i have an HTC sensation 4g that i got roughly a month ago.
the battery dies sharply if i use it at all, regardless of the weight of applications used.
i have run around the whole bush with Tmobile about how i can't use it for the things it does. gotta turn alllll the perks of a smartphone off because apparently that's not what they are for.
because duh, who would use their phone for the functions it's supposed to do? clearly that will devour all your battery.
i know i seem snarky, but i have this thing crippled til it's worthless and the battery dies at the same rate regardless.
i get verbose, so here's a quick summarization of lengthy text below:
it goes from full to dead pretty much within 4 hours if you use it at all. texts murder it just as fast as wifihot spot or whatever else. if i don't actually look at the thing, like, never turning it on, the rate of consumption tapers off a little. see the pic.the shallow angles are on standbye. that screencap was between 4:26 pm (when i unplugged it from a full, overnight and all day charge) and 8:14. i did nothing but text. no calls, no wifi/hotspot/web browsing. no videos, no nothing. no aps running, and so on and so forth. all i did at all was text and it died that fast.
a few key points:
1. after contacting both HTC and Tmobile, i have followed all their recommendations for prolonging battery life.
*screen dimmed to lowest setting
*time-out set to 15 seconds. (note: this is particularly annoying. you cannot read a long text or email without the screen timing out. suuper fun, that).
*wifi always of, rarely used.
*bluetooth always off
*updates always off
*GPS always off (note: retrieving weather is now manually done, the homescreen displays "no weather data available" until i manually check the weather).
*hotspot always off
*power saver enables/prolong battery mode enabled (forget what that's called).
*fast boot turned off.
*kill-all ap function utilized constantly.
2. the battery dies nonetheless. sometimes it dies overnight while on standby.
3. after weeks of this, got Tmob to send me a new battery.
4. new battery dies at the same rate.
5. the only power-eater that registers is the screen display. the only things that have ever registered at all, ever, have been "cell standby" and "calls," neither ever accounting for more than 3% of usage. to be clear: the battery usage is always around 98% "display." display is, once again, set to the lowest dim setting.
typically all i use the phone for are texts. not a big talker and don't do much webstuff. i certainly never watch videos or do anything like youtube on it. ever. i don't download on it. io don't even take that many photos.
i do some light internetting (checking sports scores, googling a word definition and checking facebook, never for more than 5 or so minutes at a time.).
i have a battery graph and the angle of descention is steeper than the rate of charging ascention.
to experiment, i did nothing but text one day. no other use. it died at the same rate as leaving it on for a few hours as a wifi hotspot. in either case, it died in just a few hours. if i do use it for wifi/hotspot/have a long call, it will die in the moments of use.
having gone through two batteries, i'm starting to think either 1. smartphones are useless bricks or 2. this one is some kind of messed up??
it doesn't act too buggy all that much. i often have to tap it to get the screen orientation to adjust correctly.
if i get a text while i'm composing a text, it goes haywire, to the point sometimes it knocks me out of the text application and all of the sudden my keystrokes are calling random people or something else (because it jumped to my contacts or call list). the text bug is by far the most noticeable: receiving a text while you are composing always makes, at the very least, your words jumble all up.
it freeze up sometimes and i have to restart.
so.
question is, what's my move, here? is the phone a dud? is there more things i can't use it for?
the battery dies sharply if i use it at all, regardless of the weight of applications used.
i have run around the whole bush with Tmobile about how i can't use it for the things it does. gotta turn alllll the perks of a smartphone off because apparently that's not what they are for.
because duh, who would use their phone for the functions it's supposed to do? clearly that will devour all your battery.
i know i seem snarky, but i have this thing crippled til it's worthless and the battery dies at the same rate regardless.
i get verbose, so here's a quick summarization of lengthy text below:
it goes from full to dead pretty much within 4 hours if you use it at all. texts murder it just as fast as wifihot spot or whatever else. if i don't actually look at the thing, like, never turning it on, the rate of consumption tapers off a little. see the pic.the shallow angles are on standbye. that screencap was between 4:26 pm (when i unplugged it from a full, overnight and all day charge) and 8:14. i did nothing but text. no calls, no wifi/hotspot/web browsing. no videos, no nothing. no aps running, and so on and so forth. all i did at all was text and it died that fast.
a few key points:
1. after contacting both HTC and Tmobile, i have followed all their recommendations for prolonging battery life.
*screen dimmed to lowest setting
*time-out set to 15 seconds. (note: this is particularly annoying. you cannot read a long text or email without the screen timing out. suuper fun, that).
*wifi always of, rarely used.
*bluetooth always off
*updates always off
*GPS always off (note: retrieving weather is now manually done, the homescreen displays "no weather data available" until i manually check the weather).
*hotspot always off
*power saver enables/prolong battery mode enabled (forget what that's called).
*fast boot turned off.
*kill-all ap function utilized constantly.
2. the battery dies nonetheless. sometimes it dies overnight while on standby.
3. after weeks of this, got Tmob to send me a new battery.
4. new battery dies at the same rate.
5. the only power-eater that registers is the screen display. the only things that have ever registered at all, ever, have been "cell standby" and "calls," neither ever accounting for more than 3% of usage. to be clear: the battery usage is always around 98% "display." display is, once again, set to the lowest dim setting.
typically all i use the phone for are texts. not a big talker and don't do much webstuff. i certainly never watch videos or do anything like youtube on it. ever. i don't download on it. io don't even take that many photos.
i do some light internetting (checking sports scores, googling a word definition and checking facebook, never for more than 5 or so minutes at a time.).
i have a battery graph and the angle of descention is steeper than the rate of charging ascention.
to experiment, i did nothing but text one day. no other use. it died at the same rate as leaving it on for a few hours as a wifi hotspot. in either case, it died in just a few hours. if i do use it for wifi/hotspot/have a long call, it will die in the moments of use.
having gone through two batteries, i'm starting to think either 1. smartphones are useless bricks or 2. this one is some kind of messed up??
it doesn't act too buggy all that much. i often have to tap it to get the screen orientation to adjust correctly.
if i get a text while i'm composing a text, it goes haywire, to the point sometimes it knocks me out of the text application and all of the sudden my keystrokes are calling random people or something else (because it jumped to my contacts or call list). the text bug is by far the most noticeable: receiving a text while you are composing always makes, at the very least, your words jumble all up.
it freeze up sometimes and i have to restart.
so.
question is, what's my move, here? is the phone a dud? is there more things i can't use it for?
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