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[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
That's 5 days before my birthday! I'd like that as a present! lol

Sent from the ony thing i need.
[Epic 4G General] Whosdaman:
u eligible? ;)
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
No..... gotta wait till oct I think...

Sent from the ony thing i need.
[Epic 4G General] steviee7:
I gotta wait till sept :(
[Epic 4G General] readingkeeper:
I gotta wait til August... of 2012 :( You guys are lucky.
[Epic 4G General] Whosdaman:
well I'm not dropping 500 for you :P, I wouldn't even go it for myself lol
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Lol. Oh come on, you know I deserve it j/k. Yeah, I can wait till my upgrade, but there might be more phones announced. Have no clue what I'll end up getting, if anything.

Sent from the ony thing i need.
[Epic 4G General] Whosdaman:
I'm considering whatever device comes out with the quad core processor first. I'll get the evo 3d now until the quad core comes
[Epic 4G General] MДЯCЦSДИT:
Haha. My finals are on the 19th.
[Epic 4G General] FrameCityJackal:
The people who can upgrade are lucky...I have to buy my phones full price since I'm on a dealer plan...someone got fired for using their upgrade on that plan years before I started working
[Verizon Droid Charge] kcellb:
I've had the G1, MyTouch 3G, Incredible, Droid X, Nexus S, G2, Thunderbolt, and now the Charge --- and by far, the Charge has the ugliest built-in theme (brown/orange) I have ever seen on any phone and not to mention the tons of Verizon/Samsung bloatware, though the latter can be fixed by rooting it.

Don't get me wrong - I love my DC for a ton of reasons and am holding on to it, but I am desperately hoping there will be some form Gingerbread (preferably CM7) that remains as close as possible to stock anytime soon. Anyone know if something like this is in the works?
[Verizon Droid Charge] nitsuj17:
while anything is possible...and im not saying this to be a jerk, just a realist...its extremely unlikely the charge will ever see an extremely functional cm7 or aosp

its taken months for the fascinate to have anything resembling working aosp and even now there are issues (mms, camcorder) that may never be worked out due to samsungs incomplete/lousy source

through lte/cdma hybrid ril in there, and the lack of devs who worked on aosp for the fasciante...and thats just a death sentence really for aosp

now im pretty certain this phone will get gingerbread from samsung/verizon...i mean 1. its in the droid line which means something and 2. its brand new now and id find it hard to see it not get it

when that is? who knows...but theres that to look forward to at some point
[Verizon Droid Charge] Poloasis:
I see your point and you're exactly right, especially when the GS2 may be here in about 2~4 months. Well what ever the dev can work out for us I'll welcome it. All I need is a super clean ROM and voodoo on the Charge lol

Hey I can dream right?
[Verizon Droid Charge] nitsuj17:
it looks like imnuts is getting closer to his goal to buy a charge....so im sure you ll have ext4 kernels, and clean roms soon enough
[Verizon Droid Charge] tdenton1138:
Just got a Charge for my daughter. Nice phone. May finally upgrade my CM7 OG Droid, but haven't made up my mind. Still kinda waiting on SGS2. I would love to be able to put a stock ROM on her phone though. The bloat is amazing.
[General Questions and Answers] taz_mw:
Hi All,

I'm a newb when it comes to Android. I recently upgraded my DHD to 2.3.3 and noticed an extra feature on the apps which shows the Star i.e. FREQUENT APPS. My question is that is there any way to clear these frequently used apps? I have searched the forums and google but no answers.

Thanks.
[General Questions and Answers] SERGI.3210:
You can use ROM CLEANER TOOL but you only can use it before flashing your rom.. i can't give to you the link because i'm writing from my device...scroll for it in the xda browse (in the top right of the web

sent from my amstrad CPC powered by LOL..(premium xda)
[Acer Iconia A500] kkaytan:
Hi guys, I chanced by this website by acer which shows the official accessories so far by acer for a500

http://www2.acer.com.au/public/shares/imagelibrary/tablets/a500_accessories.xml

saw this selling at aus$39. has anyone tried this yet?

http://www.dymocks.com.au/ProductDetails/ProductDetail.aspx?R=4717276489618
[HTC Sensation] Habbit:
Is the battery life shorter than the life of a fly? I'm coming from a HD2, which I was constantly wanting to turn into a bomb and ship it back to HTC because of it's poor battery life, until I upgraded to CyanogenMod.

The other thread about the phone is filled with silly, useless blabbering about benchmarks, so if you have the phone, could you please spare us drudging through that thread and post your battery life results here?
[HTC Sensation] intel.nehalem:
+1 to T.S

If the Sensation can run more than 8 hours on Battery I'mma pre-order this beast on Handtec asap ;)
[HTC Sensation] eadred:
Good initiative. Change the topic title to 'battery life' or something similar otherwise people interested won't think to look in this topic.
[HTC Sensation] twisted-pixel:
the phone only came out yesterday, it always takes a few charge/discharge cycles to get it conditioned properly, so any comparisons that are done after just one day aren't going to be very accurate. give people a chance!!
[HTC Sensation] umd:
For who?

Don't expect any better battery life than present phones. It's dual core. I don't have it but I think it's predictable. You will get 1 or 2 days depends on how you use it. I'm saying that might be 2 days because for normal usage it will run only one core which is new chipset etc. so it will spend less power than 1 core phones when one core is running. It will spend more power when you play gamse etc. because of 2 cores.
[HTC Sensation] Germian:
As long as it's better than my Desire (AMOLED), I'm happy.

I've installed CM7 and undervolted it and when I run my usual set up (Podcasts/Music, Trillian (Battery Saving Mode), GTalk, Latitude activated) it can happen that it doesn't really reached the end of a typical work day. When I had certain widgets installed, it didn't really reach the end of the day.

I don't need it to last 2 days, but easily one full day with nearly heavy use would be somehow nice...
[HTC Sensation] eXceed:
Had my phone for 3 hours, battery life is about 10 billion times better than my HD2 was. Been using it pretty constantly since, and my battery would have gone down by about 25-30% on my HD2 (mental!!) but battery has gone down by about 5-10% and I haven't even charged it yet. Very happy soo far! :).
[HTC Sensation] sjgore:
I unplugged my phone after it's first charge cycle 7h 38m ago. It's gone from 100% to 23%.

During that time, my phone has been used almost constantly, including benchmarking, taking screenshots, as well as the usual few phonecalls, facebook updates every hour and Twitter updates every hour. Plus, of course, all the mucking around that we all do when we get new phones! :)
[HTC Sensation] Habbit:
sjgore, great news! I have a question about your signature, how could you possibly be holding both your phone and your baby at the same time in each hand? :D
[HTC Sensation] Ibb1982:
Thats is very promising, waiting for my Sensation! Have to wait a damn week though!
[HTC Sensation] Barff1984:
This thread is relevent to my interests...
[HTC Sensation] bfspider:
A good reliable benchmark will be good only after everyone stops playing with their new phone for 23 hours out of the day! :)

Can't wait to get mine when it hits the US soon!

Also, battery conditioning isn't applicable to these kind of batteries. The first charge is as good as the 50th or the 100th. Of course, this is pending the lifetime of the battery. They do wear out!
[HTC Sensation] Barlows:
I have been using my phone since 8am this morning, the battery is at 53%

My HD2 would have easily been dead by now!
[HTC Sensation] aoryx:
thats promising
[HTC Sensation] eadred:
Could please more users comment regarding battery experience so far? Even though you might still hope for an improvement after several charges, I'd like to know how it has been for you guys for the first couple of days. Thanks
[HTC Sensation] PygoShlee:
I charged mine about half 5 yesterday, been using it as normal and had WiFi turned on, and its just hit 25%.

A lot better than my Desire HD.

Sent from my HTC Sensation :)
[HTC Sensation] Omicron90:
Mine's been off charge since about 9:30, and today I've been recording some 1080p video clips, taken some photos, playing Angry Birds and general usage. It's currently at 65%. So I'm pretty happy all in all!
[HTC Sensation] dinan:
Ok people who say "I've been off the charger since XX:XX and I'm at XX%, my YYY phone would've been dead by now!" please stop... people use their phones every differently and moderate/heavy usage varies greatly among different people.

If possible just look at your battery graph and report how long it says it's been off the charger, and also press display to see the DISPLAY TIME ON. Also, if you've made a lot of calls, report the voice call time as well. Signal strength is another major factor.

With Gingerbread it's MUCH easier to see battery life performance because of that new graph. Signal strength, display on, awake, etc. are very important in determining how long the battery will last and also if your phone isn't getting as much juice as you think it should.
[HTC Sensation] sjgore:
20 hours 5 mins off charge, 100% to 39%, display time 1 hour 26 mins. WiFi on all that time. Is that any use?

Edit: Forgot to say, my phone's on its third charge cycle now.
[HTC Sensation] dinan:
Thanks. Did you make many calls? 1.5 hours of screen on time seems like light usage for 20 hours off the charger. The battery life on this phone seems quite average... on par with other 1500mah phones I guess.

More data is always welcome =)
[HTC Sensation] sjgore:
No calls. Twitter, Facebook, and internet viewing, mainly. I also took some photos and a 2 minute 1080p video, plus playing it back a couple of times. And some mucking around with configuring ADWLauncher.EX. I also have the weather lockscreen and the weather live wallpaper, both quite CPU intensive.
[HTC Sensation] Philio25:
Battery life is WAY better than my SGS! Both running 2.3.3, SGS no SIM, off charge 12 hours.

Sensation is on 80%, SGS on 34%, light usage doing some app testing today.

Sensation figures:

Display 70% (38min)

Wifi 11%

Cell standby 9%

Phone idle 7%

Camera 3%

Maps 2%
[HTC Sensation] edcmeister:
Good news for you, my sensation managed well over 7 hours and I was using it to stream music over WiFi and surf the net simultaneously, played games, etc. WiFi on, synch on, brightness at 40% (which looks good), The battery lasted longer than I expected. Highly reccomended phone.
[HTC Sensation] eadred:
I beg to differ. It is always interesting when people compare with previous phones. In my opinion it gives a very good idea of the battery life, cause most of us have had experiences with the phones they are talking about. But of course, the further details are also welcome. Thanks to all that have reported so far. This is very helpful. Keep it going!
[HTC Sensation] kponti:
Ok ok I must be missing something here...I thought the Sensation doesnt hit Tmobile till June 8th?? How do all of you have it already?
[HTC Sensation] animaleyes76:
They have it on Vodafone UK which released it on May 19th :)
[HTC Sensation] jonyid:
so will it be released on t-mobile uk on june 8th? i'm due an upgrade with t-mobile and REALLY want the sensation. could get it now on vodafone or wait and get it on t-mobile. if it will be released then i will wait to make it easier
[HTC Sensation] liljom:
I think the most important question is when will it get rooted :D
[HTC Sensation] familyhousing:
Battery life is very good. Today's use from 8:30 am:

25 minutes Bluetooth audio streaming.

10 minutes call to Vodafone (they messed up my number porting)

30 minutes 3g web browsing at lunchtime.

Showing off sense 3 to several colleagues.

Reading several emails etc.

15 minutes browsing xda and writing this message.

Battery now at about 70% ! About double what my HTC legend would have had remaining.
[HTC Sensation] Lazzzara:
Figured you guys would want to see these. I forgot to charge it last night but it had been on charge shortly before so it was at about 70% when I went to sleep. Just hit 15% and it put itself into "power save mode" (no 3G, no wifi).

Fairly light usage to be fair. Checking emails that came in (15 or so), a couple of text messages, couple of phone calls, bit of Facebook and Twitter and Pulse. The big drop near the start was playing on an N64 emulator but I can't remember what I did to cause the drop at the end...
[HTC Sensation] Barff1984:
we need more posts like this

thank you for this image
[HTC Sensation] rp-x1:
pretty much constant web, market and facebook chat usage on 3G, plus a few 3 or so minute calls = down to 12% battery by about 2pm (unplugged 7am)
[HTC Sensation] :
I will be interested to hear more like this post. Very informative and gives you an idea what to expect.

cheers man..

EDIT: Can you also check if you can shoot pic or video if the charge drops below 15/10%? And how much it consumes if you watch a video, say for 30mins? Thanks
[HTC Sensation] Elchemist:
Hey edcmeister,

During the 7 hours what % would you say was active use and how much was the phone in sleep/idle ?

thanks
[HTC Sensation] phi11ip:
Left the phone on my desk today. It was still on 100% this morning at about 7am...

20hrs 3mins on battery

Wi-Fi 34%

Cell standby 23%

Phone idle 26%

Maps 7% - Used for a few minutes last night...

Display 5%

Phone level is 92% still... so I make that 250 hours at least on standby with Wi-Fi on and next to no usage. Not bad little fella, not bad.

Now to wait for tomorrow when my number gets transferred over and I actually use the thing!
[HTC Sensation] Lazzzara:
Put it back on charge an hour ago so the power save mode tests will have to wait. I'll try out the video playback in a minute.
[HTC Sensation] giorgisp:
It seems that when cpu intensive applications were running the battery dropped too fast. Like at the beginning of the graph where the emulator was running. Most probably the second core of the cpu is beign activated and consumes a lot of power. A bit worrying, isn't it?
[HTC Sensation] Lazzzara:
Go into Settings > Wireless and Networks > Wi-Fi settings > Menu > Advanced > Wi-Fi Sleep Policy > Never when plugged in/After 15 min

Wifi connects as soon as you turn on the screen, but you'll save a lot of battery.
[HTC Sensation] Bratag:
Not really. Thats the way I would expect it to be. Emulators have ALWAYS been a way to drain your battery in no time flat as they max out the cpu and in this case perhaps both cpus. For day to day use chances are you are going to be running one cpu high while the other idles along using less clock speed (thats where sensation has it over the SG II). Games are great and all but I need a phone that I can surf the web on and read my docs etc. Emulators I play either while plugged in or only for short periods.
[HTC Sensation] solsearch:
T-Mobile US on June 8th. T-Mobile UK sometime in June but the actual day is unknown as of yet as far as I know.
[HTC Sensation] jonyid:
cheers mate, i definitely want to wait so will be anxious as to see when the announce a release date
[HTC Sensation] MaxReality:
I will be using this at wedding/honeymoon this weekend. So will be testing this week, how long it lasts filming 1080p onto a 32GB card. Will pass on results for max recording time per video and also how long battery lasts.
[HTC Sensation] Lazzzara:
Just got down to 10% again (and I've been using it heavily all day). You CAN use the camera when in Power save mode, but it won't let you use the flash. It also turns off vibrations, puts the screen at minimum brightness, disables background data, bluetooth and Wi-Fi, disables animations and reduces screen timeout. You can pick whether you want it to do all of that or just some of it in the settings, and of course you can turn off power save mode whenever you want.
[HTC Sensation] Bratag:
Thats actually kinda cool. I like when I have options on how I want something done. Makes you wonder why the bloody hell they locked down the bootloader.
[HTC Sensation] zkyevolved:
Can you set it 25% and then have it go into edge? That would be fantastic hehe. :)

How long did your battery last?
[HTC Sensation] Lazzzara:
You can choose at what % the Power saver kicks in. No option to just go down to 2G, just to stop background data.

I charge overnight, but when testing the battery life I left it off charge one night. Lasted 8am day one to about 6pm day two with low/moderate usage (checking facebook, twitter, few texts, couple of calls, gmail, web browsing). I don't image anyone will have any trouble if you're putting it on charge each night. Unless you play hours and hours of games every day...
[HTC Sensation] zkyevolved:
Not games. But I do like to write lots of emails. SMS. And whatsapp messages. So I'm a heavy texter. I hope it would last at least a day. I don't mind charging every 15 hours or so. But I can't charge every 6!!!!
[HTC Sensation] gaweer:
can i ask how many hours battery last in continuous 3g surfing/screen on? my dhd only last 4 hours and 20 minutes in continuous 3g surfing.
[HTC Sensation] eadred:
Someone earlier in this thread reported 7h30 approximatively.
[HTC Sensation] eadred:
You probably need to change your SIM card. Few other users have reported issues with old SIM. Other Sensation users report going easily through a day with a single charge and medium/heavy use.
[HTC Sensation] Jennerster:
Here is my battery use for the day. I would say under pretty heavy use.
[HTC Sensation] shan123:
Does it have battery life similar to iPhone 4?
[HTC Sensation] Hamsn:
That's good statistics. One thing which always puts iPhone ahead is the battery life it offers and when you need just music playback the iPhone 4 gives phenomenal battery life. We don't need iPhone like, but we need something better to last for a day and half at least.
[HTC Sensation] rumpleforeskin:
My girlfriends iphone4 came off charge at 0730 when she left for work and on a good day it will still have charge when she got back at 1800. Admitidly she does make alot of calls and emails but the ihpone 4 was no better that the desire she had before it and quite a bit worse than the desire HD she has now.

I cant figure out if your asking if the battery is good or bad?
[HTC Sensation] X46X:
What is this program please?
[HTC Sensation] sjgore:
It's part of Android. Just go to "Settings > About > Battery > Battery Use".
[HTC Sensation] Habbit:
Can we get some more updates about the Sensation's battery life? I think the deciding factor in my purchase of the phone is how many times I'll have to charge it during the day.
[HTC Sensation] familyhousing:
Today I have used my Sensation as follows:

Disconnected from charger at 8am.

Read news, and other browsing, engadet app etc (about 15 minutes)

30 minutes music playback VIA Bluetooth.

30 minutes browsing the web etc at lunchtime.

Phone calls for about 3 minutes (yes, tragic I know)

Reading emails throughout the day (imap 30 minute check).

Satnav (google maps) for about 20 minutes + reading the news at the same time (as a passenger in the car!)

2 photos taken and Bluetooth'd to a friend.

30 minutes more browsing on WiFi and typing this message.

Battery is now showing 6 out of 10 bars after 12 hours 50 minutes on battery.

* sorry, just to correct, that was a typo. Should have read 11 hours 50 minutes *
[HTC Sensation] giorgisp:
That is indeed very good! My Desire would be dead :p
[HTC Sensation] aruninoc:
Excellent details !! very encouraging
[HTC Sensation] Phil750123:
I have to say my battery usage is hit and miss, Ive had really good days and really bad days!

Best:

Took it off charge at 7am - quick wifi and check of emails etc... around 15 mins

then same again around 11am -

Then heavy usage at lunch time bit of angry birds and reading rss etc.. about 45 mins.

then heavy usage from about 6pm full wifi - gaming emails etcc....

No calls in the day but sent around 100 texts.

After that i still had about 55% left.

I would say medium-heavy usage wifi on alot and fair bit gaming

and general use. If i did this on my desire it would have died by now.

THEN!

Day after:

Quick check of emails wifi on etc...for 15 mins,

then bit of texting, but thats it till around 12 - at this point my battery

was at 70% (so a bad start)

Then bit of gaming at lunch and it was dropped to 50% ,

same all afternoon and was down to 30% by 5.

I would call this medium usage and was down to 30% by 5!

However, i do think something is draining my battery, so got rid

of a few apps i downloaded the night inbetween , because the

2 days couldnt be more apart!

Although overall i would say a marked improvement over my desire.

And to be honest i was happy with my desire.

On a side note - i would recommend this phone worth the upgrade

from my desire (I see it as they got the desire, and made everything in it

a little bit better , bar the screen which is loads better, and that has

come out with a very good phone)
[HTC Sensation] kolyan:
I thought battery on this phone supposed to last like 2 days or something....My HTC HD2 with Android and 1250 battery is good for about 14-16 hours.
[HTC Sensation] VideoVeteran:
So it seems the big variations may be related to the % associated with "Display" consumption? I just did a short-term test. After 3.5 Hours where the

only

activity was a single 2 minute phone call, my batter status shows 50% of consumption is from "Display" Why? The display has been off for all but 2 minutes. That is only about 1% of the time with the display on. So why would display consume over 50% of my power during this interval?

I've seen some posts in this thread where it was reported that after 20 hours or more the display only accounted for less than 10%. On my phone I've never seen it go below 50%. Is something wrong?
[HTC Sensation] karnovaran:
The display consumes at a higher rate than any other process you used, so this makes perfect sense. For example say the display consumes at 20x the rate of cell standby. It would take 40 minutes of cell standby to equal the 2 minutes of display use (they would each be 50% at that point assuming no other processes).

If you want to see your display have a lower percentage, fire up some internet radio and turn off the display for a good hour. I would bet it'll be far below 50% at that point.
[HTC Sensation] Robboftw:
I'm getting about 20-30 hours out of mine with fairly heavy use, certainly more than average.

I'll run it down to about 10% and then post up the details.
[HTC Sensation] SCossio:
There is no way you are getting 20 to 30 hours on a single charge with heavy usage. Not even with moderate usage I would say. I have already trained my battery and at that I get about 6 to maybe 8 hours of light to moderate usage before I hit power saver at about 10% and by the way my screen brightness is set to the lowest possible brightness
[HTC Sensation] Robboftw:
6 to 8 hours with light-moderate use? That's pretty terrible. Have you got masses of stuff syncing?
[HTC Sensation] zahashingo123:
Pretty impressed.

Left the phone on but locked while I slept after I charged it fully

When I woke up 9 hours later it was still at 100%
[HTC Sensation] kolyan:
maybe you forgot to unplug it....

9 hours and 0 battery loss is BULL unless you are on air plane mode or something
[HTC Sensation] Robboftw:
If you don't have anything really syncing it isn't bull.

Perhaps it reads it a bit wrong, as it seems to drop in 2% increments sometimes and things like that.
[HTC Sensation] karnovaran:
I've seen many remark positively about the Sensation's standby time. 0% drain after 9 hours is obviously not something we should expect, but from all accounts it's much more efficient on standby than previous HTCs.
[HTC Sensation] hah2110:
Did you actually have cell service during that time? That is INSANE.
[HTC Sensation] magnum_touchpro:
i unplugged my phone at 5am this morning and its now 10am and im still @ 10/10 bars full..