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2250mAh battery - not performing good!

I purchased a new 2250mAh extended battery recently from megacapacity.com.
In a full charge it gives me 18-20 hours backup with 1 hr talk time only. I don't even use Wi-Fi, GPRS. Just simple calls.
Is it normal? i dont think. Original battery 1050mAh gave better performance when it was in good condition. What could be the issue?
I have tried almost every ROM but its almost same in every case.
Anybody having 2250mAh battery? pl share your thoughts.
Is there some problem with device not charging optimally or battery is bad?

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I have a 2250 battery purchased from megacapacity itself. The first charge lasted for 50 hours. The battery at the time of recharge was around 20% but I recharged again. I am sure it would have gone for another 10 hours at least.
This is with moderate calls, browsing, solitaire, always on Microsoft Push mail and lot of email reading and writing. I was basically testing the battery backup; so kind of stressed my phone a bit to see the actual backup time available.
On a related note, I was definitely not happy with megacapacity as they didn't send me the correct battery cover for vox and never responded to any of my emails. So now my phone is without battery cover. And I am planning to buy one more normal sized battery because of this. Thanks to megacapacity.
Sankar
PS: - I am using fireburned 6.1 stable rom 1.4.

I am pretty happy with Polar CEll 1300 mAh battery. It gets me through the day with heavy use! It dies when I am IMing over Wifi for a couple of hours in the evening.

Is it device charging issue?
My device was also working good with original battery. I used it for approx 18 months. After that (couple of months back) it started giving problem shutting down device suddenly while in the call. Its calibration was totally disturbed, i happend due to high temperatures some time when in car, i think so.
In nutshell that battery was of no use to be thrown out. Then,
I bought 2250 mAh but its not giving expected performance, its lasts for max one day with normal use.
Could it be due to issues with device charging circuit? It gets charged fully in one hour. i suspect there might be some issue with device circuit.
or finally battery is not good?
Pl advise.

skchattha said:
My device was also working good with original battery. I used it for approx 18 months. After that (couple of months back) it started giving problem shutting down device suddenly while in the call. Its calibration was totally disturbed, i happend due to high temperatures some time when in car, i think so.
In nutshell that battery was of no use to be thrown out. Then,
I bought 2250 mAh but its not giving expected performance, its lasts for max one day with normal use.
Could it be due to issues with device charging circuit? It gets charged fully in one hour. i suspect there might be some issue with device circuit.
or finally battery is not good?
Pl advise.
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parthabhatta & h4waii,
You both have good experince with VOX battery, pl share your thoughts on this.

Hi,
Actually I use a battery bought from megacapacity but its 1100mAh. The battery is not giving me any problems and after a few calls, roughly one hour surfing and some music playing 20-30% battery is still left. So what I feel is being 2250mAh it should last atleast 80% more than 1100 mAh if not double. You can check the Power management battery bar while charging - whether it shoots up occassionally at random or gradually increases with increments of 1% till it attains 100%. If it shoots up, try with USB charging and see if the problem recurs. Give it a try and let us know.

Just be careful of using BIG battery.

parthabhatta said:
Hi,
Actually I use a battery bought from megacapacity but its 1100mAh. The battery is not giving me any problems and after a few calls, roughly one hour surfing and some music playing 20-30% battery is still left. So what I feel is being 2250mAh it should last atleast 80% more than 1100 mAh if not double. You can check the Power management battery bar while charging - whether it shoots up occassionally at random or gradually increases with increments of 1% till it attains 100%. If it shoots up, try with USB charging and see if the problem recurs. Give it a try and let us know.
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Thats a good idea, sure i will check and let you know.

I charged my 2250mAH in an external charger, which removes any possibility of the device shutting off charge after it reaches a certain voltage. It allows the battery to make that choice. I had good use with it, very heavy usage and it would last drastically longer than the OEM 1100mAH unit. I'd recommend just buying a 1300mAH as the 2250 is very cumbersome to carry around on the device.
Again, I still have mine - if anybody wants to buy them.
There are a few issues with keeping the sheet in contact with the pins, else it will shut off randomly, I padded it with paper and pulled the pins out a bit.

i got mine a year ago from ebaystore dmc-batteries.
first i also got the wrong backcover, but they sent me very fast the correct one.
The battery is definitely not twice as strong as the original one.
At normal use I think the max is 1,5 day. Light use gives me 2 days but heavy use with bluetooth or wifi or gprs only 1 day.
as h4waii I had in the beginning some problems with the contacts and sudden loss of power because of that, but that disappeared with time

Still I can't make a point...I'cant determine were is good to buy (obviously referring xda user's opinion to how much the battery lasts) and where is better not to buy. LoL

TheBo said:
Still I can't make a point...I'cant determine were is good to buy (obviously referring xda user's opinion to how much the battery lasts) and where is better not to buy. LoL
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dmc-batteries gave me good service and are quick and friendy in their replies. I recommend them.

Thank you birdibird , but my intention was a survey to know what brand (seller) of ezxtended battery lasts more than an other. Just that
Because I've read of battery lasting 4-5 days with normal usage and others not lasting more than 1!

[Q] how to calibrate the battery for it to last longer??

i heard from my friend that HTC need to do battery calibration. is it true??

Don't think so. Another phone had a "calibration" routine but I haven't heard anything on this one. I tried the calibration routine from the other phone on mine and noticed no difference.

I really have a sucky battery life on htc sensation. I am trying to figure it out how I could get it to last for more than 12hours with average use...

I bought a replacement battery. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0055QKZBS

While a lith-ion battery doesn't learn or have a memory, the battery does have a chip in it that needs to be calibrated. You'll need to cycle your battery from fully charged to fully discharged 3 to 5 times to calibrate this circuit. Normally a LI battery doesn't like to be fully discharged, so try to avoid doing this in everyday use. Better to give it maintenence charges. And heat is a big enemy of these batteries as well.
And seems to me 12 hours is pretty good battery life for a smart phone.

ickster said:
While a lith-ion battery doesn't learn or have a memory, the battery does have a chip in it that needs to be calibrated. You'll need to cycle your battery from fully charged to fully discharged 3 to 5 times to calibrate this circuit. Normally a LI battery doesn't like to be fully discharged, so try to avoid doing this in everyday use. Better to give it maintenence charges. And heat is a big enemy of these batteries as well.
And seems to me 12 hours is pretty good battery life for a smart phone.
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+1, very well put.
2 points.
1. There are also battery stats on the phone, which need to be built by full charge/discharge cycle.
2. Discharge phone till it's dead with no fear, battery controller shuts it down when there is some juice left. It's like reserve in your tank, it shows you have petrol for 0 miles/kilometers, but in reality there is another 5 litres sitting in the tank.

I worked in the cell phone industry for a long time. The best thing i have seen for a full charge is to regulaurly do a full charge and than turnphone off and plug back in until indicator shows full again(if it shows full already charge for half to full hour). I have always seen better results. Also if rooted wipe battery stats in advanced before flashing any radio or rom.
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dunes20 said:
I worked in the cell phone industry for a long time. The best thing i have seen for a full charge is to regulaurly do a full charge and than turnphone off and plug back in until indicator shows full again(if it shows full already charge for half to full hour). I have always seen better results. Also if rooted wipe battery stats in advanced before flashing any radio or rom.
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This may easily be true. I think I read that the battery doesn't actually like being fully charged and that most chargers shut down early because of this. Maybe your tip has something to do with that. I don't know myself how that will correllate w/ calibrating the charge circuit that I spoke of.
Google is definately your friend here.

wrek said:
I bought a replacement battery. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0055QKZBS
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That's a very intersting battery you got here. It has bigger capacity than the original one. Does it have the same size? Were you able to fit it in and put the original cover back? Have you noticed a noticeable improvement in battery life or is it just scam?
I don't have the tmo 4g, I have the european version, but I believe it should work too, shouldn't it?

Out of the box.... Use it till it dies completely. Charge it 100% without interruption.
I've ALWAYS had great battery life on all my devices using that method.
Do that a few times a month when it's convenient....you'll have a happy battery.
Battery and DRIVER need to be conditioned/calibrated.
I get 12-16 hours with fairly heavy use. If you want more, ya need to wait for different battery tech OR get a dumb phone.
Asking for more than 12 or so hours is just silly with a device this powerful and a display this large. I'm not someone who likes to cut the balls off my superphone to save a few hours on battery life. I'd rather get 12 hours and use this phone the way it was intended too, than get 24 hours and have silly progs like Juice Defender running. Unless you know you're gonna be lost in a forest for a few days, don't most people have access to a charger sometime during their day

eadred said:
I really have a sucky battery life on htc sensation. I am trying to figure it out how I could get it to last for more than 12hours with average use...
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Disabling the HTC Hub sync helped mine a lot.

My phone has been unplugged for 10 hours, I have 1h 17 minutes of display on time, taking 67% of battery. The rest is spread between Cell standby 11%, Wi-Fi 11%, Phone Idle 8% and Maps 3%.
It is now standing at 29% battery. I find that awful and can't believe any of you say it is normal. I have disabled HTC Hub and Sense sync and all the settings are pretty much the same as on my Galaxy S2.
On the SGS2 I manage to easily get 3 to 4 hours of screen time before the battery goes down to the thirties/twenties and a lot more heavy usage than I've managed on the Sensation. I'm on my second battery cycle and I really hope it improves because I'm very underwhelmed so far.

eadred said:
That's a very intersting battery you got here. It has bigger capacity than the original one. Does it have the same size? Were you able to fit it in and put the original cover back? Have you noticed a noticeable improvement in battery life or is it just scam?
I don't have the tmo 4g, I have the european version, but I believe it should work too, shouldn't it?
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I found an even larger battery:
http://uk-batteries-galore.co.uk/HTC/32640-Sensation.html
I might wanna give this one a shot, but I am a bit afraid putting battery not manufactured by htc in my phone.

Guys if bothered to look in the Accessories thread, you'd see that there is 1900 battery which some people already have and are very impressed with it.
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HTC QUOTE
Charging the battery
The battery is partially charged when shipped. Before you turn on and start using HTC Sensation, it is recommended that you charge the battery. Some batteries perform best after several full charge/discharge cycles.
I spoke to a HTC REP once regarding batt life on my DHD
He advised a calibration as follows for HTC phones
Make sure fastboot is off.
1. when your battery is low, do a full charge for about 8 hours, your light should now be green. once its full, disconnected the phone
2. Fully switch off the phone(pull battery out if needed then put in). and plug in charger again for an hour, the light will actually be orange even though it was green before you turned it off.
and your screen should load the charging icon for when its turned off.
3.once it is green, turn on the phone. (put in pins or passwords etc) leave the phone on for a minute, then fully turn off again.
4. charge again for an hour and your charging indicator should be green and your battery is calibrated.!

Spybreak said:
My phone has been unplugged for 10 hours, I have 1h 17 minutes of display on time, taking 67% of battery. The rest is spread between Cell standby 11%, Wi-Fi 11%, Phone Idle 8% and Maps 3%.
It is now standing at 29% battery. I find that awful and can't believe any of you say it is normal. I have disabled HTC Hub and Sense sync and all the settings are pretty much the same as on my Galaxy S2.
On the SGS2 I manage to easily get 3 to 4 hours of screen time before the battery goes down to the thirties/twenties and a lot more heavy usage than I've managed on the Sensation. I'm on my second battery cycle and I really hope it improves because I'm very underwhelmed so far.
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With all due respect....how is that awful?? It's fantastic....
I think you're too caught up in the percentage number the stats page shows for battery use. It doesn't matter one bit if that graffic shows the display at 99.99%. As long as you're getting a full day out of your Sensation....isn't that all that really matters? Or am I confused by what bothers you?? Sounds to me like you're getting a full day...unless you don't sleep??
You've been unplugged for 10 hours and it seems as if you have another 2-4 hours left with that 30%.... Whats wrong with that? It's great.
This is not a Nokia 6133 It's a dual-core superphone, with a 4.3" qHD display.
Of course by the nature of the tech, amoled will be more efficient with regards to display...but as far as I can tell, the GS2 doesn't last any longer than this phone on a regular day to day basis under normal to heavy use.
I get 12-16 hours on a charge with fairly heavy use. Sync, WiFi, Calls, Web, GPS...nothing disabled or throttled.
I wouldn't get caught up with that % number in the battery stats....it's misleading....big time.
Condition the battery properly....you'll never have any battery issues...unless it's faulty.
Also people just need to be realistic with regards to battery life.... A gallon of gasoline will get you much further in a VW Bug than a Bugatti....

lunze86 said:
i heard from my friend that HTC need to do battery calibration. is it true??
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There is an app to calibrate your battery, but you need to be rooted. Go to www.teamroyal.net and there is instructions that you MUST follow. Read up on it now so you can be prepared for when we get root. You also ONLY want to calibrate your battery once every 4-6 weeks, and only if it needs it. Doing it too often can fry your battery.
I know this doesn't directly answer your question, but I hope it will help many once we get root.
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ikhzter said:
HTC QUOTE
Charging the battery
The battery is partially charged when shipped. Before you turn on and start using HTC Sensation, it is recommended that you charge the battery. Some batteries perform best after several full charge/discharge cycles.
I spoke to a HTC REP once regarding batt life on my DHD
He advised a calibration as follows for HTC phones
Make sure fastboot is off.
1. when your battery is low, do a full charge for about 8 hours, your light should now be green. once its full, disconnected the phone
2. Fully switch off the phone(pull battery out if needed then put in). and plug in charger again for an hour, the light will actually be orange even though it was green before you turned it off.
and your screen should load the charging icon for when its turned off.
3.once it is green, turn on the phone. (put in pins or passwords etc) leave the phone on for a minute, then fully turn off again.
4. charge again for an hour and your charging indicator should be green and your battery is calibrated.!
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for step 1 is it after 8 hours i disconnect the phone even though it will be green light earlier???

I actually like my Sensation, but I'm gonna have to return it

Kind of makes me sad though. The device feels good in my hand and I like it overall, but the battery performance is unacceptable for me. I went to bed with it having something like 93% (dropping from 100% after like 15min of play). Not even 6h later I wake up and when I look at it, the battery is already drained to 85% only from standby (Yes,always-on mobile data is deactivated, power efficiency is on). After playing with the unit in train and some browsing while commuting for 30min, its already at 70% or something. During the next few hours, while working, I was just checking mails, using whatsapp from time to time and writing a few messages. No surfing, no videos no games.
By 3PM the battery was at 15%. Even worse, the damn thing takes some 4h+ to fully charge. That's just too damn long, my iphone 3gs charges fully in about an hour. What is also very frustrating is that the Sensation discharges a good portion of its current as pure HEAT. Never saw a phone get this warm afer 15min of normal usage.
I knew battery wasn't going to be stellar but this just sucks. Most of all that a full charge takes 4h. fail :-/
EDIT: Ok guys the 2.3.4 update did the trick! The battery now chrages fully within 2h and battery life has ridiculously improved!
I took it off the cord around 8am this morning. Now it's 2pm and my battery is at 83 with some 46min screen time and slight usage. Also the heating seems to be gone.
Apart from that, everything runs smoother with the new update. Guess I'm gonna keep the little guy after all
However, I did order 2 extra Ankers + charger (25$!) as additional mobilty is never wrong.

Before you return it, I recommend that you call HTC support and request a warranty exchange for the phone and battery.
You may have a defective unit.
While my battery isn't stellar, I get a minimum of 10 hours before I drop below 20% life (always-on mobile data off, manual syncing, not too many widgets).
Your phone battery performance is not indicative of Sensation battery performance for the overall majority.

Most have said that the battery gets better after a few full charges/discharges, and the todays new update is supposed to improve battery performance. Many people say the Sensation is better than most other 4G phones.
I dont play games and such, mostly phone text and email and it lasts me a day and a half. There is also a better battery you can get.

That charging time is ridiculous, which leads me to believe that your unit and/or battery is defective.
Mine charges from 15% to 100% in 2 hours. Same for almost everybody elses phone.

You might want to reconsider and try warranty exchange mentioned earlier. Also, I would suggest the ChiChi battery. I'm running from 7:30 to about 4:00 with my WiFi hot spot turned on for my Galaxy Tab 10.1 and I'm using my phone for calls, texts etc., my battery still has about 30% left when I leave work.
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Dude , custom rom and anker / chitec battery.
My first time with my new anker achieved almost 24 hours on battery and almost 4 hours screen time with quite alot of use during that time.
Totally destroyed my oem battery in every way.

Also I would do a Warranty Exchange and with the new update I have seen a big differance in 2.3.4 vs 2.3.3 in terms of battery life and speed of Sense in general. I purchased a Anker 1900mah battery for $10 and fully charged to dead I get on average about 17-20 hours and I would say I'm a good moderate to HEAVY! user. Switching back to a stock battery after calibrating with the Anker Battery has also improved battery life seeing that I get between 12-14 hours with stock now. I would charge to 100% go to bed and wake up with about 97%-98%
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Pinball_ said:
Dude , custom rom and anker / chitec battery.
My first time with my new anker achieved almost 24 hours on battery and almost 4 hours screen time with quite alot of use during that time.
Totally destroyed my oem battery in every way.
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+1 I agree 110%, Try this though Calibrate the Anker Battery then fully charge your stock battery and see what battery life you get.
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Get a anker battery and download leedroid/android revolution/insertcoin. I guarantee you won't want to return it than. When I first got my device I was thinking about doing the same thing but after I looked through the thread I saw people were getting better results with the anker or chichi. Don't be discouraged that its a third party. It actually out performs the stock battery and embarrasses it.
Also download calibrate battery from the market.
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I had terrible battery life for the first week or so. 6 to 8 hours max, and 2 hours screen time if I was lucky. After conditioning the battery by fully discharging then fully charging on the AC adapter for a few cycles, it corrected itself for the most part. Yesterday I had 15 hours with 3 hours screen time and still had 20+ percent left. I have a chichtech battery sitting in my mailbox right now waiting for me to get off work.

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I had terrible battery life for the first week or so. 6 to 8 hours max, and 2 hours screen time if I was lucky. After conditioning the battery by fully discharging then fully charging on the AC adapter for a few cycles, it corrected itself for the most part. Yesterday I had 15 hours with 3 hours screen time and still had 20+ percent left. I have a chichtech battery sitting in my mailbox right now waiting for me to get off work.
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After I got my anker I sold my OEM and got two more. I also have a evo3d battery that I haven't used. I also have been hearing good things about it.
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really appreciate the good advice guys, thanks. I have done my bit of reading here and many many people here report having around 4h charge timr (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1154780)
So you guys can not confirm this? If so, it might be my battery is faulty. I will upgrade to 2.3.4 and calibrate. Probably will improve battery time, I doubt however it will reduce the charge time...

Something is definitely up. I just got my Sensation 10 days ago and am still stock. It takes me ~2 hours to fully charge, and that's with me using the phone like crazy while its charging....and the phone light on the entire time.
And I get a good full days use out of it....sometimes 2 days if I dont use the screen much and just phone text email.

IT'S ALIVE!!!
Ok guys the 2.3.4 update did the trick! The battery now chrages fully within 2h and battery life has ridiculously improved!
I took it off the cord around 8am this morning. Now it's 2pm and my battery is at 83 with some 46min screen time and slight usage. Also the heating seems to be gone.
Apart from that, everything runs smoother with the new update. Guess I'm gonna keep the little guy after all
However, I did order 2 extra Anker's as additional mobilty is never wrong, and with such an offer it was a steal:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005DY4MAW/ref=oss_product

Also check if your phone is always awake because I had this and it had a huge affect.

I easily get 16-20 hours with LeeDroid's ROM.

i had the same battery issue with my first sensation. Even after several cycle of charging - discharging, battery calibration, the battery would not last for more than 7-8 hours. i exchanged it , for first couple of days, it didn't hold the charge for long,.but after i did battery calibration and update to 2.3.4, now my battery will last for 12 to 14 hours with moderate use. doesn't get hot with normal use, but over the weekend , i use map navigation and temp reached 48C. I think, i should not use it as GPS for longer than few minutes, or it may burn the phone.

Juice Defender Ultimate is definitely worth the tiny amount of money it costs. Just got just over 3 days on my Sensation, admittedly i hardly used it.
Usually i get a good 22 hours from it with medium use.

HTC sensation
Just replace the battery and you will see the difference.. my phone last ast least 10 hours.. its just amazing....

I lose almost no charge while it sits on standby.
I work 12 hour shifts, I listen to Music the entire time, browse, login to home computers for about 30 minutes using Teamviewer and keep up with RSS feeds throughout.
By the end of shift I'm down to 5%.
Sounds like you need a replacement, rather than a return, bud.

Very curious quirk On Android Open Kang Project ROM... Near Unlimited Battery!!!!

hi all...
soo after my comments over a week ago on the aokp website for this build, i decided afterall to take the plunge and update. i was on b26, so subsequently had to flash b27 and then this. everything has gone absolutely swimmingly with no issues at all so far....
HOWEVER>>>>>
I am faced with a very puzzling quirk. its by nooooo means a problem at all, infact it quite the opposite!!! let me explain.
i've started charging my phone in the evening these days for some stupid reason and then, when charged taking it off and going to bed. After getting this milestone on, my battery has been killed over night, draining to around 15%. Normally, it would drain to around 70% and be flat by the end of the day ready for charging again.
This continued for a few days when i decided to root out the cause of the massive overnite idle drain. I installed a fantastic free app called Badass Battery Monitor (which i highly recommend btw!), and over a period of a couple of days the offending app was weeded out. It was Nova Launcher. This had never happened to me before and couldn't understand it. So, as part of my diagnostics, I decided to confirm the findings by removing it and just using stock.
Over a couple of days monitoring, with exactly the same charging method, my battery levels returned to normal drainage with around 75% battery left by the morning. Fantastic. I had found the problem fixed it and got back to normal. Soooo where is the quirk i here you say!!!? lol Well......
On average, from everything i've read in forums, battery drain overnight while phone in standby is around 20/30%, so mine WAS right up there with the majority of you.
Last night, i decided to charge to full and then wipe battery stats. Which i did. Now, bare in mind here that I ONLY have the standard battery that is supplied with the Galaxy Nexus. I got up this morning, and to my utter amazement, my battery had only drained 2%
Now been incredibly realisting here based on average overnight drains, i was 100% sure that this was deffo an error. I have done everything from restarting the phone, taking the battery out, but still the level in my battery was saying the same.
As I sit here writing this, I have been streaming a radio station via wifi on the phone for the last 2 hrs, and atm my battery is telling me that it is STILL 85% full.
I am DEFFO not complaining, but i'm sure now, you can see why the hell i am so puzzled! HOW THE HELL IS THIS HAPPENING, because i can genuinely find no explanation at all for it

as a follow up, it is now more or less 5 hrs since my orginal post, and my battery is reporting that it is 75% full

Jeesh, 20 to 30 idle drain overnight? My phone drains about 3 to 5 overnight which is typically 8 hours of sleep.
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Interesting quirk. Are you a heavy or a light user? It'd be nice to see how it drains after a full drain and recharge.

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Interesting quirk. Are you a heavy or a light user? It'd be nice to see how it drains after a full drain and recharge.
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well, to see if what was been reported was correct, i've been an absolute heavy user today. i have wifi on, ive streamed radio via internet for around 3 hrs, ive been playing all sorts of games and watched a few youtube vids. and my battery is atm reporting 74% life left

so here i am, STILL very very puzzled..
my battery life is just going and going with no signs of running flat... have a look at these screenshots and give me an explanation as to why i suddenly have a super battery!

MAYBE you really have a super battery or your mobile is glitched and shows the battery like that due to laG?

I'm on miui and I lose 0% overnight. It just depends on the ROM, but 20-30% is ridiculous!
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AOKP MS4 CM9, *goes all day without charging phone *

Ictcreations said:
so here i am, STILL very very puzzled..
my battery life is just going and going with no signs of running flat... have a look at these screenshots and give me an explanation as to why i suddenly have a super battery!
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Your states do not seem super impressive. On most phones the screen is the biggest drain. You show 49% battery with a screen on of only 1 hour. After 33 hours you've only used your phone for 1 hour screen on. Thats VERY little.
I usually get 2.5-3 hours of screen on time for my galaxy nexus.

Ictcreations said:
I installed a fantastic free app called Badass Battery Monitor (which i highly recommend btw!)
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Thanks for the app recommendation! Been looking for something like it all day.

This will depend on ROM/Radio/Kernel user installed programs/sync etc but 2-6% is normal drain over night anyone with 20% needs to seriously look @ battery stats and work out what's causing wake locks.
Also not forgetting most phones need to bed in after a flash which can take 2-3 days before we see real battery info.

Does anyone else's max stay on 1% battery for hours?

So my maxx will drain to 1% battery in about 3 days with 3 hours screen time. The thing is once I hit 1% it can stay on 1% and not shut off for hours. Right now its been on 1% for about 7 hours, I have a youtube video going just to see how much longer it will go. Its been playing a youtube video now for about 20 min on 1%.
I just got this phone last week, is this because the system hasn't fully calibrated the battery? Or is the battery defective in some way? Its kind of annoying because you think you are out of battery but it keeps going so I don't really know how much battery I have.

Definitely not normal. I'd do a factory reset to eliminate a software issue and if the issue persists seems like it must be a hardware issue, exchange it

These sound like calibration issues. Can you fully charge your battery and then leave in on the charger for awhile -- like an hour or more? That should calibrate it correctly.

I have never nor will ever let my battery get that low. These batteries don't like to be drained and then fully charged it's not healthy for the battery. I don't let my battery go below 30 to 40 percent if I can help it. Most of the time I let it get to about 50 percent then I charge it.

bigv5150 said:
I have never nor will ever let my battery get that low. These batteries don't like to be drained and then fully charged it's not healthy for the battery. I don't let my battery go below 30 to 40 percent if I can help it. Most of the time I let it get to about 50 percent then I charge it.
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not to be rude but where is you information or evidence backing your statement? this goes against everything i know and i certainly always allow my battery to fully die then i fully charge it over night while it is off, i believe charging at 40 percent fools the battery into thinking that is the end of the battery's daily life span and therefore dying prematurely due to it believing that 40 percent is the end.
I do not have any real evidence except i've gotten exceptional battery life with my Ultra after allowing a full cycle (draining all the way and then fully charging while powered down)...i have gotten just under 32 hours with 4 hours and some odd minutes screen on with about an hour of voice calls and random other usage such as tapatalk browsing, internet, texting and maybe some email or youtube....i occasionally play some games like the new CoD Strike Force

ahjee said:
not to be rude but where is you information or evidence backing your statement? this goes against everything i know and i certainly always allow my battery to fully die then i fully charge it over night while it is off, i believe charging at 40 percent fools the battery into thinking that is the end of the battery's daily life span and therefore dying prematurely due to it believing that 40 percent is the end.
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The best source is battery university. Here are a few good links. In the first, look at the third column (Li-ion), as that's the battery pack in the Maxx/Ultra/Mini
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_charge_when_to_charge_table
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries
From the second link (emphasis mine):
Similar to a mechanical device that wears out faster with heavy use, so also does the depth of discharge (DoD) determine the cycle count. The shorter the discharge (low DoD), the longer the battery will last. If at all possible, avoid full discharges and charge the battery more often between uses. Partial discharge on Li-ion is fine; there is no memory and the battery does not need periodic full discharge cycles to prolong life, other than to calibrate the fuel gauge on a smart battery once in a while.
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doogald said:
The best source is battery university. Here are a few good links. In the first, look at the third column (Li-ion), as that's the battery pack in the Maxx/Ultra/Mini
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_charge_when_to_charge_table
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries
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And boom! All the I have known through all the androids I have has been wrong lmao. I really appreciate you posting this....all the years of trolling forums and reading what everyone is doing or have done to get their battery to last long for a daily cycle...appreciate this.
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So happy I seldom charge up to 100% and leave it sit. I also never let it get super low.
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Coming from a Gnex, I have a charger within 3 feet of me everywhere I go. I'm trying to break myself of the habit of plugging it in but mine still gets a charge at some point during the day, if only in the car. It has always been my practice to let my phones run down almost to dead maybe once every couple of months. I feel like it keeps the phone's battery meter calibrated although I have nothing to base this on.
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