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Seems weird. But I swear I'm getting a lot better battery life. All the same widgets are running and I'm running a live wallpaper now. Am I just imagining things?
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Maybe. Maybe not. Sometimes the compression of the themes can affect battery life. Which theme please? I'd like to try.
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It might be a placebo effect. Just keep using it and perhaps it'll be noticeable.
One thing I noticed is that right out of installing CM7, I thought my battery wasn't being used a lot, but then I noticed the battery meter wasn't draining at all, and so I did a shutdown + battery pull, and then started it up again, and the right battery meter showed up. I've had to do it the first 2 or 3 cycles, but now the battery meter seems to be completely fine now.
The battery life for me is definitely better. I have Wi-Fi on all the time and I made my phone sync to everything basically every hour and so far it lasts me 12-18 before I hit red.
I'll get back to you both later when I'm not busy. Saw that you were both online so wanted to at least reply.
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I have a known issue.. but with a twist
When.my battery is showing that there is like 90% left. After a while and I reboot, there is only 4% left. That's a.known issue. But here is twist. If I reboot again, its back to 80% orso. And when I do.another reboot there is 75% remaining..
Another reboot shows 74% and so on
I'm sorry if this a known issue.. i don't have much time to search things while I'm working 45h a week.
Anyone knows a.solution for this?
I wiped battery stats. Discharged a few times and the.HTC trick.. non of these work
additional info.
stock battery
HB 1.23
ICS ARHD 6.0.3 before IC and VS
stock kernel
happening for like 2 weeks now
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i dont think you can do anything about it. people say that turning off the device instead of restarting helps. i also have battery jumps but not nearly as extreme as yours. maybe ~5-10% jump. if its a drop jump then it will stay there until the real percentage reaches that said level, if its higher then it will drop quickly to the real percentage. from my experience that is, not a big deal
walkinhotdog said:
i dont think you can do anything about it. people say that turning off the device instead of restarting helps. i also have battery jumps but not nearly as extreme as yours. maybe ~5-10% jump. if its a drop jump then it will stay there until the real percentage reaches that said level, if its higher then it will drop quickly to the real percentage. from my experience that is, not a big deal
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I know that 10-15% drops are normal.
but a drop of 70% is a bit odd.
Its not very serious but its quite anoying, i think its affecting my battery life
Try flashing the battery fix. It helped me out. I had same problem but not so radical.
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Use your phone for a while without changing roms or clearing stats, don't charge until your battery is totally dead then don't take of charge until it is totally full, once full turn off and charge till light green, then back on and charge till green then repeat till you feel confident that your battery us full, then go through full discharge and repeat it will settle down but patience us required, remember stay with 1 rom radio and kernel without clearing anything for at least 4 days
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Attached is the fix I used to remove the problem with battery percentage changeing after restart.
I do not remember where I found it, but it helped me.
Do i flash this in cwm?
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Flashed successful for me
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The battery fix stopped working 2 days in. Bacl to innacurate readings
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Miui won't even let me open the file to flash it
EDIT: flashed & fixed
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Since getting my Sensation I've never been happy with the battery life.
Been running custom ROMs from Day 1, tried various ROMs and various Kernels and have the same issues.
The issues have been
1) Periods of instability and reboots followed by long periods of stability
2) Poor battery life
3) Phone turning off/dying when using the camera flash in low light
Especially because of the camera flash issue I thought the stock battery had gone bad and wasn't able to provide enough power, so I bought an Anker 1900mAh battery.
This seemed to solve all the issues. Battery life went up to over 24 hours. No camera flash issues and a much more stable and usable phone. I was very happy.
That lasted for a few months and now I'm getting back to where I was with my original battery, poor battery life, more instability and camera flash issues but with the Anker battery.
Has anyone seen anything similar?
I really feel like getting rid of my Sensation even though I love the phone, these issues make it painful to use.
Currently running Faux123 v007 kernel with ARHD 6.6.7.
Wow never heard such of an issue you might have an faulty sensation?
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I agree with above post. My anker battery is still going strong after almost a year ! Check your settings and see if something is giving you such a extensive battery drain. Also check your applications carefully. Make sure your sync is not syncing every couple of minutes too, this can really strain a battery. In fact I turn off most sync and only sync email and make sure that's not syncing every minute. Turn off .notification led lights and feedback vibration too. These things drain the battery fast. Make sure in keyboard the vibration is also disabled during typing. I completely disabled led notifications It's waste of battery in my
Opnion. Carefully check All these little things that can pull off your battery. Also disable automatic screen brightness and turn way down to the lowest you can tolerate. All these little things will help save your battery. See if this helps. Remember to check application settings as well. Hope this helps out. If you cannot find .Anything draining it and you have done these things try another new battery. If that continues to drain consider warentee exchange. Best of luck.
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Also make sure your
Battery is not loose this could.cause the issues. Check contacts. If you can wiggle the battery it could be loose. You can fox this with. Little paper wedge. This could be the problem. Best of luck
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Also make sure your
Battery is not loose this could.cause the issues. Check contacts. If you can wiggle the battery it could be loose. You can fox this with. Little paper wedge. This could be the problem. Best of luck
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Yeah i heard of this one too sometimes in some sensations the anker doesnt fit well and it doesnt go right into the +/- contacts you might want to fill in the gap if there is one...
Swyped From My Sensation.
Put a piece of paper on the opposite site of the battery contacts do that the contacts are pushed harder to the phone and clean them before. This resolved the same issues on my sensation.
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ant_thomas, I've experienced the same issues with ARHD 6.6.7 specifically. Battery readings would be wildly inaccurate, sometimes saying that it has 40% left, shutting off and refusing to turn back on completely, leaving me to go into recovery to find that the battery is at 2% actually (might be that battery calibration script). It would also turn off if i used flash about half the time i did use camera flash about half the time. To me, ARHD would be a good rom if it actually read my battery correctly, and didn't give me a functionally half-broken camera.
I'm kind of new to the Sensation, but I've been rom hopping for a few weeks, and I think that's enough to give my amateur opinion. If you're into stock-look, I would recommend Elegancia's stock 3.6 sense rom, Blitz 1.0 (I just upgraded from 3.1.1), or HyperNonSense if you're into AOSP (sense-based, but really lightweight in comparison to VirtuousInquisition). I've had decent enough battery life in comparison to Sense 4 roms or AOSP/AOKP/CM9. But then again, different strokes for different b̶l̶o̶k̶e̶s̶ phones. I can't guarantee anything, as your phone might have the off chance that it's suffering the same symptoms for different reasons, but I hope at least I've helped. Good luck with your phone!
TL;DR: Ditch ARHD - battery read broken, camera flash broken. Elegancia Blitz hasn't betrayed me yet, maybe it won't betray you either. (HyperNonSense by SpIder if you dig AOSP)
Thanks for the replies so far, very much appreciated.
Whilst the battery didn't feel loose at all I have managed to fit in a piece of paper to ensure that it's definitely fitted completely tight.
I am also going to try another ROM or two (definitely going to try Elegancia Blitz) and I'll be very specific about what apps I reinstall after.
I do have some syncing of various services on but I had turned them off in the past and it made no difference, so I thought I may as well have them on.
Invalid stats are HTC's fault, not ARHD's. Sensation simply has broken battery readings.
Sometimes battery dies when it's on 20%, because it was actually on 1%. Reflashing the ROM fixes this. I'm guessing wiping battery stats would help as well.
Anyway, in addition to that piece of paper, I suggest you install Watchdog lite. You can easily follow what is using your CPU, and if an app is "misbehaving" you will get notified
I was having the same issue a couple of months ago while we were still on gingerbread. I sent it for a warranty exchange and none of the issue were present. But a couple of weeks ago it started again with the new phone ,and its gotten worse the last couple of days. It reboots when I use flash sometimes, battery stats are all over the place after constant random reboots, battery takes over 5 hours to charge. It seems I'm not the only one with these problems. It's really annoying and has gotten to the point where the phone is unusable.most of the time.
I have tried many things and nothing works. I tried to get a logcat but these things never happen while the phone is connected, I tried to use alogrec to record it from the phone but won't save before it reboots. I've read many threads with these issues but never saw a true solution:/
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I was having the same issue a couple of months ago while we were still on gingerbread. I sent it for a warranty exchange and none of the issue were present. But a couple of weeks ago it started again with the new phone ,and its gotten worse the last couple of days. It reboots when I use flash sometimes, battery stats are all over the place after constant random reboots, battery takes over 5 hours to charge. It seems I'm not the only one with these problems. It's really annoying and has gotten to the point where the phone is unusable.most of the time.
I have tried many things and nothing works. I tried to get a logcat but these things never happen while the phone is connected, I tried to use alogrec to record it from the phone but won't save before it reboots. I've read many threads with these issues but never saw a true solution:/
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It is really tempting just to sell up and get a Samsung Galaxy S3 even though I'm going to make a large loss on the Sensation since they're not going for all the much on ebay these days.
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It is really tempting just to sell up and get a Samsung Galaxy S3 even though I'm going to make a large loss on the Sensation since they're not going for all the much on ebay these days.
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I know. I was really considering selling it and getting a galaxy nexus ,because all these issues are really annoying!
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I have had about 8 warranty exchanges, all of them keep getting dust, dead pixels, shutdowns, etc. One of them died and didn't turn back on.
Those who defend HTC for their quality are perhaps blind? I do like the design and materials but design and build quality are two very different things.
I am looking forward to get rid of my Sensation at this point, for a Galaxy S3.
The Sensation is a good phone but too many hardware problems.
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Same Issue
I have ARHD T-Mob 1.2 installed. I didn't have any issue with 1.1 but now I get weird battery readings, my phone restarting when I get a call and battery shows around 50-60%
One thing I noticed, it didn't do this until I played angrybirds but it may just be a coincidence.
I may try another rom. Anybody got it remedied by changing to a different rom?
Hi, I bought a sensation a couple of weeks ago, and have since then switched the rom a couple of times.
The problem I face is excessive battery use on my phone.
This seems to be regardless of the rom I am on as it seems to drop at a constant one to two percent a minute on any rom.
I have calibrated my battery numerous times and it doesn't seem to make a difference. So finally I have resorted to asking the community.
I have also bought a second battery which didn't solve the problem either.
Also, sometimes the battery will stay on a percentage for a couple of minutes.
I hope that you may have the answer, thanks in advance
Ask the screen.
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AW: Why does my phone have excessive battery use?
Maybe root your phone, install another ROM, another kernel, look for the big problems in the battery section...
There are so much ways to get a better battery lifetime
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As the pioneer batch of HTC One XLs approaching one year, I'm wondering how is the battery life after one year compared to a brand new set.
Since the battery is not easily replaceable, I'm considering sending in during warranty and ask for HTC One X+ battery replacement with charge.
Thanks in advance for sharing!
I haven't noticed any drop in battery life after one year. I have a release model (May 2012), so its over a year old now. Still getting over 48 hours on a single charge, with low usage (on WiFi when at home, usually not otherwise). Actually seems a bit better than at release, due to better power management by newer firmware; and/or better radio software.
This is my forth Android device (mix of phones/tablets), with some of them being used until they were almost 2 years old, and I haven't noticed any significant battery degradation on any of them.
What I have noticed (just anecdotally) is that there seems to be a bit higher incidence lately of post here by folks whose One X's have had a sudden power drop/power off, and the phone sometimes (but not always) coming back afterwards after being charged.
Hey!
I have some experience with this.
A few months ago I noticed my battery wouldn't last as long, and it got really bad. I sent it to HTC a few weeks ago right before my warranty expired and they changed it with no problem. Even got it back fast. Just tell them your battery has gone bad and give them some numbers like how long you can use it each day and how long it lasts, etc.
I would go ahead and try to have it replaced anyway, cause once your warranty expires you have to pay to get it replaced. Better safe than sorry, imo.
Warranty is for actual problems, not made-up hypothetical ones.
Exchanging a phone because you were actually suffering a battery issue is one thing. Exchanging it because you "might have an issue in the future", is very much different.
I started to notice I need to charge twice a day more often than before with similar use pattern. Though I can't say is the battery really bad now.
Anyway, I'm willing to pay charge for replacement of a HTC One X+ battery.
Vincent4wang said:
I started to notice I need to charge twice a day more often than before with similar use pattern. Though I can't say is the battery really bad now.
Anyway, I'm willing to pay charge for replacement of a HTC One X+ battery.
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can we replace the battery of one xl with that of one x+ from htc service centre?
It is possible to use the one X+ battery but I doubt htc would do it.
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exad said:
It is possible to use the one X+ battery but I doubt htc would do it.
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where can i buy the battery and how to do it
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where can i buy the battery and how to do it
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if you have to ask, i dont suggest doing it.
My battery life took a nose dive after we got Jellybean on our phones.
I've tried a bunch of different ROMs and kernels but ultimately none of it helped. Battery saving tips and tricks, LTE off, lowering screen auto-brightness thresholds (or turning off auto-brightness altogether). All kinds of witch doctor-y battery (re)calibration methods. Nothing has really worked for me. Greenifying almost everything I can possibly kill without "breaking" anything on the phone.
Standby times are just "ok", nothing like I used to get. I get a ton of wakelocks from "android os", "kernel", "google services"...so BBS and GSAM logs ultimately don't tell me anything useful. Other obscure kernel wakelocks I can find very little information about even on XDA.
Battery drain is extreme whenever I have the screen on doing "light" tasks, texting, browsing the web/FB, chatting. Nothing heavy but I can see my battery % falling like I rock. On a good day I can get maybe 1.5-2 hours of screen time before my battery is almost dead.
Not sure what to do but I'm convinced there's something physically wrong with my phone/battery.
What ROM are you using?
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My battery life took a nose dive after we got Jellybean on our phones.
I've tried a bunch of different ROMs and kernels but ultimately none of it helped. Battery saving tips and tricks, LTE off, lowering screen auto-brightness thresholds (or turning off auto-brightness altogether). All kinds of witch doctor-y battery (re)calibration methods. Nothing has really worked for me. Greenifying almost everything I can possibly kill without "breaking" anything on the phone.
Standby times are just "ok", nothing like I used to get. I get a ton of wakelocks from "android os", "kernel", "google services"...so BBS and GSAM logs ultimately don't tell me anything useful. Other obscure kernel wakelocks I can find very little information about even on XDA.
Battery drain is extreme whenever I have the screen on doing "light" tasks, texting, browsing the web/FB, chatting. Nothing heavy but I can see my battery % falling like I rock. On a good day I can get maybe 1.5-2 hours of screen time before my battery is almost dead.
Not sure what to do but I'm convinced there's something physically wrong with my phone/battery.
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Have you tried keeping your phone completely stock on Viper XL (no tweaks, no flashing other stuff), after a FULL wipe? Then wait a few days to see if it improves. If it doesn't, then I reckon it's safe to say your battery is ageing.
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What ROM are you using?
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I'm on ViperXL.
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Have you tried keeping your phone completely stock on Viper XL (no tweaks, no flashing other stuff), after a FULL wipe? Then wait a few days to see if it improves. If it doesn't, then I reckon it's safe to say your battery is ageing.
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Sounds like Turge will be releasing a new build soon. I will try that out then. Thanks.
Not particularly meaningful but it helps illustrate my frustration.
Not even 2 hours screen time. All I did was chat and text. Again, nothing heavy.
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Hmm. I uploaded 3 photos but only 1 is showing up...I can't append more photos from the mobile app nor can I delete this post.
2nd attempt...
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Seems like the app only posts the last photo you select. Wondering why I paid for the "premium"...
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Seems like the app only posts the last photo you select. Wondering why I paid for the "premium"...
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Yeah, my thoughts exactly.
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After more then 1 year of use, I don't see any loss on the battery life. I must even say, with the recent android 4.2.2 and 4.3 ROM running the 3.4.+ kernel, the battery life as been extended greatly (Which is really impressive).
That said, before working with those ROM, the best experience i had on battery life was with ViperXL on Elemental Kernel.
Battery life has been very good after i installed the sense 5 ROMS. kickdriod and the new cleanstrip ROMs are nice balance of battery and performance. cleanstrip in particular is looking very good with all working features even BLuetooth.