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[HTC Sensation] Lulabby:
I decided to make a new thread from another thread's reply so more people can see it.

Hi, I dont know where to start....I will try to explain as English is not my native.

I bought my Sensation few days ago and I was very sad as you guys after discovering mine also has death grip issue. I took mine back to the shop and asked them about the problem. They tested my Sensation with their wifi modem and no matter how I holded it in landscape, it only dropped 1 bar. I thought may be because their modem is so close to me so it couldnt prove the problem with them. I took it back home but inside I was still very unsatisfied but wondered why with their wifi, even I tried to walk far a bit but it still didnt drop much.

I went home and tried to configure where the problem is. I remember the shop wifi channel was number 6. Then today, I went to a book coffee shop and with their wifi, I again can hold my Sensation in landscape and the signal was still very strong. I used Wifi analyzer and saw their wifi channel was 6 (normally we leave our wifi at channel 1 by default).

The question raised again why at those 2 places the death grip issue do not occure however it does with my house's wifi. My current wifi modem wireless n, no matter I tried to change its wifi channel to 6, death grip still occured. I change to another old wireless g wifi modem and configure the wifi channel and bump!!! I am writing to you guys in landscape and the wifi is as strong as it can be, only 1 bar dropped.

So to my knowledge and hope, as your hopes too, this is a software related (or maybe hardware related but it will be very sad) that Sensation has problem with wireless n. With wireless g, I havent tested with other channels (1 to 11) but with 6, I am vey happy with the wifi signal right now.

I hope these info would help very much with the death grip issue. I nearly sold my Sensation yesterday after posting it online but I decided to keep it. Now, I am happy that I made the right decision after discover where the problem is.

Edited: I also need our big community do more tests on this and see if the problem has been correctly addressed.
[HTC Sensation] smashpunks:
So , how do you change channels ?
[HTC Sensation] Lulabby:
You change channel in your wifi modem/router.
[HTC Sensation] smashpunks:
Hmmmm will check that out. I think mine's only a single channel
[HTC Sensation] pyn36:
This may be a resolution depending on 2.4 GHz interference in your area, but I happen to have my access point using channel 11 and the death grip issue is still a problem for me.
[Galaxy S II General] orkmaster:
Which one the best profile application? I don't want autorun application.

Sorry for my english.
[HTC Sensation] waveznyc1:
check this out.... it seems pretty cool... but I think only the European ones has this app. does anyone know what its called?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwfyyYnOhJo
[HTC Sensation] mathrania:
Oops...didnt see the app video, i was more concerned about the pic under the phone :D
[HTC Sensation] xnifex:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1099538&highlight=love
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jark99:
Why doesnt the ns have option for vibrate and rringtone? My desire z had that...i cant seem to find a option to enable it!
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jark99:
Umm im using oxygen with trinity kernal. I know in 2.2 they had the option that when receiving a call you could have it vibrate and ring....

edit** never mind figured it out!*Solved*
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] obsanity:
Cm7 has the option.
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thiagodark:
Just enable vibrate to "always" in sound settings...
[Epic 4G General] tlricha:
Ok I believe I am running the latest
[Epic 4G General] CrfEpic4g:
Don't use a kernel for it they run fast enough anyways
[Epic 4G General] bondosho:
No source = no custom kernels.

There won't be any source until the final build is released.
[Epic 4G General] tlricha:
Thanx for the info
[Legend General] collin911:
Hey there i have a HTC Legend running cyanogenmod 7.0.2.The problem is that i can't charge my phone to 100% it usually charges to 65% and it drains very fast but i noticed that i stays on 3% for +- 8 hours with extensive use.I thought that my battery wasn't good anymore but yesterday i tried putting my battery in my friends htc legend and it showed 83% while it showed 13% on mine so i put the battery to charge on my friends phone till it charged to 100%(that means that the battery's still good)but when i reinserted the battery in my phone it showed 65% just like when i charge the battery in my phone.I thought that i could try calibrating my battery but the phone doesn't charge to 100%.I was running blay0's b0.8.4 rom before this cm7 rom and had the same issue.

Any suggestions how i can fix this.
[Legend General] thi3um:
turn off your phone, plug it all night long then restart in cwm recovery and do "wipe battery stats" ( or something like that in advanced)

restart and see
[Legend General] collin911:
I have already tried that i have turned the phone off and left it to charge for two and a half days long without disconnecting the charger but the light still didn't turn green.This is really annoying cause the battery drains fast and when its less than 15% the orange light turns on which i don't like to see
[Legend General] pirate81:
I have the same problem with my Legend since I update from stock 2.1 to 2.2.Actualy because of this I root my Legend then i can calibrate it but nothink seams to help.After all night charging the led is still red and when i start it up it shows 75% and go down fast.(1 hour or so can bring it to 5% easily).After when i switch it off and take out battery for few second and put it back it come back to about 55%.actualy the same problem as you have.:(

I just live with it....i trayed every calibration method and app. and nothink helps.

On another forum one guy told me then it probably need to be recalibrated in factory because i dont have the right tools for it.

I dont think then HTC will do that for me specialy after i root it.

If you find solution please let as know.thanks
[Legend General] Asovse1:
Then unroot it, install your carrier's firmware just the way it came with on the phone, and send it back. :) I would imagine it be hard for them to tell that you've rooted it.

Or just before you do so, check if the battery's still messing around before you send it back.
[Legend General] pirate81:
I have two battery's and the problem is the same with both of them.If is true then they can not understand i will give a tray...i think then this is the first think they will look it at just to tell me f**k you..hahaha:D
[Legend General] diabolique1984:
I' ve the same problem with stock legend 2.2. How can we do?help!:(

Inviato dal mio HTC Legend usando Tapatalk
[Legend General] collin911:
So this is what i tried i drained my battery completely till i had 1% of charge then i put it to charge while the phone was still on and it has been on charge for two days and i see that the phone has charged to 76% usually it would charge to 65% so maybe if i leave it for a couple of days on charge i could get a full 100% charge.So that is my last hope unless you guys find something else.

I will post back if it works for me
[Legend General] collin911:
BTW couldn't it be a kernel problem??
[Legend General] pirate81:
All I know then the problem started when I update from 2.1 to 2.2 stock rom.so my theory is then when you flash new rom the process take some time and energy from battery and when the process is finish the system take current battery state as full which is not true because of used energy from flashing process.So maybe providing DC power with the same voltage as fully charged battery when flashing new rom may fix it.I maybe wrong but in theory it may work.what you think?
[Legend General] diabolique1984:
I have 2.2 since release date,and the problem is present since one month,after about 6 months 'hotspot mode' for home internet.i think is a battery problem (charge and navigate at same time for 2 hours for day)but this thread show that is a common problem!:(

Inviato dal mio HTC Legend usando Tapatalk
[Legend General] vriz27:
i'm having the same kind of trouble for the past 2 months. no matter what i've tried nothing happenned. i'm running custom 2.2 , without rooting or so and charging level stops at 71-75%. drops down relatively quickly until 15% and easily can stay with 3% for over than 5 hours...:confused::confused:. htc suggested to run a factory reset,but even this didn't help. if someone finds a solution it would be ...LEGEND:D...
[Legend General] pirate81:
The phone is actualy charging the battery correctly,i find that out with the multimeter.I measure the battery voltage after all night charge and even then in the phone it shows 75% and voltage 3.950 with multimether i find out then voltage of the battery is 4.220.So thats mean then phone is charging correctly just the indicator(software)doez not interpret it it right.Still is anoying to look at red led after 1-2hours of use.

I have S-ON so maybe even if the calibration app.say after i tray to calibrating then batterystats.bin is deleted it maybe not true becouse of S-ON.

Do you guys with this problem have S-OFF or S-ON?

Maybe is not related to S-OFF or S-ON but who knows...
[Legend General] collin911:
Maybe if we charge the battery till its full and testing it like pirate81 said with a multimeter and then flash a new rom maybe that could fix it has anyone tried this??
[Legend General] pirate81:
I start to think then XDA developers forum is useless...i post my problem hier to get help from people(xda developers)which I think then they actualy know somethink about android but It seams to me then XDAdevelpers actualy dont care..end i am sorry for that....dissapointed.I see then this forum works on basic.."help your self"...where are you XDAdevelopers...we come to your forum because we need help from you...:(

I know you doing it for free so i should be happy for what i get but i was waiting a little bit more of interest....sorry i am just dissapointed.
[Legend General] collin911:
Anyone find a solution?

Would it help if we went back to android 2.1
[Legend General] pirate81:
I allready trayed that..save your time...no changes.:(
[Legend General] collin911:
Can't we just use someone elses battery stats file someone who's battery does charge to 100%
[Legend General] ruVader:
I have same problem for 6 months already and yes, it started when I upgraded from 2.1 to 2.2 and it's only getting worse. It was 95% maximum, then 75% then 65% and now it's 45%.

Changing battery or firmware (custom or official), wiping stats, factory resets or calibrating batteries does not help.

Now it dawned on me that I still heve 2 weeks of warranty left and I think I'll try official service.
[Legend General] pirate81:
Please let as know when you will get it back...if they change just rom and calibrating or you will get new phone.I am interestig if it is software or hardware issue.thanks
[Legend General] collin911:
The same thing happend to me ruVader it just kept on dropping down to random percentages and now i also get 45% too bad i don't have warranty maybe i'll just have too live with it and also i tried to remove my batterystats file via recovery and adb and than i pushed the batterystats file of my friends phone but no luck the os keeps overwriting the file.

Tell us how it works out.
[Legend General] djsubtronic:
You might need to recalibrate your battery (charging to max, then letting it drain to zero, about three times). Failing that you might need a new battery.
[Legend General] collin911:
Calibrating doesn't help we have already tried that the battery just doesn't charge fully and it can't be the battery cause it charges fully on my friends legend
[Legend General] diabolique1984:
Any news?:(
[Legend General] ruVader:
Well, I finally get phone to service (sorry, I was not able to do it earlier due to real life invtervention in my plans, and now it is 2 days of warranty left :D). I described problem to them as clealry as I could in short time I had (though they demanded my charger anyway) and they told me to contact them after 5-7 days.

I'll report here every piece of information I'll be able to obtain from'em (not that I worry much about my Legend cause I bought Incredible S already, but I just want to know cause of problem and way to fix it if there is any).
[Legend General] collin911:
Yes tell us how it works out.
[Legend General] pirate81:
I cant wait for the result...let as know please...thanks
[Legend General] tongqihua:
wipe battery stats may be the best choice.
[Legend General] collin911:
Anything?????
[Legend General] Chris1974:
I have a stock legend with the 2.2 software update. Since the update I have battery problems. As I read on XDA I saw I was not alone.

I contacted HTC and asked them what they will do about it. They asked me to send in the phone for repairs (under warranty). I got it back in a nice box that said "fixed" on the lid and it had a pen and dust cloth inside. Very nice and free of charges. :)

The invoice said they fixed it with a "software update" so I was hoping it would charge correctly again.

However, I was dissapointed to find out that the device was behaving in exactly the same way it did before I sent it to HTC. So, nice box, but phone still screwed up.:confused:

Contacted HTC again and have sent it again for repairs, hoping they fix it now for good.

Keep you posted on results.
[Legend General] pirate81:
Thanks for your update.I also own HTC Legend which i have from Telfort.I was expecting somethink like this from HTC.this is my last phone from them.When i was conntacting them the only solution for all problems is to restart your phone or factory reset.nothink usefull at all.there is somethink wrong with one or two batches i think and they are hiding the true because it can not be fixed with update...which let me think then it is hardware issue.please let as know how your story ended.thanks again and good luck.
[Legend General] vriz27:
well?? what happenned finally? any news about solving the problem or we 'll have to live with it for all the time being...??
[Legend General] Chris1974:
Still don't have the phone back. According to the ticket information site it is still in repair.

However, after the first time I filled out a questionaire about the service of HTC. Told them I thought everything was very well taken care of except for the fact that the device was not fixed.

Following the questionaire I was called by HTC. They gave me a direct phone number of an HTC agent who will help me if it still does not get fixed. Since they have it for 2 weeks already I think I will give him a call.

Keep you updated...
[Legend General] pepijn499:
After coping with this problem for months and having it send back to HTC once, my mum send it back the second time around. Expecting it not to charge to 100% once again, we put the battery in and put it on the charger. After a good 20-30 minutes on the charger, it did actually show the green light! So, running froyo, with hboot 1.01 s-on, the battery problems seem to be fixed. Very amazed they managed to fix it, now I'm just stuck here wondering how they did it. Might shoot a mail to HTC asking this. Oh, and yes, same scars etc on the phone, 100% sure it's the same one!

Anyway

tl;dr: Phone got sent back to htc second time, htc magically fixed it, yippie.
[Legend General] collin911:
Pepijn, congratulations with the fix. You are the first person who ever recovered from this problem and you might possibly hold the key to the solution. Hopefully we can reproduce this fix for the sake of the entire Legend-community. The gratitude to you would be enormous.

Do you think HTC applied a software-fix or a hardware-fix?

We should ask them. We should ask if we could speak to your support-guy directly.

In case of a software fix, how are we going to find out the relevant replaced files? Maybe we can compare the nandbackup files of the fixed device and the troubled device.

My guess is that it is a hardware fix. Maybe the support-guy cleaned it some pins or replaced a specific part. Hopefully we are about to find out.
[Legend General] vriz27:
+++++++++++++ come on Pepijn!!!! you hold the key to the LEGEND! save us from the evil red led, deliver us the green one!!!!:)
[Legend General] Chris1974:
I also have my phone back from HTC. Te repair form said they did a boardswap. I know for sure they actually changed the internals of the phone since it now has e different MAC adres for the wifi router. ;)

The result: After sending it in for the first time they did not fox it.

After sending it in for the second time they acually DID fix it! :eek:

I have seen the green light a few times now and I am confident it is fixed for now.

However, the problem might return since initially after the rom update it has worked fine for a while so the problem might come back after some time? Keep my fingers crossed. :)
[Legend General] pepijn499:
Sorry for the suspense guys! But yes, my mother contacted HTC asking for details on the repair, and they also reported to her that they changed the motherboard. So now I'm wondering if this is really ''fixing'' it or just replacing a giant part of the phone because it's not really fixable.

Wonder if the problem will ever resurface..

Seeing how my phone has the same problem,I guess I'll be unrooting and sending my phone for repair as well, although I really don't want to be phone-less for weeks.
[Legend General] pirate81:
thanks guys for your update.but now you have to go little bit further end or update your phone rom or root it end put on it cm7.if you after that dont have a issue your phone are realy fixed.please let as know.thanks for your support.
[Legend General] pepijn499:
If it was my phone that'd be done by now, but seeing how my mum doesn't want a rooted/different rommed phone, I can't test this. I might bring my Legend to the shop, and root/rom again after it's repaired. Just a little scared to lose my phone for so long.
[Legend General] napoer:
my legend same trouble with batteray,any one solved it !!!!!!!
[Legend General] pirate81:
So far the only solution which actualy works is to send your device to HTC repair...
[Legend General] scx110a:
No one can fix a hardware problem through Internet.... I think .
[Legend General] collin911:
But didn't you guys(those who don't have warranty)try to disassemble the phone and try to clean the board with alcohol or something and heating the board with a hot air blower?maybe this could fix it
[Legend General] napoer:
nothing solution ?????
[Legend General] pirate81:
I just received my Legend from HTC repair yesterday after second time they finaly fixed.they swap board so it looks then it is hardware issue.
[Legend General] generationgav:
I just got mine back from HTC

Good news: It appears to be fixed

Interesting news: They replaced the motherboard

Bad news: They flashed the Nethelands software on it, which means I can't set my locale or language right and are saying it has to go back for reflash. 48-72 hours for a call-back. Looking into reflashing it myself with a Gold Card, any suggestions guys?
[Legend General] pirate81:
Somebody need to check if that problem don't appear again after flashing new rom...so you have reason...do it...just kidding.let as know if you choose to do so.good luck.
[Legend General] generationgav:
I've flashed a few times - the battery issue doesn't come back.

Still a Dutch phone though!
[Legend General] pirate81:
Thank you for your update.

That is nice then I can go back to cm7.
[Legend General] nextgeo:
battery

My battery duration is 5 days minimun I dont have Internet 3g i only use the phone for calls and play games a little time 5 days its good? or not :S

Thankss!
[Legend General] roos_t:
Had the battery/charge issue as well... contacted HTC customer service and they first recommended a factory flash. That, of course, didn't work. So then they asked me to send it in for repair. So I did. Got it back in about 2 weeks time. They changed the motherboard. Now the battery charges to 100% and I can finally see that green light light up. Using my Mugen power battery... things are looking pretty good right about now at the battery front : )
[Legend General] nextgeo:
In the recovery mode of Rom Manager have one option of the batery I dont use it but i think this is for reset the batery meter
[Legend General] pepijn499:
Hey guys, me again.

First off, great to see all the responses, turns out it must have, indeed, been a motherboard malfunction. They also replaced my motherboard [Or atleast, I think they did. Long story involving htc breaking my optical pad...], and I flashed a few times, everything seems fine. :D Happy ending after all. So yes, HTC repair seems the way to go...

Thanks guys, great community.

~Pepijn
[Legend General] Jast8:
Hello guys,

I just read the thread according to the problem I have, and it helped me a lot.

So, when I had the original firmware of HTC everything worked fine (except of some force closes, that is why I rooted it and flashed CM7.1), but after flashing I recognized that te batterie life was decreased by >50%!! So I tought nothing but it's still there after one month even with JuiceDefender. And, as you wrote, my green LED won't turn on, when it should be loaded by 100%.

So, how can I get HTC to change the motherboard, or whatever could fix that problem, maybe without sending it so HTC?

Hope you can help me,

Jast
[Legend General] Riddle78:
I agree. ;)
[Legend General] Asovse1:
What on earth are you agreeing with?
[Legend General] hgmichna:
External battery charger

This seems to be a widespread problem, but it seems that it most cases the phone shuts down early too, so you effectively don't have the full battery capacity any more.

Perhaps there are at least two failure modes, including one where the battery does not get fully charged. I cannot find out for sure.

But a proposal is to use an external battery charger, which would probably make sure that the battery is fully charged. These devices are cheap, less than $10.

If you have just one battery, that would mean that you can no longer use your phone as alarm clock to wake you up in the morning. :)

Has anybody tried an external charger? Please report.

Addendum: It seems that the widespread HTC Legend problem described here does not affect the charging itself. It only affects the battery charge percentage display, which is way off and shows too low numbers or indicates less charge than the actual charge. This means that an external charger would not help.

I am now experimenting with Battery Monitor Widget, which ostensibly measures the battery and adjusts itself according to its history record. Has anybody already tried that? Please report.
[Legend General] collin911:
So i finally gave up and send my legend to HTC.I just checked and it seems that it got fixed so now i'm waiting for it to arrive...curious wether it's really fixed or not fingers crossed...
[Legend General] hgmichna:
Solution

Read the solution
[Legend General] collin911:
Has this been tested?????????????
[Legend General] hgmichna:
So far only by me.

But since the test is free and risk-free, why do you even ask? Just try it.