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Battery Life

Guys, how's the battery life on this phone? From having it only one day, I'm not too impressed. With the screen on auto bright at its lowest setting, I'm losing 5-7 percent every 10 minutes just browsing the net or using the xda app. Is this normal?
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mike2518 said:
Guys, how's the battery life on this phone? From having it only one day, I'm not too impressed. With the screen on auto bright at its lowest setting, I'm losing 5-7 percent every 10 minutes just browsing the net or using the xda app. Is this normal?
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I'm getting 13-15 hours on a charge with 2.5-3 hours of phone calls and at least 2 hours screen on time. When I'm not using my phone I'm losing about 3% per hour (connected to wifi). I have facebook syncing and push email going also. Overall I am liking the battery life.

mike2518 said:
Guys, how's the battery life on this phone? From having it only one day, I'm not too impressed. With the screen on auto bright at its lowest setting, I'm losing 5-7 percent every 10 minutes just browsing the net or using the xda app. Is this normal?
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Go into the task manager and close all running apps. Also try bump charging. I'll find the link for the thread about it

bump charging is only going to buy you that last 5% or so. that's great if you need an extra 20 - 40 min, but in reality, if battery life is "short" even an extra hour won't save you because when people cry about long vs short battery, it's something like 2 days of charge vs 1 day....

mike2518 said:
Guys, how's the battery life on this phone? From having it only one day, I'm not too impressed. With the screen on auto bright at its lowest setting, I'm losing 5-7 percent every 10 minutes just browsing the net or using the xda app. Is this normal?
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Hi,
Any new battery will take at least couple of complete charge cycles to reach their optimum capacity. Also the phone needs few charges to build up the battery stats to report it correctly.
Just use it for a week and the battery life should improve. You can also fully charge the phone than discharge it in one go, wait for few hrs and charge up again.

Losing 20%/Hour While Constantly Playing With Phone Normal?

I'd like to hear other folks experience on this. My 1 week old sensation, after numerous experiments confirms this, loses 20% charge per hour when I am continuously using it to browse the internet on 4g. Light setting is set at auto and was at its dimmest level throughout this experiment. I did play about 7 minutes worth of video on youtube during this time. All radios other than 4g were off. Gathering from this, the phone would last for 5 hours straight using browsing and/or playing with it. Is that a good battery life or should I exchange my unit?

Mine just went down from 100% to 75% in 45 min (Full Brightness). :/

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Mine just went down from 100% to 75% in 45 min (Full Brightness). :/
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Not good man. Btw , what kind of activity were you doing on it? I thought mines at 20%/hour was bad.

Killed my battery in 3.5 hrs today (browsing, Fruit Ninja, etc). 20% per hour is good. You can't expect much more at this point until custom kernels start rolling in.

borodin1 said:
Killed my battery in 3.5 hrs today (browsing, Fruit Ninja, etc). 20% per hour is good. You can't expect much more at this point until custom kernels start rolling in.
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Yeah, I was getting annoyed at how fast my battery died but I was forgetting there is no UV, there is no Smartass governor, etc

Flippy125 said:
Yeah, I was getting annoyed at how fast my battery died but I was forgetting there is no UV, there is no Smartass governor, etc
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Good point fellows, I'll keep that in kind when looking at my battery life. Just hope we get unlocked bootloader soon so we can get optimized roms to work with.
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I was browsing while watching a boring movie with someone for over an hour yesterday. The battery dropped by a little less than that amount. maybe around 15%. That isn't that bad.
I am using Opera Mobile as my main web browser.

I get about 10% for 45 minutes of non stop usage with multiple apps, though no multi tasking.
I get about 25% for 40 minutes of internet use.
Out of the box (when i got it) dead in about an hour of use. It was at roughly 40%.
It might have do with something, though my phone died when it said 1%, but i used BattStatt to see my percent, if that has an affect(affect, effect, you know what i mean).

yesterday night my battery was at 10% wen i went to sleep nd today morning i found my phone on 8% .
that means 2% for a night .. preety impressive ..

So this is normal? I read that you should be able to get at least a day of use out of your phone. After 4 days of charging then dischargeing I cannot get past 8 hours even with having data turned off. Should I return my phone and get a new one or should I hope that it gets better?
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I got 20 hours (25% left) with heavy heavy usage and I hadn't fully charged it. Of course my screen isn't on blast and when I first get my HTC phones I let the batteries die all the way then charge it fully without bothering the phone. Seems to work in my favor.
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Battery Life, Oh?

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.
lokhor said:
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.
xSeany said:
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.
lokhor said:
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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48 hours

With insertcoin + adw + anker battery, normal use.
2.3.4 kernel makes a huge difference it seems.

yammy1688 said:
With insertcoin + adw + anker battery, normal use.
2.3.4 kernel makes a huge difference it seems.
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Could you elaborate on, "normal use"? How long has your screen been on? How much gaming, web browsing, and phone calls?
Matt

Also, for future posts, it may help to be more specific. Your post is simply titled 48 hours, then the info in your post is just ROM, kernel and launcher. Probably should have called it 48 hr battery life and as the other poster said, provided specifics as to what you call "normal use."

charged to full and unplugged before sleep.
woke up, did a bunch of fiddling/browsing for half an hour. turn on screen periodically probably once in an hour. Browse feedly a few times during the day. No gaming, few minutes worth of phone calls. same thing next day.
3/4g antenna is ON, (no battery savers running). I also only run one widget (smoothcalendar) and black background. Exchange activesync (tons of work email) and gmail sync are the only ones in use.
Juicing up another charge now and installed latest insertcoin with smartass cpu governer so may even get more this time around. I'll keep a more detailed log this time, but suffice to say I'm very happy right now. I hate charging.
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Could you elaborate on, "normal use"? How long has your screen been on? How much gaming, web browsing, and phone calls?
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Son, I'm disappoint.
I thought this was about the name of an horror movie or something like that.

WOW!!! That's a lot of angry birds!

pics or it didn't happen.

I last charged after the Panthers game Saturday night. Its almost dead now.
I use mostly phone text and email with some game play etc.
I'm on 2 days 11 hours 15 minutes....time to charge

Ugh. Maybe its because of the number of Widgets I use (one per page/sense) I only get a day, consider I unplugged 3 hours ago and im at 75. Oh yeah, been using unity kernel
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OK since yesterday's charge:
been on battery for 19 hours
53 minutes of phone (i usually never use much but had conference calls)
1 hour 33 minutes of display on
it's at 50%

I get 1/2 a day if im lucky,quite often use it as a usb drive for my head unit when i drive so it gets a little charge with they way i drive Play iMobsters hourly,Also play SOG and make alot of calls.My hero lasted me about the same with the same use

I can not get more than 8-12 hours on any modified ROM. I have not tried insertcoin but 48 hours verse 8-12 hours is ridiculous. I don't have the 1900mA battery but the ratio should be the same, meaning i should be able to get 1520mA/1900mA X 48 hour = 38.4 hours. Something is wrong on my part. My standby rate is like 8-10% per hour and that is without installing all my apps.
To the original poster, after flashing the insertcoin ROM did you calibrate the battery and how many cycles have you gone through to get to 48 hour usage?

I only went through one cycle after re-calibrating. You should try a 2.3.4 ROM, I'm guessing that's what's making the biggest difference.
I'm on 42 hours now and it's got two yellow bars now. Would have got a lot more if I didn't talk on the phone, which I normally don't.
33% display: 1hr48m
35% voice calls: 54m
17% cell standby
15% phone idle

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I only went through one cycle after re-calibrating. You should try a 2.3.4 ROM, I'm guessing that's what's making the biggest difference.
I'm on 42 hours now and it's got two yellow bars now. Would have got a lot more if I didn't talk on the phone, which I normally don't.
33% display: 1hr48m
35% voice calls: 54m
17% cell standby
15% phone idle
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It appears that you barely use your phone. I usually have 4-5 hours on my screen for some 80% of the usage and I get 15-20 hours a day on my chichitec 1900mA/Hr battery. The battery SHOULD last awhile if not in use.
A 2.3.4 ROM you say? Wont CM7 be a 2.3.4 ROM? Ill give that a go when it comes out and is stable.
Matt

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It appears that you barely use your phone. I usually have 4-5 hours on my screen for some 80% of the usage and I get 15-20 hours a day on my chichitec 1900mA/Hr battery. The battery SHOULD last awhile if not in use.
A 2.3.4 ROM you say? Wont CM7 be a 2.3.4 ROM? Ill give that a go when it comes out and is stable.
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CM7 is 2.3.5. The Sense 2.3.4 seems to have better battery management compared to stock.

48hrs:
1/2 phone call
No text
No browsing
Took 2 pictures
1/2 song
Turned phone off
Turned it on two days later......
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charlieb620 said:
48hrs:
1/2 phone call
No text
No browsing
Took 2 pictures
1/2 song
Turned phone off
Turned it on two days later......
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Man, you need to take it easy on that poor phone!

mrg02d said:
Man, you need to take it easy on that poor phone!
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That's heavy use.
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yammy1688 said:
I only went through one cycle after re-calibrating. You should try a 2.3.4 ROM, I'm guessing that's what's making the biggest difference.
I'm on 42 hours now and it's got two yellow bars now. Would have got a lot more if I didn't talk on the phone, which I normally don't.
33% display: 1hr48m
35% voice calls: 54m
17% cell standby
15% phone idle
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So in 42 hours you used your phone for about 2 hours...hmm still the standby rate is good.
Hey dude, I PMed you for some specifics.

As development continues battery will get better less usage in standby.
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How often you charge you HTC ONE S?

How often you charge your phone? I have to do it every single day! And if I play for an hour or so some 3d hard game... maybe even twice a day!

I charge it two times per day.
Heavy usage.
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1x a day if I'm only listening to music, surfing, whatsappnig and xdaing.
2x if I'm on candy crush rush lol

How much display on time do you reach with normal useage a day ?

Hai96 said:
How much display on time do you reach with normal useage a day ?
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Sorry, friend, cant understand the question?

Hai96 said:
How much display on time do you reach with normal useage a day ?
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Depends on Rom and kernel. With LS and bubba about 5h screen on, with Carbon and 3.4 about 1,5h....
HTC One S (S4) | Carbon~HALO | 3.4.49_kernel | S-OFF

I charge about once a day, no more than 6 hours charging, and I dont usually let my phone die.I use my phone casually, web browsing, facebooking, instagram, flipbook. 3D gaming will drastically drain your battery.

I have not been charged yet, I have it always tied to an electrical outlet.
Kernel 3.4.49, PacMan 23.0.0 made my day. Nice rom, but hungry on battery.

i have it hooked up to my body so that it's always charging.
i got the idea from watching the Matrix.

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i have it hooked up to my body so that it's always charging.
i got the idea from watching the Matrix.
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Haha, very funny indeed.
I just ordered this one http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=310674792440
Yeah, its cheap, but my friend bought smth like this for 50$ and still have problems with it. I wll try and post.
My Htc is villec2 (C2) and when I am playing 3d game, with perfomance governor for both CPUs and slight overclock for the GPU ... well, I lose 10 percent battey for 20 minutes.

Every second day, 3G is on all day and I always wait until the battery is at about 1-3%.

I keep 4g off unless I'm using it most of the time, and I try to recharge before getting below 20% to extend the long term life of the battery, but if I'm using it normally I can go 2 days easily. Screen on time is probably about an hour and probably about 40hours since unplugged. Sense roms don't see exact screen on time apparently.
When I'm using it in place of my laptop for a few hours of browsing I get one work day out of it. Unplug it in the middle of the night when its charged, maybe midnight and I use it very little at work. By lunch its at 95% then an hour screen on brings it down to 80% then end of day its like 75% and I web browse for a few hours until its down to 20% and I plug it in.
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350Rocket said:
I keep 4g off unless I'm using it most of the time, and I try to recharge before getting below 20% to extend the long term life of the battery, but if I'm using it normally I can go 2 days easily. Screen on time is probably about an hour and probably about 40hours since unplugged. Sense roms don't see exact screen on time apparently.
When I'm using it in place of my laptop for a few hours of browsing I get one work day out of it. Unplug it in the middle of the night when its charged, maybe midnight and I use it very little at work. By lunch its at 95% then an hour screen on brings it down to 80% then end of day its like 75% and I web browse for a few hours until its down to 20% and I plug it in.
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Thats I thing very good battery life.. What about the screen brightness ?
With my phone I think is not so bad but when 3d game is lounched... WOW I think battery will drop from 100 to 10 for less then 1 and a half hours!

Here are screenshots from today. Wish I could see screen on time.
I only use real intense games on occasion but I do play words with friends every day. Not sure how much time total though.
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I just browsed and played words and ran facebook for exactly 1 hour screen on the whole time and lost 15%,.went 95 down to 80. Pretty happy with that.
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350Rocket said:
I just browsed and played words and ran facebook for exactly 1 hour screen on the whole time and lost 15%,.went 95 down to 80. Pretty happy with that.
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I will post my screens tonight. I think your battery is acting nice! Last night I lost 30% for 2h 30min pllaying Angry Birds with screen brightness to low! I am happy with that too!

1x a day or 1x in 2 days. Depends on if i have to use mobile data if i am away on weekends or i can stay at home with WLAN only. I am looking forward to CyanogenMod when the 3.4 issues are fixed because even Sense 5 is somehow battery hungry.

I normally charge daily, but now with the newer unstable roms I find the battery to drain faster (so less usage each day)

Here are my screenshots. The big battery drops are while playing Angry Birds and Beach Buggy Blitz.