[Q] Battery Calibration - HTC Sensation

Hello,
First off I think XDA Developers is really fantastic! I succesfully ROOTED my HTC thanks to a clear and understanding guide by VipeR xl lx.
Then I installed the HD Revolution Andriod ROM that works without problems.
When I was digging through the forum I found somewhere that after installing a custom ROM should calibrate your battery so I found this topic: [How To] Brilliant Battery Life 100% working! I've done everything like in the topic.
But currentwidet will never 0mA, how is this? I'm sure my phone had 12 hours on the charger. Whatsup with that? Am i doing something wrong?
Can someone help me or give tips how to do it
Thanks & Greetings,
TimV_

TimV_ said:
Hello,
First off I think XDA Developers is really fantastic! I succesfully ROOTED my HTC thanks to a clear and understanding guide by VipeR xl lx.
Then I installed the HD Revolution Andriod ROM that works without problems.
When I was digging through the forum I found somewhere that after installing a custom ROM should calibrate your battery so I found this topic: [How To] Brilliant Battery Life 100% working! I've done everything like in the topic.
But currentwidet will never 0mA, how is this? I'm sure my phone had 12 hours on the charger. Whatsup with that? Am i doing something wrong?
Can someone help me or give tips how to do it
Thanks & Greetings,
TimV_
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Hmm, you'll have many thoughts from folks on this.
Basically the battery calibration methods described (100% charge and delete battery stats or 0% charge and delete stats) just delete some the stats. The ROMs will "normalise" themselves after 3 or so charge cycles.
The Sensation seems to report battery % in a strange way across all ROMs and calibration techniques.
The Key thing is that a fully charged battery is ~4.2V and a fully discharged one in the phone is ~3.5V.
A 0mA drain is not possible. The phone, or any phone, will have to do basic background stuff even when the screen is off. It's checking the phone network for example or waiting for you to turn it on to do something.

gol_n_dal said:
Hmm, you'll have many thoughts from folks on this.
Basically the battery calibration methods described (100% charge and delete battery stats or 0% charge and delete stats) just delete some the stats. The ROMs will "normalise" themselves after 3 or so charge cycles.
The Sensation seems to report battery % in a strange way across all ROMs and calibration techniques.
The Key thing is that a fully charged battery is ~4.2V and a fully discharged one in the phone is ~3.5V.
A 0mA drain is not possible. The phone, or any phone, will have to do basic background stuff even when the screen is off. It's checking the phone network for example or waiting for you to turn it on to do something.
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Thank you for the information will definitely use it.

Related

Wiping battery stats?

Does wiping battery stats too often due to flashing alot of roms reduce stock battery performance ?? Being curious..
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No. The battery stats file is only used for determining battery drain. It does not have an effect on battery life one way or the other.
dallashigh said:
No. The battery stats file is only used for determining battery drain. It does not have an effect on battery life one way or the other.
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Thanks and while were at it dont wanna open a new thread is there any script for disabling the charging led ?? It gets very annoying at night in the bedroom :/
I remember i had such a script on my old x10 ... Thanks in advance
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wiping battery stats does nothing to your battery and actually the battery stats are wiped automatically every time u fully charge ur phone:
Dianne Hackborn said:
Deleting it is not going to do anything to make your more device more fantastic and wonderful... well, unless you have some deep hatred for seeing anything shown in the battery usage UI. And anyway, it is reset every time you unplug from power with a relatively full charge (thus why the battery usage UI data resets at that point), so this would be a much easier way to make it go away.
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source: Dianne Hackborn - Android Framework Engineer on Google+
PuscH said:
wiping battery stats does nothing to your battery and actually the battery stats are wiped automatically every time u fully charge ur phone:
source: Dianne Hackborn - Android Framework Engineer on Google+
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If the battery stats get wiped every time it hit 100 how one can keep the same battery life daily ?
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The only way to really preserve a battery is to fully discharge, fully charge. Mine was going great until I slacked on it. I started only charging a little, fully charging from 40%, etc etc. Now, I'm on 100% for two hours. Then I drop fast to about 80%. Then I float around 80 to 60% for a few hours but once I go below 60%, boom, 20%. The last 20% go quick too.
Don't get me wrong, my battery life is basically the same, but now it's really inaccurate. If you start to feel this, the best thing you can do is fully charge, fully discharge. Do that a lot, over and over. It might help correct it, might not.
But to reiterate, no, wiping battery stats does nothing.
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The only way to really preserve a battery is to fully discharge, fully charge. Mine was going great until I slacked on it. I started only charging a little, fully charging from 40%, etc etc. Now, I'm on 100% for two hours. Then I drop fast to about 80%. Then I float around 80 to 60% for a few hours but once I go below 60%, boom, 20%. The last 20% go quick too.
Don't get me wrong, my battery life is basically the same, but now it's really inaccurate. If you start to feel this, the best thing you can do is fully charge, fully discharge. Do that a lot, over and over. It might help correct it, might not.
But to reiterate, no, wiping battery stats does nothing.
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Okay thanks alot but can a custom rom really make that much difference on battery life's performance ?? On my old x10 no matter how many scripts tweaks for batttery they would add i would always get same battery life is it the same here ?
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[Q] battery calibration

Hello,
I am trying to install some custom ROMS onto my phone and I just found one that I want to use. But I did read something that you should recalibrate your battery after installing custom ROMS. Is this true?
And my 2nd question is how to do this. Because I found an app: "Battery Calibration", but I don't know if this will do the trick. I know you can calibrate the battery with Clockwork too, but is this the same as the app?
Thanks in advance
Mathi
The purpose of recalibrating the battery is too get an accurate estimate of battery life. When you switch roms the processor usage changes. Your cell phone doesn't recognize this though and continues to estimate according to the old ROM usage.
I don't know about the apps, i've always done it the manual way.
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battery Cal.
this app works if you follow the 3 steps, charge to 100% then calibrate it unplug your phone then let it discharge fully then when you recharge it don't unplug it until it hit 100% for the second time then you should notice a slight improvement in your phones battery life i am sure the app and cwm method are similar, but with this app you should have no problem its really easy to use, hope this helped, happy tweakin
Hans5849 said:
The purpose of recalibrating the battery is too get an accurate estimate of battery life. When you switch roms the processor usage changes. Your cell phone doesn't recognize this though and continues to estimate according to the old ROM usage.
I don't know about the apps, i've always done it the manual way.
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How do you do it manually? Let it complete drain out and fully charge ?
From the recovery menu.
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All sources have said that Battery Calibration is reliable.
Also keep in mind that with Li batteries, every time the battery dies, its life is shortened by a small amount; therefore, every time you drain it completely, you're actually losing a little bit of battery life.
Other than that, I would be that Google can pull up quite a few results.
According to Google dev blog, wiping batterystats.bin is unnecessary and is in fact useless. You can Google for the link....
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everytime i flash a rom also never do the battery calibration,it is necessary?
weiloon1234 said:
everytime i flash a rom also never do the battery calibration,it is necessary?
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Not necessary at all, when you charge your battery 100% its already calibrated (status refreshed)
I've been using the battery calibration app ever since I started flashing ROMs and have done it every time I flash a new ROM. Can honestly say I notice a difference. Not always immediately as its advised to do a couple of full drain recharges before assessing your battery life

Battery problem

Hello, i'm a newbie to xda developers... I had some problems with my Sensation... I am really a newb to those stuff since i never rooted a phone... The problem with my phone is that the battery doesn't slowly drain... I let it to charge for like 5 hours to get to full 100% and then from 100% it goes to 60% in like 10-20 minutes while i use it ... Other times the battery shows to have more power and other times it straightly goes to 40% from 100%... It drains so quickly i can't even go outside with my phone since its battery gets empty... Sometimes, even if the phone is 60% it randomly shuts down and have to restart it for like 5 times to get it work for at least 10 minutes. Might it be the battery? I tried going to recovery mode but i get the red triangle with an exclamation sign in it... Any reply is appreciated, thanks!
Maybe your battery is rubbish and you should just buy another one.
Although is one thing you should try first, recalibrate your battery.
What all these methods amount to is how to teach your phone about battery performance. Calibration is about enabling your phone to provide accurate estimates of remaining battery charge and will not, in and of itself extend the usage you get on a single charge (though it may possibly prevent the phone going into power save modes prematurely, wrongly believing the battery to be lower on power than it is).
The phone stores information about the battery in a file called batterystats.bin which sits in /data/system. Normally you won't have direct access to that file, but you could find it with an app such as root explorer, which allows complete access to the phone's file system.
When you install a new ROM, or a new battery, or perhaps periodically as the battery ages and performs differently, you need to get a new set of battery performance statistics.
By charging the phone to 100% you are starting at the known maximum for the battery. At this point, the batterystats.bin file needs to be deleted, which forces the phone to recreate the file from scratch, using the information it is about to collect. It doesn't matter what method you use, battery calibration app, or from within recovery - they all do the same thing and delete this file.
The phone is then allowed to drain fully. This gives the other end of the scale, the known minimum. The phone then has then experienced the full charge/discharge cycle of the battery and stored that performance information in a new version of the batterystats.bin file.
Now that the information has been saved, the phone will (hopefully) be able to provide accurate estimates of the battery charge level, regardless of how much of the battery charge you use before reconnecting the charger.
If you don't have root access you can download an app from the market called "Battery Calibration". It does the same thing, deletes the batterystats.bin.
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Device: Sensation 4G
ROM: Hyper Non Sense v3.3
Kernel: Faux 009b4 (edited by Yank555)
Radio: 11.24A.3504.31_M
RIL: 4.0.0037HMQ
Recovery: 4EXT_Recovery_Touch_v1.0.0.5_RC5
Battery: Anker 1900
Thank you for your time. You explained really well and i appreciate that... So, to use the calibration apps i need to have root access... should i search a tutorial on that or is there one on the forums? If the calibration can't fix it, should i get another battery? Thank you again! Maybe i should try to buy a new battery first... is rooting safe? can i get back to my old firmware?
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Thank you for your time. You explained really well and i appreciate that... So, to use the calibration apps i need to have root access... should i search a tutorial on that or is there one on the forums? If the calibration can't fix it, should i get another battery? Thank you again!
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Well, yes I guess you should root your phone first, but I'm not sure
A guide on how to root your Sensation can be found here .You should only do the steps 1-3.
If you don't want to root there is another method somebody wrote (I haven't tested it personally)
1. Turn off your phone.
2. Fully Charge.
3. When getting 100% signal, unplug quickly.
4. Pull off the battery and put it anywhere.
5. Wait for 180 seconds minimum
6. Put back the battery on the right side.
7. Turn on the phone.
Than you should be OK:good:
If you get the same result after "battery calibration" I suggest you buy another battery.
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Hello, i have two more question related to this thread... Is there a way to calibrate my battery without root access? And will buying a new battery surely fix my problem? Thanks again!
You might be able to get a calibration application in the playstore. However most I've seen require root access. But look, they're might be some without root requirement. As for your second question. Nothing is ever 100% guarantee that it will solve the issue. These are suggestions based on the information you provided regarding your issue . How can anyone be 100% certain that will solve your issue. It's defiantly a possibility it will solve the problem but no, for 100% certainty, I don't think anyone can say that. It's defiantly worth a try ! Then you can see if getting the battery solved the problem. I hope it does fix your issue and wish you the best .like I said, no one can be 100% sure but it's defiantly worth trying!Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using xda premium
Everything said in this topic is PURE NONSENSE. It was even featured on the front page that wiping the battery stats DOES NOT DO ANYTHING. See this article for more information > http://www.xda-developers.com/andro...-battery-stats-does-not-improve-battery-life/
The only thing you CAN do is charge your battery to 100%, and let it drain to 0%.
Aparently, after i cleaned my battery contacts it DOESNT jump to random values... drains continously.. SO i think the problem is fixed... atleast for a while! I'm new using a smartphone and the battery is a little 2 weak as i was used to my other non-smartphones... I think that's the battery life a 1520AMH can offer me on a sensation! The uptime for it was 6 hours from 100%... thats really weak ( i used the web and games).

[Q] Is it battery or ROM or Kernel issue ?

Hi,
My phone is almost not charging full or it doesn't show as such.
This is detailed breakup of my issue :
I put phone at charging exactly at 2pm at 2%
3pm it was at 36%
4pm it was 54%
5pm it was at 64%
6pm it was at 73%
7pm it was at 82%
7:30pm it was at 84%
after this I removed phone from charging and rebooted it. Surprisingly it showed 100%.
Battery doesn't last more than 12hrs no matter what I do. I am using Greenify too.
BT, GPS, Auto-Sync, 3G, etc all are off. WiFi On 24hrs.
Screen-off battery drain is also around 8-9% per hour.
Can I do/try something on software side before I order a new battery ?
Right now I am on Carbon ROM (20131008) with stock kernel, 1512, Ondemand, SIO, No OC. Its same on every ROM I tried except seemingly on ARHD 7.3 (used it less than 24hrs. Its rock solid and smooth.)
I would greatly appreciate any help/advice !
I also has this issue still looking for the solution
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the battery misreading while charging is a common htc's fault after rooting and there is no solution yet
i have the same thing while charging my device
but the difference is i don't have that fast drain
how old is your battery?
did you try a different battery?
make sure it fits correctly to the pins
Battery is just 1yr old. Yup I checked the pins. They are correctly fit.
silentvisitor said:
Battery is just 1yr old. Yup I checked the pins. They are correctly fit.
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this is a rom issue i think as this has also happened to many people and and this happens after many days on a single rom (and u make the rom unstable)
the solution is simple just backup ur data and full wipe and flash rom again and u will be good to do for next many days (if u keep the rom stable)
I flash ROM almost every alternative day and I always do Full-Wipe
silentvisitor said:
I flash ROM almost every alternative day and I always do Full-Wipe
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then its a battery or charger fault
Harbir said:
then its a battery or charger fault
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How to decide which one
Are there any Battery benchmarking app that could tell me if I need a new one ?
silentvisitor said:
How to decide which one
Are there any Battery benchmarking app that could tell me if I need a new one ?
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first try to change the charger and try it with same present battery ,then after a while if the result is same then u have no choice to replace battery and yes there r many battery apps in play store u have to find then
Harbir said:
first try to change the charger and try it with same present battery ,then after a while if the result is same then u have no choice to replace battery and yes there r many battery apps in play store u have to find then
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Thanks and no I meant Benchmarking app Never saw any
Battery Kernel issue
I am new to xda. I actually flashed a new rom after that phone doesn't charge after switching off. Could it be a kernel issue or the rom's issue. I have a Canvas HD. And sorry if this is not the place to ask the question. I couldn't find any other thread related to this. Please help.
Similar issue here. My charging often stops at about 80%, but after a reboot the battery's full charged.
My battery also gets drained very fast, but it's about 2,5 years old so that's probably the problem.
With the CPU clock speed @1,5GHz and the GPU @266MHz i get about 15h +/-2h of battery life.
I keep battery saving ON most of the time. Bluetooth, GPS, 3G etc all OFF. WiFi ON for about 1-2h per day (if i would keep it on longer, my phone would be dead in 4-5h).
I'm using ViperS 5.2.1 right now (full wiped before install). I got the same experience on ARHD and previous ViperS versions.
Tested the charger - it's fine.
I was wondering if anybody else got an old battery like mine and how long does it last on full charge
Hi guys,
I have a HTC Sensation XE that i bought three days ago (second hand) and i have the same problem with the battery % not reading correctly.
Now this is what i observed:
- the charging is very slow - from 20% to 40% in 2-3 hours
- after 2-3 hours of charging if i reboot the phone the charging LED turns green and the battery reading says 100%.
(i tested to see if actually it got charged to 100% and it did, i turned everything on, watched a HD movie, played some games and after 5-6 hours of playing with it i still had 50%)
- tested the battery to see how fast it drains from 10% to shut down and it went on at full brightness and everything on for about an hour and something so this means there might not be any problems with the battery
- so the reading is wrong because the battery is charged after a few hours.
- i did a test to see if the same thing happens when the phone is off and i left it to charge for 2-3 hours and when i got back the charging LED was still orange. When i started the phone the LED went off and back on as green. The battery was 100% charged.
- If the same behavior happens in off mode it means it's not a ROM problem (by the way from what i know the phone is stock, the guy never did the rooting.....that's what he told me - can't know for sure).
- from my electronics background it seems the phone updates the battery information sometime at boottime. When charging, the software keeps the charging LED on because it's supposed to charge due to incorrect data but the hardware charging controller drops the charge current because the the battery is full. So this can be an incorrect sensor reading by the software or an incorrect feedback given by the hardware controller.
So what do you think, what can cause this.
Should i try rooting the device?
And i tried factory reset from android and factory reset from bootloader and the problem is still there.
Ok so i did the following:
- unlock the bootloader
- flashed CWM
- installed superuser
- wipe battery stats
- wipe device
- calibrate battery with an application from market
The problem is still there.
I figured that when in bootloader first thing you can read is the S-ON/S-OFF. Before doing the unlock it was "LOCKED" and after "UNLOCKED".
I did a relock and the status changed to "RELOCKED" so this means the guy that had the phone before me didn't root which again means the theory that says this problem occurs when the user tries to root the device is not true because it seems the behavior is observed on an unrooted device.
I will dig deeper maybe i find more ideas on what i can do.
I'm running out of software options so this is pointing at something hardware.
I'll get back with updates when i find something else.
rickarrp said:
Ok so i did the following:
- unlock the bootloader
- flashed CWM
- installed superuser
- wipe battery stats
- wipe device
- calibrate battery with an application from market
The problem is still there.
I figured that when in bootloader first thing you can read is the S-ON/S-OFF. Before doing the unlock it was "LOCKED" and after "UNLOCKED".
I did a relock and the status changed to "RELOCKED" so this means the guy that had the phone before me didn't root which again means the theory that says this problem occurs when the user tries to root the device is not true because it seems the behavior is observed on an unrooted device.
I will dig deeper maybe i find more ideas on what i can do.
I'm running out of software options so this is pointing at something hardware.
I'll get back with updates when i find something else.
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probably it is htc's bug
the same happened to me after rooting the device
For now I will try to make some full cycles of the battery and see if anything changes. I usually use the phone at work and by the time I get home it's almost empty. Plug to charger and till morning it's full with a green light. I will have to monitor the charging times and get back with results.
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Well i did some full charging cycles and nothing changed, still the same long charge time(read by the phone) and with restart it bounces to 100%.
I had the original Android 4.0.3 with Htc Sense 3.6 at the time. Got 4EXT recovery and an 4.0.4 rom with Htc Sense 4.1. Did a full wipe and battery stats , installed the new 4.0.4 rom but the problem persists.
At this point i think the battery is the problem so the next thing to do is to change it. I will get back after i change it, hopefully sometime in november.
After a long time I managed to change the battery and after a few tests it seems the problem is still there. The time on battery improved as I expected but everything else is the same which means it's something hardware defective in the phone. Also did some tests with android 5.1 and the same results. Meantime I sold the phone and got a Samsung Galaxy S3 Neo. Hope this research gives some answers to someone at some point. Cheers.

[Q] help? Batterry precentage

Hi Guys, i'm noob, i wana ask about my htc sensation, after 2 year i'm using it, today i found
when battery charging (htc Senstaion) dismiss displaying percentage of battery after i restarting while charging.
****battery charging ------> Battery percentage displaying 60% then i restarting the phone while this situation
and then when phone finish restarting and ready to use battery precentage displaying 100%(full)
is it normal?
sorry my english bad
Boot into recovery and wipe battery stats.
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if not all many users(including me) have this situation
it is a htc's common issue after rooting the device
there is no a solution yet
it is just a percentage misreading
by the way i don't know if wipe battery stats will help
rzr86 said:
if not all many users(including me) have this situation
it is a htc's common issue after rooting the device
there is no a solution yet
it is just a percentage misreading
by the way i don't know if wipe battery stats will help
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After rooting??? R u sure about that ??
I was suffering same issue before rooting and after rooting..
Wipe battery status is useless here ..
Its HTC's fault....
Itsakash said:
After rooting??? R u sure about that ??
I was suffering same issue before rooting and after rooting..
Wipe battery status is useless here ..
Its HTC's fault....
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before rooting?
for me that never happened
also wipe battery stats is useless and indeed it is htc's fault
rzr86 said:
if not all many users(including me) have this situation
it is a htc's common issue after rooting the device
there is no a solution yet
it is just a percentage misreading
by the way i don't know if wipe battery stats will help
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Just a percentage misreading? But if the phone thinks it's at 100% won't it stop charging then?
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Just a percentage misreading? But if the phone thinks it's at 100% won't it stop charging then?
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probably it stops
i am not sure about that
edit: the point is the battery is increasing its percentage slower when it passes 60%-70%
but it charges the same
so if you reboot the device then it jumps at 90% or full charge
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probably it stops
i am not sure about that
edit: the point is the battery is increasing its percentage slower when it passes 60%-70%
but it charges the same
so if you reboot the device then it jumps at 90% or full charge
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Is it known what causes this?
Someone above said "it is a htc's common issue after rooting". Is there any source on that? For all I know, percentage of charge of battery is determined by a combination of output voltage and amps, preferably referenced by a table taking battery age into account (correct me if I'm wrong though).
Rooting the device should not be an issue, unless HTC did something in their rom to detect this and let the battery percentage be wrong. Then again, most of us aren't on the stock rom. To be on another rom, the bootloader needs to be unlocked. Did HTC do something that unlocking the bootloader makes voltage/discharge readings unreliable? I doubt that...
I'm interested in this because I unlocked and flashed a Sensation XE for a friend of mine (SultanXDA's KitKat rom), but the battery discharges very, very fast, without an obvious cause. So I wonder whether it could be the battery is not fully charged and/or the phone decides it's empty to early.
"it is a htc's common issue after rooting"<- i said that
it was a source but i can't find it now
also i don't know if htc did something with unlocking the bootloader by purpose
if you flashed the rom recently don't judge the battery too early
give it 4-5 cyrcle charges until it settles down then see how it goes
emrvb said:
I unlocked and flashed a Sensation XE for a friend of mine (SultanXDA's KitKat rom), but the battery discharges very, very fast, without an obvious cause. So I wonder whether it could be the battery is not fully charged and/or the phone decides it's empty to early.
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I have exactly this problem.
It sounds like the same ROM, Saltan kit kat. I am using the latest kernal 3.4, having tried two kernals I get the same results. For example I charged the phone to full, and after 2 hours of use I'm down to 55%, WiFi on and browsing, gmail synced but not much else, screen brightness turned down etc.
I only flashed a couple days ago, will it improve massively over the next few days?
The phone was giving a days charge easily before flashing.
I am also noticing a message saying 'unfortunately process com.android.phone has stopped working' (or similar). When this happens and I click OK I notice the signal disappears for a few seconds before coming back. Could this be the cause of the problem?
Could it be he ROM?
I'm new to all this but managed to unlock, root, flash recovery, and flash the ROM thanks to the brilliant guides on XDA. Any help with the above would be appreciated.
Rob
i am facing the same problem , rather my problem is goes much further .
iam on stock ROM and not rooted my sensation. my device often restart automatically even when battery is about 90% or battery is 40% and it continue this from last 2-3 months.
and after restarting battery percentage is also changed, see attached pics.
i am tired of this rebooting , i observed that restaring is mostly when i connect to calls or text msgs.
can somebody pleeeeeeaase help me.
tAheEr73 said:
i am facing the same problem , rather my problem is goes much further .
iam on stock ROM and not rooted my sensation. my device often restart automatically even when battery is about 90% or battery is 40% and it continue this from last 2-3 months.
and after restarting battery percentage is also changed, see attached pics.
i am tired of this rebooting , i observed that restaring is mostly when i connect to calls or text msgs.
can somebody pleeeeeeaase help me.
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since you are completely stock then the only thing i can tell you is to check your battery if it fits correctly
also how old is it?
rzr86 said:
since you are completely stock then the only thing i can tell you is to check your battery if it fits correctly
also how old is it?
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thanks for ur reply ,
i have inserted plastic card behind battery for proper contact (adviced by many people at xda) but problem is not solved. my battary is 6 month old.
may be it is battery as i purchased from local market.
i have ordered new battery and soon will recive that . will let you know.
i have observed that mostly mobile got restart when i make/recieve calls and sms.
Spawn-uk- said:
I have exactly this problem.
It sounds like the same ROM, Saltan kit kat. I am using the latest kernal 3.4, having tried two kernals I get the same results. For example I charged the phone to full, and after 2 hours of use I'm down to 55%, WiFi on and browsing, gmail synced but not much else, screen brightness turned down etc.
I only flashed a couple days ago, will it improve massively over the next few days?
The phone was giving a days charge easily before flashing.
I am also noticing a message saying 'unfortunately process com.android.phone has stopped working' (or similar). When this happens and I click OK I notice the signal disappears for a few seconds before coming back. Could this be the cause of the problem?
Could it be he ROM?
I'm new to all this but managed to unlock, root, flash recovery, and flash the ROM thanks to the brilliant guides on XDA. Any help with the above would be appreciated.
Rob
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Does anyone have any ideas? Today the phone lasted around 12 hours but with minimal use which isn't really good enough. I thought rooting and flashing would improve battery life but so far I am disappointed. I may try another ROM tomorrow.
Rob
i'm try to buying new original batery but still same problem,
now i'm trying viver rom sc.5.1, with last Sebastian FM kernel
this rom verry awesome i'd like this but baterry percentage still problem:
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DEVICE: HTC Sensation Z710e
PREVIOUS ROM:Rooted Stock Rom ICS Sence 3.6
CURRENT ROM:ViperS 5.1.0 JB Sense 5
FIRMWARE:3.32.401.5
PREVIOUS KERNEL: htc kernel
CURRENT KERNEL:kernel 3.4.10 by SebastianFM
BOOTLOADER:unlocked
HBOOT VERSION:1.27.0000
RECOVERY:4EXT recovery touch v.1.0.0.6 RC1
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tAheEr73 said:
thanks for ur reply ,
i have inserted plastic card behind battery for proper contact (adviced by many people at xda) but problem is not solved. my battary is 6 month old.
may be it is battery as i purchased from local market.
i have ordered new battery and soon will recive that . will let you know.
i have observed that mostly mobile got restart when i make/recieve calls and sms.
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This really sounds like your battery, especially if it's not the original or equivalent. But, it could also be an app on the background, keeping your phone from "deep sleep". Bad cell coverage (very low signal) also drains your battery relatively quickly when you're on 3G. A good WiFi connection consumes less power than 3G with bad signal. Another possibility could be (but unlikely) is that your phone is intended for another region and thus having trouble communicating with the GSM network.
- Check your battery.
- Check what your battery is used for.
- Check your battery time with network set to GSM only.
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rzr86 said:
"it is a htc's common issue after rooting"<- i said that
it was a source but i can't find it now
also i don't know if htc did something with unlocking the bootloader by purpose
if you flashed the rom recently don't judge the battery too early
give it 4-5 cyrcle charges until it settles down then see how it goes
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Still you keep saying "after rooting" which is significantly different from unlocking the bootloader and flashing. Furthermore, to me it seems far more people report "better battery life" with their new roms.
About initially flashing the rom: i thought format of system, data and cache (including dalvik cache) ought to be enough. It has had somewhere between the 10 and 20 charge cycles by now. Battery life improved a little, but it's still far from acceptable. The battery percentage between reboots should only differ marginally between reboots (might need a few minutes of usage to become accurate). Also notable: over 20% difference in percentage reading between rom and recovery.
I wouldn't mind investigating this. So I wonder if anyone with "proper" battery life could provide me a "dumpsys" for the battery service and would perhaps have the time to take a look at /proc with me.
emrvb said:
Still you keep saying "after rooting" which is significantly different from unlocking the bootloader and flashing. Furthermore, to me it seems far more people report "better battery life" with their new roms.
About initially flashing the rom: i thought format of system, data and cache (including dalvik cache) ought to be enough. It has had somewhere between the 10 and 20 charge cycles by now. Battery life improved a little, but it's still far from acceptable. The battery percentage between reboots should only differ marginally between reboots (might need a few minutes of usage to become accurate). Also notable: over 20% difference in percentage reading between rom and recovery.
I wouldn't mind investigating this. So I wonder if anyone with "proper" battery life could provide me a "dumpsys" for the battery service and would perhaps have the time to take a look at /proc with me.
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i unlocked the bootloader and root the device at the same period and i stayed for months with the stock rom
i don't know which one is responsible for percentage misreadings
also don't get confused
i am talking only for percentage misreadings and not for better battery life
and only when you charge the device.not unplugged
of course i had(and i still have) very good battery life with whatever rom i have flashed
by the way i have noticed the percentage difference between recovery and rom but i don't remember if it was 20%
rzr86 said:
i unlocked the bootloader and root the device at the same period and i stayed for months with the stock rom
i don't know which one is responsible for percentage misreadings
also don't get confused
i am talking only for percentage misreadings and not for better battery life
and only when you charge the device.not unplugged
of course i had(and i still have) very good battery life with whatever rom i have flashed
by the way i have noticed the percentage difference between recovery and rom but i don't remember if it was 20%
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Alright, thanks for clearing that up. I really want to solve this issue, so I'm quite keen on getting the facts straight.
Back to my issue then (yeah I'm effectively hijacking this thread): is it possible the percentage misreading is causing the battery not to fully charge and/or discharge? Or should I direct my search to another cause?
This is what I found (or did not find) so far:
- Stand-by time seems great, the drain occurs when the screen is on.
- There is nothing in the normal battery usage (usage goes to screen)
- I was unable to detect an obvious culprit with better battery stats.
- I did notice that when I do a dumpsys, service battery shows voltage in V, while my Sony shows it in mV.
- I tried offline charging for about an hour today (light still orange), after boot the battery indicator showed 100%. It dropped to 86% in 7 to 8 minutes.
emrvb said:
I tried offline charging for about an hour today (light still orange), after boot the battery indicator showed 100%. It dropped to 86% in 7 to 8 minutes.
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probably never truly reached the full charge(100%) when charged it in that one hour
by the way how old is your battery?
did you try with a new one?
rzr86 said:
since you are completely stock then the only thing i can tell you is to check your battery if it fits correctly
also how old is it?
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please see attached screenshots
what do u think , is this battery or some hardware etc fault??

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