HTC Sensation battery life - your experience

mahdibassam · Jul 9, 2011

Hey guys.

As the title says. discuss your battery life with the HTC Sensation.

At this moment , I have lost 20 percent in 1:30 hours. So don't know what to say.

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aNYthing24 · Jul 9, 2011

I'm in the same boat as you. Really awful battery life. I can't make it past 7-8 hours with some moderate use. Just waiting for the time to pass so I can get a warranty replacement.

Over Achiever · Jul 9, 2011

I've actually used it and have been pretty happy with the battery life. I use medical apps during the day while in the hospital, keep the phone on 4G while in the hospital, no wifi, bluetooth and gps still on because I'm too lazy to turn them off every time i get out of my car in the morning. I'll send/receive e-mails throughout the day, and use the browser to look things up on UpToDate. My screen is locked at about 30% brightness. Email sync is set to push, two exchange accounts and two gmail accounts.

I've lasted a 14 hour day at work with 20-30% battery remaining. Haven't had to use my second battery which I bought just in case. Quite happy with the results.

mahdibassam · Jul 9, 2011

Over Achiever said:
I've actually used it and have been pretty happy with the battery life. I use medical apps during the day while in the hospital, keep the phone on 4G while in the hospital, no wifi, bluetooth and gps still on because I'm too lazy to turn them off every time i get out of my car in the morning. I'll send/receive e-mails throughout the day, and use the browser to look things up on UpToDate. My screen is locked at about 30% brightness. Email sync is set to push, two exchange accounts and two gmail accounts.

I've lasted a 14 hour day at work with 20-30% battery remaining. Haven't had to use my second battery which I bought just in case. Quite happy with the results.

hmmm... i came from a Samsung Galaxy S II and what you described is my experience with the SGS II, but on the Sensation i can't get past 7-8 hours atm. have to wait and see what happens.

mahdibassam · Jul 9, 2011

aNYthing24 said:
I'm in the same boat as you. Really awful battery life. I can't make it past 7-8 hours with some moderate use. Just waiting for the time to pass so I can get a warranty replacement.

why would you want a replacement?

swiftinmotion · Jul 9, 2011

All i seem to come across is people saying how horrible battery life is..Last night when i plugged my phone on the charger i cracked 20 hours without a charge..

As im typing this im currently at 15 hours with 47% left.. text a LOT, play plants vs zombies and listen to pandora in my car to and from work..

Maybe im just the lucky one eh?

aNYthing24 · Jul 9, 2011

mahdibassam said:
why would you want a replacement?

I've had other issues other than bad battery life.

hycian · Jul 9, 2011

Hey guys, take a look at this Sensation interview from Anandtech which shows exceptional battery life while browsing with 3G Data, but not so much with Wifi. Are you guys experiencing similar battery usage?

I'm looking to upgrade from a Nexus One and judging from their tests, Sensation will bring me nearly double the 3G browsing time, this sounds too good to be true with the dual core processor and a bigger screen!

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4471/htc-sensation-4g-review-a-sensational-smartphone/10

Profondo_Rosso · Jul 9, 2011

I'm getting 15-17 hours with moderate use pretty consistently. I don't turn off anything either, but do keep my screen brightness around 30-40%

Sent from my HTC Sensation 4g with extreme prejudice

Angelmsx · Jul 9, 2011

I've been using my bell sensation on wifi since I got it (waiting for sim unlocks to be available) and surprisingly the battery life has been exceptional. Getting about 15h with heavy usage and almost 5h of on screen time. I've cycled battery twice since I've gotten it on Tuesday. Pretty surprised since I don't recall my N1 lasting as long when I first got it

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Lakeshow423 · Jul 9, 2011

I use to get 12-14 hours with moderate to heavy use at times using stock settings. I'm now at 14 hours with 48% left after taking all the bloatware out and freezing them in TB! Eugene hooked it up with his temp root file!

ccampbell1 · Jul 9, 2011

I'm sitting at 13% after 15 hours right now. That's with medium usage - a fair amount of Twitter, browsing, forums throughout the day, screen at 25%, and my Google, Twitter and Facebook accounts auto-syncing. I have as much bloatware turned off as I can, given I'm not rooted.

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King Royalty · Jul 9, 2011

the battery life is terrible compared to my HD2, my Sensation will die from charge within 4-5 hours even if im not using it

predator21 · Jul 9, 2011

mahdibassam said:
Hey guys.

As the title says. discuss your battery life with the HTC Sensation.

At this moment , I have lost 20 percent in 1:30 hours. So don't know what to say.

Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using XDA Premium App

try my guide

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1159184

predator21 · Jul 9, 2011

aNYthing24 said:
I'm in the same boat as you. Really awful battery life. I can't make it past 7-8 hours with some moderate use. Just waiting for the time to pass so I can get a warranty replacement.

try my guide

http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=1159184

DrBrick · Jul 9, 2011

17h 34m off charger and at 36%. i have had the phone for about two weeks and i am very impressed with the battery life. i can use it all day (mostly wifi) and not have to worry about charging it.

onosway · Jul 9, 2011

DrBrick said:
17h 34m off charger and at 36%. i have had the phone for about two weeks and i am very impressed with the battery life. i can use it all day (mostly wifi) and not have to worry about charging it.

About the same for me too.

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animaleyes76 · Jul 9, 2011

onosway said:
About the same for me too.

Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA App

same here as well

DeezNotes · Jul 9, 2011

I'm coming from the Samsung Fascinate (Verizon CDMA Galaxy S) and I'm very happy with the battery life on the Sensation.

Twice this past week I forgot to charge the phone and went 1 day + 6 hours before the phone started to alert me that I was at 10-20%.

I'm real cautious as to what syncs automatically and what syncs manually. I don't use Twitter, but I do use most of everything else. The only thing that I can remember off-hand that syncs automatically is 1 of my gmail accounts to the HTC E-mail app. Everything else is on a delayed schedule, but syncs when I open those respective apps.

zim2dive · Jul 9, 2011

hycian said:
Hey guys, take a look at this Sensation interview from Anandtech which shows exceptional battery life while browsing with 3G Data, but not so much with Wifi. Are you guys experiencing similar battery usage?

I'm looking to upgrade from a Nexus One and judging from their tests, Sensation will bring me nearly double the 3G browsing time, this sounds too good to be true with the dual core processor .....

unless you are doing something which is _using_ both cores, the 8260 allows each core to be scaled separately, so there's no automatic power penalty as there is with some of the other dual core processors.

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