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[HTC Amaze 4G] marleyfan61:
I have had my Telus version of the Amaze for a week now. I'm not sure why T-Mobile users are getting such poor battery life, or if other Telus users are having the success I'm having.

I am admittedly a fairly light user. My usage during this cycle included a couple of 5 minute Tango video calls. A few regular calls. About 90 min of music. About 20 min of gaming. About 15 min of GPS. Some texting. The usual checking of email etc. And about a 10 minute charge in my car partway through. I have Juice Defender Ultimate enabled.

I now have 15% battery left after 34 hours of use.

I took it off charge at 7AM Wed morning and it is now almost 7pm Thursday evening and I'm about to charge it up again.

So....no battery complaints from me.
[HTC Amaze 4G] tombeach22:
Turn your display to 0! I get 15 hours of use with constantly listening to music
[HTC Amaze 4G] Teo032:
As everyone should know by now, the display of all androids is what drains the battery quickly, to those of you who barely have the display on your battery will last a LONNNNG time. so what's most important about battery life is the display on time. So when looking at your battery use, click display. That should show you your display on time.

And yes having a dark background really helps a lot. So texters, adjust your background to black.
[HTC Amaze 4G] jmhalder:
You know, the reviews that say it is bad... They're right... Kind of.

I had a monster size Dell Streak 5 prior to this phone, it was obvious how much better battery life I got on that compared to the Amaze, mind you it was a first gen 1ghz Snapdragon (65nm) with a HSPA radio and a 5" screen that had to be driven with only a 1500mah battery. I'd say with moderate usage, it would last at least 1.5-1.7 times as long. The battery life is actually very good on the Streak, and although the Evo4g was a 1st gen snapdragon with the same size battery and a smaller screen, it had CONSIDERABLY worse battery life. What I always noticed was that it was a multitude times worse when the screen is on alot. HTC must use really inefficient screens. When me and my girlfriend would be playing a game at the same time, (maybe 10-15 minutes) the Evo would see a significant drop of 15-20%, and the Streak would be something as small as a 5-7%. The Amaze is VERY similar that if you don't use it much, standby time is reasonably good.

I've done everything to maximize battery life on this phone, and the best life I've had out of it since I've owned it, 13 hours. Good enough, but not fantastic. This is while doing these:

1:Underclocking while off the charger to 1ghz and setting a profile to underclock to a max of ~500mhz, min of 192 with the screen off.

2:Installing Juicedefender and letting it kill data connectivity partially in favor of better standby time.

3:Turning the brightness down the absolute minimum 24/7

4:Moderating my own usage so that I don't use it for unnecessary things (looking up Bob Barker on Wikipedia to see if he's alive, etc, etc.)

Without Juice defender installed, without underclocking, If I moderated my usage on my Streak, I'd get 24 hours. If I were to use the phone as I used my Streak and was able to get 12ish hours out of, I'd kill the Amaze battery in ~6-7 hours easily.

I'd be happy if somebody made a extended ~2500mah+ battery for this phone, even at the cost of NFC support, but because of the design and electronics built into the back in general, either nobody will make a real extended battery for this phone, or it will be quite a while before we see one.
[HTC Amaze 4G] biccio:
the signal is important...really important!

Well...I don't believe I would say something new to many of you..but I have been testing a lot the battery of the amaze and here my results:

First...some applications are really draining the battery. Sometime I found the phone stucked on Awake mode and heating up even with the screen off. Examples are the Market (stucked in Downloading and keeping the phone awake) an Facebook...usign the GPS if ON when not needed or not reachable.

Second...the said 4G signal. In my office I drain the battery in 6-7 hours of stand-by (yes..you say it correctly..standby) with only Gmail on sync fulltime..(the rest is on once a day or when I open it). At home, where the signal is not always strong, in 15 hours the battery goes to 70/60% of pure standby with the same settings.

Third...the Android stupidness of allowing everything to be always running and always on. Something I don't really get...when wi-fi is on on my office, I save a lot of battery but the system is still connect to the more power-heavy HSDPA signal, just for the calls. It should search for a GSM signal first. With GSM and wi-fi the phone is practically lasting more than a day with an heavy use...it is mainly a software problem.

Still running multiple tests on the stock battery and the Seidio battery named at 1900 mAh.
[HTC Amaze 4G] gmarcoux:
Here are my results with my Telus HTC amaze 4G. The usage includes 8hrs where I slept but did not put it in airplane mode. I would add the I do not have my twitter set to autosync and that I do not use the official facebook app but firendcaster (I found on previous phones that the facebook app seems to drain the battery). As well I have none of the accounts setup through sense but through seperate apps.

At this point I had 15% battery left.
[HTC Amaze 4G] napajs13:
Amaze battery

I am a moderate user and it seems like I have gotten my battery to last about 5-6 hours. I only had the phone for a week or so, so I will see if I can change some settings to improve battery life. I hope and extended battery is in the works. I usually have a plug to charge although it would be nice to use it moderately and not have to worry about charging.
[HTC Amaze 4G] coolmaster121:
Skype = Dead battery

I have tried using skype on my phone, and it eats my battert for breakfast.

Before noon im down to 50%, not even using Skype, it still runs tho.

Im using the Nexus S on Tmobile now, just ordered the Amaze. Well see how that works out for me.
[HTC Amaze 4G] Da_Real:
The battery life on the amaze is better than i expected, I too was scared when I read all those reviews. But i get 1 day to 1 day 1/2 with moderate use on a single charge. I also use juice defender app, very useful.
[HTC Amaze 4G] TheSneakerWhore:
QuickSense gave me AWESOME battery life. Just spent 7 hours using POwerAmp, 4 calls, text every 15 mins., browsing xda and I still have 63%.

(930 am to 951 pm)
[HTC Amaze 4G] arodhr13:
My battery life is acceptable.
[HTC Amaze 4G] chrischoi:
Thanks Meter 0

Member

Posts: 31

Join Date: Oct 2011

Shut up. I can easily go 12-14 hours with moderate usage. You're just another troll. I just installed SetCPU today. You should probably try that. You don't even provide any supporting evidence.

That's awesome.
[HTC Amaze 4G] fortiery:
What are you using that shows that info in the pulldown?

On the topic at hand, my battery seems to be holding up decently. I have tasker running some profiles to reduce unecessary syncing and data, as well as setcpu. I'm easily lasting through the day and until I go to bed. Much better than I ever got on my HTC Desire.

EDIT: Just realized I quoted the wrong post. Oops.
[HTC Amaze 4G] davidktk:
Is that an app to tell that detail? Thanks.
[HTC Amaze 4G] steoak:
I have had my Amaze 4g nearly a week, I did get the Anker 1900 battery kit with two batteries, just starting to cycle the batteries, but they seem to provide the same usage as my myTouch 4G used to.

I get about 8 hours of relatively heavy calling into conferences etc.

When I am away from home the 3 batteries will hold out for a full day easily.

Steve.
[HTC Amaze 4G] fortiery:
The real culprit is the fact there haven't been any significant advances in small batteries in decades. The truth is spending money on batteries is boring. Sucks for our power hungry phones.

And also, for the love of God, use the enter key!
[HTC Amaze 4G] stevedebi:
I understand your frustration, but rest assured that every cell phone manufacturer on the planet would love to have better battery times. All the features of a smartphone require lots of energy. If the device is designed for longer standby or use time, then the battery has to be a lot larger. It is possible, but people want thinner devices. That is why there is such a market for "extended" batteries (generally with a thick back cover) to make the phone last.

Here are some of what I do:

Short battery life goes with the size and features. I don't need GPS, so I turn it off, and I don't need constant sync, so I turn that off. I keep the BT and WiFi off when not in use. I generally use auto brightness on the screen, and most all HTC devices turn off the screen when you hold the phone to the ear, so that saves a lot of battery when speaking. When I am finished using the device, I hit the power button to turn off the screen.

I should be getting my Amaze this week, and will need a couple of weeks to condition the batteries before I get full charge. I'll report back with my settings. But I use my phone fairly lightly, checking mail only when needed (generally weekends) and using the maps for traffic, plus weather and stock updates (manually). And of course for calls!

One thing that might help is turning off the Sense 3.0. I have noticed with my HD2 that when I unlock the screen the first thing it does it sync up all the Sense modules. I'll probably experiment with LauncherPro, which I own.

Good luck with your battery!
[HTC Amaze 4G] gmarcoux:
This is my 2nd time charging and sharing my results. I'm more than pleased with the battery life in this phone. If you take out 16hrs in my results while the phone was in airplane mode (at night) I am still getting 40hrs a charge
[HTC Amaze 4G] fortiery:
Please tell me how you managed this. I've been on a battery extending kick lately and am trying to squeeze out as much as possible.
[HTC Amaze 4G] furyagain:
I am also getting not bad battery life,

Good enough to go whole day

I left home at 9:30 in the morning and I got back home 8:15 pm

I only turned on Bluetooth when I am in car.

I used my normally,

Checking web page, receiving email.

Watched a EP of top gear using netflix.

Played alitle bit of game for 30 min.

I still had like 30 % left

My 1950mah battery is coming in,, hope It will be even better
[HTC Amaze 4G] gmarcoux:
Basically I disable any syncing that would take place in sense except for email. for email I actually use the htc email app. instead of facebook through sense or even the facebook app (which is also a big battery killer for some reason) I use m.facebook.com and and for picture uploading and such I use the "myalbum" app. for twitter I just use the official twitter app. For google+ I made sure I had it set to auto upload pics only when on wifi. Finally when I'm sleeping at night i put it in airplane mode but make sure to disable autosync as well so it doesn't keep trying to sync without a connection. Oh and when I do have to charge it overnight I make sure I turn it off to charge (disable fastboot to do this). for some reason it makes a difference
[HTC Amaze 4G] fortiery:
Interesting! Thanks for the info. While I mostly care for it to last through a single day with moderate use, I still want to get as much as possible out of it.
[HTC Amaze 4G] arodhr13:
Its called battery indicator pro its in the market. Your welcome
[HTC Amaze 4G] BlackElvis79:
I'm using the Amaze, coming from the Sensation...I gave my sensation to my wife. I thought that I was getting pretty good battery life on my Sensation until today. When we got home from work, her phone had died 20 minutes prior and I still had 57% battery. And I use my phone way more than she does. Not only that, but her Sensation is UV'd and has other mods to supposedly give her better battery life while my Amaze has none of those enhancements...just the latest BeastMod.

I was kinda put off by the Engadget review also, but like it's been stated, I think they're kinda in bed with apple...so I don't take their word on anything Android.

My two cents...the Amaze has very good battery life. Awesome even :)

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Although I do agree that this device has good batt life, your device gets little use. I doubt anyone that uses their device through out the day will get these same results. I think 10 to 14 hours of moderate to heavy use sans lots of gaming of video streaming can be considered normal drainage (as far as I've seen)
[HTC Amaze 4G] aladdiniii:
I have just upgraded to the Telus Amaze from DHD, and I am very pleased with the battery life. On my DHD, being in standby mode in downtown Toronto used to quickly drain my battery. On the Amaze, two hours later the battery was at 98%. Mind you I did some browsing on the train too.
[HTC Amaze 4G] stevedebi:
My initial testing indicates that the problems with battery come because of the 3g modem. I believe that in areas where the 3g/4g coverage is weak, the phone is seeking to find 3g even while connected via EDGE. This happened to me yesterday (poor 4g coverage in my building), and the phone also got a bit warm; plus the battery lasted about 5 hours. I suspect that the people reporting good battery life are in areas that have good 3g/4g.

I have a couple of work around options I am trying out.

1. Disable cellular data when not in use. There is an HTC widget for this purpose included with Sense.

2. Change the wireless to use GSM rather than auto-switch. Of course this leaves one using EDGE. For heavy use periods, change it to WCDMA only. I find that in EDGE the phone lasts a long time, and the transfer is sufficient for basic emails, weather and stock monitoring. For web browsing, downloading, videos, etc., the 3g/4g is needed. From the drain on my battery, it seems that EDGE will provide over 24 hours of battery. The only problem with this is that one has to go all the way down into the Wireless Settings to get at the network switches - there is no shortcut. So I find option 1 easier.

I'm switching back to "automatic" mode for the moment. I've got spare batteries...
[HTC Amaze 4G] supraman89:
My battery life isn't horrible, I can make it through a day, but there is something causing drain, probably a T-Mobile app. If I unplug the battery at 100% and check a few minutes later it suddenly moved to 97%. This is with an extended battery
[HTC Amaze 4G] vzontini:
Here is a post I made yesterday showing 36 hours off charger with light use (mobile network set to 4G (no modifications from stock), bluetooth enabled, gps enabled, wifi off). I have one Google account syncing, all the stock apps, plus a few other things set to poll every couple hours.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=20450323&postcount=42

I think the battery life on the Amaze is acceptable. Even when I use the phone more normally I can make it through the day.

As with pretty much all smart phones, the battery life seems very dependent on screen use. Also with the Amaze (for me) WiFi performance isn't good without the "Best Wi-Fi performance" option checked so WiFi uses more battery than HSPA. When I need it the higher WiFi speeds are worth it, but WiFi isn't the battery saver it was with my previous smart phone. I'd say network use is the second place battery consumer after screen. The phone itself is pretty frugal with battery.

Battery life is *always* subjective. I think the hardest test would be to keep the screen on and use the phone to play a streaming video over the network. I'd think this would die pretty quickly - a few hours or so. The best case would be the phone with all wireless disabled and with the screen off. My guess it would last a week or more this way.
[HTC Amaze 4G] dk_gh0st_:
I've noticed that the battery is subpar. My sensation lasted longer with the same UV/OC settings. Weird.

One of our strengths is our lack of direction- Eris Schmidt
[HTC Amaze 4G] elhalisf:
i agree with vzontini, i have a much longer life with the wifi turned off, even if i dont have "wifi best performance" enabled.
[HTC Amaze 4G] lamenramen:
To the original poster: yes, the battery life is that bad. It's probably the second worst that I've ever seen on a phone. Any smartphone. Only one that was worse was the Evo from Sprint.
[HTC Amaze 4G] broker32:
My battery has been terrible. I get no more than 5 hours with moderate use. Texting, music, catching up on the news. From 10 Am my battery is dead usually by 2 pm. Even tho I have low brightness, no sync, and active apps don't pass beyond 10 :/
[HTC Amaze 4G] morrislee:
The battery life is really bad when Data connection is active. Wifi is much more conservative but still subpar to my Motorola Atrix 4G overclocked to 1.45Ghz or the ancient Acer Liquid E overclocked to 921Mhz.

I get about 2 hours of screen on total to 6-7 hours or if i dont use it at all, about 12 hours 14-16 if it is completely idled on wifi with no wifi sleep
[HTC Amaze 4G] ziggy46:
Jeez... I can go like 12 hours! And I play temple run, use xda app, listen to music, and text. All during school too lol
[HTC Amaze 4G] JesseMT4G:
Dude, you bumped a post from December....
[HTC Amaze 4G] :
My thoughts exactly... I didn't rip him cuz he at least searched. :banghead:

Sent from my HTC Ruby running Sense 3.6
[HTC Amaze 4G] nycdrifter:
Not on the ics leaked rom the new kernel is refined a whole lot more I've been running from 6 am till 5 pm before it really needed to be charged
[HTC Amaze 4G] ITALIANNYC:
I personally get around 9 hours before the battery is dead. Thats on a heavy use day. Thats with non stop texting, some games and about 4 hours screen on. On a day where I am not doing much and do a lil bit during the day, I get about 12 hours. Thats all Id really need. Just get me through the day.
[HTC Amaze 4G] ericdjobs:
There seems to be a gigantic difference from stock t-mobile battery life and custom roms..

With stock t-mobile, I was getting the crappy 5-9 hours total with minimal use etc...

I switched over to NRG's EnergyROM (Gingerbread version, waiting for radio issues to be resolved with ICS) and now I haven't even managed to get the battery below 28%... longest I've went so far was 14 hours and that was with major use, about 3.5hrs total screen time

I have to add though that the majority of the time I am around Wifi.
[HTC Amaze 4G] jeremyshaw:
I dunno if this helps, however, on the equally battery limited LG nitro HD (we get a better screen, but a *much* worse camera :(), just unistalling all of my news apps (especially engadget), helped my battery life dramatically. Im now able to get a full day of use without going to the charger (with two work emails syncing every hour and one personal every 8 hours), and can actually leave this phone untouched while only getting about 2% per hour drain.

Previously, my battery life sounded about tthe same as those on page 7.

All on stock rom, because the LG nitro is brick-happy, and custom rom unfriendly.
[HTC Amaze 4G] :
I could last the whole day on my Samsung Galaxy S2, full brightness!
[HTC Amaze 4G] :
I can last a whole day

We don't have a bad camera, its freaking amazin

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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] lalakersfan88:
i can't seem to be able to receive the confirmation code when registering for aim forwarding on my epic 4g touch. i think it's a sprint probably because i had a friend test out his t-mobile phone and he received the confirmation code immediately.

if anyone can help, it would be great.

thanks!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] wizard83:
Hi all,

I like phase beam live wallpaper very very much.

Is it possible to have it working on gs2?

Attached the original apk from galaxy nexus.

Thanks!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] sicopat:
Just extract it using 7zip ... and you will find it in res/drawable-nodpi :)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] bruflot:
Hi

Is the wallpaper a live wallpaper, or just a static? (not moving ;))

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snap, overlooked it ;)

Thanks Faixy

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Having a problem compiling the file, doesnt matter if I edit something or not.

Probably because I haven't installed the framework files from ICS, but when I try it fails :confused:
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] darkredemption8:
yes please!

Somebody check this please!!!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] TheFaixy:
then? cause there are some .png files how to use this?

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see the first post :D
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] wizard83:
No one?

Inviato dal mio GT-I9100 usando Tapatalk
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] ssconceptz:
Someone please get this working!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] TheTodFather:
Ive tried renaming an extracted res folder to .apk still no luck. What exactly do you do to get this working?

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i think the parsing error is due to this being not backwards compatible to older versions of android. I was tried poking around to see if I could change it.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] ssconceptz:
I've gotten it to extract easily.

Sent with Galaxy S II EPIC Starburst Touch
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] TheTodFather:
so did everyone else here. What did you do once extracted?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] ssconceptz:
Just shook my head. I'm by no means a dev lol.

Sent with Galaxy S II EPIC Starburst Touch
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] ephumuris:
Is there a min android version in the manifest of the decompiled file? Maybe this can be changed to a gingerbread compatible one? Probably not that easy!

Ephumuris
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] wizard83:
I think that ICS framework is very different than GB.

We need a dev to port it! Hope to have it very soon!

PS: I will donate 10€ to the dev who will port it on gs2.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] ephumuris:
Hmm I changed the min and target sdk values in android manifest. Signed the apk and pushed to system. Shows up in livewallaper list but force closes when you try to select it!

Ephumuris
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] wizard83:
Oh, no! :(
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] ephumuris:
Looking at the logcat tells me there is definitely some smali to either port or modify so I'm out of my depth sorry :-(

Ephumuris
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] ssconceptz:
Further than I got lol.

Sent with Galaxy S II EPIC Starburst Touch
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] EleCtrOx666:
It's using RenderScript, introduced in Android SDK 11 (HoneyComb).

Here's the main part of the code of it(and that makes it bugging), I have no idea how to back-port this though.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] ephumuris:
Yeah I noticed the renderscript stuff! Shame I have no idea either.

Ephumuris
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] rkiller51:
Take a look at this app in the market: Ice Cream Sandwich ICS Live

its only 1 LWP but it seems like its woking ..

So when will we get ics LWP ? :/
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] wizard83:
Bought it yesterday...it's beautiful!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] wizard83:
And finally we have it!!! Thanks to dev!!!

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tribok.android.livewallpaper.icsclassic.lite
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] lordxentris:
Works without any problem on my Captivate, it might be permissions issues. I am on Slim ICS 3.4.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] anonomike:
What special permissions are required in root explorer to get this to run stable?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] GANJDROID:
Make sure these 4 boxes are checked.

R w

R

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] lordxentris:
Try to run "Fix permissions" from kernel, but I installed the live wallpaper without any issues. Strange that you are having this problem. Let me know how it goes.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Ajay555:
awesome

thanks buddy

Its working like charm on my Galaxy S Advance
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] sprinkler007:
Thank you

Thank you very much.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] lui5_torre5:
LWP

Try this
[Samsung Infuse 4G] bsutton:
EDIT:i got it.