My phone was reduced from 100 to 82 in just around 6 hours. I had data/wifi turned off as well. Is anyone else experiencing this?
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teobeo94 said:
My phone was reduced from 100 to 82 in just around 6 hours. I had data/wifi turned off as well. Is anyone else experiencing this?
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Nope. With data/wifi turned on (data auto-off since Wifi is active), I lose at most 2% overnight. With airplane mode on OR data/wifi off, you should be seeing practically 0% loss.
Check your battery usage and see what's eating up the battery. Sounds like an rogue app/process that's wasting cycles or is out of control.
One of the best things about this phone is its standby life, as it seems to sip battery juice very lightly.
My battery was still 100% after I woke up today.
Nevertheless it dropped very quickly after using the phone, about 11% in 10-15 min but I assume that's completely normal after 8 hours standby.
I have a live wallpaper but it shouldn't work when is screen off. I also have setcpu set so that is practically doing nothing when the screen is off. The live wallpaper cost only 2% of my battery but standby showed 20%. I have no idea why it uses much in standby...
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teobeo94 said:
I have a live wallpaper but it shouldn't work when is screen off. I also have setcpu set so that is practically doing nothing when the screen is off. The live wallpaper cost only 2% of my battery but standby showed 20%. I have no idea why it uses much in standby...
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That means that of the whatever % battery (out of 100%) that you've used, 20% of that drain was due to standby. That's not necessarily bad. So if you have 50% charge left, then it means that (50% x .2)% of your drain was from standby. My cell standby has currently used 23% of my current drain percentage. Since your phone is often left in the sleep/not-active state, then a large % of battery drain happens in standby.
Battery usage on Android is frequently misunderstood. And keep in mind that the 2% from the LWP you used is because it's only displayed when you're on the home screen. Otherwise, it remains dormant/paused.
that's strange that you are having that much usage in standby.. i have been getting a solid day and a half out of my battery and it doesnt really use any battery in standby.. there has to be an app of some sort that is sucking the battery or still running.. i always at bedtime though clear the cache thru storage in the settings menu and end all tasks in the task manager and close all the windows/programs with the far right virtual button on the bottom of the screen.. I am a bit OCD but heck if its working why stop..lol
Area with poor cell reception? If you were in plane mode it is an app for sure.
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My battery stayed the same overnight. That is with a x2 battery saver which switches off data when the phone is not used and only allows it as special intervals. I have set at 10mins intervals though which is not a huge saver.
I'm doing a test from yesterday to see how long the phone will last with my use. So far from last night im at 39% and when I first turned the phone on it was at 47% from yesterday.
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I would have to agree with everyone else. I only experience 1% loss at most times overnight. Best standby battery life i've ever gotten on a HTC phone.
I actually have full bars at home so I don't think that's why. Maybe it's because it's a new battery so I'll try charging it a couple more cycles.
Lost 8% tonight (86/78). Saw this morning that the signal was not perfect. But wifi went off during the night. That should not happen. Maybe my custom rom is switching off wifi on sleep...
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I actually have full bars at home so I don't think that's why. Maybe it's because it's a new battery so I'll try charging it a couple more cycles.
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It's either a faulty battery or a rogue app. Shouldn't happen to a new battery either.
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Use better battery stats to diagnose rogue apps.
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My battery stayed the same overnight. That is with a x2 battery saver which switches off data when the phone is not used and only allows it as special intervals. I have set at 10mins intervals though which is not a huge saver.
I'm doing a test from yesterday to see how long the phone will last with my use. So far from last night im at 39% and when I first turned the phone on it was at 47% from yesterday.
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Right.
Battery lasted up to 2:30pm being off the plug from 7 am the previous morning. So a total of 31hours.
That is with tapatalk, a bit of web browsing, a bit of WiFi and google store updating, 2 short phone calls.
The app. 2x was running on mild battery saving,mainly by cutting the data periodically when the phone is idling.
I must say that this is really good and the phone took quite a while to go from 15% to 4% after which it switched off before I noticed it again.
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I have the 2750 mah battery in my phone. Bamf 1.5 with the new radio. 4 hours off the charger and it is at 65 percent. Any idea? All syncing is off, screen at 40%, no Widgets other than fancy widget on. This is nuts. I can't figure out what's going on.
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Have you wiped battery stats?
I have the same issue. One day my phone goes 20+ hrs on a charge, the next day it drains 40% in 3 hrs, with no significant change in usage. I've swapped kernels, wiped battery stats, kill nonessential apps & services, and I still can't find the culprit. But my extra battery is in en route, so I'm not too concerned
No. Haven't wiped battery stats yet. I heard bad things about wiping the stats on the TB.
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I get the same thing every few days and it drives me crazy. You can instal a current widget and it'll show you what the draw is. Normall idle I'm at 38mA. But in these bouts of mystery drain it'll go up to 250-300mA for no reason. And this is with wifi/4G off too. But once I turn it on airplane mode the current goes back to normal until I take it off airplanel. So it's something to do with the regular cell radio...
Its ridiculous. Its stuff like this that kind of make me wish HTC held this back another few weeks.
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yeah i have this issue also. today Google Voice had partial waked my phone to 50% battery. i don't get it.
I have seen the same thing, anyone also notice the battery cooking when the drain is going on. I usually reboot the phone thinking an app is hung just banging on the system, sometimes it works other times not so much.
+1 i'm seeing this as well. when its happening the phone gets really hot. i hope this gets figured out.
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I have the 2750 mah battery in my phone. Bamf 1.5 with the new radio. 4 hours off the charger and it is at 65 percent. Any idea? All syncing is off, screen at 40%, no Widgets other than fancy widget on. This is nuts. I can't figure out what's going on.
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I had this problem on the BAMF 1.5 ROM + kernel combination. I recently switched to Imoseyon lean kernel (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1021404) and now the battery life is amazing. I've been off the charger since about 12:33am (CST) and it is now 12:28pm (CST) and I'm at 52% with average use.
On battery calibration. I strongly recommend doing this if when you restart your phone you lose drastic percentages. I was losing 11% with a restart indicating that it wasn't reporting accurate battery status. I used the battery calibration tool which is on the market. Now here is the kicker that i learned from Droid Incredible days, you have to fully charge the battery. That does not mean wait till your phone reports 100% that means turn off the device and charge until the notification led turns green and start up the phone and let it charge to the light goes green again then calibrate. Then disconnect and use til completely dead without plugging it in AT ALL!! This has worked for me.
Hope this helps everyone.
i really hope this thread doesnt die since this is a real problem apparently quite a few people have....
I didn't read all the post but after flashing a radio you have to wait a couple days yoga week before the battery can recalibrate.
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Battery monitor is showing 1350mAh
Wondering if I have a bad battery or maybe that's how it's read? Shouldn't it read 1400 instead of 1350?
I have this problem too... Its because something is not letting the kernal throttle down. Check setcpu and you will see it stuck on the Max speed. The smartass gov is most suspect because it doesn't use profiles
It's just the way it is for now. For the last 2 days I've been getting horrible battery life. All of a sudden things changed today. Battery drain is between 30 & 38 every 60 seconds. 2 days straight of 250-300 drove me frigging crazy.
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Yeah I have these random cases too. However a reboot fixes the issue. Besides faster than normal battery drain, you should notice higher battery temperature.
I believe it's an application issue, something that we can't tell yet.
Honestly I have high hopes for the TBolt down the road. When Evo first came out, we were experiencing similar problems too. Given time the devs were able to get them solved. This is why I prefer HTC and XDA.
I got great life today. Yesterday was terrible. I'm still getting the large drop in percentages on reboot, but battery life is draining slowly. Something I was wondering is if we lose 15 percent on a drop, does that mean the battery is actually 15 percent lower when I restart? So if my battery is at 60 percent in my task bar, is it actually 45 percent? And if that is the case, what happens when it drops down to 10 percent on my taskbar? In theory that would mean the battery had 0% life. Now the strange part of that is I'm still losing battery from 10% down to 0%, once it hits 0 it shuts off, however, if I restart the phone at 8 percent it won't reboot. So why will the phone stay running at 8% battery, but it will not boot back up after the restart. Its been a long day so sorry if I'm rambling or not making sense. But you know what I'm getting at.
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Wondering if I have a bad battery or maybe that's how it's read? Shouldn't it read 1400 instead of 1350?
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Just the way it is, the thunderbolt technically has a 1350 mAh stock battery.
I saw a thread on another site that says, if you recalibrate your battery once a month it will help... Full charge... Unplug.. reboot...3 times only has helped mine.... Now I Only loose 2-3% of battery per hr...
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Just the way it is, the thunderbolt technically has a 1350 mAh stock battery.
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oh ok. Thanks
I'm just wondering if some other Sensation owners can chime in with their battery stats. I've had the phone for a couple of days now, and with a few battery cycles behind me, I'm still concerned. I do understand the "new toy factor" of using a new gadget much more frequently than normal, but what specifically concerns me is the amount of juice the display is using. With push email on, twitter sync on, auto brightness on, and mostly indoor use, I am finding that I can't get more than 3 hours of Display On time. At the moment I have the following stats:
17% Battery Remaining
9h 5m 9s on battery
Display: 80% (Time on 2h 7m 31s)
Cell standby: 8%
Phone idle: 5%
Wi-Fi: 5%
Maps: 2%
Usage has consisted of some light web browsing, just a few minutes of phone calls, lots of texting / email, and general playing. At the moment, I can barely make it to the afternoon, let alone a full day. Is this comparable to what most of you are seeing or do I have a bad battery? Coming from a Samsung Galaxy S I was hoping for better performance but so far this is far worse ( I used to get 5+ hours of Display On time )..
Thx..
45% remaining
On battery 6 hours
Display on 2hr 10min
Display 85%
WiFi 6%
Cell standby 6%
Phone idle 3%
Comparable to my DHD I'd say, possibly a bit better. Custom roms did improve that though
Funny thing is my girlfriends galaxy s has shocking battery drain, particularly in standby. She's currently on Darkys ROM and I've given up trying to figure why she can never last a day with her phone.
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Coming from a G2 and this phone seems to be much worse. At work I would make it through the afternoon with very minimal usage mostly idle and checking my email on it 8-10 times and have 80%+ left over when I left the office after 9 hours off the charger. Even mostly idle I'm at 50-60% during the same timespan with a 20% bigger battery. Yesterday I was @ 95% and used the GPS for 30 minutes and it dropped the battery down to 60% in that small time period.
My batyery sucks big time... I trained it once - didnt do anything. Still get about 8 hrs between 7am and 8pm. Light to moderate usage :-(
Maybe i should look into finding a bigger battery
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I get about 14-17 hours, depending on usage. I'll post my stats later today as I'm at 100% right now.
I would disable htc hub from syncing. It syncs every few minutes and drains the hell out of the battery. I also disable always on mobile data and that helps save the battery when my phone is idle but things that you auto sync might have problems. My .02.
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Remaining 52% (as per battery solo widget pro and quick info pro)
14H 58M on battery
Voice: 48%
Display 34%
Cell Standby 10%
Phone Idle 5%
Wifi 3%
Settings:
Autobrightness
Auto Sync Disabled
EDGE/WIFI Disabled (Wifi - best performance unchecked)
Phone on GSM only
ACTUAL USAGE:
Calls: Approx 40 mins (did a quick count of mins in the call history)
Msg: 35 incl a few recd
Weather: 8 cities updated 4 times using Edge
Wifi and Web: Approx 10 mins
Angry birds: Approx 10 mins
Music: One song.. 3m40s
Hope this helps!!
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I get about 14-17 hours, depending on usage. I'll post my stats later today as I'm at 100% right now.
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This is pretty much my usage.
I can get over 24 hours pretty easily if i'm only using it for a phone call here or there. This is with Wifi turned on(and wifi calling on), auto-brightness, and auto-synching set to different intervals. Exchange email is set to every 15 mins, google set to push, FB is manual, weather is set to once a day.
If I'm using it pretty heavy, browsing the web, playing a game or two(peggle & plants vs zombies), I'll get typically around 12-14 hours.
For the first few days the battery life in my brand new Sensation sucked too. I was getting maybe 8-9 hours of moderate usage before having to plug it in to recharge.
On Friday night (June 24th), I did a full factory reset through the bootloader, installed Juice Defender and set it on Aggressive setting, and charged it overnight for about 8 hours while the phone was turned off. Yesterday (Saturday, June 25th) after over 18 hours of moderate use, which included many phone calls, emails, some texting, browsing, playing with the phone, and even a little bit of Stupid Zombies, the battery was still at 42%!!!
I charged it overnight again for 8 hours. So far today, after 3.5 hours of HEAVY usage, the battery is at 93%. I am beginning to like this a lot!
Email auto-sync, BT on at all times, some internet radio streaming today and still at 91%. It's been off the charge for 3 hours now. I think that's pretty good compared to my HD2.
I have been very happy with the battery life so far, its better than the battery life was on the MyTouch 4G I had. Can go a whole day no problem, MyTouch 4G couldn't make it a day....
To all you guys that are getting phenomenal battery life, could you check your battery stats and tell us your display usage?
Thx
I will post battery stats later today but battery life has not been as good as I hoped. Compared to the G2x I'm getting worse battery life. Then again, it's too to compare a device that is running a custom rom versus stock.
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To all you guys that are getting phenomenal battery life, could you check your battery stats and tell us your display usage?
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I did already.. with much detail Below: (Now 17H 15M down to 48% - so, lost about 4 percent in 2 hours, with some more use)
prateekgujral said:
Remaining 52% (as per battery solo widget pro and quick info pro)
14H 58M on battery
Voice: 48%
Display 34%
Cell Standby 10%
Phone Idle 5%
Wifi 3%
Settings:
Autobrightness
Auto Sync Disabled
EDGE/WIFI Disabled (Wifi - best performance unchecked)
Phone on GSM only
ACTUAL USAGE:
Calls: Approx 40 mins (did a quick count of mins in the call history)
Msg: 35 incl a few recd
Weather: 8 cities updated 4 times using Edge
Wifi and Web: Approx 10 mins
Angry birds: Approx 10 mins
Music: One song.. 3m40s
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I still don't see your display on time there. Maybe I'm blind..
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smacman said:
I still don't see your display on time there. Maybe I'm blind..
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Not blind ... are you looking for awake time?
3 hours 11 mins
So with 48% battery left your display had been on for over 3 hours? That is excellent.. Definitely something wrong with my battery if that is the case.
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So with 48% battery left your display had been on for over 3 hours? That is excellent.. Definitely something wrong with my battery if that is the case.
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Yup. thats what i read... maybe i should tell you what I did when I got the HTC Ssensation...
I used it and set it up on that batt level that came out of the box... till it switched off... kept if off and charged it the whole night.. about 7 hours.. unplugged.. turned the phone back on.. used it again the whole day and brought the battery level to about 19%.. turned it off.. charged it again full for about 7 hours... and now i am using it as normal!!
EDIT::: hahahahahhahahahahahaha.. no wonder... I am sorry.. its a typo.. 2 hour and 11 Mins.. well now 18 mins!!!
Still quite decent I think.. with the usage!!!
My battery sucked too but its doing much better (ibwas not worried because the same happened to my nexus one). Always moderatevuse and I get about 16 hours of use and still have about 40% left.
I have auto sync on, wifi off, screen brightness on about 60%.
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This is probably the longest lasting device I've used in a while. My G2X would get me about 11 hours with moderate use but my Sensation will last close to 16 hours with moderate use.
The only thing I have syncing is my Gmail account and calendar. I turned off everything else including weather. I also never keep my display set to automatic since that's just another piece of hardware that constantly has to work. Unless I'm in direct sunlight, my display stays at 50%.
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When in standbye overnights my phone goes from 60-70% to totally flat, I use battery monitor and I notice the phone use -100 till -200 Ma while I don't have any sync going on?
Somebod else with monitor app please give me our numbers
I have noticed tha cpu works (without any app loaded) about 35% -45% with no reason...that eats battery !!! any other have noticed that ?
I can make a video to proove that !!! Maybe with 2.3 the resoults will be better
I will give you my experiments:
First night(GMT+3 timing):
from (2-3)am: Wireless on, battery percentage still 19%
from (3am-4pm) wireless of, battery percentage is still 19% !!
Second night:
from (9am-5pm) battery percentage was 99%, when I wake up there were two missed calls and the battery percentage was 90% !!
Third night(Last night):
from (9am-6pm) battery percentage was 70%, when I wake up there were one message and the battery percentage was still 70% !!
* It is not nights, these days I actually sleep in the morning, and the timing doesn't mean I sleep all that, but before going to sleep I use my laptob.
I had the same issue in the first few days. I dont know if you installed some apps, but after I deactivated "green power" (for saving battery life) the battery lasts very long in standby mode.
so deinstall apps which say they would save battery and close all apps (browser etc.) before you sleep.
I dont know if the app was responsible for that or just the battery which needs a few days to generate 100% power.
Had mine for 2 weeks now, battery lasts 10 hours from 100% to dead, same as my Desire did.
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Battery monitoring and optimizing apps did suck most of the juice out of my battery. Deleted all,my battery easily makes 12 hours now
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I don't have any numbers but my phone goes from 100% to around 93% to 95% overnight depending on how many emails I receive while it's in standby.
About the same as my old Galaxy S.
bioweb said:
I don't have any numbers but my phone goes from 100% to around 93% to 95% overnight depending on how many emails I receive while it's in standby.
About the same as my old Galaxy S.
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That sounds great!
My Galaxy S2 would lose 30-40% overnight with a few emails...
I can't wait till I get my O3D.
Have to charge almost twice a day... I believe it happened after latest 1.45.531.1 update....
Disabled all animation, got auto adjust for display, disabled all what I could.. Still gives me 12 -16 hours on standby only....NOT even using the phone!!!!
Does anyone have something like that??? Or there is some remedy I skipped?
Sorry if I repeat someone's question.
Running full stock, HTC battery.
Thanks in advance!!
Tester.
PS. Recently exchanged the phone.... First one R.I.P......died completely, didn't even charge.
Is there a chance they swapped a refurbished one on me??? How to find out???
can you provide a screenshot of the battery usage graph? also, have you tried getting an aftermarket, bigger battery such as the anker?
I was the same way as you. I checked my battery graph, and standby was using something like 80% of the battery with almost everything turned off. By the time I got home from work I would need to charge it immediately. I bought one of the Anker batteries on Amazon for $15 bucks or so, and I'm now getting about 2 days for a charge. I don't know what it was with my battery, because it sounds like my experience wasn't typical, but I didn't really feel like going through HTC when I could just pay the $15.
I'm with ya...
This phone was running PERFECT prior to the HTC update. Now I'm having a plethora amount of problems, including the battery. For example, prior to the update I would get 13-16 hours on HEAVY usage... Moderate usage? Try a day or day in a half. Now take today for example, I unplugged my phone a little before 7am and I had 20 something percent 4 hours later.
I'm telling you, that HTC update really messed this phone up IMO.
Thanks, guys!!
Will try to get Anker battery, I believe it's 1900 mAh.
But again something running on the background with that update. We'll see.
I'll try to get the graph, maybe someone'll get some sense of it...
Much appreciated,
Tester.
here are the battery stats...
Display..........74%
Cell standby...13%
Phone idle......11%
Voice calls......2%
THAT'S IT!!! Nothing else is running...... SUX...
Still gives 12 - 16 hours of life on almost idle......
I hate to say it,but if you're battery's dying a lot faster after an update,a bigger battery won't help much.
I'd be getting in touch with HTC and ask them what the heck is going on.
Really annoyed with the battery performance. I checked and only display is using 90% of battery. Tried everything to reduce it but no change.
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Have to charge almost twice a day... I believe it happened after latest 1.45.531.1 update....
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I've had the same issue since the update. My battery drains at a ridiculous rate. I've become really frustrated with the phone since. I rooted it and flashed a custom ROM in hopes of solving the problem but it's the same deal.
I've confirmed it's not the battery either since I've got another one I've tried and only get the same results. Even with Juice Defender running I get nowhere as great a battery life as I did before the update
I'm doing decent 8hrs 20,mins on batt. With 40% left mostly text and internet browsing
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Try clicking the graph at the top of the screen it will give you another screen that shows awake/screen time etc. Is your phone going to sleep when you screen turns off?
I was having the same problem and realized that some app was keeping my phone awake even though the screen was off. I uninstalled 80% of the crap I had installed and now my phone sleeps like it should and battery lasts amazingly long time.
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here are the battery stats...
Display..........74%
Cell standby...13%
Phone idle......11%
Voice calls......2%
THAT'S IT!!! Nothing else is running...... SUX...
Still gives 12 - 16 hours of life on almost idle......
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Try clicking the graph at the top of the screen it will give you another screen that shows awake/screen time etc. Is your phone going to sleep when you screen turns off?
I was having the same problem and realized that some app was keeping my phone awake even though the screen was off. I uninstalled 80% of the crap I had installed and now my phone sleeps like it should and battery lasts amazingly long time.
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How can you tell if your phone is going to sleep when you lock the screen? What is a good method for this? And if I find it its not sleeping when it should, is there a way to find the culprit easily?
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How can you tell if your phone is going to sleep when you lock the screen? What is a good method for this? And if I find it its not sleeping when it should, is there a way to find the culprit easily?
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Click on the graph in battery stats, it should show awake time and screen on. If your awake time is constant when the screen on time isn't, then chances are you've got an bad app somewhere preventing the phone from sleeping
my battery life was plain **** on 2.3.3., device was running hot all the time (=waste of energy), charging took ridiculous 4h+! When I took it off at the charger around 23:00 the battery was dead at 14:00 the next day with most time being idle!
Since my update to 2.3.4 things got so much better. charging takes around 2h and battery finally lasted a whole day and had 40% juice left in the evening.
Since I got my 2 Ankers+charger for 20$, battery life is crazy now. Been on one charge for 2d2h and still had 16% left. Pushmail on, wifi on (cellular data only when not at home), brigthness at 100%, taking video, pictues and some navigation, messaging and phonecalls. Oh yeah and a few minutes of flashlight use
I would say between slight and medium use.
If 2.3.4 worsened your batterylife, contact HTC or your vendor.
I now replaced the battery at 16% with the other Anker because I still need to do my 5 charge cycles on that one to calibrate it.
Here's an example of the graph. At the bottom you can see awake and screen on time. I pulled phone of charger last night, did some browsing, then ran for an hour with music playing in the background (you can see the small green bar on awake even when screen is off). After I surfed a little and left it off the charger when I went to bed. The phone is properly sleeping when the screen is off and almost 16 hours and still have 62%.
Before I uninstalled the apps, the awake time was solid green across the screen.
Anker battery worked wonders on my device. Before I would have to throw it on the charger after lunch as I like to go for a beer after work and the stock battery would never make it that far... Now when I get home from the bar I still have ~30% battery. Anker battery FTW!
flash a custom rom and u will go gaga over ur battery life. definitely works for me. on standby overnight drain 0-1%.
I found out that if you don't have strong signal at your location your battery drains pretty fast that's why I always connect my phone to WiFi at my apartment where my phone looses signal sometimes. now I lose just 1-2% of power during a night.
Sorry to hear about your battery troubles. A couple days ago I rooted and switched to "Android Revolution HD 3.0.4" and my battery life seems pretty solid. I wasn't having battery life issues prior to this though.
I'm currently in the process of calibrating the battery:
- drain it mostly
- turn off
- plug it in overnight while still off
- in the morning unplug, wait 15 minutes, replug for a few hours; do this ONLY ONCE or you may damage the battery
- power on, immediately go to recovery, advanced, reset battery stats
- start normally
- drain battery until it shuts down; a continuous stress test or stability test app is probably ideal
- once it shuts off, turn it on again to double-check that it's dead; it should only come on for a second or two
- while off, plug in and allow to fully charge; no fooling around with plugging/unplugging, just normal
- calibration complete!
I think you can follow a similar procedure (minus clearing battery stats) to refresh the battery calibration even without rooting/custom recovery. I've read the effectiveness is similar. The phone just needs to be retaught what "full" and "empty" mean, all in one charge cycle. If you calibrate it wrong you could have issues with it shutting off while still reading ~15% battery life.
Anyway, as I said, I'm in the process of doing this. Currently I'm in the "drain it" phase... with my screen at maximum brightness (remaining on), overclocked to 1.5 ghz, I've been running "StabilityTest" (from market) for one hour and fifteen minutes. It stresses both cores as well as the RAM. At this time, my battery is at around 30-40% or so, and it's getting really hot! The phone's temperature is reading as 54.8 degrees!
Also, yesterday I used the GPS for about 4 hours before it died, this was prior to any calibration attempt. I think this is within typical battery life considering that the screen stays on.
TL;DR: Maybe you just need to try a custom rom or recalibrate your battery. Miscalibrated battery can be caused by flashing/updating a rom, I imagine even when it's an OTA. Sense is crippling your phone anyway, you might as well give it a try IMHO.
get yourself an anker battery..I havent charged my phone since the day before and now i have 20% left! heavy usage
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Hi everyone,
I noticed that my One X has been losing about 12% of battery life while asleep for 8 hours (while I'm sleeping). Is that normal? How much battery life do you lose when you don't use the phone? I leave wi-fi on and that's about it. I checked to make sure that the phone isn't awake during this period.
My battery life has been good on some days (lasts about 20 hours) and bad on some days (lasts about 10 hours) with almost identical usage. Any tips on improving battery life?
I went camping and put my phone on airplane most 80% of the time except when I needed it. It lasted me nearly 3 days! Does LTE consume a lot of battery power? Does wi-fi do also?
RPTheLefty said:
Hi everyone,
I noticed that my One X has been losing about 12% of battery life while asleep for 8 hours (while I'm sleeping). Is that normal? How much battery life do you lose when you don't use the phone? I leave wi-fi on and that's about it. I checked to make sure that the phone isn't awake during this period.
My battery life has been good on some days (lasts about 20 hours) and bad on some days (lasts about 10 hours) with almost identical usage. Any tips on improving battery life?
I went camping and put my phone on airplane most 80% of the time except when I needed it. It lasted me nearly 3 days! Does LTE consume a lot of battery power? Does wi-fi do also?
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Yes to both of your final questions. LTE uses a ton of power. I went to the San Jose area where it's only HSPA and my battery was phenomenal. Wifi may drain significantly if "best wifi performance" is enabled in advanced wifi settings.
Check what uses your battery overnight. What process does it say under power in settings? 12% for 8 hours isn't really that bad..
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RPTheLefty said:
Hi everyone,
I noticed that my One X has been losing about 12% of battery life while asleep for 8 hours (while I'm sleeping). Is that normal? How much battery life do you lose when you don't use the phone? I leave wi-fi on and that's about it. I checked to make sure that the phone isn't awake during this period.
My battery life has been good on some days (lasts about 20 hours) and bad on some days (lasts about 10 hours) with almost identical usage. Any tips on improving battery life?
I went camping and put my phone on airplane most 80% of the time except when I needed it. It lasted me nearly 3 days! Does LTE consume a lot of battery power? Does wi-fi do also?
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Wifi consumes the least power of all, but like the post above says, if you have "maximum wifi performance" enabled in your advanced wifi settings then it will prevent your phone from going into deep sleep and drain more battery than it would if that option was not checked. Overnight I usually drain about 1% an hour or less (on both CleanROM DE and AOKP M6.2).
I think it's not LTE drains the battery. It may be because of searching of networks when signal on LTE is bad.
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akaivan said:
I think it's not LTE drains the battery. It may be because of searching of networks when signal on LTE is bad.
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It's sort of both. When you have a good LTE connection while using data then it uses up more battery or if you have a poor connection without using data you will use even more battery or if you have a poor connection while using data that would be the worst for battery. But if you are in a good coverage area and not using data then the battery should be fine.
Drain of 12% over 8 hours (1.5% per hour) of screen off time is pretty damn good. Certainly nothing to complain about. I get somewhere around 2.5% per hour overnight.
Phone battery last forever when in airplane mode. The phone radios are a big consumer of power, often second only to screen-on time. Way back, I had my old HTC Tilt2 in airplane mode in a location with no cell service (basically just using the phone as a watch and camera), and it was on track to last about a week (maybe more) before needing a charge.
12% is what I get overnight. But If I turn off WiFi before sleeping then I get around 5% loss so turn off WiFi if you need more battery.
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karan1203 said:
12% is what I get overnight. But If I turn off WiFi before sleeping then I get around 5% loss so turn off WiFi if you need more battery.
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I feel that most people would get better battery with WiFi turned on. It seems the area you place your phone overnight is not getting a good WiFi signal and/or you might have some of your settings to sync or download while on "WiFi Only".
It varies from person to person and it usually ends up being something in the settings, specific apps, and/or quality of connection (mobile or WiFi).