[Q] Sensation battery problem - rapid battery drain - HTC Sensation

I have this phone for two months, stock rom, not rooted, don't use mobile internet, only wi-fi, not always on, I would say a moderate usage.
The last week I am experiencing big battery problems, it drains in half a day. Nothing new installed in the last week that could be a problem, I think I had only few app updates from the market, but am not sure if the time is the same as the beginning of battery problems.
The first time I have charged the battery in the evening, disconected the charger after the light turned green, it was about 10pm, the next morning at 6 am the battery was at 4%?! The second time the battery was charged from 15% to 65% (I had no time to full carge), from 4pm to 10 pm it went down to 3% again.
Last night I made a full charge, disconected the charger at 6am this morning, now at 8 am the battery is at 75%, I don't understand...
I don't let the apps sync automatically and I use wifi only, everything is setup not to drain the battery, no problems till the last few days...I have installed GO launcer a month ago but I don't think it could be a problem, it worked all well till now.
Any thoughts or suggestions what to do?

When you go to settings,about phone, battery usage, what does the statistic point out as the biggest user? You can also download battery monitor widget to see what is usung what.
Goodluck

It says display 58%, cell standby 15%, voice calls 14% (3 voice calls), phone idle 13% (for 4 hours after disconnecting the charger), this last one, phone idle, seems to much considering others?
Anyway, I have powered off the phone, pulled the battery out and put it back in, seems the situation is better, I will see later on.
Now I remember that few days ago the phone got frozen and I had to pull the battery out to restart it because I couldn't restart it regularly. I think it is after that the battery draining problem has begun, is it possible?

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[Q] Serious battery drain overnight?

Hey guys, I thought I was getting decent battery life until I noticed that if I charge my phone and leave it unplugged overnight, I get severe battery drain.
Last night, for instance, I went to sleep at 12am with 97% battery and woke up at 8:30am with 65%. I had WiFi on overnight because I figured LTE drained more, but my battery use screen is showing that WiFi was cut off shortly after I went to sleep. However I also have noticed other times that I lose 15-20% overnight with data completely off.
I don't think it is a rogue app or anything because I am using the same ~30 apps I have always used and I have never had a problem with any of them. I am coming off a fresh install of CleanROM 2.2, but I have noticed this issue with every build I've used since getting my HOX.
I also noticed that its saying my display is taking up nearly 50% of my battery so far on this cycle, when its only been on for a total of 30 minutes and its been off the entire night.
Are there any apps that will help me figure out what's causing the drain?
Better battery stats check xda it's free and look at partial wakelocks
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Want to see bad overnight drainage?
I woke up to a dead phone and this...
Try this:
Charge to 100%
Boot to Recovery
Wipe Data
Delete Battery Stats
Reinstall CleanROM (I'd suggest upgrading to 3.0)
Restart
Run Battery down without shutting off
Recharge
After you recharge, it should be fine. If not, return to stock and try to get it exchanged because it is defective. Just hope the people at AT&T don't check the bootloader, and you should be good.
overnight battery drain and warm.
I've been experiencing the same issue.
Two nights ago I went to sleep with around 73% and woke up with 71% and last night, I went to sleep with full charge, wifi and data off, and woke up to 77%.
Is your device also exceedingly warm?
I've also noticed a few times that it will give an inaccurate charge percentage, until a restart sometimes. So for example, it will read 65% and after a restart, it will read 95%.
I saw a post somewhere about htc smartsync causing some issues. Maybe it could be the cause of this drain? Apparently it shuts off wifi and data between 1 and 7am and only turns them back on to sync at certain intervals. Also it's buggy as hell so it just f's everything up. I'll post the link to the relevant thread once I find it.
Edit: Found it http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1708492

Siginificant Battery Drain Overnight

So the other night I charged my phone to 100%, the LED was green indicating it had come to a full charge. I unplugged the phone and left it on my night stand to see how it held it's charge over night. It was shocked in the morning when I woke up and found my battery had depleted drastically. It had gone from 100% to 47% over night. 53% loss while it was sitting on my night stand and I was sleeping. My old iPhone 4 would only lose about 3 or 4 % over night. This seems ridiculous.
First thing I did was jump into my battery usage screen to see what's been killing my phone over night. This was from roughly 9:30pm till 6am.
I'm running ROM Xi40 126.
It's pretty atrocious with the battery life. I'll have it fully charged, and then unplug it and within about 10 minutes I'm already down to 97%. It's loosing 1% every 5 - 8 minutes and I'm not doing anything with it. Just sitting in my pocket or on my desk.
What could be causing this? I'm going to try a different ROM and see if that helps.
Download betterbatterystats to get a view of what apps may be causing wake locks. What are your sync options? Check Facebook sync, and the actual app settings. Facebook my default refreshes a live feed and every hour, its a real drain. I'm on r123 Xi40 and my battery life has been pretty good.
I've set global sync options to once a day as opposed to hourly or something.
I don't have any widgets open except for a 1x4 clock / weather widget on my home screen.
I flashed CleanROM 4.5 RC1 Lite and it appears to be a lot better so far. Only lost 5% in 30 minutes with screen on and downloading stuff over WiFi and LTE. I'm charging it to 100% right now and will be out for the afternoon, 8'ish hours. I'll see how the battery lasts.
Changing to CleanROM 4.5 seems to have solved the issue. Been unplugged for nearly 3 hours, an hour of which was streaming music from slacker over LTE, and I've only lost 10%.
My guess is there was an application running in the background that got killed with you flashed CR 4.5. Happy you got it resolved though!
Download SmartSync Disabler
So what you wanna do is use SmartSync Disabler. So download it, enable it, reboot. Then you should be good to go. This is a bug where your WiFi and Data connection is turned off and on randomly, and intermittently throughout the night. This causes for the drain and heat issues maybe.

[Q] Battery crash?

Hello,
I bought this phone a month ago. At first the battery lasted quite well, I got around 5 hours of screen time with battery life to spare. Unfortunately, about 2 weeks ago I accidentally left the phone under my pillow and fell asleep on it- causing it to overheat a tad bit (I woke up 3 hours later and it was very warm to the touch and had turned off). After charging it up, I continued to use it normally but noticed that the battery would drain a little bit quicker than normal. Before I could easily go around 10 hours with heavy use and have 40% battery left, now after 10 hours it's left with about 15-20%. I am a heavy user but I haven't properly checked how much screen time I'm getting now, however I'll update that later.
As for the main problem- last night I charged my phone before sleeping (100%) and when I woke up in the morning it was turned off. I turned it on only to see that my battery had drained to 0% while on standby all night- whereas overnight I usually only lose around 2-3% battery.
After charging my phone up for 15 minutes- the battery level again returned to 100%. I only charge my phone through my laptop via USB. What happened here? Is my battery deteriorating? Should I get the phone replaced? I would appreciate any input on the matter. Thanks.
Also I've attached the screenshots showing how my battery died and how it was quickly restored. Can someone explain this occurrence?
h4rsheys said:
Hello,
I bought this phone a month ago. At first the battery lasted quite well, I got around 5 hours of screen time with battery life to spare. Unfortunately, about 2 weeks ago I accidentally left the phone under my pillow and fell asleep on it- causing it to overheat a tad bit (I woke up 3 hours later and it was very warm to the touch and had turned off). After charging it up, I continued to use it normally but noticed that the battery would drain a little bit quicker than normal. Before I could easily go around 10 hours with heavy use and have 40% battery left, now after 10 hours it's left with about 15-20%. I am a heavy user but I haven't properly checked how much screen time I'm getting now, however I'll update that later.
As for the main problem- last night I charged my phone before sleeping (100%) and when I woke up in the morning it was turned off. I turned it on only to see that my battery had drained to 0% while on standby all night- whereas overnight I usually only lose around 2-3% battery.
After charging my phone up for 15 minutes- the battery level again returned to 100%. I only charge my phone through my laptop via USB. What happened here? Is my battery deteriorating? Should I get the phone replaced? I would appreciate any input on the matter. Thanks.
Also I've attached the screenshots showing how my battery died and how it was quickly restored. Can someone explain this occurrence?
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Your sudden battery drop has nothing to do with what happened before.
Several people already mentioned this sudden battery drop as you can read in this thread, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2545553 and http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2678909
No reason to return your device, its a know issue.
Drain your battery completly then charge your phone to 100%, turn the phone one and leave it to charge a hour more. Essentialy you have to recalibrate your battery.
So a brief update regarding SOT.
I left home with 90% charge this morning. Used the phone for 8 hours and it went down to 20% - granted, with heavy use.
Got 4.5 hours of SOT. Is this about average? imo I feel like this falls a bit below average. Ill check other threads as well and compare, but as far as I know, I feel like I should be getting a *little* more juice out of my phone. Data connection was on throughout, and some games were played and pictures taken.
Anyone else feel like they're getting sub-par use out of their battery?
*screenshots provided.
- checked the other threads, looks like ~5 hrs SOT is the most this phone puts out?
Same here.
Are there any news from Motorola?
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Battery Just Dropped from 75% to 32%. In About Half an Hour.

According to the battery usage screen, about 15% of the battery has been used. And yet, it's in freefall. At 34% I got a low battery warning saying the battery would only last another three hours, even though it was dropping about 1% a minute.
Just randomly happened today. Left it unplugged overnight with Sleep as Android running, woke up to about 70% battery, started browsing on Chrome and Talon for Twitter, and 15 minutes later I had 20% battery. Plugged it in, got it back up to 75%, had to go out. Felt it get hot, checked, saw it was still dropping dramatically. Turned it off, left it to cool, turned it back on, and it continued dropping.
I had it turned off for a while to cool down after I'd plugged it in, as well.
Battery Usage does list Sleep as using 22% battery, but that's since the last full charge so I assume includes what it did overnight, which jives with having a percentage in the 70s when I awoke. Talon, Chrome, Facebook, TiBu, and a couple of other apps are listed as using 1-2% of the battery. That's it.
WTF is going on?
koberulz said:
According to the battery usage screen, about 15% of the battery has been used. And yet, it's in freefall. At 34% I got a low battery warning saying the battery would only last another three hours, even though it was dropping about 1% a minute.
Just randomly happened today. Left it unplugged overnight with Sleep as Android running, woke up to about 70% battery, started browsing on Chrome and Talon for Twitter, and 15 minutes later I had 20% battery. Plugged it in, got it back up to 75%, had to go out. Felt it get hot, checked, saw it was still dropping dramatically. Turned it off, left it to cool, turned it back on, and it continued dropping.
I had it turned off for a while to cool down after I'd plugged it in, as well.
Battery Usage does list Sleep as using 22% battery, but that's since the last full charge so I assume includes what it did overnight, which jives with having a percentage in the 70s when I awoke. Talon, Chrome, Facebook, TiBu, and a couple of other apps are listed as using 1-2% of the battery. That's it.
WTF is going on?
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I think the battery might need to be replaced...after I charged my phone to 100% and then reboot, it will show 69% or 70% after the reboot -_-|. Also when the battery % drops down below 50%, my phone could switch off anytime - and then when I switch it on again, the battery is like 1%. I am using this phone as a backup just to receive messages so I don't mind it too much. If you use it as a main phone maybe it is time to upgrade to a newer model...the battery on regular Pixels were not so good even when new...
When the phone is off charge it to 100% then use it until it dies completly, then try to start it couple of times(it should just show a battery low icon or turn off while booting). Then charge it to 100% again while turned off.
This should pretty much reset the electronics in the phone. If it still does it replace the battery.
P.S.: Also look at the phone from the sides to see if you notice any glass poping (just in case the battery has started to expand)

Question Phone is off, but battery is still draining

Is anyone experiencing a battery drain even though your S22 Ultra is switched off? I'm experiencing 4% drain every hour. 32% when every night when I sleep with my phone turned off.
I turn on power saving and extra dim using the bixby routine for the period that I'm in bed sleeping. It loses 1-2% ph
If you don't mind, can you try turning off your phone for the night and see how much battery percentage it loses? Mine went from 32% to flat 0% by morning. I had not realised this until recently. I tested in the morning by turning off my phone for an hour, it went from 60 to 54%. That's like 6% in an hour. But if I keep it on standby , it'll be 1% down in an hour. It's the turning off that is causing problems.
I know some laptops will drain battery power after shut down, but phone?
Exy or Snap?
Try checking in details with a battery monitoring app (e.g. GSam) to see what is/ are the culprit(s).
Also take a look at here for some useful tips.
It's strange that a lot of battery drain when phone is completly off.
In my opinion it's short circuit or battery is fault.
If phone is normal on are you see too battery drain?
When phone is switched off battery shouldn' experience any drain, or at least any noticeable drain in a short period.
Remember, when you bought your phone it came with battery half charged, and that was probably months after it was assembled and sealed in its package..
You should take your phone to a service or replace it, if possible
maybe somewhere on the PCB there is a short circuit. I ran into the same problem when using Xiaomi Mix 3 11 months ago.

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