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[HTC One S] wilcoholic:
Not quite sure what you mean. But I used inverted colors in the stock browser and to my humans eyes it felt like 90% of the web pages were black or near black. The rest was just white text. Even on xda. I primarily visit websites with a lot of black text on white. So if I invert them I would get the opposite. Yet I still only got 4 hours of screen time. And that is almost exactly the same as if I was browsing with normal colors.

I am sure the theory is right but in practice I am getting different results. I am just looking for answers how people are able to get 5+ hours of screen time on their one S and why my battery time didn't improve at all when I was just using primarily black colors.
[HTC One S] cerebeln:
Your screen spends the same power, which is 980mW, as others's one s.

However, this value can be as low as around 500~700mW, it needs sacrifice:

simply play a video(must supported by the DSP) just like gsmarena/phonearena, and it last long
[HTC One S] tritran18518:
You can just say that you have worst battery on your phone. 5h or 4h of screen on is depend on your apps, how you use your phone, your setting. I an have 5h of screen on but i also have 4h too... depend on how i use my phone. It's not problem. because i expect to have 6h+. ^^
[HTC One S] cerebeln:
It's no doubt that KEITAI spends more and more power, since it needs energy to transfer data. It's lucky that the cell's power consumption does not increase as the same pace of the data rate. However, new tech in chips does merely no help. PA is analog, it needs just so much power to transfer data.

The PA limit phone's standby power, it is 15mW in most phones and even larger in 4G network.

The only tech that help reduce power is the digital part of the chips like the Application Processor(It's MSM8260A in one S), and better screen luminous efficiency.

Both of them are neutralized by a better performance(8260A do have 100% better performance than MSM8260, sadly both of them spend ~700mW at their own highest frequency. ) and bigger screen.

The LCD wastes at least 70% of the light(all pixel show white) or more by the bayer matrix, in order to shows colorful images.

Samsung's oled doesn't waste the light, however its luminous efficiency is only around 10% of the LCD's backlight.
[HTC One S] skodann:
all that I have to say is that battery life on one s is at least double than on my previous sensation...cheers
[HTC One S] k1llacanon:
How did u get leedroid on lol in some. Instruction it said I had to download a boot.IMG that completely messed up my phone and got stuck in bootloop unable to mount sd card thanks to some members on here I'm back and running
[HTC One S] DanielBoca:
Sorry guys, but I had on iPhone 3g, 4, 4s, Motorola Milestone, Galaxy Nexus and Motorola Xoom.

The battery life 'experience' one HTC One S is very disappointing.

My daily usage consists in everything what a smartphone is supposed to do email/twitter/facebook/foursquare/news/maps several times a day and I barely manage to get from office at home without recharging.

I like to see and emphasize positive aspects of all OS/brands, but at this chapter, HTC One S falls behind the others.

Now that I bought it I have to learn to adapt to less power :)
[HTC One S] Terminator19:
No complaints from me about battery life, easily the best there is ;)

Usage: few texts, few phone calls, a lot of web browsing, installing/uninstalling apps, about 10-15 min of youtube videos, about 5 photos taken, about 10-15 min of games, about 15 minutes of TV catchup, a bit of GPS, mostly wifi connection and H/3G connection for a bit, snowstorm syncing every 2 hours and sense weather refreshing every 6 hours, general messing around in apps etc. some whatsapp use, gmail push and automatic brightness etc.

Usage: few texts, few phone calls, a lot of web browsing, installing/uninstalling apps, about 10-15 min of youtube videos, about 10-15 photos taken, about 10-15 min of games, about 15 minutes of TV catchup, a lot of speed tests (both wifi and 3G/H), mostly wifi connection and H/3G connection for a bit, snowstorm syncing every 2 hours and sense weather refreshing every 6 hours, general messing around in apps, gmail push and automatic brightness etc.
[HTC One S] PcFish:
2 Days, 50%

With the LeeDroid Tweaks and Dual Core Mod.

Conservative. I play games and stuff when I'm on the can or something, but this is great battery life akin to the pre-smartphone days.
[HTC One S] Orical:
I wasn't going to post in on this thread because it's all about what your using and how much your on it (Pissing contest) but I'm a little more than an average user over all and there isn't a thing wrong with the battery on this device.

There are a few things that people miss that consume power by idle processes including video chat... has to be the worst app no matter which one you use for killing the battery even if you think your not using it and the other thing is these are not game consoles, if your playing games all of the time at 30 fps for 2 hours and you think your battery should have only lost 2% of it's power then there's nothing anyone can say that will make sense to you.

There are limitations to everything, you can't expect a laptop to run like a desktop and if your trying to use your phone like a PS3 while doing everything else your doing out side of the millions of things you do here in this forum then you should be plugged in at all times. The battery is an inch long and a sixteenth thick running a mini super computer.....

I figure if I put it a few different ways maybe people will get it but if the Iphone is what your looking for then why are you here, this is a place for learning and options and if it bothers you that the battery is bleeding out like a stuck pig there are a million tutorials here for you to correct it for your self.
[HTC One S] touch of jobo:
Also, normally our battery meter has 4 levels: full, pretty full, half empty, almost empty. But we have 100 levels, so we notice it drop more than we normally would.

And of course, whenever you think "OMFGOMFG, I lost X% of battery in Y minutes doing Z!!", remember that that means

you can can do Z for 10Y/6X hours

. Often that makes it sound a lot better.

-Jobo
[HTC One S] MightyZoltar:
I have been pleasantly surprised by the battery on the One S.

My first Android phone was the HTC Desire, and the battery life was awful compared to the iPhone 3G I had before it. The next Android phone I has was the Samsung Nexus, which again had pretty poor battery life.

The One S has comparable life to the iPhones I have owned over time (all of them). It lasts a whole day without any issues. Could go for 2 days with low useage. Pretty much what I expect from a smartphone battery nowadays. I'm impressed.
[HTC One S] Beatnix1:
Hello folks,

the discussion about the power consumption has incited me once to test its stability to my battery

The first thing I've watched a nearly 2-hour movie on my phone Then I looked upon earthcam.com[/URL] for 1 hour, which is a real endurance test for the battery.

in the background i ran 3 mail accounts, whatsapp, and imo messenger with 2 accounts of course everything on autosync

Screen brightness to 50%

I had to use WiFi cause I get no 3G connection at home

i am using 2.1 Leedroid

As long as I take the performance on the day that's fine to me, and I do not care anyway if the remaining capacity is 5% or 35% tonight before I hang it to the charger
[HTC One S] WCCobra:
Has anyone else noticed that WiFi continues to drain the battery even though the phone is powered off? My phone went from 100% battery to 90% while it was "shutdown" for the night. The next night I turned off the WiFi connection before shutting down the phone, and the battery remained at 100%. Weird...

I'm using trickdroid, if that matters.
[HTC One S] touch of jobo:
Do you actually power it down, or just put it to sleep? And if you do really power it down, do you have fastboot disabled?

If you just put it to sleep, then it is normal that WiFi keeps drawing power, if the 'Keep WiFi on during sleep' setting is set to 'Always'.

(settings -> wifi -> menu -> advanced)

-Jobo
[HTC One S] WCCobra:
I hold down the power button and choose "shutdown" from the menu.
[HTC One S] cangia:
same me ... 3G + Browsing KILLING my battery :eek: :(
[HTC One S] avataranjie:
It really doesn't matter what I do. Chrome kills so much battery... What do you get for screen usage?
[HTC One S] kuroneko007:
Here is a normal day of reasonable usage for me. Pathetic.
[HTC One S] cangia:
What radio do you use ?
[HTC One S] MRKikas:
I'm pretty happy with my battery, is far better than my Desire...

Besides the fact that I liked very much off the Google Chrome I had to Uninstall because it drain lots of battery...
[HTC One S] raikesy:
Fair to say there is definitely something wrong with your device, or there is some app killing the battery somewhere. I couldn't get that bad usage if I tried...
[HTC One S] cangia:
i have the same battery drain of kuroneko007 ...:(
[HTC One S] nikzDHD:
I'd be happy if I was getting anywhere near the stats you guys are getting. The results on here from some of you guys are excellent compared to my HOX.
[HTC One S] velayo:
Dude, you are so lucky. I'm lucky if I get 4 hours. Battery life on my phone sucks, my hd2 lasted one whole day with the same kind of usage. I don't see how people get those kind of hours.
[HTC One S] kuroneko007:
I'm using the radio that came with the 1.78 update. Same battery life on Leedroid and CM9.
[HTC One S] raikesy:
I leave everything stock, don't use any widgets or anything like that. I use autobrightness, but the tweaked version (dimmer) from hestheone. I'm using Paul's deodexed stock 1.78 release. The other tip I have, is to charge as often as you can to keep the battery in good shape. All that advice about wiping stats, discharging all the way etc is just nonsense :)
[HTC One S] Orical:
I tried to read as any posts as possible before bringing this up but in task manager if you select all apps and go through all of them and force close and disable everything that's not personally used or system based you'll see a Huge difference in the battery responses you previously had.

Let the system work for you, o took my phone off the charge at 8:00am and as of right now o have 80%+ and I've used it all day.
[HTC One S] raikesy:
I don't believe in killing tasks, as the Android OS does its job well enough at managing itself. If anyone is interested, this is a pretty good post on how to use the battery properly:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1168036
[HTC One S] pfmartin:
For what it's worth, I get the best battery life when I put the mobile data in GSM mode (i.e. 2G). The phone lasts and lasts. If I use WCDMA (4G) I am barely able to get through the day. Since I seldom need 4G just to receive emails, it is fine. If I need high speed for some reason, I just flip it on and when done, I go back to 2G. It seems to work for me.
[HTC One S] gpw11:
I've had the phone for a few days, and this is what I'm getting today, although it seems like I was on it quite a bit more than that.

Browsing seems to really, really kill it but beyond that, should I be worried?
[HTC One S] avataranjie:
I get what you get. Don't see why these other people are complaining
[HTC One S] avataranjie:
Is this under constant use? I get terrible use now.. Noticed that if you charged with screen on to like till stick 99, turn off and charge till green. You get longer
[HTC One S] avataranjie:
Mine
[HTC One S] gpw11:
Yeah, that was just about constant use - just under 6 hours off charger, just under 3 screen time on.

Looking through the thread some more, it;s not so far out of line. Thanks.
[HTC One S] avataranjie:
that's still great for a smartphone
[HTC One S] Joh@n:
I was not satisfied with the battery life of the One S either. It has a larger and much newer battery than my Desire (2yrs old, original battery) and it could not even last for 1 full day with the same usage. The Desire lasted for more than one day! I handed in my One S for several issues (chipping, short battery usage and home button issue) but it is not handed back to me yet.
[HTC One S] cangia:
In the Setting - Development Option , have you turn off " Force GPU Rendering "? And is there available in the stock rom ? I think this can be the first cause of Battery Drain during Internet Browsing ...
[HTC One S] jemelvyn:
My battery improved massively after I turned off "Best WiFi performance"
[HTC One S] Mr.Mischief:
I recieved my One S in the mail yesterday, so today was my first full day with it. I would say my usage was on the high side today, since I pretty much just laid around. Took it off the charger around 9:30, and it's just past midnight. Once I tweak a few settings, I should be able to hit 5 hours of screen time.

Sent from my HTC One S
[HTC One S] wilcoholic:
What is there to tweak? I tweaked the hell out of my phone. BT/WIFI/3G/GPS/Data off and phone in 2G mode when in idle. And 3G/Data on when I am browsing and back to 2G/data off when I am not. I inverted the colors to get as much black pixels as possible to conserve energy and I am still getting around 4 hours of screen time with 30 hours of standby time.

Theres nothing more you can do. Maybe you can underclock the processor but is that really going to work?
[HTC One S] sebi112:
Can you tell how you do this to auto change 3g/2g?
[HTC One S] Frojd:
Try a factory restore

From my experience I would say that there is some bug that causes excessive drainage on some phones. For me, this has been solved by performing a factory restore (without using google backup to restore all user apps). I'm still unsure whether there is some user app that sets of the bug but I have gotten it twice now, where my battery life has gone from 1 1/2 day with 3h+ screen time to just over 11h with 1.5h screen.
[HTC One S] wilcoholic:
There is an app called tasker that lets you do this. One of the best apps on android.

I used the profiles in this topic

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1031743
[HTC One S] Mr.Mischief:
Everything you mention is possible to tweak, plus sync. Can you invert colors on the stock rom?

Sent from my HTC One S
[HTC One S] NienorGT:
I just did 25h uptime (4h30 with screen on) with mid use (twitter, news, SMS). I think it's good, no?

Look guys, we agree or not the HTC new "ideal" is to bring slimmer phones and not bigger battery. The One S is the best phone to fit this "ideal"...
[HTC One S] Mr.Mischief:
Sync is off. I used Chrome Beta, browser, Facebook, tapatalk, messenger, <10 minutes call time, YouTube, and a few other apps. I was on 4G for about 2 hours, on 2G for 2 hours, and WiFi the rest of the time.

Sent from my HTC One S
[HTC One S] Mr.Mischief:
I played on it a little longer.

Sent from my HTC One S
[HTC One S] dorezen:
whoa i would say that is pretty damn awesome what you have there. the 25h, was it mostly wifi or you have it on data too? all i ask for is one workday up time with heavy use and that'd be good enough for me.
[HTC One S] wilcoholic:
Oh god didnt you read my first post at all?

I got 30hours with 4 hours and 7 minutes screen time. And that is with the web browser using 3g which is more demanding on the cpu than sms and twitter with whatever connectivity he was using.

The thing is that I had to do a lot to extend the standby that no normal person would ever do. Disabled sync, permanently in 2G mode with data/bt/gps/wifi disabled, used the invert option in the stock browser to get as much black and dark pixels as possible, no notifications and a few more small tweaks. But it didn't work for the actual usage that I got.

Really if I do all that and I don't use the phone at all, I would probably get more than 7 days of standby time. Thats not the point. The point is that phones like the iphone get way better screen time and battery life and I dont need to tweak anything. I dont need to make sacrifices. I was browsing the Nexus S forum and users are reporting the same kind of battery life without the implementing aggressive battery saving measurements that I did.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sid3091:
Hey guys,

I have been trying for the last few weeks to input these APN settings. Im using Synergys 2.1/3.0 ROM and EPST works Perfectly.

these are the settings i have to input, but i cant make head or tail of where to put them in EPST:

Name: Tata

APN: Tata

Proxy: <Not Set>

Port: <Not Set>

username: MEID@pda.ttsl.in

password: internet

Server: <Not Set>

MMSC: <Not Set>

MMS proxy: <Not Set>

MMS port: <Not Set>

MMS protocol: Wap 2.0

MCC: 404

NNC: 00

Authentication type: PAP or CHAP

APN type: <Not Set>

thanks, Sid.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
I believe they are stored in /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/shared_prefs/perfered-apn.xml

Although a better way is to use apn backup and restore from the market. Make a backup, go to the backup file and edit it with the correct settings, then use the app to restore it.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sid3091:
i went to the folder you indicated and preferred-apn.xml is not there. Also, for the second part of your suggestion, what apps would you suggest i use?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] INTREPID-NY:
APN Backup & Restore

by Ritesh Sahu

https://play.google.com/store/apps/...mNvbS5yaXRlc2hzYWh1LkFQTkJhY2t1cFJlc3RvcmUiXQ..

http://www.appbrain.com/app/apn-backup-restore/com.riteshsahu.APNBackupRestore

More Info:

http://androidforums.com/incredible...-bug-mobile-data-switch-issue.html#post684075
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sid3091:
sorry. that didnt work either. initially the APN file had only one or two words in it. but i used the one shown in the thread you mentioned as a tem,plate and edited my details onto it. Restored it using the app you mentioned but still the phone shows mobile network as turning on.

I think i should mention, that im in india, and to get the phone to work here i had to get the meid changed by a guy my dad knows. Initially the data used to work at 1x but i did a prl update and after that only calling and sms works.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sid3091:
got the data working at 1x. Now if anyone could help me get evdo working....
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmlusco:
You can use these screenshots of my epst settings to try and figure out where your settings go, all the evdo settings should be in epst. http://dinc.does-it.net/Mods/Incredible_EPST_Settings.zip
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] GGEarL:
Missing the discussion on the phone SONY Sola ..

I have a 32GB phone memory card.

Example - install the game Real Racing 2 or Navigon navigation. Maps are downloaded via wifi, but stored in the internal phone memory (8Gb), but I need to make these files stored on a memory card (32GB), because the phone memory (8Gb) is already full.

It is a 100% solution to this problem?

Sorry for my English (Google translate)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] exebreez:
Whats with APP2SD? I dont know if your device can do it but search for it or ask a SOLA User ;)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] GGEarL:
App2SD memory card does not only displays the phone's internal memory.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Allanitomwesh:
Have you tried moving them from settings?

Settings /applications /manage applications click game in the list and click move to SD card

Yes it is a solution to free phone memory. Resource heavy games are quite large. Also you could move other media files in phone memory to the sdcard,just check using file manager if any songs/videos are in the phone. Also,apps such as whatsapp keep messaging history and are better off in your sdcard.

Imetumwa kutoka U8150 kutumia XDA
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] GGEarL:
Can not move
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Allanitomwesh:
That is very strange. What class is your memory card? Should be written on it or the packaging it came with.

Imetumwa kutoka U8150 kutumia XDA
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] GGEarL:
The card is Kingston 32GB Class 10. That is not the problem. This problem has even tablet SONY.

Files from the games (Gameloft) stores only in the internal memory. :mad:
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] lokenok:
try moving de game data from the internal memory to sd
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Allanitomwesh:
Actually, that is exactly the problem, your phone (and most Sony for that matter) support upto class 4. Your SD Card is too powerful.

Imetumwa kutoka U8150 kutumia XDA
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Ziroo:
I have the same problem. The internal storage is divided into the internal storage and "sdcard". The real sdcard is namned ext_card and you can't really save app data there, because the phone (and the apps) think that the "sdcard" folder is your real SD. Stupid decision of Sony...
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Allanitomwesh:
Ah.

Now that's just messed up.

Imetumwa kutoka U8150 kutumia XDA
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Dracorius:
It is indeed messed up :-)

I have been looking around a bit, and found some suggestions involving changing the vlob.fstab file to mount the external_sd as "sdcard" and visa versa. Effectively swapping the microsd card and the internal storage. However, this seems like a rather dirty trick, and effectively makes the internal storage less usefull.

An ideal solution would be the have a firmware that uses the entire 8gb internal memory as "phone memory", and that mounts the external sd card as "sdcard".

I have no idea if this is poosible however...

Cheerz

Dracorius
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] GGEarL:
Editing vlob.fstab to solve this problem even Galaxy W.

It's the Sola Sony root? Root "oneclick" ?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Allanitomwesh:
This one is definitely going to need new firmware to fix. Hope Sony don't sit on their behinds.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] GGEarL:
ROOT applied

It maybe the same file editing "voldfstab" as the Samsung device? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1088474
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Waladir:
I've modified vold.fstab from Xperia Sola to mount SD card as sdcard and internal phone memory as ext_card. Archive http://download.hellshare.com/sdswap-zip/7773277/ contains original vold.fstab.bak and modified vold.fstab.new. Rename particular file to vold.fstab and use directions from link http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1088474. You should move aplication back to phone from internal memory (if there is any) and copy data from internal memory to SD card before you change vold.fstab.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] siapakahaku:
i'm using directory bind

it's bind the dir in sdcard with dir in ext_card :D

i found in this forum..search it :D
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] Havoc-X:
Ok firstly, a little intro. I have been using this forums for awhile, but i hardly post, kinda new to tablets, only had a fake one before that ran 2.2 Froyo. Anyway, i got the flyer for just less than 5 months or so and when i bought it, it already had Honeycomb 3.2 on.

I never really got to test GB or anything, im currently running LeeDroids HC rom. After browsing around the forums i keep seeing threads like "Honeycomb sucks" etc etc, can any1 tell me why specifically? Is GB Smoother? what about pen usage etc. Please no random answers that don't have a basis.

Ok and finally, just a random Q, LeeDroid's rom enabled GSM calls for the flyer, agen, noob at tablets so the only way i found to make a call is to save the contact first and then dial it, How do i load prepaid data and airtime onto the tablet without switching sims with my phone?

Any help would be appreciated thanks.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] ericvv:
You should have a dialer when selecting phone or you can get the dialer widget
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] Havoc-X:
Thanks for the reply, but in my Phone app, i can type a number, but i only have an option to save it, once i save it i can make a call from there, however this doesn't work with service numbers that contain * or # . I tried downloading a dialer app, this one has a phone button, but wen i use it, it says telephone not supported on this device.
[HTC Flyer, EVO View 4G] ericvv:
Inside Leedroid hc v4.3.0 the is a default dialer widget that workers for me