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[HTC One S] stinky73:
I thought that concept went out with NiCad's. :confused:

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If people say it then it is probably because that is their experience :rolleyes:

Have run Sensation, Desire HD, Galaxy S2 and all last about a working day for my usage pattern. The One S does the best part of 48 hours for exactly the same usage (mail sync frequency, and same-ish browser usage etc.) and same apps installed on device in so far as it is possible to do the same thing day after day....

You've got a duffer or a rogue app in background in my opinion.

Hope you get it sorted ;)
[HTC One S] elracing21:
I persknally get great battery life. I charge my phone overnight. 45min train commute in which I listen to music the whole way. I'm a doorman so I spend the whole time on my phone either facebook, g+, instagram, streamzoo, youtube. I stress the hell out of my phone at work and it stretches thru my whole 8 hour shift with very aggressive usage. I do carry a charger with me tho just in case.

For a phone this thin and sexy to last me this long I'm very happy with it.

Sent from my HTC one sex
[HTC One S] wilcoholic:
Can you guys post actual screenshots of your screen on time. Otherwise I will call BS on this one. Your feeling does not equal actual screen time. I already showed you guys that 30 hours of standby is not impossible to get. If I tell everyone that I get 30 hours of battery life most people will be impressed. Well it turned out that I actually used my phone for 4 hours.

You will not get more than 4 hours of time when browsing and even less when playing games. I only get 2-3 hours with mixed gaming, browsing other apps. And no I don't have any rogue apps running in the background. I just have tasker and other apps such as dropbox/evernote that wont do anything unless I manual sync them myself.

Unless you show me otherwise my conclusion is that the iphone is still king when it comes to battery life.
[HTC One S] The Jones:
Are you comparing your One S experience to another Android smartphone with a very similar setup?
[HTC One S] Oxytoxine:
Mine is getting slightly better. Screen on time was spent mostly with surfing in 3g net or wlan. Automatic sync is off, auto screen brightness.

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[HTC One S] eminembdg:
It definitely needs time to get better. Mine has gotten better day by day since I've gotten this phone. Even with same usage.

Sent from my HTC One S
[HTC One S] stinky73:
OK, ran this test to back up what I said earlier. Sensation on ICS versus One S. Both were set to airplane mode, auto brightness off, brightness set to 100% and display permanently on, started with 100% charge at same time. One would think that sensation with dimmer display image versus totally naff new sense (which looks more like touch wiz) with lots of bright white in it would have the advantage. Also sensation is a " clean install" with no apps installed so nothing running in background...

As I stated in earlier post the battery usage is good for approx 2 days borne out by this 2% in 1 hour loss on full screen brightness = 50 hours :)

Sensation lost 17% in the same time = about 6 hours.

So I still insist that one S is far better than any of my previous phones and that something is not right with your phone, sorry to say.

Hope you get it sorted
[HTC One S] wilcoholic:
Well can you just post your webbrowsing time on 3G. Ignoring all other settings and apps.

That would be very helpful cause now we are just comparing apples with oranges. Heck even any other usage would be helpful more than this. You keep saying its better than your other phones well that doesn't help us at all either. I am coming from the iphone so how does this phone compare with the iphone.

Seriously posting comparable statistics are more helpful than just saying sorry and that I need to sort my phone. I doubt you'll get more than 4 hours of webbrowsing either. So if you just test that out. Or even a game or a facebook app.
[HTC One S] shahkam:
I do not own the same device as you but even then i use an extendrd battery and can't get results like you did !

Sent From My Sexy Sensation.
[HTC One S] edscholl:
Nope, you're thinking memory effect. Lithium ion batteries still lose capacity.
[HTC One S] Oxytoxine:
Update from today: rather good. And i hit it rather hard (quite a bit of taking pics and videos, apps downloading and installation, 3g and wifi surfing, few calls and messages, etc.)

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[HTC One S] J1zzo:
Hey fellas, First post here :)

Got my black One s 2 days ago and so far im Vers pleased with this phone! My previous phone was a nexus s...

~4,5 hrs of screentime with lots of Whatsapp and browsing...

Edit: i cant upload the Screenshots with the xda app :confused:
[HTC One S] J1zzo:
Found out that i had to upload pics First :)

I am currently on the stock rom (1.53.401.2)
[HTC One S] ptweasel:
I'll preface this by saying how envious I am...

Who are you people who judge a phone based on 4 hours of screen on time? That just seems out of the ordinary to me. If it was for my work, they'd be paying for the phone and the plan.
[HTC One S] jriv:
In my opinion iPhone battery will be Better always because android has bigger screens more power and a bigger o.s.so why wouldn't it make sense for it to consume more power???? I get through the day on one charge that's all that matters to me

sent from a guy living in a van down by the river
[HTC One S] tritran18518:
Small screen is the best advantage which iphone has when comparing battery life. But a lot of iphone users dont even care to turn off apps sync setting, while we have to disable or decrease sync interval to get an acceptable of battery usage. I even have to use black wallaper, black sms message, set cpu speed at 1.1ghz. Set profile for wifi and mobile network to turn on every 15 mins when phone is in stanby mode. Unfortuantely, i still can not get 5 hours of screen on. I feel like iOS is really optimized for battery life.

P/s: remember that htc disable the real multitasking function of android on our htc one s just to save battery life.
[HTC One S] jriv:
Now if only ios didn't suck So much compared to android.this phone gets awesome battery life compared to other android devices

sent from a guy living in a van down by the river
[HTC One S] Oxytoxine:
guys, not to be a prick, but please have a look at the below charts to see some really great web browsing times.. one s is not that good.
[HTC One S] jriv:
Then get a different device. it has very good battery for an android device.

sent from a guy living in a van down by the river
[HTC One S] Oxytoxine:
i theoretically agree, but isn`t this thread a discussion about the battery life of the one s? i understand that one has to justify it`s own purchase in order to relieve cognitive dissonances, but just saying "if it does not fit you then get another device" is not really helpful (although it's of course true). especially not if see there are obviously many android handsets with much better battery life out there (see charts).

you're of course right saying that nothing changes battery life - and whining indeed does not help - but maybe potential new customers with high hopes stumble over threads like this which may help them with their decision!?
[HTC One S] jriv:
It of all the phones I've owned this has the best battery I can get a whole day out off it.

sent from a guy living in a van down by the river
[HTC One S] J1zzo:
I did the HTC battery test (*#*#3424#*#*) and my results are amazing!!
[HTC One S] kuroneko007:
It is definitely not the display that kills the battery, it is the 3G radio. I tested this by first leaving the screen on permanently at full brightness while on wifi, but no other usage (I was working).

Then after work, I browsed on 3G for about an hour. The difference is obvious... And even though the stats make it look like the screen is eating the battery, it is clearly something else (ie 3G) that has caused the further 20% loss.
[HTC One S] ickster:
Way above my head LOL!

All I can say is, this thing does have it's cons but it is by far the best phone I've had to date. Every phone I've had had its positives and it's negatives, as do all electronic devices.

As far as the battery, I've yet to have an issue with a dead battery. The worst battery life I've experienced was the Samsung Indulge on MetroPCS. 2nd was the (worst of my multiple) G2x (some were better than others). I went through three batteries a day on that G2X with average use. And regularly was surprised by dead batteries. It sucked.

Cognitive dissonances or not, this One S does not have a battery "issue" IMHO.

I do still worry that I will one day have to deal with a dead battery at an inopertune time. A non-replaceable battery is probably a deal breaker for some. But in practice (so far) I have not had an issue in over two weeks with this device.
[HTC One S] Oxytoxine:
Lol, sorry english is obviously not my first language.. I also never had an issue with a battery and do not care whether it's removable or not; the only times when i was glad to have a removable one was when flashing stuff did not work out as expected and i had to take it out.. i was just a little disappointed with the runtime of the one s because it was so hyped.

It's funny: when i recall that it's actually a phone in the first place (instead of a surfing tool, pda, camera, newspaper and pdf reader, gaming platform, etc.) i re-realize that it's a stunning device!

Because i was trying so many devices (phones, tablets etc.) I am kind of always expecting that the next will be the one incoorporating all the goodies of all the others.. first world problems that kind of make me ashame. But still, if you invest a lot of money, time, and effort these things kind of suck you in.

Sorry for going ot; back to the battery of the one s :-)

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[HTC One S] isaster1:
I'm on TmobUS with leedroid and I get around 4-5 hours of on-screen time with a lot of Facebook and texting. These screenshots are not my best but they are average and from right now. Also I have 20% left.
[HTC One S] Stiflerlv:
I also would like to have more from battery (old days... week w/o recharge :D)

But Im realistic - its not going to happen in near future with default battery!

So with one S I think its nice, check my screens:

While was using Waze, mobile data and GPS was on (About 1h total)

Rest of time was playing some game, calling or texting. No data connection there.
[HTC One S] nickmv:
Why did you have to mention the good 'ole days when our Nokia phones lasted 5 days!

WHY??????? :mad:
[HTC One S] isaster1:
Did you charge the device mid way through? I see the spike that indicates a charge on the graph.
[HTC One S] Cleothaj32:
I've had my One S for about a week now and I'm a heavy user and I can easily get a day (10-15 hrs) of use between charging.
[HTC One S] brwetz:
I'm steady around 22 hours or so with average use ( some games, app USE, calls and texts ). I can't say that's bad at all.
[HTC One S] kuroneko007:
One question to all the people with 1 day+ battery life:

Are you turning 3G data off when you are not "actively" using it (ie browsing etc)?

If so, how do you get your Gmail??
[HTC One S] avataranjie:
I still say you guys have crazy as battery life... Mine is terrible. With data on the battery drains like crazy. 12 min of chrome cost me 10 percent battery
[HTC One S] kuroneko007:
That's what I'm finding, that using data just kills it. That's why I want to know whether these guys who have this crazy battery life are using mobile data(3G/"4G" not 2G) at all, or just barely. My phone also gets awesome battery life if I turn data off, but then it's not a very "smart"phone anymore, is it?
[HTC One S] Nick L:
I posted this in the Q&A section as well - I wanted to know how long it took to drain the battery, so I did a test involving constant, continuous web browsing and music playing. I barely let the screen turn off, and I left mobile data and auto-sync on. I got a little over 6 hours with 5.5 hours screen on time - remember that this is with the screen nearly constantly on and the phone constantly loading new pages. I was on Wi-Fi because I only get EDGE at my house, but according to Anandtech's charts the battery life between 3/4G and Wi-Fi is not very different. I am sure that under a more sane usage case the battery would last well past a day.
[HTC One S] wilcoholic:
Well I use CM9 alpha 7.1. And unless there is some bug in that build where it somehow drains the battery at a fast rate I am just not getting more than 4 hours of battery life when browsing on 3g/H.

I tested this time and time again. Many times! I never even get past the 4 hours. How can people get 5-6 hours?
[HTC One S] LikeaG2root:
Unbelievable! You are using an UNOFFICIAL ALPHA ROM!

GET A CLUE!!!

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[HTC One S] Stiflerlv:
Yes, I turn it off. More like, I turn it on only, if I need something.

Mail isnt priority for me "on go", so if I need to check mail, I just go and check it (turn data on for 1min). Rest of the time, I keep it off.
[HTC One S] ricky176bx:
This is only thing i hate with this phone, but i fix it using trick droid ROM and it seem to last longer.
[HTC One S] kuroneko007:
OK, now I got it. Where I live, we don't have SMS, so everyone uses mail to communicate. Turning it off is not an option for me so I guess I should just suck it up.
[HTC One S] Hunt3r.j2:
The problem is that the battery is smaller than the One X.
[HTC One S] nickmv:
It really is a problem. I'm totally disappointed with the battery life of my One S. It just never lasts.

/s
[HTC One S] Srem:
battery on this phone is awesome, just dont use wifi best performance option, thats a killer
[HTC One S] Habarug:
You get two full days and are disappointed ? What was your screen on time ?
[HTC One S] MissingBonobo:
I usually get from around 7am until around 2pm the next day on one charge with data always on and auto sync running.

Weather refresh every hour, 2 gmail accounts, and an Exchange account with push enabled. Usually do about 1-2h of voice calls, and about 200 texts a day.

I don't know why your battery is draining so badly. I'm on the stock rooted rom.
[HTC One S] raikesy:
If you look at the end of his post, he has put /s - should show you he was being sarcastic and does, infant, get great battery life...
[HTC One S] wilcoholic:
Wow really the dumbest post I have ever read. You didn't use your phone at all except for a couple of minutes of voice calls.

If I just let my phone idle I could probably get 10 days of battery time. You know if you want to make fun of people at least post some useful to back it up. The battery life just sucks compared to the iphone for example. You guys can keep forging numbers and screenshots but thats not going to be helpful to anyone. Just be honest with everyone here. Come on
[HTC One S] raikesy:
Normal usage for me. This includes using Car Mode to and from work, 10 hours of 3G use while out of the house, a few phone calls, a few texts, a lot of Kik & Whatsapp, a LOT of XDA, Google Reader & Browser use.

So there you go, absolutely no effort made to conserve battery (leave my Wifi & GPS on all the time, Automatic brightness, auto sync on quite regular) and I get well over 4 hours of screen on time, and often see it cross the 5 hour mark.

The little bit of charging you can see was because the phone had completely died, plugged it in to turn it back on to get the screenshots.
[HTC One S] avataranjie:
How the heck are you getting such a crazy battery life
[HTC One S] ickster:
Come on, you really think people are "forging numbers"? Really? Why would anyone do that?? :confused:
[HTC One S] LikeaG2root:
Go get a stupid iPhone! An iPhone which does not run widgets, does not multitask, and does not support a 4+inch screen. Gee no wonder the iPhone battery "seems" good.

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[HTC One S] MissingBonobo:
I'm starting to think this is a troll post. Saying people are forging screenshots? Really? Like people honestly have nothing better to do but lie about their battery life. Jeez.
[HTC One S] biggyt:
I get 14-15hrs with moderate use, and training journeys kill it quicker though
[HTC One S] nickmv:
Wow I'm glad you're such an expert that you could dissect my usage times based on that screenshot alone. That's amazing. You should play the lottery for me as well, we'll win every time.

Anyhoo, screen on time was about 1.5 hrs (yes, thats somewhat low, but not too low), and I made probably 1 hr worth of phone calls, tweeted plenty of times, texted a bunch, and browsed the web. Oh and used the camera too. That was yesterday and I've charged it up, so I don't have the full stats anymore.

But anyways, I never used my phone, if you say so, genius.
[HTC One S] wilcoholic:
Flashed it to stock rom with upgraded radios. Wether its stock htc sense rom or cm9 alpha, I am just not getting more than 4 hours of screen time while continuously web browsing on 3g. I have tested this now 5-6 times already.

There are many reasons why someone would lie about their numbers. The most important one is to justify their purchase. It happens all the time. You got fanboys everywhere. I am not saying that it happens here but its possible. There are people posting screenshots of just an idling phone or graph where someone charged his battery midway. Thats not realistic. Cause there are a few people that get the same numbers as me.
[HTC One S] nickmv:
Dude, you're using the screen for 4hrs. FOUR HOURS! How is that BAD? Esp on a Super AMOLED display.
[HTC One S] raikesy:
Did you ignore my post? almost 5 hours screen time, no midway charging. I can repeat it for you every 24 hours if you like..
[HTC One S] :
I don't think this is bad. I felt like I was using it constantly, played alot of music.

The battery use does not show as much detail either.
[HTC One S] stinky73:
Yes, he did ignore your post, just like every other post that does not suit his point of view !!;)

His original question and the title of the thread was "Why do people say they get awesome battery life with the 1S?"

I replied saying that relative to every other android phone I have owned/currently owned the battery life is twice as good...

On my devices I run 17 email accounts, set to sync every ten minutes. I use 3G/4G all day long, never switched off. I browse when on the road to check airport flight statistics. I stop on the road, reply to emails.... I do not do 4 hours continual browsing with a telephone, true, I have tabs and computers for that but that does not alter the fact that this device outperforms all my other android telephones by a long way...

To answer his question I cited this and said that for the SAME usage where all the other devices barely last a day, the One S will do 2 days......so.....FOR ME the answer to HIS question from HIS thread is YES for Pete's sake, I do get awesome battery life! But that is not good enough for him because it is not convenient and doesn't tally with his opinion..

I then wasted my time setting up a side by side test to help him in his research with One S versus Sensation - whilst the two devices were set to perform in exactly the same manner the One S used 2% battery and the Sensation used 17%.

I got this as a reply from OP

"That would be very helpful cause now we are just comparing apples with oranges. Heck even any other usage would be helpful more than this. You keep saying its better than your other phones well that doesn't help us at all either. I am coming from the iphone so how does this phone compare with the iphone."

- I was not comparing apples with oranges, I was comparing two android devices doing exactly the same thing :p He is the one wanting to compare apples with oranges by endlessly banging on about the apple versus the android

4 hours browsing on an android smartphone is good by anybody's standards....this is an android forum, we are here talking about android devices relative to each other....I don't give a rat's arse about the effing iPhone! (a very "pretty device but totally useless as a work tool) and so I repeat my answer to the OP's question...

I say it gives awesome battery life....it is not my opinion....it is my experience (as regards android devices I have and use daily...)

If that's not the answer the OP wants then tough!! I'm bored with this thread now - bye! :eek:
[HTC One S] raikesy:
Would have to agree, compared to my two previous Android phones (Desire & Sensation XE) the One S is a far better performer in the battery department. I have also just done another test, screenshots attached. Another normal days usage, mostly on XDA and BBC news app this time, some Web browsing and Google Reader, usual amount of phone calls, sms, Google talk, kik & whatsapp... And it's still going after making this post, uploading screenshots etc.
[HTC One S] wzfellguard:
question

Ok guys,reading all abouth your posts and all and after around a month of deciding which phone to buy for ideal size not like one x or s3

which are pricy like some good PC or smtg like that this phone just showed very nice with battery and all,

made me go away from sony xs (big-thinker than 1s),sony xp smaller battery and dont wanna get s2 cos its kinda old and all.

1s best allrounder,battery which is very important for me,I wanted to ask u a for me very interesting question..

As I used HD2 when it came around for a year and had to like,wear a charger almost with me cos using it very often,

sometimes to chat for like hours which was draining battery very fast...

But Im curious is this phone better or what ?Cos I send like hmm 100,200sms per day around...So that kinda uses screen allot.

And dont wanna buy phone to use it brighness like hard to see letters at all,why would I harm my eyes :S?I cant buy that :/...So what u think if every 30mins or smtg my screen will go up for 30secs or smtg than after again in 15 or smtg and continuos work" on it will it drain fast?

or I can count to survive a day or smtg?atm using some crapy phone with small screen samsung ch@t 322,which can last for like days,2,3,4 depends but I fforget to see how many days it can survive so it has to be much.

And hd2 when I had it it was like on 8am full charge,at 16h or earlier or smtg again :/ if I go more on it(true I didnt update rom or do smtg abt battery like from this forums I saw,tought itll go well like that etc etc) so what u think?

will it survive a day with smsing that much?dont wanna buy nokia e6 with idiotic simbian to last it a week without charge..

for some wifi gps some gays maybe sometimes and stuff like that?but that way using all that to get hard stand for 1 day would be good?what u say?and how long can it survive for just texting ,just only just texting with like 50% default brightness or smtg like that ?
[HTC One S] cerebeln:
If you were doing this with reversed color, you might find it doubled to 8 hours -- The OLED screen is quiet power-saving when background is dark(it is almost 0 while totally black) -- however this is not compatible to most sites.

On such white-background condition, OLED consumes significantly more than LCD(about 2 times)

in post #123's screen power is about

990mW

(3.7V*1650mah*0.9880.57*3600sec/hour)/(223min*60sec/min) = 990mW (I used 4V instead of 3.7V)

in post #125

it's 840mW

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For a 4.3inch LCD screen with stock ROM's brightness adjustment(for example G14 sensation)

it usually cost 1.2~1.5W to drive the 4.3 inch SLCD screen, whatever the color is, the power needed for lcd is decided by the backlight LED.

However the OLED is different, only the lighted pixel needs power, the others , on the other hand , cost almost 0 current(a TFT/IGZO circuit is needed to drive the pixels, it always cost a little energy)