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Last friday purchased HTC Incredible S, since I'm kinda hardcore user of phones (previously had old crap Samsung Tocco Lite - was surfing on internet + listening music, without problem could survive 10-12hrs nonstop use), now when I tried same with Incredible S, it end up that after 2-3 hrs of surfing + some app using for awhile, I ended up at 30-35% from 100%. I did turned all syncs off, brightness to minimums, turned of almost everything and all tasks, so it was just like test for how long surviving it with no internet(wifi/mobile),any sync, any sound/vibration and low brightness - it survived 1 hour longer then before. Like srsly 400£ worth phone with battery what can't hold even 6 hrs?
P.S. first try with apps and such was record for 4 hrs, next test without any apps etc etc survied 5 hrs...
The battery gets better in time.
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prinzhernan said:
The battery gets better in time.
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I see that you have Incredible too, how long your battery lasts when using atleast 2h of app/call/internet usage?
same here, I need to keep charging it. maybe upgrading the kernel and rom helps.
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The battery gets better in time.
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I'm seeing this aswell. The more i use my phone the better the battery gets.
my battery does last 1day 12-15hr. All sync on, mobile networks on, background sync on. Normal use, that is incredible.
well when i first got my IS, the battery life is ridiculously short, from 100% -> 20% in 2 hrs of intense use!
But the battery life is getting better at day 3 (around 5x full charge cycle), do the calibration thing, use till 1%, but make sure phone is not dead, and recharge to 100%, redo for like 5 times.
If battery life still sucks, i think you get a bad battery
My battery lasts 9 hours of intense use (Wifi,3G,Games,Surf net,Listen to music)
Hello
I have installed Battery Monitor Widget Pro to check battery consumption. You can see so which are the applications that drain more your battery, tipically the display.
My battery runs one full day, even one and half with Wifi and BT always ON and normal telephone usage but if I switch on 3G it decrease rapidly and sometimes cannot reach one full day.
So in my case the 3G connection drains a lot.
Stefano
I've had mine since late april and I get a whole day, at least, out of it. Yesterday, I actually went 24 hours without charging it and I still had 30% left. The only "syncs" that are on, are my gmail, weather and Whatsapp. I can definitely confirm it gets better with time!
has anyone ordered from Amazon.Co.Uk, I was wondering if they can refund for phone, so I can take instead HTC Sensation :/
Anyways, I got this phone like 3-4 days ago, now I'm trying to maximally drain it with apps/games to get that battery life up
sense drains your battery...
and also 3g drains it if you have a unstable connection
what i allways do is out of the box, drain it 100%
charge it 100%
drain it 100%
charge it 100% and your done...
might be a ghost story, but surely seems to work for me, however 12hours and mine is empty as fk, with gaming, bad 3g connection, wifi, gtalk etc.etc. aka daily usage..
but thats cuz im running cyanogenmod, which isnt 100% stable yet
Do people not read anything these days? You're complaining about battery life of a smart phone... None of them last longer than a day or two max. Not to mention it's a new toy and you can find yourself on it more often. Checking the battery constantly kills your battery. Tones of widgets kill your battery.
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I do understand about 1-2 days of uptime for phone is ok, but mine doesn't survive even 6h +_+ , contacted HTC and they said that battery is fauly.
ANyways... I dont use widgets and actually turned of all sync and stuff like that to prevent battery drain, even in airplane mode, it drains from 40 to 5% (to complete dead) in about 1-2 hrs
I find battery life pretty poor. After charging to 100%, it can be down to 90% within half an hour - without really even using the phone. I can turn on the phone at 7am, and it will be down to between 50 and 40% by 11pm, never normally enough to get through the next day.
I'm going to try some overclocking to see if that helps.
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I find battery life pretty poor. After charging to 100%, it can be down to 90% within half an hour - without really even using the phone. I can turn on the phone at 7am, and it will be down to between 50 and 40% by 11pm, never normally enough to get through the next day.
I'm going to try some overclocking to see if that helps.
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Overclocking will drain even more battery, downgrade better speed of it and it should save battery
I've found that for the first few weeks of having the phone, the battery life will be crap... cause you're generally always messing around with it.
Lately I've been getting two work days out of a charge (6am to ~6pm the next day). I rooted the phone, uninstalled a bunch of bloatware, and set it to underclock when the screen is off (although I'm having issues with that one at the moment).
I'm thinking to buy other phone instead of this (amazon is accepting this for refund/replacement now), so I was thinking if it's worth take Sensation instead of Incredible S?
Anybody notice any changes as far as battery life. I just wanna know because im currently using a 1800 mAh battery (lost original battery) from ebay and they don't longer then stock. If you see any major changes i might just buy an OEM battery.
I did notice an increase in battery life when I upgraded to 2.3.5. I am a heavy user of my phone on a daily basis and it last about 5-6 hours longer from my experience.
Switching to V20p showed a very noticeable increase in battery life for myself.
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The battery life has improved so much, I'm not getting the extended battery. Maybe a couple of regular batteries as the improvement easily takes my phone all day. Before update, it would only last 4-5 hours with usage.
I have to agree battery life has increased by quite a bit. My wife was getting severely pissed off at this phone because of battery life and other Froyo glitches and since updating she has yet to have any issues and stopped complaining about battery drain. Ahh the relief of not having to hear about how she hates the phone and wants it replaced Now lol. Hopefully we get to see ICS eventually, not that I am counting on it anytime in the near future and most likely not at all but still it's a nice thought lol.
better definitely. Not as good as the Rogers Samsung Galaxy S Captivate battery life though. Can't believe how much that one improved with the gingerbread update.
Had anyone else been seeing strange issues on the Rogers gingerbread update Ruth the battery stats? This morning after an hour off the charger battery was at 88% when viewing the battery usage it showed 15s on battery and that the only thing using it was the display and the percent was 165% I have a screen cap to upload later to show it.
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Had anyone else been seeing strange issues on the Rogers gingerbread update Ruth the battery stats? This morning after an hour off the charger battery was at 88% when viewing the battery usage it showed 15s on battery and that the only thing using it was the display and the percent was 165% I have a screen cap to upload later to show it.
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Same here. My P925 have same problem. The stock ROM and ThiaiZO3D, which I am using, are same. It always show me less than 20s even after 24h.
What are your impressions with the update so far? Any noticeable changes in performance? Batter life? post your findings in this thread.
So far the battery life does seem to be better, but maybe it's just placebo. Gotta give it a few more days. It is definitely faster, especially google voice.
Chrome seems quicker to load pages to me.
No noticeable performance or battery life improvement here.
I think there was some overall improvement in performance and battery life. Nothing major though.
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what i've noticed so far..
performance much the same to me
screen colours, better
battery life better (can browse internet on wifi without phone getting hot now too)
wifi notifications still delayed or don't come at all when phone is in sleep
Too much for nothing None of the known bugs were fixed such as WiFi +Bluetooth crash and WiFi delay in deep sleep...overall this update is like never happened for me.
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AW: 4.2.2 Performance & Impressions
Performanse, hmmm hard to say for a snappy phone like this. Cammera app starts much faster and browsing seems improved.
I noticed that the vibrating is stronger when arive calls. The calling delay is solved. Collors much better. Battery lasts like 20% more. Now my phone is to love
My battery life is significantly better. I suffered with hisc_msm wake lock before. It's nearly nonexistent now. The last two days I had 50% remaining on 17 hours uptime and 2 hour+ screen time. On 4.2.1 it would be screaming at me to charge with the same usage.
The colors look better. Maybe I'm crazy?
I also noticed the vibration pattern is a bit different.
The incoming call delay is gone.
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My performance has gone worse since I updated to 4.2.2, my phone gets slow everytime I have many background apps running, I did not have this issue before, when I open the last opened apps thing and slide them all away, the phone is faster again.
I have definitely seen an improvement to battery life, for the past 2 weeks i have owned the phone i would on average get a screen time of around 1 hour 30 minutes at the 50% mark with a up time of around 16 hours, today is the first full day i have had the phone since the update and i am currently at 65% with a screen time of 1 hour 30 minutes and up time of 17 hours.
My phone gets hotter and if anything my battery life is worse. Not impressed.
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It's crazy how some people are seeing marked battery life improvement, while others battery life is worse.
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Battery life has improved alot.
Browsing web pages has become a bit faster.
Super smooth.
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Chrome is definitely quicker than what it was in 4.2.1
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my battery life is slightly improved and my phone doesn't get super hot anymore like it did before even just browsing the web. definitely a good update imo
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I have to say that battery life has improved for me as well. I notice significantly less blue bars in the awake section on battery history details. Not sure about performance, I think it's a tad smoother, but it might be my imagination. Very sure about the battery though. 13h20m and at 59% (screen on for 1h 46m, 15m of voice calls). I'd usually be around the 45% mark at this point.
Had the update for about 3 days .. It is more snappier, vibration is different but can be changed back to normal vibration for SMS, more stronger also. It does lag tiny bit when switching back and fourth on the app drawer but this was like this on 4.2.1. Does not kill me though.
I had Android OS battery drain before from the wake-locks bug (I don't recall the correct term, someone mentioned it earlier). After the upgrade the wake-locks are gone and battery is significantly better.
The phones hardware is a beast, so while android became slower and laggier with 4.2, this phone didn't skip a beat, so I didn't notice a performance gain, and quite frankly dunno what really could be faster than it already was. Battery life is improved, quite a bit actually, I got good battery life during sleep when connected to a wifi network, but it was pretty meh when on hspa +, now it gets great mileage regardless. And it doesn't seem to drain as much when your using it.
Noticed the lockscreen bug is fixed, and as for bluetooth, it worked fine before for me so I didn't notice a difference. On the downside of everything, call volume seems dramatically lower, I don't know what they did but I noticed on other third party apps volume is fine, but using the stock phone app, call volume sucks. As far as I know, there is no way to replace the actual default phone app, not while stock anyway, and even if you could, a third party phone app only exists on oem phones ie sense, touchwiz, motoblur, LGUI, etc. So Google fixes most things but breaks something else... Ugh overall I have to say 4.2 has definitely taken android back to honeycomb, just wish they could fix it for once and for all!
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Battery life in infinitely better for me. Only lose 2-3% overnight vs 10-15% on 4.2.1. As far as performance, seems about the same.
Hello,
I recently purchased a galaxy s3 lte with the extended 3000mah battery. I have found the battery drain to be unusually high. it is draining at around 3% an hour. I am on the sentinel ROM. I changed to the normal slim battery and it also seemed to be draining at a similar rate. I have sync off, LTE off, brightness down, For the day there is 66% battery left and it has been on the battery for almost 12 hours. the chief offender seems to be android OS which acounts for 46% of battery useage. the screen has bee in use for 46 minutes
Is this normal. Do i just need to run the battery down a few times? I have tried the stock and other roms such as rXtreme and it all seems to be roughly the same.
THanks
James
It could be the battery itself. It may need a few charges to optimise.
Did you reset your battery stats when you put in the new battery?
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How good is your signal reception? If it is like mine I think it is normal with that battery usage. In my home it is constantly searching for 4G because the 4G signal is to weak where I live. 3G is not the best either. So I always turn off 4G when the signal is weak, and that helps a little. If 3G is very weak I turn that off too.
When I'm out driving the signal is varying all the time, and it is searching for the best signal. That is battery consuming.
EDIT: Also check if Google Now is on. It is a BIG battery drainer.
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thanks for the advice.
yes i have reset my battery stats. it is only the 2nd? maybe 3rd charge cycle. So hopefully it will get better. I am out of reception for most of the day when I am at work, I assume this will impact quite alot aswell. I guess the real test is on the weekend when I will be in good reception all day.
My several day old HTC One is a fantastic phone (best I have owned yet), but I'm having to be very careful to keep the battery lasting an entire day.
In particular I am noticing that voice calls are the biggest drain on my battery.
2 hours and 20 minutes of talk time used 55% of my battery life yesterday.
I have read multiple sources with tests pegging the talk time at 14 hours+ (AnandTech, HTC official).
Is this typical or is there potentially a software or hardware issue?
I haven't done any serious tweaking to the software, and am running powersaver and have screen dimmed to 30%.
Thanks!
You have to see a lot of thing...
1) You had the full signal for all the calls?
2) Your phone was all time with the idle screen?
3) Did you have 3G or 4G on?
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I have three bars usually. I am always in 3G. As far as idle screen sometimes I am browsing while phone call is happening.
Does the strength of the signal effect talk time?
Strength of signal definitely affects the talk time. Also if you put the phone on 2g mode when you are not using data and just talking you will get a better battery life. Check for wakelocks as well. I also discovered when I was using htc sense launcher my app usage was about 89% but now I'm using smart launcher and my app usage is 70% and I'm getting better battery life. I've also disabled the maps coz it has a lot of wake locks.
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Also, in my opinion, is the best phone I already had and I have been a iPhone fan for a longue time... With LTE one is very difficult to manage the battery for one day... If you can't charge during the day you are in trouble... Other complain I have is the high temperature on the back if i'm using for a longer time....
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I have three bars usually. I am always in 3G. As far as idle screen sometimes I am browsing while phone call is happening.
Does the strength of the signal effect talk time?
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The tests for the timings are done with voice calls and no screen on. If your using the screen as well its double trouble
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I have read multiple sources with tests pegging the talk time at 14 hours+ (AnandTech, HTC official).
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That's really low compared to yours. Also, using the speakers eat up a ton more battery, and if the screen is on as well, well that's another issue
I think I figured it out...
In case anyone else reads this thread, after some testing I think I found out what was causing the huge spike in voice app usage.
I now believe that playing music through the phones speakers counts toward the usage of the voice app.
When I use the speakers, huge battery drain. When I don't it's ok.
Hopefully case closed!