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[HTC Sensation] dr.m0x:
My workmate has an iphone 4 and we have similar usage throughout the day and we have been comparing battery life as a matter of interest. It is actually very similar. We both drop to between 50-60% at the end of days when we use them a lot. Considering he has a 768mhz 1 core cpu, 3.7" screen and 5mp camera vs my 1.2ghz 2 core with 4.2" screen and 8mp camera I think the barry life is respectable.

I can get 2+ days easily from this phone as well. Turn off mobile data, wifi, gps, and bluetooth and don't touch it at all unless you really have to. Defeats the purpose of having such an amazing tool at hand though.

Sent from my Cyanogenmod hungry Htc Sensation.
[HTC Sensation] zim2dive:
this agrees with benchmarking I have read on various tech blogs.. ie comparable to the iPhone in battery life.

I almost always get 2+ days, and use every bit of the phone that I want.
[HTC Sensation] Spr33y:
Personally I've found Sense 3.0 to be a HUGE battery hog. Using a Sense-less rom and loving the battery life so much more.
[HTC Sensation] LPChris47:
I average 12 hours with moderate use.

Charge my phone before I go to sleep, turn it off (i don't like to be disturbed when sleeping), then turn it on around 6:30 AM.

I'm at 10% battery by 6:30-7:00 PM.

10-20 web page views, music, facebook, widgets, heavy texting.

Pretty decent. Look forward to seeing what kind of battery life I get with my Anker battery (should arrive this week!)
[HTC Sensation] Droidicus:
I would love to know how much of a difference. I an considering rooting and ROM ing just to get better battery life. 3/4 of a day is ridiculous but typical for me. : /
[HTC Sensation] avman1:
I was averaging about 50% left at the end of a normal day -normal use, bit of everything. Longest without a charge was 2 days and then about 2 hrs of youtube (wifi) before it died.
[HTC Sensation] aNYthing24:
Died in 14ish hours today. Used maps/GPS a decent amount and around ~3 hours of screen time. Not too bad seeing my signal was rather poor.
[HTC Sensation] thebowers131:
I took my phone off the charger at around 630am too and i used it all day(texted, sent emails, downloaded a couple apps, used maps)

and its now 615pm(roughly 12 hours off charger) and i have 51% battery life, i cant say that i will get 12 more hours out of it but i know i will get atleast another 8 or more.

I have a CHICHITEC extended battery and have had it for a few weeks now and this i what im getting aka this battery is AMAZING.

An im sure if i TRIED to get the most battery life out of it(low battery mode on all day, etc.) i could probably get 24+ hours....but its no fun not using this beast of a phone!! :)
[HTC Sensation] ericbond:
From my experience leedroid is one of the best on battery life and I find that with moderate usage by the end of the day (12+ hours) the battery is only down 20-30 percent :)
[HTC Sensation] nrvnqsrxk:
I consistently get 6 hours with stock. Maybe I should cop an anker or smth.

Sent from my HTC Sensation
[HTC Sensation] DeezNotes:
Get Battery History for Gingerbreak

Battery History for Gingerbreak was very helpful in identifying something with the Calendar that would kill my battery in less than 24h. I haven't figured out what the problem was exactly yet, but it was either a Calendar widget, HTC Facebook, Facebook or Google calendar sync.

If your phone dies quickly for no reason, Google that apk (or search it on XDA). It'll help narrow down what the problem is.
[HTC Sensation] maschenazi:
After the 2.3.4 update battery has improved a lot. After 10 hours with medium usage still have 76% left. Before it would've been less than 50% with similar usage.
[HTC Sensation] dr.m0x:
Maybe right, I charge every night so wouldn't know. Haven't lost more than around 50% in a 12 hour day to be honest so 1.5-2 days could be achievable.

Just ordered an anker battery and wall charger so it's going to be such a pleasure to use the phone as much as I want knowing I have a second battery fully charged and ready to go just in case.

Addicted much? Lol

Sent from my Cyanogenmod hungry Htc Sensation.
[HTC Sensation] manuelkuhs:
That's quite incredible - is this stock ROM/battery and data and sync always on??
[HTC Sensation] zim2dive:
Was stock.. and also now with current ROM. Data and sync are always** (see below) on. I do use Timeriffic to enable/disable some things per my normal daily schedule (and also for non-battery taks, such as mute/unmute the ringer, etc). See post 116: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=16007400&postcount=116

My average is 2 days.. my long is ~ 3.5 days.

EDIT: ** I use Timeriffic to put my phone in airplane mode at night for 6-7 hours... but data/sync are "always" on for the other 18 hours of the day.
[HTC Sensation] savante:
I have been on the stock battery + stock rom and was dropping like 10% an hour when the screen was mostly off.

I checked battery usage and it appeared the phone was never sleeping and always awake.

With my previous phone (Nexus S), I was able to tell what was keeping the phone awake.

Im having a harder time figuring that out with this phone though.

After It dropped to about 70% in 3.5 hours yesterday of barely any use, I removed Sense agenda widget, current widget and battery widget. I also installed juice defender.

I then noticed my phone was properly sleeping and managed to squeeze out 16 hours on the stock battery before the phone died.

I am now on my first day with the Chichitec battery, so we'll see if I can do better then 16 hours.
[HTC Sensation] zim2dive:
I use the Agenda widget (not on my main home screen, but one of the others), and I have good battery, so I'd say that _may_ not have been the issue.
[HTC Sensation] savante:
Thanks for the feedback. I suspected it was related to one of the power/current widgets but had read about some people thinking it could be calendar related.

I was going to put them back one at a time and trying to determine the cause, just havent had the time yet.
[HTC Sensation] Mikeglongo:
With the 1900mah Anker battery, do I need a different cover? Or is it the same size ?
[HTC Sensation] stuart0001:
Slightly thicker but the original cover still fits. In fact it actually makes it a better, more snug fit. :)
[HTC Sensation] LPChris47:
Quick question:

Does anybody here actually use Auto-Brightness?

I know a lot of articles recommend using Auto-Brightness to save battery, but it still shows up as 75% and up in display battery usage.

Say I kept the brightness at 50% instead of auto-brightness, would that help me lower that display battery usage?
[HTC Sensation] Mikeglongo:
Is the Anker battery actually better than the stock? I'm quite hesitant to spend 18 bucks on a battery that might be worse or equal to the stock one
[HTC Sensation] LPChris47:
Definitely not worse.

I got mine yesterday, and 3 hours into my day I'm at 95% battery. I'm usually around 80% by this time of the day.

Even if the battery turns out to last you as much as the OEM battery, it's still a worthwhile purchase:

-You get an extra battery

-OEM batteries range between $30-$50

-Comparable performance

Don't even hesitate. Do it. (Get it from Amazon, because they fulfill the order for Laptopmate, making communication a little easier)
[HTC Sensation] Mikeglongo:
Okay I got the battery itself, no external charger, I'll just charge through the wall in the phone. Anyway, 3 hours on heavy use?
[HTC Sensation] LPChris47:
You can't expect any kind of battery to drop only 5% with 3 hours of heavy use lol

I'm a moderate user.

Surfing the internet on 4G, listening to music, facebook, active widgets, online banking, heavy texting, phone calls.

Did all that in the last 3 hours, and I'm at 94% as of right now with the anker
[HTC Sensation] Mikeglongo:
That's moderate? That's better than what I'm getting and I'm on idle. I just got this phone, switched from the g2x to the sensation being the g2x wasn't handling the battery as well especially after having it for 2 months
[HTC Sensation] LPChris47:
I consider that moderate. I consider heavy use involving GPS navigation, multiple email accounts, and gaming, because it burdens the processor, and the processor can drain your battery super quick!

For example, if I were to use GPS, had a few email accounts set up for constant syncing, and were playing Angry Birds for 2 hours straight, I'd drop from 100% to 50-60% easily (OEM battery). GPS, contant sync, and processor power used for gaming is heavy usage IMO.

In summary: You won't regret getting the Anker battery. You'll get 18 hours minimum. You can quote me on that.
[HTC Sensation] Mikeglongo:
Thanks a lot, not getting any good battery right ow and the rooting process seems difficult so far for me, g2x was much easier. So all the bloatware is still on there as of now
[HTC Sensation] StuifzandNL:
+/- 2 dayz :s
[HTC Sensation] aNYthing24:
That is quite heavy use. Impressive.
[HTC Sensation] farfromovin:
I'm a new Sensation user (<1 wk) and my battery life has been dismal. Granted, I could tailor the useage down a bit to soften the blow. I'm updating all sorts of widgets on an every couple hour basis, etc... I haven't made it through a day yet... Also, god forbid I use the GPS with the screen on for a half hour, there's 1/4 of my battery right there. I'm coming from an iPhone4 but it's not exactly a fair comparison. The iPhone was always plugged in during GPS use and I've yet to set up my car for the HTC.

I've ordered an extended eBay battery, a couple HTC car chargers and wall chargers, a handful of micro-usb cables. Coming from an "iDevice history" I have a household of white cables that don't do me any good. I'm freakin' out with only one charger lol. Hurry up post office!
[HTC Sensation] awesam:
i'm getting between 15~20hours on my stock batt.

Stock Firmware 2.3.3

3X google-handled push emails.

talk between 3hours~4hours

light surfing - probably 30min for whole day

unplugged at 9am and 6hours later i've still got 46%

i've noticed that if I were to charge it via my pc's USB, i can't get 15~20hours.

with USB charging, i could only achieve 8hours or so with the same usage.

Insertcoin 2.3.4 (2.2.5 stable)

Just got it rooted today and trying it out again once I get all my stuff setup and installed

with the exact apps i had on 2.3.3
[HTC Sensation] aNYthing24:
Did you order an Anker or Chichitec battery? Those have given good results to a lot of Sensation owners, including me.
[HTC Sensation] _DavidWebb:
Would you please explain what Sense agenda widget, current widget, and battery widget are, and how you removed them? Also, how can I tell if and when my phone is properly sleeping? I am totally stock everything as well, and would like to try your methods. Thanks.
[HTC Sensation] knickscity:
I will be getting that anker battery as well.
[HTC Sensation] v-b-n:
I ordered the new Mugen batteries ... Let's see how much % extra can they provide .. I'll be happy if I can go 30 hours moderate use
[HTC Sensation] aNYthing24:
~3 hours of screen time, 40 minutes of calls. The charging slit or whatever is when I had the phone plugged into my computer to get some files on my sd card.
[HTC Sensation] mrbkkt1:
Get battery monitor widget pro, then do a couple complete discharge to charge cycles. Mine improved great after that.
[HTC Sensation] khanley:
I'm on 40% after 21 hours of moderate usage (and some sleep!).

All I've done is calibrated the battery and underclocked the processor when the screen is off and it's made a massive difference!
[HTC Sensation] bakili:
I cant believe it, after 14hr 36min 30s i still have 90% battery life left. Normal use all day, everything syncing as suppose.
[HTC Sensation] Nece228:
Better or worse battery life than on desire hd?
[HTC Sensation] Mairei:
horrible battery life out of the box, with 1 exchange push account. I disabled all other push settings and did all the tweaks that other posts suggested, only last like 10 hours with couple of 15 minute calls, some web browsing, play Dungeon Hunters2 for 10 minutes, snap 5 pictures using camera.

Android Revolution HD, i can get by a day now only charging at bedtime, thank god.
[HTC Sensation] Rhiannon224:
Sounds like a bad battery. I get 4 hours minimum screen time with a couple hours of calls. I have 2 e mail accounts, check em manually, Twitter and FB sync every 4 hours. Running rooted s off stock ROM. On stock battery it lasts 16 + hours, with Anker battery I can go more than a day.
[HTC Sensation] bakili:
I dont know if it plays big role in battery life, but what I did first when I got phone, left it discharge completely (so i could not power up phone), charged it while phone is off, repeated cycle for couple times. Also set in mobile networks Network Mode GSM only. Yesterday after 16hr use battery use was only 20%-Exchange Account syncing every 15 min, Yahoo - push, Gmail - push, Weather - every 3hours, Wifi On all the time.
[HTC Sensation] manuelkuhs:
Not possible. It must be indicating your battery % wrongly.

Unless by "normal use" you mean airplane mode & constant screen off.
[HTC Sensation] KrisHilbun:
My current battery

Rom. MT_S4G. Stock kernel no oc

Background + auto sync, no gps.

Either 4g or wifi always on

Not very much use today
[HTC Sensation] bakili:
I have app called Android assistant, which does show battery status as well. And both are reading same.

OK today 5h 29m 55s on battery and only used 5% of battery. WIFI is ON all the time (WIFI sleep policy set to NEVER), No airplane mode, as I do ring and receive phone calls, Exchange syncing every 15 min, Yahoo push, Gmail push, weather every 3 hours sync.

I even thought myself it is not right, did restart phone couple times, but battery indicator still showing right. I even installed battery widget, still reads same as system info. Yesterday all day, phone consumed only 20% battery in 16+ hours.

Shame I cant take screen shoot, as I am still on 2.3.3

I cant believe it myself :eek:
[HTC Sensation] ciaphuas:
I have the best battery life ever on an Android phone. My wife and my Sensations are rocking rooted, debloated stock roms and I easily get 2 days worth of battery life. It sips on idle and even during use the only time I notice major drain is when I play a game. I leave WiFi on 24/7, I call using WiFi calling, and I use Pulse pretty consistently throughout the day for my RSS feeds.
[HTC Sensation] ciaphuas:
Here is some advice to getting better battery life. Let the battery die, charge it while the phone is off til full. Then go into the recovery and clear the battery stats. Lets the battery die again. Then charge to full and you should be all set!

Note: You should do it once a month. I learned this by reading the iPad user manual (yes i have an iPad), Apple thinks doing a full charge cycle once a month keeps the battery health and from my experience, I agree.
[HTC Sensation] v-b-n:
Just got the new "Mugen 1800 mAh" battery and testing out ... results will come here - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1242939
[HTC Sensation] mrbkkt1:
Similar to mine. ready for bed with 35% left.
[HTC Sensation] mrbkkt1:
Disengaging the calender widget makes a huge difference... I don't know why, but it does.
[HTC Sensation] mrbkkt1:
Before calibration

After calibration

You can see that the red lines are much less steeper after calibrating the battery.
[HTC Sensation] freakzone:
I got the sensation to work for 2 whole days :p

1 day limited use and 1 day in airplane mode :D:D

And I found out I hate camping, not because of the sensation :D:D
[HTC Sensation] mrbkkt1:
Realized that its hard to see the graph, I zoomed in a little..

Before

And after

Its much easier to differentiate the hours this way.1 block is 1 hour.
[HTC Sensation] savante:
@DavidWebb:

Sense Agenda widget is a calendar widget that only shows your nearest upcoming event.

Current widget shows the current your phone is drawing, whether its charging or on battery.

Battery widget shows your battery % and voltage.

I removed them by uninstalling the battery and current widgets and removing the agenda widget from any active screens.
[HTC Sensation] phamtasticxd:
Heres mine. I bought this two days ago.

On the first day, I drained my battery and then fully charged it to 100% at 12pm. Throughout the day, I can see my battery drain just by looking at the battery icon. I keep my phone on idle except for texting every now and then. I have wifi, 3g, etc all turned off. I also feel my battery getting hot in my shorts (Not sure if it had anything to do with it.) I get home around 6-7pm and the battery is already low. A day of it being on idle and it still drains that bad... I charged it at roughly 1200am, its 100% battery life. I go to sleep and wake up today at 6:30. My phone is dead.

Any suggestions?

After going through the whole forum, maybe I just have to give it a couple days to get the battery running. Ill reply back later. thanks
[HTC Sensation] chadsin:
I have the Anode battery and it lasted forever it seemed until the latest 2.3.4 update. Now it barely makes it through the night.:mad:
[HTC Sensation] Nightfall983:
* note I am using chichitech 1900mah battery.
[HTC Sensation] mrbkkt1:
I'm getting similar to yours with a stock battery. Proper battery calibration is so important when you get a new phone.
[HTC Sensation] TheEyes:
Bah, what happened? I was getting better than a day with light/moderate usage, and now my battery has gone to pot! It's weird; the phone seems to be randomly waking itself up for no reason in my pocket, but I haven't installed anything recently that would do that.

How do I monitor what's randomly waking my phone?
[HTC Sensation] manuelkuhs:
BetterBatteryStats
[HTC Sensation] manuelkuhs:
Cheers I'll give that a try!
[HTC Sensation] rickyjune:
I found that when i charge via AC rather than USB it last longer, I still get only 20-24hrs out of it with light/moderate use but right now im happy to settle for that
[HTC Sensation] casrocks:
Battery life

My battery life at the stock rom unrooted was aweful... I was dead by 5 with light use and dead by 1 in the afternoon with heavy use. Now Im rooted, running IC and wiped my battery stats and I can go almost 2 full days on a full charge with light use and nearly a day and a half with medium-heavy use! I love our modding community;)
[HTC Sensation] diceberg:
With the ROM from my team: The Beast Rom. You can expect up to 18 hours from a single charge.
[HTC Sensation] usual_suspect:
Agree 100%.

I easily get those results on the stock battery with stock 2.3.4 ROM as well now the batterys calibrated well.

With moderate to heavy usuage (4 to 5 hours of screen on time), I easily get a full day now.

When I was busy and didnt get chance to use my phone much I managed to get 8 hours before the stock battery dropped below 100%, so I decided to take a screen shot just after it dropped down to 98%. Thats with light usage though, 25 minutes of screen on time (a liitle web browsing and some texts). Email, weather etc set to update every 2 or 3 hours, which is enough (you can always check things manually aswell), anything more urgent people would phone or text me.
[HTC Sensation] Locheed:
With InsertCoin 2.3.1 in and I wanted to calibrate my battery I had to drain battery to 0% fast. It took 7 hours of running non-stop episodes of Simpsons. :)

Edit: All features on. (WIFI, 3G, GPS...)
[HTC Sensation] sharko81:
Do you think that "display" is the culprit of battery drain? It's so different with my wife's desire s.

Sorry for my bad english..
[HTC Sensation] mzmo:
How!? What's ur secret!? Share ur knowledge with us students!

Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e
[HTC Sensation] sharko81:
Can we set lower auto brightness to our sensation?
[HTC Sensation] Ce_Lebi:
Well...

I get things delivered by amazon.co.uk to continental Europe almost on a weekly basis. As was the case with the Anker 1900 mAh for the Sensation.
[HTC Sensation] paulieboy:
After about a week of conditioning the Anker 1900, with light to moderate use on a stock ROM.
[HTC Sensation] CB620:
My observation between Anker and Chichi:

***Observed after calibrating batteries 3x's using Battery Calibration***

***Android Revolution has auto-calibration after full charge and reboot***

Settings:

WCDMA only

Screen Timeout: 30 seconds

Background Sync: on

Brightness: Auto

Weather sync: 4hrs

XDA: 4hrs

Parcels App: 1hr

With my anker based on nonstop or heavy use I get around 6-7 hours. Now that's constant texting, calls, internet browsing/downloads, no email syncs and music.

With my chichi on heavy use I get around 9hrs and some minutes. That's pretty much the same setup as the anker with the usage.

Both get around a day and a half or a little more with moderate to light use which to me is pretty much not using the device. That's why I based everything on use.

Been switching through roms a lot lately because they have been coming in fast, but I have been running Android Revolution not the 3.5 but the Beats XE. The rom holds up well when I flash the the stock kernel instead of the overclocked which I think is 1.5/1.8.

I had my OEM first of course but sold it when I got my anker...the anker holds up really well and is wayyyy more dependable than what HTC ships the device with. I got a deal on a Chichi so I took the plunge because they normally run $35 which stirred me away...

Pretty much after running both for a period of time I will be running my chichi primarily and using the anker as a backup.

Both batteries are awesome but the chichi has that push to get u a extra 2 hours of use.

If your looking for a battery under $10 with extended life get the anker.

If you don't mind paying $20 extra bucks for 2extra hrs get a chichi.

The chichi weighs more but as the anker you don't need a extended battery cover case.

I reccomend both honestly it just depends on what u wanna pay....what I don't recommend is the OEM lol.

Hope this helps some of u. :-)
[HTC Sensation] andytuk:
i have been grumbling about my battery on the sensation and am loath to turn off all the bells and whistles which as someone has said.. why get a smart phone if you are going to turn everything off..

i have tried a few ROMS claiming to give better battery performance thanks to various tweaks in them and have settled so far on coredroid - BUT still getting poor performance.

i hadnt calibrated the battery, so started that today, forced a full 100% charge, used the battery calibration app, and forced the full 100% down to 2% before recharging.. it took 2-3 hrs to drain with display on full and GPS running, and is now 3hrs into a recharge and only at 24% - is this normal?

not really paid much attention to recharge speeds previously but am sure it is faster than this.

EDIT ** just over 30 minutes later and am at 27% - also am charging via USB which i have always found weaker than mains.. both in time to charge and length of charge - but usually use mains charger overnight - also its stock battery but am ordering an Anker now and will fully condition and calibrate that to compare to stock
[HTC Sensation] nrvnqsrxk:
You'll find that the battery that comes packaged with the Sensation is quite anemic compared to the Anker. Just remember to follow instructions do 4-5 full discharges to help your phone calibrate. It'll help if you use Battery Calibration after it gets fully charged the first time.
[HTC Sensation] apatch:
I have 2 Anker 1900mha batteries with USB/Universal Travel Charger (bought from amazon) and I'm very happy with it. It last a lot longer than stock battery, even 2,5 days sometimes with light use.

So I got 1 stock and 2 Anker batteries and I'm recharging it with this external charger, very rare with phone charger itself. My question is -

Should I wipe battery stats each time I exchange totally discharged battery to recharged one ?

Stock battery is used very rare, only when I'm travelling far.
[HTC Sensation] taney:
I'm switching from an N1 and my N1 with CM7 nightlies overclocked to 1.19GHz is getting double or triple the life of the Sensation.

I think once HTC releases the source for Sense 3.5, the devs can develop a nice kernel with good governors and power management :P