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I used current widget and was told reading wouldn't be accurate so I have switch to battery monitor app. And I came up with the dame readings...
I'm getting anywhere from 180-1100+ma drain on my batteries. Even on standby I'm looking at 100ma+
I have changed kernels,roms, superwiped, wiped bat stats. Tried different batteries. Something is wrong here. So if anyone has any compatible monitoring apps plz post a link. And i u have the same battery issues I have plz post Ur current setup.
Mine
Android revolution 1.1.7
Rxmix 2.3
Cwm 4.0.1.4
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Battery Monitor Widget Pro
I use Battery Monitor Pro as well on a LeeDroid ROM, standy uses 100-300, but battery has only dropped 8% in past 5 1/2 hours.
BatteryLife by CurveFish.
It also shows you the mV remaining in the battery which is the *real* indication of how much is left, not the %age the phone thinks it is.
chrisw99 said:
BatteryLife by CurveFish.
It also shows you the mV remaining in the battery which is the *real* indication of how much is left, not the %age the phone thinks it is.
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Apparently current widget and battery monitor aren't giving true readings for our sensation. R u for sure battery life is compatible
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Since Iam on adroid iam using Battery Monitor Pro, too.
It is doing a great job. But sometimes it gives u too much information
it is running on my dhd too
Try battery monitor pro
Any widgets or apps you run to monitor battery life will reduce your battery life by a small degree because it is using your phones resources.
I'd also recommend BATTERY MONITOR WIDGET (free) you can pay for PRO version.
But Ensure that in Settings->Monitoring->mA retrieval method = HTC Sensation.
It may well default to this, but I haven't got sensation so don't know.
martymonster said:
I use Battery Monitor Pro as well on a LeeDroid ROM, standy uses 100-300, but battery has only dropped 8% in past 5 1/2 hours.
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I averaged around your measurement too, but sometimes it drop 2% each time, is it normal to be draining so much even on standby?
I use battery left . It uses your battstats file to guage how long you have left and gives you a percentage left as a widget.
It takes a few charge cycles on a new battstats to get accurate but it does the job great when it's calibrated.
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Market link?
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Whoops, I meant battery left widget. Sorry.
And market searching the correct term gets you the app.
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hey im using leedroid v1.3 and the battery life on my phone is horrendous, i left the house at 11am this morning with 98 percent and after a 10 minute phone call i had 75 percent battery by 12 oclock. do you guys have any tips or things i can flash to get the phone through a day and a half or even 2 days somehow?
also having an issue with the speakerphone, its the lowest volume of any phone i think ive ever owned, ive got to put the phone to my head, so its basically like making a call but using the back as an earpiece. thanks for the help.
I'm having the same problem with my phone, on any rom. According to CurrentWidget, the Ma being used by my phone will not drop below 150, even while idling. I'm starting to believe that my battery is faulty.
Are u guys calibrating the battety?
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I thought I was, but apparently I'm not. Can you point me in the right direction?
Download the battery calibration app from the market. Charge to full run the app calibrate.....drain than calibrate again and you should be fine.
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charlieb620 said:
Download the battery calibration app from the market. Charge to full run the app calibrate.....drain than calibrate again and you should be fine.
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Upgraded to v2 and ran the battery calibrator. Phone finally lasts a day. Thanks. Am I supposed to run the calibrator at like 10% or should I let it die and run it after a 100% charge?
Battery calibration + managing screen brightness massively increases battery life. You need root to be able to clear battery stats, right?
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Upgraded to v2 and ran the battery calibrator. Phone finally lasts a day. Thanks. Am I supposed to run the calibrator at like 10% or should I let it die and run it after a 100% charge?
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I believe the calibration tools want you to use them at 100% charge. I got a chichitec 1900mA/Hr battery, calibrated (i guess it is now) and my phone went for more than 24 hours before hitting the 49% mark. This was with light use (checking email, checking web forums, playing some Angry Birds, and making some phone calls) but still a HUGE difference from the stock battery. Also, I turn off data connection via quick settings when I am at home. I do turn on wifi though while at home. Calibration ought to help out big time, as these phones are reporting a dead battery long before it is really dead.
Also, dont pay attention to the current battery monitor's report for standby current. It isnt accurate.
Matt
That's the one reason I keep going back to the stock setup I just seem to get better battery life out of is than any of the custom ones I've tried. I've only tried a couple. Has anyone found a ROM that gets better battery life than stock?
Can someone tell me why me battery life is so crap on HTC sensation. I'm using evo 3d battery which is 1730 mah.but what's annoying is that my brightness is set to auto and 15 second to turn the screen off but still my display is using more than 90%.
Please help me because everything is turned off and only wifi is on.
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what rom/kernel ru using? did u recently flash the rom? try to turn off auto brightness that should help u save alot of battery in my opinion this has worked with me
Seems that something is keeping your phone Awake.
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Shery4life said:
Can someone tell me why me battery life is so crap on HTC sensation. I'm using evo 3d battery which is 1730 mah.but what's annoying is that my brightness is set to auto and 15 second to turn the screen off but still my display is using more than 90%.
Please help me because everything is turned off and only wifi is on.
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Turn off auto and use manual brightness settings, and then see what the usage is.
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Turn off auto and use manual brightness settings, and then see what the usage is.
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And change back to the Sensation battery, it's actually better than the 3Ds. The Evo guys are using the Sensation battery and getting about 2hrs more in back to back tests. Be happy you don't have a 3D. When I had mine, I got 2hrs hard use with 4G and 4hrs with 3g. I get 8hrs with my Sensation overclocked.
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Well for starters, your screen was on for almost 2 hours straight and your signal wasn't very good for most of that. I can assume that since your screen was on for 2 hours straight you must have been using it or the screen would not have been on that long. Streaming a 2 hour movie on a not so great connection will eat your battery up almost completely, especially if you are using full brightness. Android phones in general are battery eaters. My Sensation battery life is actually a lot better than my Vibrant was so I'm happy. Buy a couple batteries on Ebay for 15 bucks or use Juice Defender. I use my phone pretty heavily and can make it through the day. I can get over 24 hours using Juice Defender.
Did You wipe battery stats after change battery?
Also tell us which ROM and Kernel You use now. I'm sure that 3/4 ROM's here are useless. I have ROM from new leak and have 0 issues, also with battery.
I got two Anker 1900mAh batteries and they made a reasonable improvement to my use.
Typically with full sync and okish signal I got about 1h40m of screen on time with about 14 hours off charger.
With Anker under the same daily use its between 2h to 3h screen on in the same period.
Also that means I now have three batteries.
Sorry to say but having owned a Motorola Milestone, Galaxy S, Nexus S and now Sensation I can simply say that the battery life on Android is crap in general for heavy users.
My girl has an iPhone 3G and 4, the screen on time is often over 6 hours which I put down to intimate development of software and hardware.
I am choosing flexibility over longevity for now.
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It's the kernel that's in the version of the ROM you have.
Flash 3.6.5 XE and it'll fix the problem.
Also having Wifi on and using it for 2 hours straight will drain your battery.
sromer said:
It's the kernel that's in the version of the ROM you have.
Flash 3.6.5 XE and it'll fix the problem.
Also having Wifi on and using it for 2 hours straight will drain your battery.
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WiFi uses less battery than a data connection, just fyi. WiFi does not cause drain.
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WiFi uses less battery than a data connection, just fyi. WiFi does not cause drain.
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Everything causes drain
gamikzone said:
what rom/kernel ru using? did u recently flash the rom? try to turn off auto brightness that should help u save alot of battery in my opinion this has worked with me
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yes i have just recently changed the rom
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Turn off auto and use manual brightness settings, and then see what the usage is.
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i have put the brightness to the lowest and i have alos kept the time to 15 second and still my battery died today after 3 hour of usage and i had to use the original battery and that lasted my 2 hours and even though have two battery still i cant make it through the day
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i have put the brightness to the lowest and i have alos kept the time to 15 second and still my battery died today after 3 hour of usage and i had to use the original battery and that lasted my 2 hours and even though have two battery still i cant make it through the day
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Did you calibrate or change radios recently? You could have a defective battery(s) or maybe the kernel is causing excessive drain.
I noticed this issue too when I was using Sense-based ROMs before I switched to a CM7-based rom.
Been off battery for 9 hours and 9 minutes with 77% left - I've never seen battery life this great and I don't think I see myself going back to Sense any time soon for my HTC Sensation 4G.
I was very disapointed with how fast the stock HTC Sensation battery drained even with normal use, just like you.
I took the advise from some here and got the Anker battery from Ebay for 10.00.
The best thing I ever did.
WOW! Did it improve the battery life on the Sensation.
Now I do not have to worry about the battery draining down fast on me.
With the Anker battery, my phone lasts all day and into the night .
Buy an anker battery
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i have just recently bought the evo3d battery the only reason i did not buy anker is because for some thick reason i didnt wanted to buy the anker battery beside i bought the legit evo3d battery which works for sensation. i dont want to buy anker battery for time begin because i dont think i need three battery beside yesterday i just installed 3.6.5 and for time being the battery lasted me very good and if the battery give me 12 hours everyday than ill stick with these two batteries
3.6.5 is using battery more effecient than 3.6.4 did thanks to a member who told me to install 3.6.5
Shery4life said:
Can someone tell me why me battery life is so crap on HTC sensation. I'm using evo 3d battery which is 1730 mah.but what's annoying is that my brightness is set to auto and 15 second to turn the screen off but still my display is using more than 90%.
Please help me because everything is turned off and only wifi is on.
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Probably it's time to try this! extended battery can be a solution.
Today after fully charging my phone I took it off charge and i set my brightness low and after 1 hour of playing asphalt 6 I checked my battery stats and it showed that the screen has used 87% of battery whereas asphalt 6 and wifi only had drained 8% of battery. I'm using 1730mah battery and I want to find out the battery usage other people are having after playing 1 hour of game
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If screen dont drain any battery than we could play 10hours of asphalt 6 non stop while we still have 16% of battery left. Beside I know that impossible but still I'm sure there must be a way to stop high screen battery drain
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I believe the only way without buying a new battery, is to reduce the screen brightness
Its a well known fact that Our Screen need more juice and is the biggest drainer of battery.......Try keeping brightness under 30 or buy an Anker battery.
I did keep my brightness to the low because it was night time and still it showed that screen drained my battery a lot I don't know what would have happened if I kept my brightness full
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Bright or not the screen (specifically the backlight) will always be the biggest power consumer on the phone. There is no way around this.
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well i got an sensation too with viper rom frmo the venom team and after the update i recognize a much harder battery drain than before but all apps are the same so dont know why and no one else is experiecing something like this :S
The biggest drain on the battery is the screen and the back light for the screen. I've noticed a significant improvement by disabling auto brightness (this is controlled by the kernel and rom parameters) and just setting brightness manually.
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Well, hi to all...
This is my problem, i have an extended 1900mAh Anker battery and a stock 1520, the Extended last for about 10-11 hours of full use over 3G-H, screen full brightnes and almost 4 hours of screen on, AccuWeather stock widget every 6 hours, 4 hours of music over stock music player, Sync on and all of that...
Also i use Faux 123 kernel with stock voltage and 1.5Ghz OC, Non-Zram (it only drains to me....)... no big deal and i don't see anything wrong with my battery... only one thing...
When i use the phone, and my battery reach for example 38%... then i restart the phone and its starts with 60%... and when i reach 30% again i restart and i see up to 50% of battery on the metter... so wth???!!! also, today my phone turn off when i was trying to get a screenshot of my battery issue to upload it... with 7% of battery left... and today it last for 11.30 hours
i use Insert Coin 2.4 rom Sense 4
can some one please explain me why is this happenin?
This is a little show up of my problem, now with elegancia and bricked ics 3.0 kernel, first boot up and first drain
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Well, hi to all...
This is my problem, i have an extended 1900mAh Anker battery and a stock 1520, the Extended last for about 10-11 hours of full use over 3G-H, screen full brightnes and almost 4 hours of screen on, AccuWeather stock widget every 6 hours, 4 hours of music over stock music player, Sync on and all of that...
Also i use Faux 123 kernel with stock voltage and 1.5Ghz OC, Non-Zram (it only drains to me....)... no big deal and i don't see anything wrong with my battery... only one thing...
When i use the phone, and my battery reach for example 38%... then i restart the phone and its starts with 60%... and when i reach 30% again i restart and i see up to 50% of battery on the metter... so wth???!!! also, today my phone turn off when i was trying to get a screenshot of my battery issue to upload it... with 7% of battery left... and today it last for 11.30 hours
i use Insert Coin 2.4 rom Sense 4
can some one please explain me why is this happenin?
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This is happening to me too with stock battery..when I restart my phone I get about 25% more, but it drains fast at the percentage before restart
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Same here, happened today, battery was empty, I plugged in charger, turned it on, it was charging to 30% , restarted my phone and it was on 85%, today it drained in 5 hrs.. viper 1.4.1, stock battery, with kernel that comes with it...
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And getting fast draining also....
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This is an HTC problem. I have no clue why, but for some reasons the stats on their phones never report properly after having a custom ROM. I used to have an HTC Desire, then a GSII, now a Sensation. I noticed the stats were always off with my Desire, they were fine with my GSII, fine with a stock One X then with my Sensation I get the some terribly reported battery stats again. It is just something I have gotten used to.
Someone with more technical knowledge can explain better why it does that. But with the Desire it was a known issue which no one knew how to fix. Or the resources to fix it are just missing.
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hey guys i had the same prob. was running viper 1.4.1 phone was rebooting and was geting crazy battery stats. i was reading a post about the the grounding pins on the back of the phone they touch the battery cover. pull those pins out ever so just for good contact with the cover but be gentle. i have done this and had no probs so far hope this helps let me know how u get on.
Have you checked to see if your getting a wake lock? You can download better battery stats and it will detect any wake lock you might be having and identify the offending app So you can stop the wake lock. Give it a try I think it might help. You can download better battery stats from here on xda, and read about bad and good wake locks. It's very informative. Hope this is helpful. Best wishes.
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I'm also getting these kind of issues on my Sensation.
Try fully discharging and recharging the battery twice. It used to help with laptop batteries.