battery.

i was testing last night to what is draining my battery and
when i woke up first i had to insert card pin (???) and then showed 45% left after 10h being on and half of that time without signal because of sim card.
sim car is brand new...?!

I'm not sure if this is just my personal experiences, but I can sometimes solve fast draining battery cases by just rebooting the phone. I suspect that in those cases it's some (rogue?) app that's running in the background or was improperly terminated that's causing the problem.
Also I've read that WiFi uses more power on standby than 2/3g, thus if you don't plan on using WiFi at any time it would be a good idea to shut it off until you do. Also phones that are constantly searching for cell signals drain batteries significantly, thus if you're in a place with crappy reception, your battery will in turn suffer as well.
just my noob .02

little update
my anker battery has arrived few days ago and its miles better than the stock one
but i left last night phone on and this morning its off and i couldnt start
i put it on charger and nothing
then i used voltmeter and its 0,00
brand new anker battery... i am so fu**** mad because last time i was looking it was 43% battery left....

[Q] Question about my battery consumption.

Hello there everyone.
I used to have a blackberry phone in the past and my battery life sucked.
I've been out of work recently and I noticed that I charge my phone quite often daily. I've had this phone for about 4 months now. In the past, since I'm either in the office or trying to catch some sleep, I get by with one charge a day. But now I can barely last 5 hours with a charge. Granted that I seem to be holding my phone always and always doing something with it every time that I'm awake.
Let's just segue a bit with my Blackberry experience since this might be affecting my mentality a bit.
I used to have a bb 9630 and that phone literally won't last through a work day without me plunging it in my office computer mid work day.
So now we come back to my Xperia Pro.
This is a screen shot that I took just now.
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I have been on YouTube for at least 3 hours straight before I took this.
Is this normal consumption? I mean, does watching videos on YouTube for 3 hours drains your battery that drastically?
I really have a bad sense of estimating things so I really can't tell if that's normal or not.
Although when I unplugged my phone and didn't use it for 55 minutes, my battery still went down like 3-4 percent.
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Many times the manufacturer will provide a crappy battery because they are cheap. One easy fix to a battery drain issue is upgrade the battery. MAh's (milliamp hours) are what you look for with a battery upgrade. Most batteries will specify the mAh value (common figures are 1200mAh, 1350mAh, 1500mAh etc) but basically the higher the mAh value, the longer the battery should last between charges.
Online auction sites and stores are an easy way to obtain one. I upgraded this phone battery from the stock battery, got one with 350 more mAh and the device will now last 2-3 hours longer with the same software.
Press Thanks if this helped!
Sent from my rooted SCH-R880 POS

guitarman2010 said:
Many times the manufacturer will provide a crappy battery because they are cheap. One easy fix to a battery drain issue is upgrade the battery. MAh's (milliamp hours) are what you look for with a battery upgrade. Most batteries will specify the mAh value (common figures are 1200mAh, 1350mAh, 1500mAh etc) but basically the higher the mAh value, the longer the battery should last between charges.
Online auction sites and stores are an easy way to obtain one. I upgraded this phone battery from the stock battery, got one with 350 more mAh and the device will now last 2-3 hours longer with the same software.
Press Thanks if this helped!
Sent from my rooted SCH-R880 POS
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I'm kinda a bit hesitant with using a non-manufacturer battery. And it is really hard to get a hold of in our country. Most of those auction sites won't ship internally.
I guess what I just want to know is if my usage reflects my battery consumption without any anomaly.
And another question, is that media server thing caused by youtube or was it because I have a live wallpaper activated?
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Well the live wallpaper doesn't help battery life either, but you probably have your screen too bright, and watching youtube videos means you probably have the screen on 100% of the time, takes a crapload of power as well. I would definitely find out what the media server is though.

Hello,
when youre watching Youtube Videos on your Smartphone,
your battery drains very fast.

3-4 hours of screen on time is normal for the Samsung Galaxy S3 - obviously, a different device - but it doesn't exactly sound like a shocking figure to me that you're at 44% after 3 hours of YouTube. The fact that you have so much battery left AFTER watching video for 3 hours straight is very good and wouldn't call that drastic at all. I would call that good battery life.
3-4% an hour when not in use is probably due to having lots of apps constantly waking the device or having them use GPS, et cetera. You can use something like BetterBatteryStats to determine what's doing it if you're not sure.

Thanks for all the reply. I'll follow your advice and see what happens.
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[Q] Help with identifying Nexus S i9020a Battery Drain

Running Stock ICS 4.1.2 on Nexus S i9020A on AT&T US.
The battery was fine till about a few months back, but of late, it is draining @ around 8-10% per hour on standby!. I originally thought JB was causing the drain, and switched to ICS, and finally to GB. But the drain is consistent across all three.
There is also accelerated battery drain if my phone is completely switched off. If I leave the battery in the phone after powering off, the battery goes from 100 - 0 in less than 4 hours. Thinking the battery might have gone bad, I bought another oem battery, but that is exhibiting the same behavior.
This leads me to think there might be a hardware issue with my phone. I am tired of keeping the phone plugged in at all times, and am ready to throw this out the window and get another phone. As a last ditch effort, I wanted to post this here to see if I can get any kind of feedback/confirmation on this before I buy another phone. Other users are reporting 1-2% battery drain on standby, so 8-10% drain is unacceptable by any standard.
I have attached some screenshots from today when the battery was at 20% after about 9 hours. For this test, I did the following last night:
1. uninstalled all apps I downloaded
2. turned off WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, sync, auto brightness ( set to the minimum brightness)
I charged the phone fully, and then left it on standby, with minimal usage - I think I made a 2 minute call, checked my email once, and read some rss feeds for about 5 minutes in the 9 hours I tested it.
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Bettery Battery Stats Logcat and dump:
View attachment BetterBatteryStats-2013-03-25_204343792.txt
View attachment logcat-2013-03-25_204338703.txt
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks!

I know I'm not giving any advice here but I just wanted to let you know I'm in the same boat. No matter what ROM GB/ICS/JB I lose too much battery per hour with the phone just on standby. There's no explanation for %10 battery drain per hour with pretty much everything off (wifi, data, gps, nfc, background data, etc)
I have tried everything and now I must admit I've given up. I'm just going to ride out CM 10.1 until I can decide on a new phone, most likely the Nexus 4 or HTC One.

abccg said:
I know I'm not giving any advice here but I just wanted to let you know I'm in the same boat. No matter what ROM GB/ICS/JB I lose too much battery per hour with the phone just on standby. There's no explanation for %10 battery drain per hour with pretty much everything off (wifi, data, gps, nfc, background data, etc)
I have tried everything and now I must admit I've given up. I'm just going to ride out CM 10.1 until I can decide on a new phone, most likely the Nexus 4 or HTC One.
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Bro, just replace the battery, buy a new one!

Doesn't seem like a software issue to me, sadly.

That confirms my suspicion. I guess it is time to start looking for a new phone. Thanks!
polobunny said:
Doesn't seem like a software issue to me, sadly.
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kandroid said:
That confirms my suspicion. I guess it is time to start looking for a new phone. Thanks!
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Yeah, your phone doesn't seem to be doing much while asleep. 20 minutes screen on, 35 minutes active, yet battery down to 21%. My battery would be at 90% with that sort of usage. Since you changed the battery (I'll assume it's a decent quality battery, although a cheap battery could be in cause), there's not much left.

Have you tried switching 3G off? 3G seems to SUCK the life out of these Nexus S batteries like no tomorrow.
But I suspect it's a hardware issue with the Nexus S phones. I have WiFi, Bluetooth, 3G and auto-sync all shut off and a static wallpaper and I will lose 20% of my battery in 7-8 hours.

Battery is kernel related. Try changing your I/o scheduler to row and governor to smartassv2. If you don't have those options then look for a kernel that does...air kernel and matrix should suffice.

NO SOLUTION so far
A friend was having the same issue, gave him the battery of my nexus s ... it lasted him for 7-8hrs max whereas it gives me 1 day~ on 2G and normal use without gaimng . So my guess like his mobile your mobile may have some component which is short and draining out the battery . I have been trying to look around for answer but so far no luck. So better check it with another batteryif you can before purchasing a new one.

Vampire test
If anyone is investigating why their Nexus S suddenly starts draining the battery in a matter of hours, BEFORE spending a ton of time (like I did) trying to diagnose what software problem you might have, do the vampire test, as described here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=42586314
I wasted days before coming across this test on this forum, and it proved it had to be a hardware fault.
I have two healthy batteries, both hold a charge for days (probably weeks) when not inserted in the phone, but pop one in the phone, leave it powered off, and within 6 hrs it's dead. So frustrating, and sad to see this phone go.