Bought the sensation XE a couple of days ago. The only think I keep about is the battery.
I have two HTC batteries and I have been using them simultaneously (taking one out put next in, other goes on charge etc)
I am going through two full charges a day and am on the third battery.
This is crazy, is it me? What am I doing wrong? Might me ICS..?
What settings are you using on your phone? (auto brightness, background data..etc...) And what is your usage rate? Are you using stock or custom ROM?
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What apps do you have installed and what accounts on sync?
It usually take a while for the battery to reach it's full capacity. Give it like a week, then judge the battery.
my battery was horrible! I finally put Anker battery in ,rooted, got custom Rom, now its excellent! Very happy! Can go all day without charge!
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Mind posting a picture of your batt stats? And how many hours of screen time you have. Here are some tips..
1. Use manual brightness. I usually use 10-50% only. The lower your brightness the less power you consume.
2. Disable auto sync. Disable push notifications unless really needed.
3. Disable led lights and vibrations for keyboard and soft keys.
4. Use mobile data only when you need to. If not, turn it off.
5. You can try juicedefender. Works for some, doesn't work for me.
6. Don't use live wallpapers.
7. Run a custom rom and kernel. I'm using virtuous inquisition 4.0.2 with sebastionFM 1.4.1 kernel. It's fast smooth yet easy on the battery.
8. As your battery is still new give it a few charge cycles. It should stabilise within a week or so..
9. Do download betterbatterystats and check on what's hogging your battery. Also check with cpuspy whether your phone goes into deep sleep or not.
With the methods I've mentioned I'm achieving about 20 hours standby with 5 hours of screen time. I consider myself quite a heavy user. If you do your math that's like 15minutes of use per hour.
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sromer said:
It usually take a while for the battery to reach it's full capacity. Give it like a week, then judge the battery.
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I agree with this, give it time.
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I also bought an Anker battery and can run 40 hours on low use and over 24 on medium I use the regular as a spare on my travels
Thanks for replies. I am rooted, on stock ROM currently, looking for a new efficient ROM, any ideas?
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Mind posting a picture of your batt stats? And how many hours of screen time you have. Here are some tips..
1. Use manual brightness. I usually use 10-50% only. The lower your brightness the less power you consume.
Hate lower brightness, it is always on full.
2. Disable auto sync. Disable push notifications unless really needed.
Already turned off.
3. Disable led lights and vibrations for keyboard and soft keys.
Already turned of vibrations for keyboards.
4. Use mobile data only when you need to. If not, turn it off.
Do anyway.
5. You can try juicedefender. Works for some, doesn't work for me.
Tried.
6. Don't use live wallpapers.
Like live wallpapers
7. Run a custom rom and kernel. I'm using virtuous inquisition 4.0.2 with sebastionFM 1.4.1 kernel. It's fast smooth yet easy on the battery.
Shall do.
8. As your battery is still new give it a few charge cycles. It should stabilise within a week or so..
My second battery isn't new and has been used by other phones. It acts in the same way - poor battery life.
9. Do download betterbatterystats and check on what's hogging your battery. Also check with cpuspy whether your phone goes into deep sleep or not.
Installed.
With the methods I've mentioned I'm achieving about 20 hours standby with 5 hours of screen time. I consider myself quite a heavy user. If you do your math that's like 15minutes of use per hour.
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Im using ordroid now, but ARHD is great as well. Both give me excellent juice. U should try other kernels as well. Faux is my fave..
I get 4:10 hours of screen on time only. Every single time +/- 10 minutes. Charge every 2 days.
95% of 4:10 hours is web browsing, Words with Friends and Draw Something.
Stock HTC Sensation. Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
My settings:
Wifi, Mobile Data controlled by Easy Battery Saver on Intelligent Mode.
Brightness-> Auto Brightness. Most 50%+ because I work outdoors.
GPS- Off
Gaming-> Only 2D.
Music-> Lots of music.
Web browsing -> Mostly Wifi only because I have Wifi wherever I go.
Calls: 10-12 a day approx.
My iPhone 4 used to last me 3-4 days. The screen on time for that was 7-8 hours. Yeah so the battery life is really appalling. Buying iPhone 5 (6) when it comes.
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I get 4:10 hours of screen on time only. Every single time +/- 10 minutes. Charge every 2 days.
95% of 4:10 hours is web browsing, Words with Friends and Draw Something.
Stock HTC Sensation. Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
My settings:
Wifi, Mobile Data controlled by Easy Battery Saver on Intelligent Mode.
Brightness-> Auto Brightness. Most 50%+ because I work outdoors.
GPS- Off
Gaming-> Only 2D.
Music-> Lots of music.
Web browsing -> Mostly Wifi only because I have Wifi wherever I go.
Calls: 10-12 a day approx.
My iPhone 4 used to last me 3-4 days. The screen on time for that was 7-8 hours. Yeah so the battery life is really appalling. Buying iPhone 5 (6) when it comes.
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A battery that last 3 days is not worth being stuck with IOS. BORING.
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Unfortumately HTC's power management isn't very good but it has improved in ics. If it matters to you that much I say go for a Samsung galaxy s2.
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crisisinthecity said:
A battery that last 3 days is not worth being stuck with IOS. BORING.
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It's not the battery its the way the phone will use it. In actual fat I believe that the HTC sensation battery is very slightly larger than the one in the iPhone 4
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Hmmm 4 hours of screen time is really quite good actually. Charging every two or three days isn't too bad right? Considering the benefits and flexibility of android over iOS.
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Hmmm 4 hours of screen time is really quite good actually. Charging every two or three days isn't too bad right?
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My thoughts exactly.
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A battery that last 3 days is not worth being stuck with IOS. BORING.
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Give your battery some days to reach its full capacity as mentioned. But no matter what, running a custom rom with power optimizations is the best solution.
Currently faux latest 07b1 kernel is giving me awesome awesome battery life.
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My thoughts exactly.
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With official ICS, I am now getting around 5:30 screen time. That's good enough. I think if I buy EVO 3D battery for my Sensation I will get 7-8 hours like my iPhone so I'm going to do that.
You can try easy battery saver, it's work with my phone and is very efficient.
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I think it's crazy how many people are downing the battery life on the Sensation. I used my phone a bit today. Off the charger at 10AM, used GPS to go to work with Bluetooth activated as well. Forgot to turn them both off while at work. I used my phone like ever 5 minutes checking Twitter updates(also weather/news/facebook/email/etc updates are automatically updating as fast as the app allows. So quick updates for all my apps, GPS and bluetooth turned on all day. Home around 5, watched a few episodes of South Park on Netflix with my phone. Read some news. Played a few different games for about 5-10min each just trying out new games. It's now almost 1AM the next day, and I'm above 40% battery life. I manage my screen brightness, that may be the only thing I remembered to manage well today. While outside/in car, full brightness, inside, as low as possible.
It's shocking to me when I see threads of how the battery life stinks. I'm using the stock battery, I don't even seen the need of getting a larger battery because this already gets me through a day full of activity. Anyone else find the battery life on this device, quite handy? Mine is rooted, but it's stock ROM. I'm also using a skin posted by a member of our forum, the transparency. I'm running the stock T-MOUS(why is it called tmous..? are people that lazy to spell out t-mobile?) ROM, because I accidentally deleted a few apps I discovered I needed back, and did not do a backup. Oh, and I'm also using the battery mod, for the battery icon in my notification bar.
I guess I'm just praising the battery life, is all
I have only had my sensation for about 5 days and battery life is amazing! Im still stock too.. I came from an evo 4g rooted running cm7 and or miui and battery life doesn't come close to being as good as my sensation. Not only is battery life awesome, this phone is awesome. I moved to Southern California a couple weeks ago and Sprint out here is horrible.. so I switched and couldn't be happier. Plus I like this phone was better than the evo series. Battery life is sweet!
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You would have to post a screendoor shot of your battery usage and screen on time to completely determine how much the phone was used and how long the screen was on.
Bluetooth and GPS don't use any battery or have low usage (depends on the chipset because some completely turn off) during standby since they're not being used at all.
So we can all praise our phones for having good battery life, but it all depends on usage. If you don't use your phone a lot (you could turn on your screen every 5 minutes but at the end of the day have only like 45 minutes of screen on time and like 70% battery left.) Then you get good battery life. Use your phone a lot and quite simply battery life sucks.
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I think it can largely depend on how you use your phone, not just how often or for how long. For example my Fiance also has the Sensation and on her first charge she got 3hrs52minutes before hitting 10% battery. Since then she has only gotten ~2hrs each day now that she has Twitter and Facebook for Sense accounts set up.
That's not good. There's gotta be something wrong with either her phone or something. 2 hours of battery life warrants an exchange.
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I think it can largely depend on how you use your phone, not just how often or for how long. For example my Fiance also has the Sensation and on her first charge she got 3hrs52minutes before hitting 10% battery. Since then she has only gotten ~2hrs each day now that she has Twitter and Facebook for Sense accounts set up.
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enoch861 said:
That's not good. There's gotta be something wrong with either her phone or something. 2 hours of battery life warrants an exchange.
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The phone lasts longer than 2hrs, that's 2hrs of the screen being on. my sensation get's about the same. This is with Gmail on Autosync and Twitter/Facebook for Sense accounts enabled too.
If I do what u did, my batt will be flat in 6 hours. Somethings just not right with my sensation.
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I think it's crazy how many people are downing the battery life on the Sensation. I used my phone a bit today. Off the charger at 10AM, used GPS to go to work with Bluetooth activated as well. Forgot to turn them both off while at work. I used my phone like ever 5 minutes checking Twitter updates(also weather/news/facebook/email/etc updates are automatically updating as fast as the app allows. So quick updates for all my apps, GPS and bluetooth turned on all day. Home around 5, watched a few episodes of South Park on Netflix with my phone. Read some news. Played a few different games for about 5-10min each just trying out new games. It's now almost 1AM the next day, and I'm above 40% battery life. I manage my screen brightness, that may be the only thing I remembered to manage well today. While outside/in car, full brightness, inside, as low as possible.
It's shocking to me when I see threads of how the battery life stinks. I'm using the stock battery, I don't even seen the need of getting a larger battery because this already gets me through a day full of activity. Anyone else find the battery life on this device, quite handy? Mine is rooted, but it's stock ROM. I'm also using a skin posted by a member of our forum, the transparency. I'm running the stock T-MOUS(why is it called tmous..? are people that lazy to spell out t-mobile?) ROM, because I accidentally deleted a few apps I discovered I needed back, and did not do a backup. Oh, and I'm also using the battery mod, for the battery icon in my notification bar.
I guess I'm just praising the battery life, is all
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Oh! Makes sense..
But 2 hours with screen and dead in 6 hours? I'm glad I have a G2x then. Cause I get 3 hours and like between 13 and 16 hours.
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The phone lasts longer than 2hrs, that's 2hrs of the screen being on. my sensation get's about the same. This is with Gmail on Autosync and Twitter/Facebook for Sense accounts enabled too.
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You can go by statistics and on screen time and what not. but I just got home from work, and I literally used my phone for about 2 hours straight calling carriers for a customer. I'm above 80%. So from 9AM-4PM, only saw a 20% drain. Once again, keeping BT and GPS on just to see how it goes. ALL of my autosyncs are once again, on, and set to the most frequent can be.
Compared to any other stock phone, this is amazing. Compared to my Cyan N1 and my Cyan NS, it's not a huge difference. Although, at this rate I may give the lead to the Sensation, since I'm leaving all these extra features on throughout the entire day.
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I get two to three days out of my Sensation, and I'm a relatively heavy Internet user... don't phone much.
At first I wasn't getting great mileage - having to re-charge after only 10 hours or so, but did two things to improve it dramatically...
First, charge the battery once using the following method:
1. charge battery to 100% and leave on charger for an extra hour
2. unplug the cable, turn off* the phone, and plug the charger back in. leave charging for another hour.
3. unplug the phone, turn it on for two minutes, turn the phone back off*, and plug in the phone again. leave charging for another hour.
* when I say "turn off", I mean completely, without fastboot. so either disable fastboot before switching off, or turn off the phone and pull the battery then put it back in.
Second:
Turn off automatic screen brightness, and set the brightness manually to what you need. Ideally, I'd like to have an auto-screen brightness adjustment that automatically sets it, say, 25% lower than what the built-in function does.
That's pretty exceptional. I usually get 13-14 hours with 5+ hours of screen time before I'm at 20%. Using the chichitec battery, btw.
My chichitec battery went 18 hours yesterday before it got to 10% and I charged it. That was with a lot of web browsing, some phone calls, music, games. Id say, medium-heavy usage.
Matt
Same here I have had several Android phones with different carriers and this is hands down the best, on par with the iPhone I had previously with Verizon. No problem getting through the day with Exchange and 2 IMAP accounts and heavy phone use, the only mod is I set screen brightness, battery is stock.
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no one is complaining i watch sparticus on netflix and game of throne on hbo go for 5 hrs straight while facebooking random hoes . and i am out of battery..
we are complaining that the 4g drains the phone while on idle.
this is the best battery life i've ever had on a phone. i can't complain at all... i even have gps on and i could never do that before. lol!
Guys, having GPS on doesn't use any battery. It only uses battery when it is active. So for most of you 99% of the time your GPS is off aka standby or whatever you wanna call it.
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One reason many people complain about bad battery life is that it seems some Sensation models are actually faulty. Best evidence: TechRadar review.
http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/htc-sensation-943466/review?artc_pg=9
UPDATE: We've finally managed to get our hands on a new review model of the HTC Sensation, and the good news is the battery life is definitely improved.
It seems that a combination of data-hungry applications and a slightly dodgy model caused the odd readings from before, although we're not entirely convinced the above scenario isn't one power users will face, which is why we've left it in.
But in normal use, and by that we mean sending 42 texts, spending 49 mins on the phone, watching an hour and bit of video and using the music player constantly, plus a few minutes spent using GPS to track ourselves and browsing the internet for roughly 45 mins, the battery pretty much lasted the day, although it was often in the yellow zone come 11PM.
However, what was more impressive (and a relief) was the sleep state of the HTC Sensation. Where before the phone would get very hot and start spewing out battery life in our pocket for no reason, if you leave the phone locked up for around 10-15 minutes on our new model the power consumption dropped to almost nothing.
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Can someone tell me why me battery life is so crap on HTC sensation. I'm using evo 3d battery which is 1730 mah.but what's annoying is that my brightness is set to auto and 15 second to turn the screen off but still my display is using more than 90%.
Please help me because everything is turned off and only wifi is on.
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what rom/kernel ru using? did u recently flash the rom? try to turn off auto brightness that should help u save alot of battery in my opinion this has worked with me
Seems that something is keeping your phone Awake.
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Shery4life said:
Can someone tell me why me battery life is so crap on HTC sensation. I'm using evo 3d battery which is 1730 mah.but what's annoying is that my brightness is set to auto and 15 second to turn the screen off but still my display is using more than 90%.
Please help me because everything is turned off and only wifi is on.
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Turn off auto and use manual brightness settings, and then see what the usage is.
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Turn off auto and use manual brightness settings, and then see what the usage is.
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And change back to the Sensation battery, it's actually better than the 3Ds. The Evo guys are using the Sensation battery and getting about 2hrs more in back to back tests. Be happy you don't have a 3D. When I had mine, I got 2hrs hard use with 4G and 4hrs with 3g. I get 8hrs with my Sensation overclocked.
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Well for starters, your screen was on for almost 2 hours straight and your signal wasn't very good for most of that. I can assume that since your screen was on for 2 hours straight you must have been using it or the screen would not have been on that long. Streaming a 2 hour movie on a not so great connection will eat your battery up almost completely, especially if you are using full brightness. Android phones in general are battery eaters. My Sensation battery life is actually a lot better than my Vibrant was so I'm happy. Buy a couple batteries on Ebay for 15 bucks or use Juice Defender. I use my phone pretty heavily and can make it through the day. I can get over 24 hours using Juice Defender.
Did You wipe battery stats after change battery?
Also tell us which ROM and Kernel You use now. I'm sure that 3/4 ROM's here are useless. I have ROM from new leak and have 0 issues, also with battery.
I got two Anker 1900mAh batteries and they made a reasonable improvement to my use.
Typically with full sync and okish signal I got about 1h40m of screen on time with about 14 hours off charger.
With Anker under the same daily use its between 2h to 3h screen on in the same period.
Also that means I now have three batteries.
Sorry to say but having owned a Motorola Milestone, Galaxy S, Nexus S and now Sensation I can simply say that the battery life on Android is crap in general for heavy users.
My girl has an iPhone 3G and 4, the screen on time is often over 6 hours which I put down to intimate development of software and hardware.
I am choosing flexibility over longevity for now.
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It's the kernel that's in the version of the ROM you have.
Flash 3.6.5 XE and it'll fix the problem.
Also having Wifi on and using it for 2 hours straight will drain your battery.
sromer said:
It's the kernel that's in the version of the ROM you have.
Flash 3.6.5 XE and it'll fix the problem.
Also having Wifi on and using it for 2 hours straight will drain your battery.
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WiFi uses less battery than a data connection, just fyi. WiFi does not cause drain.
Sdobron said:
WiFi uses less battery than a data connection, just fyi. WiFi does not cause drain.
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Everything causes drain
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what rom/kernel ru using? did u recently flash the rom? try to turn off auto brightness that should help u save alot of battery in my opinion this has worked with me
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yes i have just recently changed the rom
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i have put the brightness to the lowest and i have alos kept the time to 15 second and still my battery died today after 3 hour of usage and i had to use the original battery and that lasted my 2 hours and even though have two battery still i cant make it through the day
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i have put the brightness to the lowest and i have alos kept the time to 15 second and still my battery died today after 3 hour of usage and i had to use the original battery and that lasted my 2 hours and even though have two battery still i cant make it through the day
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Did you calibrate or change radios recently? You could have a defective battery(s) or maybe the kernel is causing excessive drain.
I noticed this issue too when I was using Sense-based ROMs before I switched to a CM7-based rom.
Been off battery for 9 hours and 9 minutes with 77% left - I've never seen battery life this great and I don't think I see myself going back to Sense any time soon for my HTC Sensation 4G.
I was very disapointed with how fast the stock HTC Sensation battery drained even with normal use, just like you.
I took the advise from some here and got the Anker battery from Ebay for 10.00.
The best thing I ever did.
WOW! Did it improve the battery life on the Sensation.
Now I do not have to worry about the battery draining down fast on me.
With the Anker battery, my phone lasts all day and into the night .
Buy an anker battery
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i have just recently bought the evo3d battery the only reason i did not buy anker is because for some thick reason i didnt wanted to buy the anker battery beside i bought the legit evo3d battery which works for sensation. i dont want to buy anker battery for time begin because i dont think i need three battery beside yesterday i just installed 3.6.5 and for time being the battery lasted me very good and if the battery give me 12 hours everyday than ill stick with these two batteries
3.6.5 is using battery more effecient than 3.6.4 did thanks to a member who told me to install 3.6.5
Shery4life said:
Can someone tell me why me battery life is so crap on HTC sensation. I'm using evo 3d battery which is 1730 mah.but what's annoying is that my brightness is set to auto and 15 second to turn the screen off but still my display is using more than 90%.
Please help me because everything is turned off and only wifi is on.
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Probably it's time to try this! extended battery can be a solution.
I have been using my Sensation for a 3 months now and have noticed the idle battery usage very high and barely get through the day without touching my phone. Well that's probably my own fault for having this and that syncing and downloading all the time. And my suspicions were correct, because when I turn data and WiFi off the battery could last forever. Understandable.
What really bothers me is that when screen is on the juice just disappears. It's just 2 to 2,5 hours of screen being on (web browsing, playing games etc.) to make the battery completely dead. This is pretty much my first actual smartphone and I understand that such a big screen takes it's toll, but is that normal?
I have the AUO screen.
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Sounds about right to me. Have never used my screen for two hours straight, but I'm at 36% for about an hour and thirty minutes of screen being on with an Anker battery.
Regarding the syncing, you could probably try juice defense and see if that helps you any.
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Yeah, maybe I should get an extended battery. BTW my screen brightness is on auto. Wonder how those 4.7" beasts will handle usage.
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Blodoffer said:
I have been using my Sensation for a 3 months now and have noticed the idle battery usage very high and barely get through the day without touching my phone. Well that's probably my own fault for having this and that syncing and downloading all the time. And my suspicions were correct, because when I turn data and WiFi off the battery could last forever. Understandable.
What really bothers me is that when screen is on the juice just disappears. It's just 2 to 2,5 hours of screen being on (web browsing, playing games etc.) to make the battery completely dead. This is pretty much my first actual smartphone and I understand that such a big screen takes it's toll, but is that normal?
I have the AUO screen.
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Hi,
There has been a lot of talk about poor battery life,and it is mostly attributable to the kernel.
My best suggestion is to update your kernel to:
1.Faux's latest...in my sig
2.Bricked 1.41r has had good reviews...HERE
Make a nandroid backup,
wipe cache and dalvik,
flash kernel,like a ROM,
reboot.
Also, try guide from my signature.. It helped me
How much difference does it make battery wise whether you're e.g browsing the internet or playing graphically demanding games?
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I have an original sensation and since buying it have struggled to contain battery life as I am a heavy user.
Typically I travel for an hour and a half each way to work. It's an ideal time to catch up on mail, twitter, browsing etc.
I have been looking into the drain on the battery and discovered that;
80% of battery drain is attributed to running the display
32 minutes of the display being on equates to 40% of the battery
Best case, I would only get ~100 minutes screen on time.
From what I have read this is done to the display type in the Sensation. Is this correct?
I have tried switching the brightness way down (15%) and switching background colors to blacks.
Is there any fix for this or have I simply bought the wrong phone?
I nearly went for the S2 but preferred the clarity of the Sensation display...
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You have the same problem as me there isn't much we can do about it. Is a smart phone it will drain battery like mad when used no matter if it's moderate or heavy because if u ure it moderate it still lol my battery very fast
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The question is I suppose, Does the screen type on the Sensation deliver poorer battery performance than other handsets?
Would I get more 'screen on' time by switching to an S2 or Galaxy Nexus?
I get around 3-3.5 hours screen on time on a heavy use day. That equates to about 10 hours off the charger, so just enough to keep be going til i get home.
I usually just set the brightness to auto, but if I know I'm going to be reading/browsing a lot I turn the brightness down to about 30%
I'm currently running stock rooted because the sense 3.5 roms were too buggy.
No complaints about battery here.
Maybe you could upload a battery usage graph screenshot?
Here are some.....
Cheers
Wow! That is some impressive drain.
Have you got any programs that might be causing the drain? Your phone seems to be awake a lot even when the screen is off.
Try BetterBatteryStats to see what apps are waking your phone and causing drain:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809
that thread explains how to use it and where to download
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aidanbree said:
I have tried switching the brightness way down (15%) and switching background colors to blacks.
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The screen is not AMOLED, its an LCD so black backgrounds are not beneficial, if anything white/light uses less power as the LCD does not have to use power to black out the (always on) backlight.
I'm running Virtuous Sensation rom, OC at 1.5g, been my phone has been off the charger 7÷hours, made 2 long phone calls, been been browsing web and I'm here for around 3 hours now, and my battery is around 60%. I love this rom, fast, stable, and excellent battery life.
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Another thing you might try, charge to full, boot into recovery, clear battery stats, discharge completely, and then complete charge with no interruption. This should recalibrate the battery for better life.
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I myself get about 7 hours out of it since I'm a heavy user
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I know I don't belong here
On wifi I get 4 hours 30 minutes browsing internet (screen on time)
3g is more like 3 hours 20/30 minutes due to living in Australia where mobile coverage sucks phone has to work hard to hold 1 bar 3g.
Solid gaming and that means no breaks, 2 hours.
Unfortunately battery tech wont ger better for some years so our only option is to buy 5 cheap batteries off eBay and cart them around
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Ironically im getting great battery life on cm7
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Make sure your brightness isn't to high. It will drain extremely fast with high brightness. I keep mine on 0% for inside and will up it up some when I go outside.
I bought the Anker extended battery for $15. Here are a couple screen shots of my usage...
I didnt charge it at all for that entire time. On the graph where it says the battery went up about 5% is from rebooting it.
Why do people keep saying that the battery life of the HTC One S is awesome?
I seriously get no more than 4 hours of screen time (although the standby time was 30 hours) and thats with very very aggressive battery saving methods. I just can't get more than that. Most of the time between 2-3 hours under moderate/heavy use with standard settings.
Same thing goes for AMOLED. Yesterday I was only using the stock browser with INVERTED colors, aggressive battery saving profile and nothing else. And still, still I only got 4 hours out of it. How is this even possible? I mean everything on my phone was pitch black. Wallpapers, themes, websites. But under normal use I basically get the same results?
Has this been a lie all this time?
I´d say 4 hours of screen time is pretty good.
At least assuming you havn´t had it to min. brightness.
I think people aren't comparing the same figures
screentime vs battery uptime
4 hours of screen time with 30 hours of total use is pretty damn good for any smartphone.
I've owned several android devices and the difference in battery life from all the others to the One S is ridiculous. I really don't see what you're complaining about.
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I don't think that the Battery is that great. If i use it moderate i survive a day. That is okay but not great. My galaxy S lasted a half day longer...
But it is realy useless to discuss it. There is no standard for moderate or heavy use. If i use it very low because i am busy with something else it holds two days and more...
But 4h screen on and still 30h runtime sounds pretty good to me too
I did 2 hours of on screen time (browsing the internet over Wifi, downloading apps, etc.), and my battery went from 100% down to ~70%. I'm pretty happy with that.
stoneyjonez said:
I've owned several android devices and the difference in battery life from all the others to the One S is ridiculous. I really don't see what you're complaining about.
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I get a full days worth. And I'm a heavy user. Currently using leedroid 2.0
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One day is the most u get by heavy using a smartphone. This thread is non sense.
WCCobra said:
I did 2 hours of on screen time (browsing the internet over Wifi, downloading apps, etc.), and my battery went from 100% down to ~70%. I'm pretty happy with that.
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thats 6.7 hours of browsing while on wifi. I am not even getting 4 hours of browsing with inverted/black colors on 3G.
Guys, this phone has an AMOLED screen and I am browsing the web where virtually everything is pitch black except text while wifi/bt/gps/sync is disabled and virtually no other background processes are running except for the android stuff and one app called tasker. Auto-brightness enabled. The screen is basically off except for the text! I took it to the extreme but where are my power savings?
Even standby time is not that impressive. Anytime I am not using the browser the phone is in 2G mode, no wifi/bt/gps/mobiledata, auto rotate turned off, auto brightness enabled, no widgets, disabled all the status bar icons such as time/battery/signal icons, no wallpaper, no other fancy stuff. Just a grid of icons on my homescreen and tasker running in the background.
I had colors on my iphone and I get way more browsing time while not compromising at all with the other stuff.
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One day is the most u get by heavy using a smartphone. This thread is non sense.
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Thats true. But I guess I am not even getting 1 day or 8 hours of screen time
Set the brightness down to min and/or try a custom rom. I was on stock, but I hear the battery life improves quite a bit on some of the custom roms available.
Also, this phone is significantly faster (spec-wise) than the iPhone. If you want longer battery life, perhaps you should switch to a phone that allows you to swap out the battery (GS3), or go for a low-end phone like the iPhone.
I should also add that the updated firmware 1.70, 1.78 also extends battery life. Those updates have not been released to U.S. phones yet.
OP -- seriously? Are you complaining? Find me a smartphone with better battery life with a comparable specs-to-batterySize. Droid Razr Maxx doesnt count, as its battery is 2x as large.
I took mine off the charger at work @ 5pm yesterday. It's now 10:23am, and I'm at 72%. I did a decent amount of web browsing, calls, and texting, and some music.
OP can you send me the browser apk with the inverted colors?
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Hgaara said:
OP can you send me the browser apk with the inverted colors?
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Stock browser has it already. Settings -> Accessibility -> scroll down a bit and you will see inverted rendering. Basically makes every B/W and inverts the blacks and the whites.
I was btw running CM9 alpha6. And seriously I don't really know about the other smartphones since I have only used the iphone 4. I believe that smartphone gets more screen time. So probably the iphone 4s too. I think the 1X and 1XL gets better screen time when I read the reviews and with the latest updates.
" or go for a low-end phone like the iPhone."
LOL!
I was confused about this for a moment. I think you think that the battery time left is what your screen shot says 4 hours and change. That's the time it has ben off the charger blnot what's left on battery. That seems normal to me for it to be @ 60
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I can get almost two days of moderate use, including tethering on the stock Rom. I'm sure not every phone is equal but the battery life on this phone's exceeds my HTC Aria, iPhone's and my G2x.
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micxploed said:
I was confused about this for a moment. I think you think that the battery time left is what your screen shot says 4 hours and change. That's the time it has ben off the charger blnot what's left on battery. That seems normal to me for it to be @ 60
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His first screen shot tells us he got 4 hours and 7 minutes of screen on time and it accounted for 65% of his battery usage.
Which it way better then I get I only get about 2 hours of screen on time out of a full day of usage.
And the OP is right that IOS is the king of battery live when it comes to web browsing.
dc211 said:
His first screen shot tells us he got 4 hours and 7 minutes of screen on time and it accounted for 65% of his battery usage.
Which it way better then I get I only get about 2 hours of screen on time out of a full day of usage.
And the OP is right that IOS is the king of battery live when it comes to web browsing.
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Wrong my battery was at 6% (actually even lower like 3% but I didn't take a screenshot). And the display accounts for 65% of that battery drainage. Don't you guys use android at all?
Btw according to that graph its getting 5-6 hours. But why am not even getting 4 hours max? When I did as much as possible to reduce battery consumption. Going as far as to invert the colors. I was expecting major savings. After all isn't the screen suppose to be off when its displaying blacks? I am very skeptic about amoleds now and the claims that it saves battery life when displaying dark colors. And how this is all the time used as a pro. I think its phony.
No one is going to browse the internet like me and it didnt even work