Hi I have HTC Sensation, and 1,5 ghz kernel, dar forest rom. And I calibrate battery, and I am after few cycles, becouse some says that after flashing new rom, u must wait a couple o cycle to battery to be good. And my battery last about 19 hour with about 3,5 hour screen on. Is it good or bad, and what can I do if its bad
Hi,
If you are using a data plan and sync data, try increasing the frequency interval or use manual sync. Saves Battery.
Good or bad?
But, how do you guys think is it good battery life, medium or bad?
Its average
Sent from a MIUI/Siyah beast of a S2
nyorbee said:
But, how do you guys think is it good battery life, medium or bad?
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I'd agree with average. One thing you can do is install 'CurrentWidget' from the Android market and place the widget on your homescreen. Change the refresh interval to 10 seconds, turn the screen off and then wait around a minute for the phone to settle. After a while, turn the screen on again and look at the reading the widget gives. It should be around 3-5mA (that's what I get on my HD2). If it isn't you may want to try turning off different wireless things and anything you think may cause high battery drain. Turning off background data is a MUST, you have to turn it back on to use the market but with background data off I get 3-5mA whilst with it on I get around 20mA. It doesn't stop you using data, just turns off some unnecessary syncing. Despite the pathetic 1230 mah battery in my HD2, I can easily use it for a whole school day (including music on the way to school and gaming for about 20 mins before registration) and have around 40% left by the end of the day. I charge it every night anyway but it's reassuring to know it can last me that extra day if I need it. Hope this helps
if somtimes play games, music... it's normal but if you sometimes call or sms it's not good
ok
Than what is good?
Rolex81 said:
Its average
Sent from a MIUI/Siyah beast of a S2
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average like other said..if you dont do nothing but calls and sms and it lasts like that..that would be bad..more use=more battery drain.
Try using wifi as often as possible. Also 3g is a much better battery saver than using WiMAX. Also the Tiamat SBC 4.1.0 kernerl is amazing on saving battery life! And it even works with the ICS roms.
19 hours of battery life sounds reasonable to me considering that the sensation is a dual core phone.
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Oh and by the way I've recently come across articles that actually say recalibrating (wiping battery stats) your battery doesn't actually do much.
I'd rather try to avoid over charging to prolong your battery life (pull out the charger as soon as it touches 100%) and try to use it til you're out of juice instead of constantly charging.
ddoublee said:
19 hours of battery life sounds reasonable to me considering that the sensation is a dual core phone.
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Oh and by the way I've recently come across articles that actually say recalibrating (wiping battery stats) your battery doesn't actually do much.
I'd rather try to avoid over charging to prolong your battery life (pull out the charger as soon as it touches 100%) and try to use it til you're out of juice instead of constantly charging.
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I read somewhere, that for Li-Ion battery is no difference, that u charge it when its empty or little bit at the time.
ihugyou said:
Try using wifi as often as possible. Also 3g is a much better battery saver than using WiMAX. Also the Tiamat SBC 4.1.0 kernerl is amazing on saving battery life! And it even works with the ICS roms.
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Yes, but with Tiamat SBC 4.1.0 kernerl i dont have 1,5 ghz. And also I never flashing kernel alone. Always it goes with roms. Can I change kernel without reinstaling rom?
Battery drains has many situation, as little information you provide, it's hard to figure out how and what makes this happened.
Maybe you can check how many apps running on the background, or services still running while shouldn't run.
Or, tell you what, you also can flash your ROM to a stable one like ARHD's rom.
my 2 cents
hashkiki said:
Battery drains has many situation, as little information you provide, it's hard to figure out how and what makes this happened.
Maybe you can check how many apps running on the background, or services still running while shouldn't run.
Or, tell you what, you also can flash your ROM to a stable one like ARHD's rom.
my 2 cents
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I am using darkforest rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1423684 tell me why ARHD is better rom, I had it for 5 minutes, but shame that this rom dontt have such simple stuff as Stock % Battery, and advanced power menu and quick settings. Ho do you think why ARHD is better than dark forrest, what are the main differences?
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Running ARHD 6.5.3 XE...noticing the battery is horrendous. Went to sleep and battery was at 48%. When I woke up 7 hours later battery was at 4%. The phone was idle the whole night. This seems like crazy battery drain. I have nothing to compare to because I got the Sensation about 4 days ago and the second I got home with it it was rooted and ARHD XE ICS was installed onto it. My previous phone was the T-Mo G2x which had terrible battery but nowhere close to the drain I am seeing with the Sensation running ARHD 6.5.3 ICS with Sebastian kernel at 1.6 ghz. Using SetCPU with ondemand governor 192 min and 1.6 max. Screen off profile with 192 min and 1 ghz max. Any idea or suggestions are greatly appreciated!!
Seems excessive, you could try battery monitor widget pro and/or system tuner pro to see what processes are running and record the state of your phone e.g. wifi on, awake, GPS, data etc.
What are the percentages if you look in battery usage in settings?
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Maybe it's the cause of overclock. I use hypernonsense (great rom, too bad its discontinued), and it has pretty good battery life until I installed the overclock kernel. I still keep it because it's a lot faster.
Still, the battery shouldn't drain that much. I would try to remove the overclock to see if it's still that bad. If not much improvement, I would try to install another rom.
I don't want to make a new thread about battery life, can I ask here ?
Previously I was running on 6.5.3 XE w/ Seb 1.6Ghz.
Check out the screenshots,during that time wifi and data plan is on,auto-sync with 2 gmails,twitter,FB and weather.Does it sucks or is this normal ? I'm using stock battery.
You want that screen off profile to be much lower - I have mine at 300MHz powersave governor (that way it isn't constantly polling) with no noticable loss of responsivity when I switch the screen on. Then fully charge the battery and reset the battery stats from within ClockworkMod or 4ext
Also, I'd highly recommend JuiceDefender Ultimate - it's really customizeable for things like only activating 3G when screen is on or when in certain apps, then switches it on for a min every so often when the screen is off to check emails etc.
Hope that helps/makes sense!
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I don't want to make a new thread about battery life, can I ask here ?
Previously I was running on 6.5.3 XE w/ Seb 1.6Ghz.
Check out the screenshots,during that time wifi and data plan is on,auto-sync with 2 gmails,twitter,FB and weather.Does it sucks or is this normal ? I'm using stock battery.
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If you haven't already, get SetCPU and create some profiles:
Screen off: 300Mhz governor powersave
I also have progressively lower clock speeds as the battery life diminishes.
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Running ARHD 6.5.3 XE...noticing the battery is horrendous. Went to sleep and battery was at 48%. When I woke up 7 hours later battery was at 4%. The phone was idle the whole night. This seems like crazy battery drain. I have nothing to compare to because I got the Sensation about 4 days ago and the second I got home with it it was rooted and ARHD XE ICS was installed onto it. My previous phone was the T-Mo G2x which had terrible battery but nowhere close to the drain I am seeing with the Sensation running ARHD 6.5.3 ICS with Sebastian kernel at 1.6 ghz. Using SetCPU with ondemand governor 192 min and 1.6 max. Screen off profile with 192 min and 1 ghz max. Any idea or suggestions are greatly appreciated!!
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We have the same issue since i bought my phone few months ago (I even try insertcoin and ARHD because of the problem, but no changes).
I've read through the forum and i think the culprit is the stock battery. I'm ordering Anker 1900mAh (it has good feeback) for replacement and i'll let you know if there's any differences.
Can no frills do profiles? I heard to use that with ARHD instead of SetCPU.
i use no frills, for me its the best cpu app, you just set your desired speed, and thats it. no fancy stuff just plain and simple..
Im also on ARHD 6.5.3 with overclocking to 1.6, governer is on demand... I can get between 36-48 hours on a full charge...
Screen is using a high proportion, turn the brightness down some if you haven't already. Mine is rarely more than about 15%.
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if you have 4ext recovery you can go to the wipe settings an click on "wipe battery stats" but your battery has to be fully loaded.
Thanks for the suggestions guys. I have done all of the above mentioned things but still getting very poor battery life. Are you guys using the Anker extended battery or stock?
i have the stock battery and i heard that the anker batteries are ****.
sometimes they just explode and i think the 200 mah more dont bring much more batterie life with it.
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i have the stock battery and i heard that the anker batteries are ****.
sometimes they just explode and i think the 200 mah more dont bring much more batterie life with it.
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How long do you get on a full charge with stock battery? I actually just ordered an Anker =/ hope it's not ****...I'm running ARHD 6.5.4 with Bricked kernel 192 min with 1566 max using lagfree governor...battery life really leaves something to be desired...getting about 5 hours from 100% to 15% ...tried wiping batt stats and trying different profiles in SetCPU as well as underclocking. Any suggestions please throw them my way!!
Part of the problem IS because it is an Anker battery. I have heard many bad reviews about their batteries. Another issue is that most "extended" batteries really aren't any better than stock. A lot of times they are WORSE than stock batteries. If you tested the mA with a good digital meter I bet you would find between 1200-1400 on a full charge, with a supposedly 1900mAh battery. I hate to break it to everyone like this, but the only TRUE extended batteries you will find will be physically larger than stock. You can slap whatever damn label you want on a 1500mAh battery. Call it 3500mAh for all I care, you can't deny what it really is. A 1500mAh battery. You can't get more charge out of a battery unless it is physically larger that the original.
And I don't know about you guys, but I am skeptical about true extended batteries for the Sensation. The antenna contacts are on the battery cover! That means they would have to ship you a modified battery cover to fit the bigger battery. If they screw up one contact or don't put enough material on it from the factory, your sensation will be a signal-less paperweight.
Another thing I suggest is downloading BetterBatteryStats. If you have a bit of knowledge about how Android's OS works, you might be able to look at the Wakelocks section and see if something is preventing your device from entering Deep Sleep mode...the top four causes of battery drain are the screen, WiFi while on but not connected, GPS, and applications locking your device out of Deep Sleep.
Thanks for the reply. I am currently using the stock battery shipped with the phone. What do I check for in the app you mentioned to see if my phone is entering deep sleep?
I attached a screenshot of the wakelock section. Let me know if anything looks suspicious or if you need to see a different screen. Thanks!
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Thanks for the reply. I am currently using the stock battery shipped with the phone. What do I check for in the app you mentioned to see if my phone is entering deep sleep?
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Sorry, I tend to ramble on a bit
Best way to check would be to click the first drop down menu and look through Wakelocks and Kernel Wakelocks after your phone has been running for a bit. Start up the application for the first time, accept the changelog stuff, then close it out and lock your screen. 5-10 minutes later check that dropdown and see if anything says *Wakelock* by it. There should be a gauge under each item, it shows a percentage of time the process has been running since last boot, charge, or whatever option you pick in the second drop down menu. If any of the gauges are almost full or beyond 50%, there's the culprit.
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Sorry, I tend to ramble on a bit
Best way to check would be to click the first drop down menu and look through Wakelocks and Kernel Wakelocks after your phone has been running for a bit. Start up the application for the first time, accept the changelog stuff, then close it out and lock your screen. 5-10 minutes later check that dropdown and see if anything says *Wakelock* by it. There should be a gauge under each item, it shows a percentage of time the process has been running since last boot, charge, or whatever option you pick in the second drop down menu. If any of the gauges are almost full or beyond 50%, there's the culprit.
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Check my post above I posted 2 screens with kernel wakelocks from the dropdown and partial wakelocks...don't know what either means thank you for your help!
From that screenshot I don't see any major partial wakelocks. The HTC Facebook sync doesn't seem to be helping, but it isn't causing too much of a drain at the same time...try peeking through kernel wakelocks and see if anything stands out
Holy crap, CNT is what is doing it! The device has been running for a full hour and it has locked your device into Awake mode 100% of the time. I will do some research and see what role it plays.
Kernel wakelocks is just 100% to "No reference since charged yet"
Rom: Ordroid 3.0.2
Kernel: bricked 1.0 - default 1566/192/486, low OC gpu
Battery: Anker 1900
Auto Brightness
3G mode only (cuz of network)
Undervolt: -50 from stock bricked voltage
With those settings... in 1 hour of screen time I have seen to gone from 89% battery to 40% :S...
is it just me... or does that seem a bit drastic fall? I see people with 5 hour screen time... how are you guys achieving this....
please if you can include all your setting as well....
PS: is there better battery savings in sense 3.6? or does it make no difference?
It depends on what you do. If you play some really hardcore games. It's going to be like that. If you just browse the web you should be able to achieve the 5 hours mark. It can also be that the battery memory is not accurate.
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The 3g only mode chew through battery too, but not to the point of 40% in 1hour.
danial.aw said:
Rom: Ordroid 3.0.2
Kernel: bricked 1.0 - default 1566/192/486, low OC gpu
Battery: Anker 1900
Auto Brightness
3G mode only (cuz of network)
Undervolt: -50 from stock bricked voltage
With those settings... in 1 hour of screen time I have seen to gone from 89% battery to 40% :S...
is it just me... or does that seem a bit drastic fall? I see people with 5 hour screen time... how are you guys achieving this....
please if you can include all your setting as well....
PS: is there better battery savings in sense 3.6? or does it make no difference?
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wow that's a big drop, i'd say do a cycle of drain and charge, and see how it goes
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I've dome the battery drain cycle right before in the morning.... In that one hour I was playing temple run n light browsing....
I just find that very ridiculous that's all -_-
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I've dome the battery drain cycle right before in the morning.... In that one hour I was playing temple run n light browsing....
I just find that very ridiculous that's all -_-
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do a restart after that 1hour and see if battery level pump up again..
if it is .... it would be fine
Ya I've noticed if I restart it does jump battery up a bit... But that drains very quickly too....
Longest battery I have gotten was 16hr on wifi... But the screen on time max was 2 1/2 hours... Which makes no sense cuz my s2 has a smaller battery but I could use it a lot more
I have the same rom and kernel but using the stock battery and I have never got more than 2hours on hsdpa browsing. It is extremely annoying to not have the ability to go somewhere without carying a charger. But at the same time I found out that my phone has very good battery life when sleeping. It never drains more than 3% over night (7-8 hours). So the problem is that the screen drains battery quite a lot. Also my phone gets really hot in the lower area of software buttons, is anybody else experiencing this?
Yep that overheating happens to me as well if I'm playing a game or something for 15 minutes or so... I read that that's a hardware issue with no fix :S...
And yep that's the same battery life I get... Which is very sad ... Really no way to use this phone as a work phone with the pathetic screen time -_-
Really no way to use this phone as a work phone with the pathetic screen time -_-
i agree with u it's really waste for sensation..
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It depends on what you do. If you play some really hardcore games. It's going to be like that. If you just browse the web you should be able to achieve the 5 hours mark. It can also be that the battery memory is not accurate.
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The 3g only mode chew through battery too, but not to the point of 40% in 1hour.
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I only do that and the best I can get is 2.5 hours with a 1900mAh.
Its only a bad calibration charge to 100% drain it to 0 3-4 times once thats done it should be better if not try wiping battery stats ...
Sent From My Sexy Sensation.
Is this a sense 4 thing? Or is that normal for all roms?....
I would rather downgrade than having a phone that's off ...
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Is this a sense 4 thing? Or is that normal for all roms?....
I would rather downgrade than having a phone that's off ...
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Well im testing sense 4 rom and battery life is **** im gonna do a battery calibration and report back
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let me know... cuz ive done calibration already twice... hasnt helped at all -__-
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let me know... cuz ive done calibration already twice... hasnt helped at all -__-
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Just done calibrating from 100% drained it to 0 and back to 100 reports coming soon..
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Maybe try turning off the auto brightness.
Set a bit lower.
The screen is the main culprit to suck the battery.
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Maybe try turning off the auto brightness.
Set a bit lower.
The screen is the main culprit to suck the battery.
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I agree whit you sir
Sent From My Sexy Sensation.
And im dissapointed again... Cant wait for my ankers i really hope it makes a difference :'(
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I suggest getting anker batteries alot of people posts good feedback about them...
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What capacity do anker batteries come in?
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Hi. I had installed several ICS roms, mostly different versions and variations of CM9. Since I only got a battery life of 12 hours I'm wondering if anyone found a significantly better performance on their rom. Thanks.
Or tell me that all the ics roms are hungry for battery.
Everyone is different depending on their settings and/or usage. I normally get a full day to a day and a half off of AOKPCB and AOKP ROM. Do some research to change the settings and undervolt if you have to... Battery life all depends on how the user has the ROM setup.
This is the best I have gotten, this was running NunHugger's UniPorn build 37 I believe. I have enjoyed his ROM.. good battery life, good stability.
This was with light to moderate use, no wifi, sync set for max interval, no gps.
But I got almost THREE DAYS!!! On average I get about a day out of it with moderate to heavy use.
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This is the best I have gotten, this was running NunHugger's UniPorn build 37 I believe. I have enjoyed his ROM.. good battery life, good stability.
This was with light to moderate use, no wifi, sync set for max interval, no gps.
But I got almost THREE DAYS!!! On average I get about a day out of it with moderate to heavy use.
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That looks more like Emancipation than uniporn.
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Use better battery stats to track down battery hogs.
It allowed me to "fine tune" my battery and i saw immediate improved results.
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skyliner33v said:
Use better battery stats to track down battery hogs.
It allowed me to "fine tune" my battery and i saw immediate improved results.
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I started using Better Battery stats from today.
How can I fine tune, my battery using this. What I need to check in this app, and what should I do later. Please guide me.
TIA.
atrix4nag said:
I started using Better Battery stats from today.
How can I fine tune, my battery using this. What I need to check in this app, and what should I do later. Please guide me.
TIA.
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Read the following thread for more info about Better Battery Stats:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
It gives a pretty good breakdown of what you are looking at, and looking for.
Basically it will show you all your wakelocks, which would prevent your phone from going into deep sleep. Some are easy to track down, others are a little more difficult. The dev of the app is also really helpful with looking over logs and helping track down unnecessary wakelocks.
For me, hotmail, weather widgets, facebook, use network for location and my data usage tracking app were the biggest battery hogs. I've since set up my email to sync only when i tell it, instead of auto-sync. Set the weather widgets to update at the max interval. Uninstalled facebook app, cause i don't have a facebook. and turned off use network for location .
But my data usage tracker (my data manager app) has a feature of "persistant notification". It is to keep a more accurate record of my data usage, but the tradeoff is that my number of wakelocks come mostly from this app. I'm currently looking for a data usage app that doesn't cause so many wakelocks.
If I know I'm not going to use my phone for a bit, I will turn data off. I also have my phone set to turn off wifi when locked. I have to wait for a few seconds for it to connect again, but it's not a big deal. I also turn off the phone's auto sync and background data, in the settings menu. I usually sync them about once a week or so.
So, the app doesn't do any "fine tuning". It just tells you what's keeping your phone up, using battery. The "fine tuning" comes from you.
I hope that helps
Thanks skyliner33v , for detailed explanation.
I will check my wakelocks.
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I am just checking the stats on the better battery stats app
unplugged since - 2h 14m 39s
Awake - 46m 55s
screen on 41m 20s
KWL - n/a
IS these stats are fine??
deep sleep it shows as 0s.
As of now, I am charging my phone, I will fully charge and then check the stats again. roughly how much time i should wait to see the stats?
atrix4nag said:
Thanks skyliner33v , for detailed explanation.
I will check my wakelocks.
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I am just checking the stats on the better battery stats app
unplugged since - 2h 14m 39s
Awake - 46m 55s
screen on 41m 20s
KWL - n/a
IS these stats are fine??
deep sleep it shows as 0s.
As of now, I am charging my phone, I will fully charge and then check the stats again. roughly how much time i should wait to see the stats?
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PM sent to keep the thread clean.
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Thanks and sorry to divert the thread.
RemICS-UX is the best
I installed RemICS ROM and believe me with all the apps I have installed I find the battery life awesome with high quality graphics....
Dark Knight Rom ICS . since its black and white it saves up a lot of battery
I have try around 5 roms and Emacipation has the best battery life imo.
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emancipation is a GB rom, not ICS.
so far all ICS roms have been brutal, especially for standby usage.
My phone just died with under 30 mins of screen on time because of standby drain. No rogue apps, no wakelocks, no poor reception, nothing.
proof: http://threi.minus.com/mK6uGpPek/1g
threi_ said:
emancipation is a GB rom, not ICS.
so far all ICS roms have been brutal, especially for standby usage.
My phone just died with under 30 mins of screen on time because of standby drain. No rogue apps, no wakelocks, no poor reception, nothing.
proof: http://threi.minus.com/mK6uGpPek/1g
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UniPorn build 40, running black and white theme
8 hours with almost 60% battery left!
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I find joy in Paranoid-Android rom, its worked great for me. I get all day battery life and very few fc's!
JB's kernel with OC/UV has given me good battery life.
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JB's rom used to be perfect in battery life, until my installing apps the battery life drained to 12h, it's pretty awkward that I need to swap the battery at least sometime a day since my up time is about 17 hours.
It does not make a significant difference between standby and usage. The 100% battery before I sleep usually drop to 70-80% when I wake up.
Hello, XDA-Community.
I bought my HTC Sensation XE 3 month ago.
First i must say, the Beats-headset has a very good sound, but it's bad quality.
2 weeks ago, the right headphone stopped working. I gave it back to Media Markt and they sent it back to HTC, i must wait for it-.-
but now the real problem:
i always have got a bad battery life! (lock at the attetchments)
i tried nearly all roms(really a lot), all kernels, i tried to underclock or undervolt an different govenors. i even bought an anker extended battery but it all didnt't changed anything.
after that, i tried to downgrade form fw 3.33 to 3.32 and to downgrade the hboot, but nothing.
does anyone of you have this problem too or can anybody help me?!
its so bad, i even cant get 10 hours with it..
2h and 33 min screen on time an still 9 percent of battery.
Based on your screen on time, that battery life isn't insanely bad. It's not good, but it's not utterly terrible.
Have you tried the simple stuff like lower brightness? Turning BT and GPS off when not in use? Keeping Mobile data turned off? Lower the screen time out to 15 or 30 seconds?
Those things will do wonders for battery life.
Also make sure you're not overclocking with a performance governor on your kernel. That'll burn battery like crazy. Use a more battery friendly governor with your kernels like Badass or even Conservative. And don't clock it up to 1.7 or anything nutty.
Skipjacks said:
Based on your screen on time, that battery life isn't insanely bad. It's not good, but it's not utterly terrible.
Have you tried the simple stuff like lower brightness? Turning BT and GPS off when not in use? Keeping Mobile data turned off? Lower the screen time out to 15 or 30 seconds?
Those things will do wonders for battery life.
Also make sure you're not overclocking with a performance governor on your kernel. That'll burn battery like crazy. Use a more battery friendly governor with your kernels like Badass or even Conservative. And don't clock it up to 1.7 or anything nutty.
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i never use bt or gps. only thing is mobile data.
screen is nearly always on lowest and if not, its auto.
time out is at 45 sec.
if i use bricked kernel, my battery life is better, but every hour my phone reboots less one time.
now i am on faux kernel, underclocked to 1.1 ghz and undervolted to -75. the govenor is intellidemand.
You could try to use a non-sense-based rom like cyanogenmod, for me there was a huge improvement.
Regarding your Problems with random reboots on bricked kernel, just set the minfreq to 384Mhz and it should be alright
Mr.Heinzelman said:
You could try to use a non-sense-based rom like cyanogenmod, for me there was a huge improvement.
Regarding your Problems with random reboots on bricked kernel, just set the minfreq to 384Mhz and it should be alright
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both problems(battery and reboot) are still there after trying this...
How much gaming are you doing? Regardless of how much screen on time you have, games can drain the battery like crazy. What's your usage pattern like? Lots of web surfing over mobile internet? Watch a lot of movies? Games? 2.5 hours of screen on time isn't too bad, but it's not great either.
If all else fails, wipe all except SD card, install ROM, restore apps without data unless that data is extremely important to you. Also make sure your radio and RIL match with something like GetRIL. Match your firmware to your ROM base too (ie. 3.33 firmware for 3.33.xxx.xxx ROM).
Have you tried to put the phone in airplane mode during the night time. Or reset your battery stats?
2.5 hrs of screen on time isn't bad when you also had an additional 6.5 hrs of standby. But the biggest thing you can change to save battery is background data and auto sync. Turn those off and expect big difference. Also don't use auto brightness unless you have to. If your inside then turn it all the way down .
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Hi there, I had absolutely awful battery life on my stock battery! I understand completely what your going through. I did however find a solution . First let me say I've tried just about everything, turning down brightness , turning off sync, switching kernels, turning off gmail, yet still the battery life was awful! So finally I purchased a extended life battery, I choose Anker because the price was low. It did help but I still was not where I wanted to be. Then I decided to purchase a mugen 3500mah battery. It's expensive but worth every penny! Now with heavy use I'm on 100% for two hours. I can use my device heavily for 19, hours and still have 42% battery left ! It's amazing! I wish I got it sooner! It does come with a replacement back cover to fit the battery but my 4g signal is still strong, WiFi works perfectly , navigation works perfectly so no worries about the case interfering with signals. It does make the phone thicker but it still fits in pocket, and feels good in your hand . It does look thicker but who cares with this kind of battery life! Finally I don't have to worry about my battery! If your tired of worrying about battery life then get the mugen 3500mah battery. Buy it directly from mugen because there are too many counterfeit batteries going around on other sites. The downside is it costs 100 dollars but honestly its worth every penny. If your serious about getting a great battery then this is the one. I don't regret getting mine for a second! It makes all the difference in the world! I had to save up to get it but it was worth it. This battery will solve your issues! It solved mine ! Best wishes and hope this helps you.
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I load my device every Night.
I Often wiped my battery stats, but now change...
Tomorrow i will try to einsalbe Auto Sync.
Passi1909 said:
I load my device every Night.
I Often wiped my battery stats, but now change...
Tomorrow i will try to einsalbe Auto Sync.
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I'd recommend that you don't delete the battery stats. The phone should learn over time and every time you delete them it has to start from scratch again.
but how to calibrate the new battery?
still having so bad battery life, after disabling auto-sync.
You calibrate battery by draining almost down to about 10% then recharge to 100% repeat this process about 4 times and battery will be calibrated. I read your not supposed to drain to zero although some people do during calibration. That's up to you. I read draining to zero can sometimes put the battery into a deep sleep and its very difficult when that happens to get it awake again. So I only go down to 10%. Hope this helps and answers your question.
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As I understand it the phone/ROM won't allow the battery to be discharged fully to the state that it'd cause a total battery failure. Get CurrentWidget from the Play Store.
I can't remember the Full/Discharge voltages (~4.2V to ~3.5V) but not certain.
Just let the phone charge fully and discharge normally (let it get to a total turn off) a few times and you'll be fine. Please stop wiping the battery stats it just confuses things.
i have the dual sim version. both 2g. NO WI-FI AT ALL.
I usually get 3- 4 hours of screen on time. then im under 14% i just use whatsapp, a little gaming,opera mini browser. with this usage i get total 14-18 hours of battery. is this normal? my previous phone was nokua 5230 with inane battery life.
not sure..
My battery life is better i think but cant say if yours is normal ... Screenshot of battery stats would be helpful
ItzzAce said:
My battery life is better i think but cant say if yours is normal ... Screenshot of battery stats would be helpful
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I charged in the middle upto 80. Screen on time at that time was 3.5 hours
Hmm..your battery life doesnt seem Bad to me, but I cant tell you if its actually a normal or a Bad battery life as i have the single sim Version with tweaky one Rom and faux kernel... Sorry, that i cant tell you more, but i saw some battery threads here at xda already, maybe you should ask there. Good Luck.
1. From screenshot it says 3G.. You sure you are on 2G all the time or this was just rare case?
2.From graph it seems like you charged phone in between from pretty low to quite respectable 70 - 80%.
3. I get this kind of battery on medium usage with single charge. So if you charged in between then your battery seems poor.
4. Do check background services running and disable what you can.. From usage you specified, you should not require many running things. Use greenify to automate this things.
He says he uses WhatsApp as well? Does it work on 2G connection too?. Thought I'd point out.
madman said:
1. From screenshot it says 3G.. You sure you are on 2G all the time or this was just rare case?
2.From graph it seems like you charged phone in between from pretty low to quite respectable 70 - 80%.
3. I get this kind of battery on medium usage with single charge. So if you charged in between then your battery seems poor.
4. Do check background services running and disable what you can.. From usage you specified, you should not require many running things. Use greenify to automate this things.
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i didn't charge in between. i was just not able to fully charge my phone as i was in a hurry. before that i got my specified usage. and 3g is a rare case. i get very weak signal. so i use 2g network all the time
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He says he uses WhatsApp as well? Does it work on 2G connection too?. Thought I'd point out.
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Well yes. It works on any kind of connection.
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sbs205 said:
i didn't charge in between. i was just not able to fully charge my phone as i was in a hurry. before that i got my specified usage. and 3g is a rare case. i get very weak signal. so i use 2g network all the time
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If that is the case then you are definitely having less battery life buddy..
What else is running in background?
madman said:
Well yes. It works on any kind of connection.
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If that is the case then you are definitely having less battery life buddy..
What else is running in background?
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i had acdisplay but i dont use it now because i think it's eating up my battery. i have avast free, messenger, WhatsApp, clean master, dashclock widget and battery extenson . camera 360 is a bit nuisance. i close it but it starts again. also u should know that my phone was fully discharged two times when it was new
due to my carelessness. but i immediately charged it.
edit: also chrome on 2g takes up 1 or 2% every 3 or 4 minutes. it takes 3 or more hours to completely charge it with Motorola charger. I'm on GEL. got it from android police.