[HTC Sensation] leyus:
I wouldn't agree. From poll you can see that very little people hate it, and many love it. Yes I am hater :D However here again I will not agree that nothing is going to convince me to start liking this phone. Actually Hypersensation ROM convinced me that it is worth buying Anker battery because I like the speed now and I like the way it looks and I have not found ANY SINGLE BUG CAUSED by Hypersensation ROM while with MIUI it was obvious within 24 h that it is unusable and Coredroid had too many similarities with Sense so I could not accept it.

Yesterday Anker battery arrived and around 23:30 in the morning I put it into my phone, I played a little with it and fixed my bicycle. When i put it in it showed 69% and before I went to bed it was down to 55% (around 2:00 am). I decided not to charge it as I need to get full cycle on this anker and calibrate it. So i turned off wifi, I turned off 3g and I left it over night. What was my surprise when I woke up around 9:00 and found out that there is around 40% battery left. 15% down over about 7 hours? Would not happened on stock battery, no chance even with wifi and 3g turned off! Battery would be flat or almost flat by this time I can assure you. It makes me kind of optimistic, of course fresh battery reading may be wrong etc. I will drain it during the day (both of them ) then I will fully charge it at night and calibrate it (no sense leaving stats from crappy stock battery) but now I got still 33% left so no bad if I started around 69%! I'm going to work at 17:00 so that will be ultimate test how it deals with heavy use, because of course laying next to bed and in my pocket in library (now) or in my pocket during lectures is not much of an indicator. However I am getting optimistic.

TO SUMMARIZE MY EXPERIENCE SO FAR:

- Bought Sensation for lots of money, STOCK ROM was terrible, SLOW, LOOKING STUPID and battery life was terrible, also touchscreen was not reacting to anything while charging!!!

- I thought that after previous experience with HTC devices custom ROM will solve all the problems as it usually did, I found unfortunately that there is no official CM7 for this model so I decided to search which ROM-s are the most recommendable and Coredroid had lots of positive opinions

- I did not like Coredroid because it was too similar to Stock ROM, battery life was still terrible so i decided to try MIUI which was one of best ROM-s which I tired on other devices, unfortunately on this one amount of bugs like loosing signal, disconnecting wifi, random reboots made it unusable.

- At this point I lost patience, 3 ROMs all bad, buggy touchscreen, nonchargeable via USB so had to carry charger with me all the time, 7-12 hours battery life (vary from ROMs and settings), that was too much I become Sensation hater and started this thread.

- Someone here suggested Hypersensation ROM I gave it a try and I loved it, however battery life was still upsetting, various software tricks like underclocking, less synchronization, turning off all animations etc. (all mentioned here during arguing ) only slightly improved it, I reached 12 h on heavy use that was still not enough, but at least I did noticed that on Hypersensation I do like to use that device, speed, screen etc. everything was ok even with underclocked processor so I decided so I decided to give it a try and I fixed touchscreen bug as described in sticky thread (with hope that it will as well fix battery life but it did not) and bought Anker battery

- First tests of Anker battery today, it is far too early to say anything for sure but I am optimistic for a first time about that device,

If I will get anything of 16+h on 3 hours screeentime I am not selling it, I will keep second battery in my pocket and I find it ok and I will stop being a hater and will accept that it is decent device BUT:

FOR THAT PRICE IT IS FAR TOO MUCH EFFORT TO CALL THIS DEVICE GOOD, I am sure that with almost any other device for that money you will get much better results without : trying 3 ROMS, putting aluminum foil inside your device to stop touchscreen from freezing, buying additional batteries, turning off basically everything that my impact battery life and installing additional software.

At the end of the day if I will reach 16+h I'm not selling it and I am happy to use it, screen is lovely but with that amount of effort, invested money and time I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND THAT DEVICE. And people who saying you that my handset is faulty are either lucky or can not read because many people do report those bugs and battery life it is common thing with this model. Same with idea of battery drain being caused by user mistakes, many people report that kind of battery drain, use of 3 different ROMs with 3 different Kernels and settings proof them wrong, those who say they got better they get maybe 3-4 hours more and it is hard to say how heavy they use their phone because it is extremely subjective. For that price it is too many bugs, too much effort, too much extra money invested and if you want to buy this device basing on opinions of some people who were lucky and don't have one of many bugs (dust under screen, touchscreen freezing while charging, short battery life, being nonchargeable by USB and I can keep on mentioning) then good luck, but you might end up being one of people with problem that will waste your time and patience. Not too mention it must be rooted because on stock ROM it is completely useless but anyway you might end up with testing many ROM-s at this level of development before you find something good.

SO if you are willing to invest lots of time, money and effort, go for it, if you need device that will work well on stock ROM and will have good battery life without all that stuff then you are extremely unlikely to reach your expectations with Sensation.

Will post my full battery results tomorrow so far I can say I am optimistic and I am positively surprised, hopefully I'm not just delusional. There seems to be correlation with being delusional and having Sensation I can see it with many users attacking me for being fed up with bugs and difficulties which they do not see.