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I got my HTC Sensation a couple of days ago. With a full charge and with GPS, Wifi, Bluetooth and 3G disabled, the phone dies after 10 hours moderate use.
The coverage by my operator in the area where I live there is a constant signal fluctuation.
I have heard that this can cause battery drain. Is this true?
This is very true. When I go to areas with little or no signal, my battery dies twice as fast.
dial *#*#4636#*#* and set it to GSM auto (PRL). Should considerably improve your battery if signal is weak, but won't do anything for your reception.
This is something I've noticed drastically with HTC Android phones, my Desire was exactly the same.
On my Sensation I usually get reasonable battery life, a little better than my Desire. With moderate use when the signals decent (3 -4 bars average) easily 20- 30 hours with 4 - 5 hours screen on time. However if I spend the day in a location with very poor reception (0-2 bars average) I just about get a full waking day of 17 hours with 3 hours screen on time. Thankfully I usually have a decent signal.
After a few complete charge and discharge cycles you should see an improvement on that poor 10 hours you got though. I recommend you completely discharge the battery untill the phone shuts itself down and then charge the phone over night while its switched off for the first 4 charges to calibrate the battery well.
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I charged my phone to 100%, turned of mobile data.
I turned on wifi,GPS and connected the phone to my wifi-router (100% signal from the router).
The Sensation has been running with no charger connected since 22:00 CET yesterday and time here is 08:52 CET. The phone has only lost 29% of power since last night.
Compared to yesterday when I took it to town on a full charge with GPS, Wifi and GSM Mobil-data turned on. It lost almost 35% of power in three hours.
I know I properly can't compare Wifi and GSM data, but if it was the case one could conclude that what could be killing the battery life of the Sensation is bad GSM/3G data coverage?
Poor reception has always been main battery killer on sby. Change setting I mentioned, should improve.
Euroman28 said:
I charged my phone to 100%, turned of mobile data.
I turned on wifi,GPS and connected the phone to my wifi-router (100% signal from the router).
The Sensation has been running with no charger connected since 22:00 CET yesterday and time here is 08:52 CET. The phone has only lost 29% of power since last night.
Compared to yesterday when I took it to town on a full charge with GPS, Wifi and GSM Mobil-data turned on. It lost almost 35% of power in three hours.
I know I properly can't compare Wifi and GSM data, but if it was the case one could conclude that what could be killing the battery life of the Sensation is bad GSM/3G data coverage?
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Okay I will try..
What is the maximum life anyone has gotten out of a sensation?
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tinky1 said:
dial *#*#4636#*#* and set it to GSM auto (PRL). Should considerably improve your battery if signal is weak, but won't do anything for your reception.
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Having problems with battery life also. What exactly does doing what u mentioned do?
Instead of constantly searching for 3g it sticks with gprs, until sufficient 3g signal is found.
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Having problems with battery life also. What exactly does doing what u mentioned do?
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It has been alive for almost 14 hours now with GPS, Wifi and turned on and connected to my AP and Cellular data turned off, but with a regular GSM connection to the Operator network so I can send and recieve texts and recieve and dial out calls.
By the way when your Sensation jumps onto a 3G connection do you feel it getting warmer?
Also flash the latest radio.
Hi everyone,
I noticed that my One X has been losing about 12% of battery life while asleep for 8 hours (while I'm sleeping). Is that normal? How much battery life do you lose when you don't use the phone? I leave wi-fi on and that's about it. I checked to make sure that the phone isn't awake during this period.
My battery life has been good on some days (lasts about 20 hours) and bad on some days (lasts about 10 hours) with almost identical usage. Any tips on improving battery life?
I went camping and put my phone on airplane most 80% of the time except when I needed it. It lasted me nearly 3 days! Does LTE consume a lot of battery power? Does wi-fi do also?
RPTheLefty said:
Hi everyone,
I noticed that my One X has been losing about 12% of battery life while asleep for 8 hours (while I'm sleeping). Is that normal? How much battery life do you lose when you don't use the phone? I leave wi-fi on and that's about it. I checked to make sure that the phone isn't awake during this period.
My battery life has been good on some days (lasts about 20 hours) and bad on some days (lasts about 10 hours) with almost identical usage. Any tips on improving battery life?
I went camping and put my phone on airplane most 80% of the time except when I needed it. It lasted me nearly 3 days! Does LTE consume a lot of battery power? Does wi-fi do also?
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Yes to both of your final questions. LTE uses a ton of power. I went to the San Jose area where it's only HSPA and my battery was phenomenal. Wifi may drain significantly if "best wifi performance" is enabled in advanced wifi settings.
Check what uses your battery overnight. What process does it say under power in settings? 12% for 8 hours isn't really that bad..
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RPTheLefty said:
Hi everyone,
I noticed that my One X has been losing about 12% of battery life while asleep for 8 hours (while I'm sleeping). Is that normal? How much battery life do you lose when you don't use the phone? I leave wi-fi on and that's about it. I checked to make sure that the phone isn't awake during this period.
My battery life has been good on some days (lasts about 20 hours) and bad on some days (lasts about 10 hours) with almost identical usage. Any tips on improving battery life?
I went camping and put my phone on airplane most 80% of the time except when I needed it. It lasted me nearly 3 days! Does LTE consume a lot of battery power? Does wi-fi do also?
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Wifi consumes the least power of all, but like the post above says, if you have "maximum wifi performance" enabled in your advanced wifi settings then it will prevent your phone from going into deep sleep and drain more battery than it would if that option was not checked. Overnight I usually drain about 1% an hour or less (on both CleanROM DE and AOKP M6.2).
I think it's not LTE drains the battery. It may be because of searching of networks when signal on LTE is bad.
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akaivan said:
I think it's not LTE drains the battery. It may be because of searching of networks when signal on LTE is bad.
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It's sort of both. When you have a good LTE connection while using data then it uses up more battery or if you have a poor connection without using data you will use even more battery or if you have a poor connection while using data that would be the worst for battery. But if you are in a good coverage area and not using data then the battery should be fine.
Drain of 12% over 8 hours (1.5% per hour) of screen off time is pretty damn good. Certainly nothing to complain about. I get somewhere around 2.5% per hour overnight.
Phone battery last forever when in airplane mode. The phone radios are a big consumer of power, often second only to screen-on time. Way back, I had my old HTC Tilt2 in airplane mode in a location with no cell service (basically just using the phone as a watch and camera), and it was on track to last about a week (maybe more) before needing a charge.
12% is what I get overnight. But If I turn off WiFi before sleeping then I get around 5% loss so turn off WiFi if you need more battery.
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karan1203 said:
12% is what I get overnight. But If I turn off WiFi before sleeping then I get around 5% loss so turn off WiFi if you need more battery.
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I feel that most people would get better battery with WiFi turned on. It seems the area you place your phone overnight is not getting a good WiFi signal and/or you might have some of your settings to sync or download while on "WiFi Only".
It varies from person to person and it usually ends up being something in the settings, specific apps, and/or quality of connection (mobile or WiFi).
Hi, I just got my U11 and using it for 5 days now. I notice that when I leave the phone at night, the phone lost battery around 10% everyday. From the battery stats, it said Cell standby is the most hungry one. Anybody found this issue?
I noticed it too, 40% battery usage was cell standby... ?
I'm seeing this too but I still get over 30 hours with up to 5 hours sot.
Guess cell standby is not draining battery, the rest just uses so little that this comes out on top.
Computed power use was 400+ mAh...
So what? I get 40 hours uptime and 7 hours SOT. The mAh reading is an estimation.
I also get standby or time without signal drain occasionally. running an unlocked sprint version on metropcs. hopefully htc releases some better radios in the near future.
Similar battery drain here for cell standby.
I'm on 1.27 stock rom.
Dual SIM with two SIM card active.
Any workaround?
Me absolutely same.. One screenshoot is on wifi second on mobile data.. Stock rooted ROM but same on unrooted
Someone has tried with Oreo firmware? Same drain?
When you sleep, does your phone sleep, or does it stay up all night and crunch 1s and 0s? Rate this thread to express how you deem the speed at which the Xiaomi Mi 9's battery drains under standby conditions. A higher rating indicates that when the phone is not in use, the battery drains minimally.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
standby about:
1-1,5 % per hour without ambient display
2,5-3% per hour with ambient display
standby drain is quite bad, LG V30 has half consumption in standby
MIUI 10
High battery drain in backgound too.
I usually lose 10% in 8 hours during night.
Standby drain is high; significantly higher than my other phones. On average, my phone drains about 1.8% per hour with AOD turned off. My Pixel 3 XL drains 0.5 to 0.8% per hour with similar settings and the same SIM card.
If you are running Global rom it could because it's trying to connect to multiple networks. Maybe both European and chineese network.
Download EX Manager and put it on Powersaver Mode. 9h and I just lose 10% of battery while watching BBT 5 episode and played 1 album to get me asleep. Lol
Hi there. 8 hours of sleeping time drained 1%.
I'm using Xiaomi.eu version.
With Global EEA it drained about 4% in 8 hours also
It drains about 1% while asleep 8hrs on airplane mode.
for me it drained up to 2% per hour.
I could reduce it to 0.5% per hour just by turning off bluetooth, maybe that helps you as well
In Global dev ROM my mi 9 was not entering sleep mode at all, it was consumed at least 2% per hour.
I'm now on Xiaomi.eu and it sleeping great.
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Global Dev (stock kernel) gives me less than 0.5 % / h battery drain at night. Network and WiFi always running, no airplane mode. Just Bluetooth usually is switched off since I only need it in the car. No snake-oil apps for 'better battery live' or similar battery voodoo.
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Toscha
For me mit official stable it is a little more than 1% per hour during night, mobile-stand-by as well as android system are draining the most battery.
Waiting for Unlock in 5 days.
Xiaomi.eu doesn't really improve battery life for me. Androidsystem drains about 20% and I have no idea why. I lose about 10 percent at night (sleeping around 6h), so that's pretty much considering the other reports... also I only get like 3-3,5h SOT, because of the drainage. Can't figure out why, though.
Hey there have Battery Drain too. i have the Transparent Edition with Global Rom for me to use in EU with German Language. It is unlocked and has the Mi Recovery. Can i only flash with Mi Tool the Xiaomi.eu rom or will i have to flash custom Recovery?!
I'm on latest ROS, last night ~8 hours standby + airplane mode = 1%
Global stable official, i get 1% drain on 6-7 Hours, signal on so i can be called, wi fi off
MIUI 10.2.9.0, everything is on (wi-fi etc.). Mifit is permanently connected to my BIP, kate mobile is connected to VK. 4% for 8 hours this night.
yeah. the standby drain is not good at all
lost 3% in 5 hours ,with powersaving mode on(scheduled in settings to turn on between 23:00-07:00)
wifi off, bt off, mobile data off...
only WCDMA/LTE enabled
latest global rom
Its because the phone is set to scan for chinese network by default (TD-SCDMA), even though Its a global version.
ClausG76 said:
Its because the phone is set to scan for chinese network by default (TD-SCDMA), even though Its a global version.
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Really? How to fix that?
Any ideas?
That's NOT true. Switching to LTE/WCDMA give the same battery drain.
That's only the preferred network.
When I observed battery usage status I saw cell Standby in rank 1.
Even I Don't have a sim card I use only wifi, brightness fixed at 25% all day.
How to keep the cell Standby away from draining battery ?
(I don't need airplane mode to be enabled.)