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Can someone tell me why me battery life is so crap on HTC sensation. I'm using evo 3d battery which is 1730 mah.but what's annoying is that my brightness is set to auto and 15 second to turn the screen off but still my display is using more than 90%.
Please help me because everything is turned off and only wifi is on.
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what rom/kernel ru using? did u recently flash the rom? try to turn off auto brightness that should help u save alot of battery in my opinion this has worked with me

Seems that something is keeping your phone Awake.
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Shery4life said:
Can someone tell me why me battery life is so crap on HTC sensation. I'm using evo 3d battery which is 1730 mah.but what's annoying is that my brightness is set to auto and 15 second to turn the screen off but still my display is using more than 90%.
Please help me because everything is turned off and only wifi is on.
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Turn off auto and use manual brightness settings, and then see what the usage is.

Ace42 said:
Turn off auto and use manual brightness settings, and then see what the usage is.
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And change back to the Sensation battery, it's actually better than the 3Ds. The Evo guys are using the Sensation battery and getting about 2hrs more in back to back tests. Be happy you don't have a 3D. When I had mine, I got 2hrs hard use with 4G and 4hrs with 3g. I get 8hrs with my Sensation overclocked.
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Well for starters, your screen was on for almost 2 hours straight and your signal wasn't very good for most of that. I can assume that since your screen was on for 2 hours straight you must have been using it or the screen would not have been on that long. Streaming a 2 hour movie on a not so great connection will eat your battery up almost completely, especially if you are using full brightness. Android phones in general are battery eaters. My Sensation battery life is actually a lot better than my Vibrant was so I'm happy. Buy a couple batteries on Ebay for 15 bucks or use Juice Defender. I use my phone pretty heavily and can make it through the day. I can get over 24 hours using Juice Defender.

Did You wipe battery stats after change battery?
Also tell us which ROM and Kernel You use now. I'm sure that 3/4 ROM's here are useless. I have ROM from new leak and have 0 issues, also with battery.

I got two Anker 1900mAh batteries and they made a reasonable improvement to my use.
Typically with full sync and okish signal I got about 1h40m of screen on time with about 14 hours off charger.
With Anker under the same daily use its between 2h to 3h screen on in the same period.
Also that means I now have three batteries.
Sorry to say but having owned a Motorola Milestone, Galaxy S, Nexus S and now Sensation I can simply say that the battery life on Android is crap in general for heavy users.
My girl has an iPhone 3G and 4, the screen on time is often over 6 hours which I put down to intimate development of software and hardware.
I am choosing flexibility over longevity for now.
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It's the kernel that's in the version of the ROM you have.
Flash 3.6.5 XE and it'll fix the problem.
Also having Wifi on and using it for 2 hours straight will drain your battery.

sromer said:
It's the kernel that's in the version of the ROM you have.
Flash 3.6.5 XE and it'll fix the problem.
Also having Wifi on and using it for 2 hours straight will drain your battery.
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WiFi uses less battery than a data connection, just fyi. WiFi does not cause drain.

Sdobron said:
WiFi uses less battery than a data connection, just fyi. WiFi does not cause drain.
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Everything causes drain

gamikzone said:
what rom/kernel ru using? did u recently flash the rom? try to turn off auto brightness that should help u save alot of battery in my opinion this has worked with me
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yes i have just recently changed the rom

Ace42 said:
Turn off auto and use manual brightness settings, and then see what the usage is.
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i have put the brightness to the lowest and i have alos kept the time to 15 second and still my battery died today after 3 hour of usage and i had to use the original battery and that lasted my 2 hours and even though have two battery still i cant make it through the day

Shery4life said:
i have put the brightness to the lowest and i have alos kept the time to 15 second and still my battery died today after 3 hour of usage and i had to use the original battery and that lasted my 2 hours and even though have two battery still i cant make it through the day
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Did you calibrate or change radios recently? You could have a defective battery(s) or maybe the kernel is causing excessive drain.

I noticed this issue too when I was using Sense-based ROMs before I switched to a CM7-based rom.
Been off battery for 9 hours and 9 minutes with 77% left - I've never seen battery life this great and I don't think I see myself going back to Sense any time soon for my HTC Sensation 4G.

I was very disapointed with how fast the stock HTC Sensation battery drained even with normal use, just like you.
I took the advise from some here and got the Anker battery from Ebay for 10.00.
The best thing I ever did.
WOW! Did it improve the battery life on the Sensation.
Now I do not have to worry about the battery draining down fast on me.
With the Anker battery, my phone lasts all day and into the night .

Buy an anker battery
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i have just recently bought the evo3d battery the only reason i did not buy anker is because for some thick reason i didnt wanted to buy the anker battery beside i bought the legit evo3d battery which works for sensation. i dont want to buy anker battery for time begin because i dont think i need three battery beside yesterday i just installed 3.6.5 and for time being the battery lasted me very good and if the battery give me 12 hours everyday than ill stick with these two batteries

3.6.5 is using battery more effecient than 3.6.4 did thanks to a member who told me to install 3.6.5

Shery4life said:
Can someone tell me why me battery life is so crap on HTC sensation. I'm using evo 3d battery which is 1730 mah.but what's annoying is that my brightness is set to auto and 15 second to turn the screen off but still my display is using more than 90%.
Please help me because everything is turned off and only wifi is on.
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Probably it's time to try this! extended battery can be a solution.

Battery issues - won't fully charge, drains fast, plug in = back up to 50% instantly

I started using Cyanogen mod a few weeks ago (7.1.0), and after I calibrated the battery a few days in, I've had no issues. Recently though, I'm having numerous problems with battery life...
1. Phone often refuses to charge to full. I can leave it plugged in all night while I sleep and wake up to only 90% battery - this never used to be an issue. It doesnt always happen. Sometimes it gets to 100% like normal.
2. The phone drains insanely fast. Today, I took it off charger before I left for work at 7AM and it was dead by noon, even though it was never used and just sat in my pocket at work. When I check battery usage, android system and dialer are the top two at around 35% each, with cell standby and phone idle the only others at around 15% each. That's with no GPS, bluetooth, wifi, 3G, etc...
3. When I plug the phone in after one of these super fast drains, it's suddenly at roughly 50% power as soon as I power it up. It will usually drain faster than usual from there, but I may get a few more hours out of it then depending on usage.
This doesn't happen all the time, but it's getting more frequent. I've also seemed to notice an increase in temp since flashing cm7.
Any help?

Sounds like you have a bad cell.
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DeoreDX said:
Sounds like you have a bad cell.
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Bad cell in your battery that is. One that is shorted somehow. Did it get wet? Might just be a bad battery.

i think all smart phone have this problem because they take too much battery for usage but battery inside are like ****. i think batery need to bigger than 4000mah because i would love to browse the web for full day and if i leave it on stand by it should keep the phone on for at least week and for playing games it should last for more than 8-9 hours but what we get is 1730-1520mah cell which is like crap size for sensation i leave my 3g and wifi on all the time with brightness nearlly full because i don't like it when i'm using youtube
but i get 3-3.5 hours of usage from 100% to 5%. so you can tell how crap the battery is but i have bought a spare battery which is like 7 hours of total usage through the day.

Shery4life said:
i think all smart phone have this problem because they take too much battery for usage but battery inside are like ****. i think batery need to bigger than 4000mah because i would love to browse the web for full day and if i leave it on stand by it should keep the phone on for at least week and for playing games it should last for more than 8-9 hours but what we get is 1730-1520mah cell which is like crap size for sensation i leave my 3g and wifi on all the time with brightness nearlly full because i don't like it when i'm using youtube
but i get 3-3.5 hours of usage from 100% to 5%. so you can tell how crap the battery is but i have bought a spare battery which is like 7 hours of total usage through the day.
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This is by far the funniest post I've read on xda.
Yes it's ****, but what can you do about it? All smartphones are like that, battery can only last so long. Give it another 2-4 years and we'll have batteries that last a week long on a single charge. I forgot what's it called but they have already started researching into it.

Cm7 has been my best Rom with one major flaw - the battery. Tried every trick of the trade, including Anchor battery. I would last max 3/4 of a day, average user if email, Twitter, a few or no pix,
CM7 will not be my daily driver.
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I take it you've tried the usuals? Quite odd as I have used a cm7 based Rom and didn't get such a poor battery life, perhaps try a full wipe (inc dalvik and cache) and flash again? See what that does perhaps. Odd that system and dialer are causing such drain.
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my sensation battery life lasts only 2-3 hours heavy usage,messaging,gaming,web browsing via wi-fi,its pretty bad

i have the same problem of battery not charging to full........ keep the battery for charge 6-7 hours ..still the battery is 70% .... and recently i have bought a new battery...

I have been having these problems as well

Sensation XE Battery appauling

Bought the sensation XE a couple of days ago. The only think I keep about is the battery.
I have two HTC batteries and I have been using them simultaneously (taking one out put next in, other goes on charge etc)
I am going through two full charges a day and am on the third battery.
This is crazy, is it me? What am I doing wrong? Might me ICS..?

What settings are you using on your phone? (auto brightness, background data..etc...) And what is your usage rate? Are you using stock or custom ROM?
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What apps do you have installed and what accounts on sync?

It usually take a while for the battery to reach it's full capacity. Give it like a week, then judge the battery.

my battery was horrible! I finally put Anker battery in ,rooted, got custom Rom, now its excellent! Very happy! Can go all day without charge!
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Mind posting a picture of your batt stats? And how many hours of screen time you have. Here are some tips..
1. Use manual brightness. I usually use 10-50% only. The lower your brightness the less power you consume.
2. Disable auto sync. Disable push notifications unless really needed.
3. Disable led lights and vibrations for keyboard and soft keys.
4. Use mobile data only when you need to. If not, turn it off.
5. You can try juicedefender. Works for some, doesn't work for me.
6. Don't use live wallpapers.
7. Run a custom rom and kernel. I'm using virtuous inquisition 4.0.2 with sebastionFM 1.4.1 kernel. It's fast smooth yet easy on the battery.
8. As your battery is still new give it a few charge cycles. It should stabilise within a week or so..
9. Do download betterbatterystats and check on what's hogging your battery. Also check with cpuspy whether your phone goes into deep sleep or not.
With the methods I've mentioned I'm achieving about 20 hours standby with 5 hours of screen time. I consider myself quite a heavy user. If you do your math that's like 15minutes of use per hour.
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sromer said:
It usually take a while for the battery to reach it's full capacity. Give it like a week, then judge the battery.
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I agree with this, give it time.

sromer said:
It usually take a while for the battery to reach it's full capacity. Give it like a week, then judge the battery.
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I also bought an Anker battery and can run 40 hours on low use and over 24 on medium I use the regular as a spare on my travels

Thanks for replies. I am rooted, on stock ROM currently, looking for a new efficient ROM, any ideas?
ahmadmfz said:
Mind posting a picture of your batt stats? And how many hours of screen time you have. Here are some tips..
1. Use manual brightness. I usually use 10-50% only. The lower your brightness the less power you consume.
Hate lower brightness, it is always on full.
2. Disable auto sync. Disable push notifications unless really needed.
Already turned off.
3. Disable led lights and vibrations for keyboard and soft keys.
Already turned of vibrations for keyboards.
4. Use mobile data only when you need to. If not, turn it off.
Do anyway.
5. You can try juicedefender. Works for some, doesn't work for me.
Tried.
6. Don't use live wallpapers.
Like live wallpapers
7. Run a custom rom and kernel. I'm using virtuous inquisition 4.0.2 with sebastionFM 1.4.1 kernel. It's fast smooth yet easy on the battery.
Shall do.
8. As your battery is still new give it a few charge cycles. It should stabilise within a week or so..
My second battery isn't new and has been used by other phones. It acts in the same way - poor battery life.
9. Do download betterbatterystats and check on what's hogging your battery. Also check with cpuspy whether your phone goes into deep sleep or not.
Installed.
With the methods I've mentioned I'm achieving about 20 hours standby with 5 hours of screen time. I consider myself quite a heavy user. If you do your math that's like 15minutes of use per hour.
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Im using ordroid now, but ARHD is great as well. Both give me excellent juice. U should try other kernels as well. Faux is my fave..

I get 4:10 hours of screen on time only. Every single time +/- 10 minutes. Charge every 2 days.
95% of 4:10 hours is web browsing, Words with Friends and Draw Something.
Stock HTC Sensation. Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
My settings:
Wifi, Mobile Data controlled by Easy Battery Saver on Intelligent Mode.
Brightness-> Auto Brightness. Most 50%+ because I work outdoors.
GPS- Off
Gaming-> Only 2D.
Music-> Lots of music.
Web browsing -> Mostly Wifi only because I have Wifi wherever I go.
Calls: 10-12 a day approx.
My iPhone 4 used to last me 3-4 days. The screen on time for that was 7-8 hours. Yeah so the battery life is really appalling. Buying iPhone 5 (6) when it comes.

masands said:
I get 4:10 hours of screen on time only. Every single time +/- 10 minutes. Charge every 2 days.
95% of 4:10 hours is web browsing, Words with Friends and Draw Something.
Stock HTC Sensation. Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
My settings:
Wifi, Mobile Data controlled by Easy Battery Saver on Intelligent Mode.
Brightness-> Auto Brightness. Most 50%+ because I work outdoors.
GPS- Off
Gaming-> Only 2D.
Music-> Lots of music.
Web browsing -> Mostly Wifi only because I have Wifi wherever I go.
Calls: 10-12 a day approx.
My iPhone 4 used to last me 3-4 days. The screen on time for that was 7-8 hours. Yeah so the battery life is really appalling. Buying iPhone 5 (6) when it comes.
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A battery that last 3 days is not worth being stuck with IOS. BORING.
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Unfortumately HTC's power management isn't very good but it has improved in ics. If it matters to you that much I say go for a Samsung galaxy s2.
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crisisinthecity said:
A battery that last 3 days is not worth being stuck with IOS. BORING.
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It's not the battery its the way the phone will use it. In actual fat I believe that the HTC sensation battery is very slightly larger than the one in the iPhone 4
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Hmmm 4 hours of screen time is really quite good actually. Charging every two or three days isn't too bad right? Considering the benefits and flexibility of android over iOS.
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ahmadmfz said:
Hmmm 4 hours of screen time is really quite good actually. Charging every two or three days isn't too bad right?
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My thoughts exactly.

crisisinthecity said:
A battery that last 3 days is not worth being stuck with IOS. BORING.
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Give your battery some days to reach its full capacity as mentioned. But no matter what, running a custom rom with power optimizations is the best solution.

Currently faux latest 07b1 kernel is giving me awesome awesome battery life.
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k0zmic said:
My thoughts exactly.
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With official ICS, I am now getting around 5:30 screen time. That's good enough. I think if I buy EVO 3D battery for my Sensation I will get 7-8 hours like my iPhone so I'm going to do that.

You can try easy battery saver, it's work with my phone and is very efficient.

Why do people say they get awesome battery life with the 1S?

Why do people keep saying that the battery life of the HTC One S is awesome?
I seriously get no more than 4 hours of screen time (although the standby time was 30 hours) and thats with very very aggressive battery saving methods. I just can't get more than that. Most of the time between 2-3 hours under moderate/heavy use with standard settings.
Same thing goes for AMOLED. Yesterday I was only using the stock browser with INVERTED colors, aggressive battery saving profile and nothing else. And still, still I only got 4 hours out of it. How is this even possible? I mean everything on my phone was pitch black. Wallpapers, themes, websites. But under normal use I basically get the same results?
Has this been a lie all this time?

I´d say 4 hours of screen time is pretty good.
At least assuming you havn´t had it to min. brightness.

I think people aren't comparing the same figures
screentime vs battery uptime

4 hours of screen time with 30 hours of total use is pretty damn good for any smartphone.

I've owned several android devices and the difference in battery life from all the others to the One S is ridiculous. I really don't see what you're complaining about.
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I don't think that the Battery is that great. If i use it moderate i survive a day. That is okay but not great. My galaxy S lasted a half day longer...
But it is realy useless to discuss it. There is no standard for moderate or heavy use. If i use it very low because i am busy with something else it holds two days and more...
But 4h screen on and still 30h runtime sounds pretty good to me too

I did 2 hours of on screen time (browsing the internet over Wifi, downloading apps, etc.), and my battery went from 100% down to ~70%. I'm pretty happy with that.

stoneyjonez said:
I've owned several android devices and the difference in battery life from all the others to the One S is ridiculous. I really don't see what you're complaining about.
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I get a full days worth. And I'm a heavy user. Currently using leedroid 2.0
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One day is the most u get by heavy using a smartphone. This thread is non sense.

WCCobra said:
I did 2 hours of on screen time (browsing the internet over Wifi, downloading apps, etc.), and my battery went from 100% down to ~70%. I'm pretty happy with that.
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thats 6.7 hours of browsing while on wifi. I am not even getting 4 hours of browsing with inverted/black colors on 3G.
Guys, this phone has an AMOLED screen and I am browsing the web where virtually everything is pitch black except text while wifi/bt/gps/sync is disabled and virtually no other background processes are running except for the android stuff and one app called tasker. Auto-brightness enabled. The screen is basically off except for the text! I took it to the extreme but where are my power savings?
Even standby time is not that impressive. Anytime I am not using the browser the phone is in 2G mode, no wifi/bt/gps/mobiledata, auto rotate turned off, auto brightness enabled, no widgets, disabled all the status bar icons such as time/battery/signal icons, no wallpaper, no other fancy stuff. Just a grid of icons on my homescreen and tasker running in the background.
I had colors on my iphone and I get way more browsing time while not compromising at all with the other stuff.
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One day is the most u get by heavy using a smartphone. This thread is non sense.
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Thats true. But I guess I am not even getting 1 day or 8 hours of screen time

Set the brightness down to min and/or try a custom rom. I was on stock, but I hear the battery life improves quite a bit on some of the custom roms available.
Also, this phone is significantly faster (spec-wise) than the iPhone. If you want longer battery life, perhaps you should switch to a phone that allows you to swap out the battery (GS3), or go for a low-end phone like the iPhone.
I should also add that the updated firmware 1.70, 1.78 also extends battery life. Those updates have not been released to U.S. phones yet.

OP -- seriously? Are you complaining? Find me a smartphone with better battery life with a comparable specs-to-batterySize. Droid Razr Maxx doesnt count, as its battery is 2x as large.
I took mine off the charger at work @ 5pm yesterday. It's now 10:23am, and I'm at 72%. I did a decent amount of web browsing, calls, and texting, and some music.

OP can you send me the browser apk with the inverted colors?
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OP can you send me the browser apk with the inverted colors?
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Stock browser has it already. Settings -> Accessibility -> scroll down a bit and you will see inverted rendering. Basically makes every B/W and inverts the blacks and the whites.
I was btw running CM9 alpha6. And seriously I don't really know about the other smartphones since I have only used the iphone 4. I believe that smartphone gets more screen time. So probably the iphone 4s too. I think the 1X and 1XL gets better screen time when I read the reviews and with the latest updates.

" or go for a low-end phone like the iPhone."
LOL!

I was confused about this for a moment. I think you think that the battery time left is what your screen shot says 4 hours and change. That's the time it has ben off the charger blnot what's left on battery. That seems normal to me for it to be @ 60
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I can get almost two days of moderate use, including tethering on the stock Rom. I'm sure not every phone is equal but the battery life on this phone's exceeds my HTC Aria, iPhone's and my G2x.
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I was confused about this for a moment. I think you think that the battery time left is what your screen shot says 4 hours and change. That's the time it has ben off the charger blnot what's left on battery. That seems normal to me for it to be @ 60
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His first screen shot tells us he got 4 hours and 7 minutes of screen on time and it accounted for 65% of his battery usage.
Which it way better then I get I only get about 2 hours of screen on time out of a full day of usage.
And the OP is right that IOS is the king of battery live when it comes to web browsing.

dc211 said:
His first screen shot tells us he got 4 hours and 7 minutes of screen on time and it accounted for 65% of his battery usage.
Which it way better then I get I only get about 2 hours of screen on time out of a full day of usage.
And the OP is right that IOS is the king of battery live when it comes to web browsing.
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Wrong my battery was at 6% (actually even lower like 3% but I didn't take a screenshot). And the display accounts for 65% of that battery drainage. Don't you guys use android at all?
Btw according to that graph its getting 5-6 hours. But why am not even getting 4 hours max? When I did as much as possible to reduce battery consumption. Going as far as to invert the colors. I was expecting major savings. After all isn't the screen suppose to be off when its displaying blacks? I am very skeptic about amoleds now and the claims that it saves battery life when displaying dark colors. And how this is all the time used as a pro. I think its phony.
No one is going to browse the internet like me and it didnt even work

anyone else think that screen drain a lot battery

Today after fully charging my phone I took it off charge and i set my brightness low and after 1 hour of playing asphalt 6 I checked my battery stats and it showed that the screen has used 87% of battery whereas asphalt 6 and wifi only had drained 8% of battery. I'm using 1730mah battery and I want to find out the battery usage other people are having after playing 1 hour of game
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If screen dont drain any battery than we could play 10hours of asphalt 6 non stop while we still have 16% of battery left. Beside I know that impossible but still I'm sure there must be a way to stop high screen battery drain
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I believe the only way without buying a new battery, is to reduce the screen brightness

Its a well known fact that Our Screen need more juice and is the biggest drainer of battery.......Try keeping brightness under 30 or buy an Anker battery.

I did keep my brightness to the low because it was night time and still it showed that screen drained my battery a lot I don't know what would have happened if I kept my brightness full
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Bright or not the screen (specifically the backlight) will always be the biggest power consumer on the phone. There is no way around this.
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well i got an sensation too with viper rom frmo the venom team and after the update i recognize a much harder battery drain than before but all apps are the same so dont know why and no one else is experiecing something like this :S

The biggest drain on the battery is the screen and the back light for the screen. I've noticed a significant improvement by disabling auto brightness (this is controlled by the kernel and rom parameters) and just setting brightness manually.
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