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Need better Battery life!!! help!!

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?

thatg said:
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?

[Q] battery usage... Again lol

Hi, been using ic as a daily not had my sensation long, i know there's loads of these topics i've even helped people in others. But I think my issue is different
I'm not sure if it's related to the rom, ive tested a load of roms but I can't get the battery life stable, ive read a lot and tried everything, but I can't get below 40mA in standby and the percentage drops are inconsistent (drops a few percent here and there, obviously its difficult to get accurate battery stats on the Sensation.
I'm running leedroid atm with no extras ive gone through two full cycles, i have no extra apps installed apart from xda premium and bmw I can't even get below 40 in standby by with radio off,
I'm using recommend radio and have come from a full wipe.
I do generally have a weak signal. But they doesn't mean anything because I've tested with radio off
I have the xe so i have the 1730mA battery.
When I charge I get green light on 100% but bmw still reports me dragging 60mA from the charger?
Do I need to change any script because i have a bigger battery?
I have had the phone for 2 weeks, ive probably ran the battery through 35-40 cycles.
I have no ext partitions on my sd
Could it be sd related (16gb class6)
I'm using bmw 1.8beta and i have mA corrections in with the other thing set to auto. I have also set my battery capacity to 1730mA
Please will someone give me a little bit of there time.
Edit/ is it normal for cpu1 to always be online with leedroid kernel no tweaks
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I too am getting high battery lose in standby. I have heard that any app like Current Widget can not measure the outputs correctly on the Sensation. Coming from the HD2 where I was getting around 2-6mA, I can't tell where all the power is going. Like you, I have tested with everything off and nothing running and still get over 40mA. I know that drain is high even if the output readings aren't correct. A huge issue with the HD2 had to do with the video drivers causing high drain. Could that be the issue here?

I don't like bumping :-( but I'm desperate :-(
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I don't have any answers, but I have the same problem. My battery will never get below 25 mA even after 24 hours on the charger. I have about decided that it is a measurement error. I have put the phone in Airplane mode, turned off all sync, turned off or uninstalled every app on the phone except BMW and the log still shows nothing lower that 25 mA.
My stock battery is the 1525 mA and with even moderate use it will drain down to 10% in 6 hours or less. With no use at all it will drain down to 10% in 8 hours. If I get some long winded guys calling me several times it might not last 4 hours.
My solution has been to buy two 1900 mAh batteries and an external charger. At least I can now have use of the phone for about 8 - 10 hours and have two charged spares in case the first one drains down.

HTC battery life

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.

Ace42 said:
Turn off auto and use manual brightness settings, and then see what the usage is.
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And change back to the Sensation battery, it's actually better than the 3Ds. The Evo guys are using the Sensation battery and getting about 2hrs more in back to back tests. Be happy you don't have a 3D. When I had mine, I got 2hrs hard use with 4G and 4hrs with 3g. I get 8hrs with my Sensation overclocked.
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Well for starters, your screen was on for almost 2 hours straight and your signal wasn't very good for most of that. I can assume that since your screen was on for 2 hours straight you must have been using it or the screen would not have been on that long. Streaming a 2 hour movie on a not so great connection will eat your battery up almost completely, especially if you are using full brightness. Android phones in general are battery eaters. My Sensation battery life is actually a lot better than my Vibrant was so I'm happy. Buy a couple batteries on Ebay for 15 bucks or use Juice Defender. I use my phone pretty heavily and can make it through the day. I can get over 24 hours using Juice Defender.

Did You wipe battery stats after change battery?
Also tell us which ROM and Kernel You use now. I'm sure that 3/4 ROM's here are useless. I have ROM from new leak and have 0 issues, also with battery.

I got two Anker 1900mAh batteries and they made a reasonable improvement to my use.
Typically with full sync and okish signal I got about 1h40m of screen on time with about 14 hours off charger.
With Anker under the same daily use its between 2h to 3h screen on in the same period.
Also that means I now have three batteries.
Sorry to say but having owned a Motorola Milestone, Galaxy S, Nexus S and now Sensation I can simply say that the battery life on Android is crap in general for heavy users.
My girl has an iPhone 3G and 4, the screen on time is often over 6 hours which I put down to intimate development of software and hardware.
I am choosing flexibility over longevity for now.
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It's the kernel that's in the version of the ROM you have.
Flash 3.6.5 XE and it'll fix the problem.
Also having Wifi on and using it for 2 hours straight will drain your battery.

sromer said:
It's the kernel that's in the version of the ROM you have.
Flash 3.6.5 XE and it'll fix the problem.
Also having Wifi on and using it for 2 hours straight will drain your battery.
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WiFi uses less battery than a data connection, just fyi. WiFi does not cause drain.

Sdobron said:
WiFi uses less battery than a data connection, just fyi. WiFi does not cause drain.
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Everything causes drain

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

Ace42 said:
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

Shery4life said:
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.

Noticing some drops in battery level

Charged my battery to 100% took it off the charger at 10. I only used it for Twitter for like a hour together because I kept taking quick naps in between. My phone was on 95% when I woke up for good at 1:00. Now it's at 87% & I haven't done nothing on it. What's some solutions for this problem?
P.S. I'm running on ARHD 6.6.3 with faux's kernel & have an Anker battery.

Download better battery stats from the market and see what is keeping your device awake while its asleep. Once you find what it is, fix the problem (this could be contacting the developer, uninstalling the app, or installing a new rom/kernel)
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Frequent shutdown and battery drain

Im having problems with my phone battery drain and shutdown. I tried 3 different roms and they all had the same problem. Im assuming it's not the rom. Tried insertcoin sense4, coindroid, and now leedroid sense 3.6. Please help me, i had my phone plugged off for 1hr and it already drained half of my battery. It seems like the phone shuts down because of low battery even though it still has because it dsnt shut down when plugged. When i turn on the phone, it will shut down again unless i turned it on plugged. Please help me... Maybe its the firmware. I rly dnt know. All i know is flash stuffs
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uhmm.. Help?

Sense ROMS Drain up A LOT of battery :l Perhaps try reflashing a ROM, I would suggest Virtuous Inquisition, and CALIBRATE the battery ( Let it charge overnight ), If your battery still seems to be draining to half a bar per hour after a full charge, try changing your battery~

Deathsongx3 said:
Sense ROMS Drain up A LOT of battery :l Perhaps try reflashing a ROM, I would suggest Virtuous Inquisition, and CALIBRATE the battery ( Let it charge overnight ), If your battery still seems to be draining to half a bar per hour after a full charge, try changing your battery~
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Okay I'll try that. I'll also check if it has something to do with overclocking

hector28 said:
Okay I'll try that. I'll also check if it has something to do with overclocking
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Definitely, overclocking takes up more battery and can damage your processor .

Actually overclocking to 1.7ghz gve me much batter battery using miui but sense roms USUALLY take up a lot of battery but they are pretty much there now eg arhd or coindroid, when you flash a rom drain the battery to <10% and then charger it up fully and you should notice brttery battery.
As for your shutdowns, unless you are overclocking to above 1.8ghz your phone shouldn't shutdown, your battery has most probably just worn out, either order a new extended one or try taking it out for the night and then put it back in, should work then.
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Same thing happens to my phone from time to time. In my case it helps if I remove the battery and then press and hold the power button for 15 seconds, then put the battery and cover on and do a full charge without turning the phone on.
You could also check to see if the battery is firmly seated in its bay and if not, wedge something in the gap to keep it firm against the contacts. There is a quite popular thread about it somewhere on this forum.

Try this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1610232
Overheating Approximate fix + battery improved + (sudden shutdown&restart)**UPDATED** it will take u to the Thread of repairing mode of battery gap ang how to fix this
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