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[HTC Sensation] nawoa:
Sorry to hear about your battery troubles. A couple days ago I rooted and switched to "Android Revolution HD 3.0.4" and my battery life seems pretty solid. I wasn't having battery life issues prior to this though.

I'm currently in the process of calibrating the battery:

- drain it mostly

- turn off

- plug it in overnight while still off

- in the morning unplug, wait 15 minutes, replug for a few hours; do this ONLY ONCE or you may damage the battery

- power on, immediately go to recovery, advanced, reset battery stats

- start normally

- drain battery until it shuts down; a continuous stress test or stability test app is probably ideal

- once it shuts off, turn it on again to double-check that it's dead; it should only come on for a second or two

- while off, plug in and allow to fully charge; no fooling around with plugging/unplugging, just normal

- calibration complete!

I think you can follow a similar procedure (minus clearing battery stats) to refresh the battery calibration even without rooting/custom recovery. I've read the effectiveness is similar. The phone just needs to be retaught what "full" and "empty" mean, all in one charge cycle. If you calibrate it wrong you could have issues with it shutting off while still reading ~15% battery life.

Anyway, as I said, I'm in the process of doing this. Currently I'm in the "drain it" phase... with my screen at maximum brightness (remaining on), overclocked to 1.5 ghz, I've been running "StabilityTest" (from market) for one hour and fifteen minutes. It stresses both cores as well as the RAM. At this time, my battery is at around 30-40% or so, and it's getting really hot! The phone's temperature is reading as 54.8 degrees!

Also, yesterday I used the GPS for about 4 hours before it died, this was prior to any calibration attempt. I think this is within typical battery life considering that the screen stays on.

TL;DR: Maybe you just need to try a custom rom or recalibrate your battery. Miscalibrated battery can be caused by flashing/updating a rom, I imagine even when it's an OTA. Sense is crippling your phone anyway, you might as well give it a try IMHO.
[HTC Sensation] hello00:
get yourself an anker battery..I havent charged my phone since the day before and now i have 20% left! heavy usage
[HTC Sensation] cozmic1988:
Just got myself an Anker battery too. So impressed! A steal at £12 from Amazon.
[HTC Sensation] paul89:
My batter life blows too! Max life is like 5hrs with no usage...buyin one of these batteries, will also try flashing CM7...I'll let you know if it helps any.
[HTC Sensation] Duke4eva:
Yes they probably indeed gave you a refurbished. Unless they were completely out of refurbished (which they rarely are) or they could have just swaped tthe battery, and forgot about the phone itself. Hope I helped.
[HTC Sensation] meteor999:
What this guy said is the way to go about it, I myself have not pluged it out and then plugged it back in again, as I have to leave the house in the morning for work! But clearing battery stats after a good charge and then letting it drain to about 1 or 2% and then fully charging it again, and maybe one or two more charge and discharge cycles and you WILL see a noticeable improvement
[HTC Sensation] phra09:
I charge about twice daily :(

With juicy defender, it shows estimated battery life from 100% to 0% will be 23 hours only

plus using here & there, from 23 hours can drop to 5~6 hours :(
[HTC Sensation] humpty123:
My battery drives me crazy and i see my usage is 90% from my display but it's odd because I'll turn everything down and screen time to 15secs and just the other day it was good the display was at 41% and this morning I wokeup and now it's back up to 91% any ideas why.?
[HTC Sensation] humpty123:
This a screen shot i just took and these battery drainage issues are annoying me
[HTC Sensation] sinmantx:
I was having an issue with my battery also and finally purchased the Mungen battery... it’s a little pricey compared to the Anker but it made a huge difference. Depending on my usage I can sometimes go from 6am to 10 am the next day before recharging.

http://www.mugen-power-batteries.com/mugen-power-1800mah-extended-battery-for-htc-sensation.html
[HTC Sensation] mytire:
do you run anything in the background? somethings that involve with GPS for instance. or hotspot is on? sometimes unwanted apps run in the background can drain a lot of battery.
[HTC Sensation] humpty123:
No I had hotspot on yesterday but only for like 15 - 20 minutes tops after turned it off and gps nope don't use it unless i need it
[HTC Sensation] nik.taylor:
This may be a little off topic but I have noticed that if your RIL does not match the radio, the battery gets hammered. When I first got the Sensation, I bought it second hand and the guy had tinkered with it and had updated to the latest radio, but it did no match the RIL contained in the ROM on the phone. I was pi$$ed off that the battery didnt last that long, so I investigated and found that flashing the radio back to match the RIL gave me a huge battery improvement.

I'm now on CM7 Alpha and I notice the battery used to drain about ~150ma and now it's up to ~250mA. Interestingly, it drops back to ~150mA when i'm home and the wifi automatically switches on. I checked and sure enough, CM7 has an older RIL than the Radio i flashed.

I wanted to post this on the CM7 Alpha thread but apparently i'm too newb. If anyone finds this useful, can they re-post over there as well. Cheers.
[HTC Sensation] humpty123:
Well how can I find out if the ril and the radio and battery matches.. Like i know i do heavy usage of my phone and that explains the battery drainage but it's even when I'm not using it i see the drainage
[HTC Sensation] nik.taylor:
Take a look at this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1202867

Basically, to check to see what RIL you have run getprop "gsm.version.ril-impl" in Terminal Emulator or adb shell and it will print out the RIL version. Then compare to the radio in the thread.
[HTC Sensation] humpty123:
Yeah that's true I might also buy an extended battery also because it could be my usage or something.
[HTC Sensation] nik.taylor:
That will certainly help, but if you found a mismatch in the RIL / Radio, it's simple to flash a radio. Let us know if you see an improvement.
[HTC Sensation] humpty123:
This is what I got
[HTC Sensation] humpty123:
How can I tell if it's the right one
[HTC Sensation] nik.taylor:
Now compare that to the baseband info in Settings -> About Phone (might be in a different place on a Sense ROM). It should be 10.56.9035.00U_10.14.9035.01 (the U may be a P if you are on TMob USA). If not, you can flash the new Radio from here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1178143

Be very careful though. Flashing a radio can brick your device. I've done it tons of times though. Just follow the instructions.
[HTC Sensation] humpty123:
Yeah I know I just don't want to brick my phone
[HTC Sensation] moshe22:
Mine shows a U instead of a P under baseband.

I'm on T-Mobile USA and this is a refurbished Sensation
[HTC Sensation] nik.taylor:
Totally up to you. Like i said, i've done it a load of times and so have other people and it does work.
[HTC Sensation] humpty123:
Yeha i've flashed roms before on my mytouch 3G and MyTouch4G this one i wanted to be fully stock
[HTC Sensation] cozmic1988:
Humpty123, the pic you posted shows your screen was on throughout that 1 hour 43 mins. That kinda drop would be expected!
[HTC Sensation] humpty123:
Yeah, but what about the other times like I'll have my screen off from 4-9pm and ill see it that high and like ill answer to texts but lock it right after and put it in my pocket and ill turn off data and wifi and ill see it high still with everything turned down
[HTC Sensation] Markus700:
Problem is the Screen... Try to minimize brightness and active times.
[HTC Sensation] humpty123:
I have the screen brightness down all the way when im in doors and when im outside in the light auto brightness but the auto time out is usually between 15secs to 45 seconds
[HTC Sensation] gtrplr71:
Looks like you sync is constant I bought a anker 1900mA and here is what it looks like still have 39% left I will probably get another 8 hours on this My phone is set to sync every 4 hours only
[HTC Sensation] humpty123:
Actually I have sync off i manually sync it like in the morning then again at nights
[HTC Sensation] cozmic1988:
Does the battery graph show your phone to be awake when the screen's off?
[HTC Sensation] Tester30:
Sorry guys.. Didn't update since my last post(rant).

Called HTC directly, probably got to the knowledgeable tech..

Guess what?? My phone doesn't drain as much now.. Probably need to charge every other day (LIGHT USE ONLY). For power users it won'be enough.

Need to sort what changes he recommended and if it does make any sense...

Will update as I get my hands on that phone...

Cheers.

Tester.
[HTC Sensation] humpty123:
Yeah i think it shows its awake when it's on im not sure so i took a screen shot and now I see that the display went down from 91% to 51% now
[HTC Sensation] cozmic1988:
There are two chunks there where the screen is on and off a lot, but the phone is consistently awake.

Something you ran/used in those two chunks stopped the phone from sleeping, and therefore raped your battery. Looks much healthier towards the end of the graph because the phone was only waking up intermittently for short periods.

Is there an app you remember using in those two large awake blocks? Looks like a bad app, definitely.
[HTC Sensation] humpty123:
I have no idea I only use Apps from the market now usually I have the Internet, or engadget.. Nothing I can think could of been bad
[HTC Sensation] xHVGx:
So... Just a quick question (and maybe a dumb one but gotta make sure). This Anker Battery everybody is mentioning, is it safe to use the stock sensation charger in order to charge it? Or do I have to get the one designed for it?
[HTC Sensation] humpty123:
Would it matter if im listening to music on my phone 24/7
[HTC Sensation] KlashbeN:
Mines going crazy too! Just plugged in to start charging.Only been using it moderately/light and battery is down to ~30%. Wiped battery stats and calibrated with about 2-3 full charges and its still going like this.
[HTC Sensation] amir.elmeligy:
You have to make sure that you have the latest radio
[HTC Sensation] cozmic1988:
Listening to music prevents your phone from sleeping, yes.
[HTC Sensation] cozmic1988:
Klashben, that graph shows your screen had been on and off a lot whilst it was dropping. The period you didn't have the screen on near the start, the drop was as expected.

The screen drains a lot of power, and so does the fact the phone is "awake" at that time too. Where your graph drops off, you're using it pretty heavily, probably about 3 hours worth of "on" time there in total.

I would consider a bigger battery (EVO 3D / Anker)
[HTC Sensation] KlashbeN:
Ordered an Anker and still waiting for its arrival. :) I'm only checking XDA and sending text messages during the time it was awake. Didn't really expect them to be using so much power. :confused: Well, i'll see how it goes after i got my new battery!
[HTC Sensation] Tatdude806:
That is not the case with CM7, the alpha edition. My battery life went from 18-20 hours on a full charge to 6-8 hours (And yes I wiped, etc). I used the RUU and put everything back, did the OTA and back at 18-20 hours. So ROMS are not always the answer!
[HTC Sensation] cozmic1988:
The Anker worked like magic for me. Just remember that the Sensation will show the Anker battery as fully charged (green light instead of orange) when actually it's not quite done.

I don't know how to calibrate it without rooting or using a custom ROM (I like the stock ROM). Only a minor niggle though, just charge it a tad longer than the phone thinks it needs.
[HTC Sensation] humpty123:
Where can I buy that battery at then?
[HTC Sensation] KlashbeN:
http://www.amazon.com/Anker-1900mAh-Li-ion-Battery-Sensation/dp/B0053EZJMC

Here you go!
[HTC Sensation] humpty123:
Does it make a difference if my phone is the TMOBILE HTC SENSATION 4G?
[HTC Sensation] Rhiannon224:
No it does not.
[HTC Sensation] humpty123:
Okay im just making sure
[HTC Sensation] shammanCZ:
This is weird i never had this kind of problems .... this are my stats with phone totally idle (me being on weekend support line in our company - only once pluged into computer for about 20 mins for outlook sync - hence the short bar by recharging), stock ROM, stock batery, sorry for the czech localization though :D

Display..........37%

Cell standby...28%

Phone idle......25%

Voice calls......8%

Fully charged @ Friday morning
[HTC Sensation] cozmic1988:
That's a strange one! Can't see why it'd be falling so fast. Full reset help?
[HTC Sensation] humpty123:
Okay so i bought the battery ill get it tomorrow but how do I calibrate so It'll it its full charge
[HTC Sensation] Tester30:
Thanks bud.....

Can read almost all on your phone's Czech..LOL Russian helps some times!!! LOL

A little clarification... Are you using 4G? Are you still in stock?? Using stock HTC battery?

Thanks a lot!!!

Tester.

Now i'm reading through the lines....In English.....

You have all stock.... Question remains... Are you 4G????

Thanks!
[HTC Sensation] cozmic1988:
The phone will fully charge the new battery, but the green light may come on shortly before it's finished charging. Not sure how to calibrate, but you will get the full charge (after a few charge and discharge cycles).
[HTC Sensation] humpty123:
Okay well I'm bout to put it in should I fully charge it then let it die or let it die fully before changing it?
[HTC Sensation] humpty123:
And should I let my regular battery die out or leave it be with 30% does it really matter with that.. And with my last post about if i should fully charge the anker first or let it die out then fully charge it the 4-5 times
[HTC Sensation] vitusdoom:
not hijacking the thread and all, just wanted to ask if its normal if you plug in the phone and play some kind of 3d game, the phones battery will still die (in a slow way)? because my sensation has died four times now like this. and its heart raising. :) good thing I can short it to push some power for just a couple of minutes and when it can turn on, do a normal charge. but then, its taking too long to charge :D
[HTC Sensation] cozmic1988:
Humpty123,

Leave the old battery with some charge, but not full or empty. You should fully charge the Anker battery first, then let it drain.

It will take 4 to 5 charge and discharges to reach full capacity, but you can do this through normal use. You don't need to let it run 100% down, just most of the way down before recharging.

You can use normally, charging and discharging whenever you want, after the first few cycles.

Obviously, these are merely guidelines to get the best out of the Anker battery, but ignoring everything above will still get good results, just not great ones.
[HTC Sensation] spaghettihoes69:
Just out of curiosity, is it possible that my lack of signal can be held accountable for my shortened battery life? I just moved into a dorm recently, and ever since it seems like my battery life lasts no more than 8 hours on a charge. However before moving I never had any complaints about battery life.
[HTC Sensation] humpty123:
Oh I just let it die last night when I put it in now charging it
[HTC Sensation] humpty123:
I saw a post before saying when the led is green doesn't mean it's fully charged the first time..?
[HTC Sensation] shammanCZ:
Iam glad i could help ... somehow ... and no iam not 4G as for 1Gbit LTE or WinMAX :D .. iam HSPA+ though ... thats 3G/3GPP (with H icon) iirc
[HTC Sensation] EniHS:
Is it normal, that the battery is running down like 60%-80% in 1 hour of playing 3d game?

When almost idle, my battery lives for about 8-10 hours, but when I'm doing something, battery is going down like crazy :/ ARHD rom. Tried CM7 also - almost the same - 50% - 60% in 1 hour of playing games.
[HTC Sensation] Tester30:
Thanks!!

That might explain my battery drain.. If you are on 3G only it uses less power in standby(my theory...LOL) I'm always on 4G, we have real good 4G coverage here in the city... So... will try different methods to increase the battery life, perhaps skinned down custom ROM will help. Who knows.... will give it a try...

Oh, by the way... My 3G HD2 pulls about 3 days between recharge..... That what gave me that idea....

Thanks again,

Tester
[HTC Sensation] cozmic1988:
That sounds excessive, but custom ROMs vary wildly.
[HTC Sensation] shammanCZ:
HSPA+ is 4G :)
[HTC Sensation] slayergreg:
the extended batteries do wonders im loving mine
[HTC Sensation] humpty123:
Well if it is 4G it sucks for me because I'll only get 3mbps down and .2 maybe 1 or up if I'm lucky 2
[HTC Sensation] humpty123:
But I'm loving my anker its great i've had it since Thursday night and major improvement
[HTC Sensation] shammanCZ:
thats weird iam getting 8-10Mbit down and about 2-5Mbit up on Vodafone according to 3G watchdog .. dependant on daytime intervals (slower in about 12AM-16PM, fast 16PM-6AM)
[HTC Sensation] EniHS:
Could someone please tell me, if this is rather normal or I've got battery dead and I should send it to the warranty service? When I'm not touching the phone, the battery lasts for about 15-20 hours. When I use it (no matter what, even just browsing the internet or tapatalk) the battery is going down 1% every minute!
[HTC Sensation] KlashbeN:
With Anker battery, I could only get around 11 hours usage with moderate/heavy usage. ): With light usage, i can easily achieve 18+ hours. Is this normal for Anker? I've read comments where people could easily get over a full day with moderate usage.
[HTC Sensation] Tester30:
Not quite.. That's a standard what is excepted... HSPA+ is just a supped up HSPA to get more data speed.... Exact name is 3+G Refer to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSPA+ .... It will never reach speed of LTE (that's 4G) or even WiMax...Another beast..... But it does do the work. Connection is very reliable, at least where I live, but to compensate for that I believe the battery suffers big drain....

Thanks,

Tester.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] TheKucho:
Hey guys, finally got the nerve to flash GB and will be doing so very, very soon. I have no past experience with Odin so I figured I would never flash GB lol, BUT DAMN, all these roms coming out, it's amazing! If i don't brick my phone somehow using Odin(knock on wood), I would like your opinion on which is the better GB rom at the moment, I know they've got their separate issues that i hope i can cope with. I just can't figure out which rom! HELP ME OUT! Thanks. :D
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] mike-y:
I don't know why people think ODIN is hard to use, it's very easy to flash with ODIN, imo.

anyway, the three ROMs in your title are flashed using CWM. so you'll have to use ODIN to get the GB bootloaders, and then ODIN drhonk's kernel to get CWM. Just follow the guides.

All three of those ROMs are great, and with the tweaks out right now, it's hard to go wrong with any of them. Obviously, if you use your phone to listen to a lot of music, you'll probably want Audiophile. Otherwise it's a toss up. you can always try each of them out for a few days and then pick which one you like best.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] TheKucho:
Oh yeah, thanks. I have the kg4 leak and kernel with voodoo. That's the only part im scared about, flashing those through odin as i am not sure about how to use odn, and have read numerous guides. I'm really looking forward to GB though!
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] HB66:
Ftw is what i like

I am on and like ftw. Any of the three are awesome. Dont worry about odin, it is hard to bricK this phone. You will judt to odin really fast. Good luck and enjoy gb, way better.
[Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)] mbiggs31183:
Personally I love KG6 ICBINB more than any of the other roms thus far. And yeah, Odin is pretty simple. Although, it was a little hairy in the beginning on the original Vibrant. I hard bricked mine once on Odin but its gotten a LOT better since.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RivalComp:
Hi,

I've tried to search for a solution but haven't find any. You know there is a message when battery temperature gets too high then charging stops. The popup message is very very annoying: I use navigation and blackbox while driving. And when this message comes I have to press OK, and 5 secs after it appears again... very very annoying. :mad:

I agree with not to overheat the battery but why not just stop charging without this message? Is there any trick to eliminate this? In summer time and sunny days this msg comes very often. I have to place a piece of plastic to car's ventillation hole to minimizing the chance of this msg.

I don't care if it's charging or not, I just don't want to see this msg.

Please help if you have any idea!

I'm on stock JVR now, rooted, underclocked @ 800MHz. Other ROMs (CM7, MIUI) just stops carging without any message.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faria:
Had the same problem awhile back,reflash jvr, and dont use undervolting/overclocking programs/kernels.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DonVito2020:
+1 Dont OC/uV too much.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RivalComp:
My apologies guys, but please read: I don't use OC/UV, I use stock and underclock.

With normal use and simple charging everything goes well but under heavy use I get this message while charging. Under heavy use I mean navigation, blackbox, and of course phone is at the windscreen while heated by the sun. The phone's glass is hot. It's normal of course because I use CPU intensive apps.

I repeat: I don't care about charging or not, just want this message to be disappeared.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PhilPassmore:
I just unplug mine from the charger when this pops up. It happens with me in exactly the same circumstances. GPS navigation, dashboard of the car, and bright sunny days, it's not an overclock issue, just high ambient heat source, high cpu usage plus charging.

I also find it's aggravated by the silicon skin case I use.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RivalComp:
Yes I'm doing the same as workaround. But other ROMs just stop charging and continue when phone cooled down without any message. It would be very nice to just remove this message by a script or editing a script or something else (I'm not a dev just an "I-like-to-hack" power user).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faria:
DO your devices get extremely hot at all? Mine did ,to the point that it was to too hot to handle, im surprised the dam thing did not exploded.

As for removing the message i have not a clue how too, i do know however that is is triggered by the thermal sensors.

I can also recall this happening with my windows mobile devices a few times,this happened when the gps services were stuck working in the background.

In all occasions the only fix a found was to re flash the rom.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RivalComp:
No, it's not too hot, it's just warm enough. I don't say it's abnormal because in direct sunlight while charging and using cpu intensive apps it's normal. Just try to figure out is there any chance to do this all without this message...

Ok, I'll wait for someone who knows something or know someone who has seen someone who know something... :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RivalComp:
Referring to other threads I'm not the only one with this problem and not SGS is the only one with this problem.

While this message is not needed and has no function it has to be eliminated some way because tapping OK is very disturbing while driving/navigating/etc...

Script? Kernel patch/hack? Something? If some ROMs can do it (like MIUI) there must be a way to have it disappeared...