Hello, XDA-Community.
I bought my HTC Sensation XE 3 month ago.
First i must say, the Beats-headset has a very good sound, but it's bad quality.
2 weeks ago, the right headphone stopped working. I gave it back to Media Markt and they sent it back to HTC, i must wait for it-.-
but now the real problem:
i always have got a bad battery life! (lock at the attetchments)
i tried nearly all roms(really a lot), all kernels, i tried to underclock or undervolt an different govenors. i even bought an anker extended battery but it all didnt't changed anything.
after that, i tried to downgrade form fw 3.33 to 3.32 and to downgrade the hboot, but nothing.
does anyone of you have this problem too or can anybody help me?!
its so bad, i even cant get 10 hours with it..
2h and 33 min screen on time an still 9 percent of battery.
Based on your screen on time, that battery life isn't insanely bad. It's not good, but it's not utterly terrible.
Have you tried the simple stuff like lower brightness? Turning BT and GPS off when not in use? Keeping Mobile data turned off? Lower the screen time out to 15 or 30 seconds?
Those things will do wonders for battery life.
Also make sure you're not overclocking with a performance governor on your kernel. That'll burn battery like crazy. Use a more battery friendly governor with your kernels like Badass or even Conservative. And don't clock it up to 1.7 or anything nutty.
Skipjacks said:
Based on your screen on time, that battery life isn't insanely bad. It's not good, but it's not utterly terrible.
Have you tried the simple stuff like lower brightness? Turning BT and GPS off when not in use? Keeping Mobile data turned off? Lower the screen time out to 15 or 30 seconds?
Those things will do wonders for battery life.
Also make sure you're not overclocking with a performance governor on your kernel. That'll burn battery like crazy. Use a more battery friendly governor with your kernels like Badass or even Conservative. And don't clock it up to 1.7 or anything nutty.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
i never use bt or gps. only thing is mobile data.
screen is nearly always on lowest and if not, its auto.
time out is at 45 sec.
if i use bricked kernel, my battery life is better, but every hour my phone reboots less one time.
now i am on faux kernel, underclocked to 1.1 ghz and undervolted to -75. the govenor is intellidemand.
You could try to use a non-sense-based rom like cyanogenmod, for me there was a huge improvement.
Regarding your Problems with random reboots on bricked kernel, just set the minfreq to 384Mhz and it should be alright
Mr.Heinzelman said:
You could try to use a non-sense-based rom like cyanogenmod, for me there was a huge improvement.
Regarding your Problems with random reboots on bricked kernel, just set the minfreq to 384Mhz and it should be alright
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
both problems(battery and reboot) are still there after trying this...
How much gaming are you doing? Regardless of how much screen on time you have, games can drain the battery like crazy. What's your usage pattern like? Lots of web surfing over mobile internet? Watch a lot of movies? Games? 2.5 hours of screen on time isn't too bad, but it's not great either.
If all else fails, wipe all except SD card, install ROM, restore apps without data unless that data is extremely important to you. Also make sure your radio and RIL match with something like GetRIL. Match your firmware to your ROM base too (ie. 3.33 firmware for 3.33.xxx.xxx ROM).
Have you tried to put the phone in airplane mode during the night time. Or reset your battery stats?
2.5 hrs of screen on time isn't bad when you also had an additional 6.5 hrs of standby. But the biggest thing you can change to save battery is background data and auto sync. Turn those off and expect big difference. Also don't use auto brightness unless you have to. If your inside then turn it all the way down .
Sent from my Sensation 4G Bruces CMX jellybean ROM using XDA Premium
REMEMBER TO HIT THANKS IF I HELPED YOU IN ANY WAY, IT'S POLITE AND APPRECIATED.
Hi there, I had absolutely awful battery life on my stock battery! I understand completely what your going through. I did however find a solution . First let me say I've tried just about everything, turning down brightness , turning off sync, switching kernels, turning off gmail, yet still the battery life was awful! So finally I purchased a extended life battery, I choose Anker because the price was low. It did help but I still was not where I wanted to be. Then I decided to purchase a mugen 3500mah battery. It's expensive but worth every penny! Now with heavy use I'm on 100% for two hours. I can use my device heavily for 19, hours and still have 42% battery left ! It's amazing! I wish I got it sooner! It does come with a replacement back cover to fit the battery but my 4g signal is still strong, WiFi works perfectly , navigation works perfectly so no worries about the case interfering with signals. It does make the phone thicker but it still fits in pocket, and feels good in your hand . It does look thicker but who cares with this kind of battery life! Finally I don't have to worry about my battery! If your tired of worrying about battery life then get the mugen 3500mah battery. Buy it directly from mugen because there are too many counterfeit batteries going around on other sites. The downside is it costs 100 dollars but honestly its worth every penny. If your serious about getting a great battery then this is the one. I don't regret getting mine for a second! It makes all the difference in the world! I had to save up to get it but it was worth it. This battery will solve your issues! It solved mine ! Best wishes and hope this helps you.
sent from HTC sensation, soff, 3.33 firmware, viper Rom, sense 4.1, mugen battery. please press thanks if I helped in anyway.
I load my device every Night.
I Often wiped my battery stats, but now change...
Tomorrow i will try to einsalbe Auto Sync.
Passi1909 said:
I load my device every Night.
I Often wiped my battery stats, but now change...
Tomorrow i will try to einsalbe Auto Sync.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'd recommend that you don't delete the battery stats. The phone should learn over time and every time you delete them it has to start from scratch again.
but how to calibrate the new battery?
still having so bad battery life, after disabling auto-sync.
You calibrate battery by draining almost down to about 10% then recharge to 100% repeat this process about 4 times and battery will be calibrated. I read your not supposed to drain to zero although some people do during calibration. That's up to you. I read draining to zero can sometimes put the battery into a deep sleep and its very difficult when that happens to get it awake again. So I only go down to 10%. Hope this helps and answers your question.
sent from HTC sensation, soff, 3.33 firmware, viper Rom, sense 4.1, mugen battery. please press thanks if I helped in anyway.
As I understand it the phone/ROM won't allow the battery to be discharged fully to the state that it'd cause a total battery failure. Get CurrentWidget from the Play Store.
I can't remember the Full/Discharge voltages (~4.2V to ~3.5V) but not certain.
Just let the phone charge fully and discharge normally (let it get to a total turn off) a few times and you'll be fine. Please stop wiping the battery stats it just confuses things.
Related
I've been having general horrible battery problems with my Sensation on stock Sense and Miui.us. I just installed HyperSensation and Faux 0.2.3 kernel with a full wipe and reset the battery calibration thinger.
First 2 charge/drain cycles were yesterday (got around 5.5 hours as has been normal for the last 2 weeks) and after the second drain to 1% I plugged in AC and went to bed. This morning I checked Battery Monitor (not the Beta or paid, so I'm aware the mA reading may be incorrect/offset on Sensation).
The graph overnight shows some odd spikes every 50 minutes draining the battery. This is the first night I've been looking at my graphs so I'm not sure if this is regular or a separate issue from my normal battery hell.
I've included a screenshot of everything I could think of including Battery Monitor and SetCPU profiles. Re running apps, some I've never run before, the only other one on the 2nd page was Thumb Keyboard.
I would really appreciate some ideas on my battery life in general, and what this issue is in particular.
Background:
- Horrible battery problems with my Sensation on stock Sense, Miui.us and now with HyperSensation ROM-CM7.1 with kernel faux123v0.2.3r.
- Been getting around 5-6 hours with normal use, no 3G, no wifi, no GPS, no Bluetooth, low screen brightness, etc etc.
- I also uninstalled Gallery as I was getting the sensor usage issue which I thought may be causing my battery woes, but no dice yet.
- I prefer to keep data on at all times (2G) as that's what I use my phone for, so I don't use this Juice Defender function.
Thanks,
P7
P7uen said:
I've been having general horrible battery problems with my Sensation on stock Sense and Miui.us. I just installed HyperSensation and Faux 0.2.3 kernel with a full wipe and reset the battery calibration thinger.
First 2 charge/drain cycles were yesterday (got around 5.5 hours as has been normal for the last 2 weeks) and after the second drain to 1% I plugged in AC and went to bed. This morning I checked Battery Monitor (not the Beta or paid, so I'm aware the mA reading may be incorrect/offset on Sensation).
The graph overnight shows some odd spikes every 50 minutes draining the battery. This is the first night I've been looking at my graphs so I'm not sure if this is regular or a separate issue from my normal battery hell.
I've included a screenshot of everything I could think of including Battery Monitor and SetCPU profiles. Re running apps, some I've never run before, the only other one on the 2nd page was Thumb Keyboard.
I would really appreciate some ideas on my battery life in general, and what this issue is in particular.
Background:
- Horrible battery problems with my Sensation on stock Sense, Miui.us and now with HyperSensation ROM-CM7.1 with kernel faux123v0.2.3r.
- Been getting around 5-6 hours with normal use, no 3G, no wifi, no GPS, no Bluetooth, low screen brightness, etc etc.
- I also uninstalled Gallery as I was getting the sensor usage issue which I thought may be causing my battery woes, but no dice yet.
- I prefer to keep data on at all times (2G) as that's what I use my phone for, so I don't use this Juice Defender function.
Thanks,
P7
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
How did you calibrate your battery? Did you..
Flash Rom
Kill battery to 0%
Charge fully 100% then wipe battery stats? Or did you wipe battery stats as you flashed? Thy could be a major problem
Also you have CPU your max set to 1.56ghz when its charged. That could cause the peak in usage. Especially if you have it set to performance and not ondemand. Those are the only two things that's really stand out to me.
Also check the arhd thread. In one of the last pages (depending on when you get this) there is a link for a fix on battery drain on fauxs latest kernel. Check it out
Thanks rddocke, I will check out the kernel fix. I did wipe, flash rom and reset the battery stats at the same time. I will definitely try your method, I didn't realise I had it upside-down.
As for the spikes, they seem to be continuing today, I can post screenshots later. Given that the major battery user is "Adnroid System", would this narrow my issue down to the built in apps?
On the plus side, with the new setup today on my 3rd battery cycle, I am getting better battery life than before aside from the spikes.
ya the spikes could be do to an auto update, maybe background sync... any things could cause it as long as it isnt a constant high usage i wouldnt worry about it. but if you want to help your situation i would set back my cpu max to 19200 when charging, and clock back to 1.2 for daily use, switch your goveners to ondemand and get them off performance.
basically whatever its doing at those times its running at the highest point your cpu can handle. adjusting wont solve your problem but it will reduce the amount of battery it uses
idk its hard to tell android system is always going to be the juicer, that and sense. nonsense for arhd could help you out too. i particularly like sense tho
hope i helped
rddocke said:
ya the spikes could be do to an auto update, maybe background sync... any things could cause it as long as it isnt a constant high usage i wouldnt worry about it. but if you want to help your situation i would set back my cpu max to 19200 when charging, and clock back to 1.2 for daily use, switch your goveners to ondemand and get them off performance.
basically whatever its doing at those times its running at the highest point your cpu can handle. adjusting wont solve your problem but it will reduce the amount of battery it uses
idk its hard to tell android system is always going to be the juicer, that and sense. nonsense for arhd could help you out too. i particularly like sense tho
hope i helped
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'll change these settings as well, great. I feel like I'm getting somewhere gradually, been spinning my wheels for a week on this.
I can't 'thank' you for some reason, but my buddy should have just done it, which is fair since I can finally pester him less about my battery problems and pester other XDA members instead!
No problem buddy glad I could give you some help. Let me know what you discover from all that. Another tip I could give is maybe test out a bricked kernel 1.4rs or 0.91 seem to be working best with sense 3.0 from what I've read
hi all,
i know the battery life of the sensation isn't that great but I make 5 hours with about 1 hour of spotify (music streaming) some browsing and email checks. Also installed couple of apps but that's it.
(3g on when wifi not availible)
This just does not seem normal to me? Would like to hear your opinions.
running on:
stock battary
android revolution HD, feux kernel.
Wow, just 5 hours and your phone dies? That is AWFUL. Something is going on there, have you tried another rom?
maybe your rom is not very compatible with your radio? I am on InsertCoin (always latest) and I changed the energy mode from "maximum performance" to the middle option (don't know the name right now) and reactivated auto-sync and I can use the phone for 1.5 days on normal use. (so on gameplaying or benchmarking all the time) =)
Call HTC and have them to send you a new battery.You get one free replacement.just let them know that you're only 5 hours of life out of it.
Thanks for the replies all,
@KAwAtA,
i've only had stock and my current both ware equally ****ty.
@brandi,
I did flashed the radio that was mentioned with the android revolution ROM, do you have any suggestions?
@dunbar28205
Mabey your right, I'm starting to believe this isn't normal I did already purchase a mugen power 1950mah battery though. Will keep this updated with my findings on that one.
Is your governer on "performance"? Or is your second core somehow forced on?
battery works great for me im at 12 hours of run time and im around 50% left. check your rom and basic settings that kill battery. I also have an anker battery so that helps but really i think its the kernel and rom thats making all the difference
spiritonline said:
hi all,
i know the battery life of the sensation isn't that great but I make 5 hours with about 1 hour of spotify (music streaming) some browsing and email checks. Also installed couple of apps but that's it.
(3g on when wifi not availible)
This just does not seem normal to me? Would like to hear your opinions.
running on:
stock battary
android revolution HD, feux kernel.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
God, that's awful...and sounds oh-so familiar...
Try checking out my post here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1351430
Maybe it helps... Sadly, one would think you get a functional device bought from the store, but all this technology is still a bit new and shiny, so it takes a lot of tinkering to get the most out of your device... It's what I've been doing with my phone for the last month, and it's a work in progress, but so far I've made some improvements
No solution works for everyone, as everyone uses their phone differently in a different environment... So all I can say is read my thread, keep reading XDA and the best of luck on your quest
P.S. That new battery will also help... I bought 2x Chichitec 1930mAh Evo 3D batteries and stuck them in my Sensation, although they are really just 1730mAh (false advertising, meh...or I just got a bad set of batteries?) I've seen a slight improvement over the stock battery
Damn man that sucks. I was having the same issue except I was average 10 hours with pandora usage, and moderate emails/txt/mms etc ....
I flashed the latest ARHD 3.6.7 XE. I followed the proper batter calebration thread on this forum (don't have the link) and after a full charge the next day, I average roughly 19 to 23 hours on a full charge. I'm still at a very moderate usage with pandora/streaming/mms/txt/blah blah blah you know the deal. I am extremely impressed. I'm on stock battery btw. I'm probably going to hook up that aweseom 1900mha battery from anker. I should be pulling over 24 hours no problem after that.
What I do also is when I initially set up ARHD I turn off fastboot in the power menu, I turn off "quiet ring on pick up", "pocket mode", and "flip for speaker" in the sound menu, and I ESPECIALLY turn off the automatic boot up of the task manager as task managers are useless from android 2.2+ and can cause conflicts that drain more battery. You can turn off boot up of task manager in the applications menu. That's pretty much it I don't know what else to say other than I'm doing awesome on stock battery atm.
Try a different kernel. I'm using bricked 1.5. First charge got me 14 hours so far at 31 percent. After the first charge run it to 5 percent and charge full. Rinse and repeat a total of three times and also don't forget to go into recovery and wipe battery stats.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA App
Battery Calibration
And here's the link on how to propperly calibrate your battery, at your convenience
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=827355
To go easy on the new people and spare them some search time in this mess
I don't know about you guys, but there's so many threads on EVERYTHING, it's pretty damn hard to find some information on here
Oh well, now I'm just rambling... Enjoy
5 hours is really awful. Got 2 days with moderate use with the energy ROM. I would try to calibrate and maybe buy a anker 1900 mAh
What version of ARHD are you running on? 3.6.5 and 4.1.6 had battery issues..
Buy another battery, or ask for replacement. I had 5-8 hour battery life with my original stock battery on stock ROM, bought Anker battery on amazon, I get 40-50 hours now.
MUSASHI66 said:
Buy another battery, or ask for replacement. I had 5-8 hour battery life with my original stock battery on stock ROM, bought Anker battery on amazon, I get 40-50 hours now.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I've ordered both the anker and the mugen power 1900mah
adamgaltress said:
What version of ARHD are you running on? 3.6.5 and 4.1.6 had battery issues..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm running the latest version 3.6.7 I believe (with the new faux kernel)
oFcAsHeEp said:
And here's the link on how to propperly calibrate your battery, at your convenience
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=827355
To go easy on the new people and spare them some search time in this mess
I don't know about you guys, but there's so many threads on EVERYTHING, it's pretty damn hard to find some information on here
Oh well, now I'm just rambling... Enjoy
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks a ton! I checked it out but isn't it correct that when you flash a rom the battery is auto calibrated? Battery monitor widget Pro says my voltage is:
min 3386 max 4209. Does that give reason to calibrate the battery?
thanks again everyone for all the help
I used to suffer from this issue too. After doing some research I found out that the kernel is the problem.
Try Bricker 1.5 as Galaxa12 suggested and you should notice a massive improvement in terms of battery life.
Also do some digging in Daemon Controller (tip as others suggested: Governor).
Ofc battery calibration is important, but you won't archive better battery lifetime after calibration.
Running ARHD 6.5.3 XE...noticing the battery is horrendous. Went to sleep and battery was at 48%. When I woke up 7 hours later battery was at 4%. The phone was idle the whole night. This seems like crazy battery drain. I have nothing to compare to because I got the Sensation about 4 days ago and the second I got home with it it was rooted and ARHD XE ICS was installed onto it. My previous phone was the T-Mo G2x which had terrible battery but nowhere close to the drain I am seeing with the Sensation running ARHD 6.5.3 ICS with Sebastian kernel at 1.6 ghz. Using SetCPU with ondemand governor 192 min and 1.6 max. Screen off profile with 192 min and 1 ghz max. Any idea or suggestions are greatly appreciated!!
Seems excessive, you could try battery monitor widget pro and/or system tuner pro to see what processes are running and record the state of your phone e.g. wifi on, awake, GPS, data etc.
What are the percentages if you look in battery usage in settings?
Sent from my HTC Pyramid using xda premium
Maybe it's the cause of overclock. I use hypernonsense (great rom, too bad its discontinued), and it has pretty good battery life until I installed the overclock kernel. I still keep it because it's a lot faster.
Still, the battery shouldn't drain that much. I would try to remove the overclock to see if it's still that bad. If not much improvement, I would try to install another rom.
I don't want to make a new thread about battery life, can I ask here ?
Previously I was running on 6.5.3 XE w/ Seb 1.6Ghz.
Check out the screenshots,during that time wifi and data plan is on,auto-sync with 2 gmails,twitter,FB and weather.Does it sucks or is this normal ? I'm using stock battery.
You want that screen off profile to be much lower - I have mine at 300MHz powersave governor (that way it isn't constantly polling) with no noticable loss of responsivity when I switch the screen on. Then fully charge the battery and reset the battery stats from within ClockworkMod or 4ext
Also, I'd highly recommend JuiceDefender Ultimate - it's really customizeable for things like only activating 3G when screen is on or when in certain apps, then switches it on for a min every so often when the screen is off to check emails etc.
Hope that helps/makes sense!
---------- Post added at 01:05 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:24 PM ----------
manhquan2112 said:
I don't want to make a new thread about battery life, can I ask here ?
Previously I was running on 6.5.3 XE w/ Seb 1.6Ghz.
Check out the screenshots,during that time wifi and data plan is on,auto-sync with 2 gmails,twitter,FB and weather.Does it sucks or is this normal ? I'm using stock battery.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
If you haven't already, get SetCPU and create some profiles:
Screen off: 300Mhz governor powersave
I also have progressively lower clock speeds as the battery life diminishes.
pettigrew95 said:
Running ARHD 6.5.3 XE...noticing the battery is horrendous. Went to sleep and battery was at 48%. When I woke up 7 hours later battery was at 4%. The phone was idle the whole night. This seems like crazy battery drain. I have nothing to compare to because I got the Sensation about 4 days ago and the second I got home with it it was rooted and ARHD XE ICS was installed onto it. My previous phone was the T-Mo G2x which had terrible battery but nowhere close to the drain I am seeing with the Sensation running ARHD 6.5.3 ICS with Sebastian kernel at 1.6 ghz. Using SetCPU with ondemand governor 192 min and 1.6 max. Screen off profile with 192 min and 1 ghz max. Any idea or suggestions are greatly appreciated!!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
We have the same issue since i bought my phone few months ago (I even try insertcoin and ARHD because of the problem, but no changes).
I've read through the forum and i think the culprit is the stock battery. I'm ordering Anker 1900mAh (it has good feeback) for replacement and i'll let you know if there's any differences.
Can no frills do profiles? I heard to use that with ARHD instead of SetCPU.
i use no frills, for me its the best cpu app, you just set your desired speed, and thats it. no fancy stuff just plain and simple..
Im also on ARHD 6.5.3 with overclocking to 1.6, governer is on demand... I can get between 36-48 hours on a full charge...
Screen is using a high proportion, turn the brightness down some if you haven't already. Mine is rarely more than about 15%.
Sent from my HTC Pyramid using xda premium
if you have 4ext recovery you can go to the wipe settings an click on "wipe battery stats" but your battery has to be fully loaded.
Thanks for the suggestions guys. I have done all of the above mentioned things but still getting very poor battery life. Are you guys using the Anker extended battery or stock?
i have the stock battery and i heard that the anker batteries are ****.
sometimes they just explode and i think the 200 mah more dont bring much more batterie life with it.
BillyBohne said:
i have the stock battery and i heard that the anker batteries are ****.
sometimes they just explode and i think the 200 mah more dont bring much more batterie life with it.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
How long do you get on a full charge with stock battery? I actually just ordered an Anker =/ hope it's not ****...I'm running ARHD 6.5.4 with Bricked kernel 192 min with 1566 max using lagfree governor...battery life really leaves something to be desired...getting about 5 hours from 100% to 15% ...tried wiping batt stats and trying different profiles in SetCPU as well as underclocking. Any suggestions please throw them my way!!
Part of the problem IS because it is an Anker battery. I have heard many bad reviews about their batteries. Another issue is that most "extended" batteries really aren't any better than stock. A lot of times they are WORSE than stock batteries. If you tested the mA with a good digital meter I bet you would find between 1200-1400 on a full charge, with a supposedly 1900mAh battery. I hate to break it to everyone like this, but the only TRUE extended batteries you will find will be physically larger than stock. You can slap whatever damn label you want on a 1500mAh battery. Call it 3500mAh for all I care, you can't deny what it really is. A 1500mAh battery. You can't get more charge out of a battery unless it is physically larger that the original.
And I don't know about you guys, but I am skeptical about true extended batteries for the Sensation. The antenna contacts are on the battery cover! That means they would have to ship you a modified battery cover to fit the bigger battery. If they screw up one contact or don't put enough material on it from the factory, your sensation will be a signal-less paperweight.
Another thing I suggest is downloading BetterBatteryStats. If you have a bit of knowledge about how Android's OS works, you might be able to look at the Wakelocks section and see if something is preventing your device from entering Deep Sleep mode...the top four causes of battery drain are the screen, WiFi while on but not connected, GPS, and applications locking your device out of Deep Sleep.
Thanks for the reply. I am currently using the stock battery shipped with the phone. What do I check for in the app you mentioned to see if my phone is entering deep sleep?
I attached a screenshot of the wakelock section. Let me know if anything looks suspicious or if you need to see a different screen. Thanks!
pettigrew95 said:
Thanks for the reply. I am currently using the stock battery shipped with the phone. What do I check for in the app you mentioned to see if my phone is entering deep sleep?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sorry, I tend to ramble on a bit
Best way to check would be to click the first drop down menu and look through Wakelocks and Kernel Wakelocks after your phone has been running for a bit. Start up the application for the first time, accept the changelog stuff, then close it out and lock your screen. 5-10 minutes later check that dropdown and see if anything says *Wakelock* by it. There should be a gauge under each item, it shows a percentage of time the process has been running since last boot, charge, or whatever option you pick in the second drop down menu. If any of the gauges are almost full or beyond 50%, there's the culprit.
Azothyran said:
Sorry, I tend to ramble on a bit
Best way to check would be to click the first drop down menu and look through Wakelocks and Kernel Wakelocks after your phone has been running for a bit. Start up the application for the first time, accept the changelog stuff, then close it out and lock your screen. 5-10 minutes later check that dropdown and see if anything says *Wakelock* by it. There should be a gauge under each item, it shows a percentage of time the process has been running since last boot, charge, or whatever option you pick in the second drop down menu. If any of the gauges are almost full or beyond 50%, there's the culprit.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Check my post above I posted 2 screens with kernel wakelocks from the dropdown and partial wakelocks...don't know what either means thank you for your help!
From that screenshot I don't see any major partial wakelocks. The HTC Facebook sync doesn't seem to be helping, but it isn't causing too much of a drain at the same time...try peeking through kernel wakelocks and see if anything stands out
Holy crap, CNT is what is doing it! The device has been running for a full hour and it has locked your device into Awake mode 100% of the time. I will do some research and see what role it plays.
Kernel wakelocks is just 100% to "No reference since charged yet"
I am running ARHD 6.5.5 with faux kernel at stock cpu freq. I also have the ICS AOSP aroma theme, with mostly AOSP apps.
You can see from my screen shots that my battery life is terrible, and that is with juice defender on too!
Can someone tell me if theres anything i can change to get better battery, or if there are any ics ROMs out there that will give better battery?
I have wiped battery stats off a full charge but that made no difference. One thing I thought it could be is that I may not have had full battery when flashing the ICS firmware update - but this would have been fixed by battery stats wipe right??
Thanks to anyone who took the time to read this!
Could be a few things....
First thing is to make sure you give it time to get a good battery profile. Let it charge all night, then clear the battery stats in the morning. Then let it go all the way down to 0 and shut off without interruption. (Meaning don't restart it if you can avoid it)
The first day will be pretty bad. The second day should be much better. The 3rd day should be really good.
If you've done that properly and you're still getting 10 hours of battery life, something's wrong.
You could have a wakelock, something that's keeping the phone running all the time even with the screen off. An app could cause this, but it doesn't look like the case based on your screen shot.
The battery could be bad. This can be tested with another ROM to see if the problem replicates itself.
The ROM install could have gone screwy somehow. (Though for the life of me I can't think of how.) But wiping clean and starting over might help.
You can also underclock the CPU. Make it run at like 350 mhz when idling. That'll help a lot.
Skipjacks said:
Could be a few things....
First thing is to make sure you give it time to get a good battery profile. Let it charge all night, then clear the battery stats in the morning. Then let it go all the way down to 0 and shut off without interruption. (Meaning don't restart it if you can avoid it)
The first day will be pretty bad. The second day should be much better. The 3rd day should be really good.
If you've done that properly and you're still getting 10 hours of battery life, something's wrong.
You could have a wakelock, something that's keeping the phone running all the time even with the screen off. An app could cause this, but it doesn't look like the case based on your screen shot.
The battery could be bad. This can be tested with another ROM to see if the problem replicates itself.
The ROM install could have gone screwy somehow. (Though for the life of me I can't think of how.) But wiping clean and starting over might help.
You can also underclock the CPU. Make it run at like 350 mhz when idling. That'll help a lot.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks a lot for the reply, you seem to know what your talking about... What about the firmware bit I mentioned, could that have anything to do with it?
I will re-try the battery calibration procedure you suggested - if it does not help what rom do you think I should flash to rule out a bad battery?
Sent from my HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio using XDA
You didn't mention anything about firmware. But that should be a factor either.
Also, now that I think about it I think ARHD 6.5.5 might have had battery issues. I know one of the 6.5.x versions had poor battery life.
I run 6.5.3 myself and it's super ultra ridiculously battery efficient. I mean like 2 days between charges efficient. And I plug it in at the end of the 2nd day with like 20% left still.
Try starting over with 6.5.3. Or bump up to 6.6.2 that's out now.
I also never had luck with those juice defender things. But that's me. Some people swear by them. I found them to just be in the way.
I have the same issue with battery and I don't understand why the battery is so crap
I'm also using ARHD 6.5.5 with faux kernel. The first two three days were not spectacular but after that stabilized. I first ran it at the faux stock Cpu freq of 1.5 ghz and when I plugged for charging at night was usually at 40-55% depending on use. I'm running it now at 1.2 ghz (is a sensation 4g after all) and is usually 65-85% when I'm back home, depending on use.
I might add that I ran Rom Cleaner 3.5 to slim down the rom and also shnizlon AOSP them with the option of removing HTC apps and widgets
Sent from my Kindle Fire using Tapatalk 2
The problem was ARDH 6.5.5, updated to 6.6.2 and now got awesome battery life! Also re flashed the firmware off a full charge, that could have helped but I'm not sure cos I did it all at once.
Thanks guys
Sent from my HTC Sensation using XDA
Hi all,
I brought my HTC Sensation z710e about 14 months ago, and I'm a pretty heavy user, so battery life took a hit.
After about 8-9 months i got 4-5 hours screen on time on the stock battery. About 7 hrs heavy usage. I tried formatting the phone, and kept an eye on battery abusive wake locks, but to no avail.
To rectify that I've tried various roms (Elegencia 4, VipersS 1.6, Albinomans CM 10.1) among a few and also tried undervolting the phone. Nothing.
Then about a month ago, I brought a 1900mAh Anker battery which according to a lot of XDA threads is the problem solver for all battery issues.
I've been using that battery with Albinomans rom, and I have tried wiping battery stats to ensure the battery starts from a clean slate, but still I get barely 7 hrs, far from the promised 2days.
That leads me to conclude that something is wrong with my setup. And having tried many roms and kernels, formatting my phone and doing most other stuff suggested on the XDA threads, I cant work out whats wrong.
If it is a hardware issue, is there any way of finding out what it is, and what would be the way to rectify.
Any help would be higly appreciated
(although I've been and rooting and playing around with my phone for abt 3months now, this is my first thread on XDA. It may be a little unorganised in the way its written. If i've left any info out plz let me know. Thanx)
HTC Sensation z710e
Albinomans CM 10.1 10th May build
CPU 1500Mhz 384Mhz
Firnware 3.33
hello, if you use many applications that constantly require the 3G part of your mobile , it is quite normal ...
With my stock battery, i'm about 20hours and more but if i play games for a long time it's normal that battery drops.
I even think that you can be happy that your battery takes 7 hours using it a lot.
Try these CPU settings :
Governor Lazy or Badass
Min : 384Mhz or 432Mhz
Max : uses frequencies between 932 to 1188Mh
When u change ROM try to wipe battery stats before first start
Before u change the Kernel, make a Full Kernel Reset. Flash new Kernel
blogodoblogodo said:
hello, if you use many applications that constantly require the 3G part of your mobile , it is quite normal ...
With my stock battery, i'm about 20hours and more but if i play games for a long time it's normal that battery drops.
I even think that you can be happy that your battery takes 7 hours using it a lot.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This part all rings true. You cannot measure the battery life by how long you go between charges. That's almost irrelevant information because if ti's set up properly the phone will use very minimal battery when the screen is off.
The proper way to measure the battery life is by how much screen on time you get plus phone talk time between charges. With an Anker on Albino's CM10.1 ROM that should be 3 to 5 hours depending on a few other things. If that 3 to 5 hours happens all at once, then you'll need to recharge in 3 to 5 hours. If you use it sparingly over 2, 3, or ever 4 days before you've use it for a total of 3 to 5 hours, then it'll last that long between charges.
The 2 things that use the battery are the screen's backlight and the cell radio. Those two things are the battery users. Bluetooth and Wifi are too. But theoretically you're not using bluetooth or wifi unless you are talking on a call or having the screen on. So you can still measure by the scren on plus talk time. And if you use bluetooth and wifi a lot your total use will be closer to 3 hours than 5 hours.
When u change ROM try to wipe battery stats before first start
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This part is not true. It has no effect on anything. And when you install any ROM the battery stats are going to get wiped anyway because you are replacing the entire contents of the system directory.
No amount of wiping battery stats, calibrating batteries, or any of that mumbo jumbo is going to help. It's all snake oil.
Also keep in mind that you do need to give a new ROM 3 to 5 full charge and discharge cycles before you really see what the battery life is like. If you're jumping from ROM to ROM every day to test battery life you'll never get an honest look at what batter life is like on any of them.
Kernel
Thanx very much,
Any suggestions on what JB kernel to use??
murtazasamiwala said:
Thanx very much,
Any suggestions on what JB kernel to use??
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
On albino's ROM? You only have 2 options. The one that comes with it, which is perfectly fine. Or SultanKernel, which isn't terribly different. But the install process of sultan gives you more configuration options.
Sent from my GT-P5110 using xda app-developers app