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Hi i'd like to know how battery compares on the DS.
I hear many ppl say that on custom ROMs the battery is better, but by what margin?
There is a person saying he had his DS approxiametly in standby for 200hrs (stock)
then with a custom ROM 400hrs...
is that an accurate prediction... do the custom ROMs increase battery by that large margin?
i would have thought that having all the newer sense 3.0 , overclocked ROMs etc, would make the phones battery life worse than stock, but it seems not so....
Anyone can share their expierences please?
i dont know about stand by but if u ask about usage stock rom battery life sux.I'm on cm7 (right now) and must say that this rom is the best one for battery life...tried miui,lbc,virtuous and now cm7 so far and in cm7 is no drain at all...7-9mA on idle ..all roms drain fast if u use wifi ..if u really use ur phone whatever u use stock or custom rom u will must charge every day thats for sure
in some lines, when screen off i get use of:
Stock: 14-15ma
Custom 6-8ma
Meaning that custom rom uses half of current... means better battery life
yeah just like that
olyloh6696 said:
Hi i'd like to know how battery compares on the DS.
I hear many ppl say that on custom ROMs the battery is better, but by what margin?
There is a person saying he had his DS approxiametly in standby for 200hrs (stock)
then with a custom ROM 400hrs...
is that an accurate prediction... do the custom ROMs increase battery by that large margin?
i would have thought that having all the newer sense 3.0 , overclocked ROMs etc, would make the phones battery life worse than stock, but it seems not so....
Anyone can share their expierences please?
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on standby you can see a huge increase in battery life if you use a custom ROM
but when you are actually using the device the battery life isn't changed that much as the display causes most of the battery drain & so reduction in battery consumption of most other processes does not affect the battery life much,but it definitely is a lot better
& also most custom ROMs underclock the device when the device is sleeping so that also helps the battery life
AOSP roms had battery drain issues,but the devs are working on it & it should be fixed soon(im not sure if its fixed yet)
Thanks everyone for your input!
Will be considering rooting my phone and installing a custom ROM , once i'm fully settled in with it
olyloh6696 said:
Thanks everyone for your input!
Will be considering rooting my phone and installing a custom ROM , once i'm fully settled in with it
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would just agree with what @kartkk said above.
Would also say that you are correct to delay, as there are a decent number of guides and weeks worth of reading material here in the forum to keep you busy and help you along the way.plus lots of us here willing to answer any questions you may have as you should be fairly confident what you are up to before you start flashing.
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ben_pyett said:
Would also say that you are correct to delay, as there are a decent number of guides and weeks worth of reading material here in the forum to keep you busy and help you along the way.plus lots of us here willing to answer any questions you may have as you should be fairly confident what you are up to before you start flashing.
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yeah,i agree dont root your device for the first week or two till you can get all the info about rooting & also get to know the problems in stock so that you can choose the best custom ROM for you
olyloh6696 said:
Hi i'd like to know how battery compares on the DS.
I hear many ppl say that on custom ROMs the battery is better, but by what margin?
There is a person saying he had his DS approxiametly in standby for 200hrs (stock)
then with a custom ROM 400hrs...
is that an accurate prediction... do the custom ROMs increase battery by that large margin?
i would have thought that having all the newer sense 3.0 , overclocked ROMs etc, would make the phones battery life worse than stock, but it seems not so....
Anyone can share their expierences please?
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with Virtuous Unity my device lasts two days instead of one day (with stock rom)
Compared with stock rom im getting around 8 hours more on the miui 1.7.29 rom by superkid. I can easily get over 2 days of moderate to heavy usage
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Thanks for answers everyone! Recieved my phone yesterday.. really impressed with battery life on first charge out of box on stock! Can't imagine it could be even better on custom roms!
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I want to get long battery life anyone help me how to do this?
htcdesires said:
I want to get long battery life anyone help me how to do this?
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Well based on the votes in the thread, custom roms offer better battery life.. so try a custom ROM
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htcdesires said:
I want to get long battery life anyone help me how to do this?
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READ and Google......what went for DESIRE goes for this phone
vote for custom rom my battery life longer 1 day with wifi and gsm
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poppy8x said:
vote for custom rom my battery life longer 1 day with wifi and gsm
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I haven't noticed a difference really, but then again I am over clocking now by about 400Mhz. Custom roms are just better all round.
Do custom roms without HTC sense last longer?
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what is the best coustom rom for battery life
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Do custom roms without HTC sense last longer?
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interesting question, since sense is quite often blamed for its exessive battery drain.
Miui rom 1.7.29 by superkid right now with the stock kerel is amazing I can easily get over 2 days of moderate to heavy usage
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i've tried to find a solution to get the most battery life you can have with the sensation. i've tested a few things and most things are confirmed by me and a friend to work.
if you all ready know this then dont complain at this thread, some people dont know this and im just sharing my foundings on the battery life.
first thing to expand the life is simply:
flash a proper radio..
every radio works different for every country
for me the latest radio (10.58.9035.00U_10.15.9035.02_2) isnt stable..
im in the netherlands on vodafone and somehow it does have low signal strengt
this is affecting your battery alot since it have to search for signal alot..
it will also prefent your phone to go into deepsleep
the 10.56.9035.00U_10.14.9035.01 works for me the best.
second part is the kernel
the 2 most used kernels are Faux and bricked
personally im using brickeds latest 1.6b1 on MIUI 1.11.18 (yes i know its a sense and not an AOSP kernel but its giving me a good battery life)
this kernel does have an awesome good deepsleeping function and still its performing like a beast.
i dunno how the faux kernel is doing since i dont use it so its up to you to test whats the best kernel for you.
3rd is apps
download a battery useage monitor to see if apps are prefenting your phone to sleep well and download a CPU monitor to see what apps are using a lot of CPU
for me laditude was prefenting my phone to go to sleep and maps used most of the time 100% CPU usage.
i dunno yet how this is possible but if you dont use those delete them or make sure to forcestop then is system/apps
another thing thats proven on PC monitors..
black is using alot less power so if you can aply themes and you dont care about how the UI looks like,
then give a dark theme a shot
it can give you 5-10% more on the battery life
also some people uses task killers. they think it will expand there battery lifes with killing apps.
wrong. most TK are killing apps that are needed for the phone to function
if you kill those apps it will simply restart so its using more power the restart the apps.
you can use a task killer but only kill apps like games or apps that are not needed by the phone
example
you can kill angry birds but you cant kill maps
maps will simply restart thus your phone needs power to restart
and last but not least
it might sound strange to you but i've read somewhere that underclocking the cpu might be negative for the battery
for example..
HTC allready underclocked the sensation.. and people are underclocking it even more (stock is 1.5) (htc clocked it (1.2) and people are clocked at (1.0 or even lower)
i dont know yet if this is 100% true but whats the deal to clock the cpu back to 1.5ghz? if its not working for you clock it back.
my setup now is
bricked 1.6b1 with miui 1.11.18
clocked at 192-1.78 and screen of to 192 - 864
screen brightness in +_ 1/3 of the bar
wifi always on but when i go away i turn it off
using fauxclock 0.75
im getting.
slight usage 20-25h
moderate 10-13h
heavy usage 7-8h
slight usage is for me
checking mail a few times
make some calls
check XDA a few times
and texting like 20-40 times
mostly screen off
heavy usage is like
playing a lot of games (NOVA 2 and Worldwar)
lisening to music alot Like 2-3h
check XDA all the time
and call and text a lot
i hope you guys see something new in this thread
and if not BUT you got something else, tell me and i will test it and update the thread
Underclocking does not reduce battery life.
Set your screen-off to the same as your screen-on speeds and watch your standby times plummet.
This is not voodoo, it is physics.
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Catnap said:
Underclocking does not reduce battery life.
Set your screen-off to the same as your screen-on speeds and watch your standby times plummet.
This is not voodoo, it is physics.
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i know that..
but like i said.. its just something i heard somewhere in xda and trying doesnt kill you
stroobach said:
i know that..
but like i said.. its just something i heard somewhere in xda and trying doesnt kill you
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No it doesn't kill you, but it's complete nonsense.
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2 things
stroobach said:
if you all ready know this then dont complain at this thread, some people dont know this and im just sharing my foundings on the battery life.
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webstar1 said:
Underclocking for me reduces battery life. Im using stock kernel
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im just giving people info on the things ive read or tested to get most out of the battery..
if you going to be naive then just dont reply with your idea of nonsense..
if you think its bull**** then dont post it in here
its mend to help people and not something you can nag about
stroobach said:
2 things
im just giving people info on the things ive read or tested to get most out of the battery..
if you going to be naive then just dont reply with your idea of nonsense..
if you think its bull**** then dont post it in here
its mend to help people and not something you can nag about
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You've tested this and have conclusive repeatable results, do you?
Didn't think so. What it very much looks like is that you've seen someone go "hay guise if I spin around in circles three times chanting various incantations, my battery drains 2% slower olol' and because you don't understand this is ridiculous, you're going to post it, make other less-informed people believe it's real and generally reach inane and pointless witchcraft solutions that make the problem worse rather then better.
But hey, you carry on.
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updated it with 2 more things you can try out
There is no perfect radio lol. Its very location sensitive. If you are not even experiencing any problems with the current radio I dont think you should ever change it.
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Just get a Anker 1900 mAh Li-ion Bat to replace the OEM junk...
+1 For the Anker battery just swapping out the orginal battery for the Anker has solved my problem in having to charge the phone at work.
I think swapping out for a bigger batttery would be the best bet lol
+1 to the Anker battery.
I am running a stock 02 UK Sensation and was getting just about 1 full day ( approx 16 to 18 hours from Bed to Bed !) before the charge reached a critical level with the stock battery. So it always REALLY NEEDED an overnight charge.
Since changing to the Anker battery i can get from wake-up to about midday or beyond the NEXT day before it really NEEDS a charge.
I do realise this isnt very scientific, but it is an accurate guess-timate of the difference the Anker battery makes using same phone is same locations.
So the short answer is this: before you spend toooo much time tweaking things, get a better battery which will make more of a difference than any other factor.
I testes downclocking..
Conformed for me when I downclock it to 1026MHz it reduces battery life with 15%..
Tested against 1.78ghz
Underclocked 20h
Overclocked 23h
Both usage where almost the same
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So i just got a deal for a cheap Sensation and decided to give it a try. After a few days, i really like the Sense UI + ICS but find the battery is pretty bad compare to my GS2.
The Sensation drains about 8% overnight while the gs2 drains 2-3% overnight, both with nothing on. When playing music (doing nothing else,screen off) the battery drains a whopping 5%/h. while i dont think the gs2 would drain more than 1%/h just playing music. I thought the battery life on both phones should be more or less the same given the same specs and battery capacity (1650 vs 1520).
To be more specific, my ROM is ARHD 6.5.0 ICS, i havent installed any new app yet, i have the follwing widgets on : email, messages, weather, contact, task, music. I'm not sure if the drainage is coming from those widgets.
One more question, is there any way to quickly change brightness ? (like sliding the status bar as with the gs2). Auto brightness may be draining more battery but going through setting->display->brightness every single time is painful.
Any tips would be appreciated. Thank you.
download just defence i got a good result of it underclock your phone a bit to
Is there a kernel that allows undervolting which is fully compatible with ARHD6 ICS ?
dullahan263 said:
Is there a kernel that allows undervolting which is fully compatible with ARHD6 ICS ?
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something like this should do im not sure havent seen any other kernel for sensetion 3.32 base UV'ed
Juice Defender is a good option to test out, even using default settings it's pretty good with helping battery usage/drain.
Otherwise ARHD is using Sebastian's kernel at this point and you have the choice of using the 1.2 or OC'd 1.5 Ghz speed when flashing. If you're concerned you can use the 1.2 version or flash the 1.5 and just set the clock speed using something like SetCPU, available here on XDA, or System Tuner, from the Market.
As far as I know right now, the kernels are not allowing UV because the official source hasn't been released yet. Once source is released/obtained then things like UV and other deeper optimizations can be done by the awesome kernel developers here.
torumsie said:
Juice Defender is a good option to test out, even using default settings it's pretty good with helping battery usage/drain.
Otherwise ARHD is using Sebastian's kernel at this point and you have the choice of using the 1.2 or OC'd 1.5 Ghz speed when flashing. If you're concerned you can use the 1.2 version or flash the 1.5 and just set the clock speed using something like SetCPU, available here on XDA, or System Tuner, from the Market.
As far as I know right now, the kernels are not allowing UV because the official source hasn't been released yet. Once source is released/obtained then things like UV and other deeper optimizations can be done by the awesome kernel developers here.
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or you use a funny app called antutu cpu master and just UV yourself
Alienator9191 said:
or you use a funny app called antutu cpu master and just UV yourself
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Actually didn't realize it would do it, awesome and thank you!
I normally perform my UVing through System Tuner Pro, but the options are not available at this time, I just checked, so I didn't realize another app that also allowed UV would still allow it. See what I get for assuming...... lol
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.antutu.CpuMasterFree&feature=search_result
So you have finally made your choice in choosing between HTC Sensation and Samsung Galaxy S II? Found yourself having to recharge your new Android device every 8hours? You’re not alone. Some users reported to have a poor battery performance for their Android phones. Older device ranging from HTC Desire, Motorola Droid, Samsung Galaxy S, Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 to the latest dual-core Android phones; LG Optimus 2x, Motorla Atrix, HTC Sensation, and Samsung Galaxy S II, are not sparred with complains of poor battery life. However, Android itself is not a power hogger, or call it battery juice sucker if you like. Many users were able to get their Android device up and running in a single charge up to 3 days(gosh I missed the good old Nokia 3310-era).There are many factors in leading to poor battery life. The very main reasons are the display and unnecessarily turned on features, which some users don’t have a clue in turning it off. If you are happened to be one of the Android users not happy of the current battery performance, or you simply just want to improve the extra mileage of your Android device’s battery performance, here are some tips in improving the battery life of your Android phone.
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I'm actually looking at it right now and the others and thinking about getting the Smart Profiles app by AnTuTu, my Volume Control+ Pro has been giving me problems recently.
torumsie said:
I'm actually looking at it right now and the others and thinking about getting the Smart Profiles app by AnTuTu, my Volume Control+ Pro has been giving me problems recently.
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because its for sound boost only, idk what u seek but it wont handle your volume into time but just boost it, i also noticed it doesnt work on sense but will on nonsense roms
Battery problems absolutely solved with "3g off" widget, on the market. I don't need anything more than basic phone and sms for hours at a time so I just hit the widget. Takes a few seconds to sync latest mail when it comes back on but less time than that to just find a 4g link. Great when I'm at the ofc where my mail gets pushed to my laptop anyway.
Very useful also in a weak-signal area, stops drain due to signal-search.
Juice Defender is very good for battery life but this solution is even better although the widget does require manual intervention when the screen comes back up. I use both. Possibly JD paid app automates the whole process.
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ecdy said:
Battery problems absolutely solved with "3g off" widget, on the market. I don't need anything more than basic phone and sms for hours at a time so I just hit the widget. Takes a few seconds to sync latest mail when it comes back on but less time than that to just find a 4g link. Great when I'm at the ofc where my mail gets pushed to my laptop anyway.
Very useful also in a weak-signal area, stops drain due to signal-search.
Juice Defender is very good for battery life but this solution is even better although the widget does require manual intervention when the screen comes back up. I use both. Possibly JD paid app automates the whole process.
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use at JD the data traffic enabler sets it of when u tik it
on again when u tik it then you can set the acc to push when u want it idk if jd does that to i think i did find it once
Hello everyone, I recently went from the Revolution HD rom to the ViperS rom. I had flashed the radio and firmware required (stated in the rom's thread) for the Revolution HD and didn't see anything stating I should flash a different firmware when changing to the ViperS rom.
Now I have noticed my battery life has been reduced tremendously, where on the old rom I could get a day of general use this struggles to last 5 hours now. I have changed the governors and settings for ViperS and reflashed it many times but nothing has changed. Am I missing something here?
You might have to re calibrate the battery.. this can be done by wiping battery stats after a full charge in 4ext touch, or using a battery calibration app from the play store.
Hope that helps
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Wiping battery stats is actually useless, it auto wipes every time it hits 100% and doesn't actually offer better battery life. To calibrate, just charge all the way up and discharge all the way down two or three times.
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You might have to re calibrate the battery.. this can be done by wiping battery stats after a full charge in 4ext touch, or using a battery calibration app from the play store.
Hope that helps
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If I see another misleading post about wiping battery stats I will bang my head against the wall in frustration. I dont know how many times Ive said it, IT DOESNT HELP. A google engineer even said as much and gave a full explanation on G+ (google it if you want more info).
Sense 4 ROMs naturally have more battery drain than Sense 3.6 for some reason. To calibrate the battery, charge it to 100% then let it discharge to 5% then repeat 2-3 times. For some reason ROMs need a "settle" period
This is interesting because this Rom has given me the BEST battery life I've ever had in a Rom. Have you tried disabling the logging feature in the settings? This might help a bit. Also perhaps it does need to settle a bit. I've been reading and it's about 50/50 some are getting great battery life like me, others are not....I'm not sure what the differences are that some will get great results and others not. Maybe it's in the settings.also I did not flash the new firmware...
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Okay I will give it more time to see if the battery just needs longer to adjust and I'll turn off logging.
Hello everyone and thanks to all the developers for the knowledge.
I've searched in the forum but still can't find the answer, so I have one question:
I bought a new battery, wich is still in the blister. I've already flashed my phone before (specifically Infuse 4g) with Custom Rooms, and had no problem.
My question is if it's good to use the new battery and flash the cellphone after charging it completely (i've read already battery university and pages like that for the health of the battery), or, if is it better to keep the actual battery, then flash, and then change the battery for the new one.
I know it's possible to re-calibrate the battery after flashing with programs, but I also believe that the first charge it's extremely important for the new one, and the stats for the previous one might affect the new one.
What would you recommend?
Thanks.
I think it's good to use the new battery and flash the cellphone after
charging it completely
You should def go ahead with the new battery.
There is nothing related with battery and flashing roms
Only sometimes you may get calibration problem which can be simply calibrating battery by using battery calibration app from playstore or deleting battery_stats.bin file
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It doesn't really matter to much when you flash the rom, just i would clear the battery stats after you flash it just to be sure.
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