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[HTC One S] wilcoholic:
thats 6.7 hours of browsing while on wifi. I am not even getting 4 hours of browsing with inverted/black colors on 3G.

Guys, this phone has an AMOLED screen and I am browsing the web where virtually everything is pitch black except text while wifi/bt/gps/sync is disabled and virtually no other background processes are running except for the android stuff and one app called tasker. Auto-brightness enabled. The screen is basically off except for the text! I took it to the extreme but where are my power savings?

Even standby time is not that impressive. Anytime I am not using the browser the phone is in 2G mode, no wifi/bt/gps/mobiledata, auto rotate turned off, auto brightness enabled, no widgets, disabled all the status bar icons such as time/battery/signal icons, no wallpaper, no other fancy stuff. Just a grid of icons on my homescreen and tasker running in the background.

I had colors on my iphone and I get way more browsing time while not compromising at all with the other stuff.

Thats true. But I guess I am not even getting 1 day or 8 hours of screen time
[HTC One S] WCCobra:
Set the brightness down to min and/or try a custom rom. I was on stock, but I hear the battery life improves quite a bit on some of the custom roms available.

Also, this phone is significantly faster (spec-wise) than the iPhone. If you want longer battery life, perhaps you should switch to a phone that allows you to swap out the battery (GS3), or go for a low-end phone like the iPhone.

I should also add that the updated firmware 1.70, 1.78 also extends battery life. Those updates have not been released to U.S. phones yet.
[HTC One S] nickmv:
OP -- seriously? Are you complaining? Find me a smartphone with better battery life with a comparable specs-to-batterySize. Droid Razr Maxx doesnt count, as its battery is 2x as large.

I took mine off the charger at work @ 5pm yesterday. It's now 10:23am, and I'm at 72%. I did a decent amount of web browsing, calls, and texting, and some music.
[HTC One S] Hgaara:
OP can you send me the browser apk with the inverted colors?

Sent from my HTC VLE_U
[HTC One S] wilcoholic:
Stock browser has it already. Settings -> Accessibility -> scroll down a bit and you will see inverted rendering. Basically makes every B/W and inverts the blacks and the whites.

I was btw running CM9 alpha6. And seriously I don't really know about the other smartphones since I have only used the iphone 4. I believe that smartphone gets more screen time. So probably the iphone 4s too. I think the 1X and 1XL gets better screen time when I read the reviews and with the latest updates.
[HTC One S] ickster:
" or go for a low-end phone like the iPhone."

LOL!
[HTC One S] micxploed:
I was confused about this for a moment. I think you think that the battery time left is what your screen shot says 4 hours and change. That's the time it has ben off the charger blnot what's left on battery. That seems normal to me for it to be @ 60
[HTC One S] seangprice:
I can get almost two days of moderate use, including tethering on the stock Rom. I'm sure not every phone is equal but the battery life on this phone's exceeds my HTC Aria, iPhone's and my G2x.
[HTC One S] dc211:
His first screen shot tells us he got 4 hours and 7 minutes of screen on time and it accounted for 65% of his battery usage.

Which it way better then I get I only get about 2 hours of screen on time out of a full day of usage.

And the OP is right that IOS is the king of battery live when it comes to web browsing.
[HTC One S] wilcoholic:
Wrong my battery was at 6% (actually even lower like 3% but I didn't take a screenshot). And the display accounts for 65% of that battery drainage. Don't you guys use android at all?

Btw according to that graph its getting 5-6 hours. But why am not even getting 4 hours max? When I did as much as possible to reduce battery consumption. Going as far as to invert the colors. I was expecting major savings. After all isn't the screen suppose to be off when its displaying blacks? I am very skeptic about amoleds now and the claims that it saves battery life when displaying dark colors. And how this is all the time used as a pro. I think its phony.

No one is going to browse the internet like me and it didnt even work
[HTC One S] ickster:
I have not had a ton of these phones but every one I've had sucked down the batteries. My Indulge, Evo, Sensation and G2X all were battery hogs.

I'm nothing short of amazed at the difference.

Wish I didn't have such data issues.

I don't think my new S3 is going to be nearly as good. I'm ordering a battery the second the phone is on the way.
[HTC One S] ravi_mytouch:
Battery Usage

I generally get around a Day, that too with Juice Defender running. If I use for anything with screen on, I get around 4 hours.

Anybody has run a video run down test just to see the max video playback without anything else.
[HTC One S] Orical:
Still have great battery use here...
[HTC One S] ehkim36:
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[HTC One S] Mr.Mischief:
http://blog.gsmarena.com/htc-one-s-...-how-power-efficient-the-two-krait-cores-are/

Sent from my HTC One S
[HTC One S] el_smurfo:
I notice you have full bars of 4G. That makes a big difference. When I'm at home with decent signal, I get a full day of use, mostly streaming music/podcasts. When I'm at work where it strains for 1 bar (likely at full radio power), I have to keep it on the charger to even last work hours.
[HTC One S] ptweasel:
So, aren't you just beating a dead house at this point? Many people have already shown that they get more than sufficient battery life from their One S. I agree with trying to squeeze everything from the phone that you can, but with normal usage, this phone seems to perform admirably.

And, I still have to ask of anyone reading this... What is this weird need to get 4+ hours of screen on and browsing time? I don't see how you could possibly be working or going to school or even doing anything otherwise considered normal. Unless you're getting stranded on a deserted island every day, its hard to believe that plugging in to AC for a few minutes a day is that big of a hardship.

You're comparing totally different hardware, and you keep bringing up iPhones. Smaller hardware, slower SoC than Krait in general. If that works better for you, then that may be a better answer than chasing some unattainable goal.
[HTC One S] Mr.Mischief:
OVER 5 HOURS SCREEN TIME!!! Um, this is awesome! This is my last battery post, I'm tired of staying up late trying to drain the battery.

Sent from my HTC One S
[HTC One S] Mr.Mischief:
Under 10 minutes a day. I did send like 30 texts, and used: Pandora, Chrome Beta, Tapatalk, eBay, Facebook, and Dropbox streaming.

Sent from my HTC One S
[HTC One S] NienorGT:
I live in a basement so i have Edge and a bar of HSPA when I'm lucky, that mean that I'm always on WiFi (anyway the setting to deactivate WiFi when Screen is off don't stick. Sync is On but I don't have many stuff going on. I use a lot of black stuff too which help for battery.
[HTC One S] Orical:
I'm using the CPUEditor script so it really doesn't matter what I use I get about a day and a half with regular use if not two days on a regular charge. If you look through some of my posts you'll find a link for it.

I explain how it works without the need of custom kernels or roms in the bindroid thread because some people were a little confused by it.

Try it out and see how it worlds for those whom use their devices like an addict, I bet you'll agree.

First go here:http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1710980 and install this if your device is Stock but rooted.

Then install this here:http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1584508 and follow the menu in Terminal Emulator.
[HTC One S] Mr.Mischief:
I was in a poor 4G coverage area half the day, and I didn't turn off WiFi. I also had the screen brighter than usual. I'll be in the same area tomorrow, and I'll turn 4G and WiFi off.

Sent from my HTC One S
[HTC One S] J1zzo:
A lot of whatsapp texting yesterday :D

(with chicks :cool: )
[HTC One S] Mr.Mischief:
I believe in the GSM Arena test the call time was like 8 hours. Are you in a poor coverage area?

Sent from my HTC One S
[HTC One S] wilcoholic:
Well I get the same thing. I talked for about 40 minutes and I probably did some 3g web browsing for around 45 minutes. And half of my battery is drained.

I am getting tired of the comments here. Just be honest The battery life is NOT good. Yes I can get 200 hours of uptime if I dont use the phone at all. Yes I can get 5 hours of screen time if I only browse the gallery or use some other low cpu intensive app with everything switched off. But in general I am only getting 4 hours of screen time with around 20 hours of standby time.
[HTC One S] cougzzz:
Looks like you got yourself a good one. International version? I only get 2.5 hrs of screen time it seems like on a daily basis. Still trying to find ways to tweak it to increase my battery life. Maybe I should just go ahead and root it. Any recommendation to increase the battery life (especially the screen time)?
[HTC One S] :
I get 4-5 hours of screen on time per charge. It was like that stock, and more closer to 5 now that I rooted and debloated. No tweaks. Just calls, some browsing, 30-45 min of music playing, a little xda, and about 100-150 texts sent.

If u want better battery... Stay off xda... That app will gobble batteries :D
[HTC One S] Terminator19:
Yeah on o2 network, but unlocked/not branded.

You can try rooting and flashing a custom ROM like trickdroid, probably improve battery life, no idea as to how much though.

Yup, wrote a quick guide for someone else here:

Hope that helps :)

Browsing is the biggest killer on AMOLED phones due to all the whites etc. so if you are a very heavy browser you aren't going to get much better than 4 hours on screen time. I would consider my usage to be pretty heavy and am sure that if I cut down on the time browsing, I would easily get over 5 hours on screen time each day.
[HTC One S] Ace42:
The One S should have very good battery life, I could regularly achieve a minimum of 18hrs on my Sensation, and that one has an older CPU than this one. Then again I did underclock to 800Mhz per core & I undervolted like the Devil. I am thinking of getting this phone but does it have extended batteries yet?
[HTC One S] kuroneko007:
Since it is impossible to remove the battery, there is not and never will be an extended battery.

On a side note, I found that smokin7331's CPU Editor script works wonders for battery life.
[HTC One S] Orical:
Not true, there is a case that is an extended life battery for the One S if you Google it you'll see.
[HTC One S] Mr.Mischief:
Actually, Tapatalk has a dark theme thst greatly increases battery life.
[HTC One S] everywell:
Look at this amazing battery life!!
[HTC One S] kuroneko007:
Didn't know that, thanks for the info! Might have to get one of those.
[HTC One S] mt3g:
On my g2x

If this guy wants to sew what bad battery life looks like I'll post a pick of what mine looks like tomorrow evening. I use my phone for work and will be on it quite a bit tomorrow, little voice lots of text and email and downtime = being xda and texting friends. I get on a good day, with no games at all, around 12-16 hours with 2 hours on screen time with the phone underclocked to 800 MHz stock 1000. Its ridiculous lol. I've read this whole thread cause I'm considering this phone, and you guys have amazing battery life.
[HTC One S] k1llacanon:
I get 19hr nothing under clocked but use battery saver app
[HTC One S] Mr.Mischief:
This is my replacement HTC One S. Battery life is similar to my first.

Sent from my HTC One S
[HTC One S] el_smurfo:
Have you compared battery times using the "inverted" mode in the stock browser? Settings/Accessibility/invert mode turns white to black and black to white...not my cup of tea, but I'm not a super battery critic.
[HTC One S] Terminator19:
No I haven't tried it, must do though sometime to see how much of a difference it would make. Not my cup of tea either though, so can't see myself sticking to it unless it really did help battery life a lot! :p
[HTC One S] AttachedSilver:
Battery life was terrible on my one S, would barely get a lil over 2 hours of screen time, much better though on my GS3
[HTC One S] wilcoholic:
I have and you can see the results in my first two posts of this thread. Not much difference at all.
[HTC One S] enoch861:
@joker

Your phone is acting like a good boy. Do you have sync turned off? Because your phone seems to be sleeping very well.
[HTC One S] SharkBait Ha:
I gpt awesome battery life n I'm stock no root no unlockbootloader straight put of T-Mobile
[HTC One S] Mr.Mischief:
Yep, sync is off. I rarely check my email on my phone. I turned sync off on my iPhone 4 too.

Sent from my HTC One S
[HTC One S] BackDaws:
You havent used your phone much, you could probably benefit a lot from Juice Defender which will knock off your wifi and turn it on for a min 4 times an hour to sync your phone.
[HTC One S] BackDaws:
ffs the battery is rubbish, why didn't they stick the 1800mah in the s and a 2100mah in the x, it's the only thing I'm not happy with and its really pissing me off. I hope HTC find its a bug draining the battery and fix it.
[HTC One S] Xdpker06:
I have a bit of a problem with my battery. I used to get like 2 days of use on Trickdroid 5.0, I would use it for 4 hours and it would only drop 5 percent. Nothing has changed and now my battery life is crap. Yesterday, it didn't last for 12 hours and usually I have no problem lasting that long. I wonder if my phone is a dud.
[HTC One S] johnyu142:
much better battery life on the One S than my old motorola and huawei androids
[HTC One S] BackDaws:
Im having to charge my ONE s twice a day and thats without playing any games, its a joke, my Galaxy lasted nearly 2 days with quite heavy usage.
[HTC One S] wetrabbit444:
I don't know what you guys are talking about. I got the one s the day before yesterday. Charged it. And from yesterday morning 630am to 2am that night I still have 20%. Using the phone,some browsing,calls and text,Facebook,twitter,Gmail,maps directions, and talk/video chat. Awesome battery life.
[HTC One S] Xdpker06:
Unplugged and went to sleep and the battery dropped 10 percent idling with sync and data off..
[HTC One S] TheEndHK:
I'm also disappointed to the battery performance because I got a Xperia S and the battery on One S is only a little bit better, no any huge improvement but please .... XS is a S3 cpu and 720P device.

I think Sense is a power hog but I just discover a bug on kernel cpu1. The 2nd core always run as high speed with ondemand mode even you've change it in SetCPU/CPU Editor, so the battery drain should be larger than expected especially when your usage is light.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1752783

I've reported this problem in the other thread.

I guess One XL(AKA One AT&T) doesn't has this bug in kernel and from what I see on that board, the average battery performance is somewhat better than us even though we both are on S4 platform. The raido on One S isn't that good too in my opinion, together with this bug might made the battery really bad.
[HTC One S] BackDaws:
Does this mean that with a fix we could have a decent battery life ?
[HTC One S] TheEndHK:
Yes and No. The One S stock rom definitely not mature, battery life should be a lot better but I guess HTC won't put too much effort on it because it's not a flagship product. I really want to tell HTC the price is very close to flagship, not that much of a different.
[HTC One S] BackDaws:
i didnt want to unlock and root this phone because i like the stock rom and when i have my phone rooted i never stop tinkering with it.......hahahahaha

looks like im going on a rom hunt now :(
[HTC One S] TheEndHK:
I believe unlock and root is a must on this phone because the stock rom is just horrible on battery life though the stock rom performance isn't bad and stable. By using LeeDroid V2.1 with SetCPU/CPU Editor and debloat a lot, I got extra 30 - 40% battery life.
[HTC One S] crni6:
Can any one tall me whats battery life of S3 model...screen time..? Please halpe me...my gsm oper.only have s3 model and I dont want to speand 200e more on s4 model in some store.
[HTC One S] h46it:
I thought i would share my battery life with the 1S
[HTC One S] Mr.Mischief:
Screen time?
[HTC One S] h46it:
Just about 2hrs, seems great to me! :)
[HTC One S] :
2 hours? That's not bad if the phone is on for 15 hours... my phone lasts about 9 hours with 5.5-6 hrs of screen time... if that's not damn good for a smartphone today then idk what is :D:D:D:D:D
[HTC One S] Terminator19:
Much the same usage as listed before in this thread but slightly less web browsing and a lot more camera usage (photos and 1080P videos):
[HTC One S] baseballfanz:
Running TrickDroid 5, most of time is talking on the phone.
[HTC One S] crni6:
''Terminator 19'' whats your S1 processor...s3 or s4? Can some one post screean shots of S3 processor battery life?:confused:
[HTC One S] Terminator19:
S4 :)
[HTC One S] qingdu:
I encountered similar problem when I have the wifi always on setting, but the battery life last much better (more than one day under moderate use) when it is set to turn off wifi when sleep. So maybe the looking for connection drains the battery.
[HTC One S] crni6:
f**k :( I order today 1s with s3 procesor couse on my network sells just that model and is half price that is s4 sim free :eek:

You kill me "terminator 19" ;) I hope so that you going to say s3 :D

Can some one compre battery life those 2 models if I dont ask too much. :cyclops:
[HTC One S] Terminator19:
:p

Unlucky you couldn't get the S4 :(

I don't think too many on this sub forum have the S3 version.
[HTC One S] crni6:
Fu****g HTC...I love HTC phones but its so low that puting something old and sell it for same price like new(better) one.
[HTC One S] IvanTurbinca:
My HTC Amaze doesn't even last one day, so the One S I guess is better battery wise.
[HTC One S] melo563:
I don't have a 1s but using autobrightness does not help battery manually setting brightness will help with battery much more when you don't need the brightness go to settings and turn down manually also turning aff radios that ate not needed helps with battery such as GPS WiFi when not using mobile data when not using just for example also turning off auto rotate,sync anything auto helps with battery may not work how you want out the box but it will help some
[HTC One S] renehd2:
OMG what rom, settings and mods do you have???
[HTC One S] Terminator19:
Stock ROM, no root access or anything else, just the standard stuff really, manual brightness control, wifi max performance off (unless streaming HD content, transferring a large batch of photos/videos), GSM only mode always selected even if wifi is connected (only use H/3G connection when there is no wifi around), disabled a ton of apps, which I don't need and pretty much everything else I listed in this post:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=27220678&postcount=32
[HTC One S] superjohan:
I got out 2.5 days.

2.5 hours screen on

50 mins voice call

wifi on for about half the time.

and i had 14 % left i think. So it is waaaaaay better than the Xperia S that i sold...

oh, and i am running trickdroid + tweak package
[HTC One S] renehd2:
The battery of this phone is very very good :D
[HTC One S] BackDaws:
whats causing the battery drain on stock rom, because my battery life has doubled using LeeDroids rom without missing anything, im using the phone exactly as i was before with the same accounts and syncs as stock. i can now get a whole day on one charge, with stock i was charging twice a day :)
[HTC One S] renehd2:
6hrs of screen time..!!!
[HTC One S] LalyGirl:
Wow that's amazing! what rom do you using ?
[HTC One S] renehd2:
Trickdroid 6.0, stock kernel
[HTC One S] LalyGirl:
That's pretty impressive, I hope that I can get 6 hours of screen time with TrickDroid v5.2
[HTC One S] renehd2:
Install 6.0, you wont regret it, trust me
[HTC One S] LalyGirl:
So the battery is better than v5.2 ? If so., then I will !!! :D
[HTC One S] TPA_Droid:
I don't know what is happening with my battery?
[HTC One S] Mr.Mischief:
The graph shows you charged it a little bit several times.
[HTC One S] Andy2502:
My Battery ;)

I think it's great :)
[HTC One S] hiu115:
battery's great, 14 hours of browsing with full 3G HSPA+, 2-3 days standby.
[HTC One S] kuroneko007:
14 hours of browsing? That would be a world record for any smartphone. Try and make your exaggeration a little bit more realistic.
[HTC One S] Mr.Mischief:
Check this out. A little web browsing, 15 minutes of Backstab HD, Tapatalk, FB, and eBay. Auto brightness, WiFi always on(I was away from WiFi for 2 hours), sync off, GPS off, and stock Rom.
[HTC One S] touch of jobo:
You have a lot of green in your 'Mobile Network' bar. Mine is mostly grey and yellow. I don't know how much difference that makes, but it must help at least somewhat.
[HTC One S] adnana1024:
My One S has been on battery power for 2 hours. Of those 2 hours, the screen was on for a little less than 6 minutes (low brightness). I was on a call for 3 and a half minutes. My phone was idle for a total of 1 hour 53 minutes. But my phone is already at 78%.

This phone never lasts me through the day. I need to charge it at least by 4 so it doesn't die on me later. Most days I need to charge it twice. I don't do any heavy computing because of this horrendous battery life.

Is anyone else experiencing similiar issues, or does it seem like my battery is defective or something?

EDIT: Since I posted this (about 40 minutes ago), it's down another 10%, with another 5 minutes of actual usage of the phone.
[HTC One S] WCCobra:
Are you on stock?
[HTC One S] adnana1024:
Yea, I'm on stock. No root or anything.
[HTC One S] davwman:
Axiom 1.8 with klins kernel is 100 times better with battery
[HTC One S] WCCobra:
There's your problem. Stock will just suck the battery life away.
[HTC One S] Mr.Mischief:
I'm on stock.
[HTC One S] ironclaw22:
Pure stock or stock kernal on custom Rom? 6 hours of screen time is amazing.

Sent from my HTC VLE_U
[HTC One S] Mr.Mischief:
Pure stock, not rooted or running any form of a custom rom.

One of the biggest battery drains I've noticed is GPS. I only use at most once per week, so I turn it off.
[HTC One S] santoshrane:
Are u using S3 or S4 with 1.5ghz
[HTC One S] adnana1024:
I have the T-Mobile version, so I'm using the S4.
[HTC One S] santoshrane:
I am going shopping for S- 4 , but reading batt issues I'm kinda concerned.

I'm using desire S. Worse guess ill just change batt on my desire and wait for a while ..
[HTC One S] Mr.Mischief:
If you turn off sync and use a decent brightness, you will experience no battery issues. I've had 4 One S's, and under normal usage they get 4-6 hours of screen time. If you turn off GPA when you don't need, that will help greatly.
[HTC One S] renehd2:
Hello guys, do you think losing 10% in standby over the night in 9:30 hours is bad or good??
[HTC One S] Mr.Mischief:
Sounds good to me. I haven't let mine run overnight yet. I always plug in at night.
[HTC One S] Beatnix1:
its not bad :)

Gesendet von meinem HTC One S mit Tapatalk 2
[HTC One S] Kandydish:
I'm running completely stock (I rooted to remove bloat) and I'm getting great battery life.

It lasts all day for me. I'm a heavy user with constant texts, all data pushed to my phone, and auto brightness on. I check Facebook and Twitter multiple times a day. GTalk, Texting, WhatsApp, and Facebook messenger buzz multiple times a day. If I keep it on vibrate, I get close to 3% or 4% by the time I go to bed.

I'm SO excited to see what a custom ROM would do to it. :)
[HTC One S] Hunt3r.j2:
Could be better. I would guess some sort of wakelock might be held for some reason or another. Make sure you use the app Smartsync disabler to fix any connection-retry wakelocks that happen from connection drops after midnight.
[HTC One S] Mr.Mischief:
What? 1% an hour is awesome!
[HTC One S] santoshrane:
Don't know if Uve tried easyprofiles ..while sleeping I set it to sleep mode , where I've programmed everything off, screen dim etc. N I command it to wake up in 8-9 hrs. That way with a kinda dead device not much battery is used, unless u would like it to still fetch mails while u sleeping...