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[HTC Sensation] webmaster:
I did four or five (I dont recall) full discharge/recharge cycles when I first got the Anker just to be sure. It does last me 12 hours but that is with me leaving it in my pocket afraid to touch it. If I send a few emails or texts it will be dead within 8 or 9 hours at the most. Since I typically receive a few hundred emails each day I recently turned off the vibrate alert when I get a new message. This seems to have given me a little longer battery life.
[HTC Sensation] daewond3r:
Thanks to all the glowing reviews in here I just ordered my Anker batt with charger. Can't wait to have an extra battery to swap!
[HTC Sensation] /devnull:
I've had the Anker now for a month and did 5 full charge/discharge cycles from the day it arrived. I get 36 hours if I leave the phone in my pocket or laying on a table with light usage (wifi, mobile data and synchronization on, auto screen brightness, a few phone calls for a few minutes, a couple dozen text messages). I get a good 24 hours, same settings, with medium usage (about 40 text messages, web browsing for research topics, 1 hour of phone calls and only using bluetooth when actually on a call, about a dozen turn plays on Word Feud and Words with Friends each and screen on for almost 5 hours) and still wind up having 20% left on the battery. My minimum and maximum voltages on the battery are 3109mV and 4122mV respectively. I only use my phone to charge except for the last full cycle which then I used the external charger the pair of batteries came with and only then to top it off. I always charged with my phone off with fast boot off during the initial cycles and I haven't bothered to turn fast bout back on since. I am stock ROM from the most recent TMO OTA update, S-ON, not rooted.
[HTC Sensation] Bathyon:
Works great

I got mine yesterday (anker 1900) and put it in the phone last night. It started up at 70% and quickly started to drop in percentage. I started to charge it and went to sleep.

So first day:

Woke up at 07.00 and unplugged my phone.

A bit of playing around with it during morning routines.

20 min of reading and installing apps on my way to work.

A few calls during the day and some browsing, news reading etc.

Went to a friend around 17.30 with 78% left of the battery. Used it alot on the way to try to drain battery.

Later I played games for 20 min to drain it. After that I started streaming online video via Voddler just leaving it on the table. Did that for 1.5 hours. After that I played local video files for 45 minutes just leaving it in my bag on my way home. I got home around 22.20 and still have 40 %. Still playing videos (100% brightness) to drain battery and closing in on 35% (after 16 hrs). Going this rate I wont be able to kill it before I go to sleep.

Even if it dies on me on 35% (wrong battery status or whatever) it is still alot more battery than I ever got out of my phone. This is on the first cycle.

For 15 bucks it was worth a try and its certantly not worse than stock so far.

Rom: TripNMiui
[HTC Sensation] PamelaGirl:
My Anker battery arrived and I am on the third recharge cycle from 100% to 0%

After a reboot the battery percentage reading is all over the place... I went from 87% to 52% to 41% just after doing two consecutive reboots.

Any feedback would be much appreciated.
[HTC Sensation] sakuul:
I get my results from the discharge cycle, more accurate that way
[HTC Sensation] mikea3000:
The battery life is definitely better for me. Only "problem" I have is following the manufacturers recommendation to do 4 or 5 full discharges. I cant seem to use the phone enough to do this, which technically is a good thing because with my general usage on the stock battery i would be at 40% by 1PM.

Am i ultimately reducing my possible battery life by not fully discharging? Is it too late to try to fully discharge it 4 times now that I have charged it without it being fully dead?
[HTC Sensation] gtrplr71:
Connect charger's two floating pins to battery's positive + and negative - points respectively.

Then the indicator will turn red, which suggests that the charger is in charge mode.

(Red = charging, Blue = full);

• Charging automatically stops when the battery is full.
[HTC Sensation] usual_suspect:
I can't seem to get mine to drop that low. Lowest Ive seen is 3255mV when battery was at 1% just before it shut itself down. Ive seen 4157mV max though.

On my 5th charge/discharge cycle now and couldnt be more happy with the performance of this battery for £9.99. Can just about get 6 hours of screen on time now (was getting 4 -5ish on HTC battery). With moderate use I'm just about getting 2 full days out of it (34 hours aprox) providing I switch it off while sleeping over night.
[HTC Sensation] nrvnqsrxk:
Yea something doesn't sound right, see if you can contact the seller and if he can do anything for you.

Sent from my HTC Sensation
[HTC Sensation] Seferi:
I got a Anker battery over a week ago. Did 5 cycles with battery, S-OFF & Rooted and installed Android Revolution 3.1.1 on the device. After few days when the rom stabilized the battery i can get 24 hours with medium usage. I definitely recommend the battery, for 10 bucks its well worth it.
[HTC Sensation] NinetoFive:
I recently got one and i went through the 5x discharge cycle

however, I've just noticed that my % indicator is incorrect. It'll show me 30% and if i restart it, it'll jump up to 45%. I'm assuming that's because the phone is calculating it based on the only 1500 but when it restarts it realizes it actually has more --seemingly 1700 like you guys are saying which makes sense as it's about 15% more than the stock's 1500

Would this have affected the cycling when the phone turned off on its own--usually because battery is dead? ie: phone turned off thinking it was near 0% but really it had about 15% more but the phone didn't know it until it was restarted?
[HTC Sensation] mikea3000:
Does this seem like normal usage? 45% after being off the charger for 10.5 hours. Screen time is 1.5 hours and talk time is 1 hour. No other usage really just phone calls and emails. I expected better, no?
[HTC Sensation] reload0815:
not better then the stock...
[HTC Sensation] mikea3000:
Really? How can I make it better?

What do other think? Is this normal usage?
[HTC Sensation] mikea3000:
Ok, now I am 15 hours off the charger with medium texting. One hour of calls, some light browsing. Total screen time is 2 hours 20 min. I have 20% battery left. Does this sound like the usage I am supposed to get from the Anker?
[HTC Sensation] usual_suspect:
Well its certainly a lot worse than what I got out of the stock battery, and I get even more out of the Anker now. I can get around 34 hours (2 waking days) with moderate use

or

up to 6 hours of screen on time over 1 full day with the Anker. So comparing with this yours isnt doing very well.

The problem is, results seem to vary greatly on these phones, and its more likely the phone rather than the battery somehow. If you read through this thread you will find plenty of people getting much better results than you, and you will also find people getting much worse results such as dead in 12 hours of light use. I would say yours is performing a little poor but certainly not as bad as some of the horror stories Ive read on here. As long as your getting more than you were with the stock battery your Anker is doing what its supposed to.

Anyone getting twice the battery life they were getting with the stock battery from the Anker must of had a dud stock battery.
[HTC Sensation] mikea3000:
Thanks. I never got an opportunity to run it down all the way 4 or 5 times. Could that be causing poorer life? Is it too late to run it down 4 time now that I have charged it multiple times with it being completely empty?
[HTC Sensation] nrvnqsrxk:
Nah, I would charge it to 100%, calibrate the battery stats, and then go ahead and run it into the ground four or five times.

Sent from my HTC Sensation
[HTC Sensation] mikea3000:
How do i calibrate the battery stats? Do I have to be rooted?
[HTC Sensation] MMoodyB:
The stock HTC battery would do this on my Sensation, so it's not because of the Anker.

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[HTC Sensation] wr8_utd:
Battery is brilliant till the 15% mark. After that it seems to plummet for me.
[HTC Sensation] gtrplr71:
One quick question I am running the 1900 battery with Revolution and CWM should let the phone die?I read there was a problem with that. I am at 15% with 24 hours on the 1st full charge.
[HTC Sensation] /devnull:
I mistyped, my maximum voltage is 4221mV.

I don't turn my phone off at all during the night.

I agree, great purchase for the two batteries plus external charger for $30 USD.
[HTC Sensation] usual_suspect:
Well Ive been busy the last couple of days and havnt used my phone quite as much as usual. With light to moderate usage over the last couple of days I'm now coming up to 45 hours since last charged (with almost 5 hours of screen on time included) and have 12% battery left. Nice :)

You can see from the pic after the phone has been switched off (over night) when switched back on the battery % reads a little too high for a short time before correcting itself. It did get this on the stock battery aswell though, so its not the Anker battery itself at fault. This seems to be a common thing with the Sensation, something I didnt really notice on my Desire.

Cheers
[HTC Sensation] rolf90:
Just got a anker battery today, and charged it up and drained it by watching youtube, from my experience it took quite a while to drain it! But I'm going to be let it charge and die a couple times and see what I get.

I'm running cm7 with cm kernel.
[HTC Sensation] mathrania:
See...I dont know if i am reposting this(in this thread), but this is my 4th (yes FOURTH) HTC SENSATION phone. On previous 3 phones, all developed the same problem, i.e. faulty MIC/messed up MIC. On a phonecall, the voice to other party was kind of gabbled, they could not understand what i was speaking(with Handsfree kit,it was perfect). Now I am not sure either it was the ANKER BATTERY or it was the app called "Volume +" which f**ed up my previous 3 sensations. But on my recent one, which i am using from last 1 month, i have not inserted my Anker Battery nor do i have installed "Volume +" and the phone is working perfectly fine.

I just came back to see if somebody else is getting this issue.

I want to verify if the Anker battery is the culprit , but how do i ?
[HTC Sensation] peterc10:
The chances of it being the Anker battery are remote. Can't see anyway using a different battery can have any affect on the sound quality both in and out. And I certainly can't see anyway it would have a permanent affect even when you took the old battery out and put the stock battery back in.

And if you haven't seen any reports of the same problem from anybody else in the 924 (last count) posts in this thread (I can't be bothered to check em all) then I guess nobody else has this problem - I certainly don't since I have been using my Anker battery

This is much more likely to be a software issue. I would almost certainly say it was the app you are using. I can't even find it in the market (unless you mean Volume control +, which has reasonably good feedback) - where did you get it from? Why not just put the anker battery in and see?

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Yep I agree with these sentiments. I always judge an organisation by how well they react when something goes wrong, after all even the worst companies are good when it all works. As I understand it Anker are the trade name for a small Californian company called Laptopmate.

I had a small problem with the charger that came with the Anker batteries supplied from Amazon here in the UK. I must say both Amazon and Laptopmate were brilliant. After a couple of very helpful and friendly emails from Laptopmate it all got sorted out very quickly and to my entire satisfaction. I judge people (and companies) by their actions, and their actions were very good.
[HTC Sensation] daewond3r:
I got my battery yesterday and boy am I glad to have 2 batteries to swap!

Question though...Is there any downside to using two batteries with different capacities? Is my phone getting confused every time I go from OEM to Anker?
[HTC Sensation] gtrplr71:
the phone will never properly calibrate but it won't hurt it you would be better off buying another anker with the same capacity.
[HTC Sensation] usual_suspect:
Agreed....
[HTC Sensation] Krayol:
We're in danger of going OT here, so my apologies for that (and my promise not to continue :)), but I'm pretty certain that it was the App.

I used another similar app, installed day 1, and I never suspected it. I almost took the phone back it was so bad. Eventually I uninstalled everything and the problem went away! I then added back in one by one(!) and found the cuprit.

Also, I can't see how a battery would affect it (I use 2 of these in cycle) and I don't recall seeing any posts with symptoms like that.

(Of course, YMMV: I am wrong occasionally! :o).
[HTC Sensation] haidodn:
I got it few day ago and it worked well..thanks for tp
[HTC Sensation] blabub:
Hello

I'm from switzerland and I can't buy this product here. (like millions of other products...)

Does somebody is interested in the UK to buy it for me and sent it to switzerland?

The product is http://www.amazon.co.uk/Anker-1900m...K7YS/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1316509917&sr=8-3.

If somebody would help me please sent a PM.

About money transfer, shipment costs and so on we can discuss.

Thanks!
[HTC Sensation] EniHS:
Hi!

I'm from Poland and also can't buy this battery from here.

Maybe there is someone, who can buy it and send it to me? PM me please.

Thanks
[HTC Sensation] thickestice:
You can buy the Anker battery here :

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Anker-Batte...Accessories&hash=item20bb6b2873#ht_500wt_1156

Anker Battery w/ charger :

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Anker-Batte...Accessories&hash=item20bb80d52f#ht_500wt_1413
[HTC Sensation] peterc10:
I have had my Anker batteries a week now. I have just calibrated and measured one of them using Battery Monitor Widget Pro and it says it has a capacity of 2247mAh!!! That is much higher than the 1900mAh claimed by Anker. :D
[HTC Sensation] ciaphuas:
I did my own tests on the Anker battery and I saw a 16% - 18% improvement. My charts and analysis are here.

http://www.blamza.com/anker-1900-mah-battery-review-for-htc-sensation/
[HTC Sensation] nrvnqsrxk:
Nice writeup.

Sent from my HTC Sensation
[HTC Sensation] nicky041192:
27% left :)
[HTC Sensation] ciaphuas:
Thank you :)
[HTC Sensation] ali_plus:
Guys please tell me. Which one is better.

Anker 1900mAh Li-ion Battery for HTC Sensation G14 Z710E - White

Price: £11.99

2 Anker 1900mAh Li-ion Batteries for HTC Sensation, G14, Z710E + Free Anker Multi-purpose USB Travel Charger

Price:	£17.99

2 Anker 1900mAh Li-ion Batteries for HTC Sensation, G14, Z710E + Free Anker USB/Universal Travel Charger

Price:	£17.99

Someone from U.K please confirm me as I am in Middle-East and my friend is going to bring this for me....
[HTC Sensation] usual_suspect:
All 3 links are the battery you want, first you need to decide if you just want 1 battery to put in and charge in your phone or if you want an extra battery and a seperate charger.

If your happy with 1 battery then choose the cheapest option which is the first link. If you decide to pay a little extra for the extra battery and charger it depends what your plug sockets are like in the middle east. If theyre like us plug sockets choose the second link, if theyre like the uk sockets choose the third link.

For the record I just went for the single anker battery thats on your first link.

Cheers
[HTC Sensation] frostmore:
Can anyone confirm that the temperature when using anker dod no go past 40 degrees when surfing the net or watching moives??

my stock battery have no problem clocking in 40++ degrees.and my cores aren't even OC'ed....
[HTC Sensation] jdaclutch:
Got my anker battery yesterday, it just died an hour ago. Got 25 hours out of it. I'm impressed(only first charge):)
[HTC Sensation] Speedy72:
25hrs? But at what usage? I'm at 15 hours and at 56% now with an Evo3D battery, but it's only laying standby on my desk.
[HTC Sensation] usual_suspect:
Im at 15 hrs with 72% battery left, thats with 1 hr 45mins screen on time.

Cheers

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Its impossible to confirm the Anker battery doesnt go past 40c due to the sensation not reporting the correct temp with 3rd party batteries.

What I can tell you for certain is it definitely runs cooler than my stock battery did from touch (how hot the back of the phone feels). My stock battery would hit 40c with heavy usage sometimes and highest I saw was 46c. I would say the hottest its got with the Anker battery feels roughly how hot the phone felt when the stock battery reported 37/38c. Hope this helps.

Cheers
[HTC Sensation] DioNYc777:
I got my anker battery a week ago and happy so far
[HTC Sensation] peterc10:
As others have already said they are all the same batteries, it is whether you want one or two. I ordered the 2nd one you list, but, confusingly, actually got delivered the same charger as the 3rd one. Now the 3rd one is showing as out of stock. So if you just want one battery and will charge it is the phone - go for the 1st one. If you want 2 batteries and the ability to charge outside of the phone go for the 2nd one.

And I too agree that these batteries are very good.
[HTC Sensation] cmarti:
They are on sale now on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005FUKKYQ
[HTC Sensation] alprk:
I have the anker 1900mA, has anyone used current widget to see there standard drain over time. I want to compare and see if mine is excessive?
[HTC Sensation] nicky041192:
take BMW with a grain of salt. Not accurate.
[HTC Sensation] felichan:
So I just got the battery yesterday and I didn't realize that I should drain the battery out of the package, so I put it into the wall charger until it charged full and then put it into the phone today. I got about 5 hours so far and only 57% left... Is there something wrong? Did I mess it up by charging the battery first??

:(
[HTC Sensation] blabub:
Thanks a lot, just ordered. :-)
[HTC Sensation] Gunkk:
Naw. You're fine. Just do the 4 charge-drain cycles per instructions.

Sent from my Bricked Energy ROM Sensation.
[HTC Sensation] dmcnaughton:
Today's batteries don't have the "memory" issue that plagued previous tech. Just like others have said, do a few full drain and charge cycles. If that doesn't help try wiping your battery stats in CWRecovery and do another full cycle. Should show an accurate reading then.
[HTC Sensation] BshadoW1:
i use the anker for a week now.

for now all is looking good.
[HTC Sensation] luka_d:
I'm using Anker battery for a month now,and i can say there is an improvement in average battery life of about 15%,so i recommend it :D
[HTC Sensation] Jesushasadroid:
I got this bad boy...noticed big difference in battery life...20 percent...maybe even 25...very nice addition...no worries about about phone dying anymore..
[HTC Sensation] thegregulator:
Just ordered mine. I'm encouraged by how happy everyone seems to be with their batteries.
[HTC Sensation] cmarti:
I ordered one too!

With so many users here happy with the increase battery life I can't go wrong buying one!
[HTC Sensation] jeffokada81:
Anyone tried the 2300mah version?

I ordered one anyways, ill try to report battery life when it comes in the Mail....

http://www.ebay.com/itm/25085809558...X:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649#ht_2858wt_1163

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I read that you need to charge and recharge after used 3-5 times then battery will start to hold a larger charge.
[HTC Sensation] usual_suspect:
A few quotes from the sellers feedback...

'The battery offers far less then the offered capacity!!!'

'Does not last long , even after several chargings'

'Battery capacity/life poor. Second battery the same. mAh less than stated'

Ok, so you cant tell which battery the feedbacks for, as the auctions are private, but it doesnt install much confidence.

Goodluck anyway, I hope it performs well for you.
[HTC Sensation] Niekjuh:
I'm using my second Anker battery now.

The first one got randomly freezes, looks likes the phone was off, and won't start up again. Have to pull out the battery and restart it. Almost everytime when I was cycling or it was just plugged of the charger.

The second one got less issues. But still freezing @ night or sometimes when it is plugged of the charger. Black screen, looks like it is off, pull battery -> restart....

Hate it!
[HTC Sensation] peterc10:
Are you sure the battery is the problem? I can't see how it can do that. It is much more likely to the software related - pulling the battery is often the only way to get rid of some problems when apps go wrong.
[HTC Sensation] Niekjuh:
Maybe I explained it wrong, it is not a freeze I think.

The phone is completely off, nobody can call me or send me a message then. But it doesn't respond on the on button, to restart it. First have to pull the battery and then it starts up when i press the power button.

I don't have these problems with the original HTC battery...
[HTC Sensation] peterc10:
Still more likely to be a software problem. What new apps did you install or start to use just before it happened. Or it could be that you have a dodgy contact between the phone and the battery. Try cleaning those up and making sure all four of the battery connectors on the phone stick down the right amount.
[HTC Sensation] Niekjuh:
I can't remember any apps I start using since i'm using the anker battery. But I still think it's not a software related problem, when is put my HTC battery back in it works perfect!

Already cleaned it up.

The only thing that could mess with the battery should be Battery Monitor Pro, deleted it a few min's ago and will see what it does now.
[HTC Sensation] PamelaGirl:
2300mAh Extended Battery for HTC Sensation sounds like the motherload!

It's a good price and probably will want some feedback before buying one.
[HTC Sensation] peterc10:
If that does cure it can you let me know please, because I use that app too (the one by 3c). I haven't seen any problems at the moment with it, but I don't want to risk it if it causing you problems
[HTC Sensation] Niekjuh:
Will do that.
[HTC Sensation] SDT:
Did anyone else actually measure Anker's capacity with battery monitor widget (or similar app)? It said 1980mAh. I wonder if this is reliable. :confused:
[HTC Sensation] nicky041192:
Not accurate. Been said so many times!
[HTC Sensation] peterc10:
The last 3 times I have calibrated with Battery Monitor Widget Pro I got figures of 2300mAh, 3300mAh and 2800MhA. So all well above the 1900 stated capacity, but such a wide range that I do not know how far above it really is. Very disappointed by this app if it gives such wildly wrong answers - the only reason I bought it was to calibrate the battery to see what its capacity is.

So is there any more accurate app that can measure the capacity of the battery in the phone?
[HTC Sensation] felichan:
hmm... so i've cycled the battery through three times now and there's still not a drastic difference in the battery life. I'll drop down to 80~% in the first two hours after staying at 100% for an hour, and then when the phone shuts off from complete battery drainage, plugging the charger back in will jump the battery level back to around 20%.

I'm wondering if I got a defective battery?? Because it's only been lasting me for about 12 hours on very light usage.
[HTC Sensation] nicky041192:
38% left. :)

Had to reboot once. That's why there is a spike.
[HTC Sensation] Hereisphilly:
Just got my battery through, and I'm very impressed. A full 16 hours moderate use, and I'm still at 55%! Normally the stock battery would be at the 15% mark, so this is definitely £14 well spent!