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[HTC One S] crni6:
Is any one have same problem with battery... 1% drops every minute when I use it like send messages or so but when Iam on stand by battery is good. My phone is 2 weeks old and first few days my battery was good...every 10/15 min. of normal use drops 1% and now some times drops 2% at once. I use some test that htc sugest me...charge bat. at 100%,turn off all connectivity and turn on airplane mode and max brightnes...turn the screen on for 1h and if battery level drops 40% or so battery is bad. But my is drops like 7%! WTF
[HTC One S] kancho12:
The last few days while running the CM9 rom

I have been getting really good battery life. I'll use it fairly regulary and still be around 50% at the end of the day.
[HTC One S] WiiR0cKz:
Im on axiom and i turned off animations, brightness is on auto and sleep to 15 seconds. I get an average of 20 hrs on one full charge.
[HTC One S] crni6:
does any one have issue with battery that drops 2/3/4% at the time?
[HTC One S] renehd2:
You need to calibrate your battery

Other site, this is what I call a good battery life guys..!

3:45 hrs of screen time

12 hrs+ unplugged

38% left..!!!

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[HTC One S] J1zzo:
Newest ruu, completely stock No root...
[HTC One S] Hunt3r.j2:
Sweet jesus you're on your way to more than 6 hours of display time over 14 hours.
[HTC One S] J1zzo:
If I use my phone like that (sms, whatsapp, few calls and mail), I can get about 6 to 7 hours of screen on time...

Bit usually with normal use like browsing, YouTube and some games my screen on time is about 4 hours...

Btw, Standby time seems to have improved with the newest FW

Here a ss with sms and whatsapp use :)
[HTC One S] crni6:
How to calibrate battery? I am not rooted...is there any other whey?

By the way ... when I bay the phone first few days my battery takes whole day with heavy/moderate use with screan time 4:30h and now I can do just 3:30/45h screean on with same usage and auto sinc is off and screan brightnes is on 60/80% depends..is my battery fault or what? Oh jeah I do battery test with htc test tool and battery drops just 3% at 1h. I thinking to send my 1S to service couse its just 1 mounth old! :(
[HTC One S] davidcole:
If you open the screen like every 10 minutes to check your e-mails, sms and etc. then it is quite normal that it lasts like 3-4 hours.
[HTC One S] crni6:
Ok. I do that stuf offen... Its just calibrating battery and it fine. Oh jeah I forgot to mention my one s is with s3 processor.

Is there any way to calibrating my battery if am not rooted?
[HTC One S] renehd2:
Just let it charge at night then use all the 100% until the phone turns off by itself, then charge it to 100% again and you will be fine

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[HTC One S] WCCobra:
Mine dropped 3% during the 8 hours I slept last night. If I am actively using it, it drops much quicker.
[HTC One S] J1zzo:
Here we go more screens ;)

This phone is soooo nice, completely stock 2.21 ruu!
[HTC One S] kaiser347:
Complete stock rooted latest 2.21RUU

Sent from my HTC One S
[HTC One S] Frankyg:
Pretty poor battery performance here..
[HTC One S] mike102871:
They are lying or don't use phone much
[HTC One S] Terminator19:
You need to post the other graph, which shows awake time, wifi, GPS etc.

Also you haven't told us what your usage was or screen brightness set to........

Although I am guessing that you had the screen brightness set to very high or automatic brightness turned on, which had it set to high since the screen has used an awful lot of power considering it was only on for like 1 hour and 30 minutes. Control the brightness manually and don't have it set so high otherwise you aren't going to get good battery life, just like on any other smartphone.

Something is clearly draining your battery big time, install better battery stats and find out what it is.

Yes, the majority of people across the internet forums who are posting all these screenshots with 4-6 hours on screen time spread across 1-3 days of normal-heavy usage are either making this up or don't use their phone much.......OR, they are more likely telling the truth and given that the S4 chip is the most power efficient chip currently (aside from the A6 in the iphone 5) along with the 4.3" qHD SAMOLED screen, decent sized battery and very good optimization with the hardware/sense/ICS, it could just be why people are saying that they are getting "awesome battery life".....

I would say my usage is a lot heavier than most people's usage and my battery life is great with plenty of screenshots/detail backing that up:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=27665378#post27665378

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=27010378#post27010378
[HTC One S] nor-ric:
I agree that your performance is poor.

Today I'm at 13h 48m, screen-on time 2h 29m (48% of power draw), 1h phone conversation, some email sms and whatsapp, about 20 m of web browsing: my battery is still at 42%.

You'd better check if you have any power hogs among your apps.

ps: no, I'm not lying.
[HTC One S] touch of jobo:
I sometimes have 2.5hrs screen time over 3 days (very little use). Other times, I can get well over 4 hours of screen time in ..ehrm.. well over 4 hours.

6 hrs over 3 days would be a first for me. Never tried to artificially go for maximum screen time (by basically turning everything off except the screen), wouldnt be too interesting anyway.
[HTC One S] SylverPT:
I get decent batery life both with stock and AOKP (1 day with heavy usage/ 1.5 on regular days)

What really makes it last is if I disable data/wi-fi. I was away on vacation the past weekend and I got about 1% drain per 1.5h. I was still checking the phone, texting and taking some pics. Pretty darn impressive! (this was on AOKP btw)
[HTC One S] pottyvick:
Thats very good battery in my book... im a heavy user and get about 7-8hrs of use... i dont have a screenshot cause i am charging it now like usual lol
[HTC One S] maek_it_happen:
One s does have great battery life imo

Sent from me
[HTC One S] horr1blek1tten:
Yup its cause of the s4 processor dual memory channels
[HTC One S] TheForumTroll:
Another thread with whine?

Where are those pictures even from? My One S doesn't look like that. No clock or anything? Looks like a virtual phone to me or someone who messed up while running a custom ROM. What is that? CM? Gingerbread?
[HTC One S] lorddart:
Pretty good I'd say!
[HTC One S] greeneyes513:
This is why
[HTC One S] usaff22:
Awesome font

Sent from my locked, tampered ville
[HTC One S] Redjaw:
It has awesome baytery life! Also, coming from a phone that died in like 4 hours you really come to appreciate the longer battery life! Compared to all my old phones and my previous sidekick 4g this is the best battery life I've had!
[HTC One S] Crashdown12:
few calls, 0.5 hour browsing on wifi, 1 restart and then mostly reading book with iReader
[HTC One S] Elloco305:
Holy crap 10hours is sick
[HTC One S] Crashdown12:
yep, it suprise me too, phone mostly die after 5-7 hour of screen on... and for reading books im using minimum backlight and dark background :)
[HTC One S] Elloco305:
Imagine that use on a aosp build. Maybe you'll get 20hrs screen LOL. Maybe.
[HTC One S] lorddart:
I've found better battery life on sense/stock roms than aosp builds. I also use sslauncher though, rather than the sense launcher. But honestly it seemed to be better battery life than cm 10. I think the 'stability' difference for lack of better term causes the battery performance to change. But that was about a month ago maybe it's better now...
[HTC One S] Trekvogel:
My workplace has very bad cell reception, which usually kills batteries. Since I've had my One S, I've had no trouble at all. I'd say I'm a medium user and get a day and a half of usage at least. That's actually pretty good if you ask me. It's much better than my previous LG Optimus Black, which outlasted my friend's iPhone 4 in heavy use in the same usage.

Note that I use stock WWE rom with no tweaks.
[HTC One S] sandwichmasta:
I usually get around 18 hours with moderate use. If I'm on it constantly I can expect around 6 or 7. Running Baked BlackBean

I think that's pretty good considering its a 1650mhz battery, it sure as hell blows my sidekick 4g out the water
[HTC One S] Spastic909:
I'm surprised the op hasn't resumed the trolling
[HTC One S] MattDN93:
It is a refreshing change innit :) PMed the mod about his trolling awhile back, maybe he's got the point now. /offtopic

About battery life lately I've been getting 1d 12hrs+ by using WiFi and minimal mobile data, +-4 hrs screen time with light to moderate use. Mobile data warms my phone up badly cause the 3G/HSPA rapid switching thing caused by my carrier's lack of fast.dormancy support to drain battery...I guess I'll need to edit my build.prop to fix the fast dormancy thing, right?
[HTC One S] xxquicksh0txx:
Where can I get a 1650mhz battery? That sounds sweet. :D

I can't complain with the battery life either, it lasts me through the day on any Rom I run.
[HTC One S] Macanakin:
My One S (S3) Battery is good. I'm a heavy user and the phone ends the day with 20% of battery.
[HTC One S] Hgaara:
Meh, I used that but it also inverts the photos into a negative.

Sent from my HTC VLE_U
[HTC One S] Oxytoxine:
@ wilcoholic - sorry post not directed at you, i actually wanted just to cite the graphs, but obviously failed.. i share your concerns with amoled and surfing time

This graph is deeply flawed. By no means one can get over 6h of webbrowsing with the htc one x international; you are lucky to get around 4h screen on time.

That's why i sold the one x and got the one s, cannot compare yet by myself (just turned it on for the first time :-) but according to virtually all the reviews the one s has, besides the moto razr maxx, the longest stamina.

(even on the mighty galaxy note i get only around 4h screen on time when surfing the web)

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[HTC One S] azzledazzle:
If you can get 1 day from a high powered smart phone, You are a winner !!!

1 day is the norm now.. I get +1 days usage. Anything less than that I would be annoyed.
[HTC One S] dc211:
I'm not sure what I was wrong about regarding your screen shot.

Keep in mind the chart shows web browsing starting with 100% power and web browsing until the phone shuts off. You got 4 hours of screen on time over 1 day and 6 hours (30 hours!). So of course you wouldn't be able to match the chart, to do so you would have to remove all the idle time. If your coming from an Iphone then i might understand your confusion. Cause IOS has way lower stand-by battery consumption then Android.

---------- Post added at 09:53 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:52 AM ----------

Nick can you post a screen shot of your usage chart along with the screen on details?
[HTC One S] wilcoholic:
True but even then it shouldn't really matter. I slept 8 hours today and 3% of my battery was drained. So if I had a standby time of 30 hours that would at most be a drainage of 11.25%.

I would still have like 89% of battery life for webbrowsing.
[HTC One S] jrockjiggz:
I just want to point out that an enabled full lit LCD will show black because the LCD is blocking the light emitted from behind. A white screen will use less power. (correct me if i'm wrong :rolleyes:)
[HTC One S] mmceorange:
Yes, that is correct for LCD, but with OLED, there is no backlight, each pixel generates it's own light. Therefore, AMOLED screens use less power when the image is dark.

Last week I ran my phone pretty much as long as it would go. With moderate usage for my habits (which isn't much cause I'm pretty busy at work.. probably light usage to the OP and others), never using wifi, using at work (inside a block building with metal structure, typically about 2 bars signal and worse data) and at home (3 bars max, usually 1 or 2).. I got 63 hours to about 5% battery, before I finally plugged in. I used text messaging, work email, gmail, a bit of browsing, craigslist app, camera (without flash), a bit of root explorer, facebook, groupme, gps nav for about 15 mins, and a bit of just playing around with the phone in general. Very impressed.

Back up to my usual cellphone usage habits (and most of my typical apps installed) I still easily get two days worth.

I did find that pocket mode was sucking up a good amount of battery when I first got the phone, as well as making it get hot in my pocket. Not sure if the EU update has improved that, as I haven't turned that on since updating.

Didn't know about the invert colors thing (though I have the chrome extension on my laptop for my eyes)
[HTC One S] tritran18518:
it doesn't matter if your phone goes through 1 day, 2 days, half a day... with 1 single charge. When i am talikng about battery life, i'm talking about the usage time, which includes:

* time screen on/ total time of using phone

* what are you using

* what are your setting

For me, the best i have is

* time screen on: under 5 hours / 19-20 hours of using my phone between two chargers ( usually i end up with 8-10% battery left)

* what i use: web browser (wifi/data), facebook( sync every 1 hours), pulse, gmail.

* my setting:

+ auto-sync for google account( everything except picassa- task), facebook, weather

+ auto brightness, no gps, wifi off when screen turn off, bluetooth off . mobile network is always on (WCDMA preferred). Disable htc report, tmobile report...

+ black wallpaper

==> what i can say is i'm not satisfied with battery on the ONE S when compare to my HTC sensation. ONE S has new processor ( support to be faster and more energy saver), has super amoled screen ( save energy when displays black color.) However, it has same time of usage as the sensation . And if i compare battery life to the iphone 4-4s, One S is the loser too.

p/s: i use app called Battery Monitor Widget to monitor what is battery drain when my phone is under Stanby mode. And it shows me that battery drains 11-16 mA most of the time ( some time it shows 2-3 mA). This is not really good because it supposes to be around 2-3mA all the time of standby mode . I don't know what app cause this problem and i don't know how to solve either.
[HTC One S] mmceorange:
Yea man I am just guessing from my own results that you have something draining the battery faster than it should be. Or maybe the T-mobile US version's radios use more juice than the international (which I have)? because I have more apps running than you mentioned, plus I'm using the default yellow&green wallpaper, PLUS I rarely have very good signal due to it not being fully compatible with AT&T... so I dunno. Coming from a Desire, I for one am extremely satisfied with battery mileage.
[HTC One S] cougzzz:
I work 8-5 everyday. My phone is on standby the entire time, and it drains down to 50-60%, which is extremely ridiculous. I dont touch the phone until I get off of work since its so busy. Draining that much without even pressing the power button to look at the time is ridiculous.

Do you guys think its time to go in and get an exchange?
[HTC One S] kuroneko007:
I agree, the battery life is really poor on this phone in my opinion. Every morning, I leave home for work with my phone fresh off the charger. A 30-minute train commute later and when I arrive at my office it is usually ~78% already. During that time I'm usually reading Twitter/Facebook/G+ and articles linked from there.

In my case, one thing that might affect it is that I am in Japan. Here, we don't have any 2G GSM networks at all (never have), everything is 3G. So I don't have the option to fall back to 2G to save power.

Still not impressed though. Not much better than the Desire, despite 2 years of supposed technological advances.
[HTC One S] :
I feel like custom kernels will help this department.
[HTC One S] HighRoIIer:
Did you did the OTA Update with the new Baseband? Before that i had the sam problem. Basically 3G/HSDPA was sucking the phone empty on standby. With only 2G it worked much better. Now, after the Update 4G is always on and i have still a good batterylife
[HTC One S] HighRoIIer:
I have always low screen time...

Listening to music = no screen

Sportstracker =no screen

Calls = no screen

But i am happy with my standby time.

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[HTC One S] Oxytoxine:
My optimism has vanished - horrible first results. Bought phone yesterday, fully charged, few tests, turned phone off during night, now a little bit surfing, and below results (turned off all the htc sync crap, WiFi off, etc.). It's worse than any phone I've ever tested.****, very disappointed, as i specifocally bought this for the glowing battety reviews.

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[HTC One S] kuroneko007:
You need to give it a few charge cycles before you can really judge it, so wait and see for a week or so.
[HTC One S] dlorde:
Yes, mine was dreadful the first few days, but has improved a lot in the last week.

One easy way to optimize battery use is Easy Battery Saver. It has a good number of customizations and does it all automatically. Unfortunately it does have ads, but they're not intrusive.
[HTC One S] jacewt:
Agree with all that, my battery has gotten better. Also with the help of that app, I tracked down some problematic apps. In one case, I noticed that I left wifi on while I commuted and it was looking for signal the entire time. Bad news. In another, I realized that my screen brightness wasn't on automatic. Another time it was my stupid email. I don't know why it was stuck but I cleared data and didn't have the problem anymore.
[HTC One S] Oxytoxine:
Ok thanks for the headups guys, let's hope it will significantly improve with more charging cycles.

(I was just really frightened because with the One x i got around 4h screen on time even after the first charge and the One s - which i thought was considered to have massively better values - not even half of that)

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[HTC One S] nickmv:
One poster mentioned a train commute and how his is draining.

Explanation: During your train commute, your phone has to constantly switch between towers and search for the strongest 3g signal possible. This consumes quite a bit of power. There are a million things that go into the battery life "formula"
[HTC One S] ScratchyScratchy:
In all honesty, I find the One S battery lasts longer than I expected. After reading many negative reviews, I was expecting the worst.

In a day, I do around half an hour of web browsing, half an hour of gaming, an hour of phone calls and I mess about a bit with several other novelty apps too. I don't take many battery saving precautions either. When I plug the phone in at night, it'll have about 25 - 40% charge. I've had phones recently that have been considerably worse that this!

I was quite surprised considering it's only packing a 1650mAh, and that has to keep arguably the most powerful phone processor in the world running smoothly. ;)
[HTC One S] TramainM:
Simple, because we do get amazing battery life. My screen is Mid and Im facebook and phone Calls all the time. Aswell as uploading pictures about a good 30 a day and i get 16Hrs with 40% left.
[HTC One S] Rxpert:
Wifi will save you tons of battery. Use it
[HTC One S] Oxytoxine:
But you can see from the battery stats that 3g, wifi, etc. only uses approx. 1/20 or so of what is used by the screen, so all these fine tuning things do help a little bit but not significantly.

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[HTC One S] Oxytoxine:
Could you guys also post your screen on time? This is mine, phone has 5% battery left.

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[HTC One S] dlorde:
Can't see what you posted Oxytoxine, but my phone has been on battery for 9 hrs 41 mins, the battery is at 59%, the screen has used 49% of that in 1 hr 27 min of active use.
[HTC One S] mmceorange:
Typical reception at work. I was just on lunch and was browsing craigslist for about 40 mins out of range from wifi..
[HTC One S] edscholl:
That's assuming the breakdowns are accurate. I'm not so sure they are....

I get between 4-5 goes screen on time, with close to 15-20 hours total, no attempt to save battery whatsoever. I'm pleased. :)
[HTC One S] I Am Marino:
I'd kill to get 4 hours of screen on time on a single charge.
[HTC One S] Oxytoxine:
Thanks for your input guys, highly appreciated! With 4 to 5h screen on and otherwise good standby time I would (hopefully will) be very satisfied, because otherwise it's really a great phone! :-)

Regarding the accuracy of the system reportings - interesting point, I was so naive not to question that!

Have a nice evening (or whatever part of the day / night is arriving at your location)

Oxy

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[HTC One S] dlorde:
Using Easy Battery Saver here, and after 2 screen hours, there's about 46% battery, so it's close. This is just in normal use (music, internet radio, a little video, 45 mins GPS, etc).
[HTC One S] wilcoholic:
Well I tried the battery again but this time I was just using normal colors in the stock browser.

Really disappointing battery life. I barely get 4 hours either with black colors or with normal colors. It doesn't really matter. If 4 hours of screentime is satisfying for you guys then we have difference definitions of great battery life.

And that amoled myth is also busted. It barely makes a difference when I use black colors or when I use white colors.
[HTC One S] tritran18518:
i'm not satisfying 4 hours of screentime either.
[HTC One S] edscholl:
http://www.displaymate.com/Smartphone_ShootOut_1.htm

I think there's a newer one, but this will get you started .
[HTC One S] wilcoholic:
I know. I keep hearing that and that article even backs it up with numbers. But that doesn't change the fact that I get similar results when I browsed with normal colors or with whites on black colors.

If it consumed 0 watt then why do I get similar numbers and why does the screen still use a lot of power.
[HTC One S] Oxytoxine:
My experience also points to approx. 4h on screen time, and I am not satisfied with this, too! Main problem is that I already bought way too many phones just seeking for better battery life, and the One S was kind of my last hope (due to reviews claiming that it's significantly better than the One X).. Neither the Galaxy Note nor the Galaxy Nexus or the Htc One X or One S, all of which I have tested rather intensively, seem to yield significantly more than 4h real world (really using the phone) usage, which is really bad.

Maybe the Razor Maxx is the only one delivering one the battery front, but besides that i could not afford to change phones yet again the trade off's would be huge (motoblur, ****ty performance, bad camera, etc etc).. so what to do besides adjusting usage pattern?!

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[HTC One S] edscholl:
I suspect that the breakdown in percentages of what's using battery is not necessarily reliable.
[HTC One S] Bxrxyxaxn:
Leedroid 2.0 tmobUS, I'd return the phone if all u get is 4-5 hours of heavy usage
[HTC One S] Xhaotic:
Have you guys calibrated your batteries yet? -__-

Let it drain completely at least once a week.
[HTC One S] linds6630:
+1 for calibrating...I do it every week when i flash a new ROM. I've been getting a day and a half of use but haven't actually checked screen on time. Gonna charge it up fully and test it. I can say I was not getting as long of battery life before I started using miui.
[HTC One S] ickster:
*ui

Lithium ion batteries don't have memory issues. My understanding is that there is a chip in the battery that needs to be calibrated to the battery by draining fully then charging. But this should only need to be done once in a while.
[HTC One S] edscholl:
Sounds like a great way to hasten permanent capacity drop.
[HTC One S] dc211:
Your screen shot is worthless without one showing screen on time.
[HTC One S] Xhaotic:
In any other case, and don't know if its been brought up, but WiFi Calling has a bug that drains battery. Avoid it, as the update is "coming"
[HTC One S] worker1:
I unplugged at 7:00 AM Wednesday and didn't put it back on charge until 8:00 PM Friday.