I serched the forum but didn't find an answer to this problem...
I'm having a serious battery drain issue with my sensation. I have latest italian BB by OTA update 3.31.401.5
Last night i had the phone with like 80% battery left. Today, 8 hrs later, i go wake up the phone and doesn't wake, and doesn't even boots up. I connect the charger and i have to wait a couple of minutes before it responds to power button.
First thing i do is go and see battery consumption stats, and it displays like 2h57m of use, and 88% of power drained by screen. Now, i know for sure the screen didn't light up for at least 1h before i could get to sleep, and i had used it before to install some apps, play a little cut the rope and fruit ninja and stuff, it had been disconnected for at least 2hrs before i got to bed.
I think it's pretty odd, and i guess it could be an HW problem.
The phone is unrooted and all stock
endariel said:
I serched the forum but didn't find an answer to this problem...
I'm having a serious battery drain issue with my sensation. I have latest italian BB by OTA update 3.31.401.5
Last night i had the phone with like 80% battery left. Today, 8 hrs later, i go wake up the phone and doesn't wake, and doesn't even boots up. I connect the charger and i have to wait a couple of minutes before it responds to power button.
First thing i do is go and see battery consumption stats, and it displays like 2h57m of use, and 88% of power drained by screen. Now, i know for sure the screen didn't light up for at least 1h before i could get to sleep, and i had used it before to install some apps, play a little cut the rope and fruit ninja and stuff, it had been disconnected for at least 2hrs before i got to bed.
I think it's pretty odd, and i guess it could be an HW problem.
The phone is unrooted and all stock
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It asking could just be the battery itself.
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It asking could just be the battery itself.
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not likely, i bought a second original battery and shows the same problem
yesterday 30 mins of call drained 20% battery, light use drained the battery in 8 hrs, use i did was 30 mins of call, 20 mins of gaming (a little alchemy and 7 lvls of angry birds space), 6 messages, 1 email. Rest of the time screen off. wifi on for like 10 mins tops, mobile data always off.
Optimus 2x with this kind of usage did 2 days (40 hrs), this one 8 hrs? i refuse to believe it
Check for apps/services/processes running in the background.
This sort of battery drain is not normal so suggests you have an app that is using a lot of power
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Jonny said:
Check for apps/services/processes running in the background.
This sort of battery drain is not normal so suggests you have an app that is using a lot of power
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well i actually have not much of apps installed, and the only ones running in BG are media, google services, whatsapp, maps, touch imput.
Is it normal that with nearly no apps opened i have 309 MB of ram used?
Btw shouldn't be an app problem because i did an hard reset and the problem was still there
other info: the phone tends to get pretty warm. Not boiling hot but when it gets warm i.e. like after a phone call or a web browsing, it stays warm for like even half an hour later
back up your apps and data, reflash rom after complete wipe of all partitions, restore apps one by one and test battery life.
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endariel said:
well i actually have not much of apps installed, and the only ones running in BG are media, google services, whatsapp, maps, touch imput.
Is it normal that with nearly no apps opened i have 309 MB of ram used?
Btw shouldn't be an app problem because i did an hard reset and the problem was still there
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You can try an app. Its some what like a task killer but better, its called juicedefender, maybe that will help.
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stringer7 said:
back up your apps and data, reflash rom after complete wipe of all partitions, restore apps one by one and test battery life.
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Asse sa id, it's alla stock band i'd rather keep int this way in case i have to send it to warranty repair
jab74101 said:
You can try an app. Its some what like a task killer but better, its called juicedefender, maybe that will help.
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I'll try even though i'm really starting to believe it's an hw problem
Why do you keep resisting taking it to VZW? It seems pretty clear from all the testing you've done that the problem is with the handset.
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So I noticed this two days in a row now.
When my battery is low, 20% or lower, internet access/web browsing is pretty much DEAD.
Launched the browser tried to go to several websites, it just sits there loading FOREVER.
Both on WIFI and 2G/3G/4G. Full reboot same thing. Apps that require internet doesn't connect/work either, facebook, gmail, etc...
Power Saver/Saving in the settings are all turned off.
Pop in a fresh full battery, and it all works again.
Can't believe this.
Gawd, can't wait to get rid of Sense. Gimmie CM7 already damn it.
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So I noticed this two days in a row now.
When my battery is low, 20% or lower, internet access/web browsing is pretty much DEAD.
Launched the browser tried to go to several websites, it just sits there loading FOREVER.
Both on WIFI and 2G/3G/4G. Full reboot same thing. Apps that require internet doesn't connect/work either, facebook, gmail, etc...
Power Saver/Saving in the settings are all turned off.
Pop in a fresh full battery, and it all works again.
Can't believe this.
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Sorry to hear that, mines works perfectly even when under 10%
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I keep power saver off and I get normal use of everything til it powers off.
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moto211 said:
I keep power saver off and I get normal use of everything til it powers off.
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+1.. powersave disables many functions of normal phone use. Settings->Power to disable the disabler lol
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I once used Tapatalk until the phone died Didn't try the browser though
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I have the power saver stuff disabled, but my Flash still refuses to work when the battery hits 20%.... It drives me crazy!
gs111 said:
I have the power saver stuff disabled, but my Flash still refuses to work when the battery hits 20%.... It drives me crazy!
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Actually, I think they all do that. Probably have to modify the camera app or flash drivers if you want to change that. I wasn't thinking about the camera flash because I never use it.
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just experienced both issues myself.
The camera flash, and the browsing. It was strange since gmaps would work (prob cached data, but i tried PLACES and it was downloading info) but not the browser. It seems switching the 3g data setting on and off worked for me, and I could browse again.
The camera flash issue I havent solved yet.
Strangely i hadnt noticed this before, but it happeend after I wiped/restored my phone with the pg*** files to sim unlock the phone.
Can someone with a complete stock phone test these before they mess around with rooting etc to see if this is universal?
And conversley someone with a custom rom?
Try re-enabling the power saver, then go into the power saver settings and uncheck everything, then go back and disable the power saver. Seems to work alright for me, but my battery is rarely less than 20%.
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moto211 said:
I keep power saver off and I get normal use of everything til it powers off.
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Turn off powersaver
My power saver was off when all this happened.
Strange, I use powersaver (set at 20%) and can browse the internet fine (just as quick as usual) even when the battery is at 1%. Some of the apps dont update on power saver though, such as weather etc, but if you try and update them manually it gives you to option to turn a disabled setting back on to fix this.
I find having power saver kick in at 20% makes the last part of the battery last longer, which is good if you need to make important calls on a low battery. It's Probably due to having the display set to 15% on powersaver. I run the display at 30% when power saver is off and get up to 5 hours screen on time from a full charge.
Cheers
I usually get around a days worth of battery life with medium to heavy usage..
Last night i charged my phone 100% and when i woke up after 5 hours it was completely out of Battery.. I didnt use it overnight.. Any idea what could have caused this??
The phone too wasnt awake..
My phone is around 1 month old..
Edit: Unrooted phone
Are did you flash a new rom? If you did you would have to re-calibrate your battery
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darryll4sh0 said:
Are did you flash a new rom? If you did you would have to re-calibrate your battery
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Oh sorry.. Forgot to mention that its an unrooted phone..
Will edit it in the first post..
Its something wrong. Happened to me.other day. It just gets outta nowhere and drains baytery bad. Gotta rebooot for it to stop. Nmonly haopened to ne once
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Could you have left something running in the background, a game, or WiFi?
Or did it even charge.... Could the cord be plugged out?
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g1user101 said:
Its something wrong. Happened to me.other day. It just gets outta nowhere and drains baytery bad. Gotta rebooot for it to stop. Nmonly haopened to ne once
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Though i would like to add that i did add a new Thyparancy Skin a couple of days ago and made a custom lock ring..
But a Skin shouldnt cause problems should it??
Because i have seen people use them without any problem whatsoever
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Could you have left something running in the background, a game, or WiFi?
Or did it even charge.... Could the cord be plugged out?
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Nothing of that sort..
I did charge it 100% and am sure of that.. Plus i wasnt playing anything and even wi-fi, gps and bluetooth were off..
In battery usage it is even showing as asleep and screen off..
faulty battery buddy it seems....I am also using the same theme as yours and the phone has 2 hrs of on screen time
Ok for you guys having battery life problems Here is what I did .My phone was dead in six hours. After doing this I am at 2% per hours no problems. Even though I have only one sync which is HTC mail on demand I did not set times within the mail app to sync you need to set those parameters to only sync once every two hours in peak hours and one every 6 hours in offpeake time. I found all this out by using better battery stats partial wakelocks and current widget I hope this helps a few people! I unplugged my phone at 8:45 AM yesterday and am at 42% right now so It is running like a champ.
Hey guys... I just wanna know how long does it take your sensation to drain your battery while your screen-on... I have my brightness set to 50% and after 2 hours of screen-on, the battery is dead... I mean full charge to shutdown... Please share your experience and some advise to improve this... Thanks in advance...
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Depends on other factors too but my screen on time usually falls somewhere between 3-4 hrs. However, like I said that is not the only thing effecting your battery life.
Well, watching a 40 minute TV show on mine uses 20% of battery with screen set to 100% brightness, so 2 hours should leave about 40% of battery.
This would suggest there's either something else using your battery, or there's something wrong with your phone/battery
5 hours if I'm really conservative with the brightness.
Sigh... i guess there is really something wrong with mine.. and i can't really find what is eating my battery... When it's idle with 3g on, it does not consume anything at all, may be just 3% for 3 hours.. but when i start to turn on the screen, battery life begins to drain so fast...and that is only at 50% brightness... This is just frustrating.. anyways, thanks for sharing guys... Much appreciated
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Get Betterbatterystats (one word) from the market.
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It really depends on how u use ur phone, like me for ex. I use it as a music player also, so say when I'm driving I'm playing music bt screen is not on so by the time actual screen time is on, batt will have drained some thus giving me less display time per charge. (or playing a game). There's been a time I got a lil over 4 hours bt dint play music/games tho. And my fone is always on auto brightness
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My battery drains more when its on standby. When its on it will drain less
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i have it since one week then i play too much with it ... 2 or 3 hours
i tried too much rom and to much kernel
Can anyone confirm that setting the brightness to auto will save more power?.. i read something in the other thread that it will consume more power because it will always try to sense which is the suitable brightness for the current environment you are into... Correct me if i'm wrong please...
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Depends how I use my phone, and also how good the signal is. I would say 4 - 5 hours on average. I got 5 hrs 10 mins the one day last week
Screen brightness set around 30%.
That's nice... I envy you having able to squeeze 5 hours of your screen-on time..
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6hours,
Light Rom.
30% brightness
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Always set to auto brightness, feels like no matter what I do with the phone whether it's heavy gaming or light usage, the screen-on time gets to about 3 hours before the battery goes.
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Just one question for all of you guys having more than 4 hours of screen-on time.. are you all rooted and have flashed other ROMs?...
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jomblass said:
Can anyone confirm that setting the brightness to auto will save more power?.. i read something in the other thread that it will consume more power because it will always try to sense which is the suitable brightness for the current environment you are into... Correct me if i'm wrong please...
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Mine is set to auto brightness and I get 4-5 hrs screen time, no battery drain here.
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jomblass said:
Just one question for all of you guys having more than 4 hours of screen-on time.. are you all rooted and have flashed other ROMs?...
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Stock 2.3.4 unbranded Europe ROM, and stock battery. Although thinking of getting the Anker battery. Maybe get 6hrs screen on time out the Anker if Im lucky I guess.
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Just one question for all of you guys having more than 4 hours of screen-on time.. are you all rooted and have flashed other ROMs?...
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It has been the same for me on stock, rooted, custom ROMs, I get on average 4-5 hrs. Two Sensations in the house, mine running custom get's 4 -5 hrs, Mom's on pure non rooted stock gets the same, she got hers yesterday.
7 hours - 20% brightness - Melvins Senseless rom
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7 hours - 20% brightness - Melvins Senseless rom
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Low brightness, but that's still pretty amazing.
My sensation actually drains battery less whe its using somehing or on. This happen on pyramid3d. And miui frm tripndroid. Illike I'll listen to mussic for 1 hour, and it will be 100 to 96. And when I let it standby, it will go to like 88 in a hour. Is this normal?
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I had an issue similar to this. Every other day the battery would drain in half a day (when usually it would last a good 12 hours +)
Under the battery usage tab it was showing the phone as being awake for almost all of the time (Even though I hadn't used or touched the phone)
I think it was a Kernel issue (Correct me please if I'm wrong, just a small time n00b) As I was using the stock shipped rom but just rooted.
Anyway, upgraded now, and it seems to be ok so far! *touch wood*
Would suggest you look under the battery usage graph and see what that tells you.
Ill reply in 12 hours. Since I just ubplugged from charger
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You could've installed a bad app. Faulty/bad apps will stop the phone from sleeping. Look for apps that (when you install them) list that they can prevent the phone from sleeping in the permissions list.
If you've not installed too many, remove one at a time, leave for a while, and then check battery section in Settings to see if it's no longer staying awake.
If you find the app, contact the developer through the market so they can fix it.
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Also, if you have it, keep WiFi connected when in range. Uses less battery than mobile data. Switch it off when you're not connected of course.
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even with ICS, is determining how much battery life is left.
I could keep a better tab on my battery life with my watch. It's the worst when it's full and it's empty. It'll be at 100% for 2 hours and 20 minutes later it's at 89%. At the end, when you are at 10%, it's over, you might have 5 mins lefts or 60...who the hell knows.
Very true. I was at 15% for about 20 min but went from 100% to 30% in an hour
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wifesabitch said:
even with ICS, is determining how much battery life is left.
I could keep a better tab on my battery life with my watch. It's the worst when it's full and it's empty. It'll be at 100% for 2 hours and 20 minutes later it's at 89%. At the end, when you are at 10%, it's over, you might have 5 mins lefts or 60...who the hell knows.
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And what kind if phone are you running your ics on?
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And what kind if phone are you running your ics on?
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HTC Sensation
I hardly agree to the battery percentage because it depends on your usage ... there might be a number of unused apps running in the background which might eat up your battery... delete unused apps/widgets...
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I hardly agree to the battery percentage because it depends on your usage ... there might be a number of unused apps running in the background which might eat up your battery... delete unused apps/widgets...
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I keep my phone very barebones. I use two widgets and I have 20 apps.
When I'm down to 10%, I can have everything off and it will still drop down to below 5% within the half hour.
I've come to the conclusion that Android just sucks at this to ignore the percentages and to keep it as charged up as possible.
On my HTC wildfire with like 5 widget and over 150 apps installed it easily crossed one and half days....
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And I asked because from what I know...that's probably not the best nor final version to ics at the moment for the sensation...maybe just like a kang or a build....but either way...in the future when Everything settles down and is more developed for the sensation..I'm pretty sure your battery will be at is best....
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I used to have this issue with Android with past phones like the Epic 4G and the Nexus S 4G. I could be at 70% and reboot the phone and all of a sudden it's now at 52%. I could reboot phone 5 times and get 5 different values. It was all so tiring.
Now i've since moved on to the Epic Touch running Blazer ROM and since i've been on this combo, i've not noticed this phenomenon anymore. The battery guage is spot on. I could reboot a billion times and the accuracy doesn't deviate one bit. Could it be that the dev of this ROM has some super mojo/juju that just works? (I hope so).
Alpha Review ROM is not completed, all guys using review HTC Rom have same problems. Keep remembering that it is still a review ROM