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[HTC Sensation] Spawn-uk-:
Hi Guys,

I've read all 58 pages of this forum as I flashed my first sensation a week ago and found the battery life to be awful. I was getting 7 - 8 hours with minimal use. At the time I was using Sultan Kernal, CM-11 Rom (I believe by Sultan) and the stock battery.

I have attached an image showing my results, the phone was awake pretty much the whole time and you will see that I had minimal use. This was my best result, but hardly using the phone so a waste of time really.

After reading everything on here I ordered an Anker 1900mAh battery which seems to have made a difference. I then flashed to Viper 5.1 Rom using Sebastian Kernal and my battery life is a completely different story. - My phone has been on today for 10h 38 12s and the battery is at 67%! :cyclops: And that is with alot more use than in the attached image (mostly browsing, facebook, few emails, gmail sync etc).

I can't state enought that the Anker battery and the right Rom should set many people on the right track.

As my phone dies I will take a screen shot and report back with the end results. (only 1 full charge cycle so far from the Anker battery so far too). As of yet Juice Defender or equivelant.

One last thing, my screen brightness is generally around 30%.

Rob
[HTC Sensation] Spawn-uk-:
Here is the current screenshot on Viper 5.1 Rom and Anker Battery
[HTC Sensation] DobbyDook:
I've tried different rom(viper, cm11, miui, etc) but battery life is similar with all.

Screen is major cause of battery drains.

1 hour with autobrightness and 2 hours with lower brightness.

With 13-16 hours of total battery life.

Inviato dal mio HTC Sensation.

sorry for my bad English
[HTC Sensation] Mitzzz:
Hello,

I bought a used Sensation XE a couple of weeks ago and I have a major problem, it takes about 10 hours to fully charge. Does anyone encountered this problem before??

When it's fully charged the battery life is OK if I don't keep the screen on to much, about 40 - 50 % in about 10 hours, but if I want to play minion rush it will drop 20 percent in 15 minutes.

The battery is a bit swollen and a new one will be bought next month probably, but I believe that it has another problem.. The charging module, maybe..

Thank you for your help!
[HTC Sensation] Nitrawf:
2 Hour Screen Time (Auto Brightness)

+ 20 hours Standby

Stock Battery - MIUI 4.4.4
[HTC Sensation] asce1992:
My brother with sense 4+ rom do 3-3.30h with WiFi always on, whatsapp, internet, some games (30 minutes), facebook and camera (20 shot each day)
[HTC Sensation] zmfl:
It manages to last an entire day, and I use it quite a bit. Plenty of calls and moderate internet use (3g and wifi).

I did tweak the phone a bit, but I'm guessing I gained an hour at most with that.

The battery is almost 2 months old now. It did improve a little over time.
[HTC Sensation] Bigsquidguy:
I made it over 24 hours without having to charge. When I looked at it, I had 19% battery life left.

I'm using the HTC Sensation from Virgin Mobile Canada.
[HTC Sensation] CB620:
Those of u that are saying battery life is terrible your battery is faulty, you didn't cycle it or ur on your phone non stop.

I get 8-10hrs daily and I'm on it all day long.

No complaints the phone is a dual core keep that in mind. If you use your phone clearly its gonna decrease the battery life. I'm just saying.
[HTC Sensation] buzmay:
Mmm I am supposing that it could have been when I was trying to root the phone, and then I plug it via usb, but this may had been maximum 5 minutes. Apart of that I have not charged it at all. I do not know what was my screen time during this period and I cannot check it now since I just charged it. I will try to upload a picture tomorrow, and will avoid even using the usb
[HTC Sensation] steve austin:
Thanks. I only ask because most people, from what I am reading, have long lasting uptime, but their on screen time is less than 2hours or their screen brightness is very low & their on screen time is very minimal.
[HTC Sensation] itsluy:
I can't complain about battery life coming from an LG revo which would last all of 3 hours before needing a new battery.

If reports of getting better with time are true I couldn't be happier
[HTC Sensation] itsluy:
7hrs of heavy use, just hit 10%.
[HTC Sensation] lightforce:
U can greatly improve battery using guides in this forum
[HTC Sensation] Babydollll:
I have great battery life. No problems here. 12-14 hours moderate use and still 38%

Sent from either my N1, NS, or Sensation4G....
[HTC Sensation] mathrania:
Having the same experience of batt life as in Desire HD.

Though i have used it a whole day without charging more than once..and it went to Power save mode in the end.... and the thing is that, i did not use What's App that day....just emails & calls....

I have kept my sync setting for "Facebook for HTC Sense" to once in a day, and if need to check, i just sync manually.
[HTC Sensation] buzmay:
Here are the screenshot as promise. I have unplugged the phone since yesterday and been using mail, texting quite a lot and calling for around 30 to 45 minutes. I have also had on 3G all the time and have been streaming music for over one hour. Today I still have 30 % left. For me battery life in this device is by far superior to many devices I have owned before such as SGS2, Desire and Desire Z
[HTC Sensation] div3r5ity:
im getting about 12-14hours out of mine
[HTC Sensation] schelde_sun:
Juice Defender

Hi,

has anyone made experience with the tool juice defender and can report how the battery behaves in combination with this tool?

Thanks
[HTC Sensation] snowblindd:
I use the Ultimate version of Juice Defender and if you take your time to set it up according to your needs and usage of the phone, it can make a pretty big impact on the battery life (mainly on standby)
[HTC Sensation] everyday48:
My can last one day with heavy use. It's normal to charge it daily.

I bought several cheap batteries from ebay, so I can change them without charging cable, feel good this way.

Send from: gplus.to/everyday
[HTC Sensation] ancola66:
But I think open device to change the battery every day is not a good thing:(
[HTC Sensation] mrg02d:
I also charge several times a day when using it for web browsing.
[HTC Sensation] zgarske:
My battery life last a little over a day with moderate internet use. Push email
[HTC Sensation] in2tactics:
My phone and battery are three weeks old. I spent the first week consistently charging my phone to 100% and depleting it down to ~10% before repeating the cycle. My screen brightness is set to auto and I have made no optimizations to the applications that run on startup. I manually turn wifi, gps, and bluetooth on and off when I need them for updating apps over wifi at home, driving around town with GPS to new locations, or calling hands free with bluetooth while driving. My connection to the network switches frequently from 4G to 2G because the building types I work in block most signals. I sync the following eight e-mail accounts throughout the day: 4 yahoo, 1 hotmail, and 3 gmail accounts. In my experience, I have encountered the following three scenarios in the last two weeks:

1. Light usage with approximately ~1 hour talk time, ~1 hour web browsing (4G), ~50 text messages sent, ~15 minutes GPS usage, ~1 hour of non-graphic intensive gaming, and the synchronizing of my e-mail accounts yields ~30 hours of uptime.

2. Moderate usage with ~1-2 hours talk time, ~1-2 hours web browsing (4G), ~50 text messages sent, ~15 minutes GPS usage, ~30 minutes of graphic intensive gaming, and the synchronizing of my e-mail accounts yields ~12-15 hours of uptime.

3. Heavy usage with ~2+ hours talk time, ~2+ hours web browsing (4G), ~50 test messages sent, ~15 minutes GPS usage, ~1 hour graphic intensive gaming, and the synchronizing of my e-mail accounts yields ~8 hours of uptime.

As a real example, my current unplugged time is 26 hours and 30 minutes at 46% battery remaining with the following usage: 1 hour talk time, 30 minutes web browsing (4G), 35 text messages sent, 30 minutes of non-graphic intensive gaming, and the synchronizing of my e-mail accounts. I would say that most days I fit into scenario 1 but I have spent a few days in both scenarios 2 and 3. I have been very happy with my battery life as compared to my prior phone a myTouch 3G.
[HTC Sensation] everyday48:
It's ok to change it once a day, and clean the dust inside if there is any.

Send from: gplus.to/everyday
[HTC Sensation] vickyjusme:
Issue is with the battery. I changed mine and I get better battery life and charging time is around 2 -3 hours now.

Posted using Tapatalk on my Sensation XE
[HTC Sensation] gemer45a:
I have a sensation xe buy very poor battery life. When I charge it reaches 100% in abut 4 hours.. I use wifi throughout the day. When it's charged and I unplug it doesn't go past 5 hours. I'm thinking it'll be better if I replace the battery.
[HTC Sensation] huzefaonline:
Wifi is a big battery eater. Close the wifi connection when not in use and you'll notice a significant improvement.
[HTC Sensation] Mitzzz:
Thanks! Received the new battery on friday and it works great. The charging time went down a bit, but today I noticed a decrease in the charging time.

---------- Post added at 07:59 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:51 PM ----------

Try closing the recent apps by keeping the home button pressed and then drag them to the right, they consume very much battery. I do this every time a use the phone and the battery life is great (about 36h) with Viper 5.1.0 and I always have the wifi, 3G on, but I keep the power saver active. My battery is a few days old, try changing the battery if the battery life is not improving.
[HTC Sensation] Corvo007:
Average 3 hours screen on time with ViperS 5.1.0 (I had 30-40 minutes more with v5.0.0).

With AOSP ROMs I have barely 2 hours. Stock battery.
[HTC Sensation] pajoslav83:
When I was on ViperS rom, my battery know to last for two days. Now I am back on CM 11 (since CM 10.2 was terrible for Sensation (no offense)).

I am happy so far, battery didn't drop more then 8% from last night charging (11hrs).
[HTC Sensation] little_lerroyy:
Battery life with my sensation XE, wasn't too bad when i had the stock ICS firmware from HTC. I initially put SultanXDAs 4.4.4 rom and the battery life was horrible. However he has updated that rom quite significantly, and the battery life about what it used to be. I have a battery back up in the case which gives me roughtly another 40% which is helpful. I get about 2 days out of the sensation with moderate use. If i dont use the phone at all, i get about 4 days.
[HTC Sensation] MaratabHashmi:
ViperS 5.2.1 Experience;)
[HTC Sensation] pajoslav83:
Posting back: CM11 battery life ~20hrs :((
[HTC Sensation] ugjka:
When I turn everything off the draw on battery is 4mA. If I leave wifi on the draw can be anything from 10mA to 300mA depending how far from ap am I. Funny but if I leave my phone with wifi on somewhere stationary on the table it doesn't drain my battery at all. But if I put my phone in my pocket and move around the drain is huge, so I usually turn off wifi when I'm moving around.

Leaving 3g on will draw 250mA.

The biggest battery killer is the sceen, on max brightness I can kill my battery in 2 - 3 hours. which is realy bad.

So my battery life really depends on usage. In theory my senny could last 2 - 3 days in standby if I left everything off and didn't use it at all. In reality my battery lasts 8 - 16 hours depending on usage
[HTC Sensation] Labeo772:
I have strange problem with my battery.

Charge phone 100%, and go to bed, in the morning my battery still shows 100% after 7-8 hours deep sleep, but when i start using phone, battery rapidly drops to about 80%, then settles down till it reaches 30%, and start huge drainage again. I tried different roms, and batteries, same.

My default battery is anker (which is only 3 months use). Overall screen on time is about 4h on 50% brightness with NO wi-fi and turned OFF gsm module, i think this is pretty bad ! :eek:

Any ideas ?

pls suggest most battery friendly rom, i dont want extras and colors and bull****, i want a reliable 1 day use phone.
[HTC Sensation] ugjka:
Have you tried battery calibration, dunno it seems your rom is reporting incorrect battery stats. From what I've read Sense roms seem to be most battery friendly. But there are no magic tricks to make your battery last longer, sensation is bad hardware
[HTC Sensation] Labeo772:
how to do battery calibration ?
[HTC Sensation] ugjka:
I can't post links but there is an app on Play Store called Battery Calibration by Nema . You need to be rooted of course
[HTC Sensation] pajoslav83:
CM11 > Battery lasted nearly two days, I did some trick somebody suggested to delete two of files velvet and one more tho. But again while browsing one of the news apps battery drain a bit faster then I remember, so far I'm happy.
[HTC Sensation] frkhtc:
Allmost two days, on ViperS 5.2.1, with Greenify and powersaver on.
[HTC Sensation] Milton515:
My battery life on Viper 5.2.1
[HTC Sensation] Romansko:
Hello,

here is a picture of my phone in his very last moment:

I have Sensation XE,

I'm using mike's ARHD 7.3 with Overclocked kernel v1.5.2 by SebastianFM.

The battery is Anker's, 1900mAh.

I'll post later the usage with the stock battery.
[HTC Sensation] Corvo007:
Guys, these pictures do not mean anything. Post the SOT (Screen On Time).
[HTC Sensation] Ephemerid:
I'm using dexter's Slimkat. Battery life is pretty awesome for normal/light use. I'm using that 1520mah stock battery. I didnt use 3G but I was connected to the wifi while screen was on...
[HTC Sensation] Dan33185:
Were you ever able to fix this problem? Sounds exactly like mine. 0% loss after 8 hours at work, then once I use it for like 20 minutes it drops to 75-80%.
[HTC Sensation] namila007:
Im using the same rom and im having exact battery life ( with wifi. ) like yours one.any suggestions to sav battery?
[HTC Sensation] nickbaron:
Best battery performance roms??? lord nerevar slimkat use think. İ use ivanich rom but alwasy stop service
[HTC Sensation] nielsi0wnt:
After my first day using Ivanich's CM11 ROM, I have very good battery performance on this ROM. 2h and 33m screen-on time and still have 33% left. I am using an Anker battery.

Before I always used Sultan's CM11 ROM with 3.0.16 kernel. Also a really smooth ROM with quite good battery performance :).
[HTC Sensation] pators:
How will I get anker battery in Lagos?
[HTC Sensation] barondebxl:
My battery life is excellent. When you first get the phone, you have to drain te battery then charge it and drain it again two or three times. I do a lot of web browsing (WiFi and 4g) listen to Pandora radio, play some words with friends, listen to music on the native app, text and a few calls, I unplug my phone at 9am everyday and I charge it at 10pm at night. Sometimes I.purposely use the phone heavy to.drain the battery. I also turn off my phone when I charge it otherwise it takes about 4 1/2 hours to charge when the phone is on and the battery is at 2%. This phone has a couple of issues that I hope htc will fix with an update, but one thing I love about the sensation is when the screen is in sleep mode it barely uses any battery.
[HTC Sensation] Phily757:
I now have my Sensation for 3 days. Batterylife is awful. Can't get more then 8 hours out of the battery.but I think this gonna change after a few charging cycles!

A other problem is, that my charger is making a very annoying, high frequency sound,when either the charger is plugged in without the phone or when the phone is fully charged.

And as I'm always charging at night it's annoying if you want to sleep!

Does anyone of you guys have the same issue with the charger?
[HTC Sensation] omricn:
I've had the same electric noise coming from the charger when the phone was plugged in, I immediately unplugged it and switched to my old HD2 charger (same v and a 5v--1a).. I don't think that electric noise is a good thing.. was worried it might damage the phone, and also - when i charged the phone using the noisy charger the phone switched it's green led letting me know it's full, but when turning it on it went from 100% to 75% in 10 minutes.... something definitely wrong with this charger.. I advise you stop using it! (if you haven't already..)
[HTC Sensation] n1ghtl1fe:
i switched from my Evo 4G and honestly can say battery life is better. I had a 2000mah battery for my Evo too but sensation on stock battery (after a weeks worth of first charges) is dominating. Normally id run out and buy an extended battery but ill wait with this phone :)
[HTC Sensation] debully:
+16 hours for me. I use juicedefender ultimate (and have bothered to set it up). Lasts all day with some heavy browsing at dinnertime and train home. Syncs everything (weather, hotmail, gmail, unimail, freindstream) every 30 minutes.

Use an assortment of genuine htc chargers from many htc phones occasionally the sensation one, all seem to do the same job.

In conclusion: functions as well as my CM7 desire although I could push that to <2 days but charged overnight anyway.
[HTC Sensation] zim2dive:
*IF* you don't mind switching to airplane mode at night (you pick the hours... let's say midnight to 6am).. get Timeriffic (its free) and get yourself a "free" extra 6 hours of battery life. If you ever need to use the phone during that time, its quick/easy to take it back out of airplane mode.

Me.. my cell phone will be downstairs, out of earshot anyway. Anyone that wants to reach me, can call the land-line.. and they last time that happened.. well heck, I can't remember and it was probably a wrong # anyway :) so there is no reason for me to burn radio-power during those hours... IMO.
[HTC Sensation] snowblindd:
1 hour media streaming over 3g ( one hour long tv episode) took 40% of the battery .... not terribly bad but not that good in my opinion...could do better ( 2 weeks since i got the device, so the battery had time to ,,settle down,, )

On a side note, i feel that the sensation is not quite doing well when it comes to heavy use, it is not the worst out there (ehm .... evo, ehm ... desire hd) but for a ,,multimedia powerhorse,, that is advertised to be ... once again, not that great, i expected a bit more from it.
[HTC Sensation] BBOOZE:
I have found that my average battery life on the Sensation is about 15 hours. That is with moderate use of the internet, texting, phone use and the maps. It's not that far off of what I used to get on my iPhone 4 doing the exact same things so while I'd love for the battery to last longer, I think it's pretty standard for a smartphone.
[HTC Sensation] Profondo_Rosso:
Agreed. The key is that the sensation basically sips juice when the screen is off... Unlike a lot of of phones

Sent from my HTC Sensation 4g with extreme prejudice
[HTC Sensation] madwolf27:
BEST I got on stack Battery was 14 hours with 2 hours "screen on" (web surfing, games, twitter, msging whatever). Got 2 Anker 1900Mah (dunno how "true" that mAh rating is) and I get 16+ hours with 3 hours screen on or better. My best was yesterday when I got 23 hours (I swapped in a charged battery before bed) with 2.5 hours screen on time. That did include at least 30 min netflix streaming on 4G.

The stock battery is definitely inferior. Charging curves were very bad with stock battery too, taking as much time to go from 80-100 as 0-80.

I do also use Juice Defender Plus and No Bars (I get very little signal in my workplace)
[HTC Sensation] aNYthing24:
My battery life has been A LOT better with the Chichitech battery. I highly recommend it.
[HTC Sensation] Hd2Jon:
I'm using stock everything with WiFi on at home and 4g at work. Games YouTube browser and texting. Over 14 hrs.

I'll test with some settings and go for longer life
[HTC Sensation] erdemdengel:
via juice defender, 38 hours
[HTC Sensation] mjm128:
Lets see. With the stock battery, and everything I can turn off, and screen set to 50%, syncing set to manual. I haven't got more than 10hours on a single charge (out of 6 cycles). With the same usage I was easily able to get a day on my nexus one.

Lets see how this anker battery fairs that I just got.
[HTC Sensation] Cammiesoul:
I got the extended 1900 battery by Chichitec, then did the battery stat wipe trick. I get about 22hours with *heavy* usage (3D games, lots of web and music, display clocked at 5 hours on). I also use Juice Defender.
[HTC Sensation] Utking:
I am now on 15% with the chichitek battery and have 1day 22 hours, screen on 3,5 hours, 55 minutes with phonecalls, and 4 hours with wifi surfing :). Also 20 min gaming and watching one youtube video.

This is running with 1,5ghz overclock. Pretty happy!
[HTC Sensation] tsekh501:
That's weird. I have the HTC Desire, which is nexus one's twin brother. Both of them are well known for poor battery life. I have used both stock and CM7.1 on the Desire.

I don't have any numbers, but my experience with the Sensation is that it gives significant better battery life than the Desire.
[HTC Sensation] multicrazy125:
My battery is about 65% in 18 hours with playing games for like 30 minutes,listening to music for about 20 minutes surfing the web,Facebook,Twitter, watching YouTube...which is ok...
[HTC Sensation] smacman:
Anyone else installed Viber? How has it affected your battery life? Mine seems to be abysmal since I installed it..
[HTC Sensation] WorldIRC:
First day or two, battery drained quickly. Quickly, the battery life greatly increased! Now using an Evo 3D battery with even more battery life!
[HTC Sensation] multicrazy125:
Where did you get the Chichitech battery?, And how many mAh is it?
[HTC Sensation] n1ghtl1fe:
Ive been real happy with my battery life. Full days with moderate-heavy use. Check my sig to see my guide to get the most out of your battery without disabling half the phones features
[HTC Sensation] sensesensation5:
not gud at all
[HTC Sensation] Hd2Jon:
7 hrs and at 90 percent! Gaming and texting with auto bright
[HTC Sensation] GorillaPimp:
3rd phone and this one has much better battery life. Lasts all day now. Example - today 8 hours since coming off charger. 1.5 hours on phone. Multiple missed calls. Downloaded apps, used apps. It's at 57% and has been around there for a few hours. I could probably get 5-6 hours of heavy game play - more or less depending on the game.
[HTC Sensation] aNYthing24:
1900mAh. You can get it from www.htcexpress.com
[HTC Sensation] shorty87:
Glad I got the Anker 1900mAh battery. Definitely getting much better battery life now. About 4-6 hours more than the OEM battery.
[HTC Sensation] imkr1:
U must be kidding me..
[HTC Sensation] Hd2Jon:
8hrs and still on 100%
[HTC Sensation] klutch:
Damn u sure is good for that.price and it last longer cuz.u.ganna make me buy one lol
[HTC Sensation] tinker2000:
Anyone noticed that when the device is off the battery depletes itself by about 40% in 7 hours. i originally thought it due to a couple of apps (tango and Google+) but I dont think so after last night (60 in about 9h)

Thanks
[HTC Sensation] multicrazy125:
Thanks man i am looking forward in buying one...
[HTC Sensation] Teslarage:
Getting better and better after a few cycles.
[HTC Sensation] Hd2Jon:
20% left at 1 day and 15 hr
[HTC Sensation] aNYthing24:
Yeah, just read this thread about people who have bought it. Very positive feedback.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1143841
[HTC Sensation] dazzlet:
My battery life is terrible can you post a link to things I can do to improve the life because from a full charge to totally empty with only moderate use I get a maximum of 7 hours if I'm lucky.
[HTC Sensation] Utking:
Download battery history for gingerbread, it increased my battery time from 10 hours to 40 hours.

And now it only drops 6% during the night.
[HTC Sensation] ctscloud:
I had my phone now for a few days with now 3 cycles gone through. It went up from 10 to 12 hrs...still kinda low since I bearly use the phone. Gonna try juice defender and hope it can last longer. Anyone know how many cycles it usually takes to get longer battery life?