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Hi all.
Looking for some serious help. Coming from a Samsung vibrant. I need help with how to save battery life on the sensation. I have been off charger for 5 hours and 51 minutes and am down to 41%. Is this normal? I have been only texting really. I got my data from battery monitor.
Thanks in advance. Anyway to make this better?
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It all depends on what you're using the phone for. I'm at 55% after 12 hours. yesterday I got 17 hours. if all you're doing us texting then no,thats not normal. but I suspect you're probably doing more with it than you realize since its a new toy.
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He prolly has running wifi as well?
Settings > Wireless and networks > Wifi settings > [MENU BUTTON] > Advanced > Wifi sleep policy > After 15 minutes
Stop Android from phoning home and you'll save greatly on battery life.
Best way I've found to prevent battery drain, is to stop Android from phoning home.
Once you use an app like Autostarts to stop unnecessary things from starting up all the time on their own and also block a couple ports that are not always needed via an app like DroidWall, you'll see great battery life. Also see other details in that link of things I turned off to increase battery life amoung other benefits.
For now, I can only speak for seeing the difference while using a Nexus One ROM on my HD2, but I have way better battery life, GPS lock times and faster device boot ups than ever before.
This is yet another one of the reasons I must wait till the Sensation is rooted and unlocked. Because I'm not using it while it's running things I can't better manage, so they don't drain my battery.
Profondo_Rosso said:
It all depends on what you're using the phone for. I'm at 55% after 12 hours. yesterday I got 17 hours. if all you're doing us texting then no,thats not normal. but I suspect you're probably doing more with it than you realize since its a new toy.
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How did u get that much? I have battery monitor as a widget. I also did not charge the phone all the way up when I first got it.
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Well to be honest for the 8 hours I'm at work, I use it light. texting, a few calls and about 30 minutes of reading pulse and playing games. However the next 8-9 hours I would consider moderate to heavy use. I have no monitors or anything running, just running straight out of the box.
I'm at 34% after 14.5 hours today.
I charged it fully the first day, ran it to 0, then charged it fully again last night.
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Did draining it out help? It is really killing my battery. When my phone idles it loses about 7 percent an hour. Is this normal?
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Mine is at most 3% per hour so I would say check if you have any running apps that aren't supposed to be.
I suppose draining could have helped but I have no way of knowing for sure
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Yeah I killed my battery in 12 hours with decent use and then charged to 88 had to go but now down to 35 three hours later ....thinking of draining battery and then charging
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I think custom kernel can improve battery a lot..Wait
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I think mine's even worse. Phone was off charger at 100% at 11am, by 1:30PM it's already down to 80%ish. By 4PM it was down to 40%ish, got it charged up to about 70%ish around 6PM, by midnight I was around 6% again.
So I think I'm losing around 10%/hr. That's gotta be abnormal, and the battery gets really hot too. At the moment, I have several speculations:
1. Death grip causing the phone to work harder to find signal, and tmo's coverage kinda sucks in my town
2. I have defective unit/battery
3. Some apps behind the scene are killing it. But I've checked what's running behind, even turned off unnecessary stuff using autorun manager. Auto sync is turned of only for gmails. Weather, IMAP mails, pulse, facebook etc are set to pull in couple hrs instead hourly. The battery life cannot be worse than my 2-yr old HD2.
Hey guys. Have you considered bump charging. HTC advised the idea for the HTC desire battery and it in most cases doubles the battery.
Sorry I can't be more specific bit I'm on my phone. I have found the relevant link. Read the 1st post. I'm gonna do it when I get in from my gig.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=712990
Bump charging kills the battery in long run.
If you have to do it to a brand new handset it can't be good news.
HTC shipping crapy product again!
Customers should not have to put up with this crap and be the beta tester!
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snarestud940 said:
Hi all.
Looking for some serious help. Coming from a Samsung vibrant. I need help with how to save battery life on the sensation. I have been off charger for 5 hours and 51 minutes and am down to 41%. Is this normal? I have been only texting really. I got my data from battery monitor.
Thanks in advance. Anyway to make this better?
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I'd suggest uninstalling battery monitor. I had installed it on my g2x and immediately saw my battery percentage drajning more quickly. Probably because its always running in the background.
The best tip I can give for better battery life is to minimize what you allow to run in the background. Get rid of any task killers, set Facebook/Twitter/Email/etc to sync less frequently, turn off wifi if you're not using it so its not scanning for networks, and so on.
Also install juice defender from the Market. Its free. It has greatly increased my battery life.
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I'd suggest uninstalling battery monitor. I had installed it on my g2x and immediately saw my battery percentage drajning more quickly. Probably because its always running in the background.
The best tip I can give for better battery life is to minimize what you allow to run in the background. Get rid of any task killers, set Facebook/Twitter/Email/etc to sync less frequently, turn off wifi if you're not using it so its not scanning for networks, and so on.
Also install juice defender from the Market. Its free. It has greatly increased my battery life.
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I tried juice defender. Didn't know how to set it up properly. What are good settings for that? And thanks for your help everyone.
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snarestud940 said:
I tried juice defender. Didn't know how to set it up properly. What are good settings for that? And thanks for your help everyone.
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I installed the Plus version because it allows wifi control. I just use the default settings except I change so it doesn't disable wifi. I do that because I use wifi calling at home so I dont want Juice Defender turning off my wifi. I always turn it off manually when I leave the house anyway.
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I installed the Plus version because it allows wifi control. I just use the default settings except I change so it doesn't disable wifi. I do that because I use wifi calling at home so I dont want Juice Defender turning off my wifi. I always turn it off manually when I leave the house anyway.
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Balanced settings? Or whatever it is called?
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Balanced settings? Or whatever it is called?
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Yea Balanced Settings is good if you don't mind it managing your wifi too. In the Plus version I selected Customize instead of Balanced. The only thing I changed was the wifi setting. There's a ton more settings to configure but the default ones work fine for me and I don't have the patience to sift through them all anyway lol
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Yea Balanced Settings is good if you don't mind it managing your wifi too. In the Plus version I selected Customize instead of Balanced. The only thing I changed was the wifi setting. There's a ton more settings to configure but the default ones work fine for me and I don't have the patience to sift through them all anyway lol
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I agree but recommend you take the time to set up each setting on customise mode and you'll be amazed how much extra battery you save fr!!om the default values. Only takes about 5 mins
Well that's really the question, what's the best battery usage consumption application. I don't want to see battery % remaining but -mA used, especially while the device sleeps.
My two choices are Battery monitor widget or current widget but I'm happy to consider another product. I've read concerns in the forum that battery monitor widget reports numbers too low.
I use LBC Rom and the latest radio. But, I'd prefer it if this thread didn't turn into a custom rom battery usage comparison thread.
While sleeping Battery monitor widget reports -5mA to -7mA on my device and near identical figures on my wife's stock (v 1.30) with old radio. Where as with current widget I see -10mA to -12mA?
Has anyone tried adjusting the battery monitor widget-> monitoring-> mA retrieval method Setting? If so what setting do you use/recommend?
EDIT: Normally use Auto but tried HTC devices and all that was reported was a stream of 0mA
Also there is an option in current widget-> log options-> force log in sleep mode do people use this? I do. Does either application have any other must have options that I may be missing?
Many thanks for your input....
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Bump!
come on ladies, someone must have something to say.......
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Same question as you.I am using the battery monitor widget.It shows 5mA when the machine is sleep. Is it to low ?
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Same question as you.I am using the battery monitor widget.It shows 5mA when the machine is sleep. Is it to low ?
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you are supposed to get around 5ma but many people using the desire S didn't get anything below 10ma ,so maybe this problem got fixed in the newer devices?
@ben battery monitor widget shows the battery left in mv
& i am unable to get anything below 10ma on any ROM and radio i use
ill give current widget a try
I've tried both, my Battery Monitor Widget never goes below 14mA when idle, and Current Widget never goes below 28mA. It seems Current Widget shows twice the amount of BMW.
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I've tried both, my Battery Monitor Widget never goes below 14mA when idle, and Current Widget never goes below 28mA. It seems Current Widget shows twice the amount of BMW.
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I'm talking about just sleeping, absolutely no activity, mobile data turned off and auto sync switched off, it is possible to get the same low numbers with wifi on but theres a known battery drainage issue with the wifi.
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I'm talking about just sleep, no activity, auto sync switched org
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Yes that's what I meant. During sleep, the lowest value I saw on BMW was 14 and the lowest I seen on Current Widget is 28, i.e. double.
djsubtronic said:
Yes that's what I meant. During sleep, the lowest value I saw on BMW was 14 and the lowest I seen on Current Widget is 28, i.e. double.
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Hadn't finished my last post when I submitted it. (and you don't get to see edit)
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during night lowest was 5mAh...and I`m using tap tap app.
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Hadn't finished my last post when I submitted it. (and you don't get to see edit)
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Oh right.
my WiFi has been off always
current widget doesn't seem to be working properly ,im getting very high readings (more than double both while screen off & on)but my battery life seems to be normal
i think you should use battery monitor widget
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Also there is an option in current widget-> log options-> force log in sleep mode do people use this?
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My Evo seems to log just fine while sleep without it. I tried enabling this and notice no difference. I guess it's to be used if your device has trouble logging while sleep.
Hey guys... I just wanna know how long does it take your sensation to drain your battery while your screen-on... I have my brightness set to 50% and after 2 hours of screen-on, the battery is dead... I mean full charge to shutdown... Please share your experience and some advise to improve this... Thanks in advance...
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Depends on other factors too but my screen on time usually falls somewhere between 3-4 hrs. However, like I said that is not the only thing effecting your battery life.
Well, watching a 40 minute TV show on mine uses 20% of battery with screen set to 100% brightness, so 2 hours should leave about 40% of battery.
This would suggest there's either something else using your battery, or there's something wrong with your phone/battery
5 hours if I'm really conservative with the brightness.
Sigh... i guess there is really something wrong with mine.. and i can't really find what is eating my battery... When it's idle with 3g on, it does not consume anything at all, may be just 3% for 3 hours.. but when i start to turn on the screen, battery life begins to drain so fast...and that is only at 50% brightness... This is just frustrating.. anyways, thanks for sharing guys... Much appreciated
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Get Betterbatterystats (one word) from the market.
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It really depends on how u use ur phone, like me for ex. I use it as a music player also, so say when I'm driving I'm playing music bt screen is not on so by the time actual screen time is on, batt will have drained some thus giving me less display time per charge. (or playing a game). There's been a time I got a lil over 4 hours bt dint play music/games tho. And my fone is always on auto brightness
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My battery drains more when its on standby. When its on it will drain less
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i have it since one week then i play too much with it ... 2 or 3 hours
i tried too much rom and to much kernel
Can anyone confirm that setting the brightness to auto will save more power?.. i read something in the other thread that it will consume more power because it will always try to sense which is the suitable brightness for the current environment you are into... Correct me if i'm wrong please...
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Depends how I use my phone, and also how good the signal is. I would say 4 - 5 hours on average. I got 5 hrs 10 mins the one day last week
Screen brightness set around 30%.
That's nice... I envy you having able to squeeze 5 hours of your screen-on time..
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6hours,
Light Rom.
30% brightness
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Always set to auto brightness, feels like no matter what I do with the phone whether it's heavy gaming or light usage, the screen-on time gets to about 3 hours before the battery goes.
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Just one question for all of you guys having more than 4 hours of screen-on time.. are you all rooted and have flashed other ROMs?...
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jomblass said:
Can anyone confirm that setting the brightness to auto will save more power?.. i read something in the other thread that it will consume more power because it will always try to sense which is the suitable brightness for the current environment you are into... Correct me if i'm wrong please...
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Mine is set to auto brightness and I get 4-5 hrs screen time, no battery drain here.
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jomblass said:
Just one question for all of you guys having more than 4 hours of screen-on time.. are you all rooted and have flashed other ROMs?...
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Stock 2.3.4 unbranded Europe ROM, and stock battery. Although thinking of getting the Anker battery. Maybe get 6hrs screen on time out the Anker if Im lucky I guess.
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Just one question for all of you guys having more than 4 hours of screen-on time.. are you all rooted and have flashed other ROMs?...
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It has been the same for me on stock, rooted, custom ROMs, I get on average 4-5 hrs. Two Sensations in the house, mine running custom get's 4 -5 hrs, Mom's on pure non rooted stock gets the same, she got hers yesterday.
7 hours - 20% brightness - Melvins Senseless rom
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7 hours - 20% brightness - Melvins Senseless rom
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Low brightness, but that's still pretty amazing.
How do I lower my display usage it says 88% so I turned it to lowest brightness and still say 88% I was using coredroid 2.4 and help giving I'd greatly appreciated.
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How long was the screen on? Make a few calls and the screen won't be the highest used %.
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Well...if you are doing stuff on your phone that keeps the display on, obviously it will be the highest user of your battery.
Don't use the screen!
My sensation actually drains battery less whe its using somehing or on. This happen on pyramid3d. And miui frm tripndroid. Illike I'll listen to mussic for 1 hour, and it will be 100 to 96. And when I let it standby, it will go to like 88 in a hour. Is this normal?
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I had an issue similar to this. Every other day the battery would drain in half a day (when usually it would last a good 12 hours +)
Under the battery usage tab it was showing the phone as being awake for almost all of the time (Even though I hadn't used or touched the phone)
I think it was a Kernel issue (Correct me please if I'm wrong, just a small time n00b) As I was using the stock shipped rom but just rooted.
Anyway, upgraded now, and it seems to be ok so far! *touch wood*
Would suggest you look under the battery usage graph and see what that tells you.
Ill reply in 12 hours. Since I just ubplugged from charger
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You could've installed a bad app. Faulty/bad apps will stop the phone from sleeping. Look for apps that (when you install them) list that they can prevent the phone from sleeping in the permissions list.
If you've not installed too many, remove one at a time, leave for a while, and then check battery section in Settings to see if it's no longer staying awake.
If you find the app, contact the developer through the market so they can fix it.
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Also, if you have it, keep WiFi connected when in range. Uses less battery than mobile data. Switch it off when you're not connected of course.
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