Hi, im planning to buy this phone. It looks cool, already Gingerbread, included the awesome HTC sense
But, things that i want to know is the weakness of wildfire s?
I really appreciate any reply. Thank you for helping me
Slow cpu. Only 600mhz while most other devices are higher such as the Samsung galaxy Ace which is clocked at 800mhz
When it comes to benchmarking thought that very same 600Mhz cpu performs nearly as well as the Desire with 1Ghz Snapdragon processor.Its not that slow!
Just got it yesterday, and as long as you use taskkiller or something else you should have an adequate experience (depending on what you had before). It may also take some time to get used to the size of screen (keyboard typing), but that's usually an isuue whenever you switch screen sizes.
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I got my wildfire s one week ago and I came from a samsung spica. Is a big difference in responsiveness of display, more ram and rom memory, multitasking and better cpu, but, in my opinion the weak point is HTC Sense UI and all the stuff from htc already installed. I'd prefer a clean android. I hope will be rooted for a cyanogen rom.
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but, in my opinion the weak point is HTC Sense UI and all the stuff from htc already installed.
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I also think so. there are too many unwanted app in HTC.
However, there is enough RAM.
HTC's gallery app doesn't support picasa web, which you should remember, and I didn't know that.
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Got mine on 2nd June. Its battery life isn't great. I use Auto Kill task manager to turn off unwanted apps, turn off wifi, GPS and bluetooth to save power and i get about a day's worth of phone calls from 9.30 am to 7.30pm. By then the battery drops to 15% or less.
I suggest not playing angry birds on battery for long as this drains the battery faster. The phone is otherwise quite good and even apps run well on it. A 1500mAH battery would have been great and hoping one comes out soon.
Task killers do more harm than good. As the phone has 2.3.3 there is no need to use a task killer as android has its own system to kill apps that are using the most battery life. Also if you look in the power section on the settings there is an option to enable power saver which restricts the power to your phone allowing more battery life.
Without the task killer the battery was draining too fast. Now am getting much better battery life. I've also turned off GPS, bluetooth and keep WiFi off unless needed. HAptic feedback is off too and have kept screen brightness down and no live wallpapers. These thigns together give me some hours more. Strangely even though haptic (vibration) feedback is supposed to be off it does give feedback when typing and when the phone rings. Might be a bug in the OS. Could others verify this too please?
My original Wildfire lasted about a day. But please dont use task killers. Everywhere you look they say dont use task killers:
http://lifehacker.com/5650894/andro...ed-what-they-do-and-why-you-shouldnt-use-them
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I purchased wildfire s on 01/06/2011. battery performance is poor. It is not lasting more than 8 hours even though Wi-Fi, GPS, 3G, background data,bluetooth,autq-sync etc are disabled. power saver is on and phone is not used for calls also and signal strength is good. In HTC FORUMS it was suggested that "The HTC HD7 Windows phones battery is compatible with this phone. I have ordered one & read some others saying it works plus it has higher capacity @ 1,500mAh. With a 600mhz processor & HVGA screen battery should last a while."
Battery performance.......
I have just got a Wildfire S and on it's first charge I've got 4 days 8 hours. The battery meter is now down to two bars but I'd expect to get another day. This is with the following turned OFF Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, Mobile Network. So yes there's not much I can do other than make phones calls and send texts. After my next charge I'll put moble networks back on and see what the outcome is.
thanks guys answering my questions..
i think CPU is not really a big problem for me. i dont play HD games, and use it overloaded.
And screen is doesnt matter as well. have been using Xperia X8 which is much more smaller
HTC Sense has its own built in task killer if i remember rightly? Liowmemory settings...If your rootes (S-OFF) download autokill off the market to change the "aggression" settings
Battery upgrade!
"Mugen Power" have a 1500mAh battery for this phone.
Just google and you will find...
(mugen-power-batteries.com/htc/htc-wildfire-s/mugen-power-1500mah-extended-battery-for-htc-wildfire-s-a510e.html#)
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HTC Sense has its own built in task killer if i remember rightly? Liowmemory settings...If your rootes (S-OFF) download autokill off the market to change the "aggression" settings
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Android has it's own battery monitor that kills apps not Sense.
Hello,
i bought my Wildfire S yesterday and made a full charge after unpacking.
Uptime of my Wildfire S: 35:50:00 h
Active time: 12h.
Due to the fact i used it pretty much i think there will be much more, if i stop playing around
I had a HD2 before and and i think the Wildfire S is a little bit slower. I don't play games on my smartphone, so that i can't say which differences there are in 3D-mode.
I hope i could help.
Games like tap tap revenge and angry birds work very well. Also pocket legends plays well considering it is 3d and is an MMO.
I am really confused.. some guys says the battery is awesome..but some here says it very poor....
Also can we use unrevoked to flash Wildfire S??
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Ok hold on before you fly off the handle - I'm trying to ask a very specific question, to probably a fairly small sub group of people.
I own an iPhone 4 and a Desire. I , for the most part got the iPhone 4 because of the fairly bad battery life on the Desire - not to mention that I had just come out of contract with my ATT account so I could get a discounted iPhone toy.
Are there any others out there that have had experience with both of these devices and if so have you been even close to being sucessful at obtaining similar battery life? Which ROM and / or what SetCPU settings (I'm not entirely convinced how much difference that makes for me)??
It is now 5:27 pm and I have tried my best to have both devices used for the same things. I alternaated phone calls. I pushed emails to both devices nd I even tried to duplicate SMS's as much as psossible with help of a third person.
The iPhone has 80% left and the Desire has 60%. If anything though I used the iPhone more because it has my primary SIM card in it.
Thanks
JC
Not really sure this is a development thing but for me cyanogen 6 latest nightly has nearly double the battery life of the stock t mobile 2.1 rom that I had before.
maybe it's your battery stats.....wipe the nattery info and recalibrate your desire....you might have a fix then
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Not really sure this is a development thing but for me cyanogen 6 latest nightly has nearly double the battery life of the stock t mobile 2.1 rom that I had before.
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Thanks - I haven't tried Cyanogen but i've tried enough of the others over some months that I knew that answer had to be a particular ROM OR the possibilty that it just wasn't going to happen.
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i use pays 1.9 rom and the battery is holding the charge much longer, i didn't charge the phone for 3 days and today it had 50 % before i started to play need for speed shift . and the iphone doesn't use as much charge as the desire because it has a crapy old lcd display and no REAL multitasing....
I got roufianos v6 and i get a day of heavy duty work on desire, day and a half with low medium usage and im happy with the battery. (wifi on all the time, auto sinc on an hour of fb, weather, xda rss news, nimbuzz chat, gtalk chat, couple of calls and sms, homerun battle 3d, internet checking fb and other forums, xda app couple times a day and thats pretty much most of the duty) i couldnt last 2 days with nokia x6 with 1/10th of that usage.
Besides, iphone doesnt have this insanely beautiful amoled bright colors do its normal its battery lasts longer. Its also got a diferent system and diferent multitasking codes. Desire runs some proceses in the background for certain period of time so it loads diferent apps u just used faster.
Besides, charge the phone over night and use it over day and u wont notice the battery life is bad at all. U cant enjoy iphone as much as u can enjoy desire if u know what each individual device is capable of.
If u ask me, u can give me an ever lasting iphone or a day lasting batteri on desire and id pick desire. As a matter of fact id pick desire over any combination about phones u make
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OH oh - Sorry I didn't mean to get the iPhone war going. I have jsut noticed that the battery life has somehow greatly improved with the iphone 4 vs the 3 and I had previously not been making it even through the day with my Desire.
Probably wouldn't have even been looking at the Iphone if it hadn't been for the battery issue with the Desire.
Again I was just hoping some others had been able to personally experience the battery thing so I could get a better idea of whether to go back to the drawing (ROM) board or to give up.
Thanks all
I have had both phones & iPhone has hands down better screen (& you can see it in direct sunlight).
Battery life was a lot longer on iPhone, but I think that's just because I played with it less, got rid of it & kept my Desire in the end.
Currently using modaco's r8 with A2SD+, seems to make a big difference to battery life by having dalvik-cache & apps on the SD card. My battery is now a horizontal line in standby with constant sync etc (something I could never get before).
Can anyone else confirm better battery with A2SD+ or is it just me?
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I have had both phones & iPhone has hands down better screen (& you can see it in direct sunlight).
Battery life was a lot longer on iPhone, but I think that's just because I played with it less, got rid of it & kept my Desire in the end.
Currently using modaco's r8 with A2SD+, seems to make a big difference to battery life by having dalvik-cache & apps on the SD card. My battery is now a horizontal line in standby with constant sync etc (something I could never get before).
Can anyone else confirm better battery with A2SD+ or is it just me?
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I will be also interrested to know if A2SD+ improves battery...
Whats up with the 1230 mAH battery? even worse than the one on the desire? i realize this new cpu uses less power, but still they should have gone with an 1500 mAh battery to have decent battery life :/ im worried they sacrificed battery life to built a slimmer device
Is the screen regular lcd os super lcd?
Why did they remove the kickstand and the hdmi port?
so everybody loved every inch of the desire hd? no complaints?
I personally would wait for reviews before passing any judgement. Looking at specs alone can be deceiving.
Just a few weeks ago, people were complaining about the 800mhz cpu in the G2/DesireZ. But benchmarks show that it's just as fast, if not faster, than the 1ghz cpu in the Desire and Nexus One.
I agree with with the OP i was all set to pre order the Desire HD until i saw it had a smaller battery, HTC claim the new CPU etc requires a lot less power but i`ll hold on until people tell us what its like in the real world.
Well I like it for the SIZE...... and comes with FROYOOo.... The specs and the initial benchmarks tell the CPU is faster and the GPU is lil bit faster than the Galaxy S. We will wait and see.
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Well I like it for the SIZE
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have you used the phone yet or anything similar?
after my Touch HD i got the HD2 and it is HUGE, didnt feel right in my hand at all. sent it back and got a desire instead, so im not thinking i will like the desire HD
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have you used the phone yet or anything similar?
after my Touch HD i got the HD2 and it is HUGE, didnt feel right in my hand at all. sent it back and got a desire instead, so im not thinking i will like the desire HD
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Agreed, a step too far in terms of size
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I personally would wait for reviews before passing any judgement. Looking at specs alone can be deceiving.
Just a few weeks ago, people were complaining about the 800mhz cpu in the G2/DesireZ. But benchmarks show that it's just as fast, if not faster, than the 1ghz cpu in the Desire and Nexus One.
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i know , btw i didnt complain with about the desire z cou haha , but what bugs me is that ok the new cpu might consume less, but take advantage of that an include the same battery as before to get BETTER battery life instead of trying to maintain the same crappy battery life
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i know , btw i didnt complain with about the desire z cou haha , but what bugs me is that ok the new cpu might consume less, but take advantage of that an include the same battery as before to get BETTER battery life instead of trying to maintain the same crappy battery life
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Yes, you didn't complain about the CPU. What I was trying to say is that you're complaining about a piece of hardware based on specs, just like how others were complaining about the 800mhz CPU previously.
My point is to just wait for the reviews. It could be that the battery life will last you a day and a half with heavy use. If that's the case, then there's no point in HTC slapping on a larger battery.
My opinion is battery life is the next big hurdle to overcome in terms of smartphones and I have to say I agree with the comments made along the lines of, where the battery is concerned, bigger is better.
It would be nice to go away for a few days without having to add to clean socks, skids and toilet bag, a mobile phone charger lol
unplug your pc and see how long that lasts?
These smart phones are mini computers ... and as such it's not suprising that you have to plug it in all the time ...
Look at the ATOM CPU... smaller CPU was ment for netbooks...
We have an evan smaller CPU .. ment for our " phones"
I agree with the comments and being an ex-user of HD2 which uses the same battery, the battery life really sucks as it will only last half a day when you have a lot of calls or sms.
What's the point of having a good specs smartphone but the battery cannot even last with such lithium ion, 1230mah battery since the size of the phone is so big?
In terms of sound and camera quality, HTC is still not good at these area no doubt they are in the smart phone market for many years than other manufacturers but their technology is still not as good.
Even if the firmware support is good but there is a limit with the hardware they have.
Just my sharing.
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I'm a desire owner, personally I think the HD is just too big,hence for a second phone, I have the x10 mini pro,perfect for making all my calls and texts , whilst I use my desire for all surfing needs.....
Desire white does look soooo sexy though!
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i know , btw i didnt complain with about the desire z cou haha , but what bugs me is that ok the new cpu might consume less, but take advantage of that an include the same battery as before to get BETTER battery life instead of trying to maintain the same crappy battery life
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I completely agree with you. Keeping the same battery + Better efficiency = Incredible battery life. I don't see why they would want to make it the same or "around" the same as the other handsets ??
What i care about battery, most stupidest and annoying design flaw is PUT ONLY 512mb rom to phone. Only ~40mb is left for all applications, mail cache, facebook & twitter & so on work memory (most of rom is used for android&sense&so on basic phone installation that you cannot modify without root). When free memory drops to 16mb, low memory warning is displayed and after that you cannot install any application, get updates and gmail sync is not working. so between 40mb and 16mb is 24mb cap available to use. Way too little!
fimae said:
What i care about battery, most stupidest and annoying design flaw is PUT ONLY 512mb rom to phone. Only ~40mb is left for all applications, mail cache, facebook & twitter & so on work memory (most of rom is used for android&sense&so on basic phone installation that you cannot modify without root). When free memory drops to 16mb, low memory warning is displayed and after that you cannot install any application, get updates and gmail sync is not working. so between 40mb and 16mb is 24mb cap available to use. Way too little!
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Yea unfortunately, I find that to take advantage of android to its absolute fullest, you have to root.
@chong
I have to counter your experience of the hd2 batt time. I easely cram over 15 hours from my hd2 - even if I run android.
I agree though that the 'out of the box' batt time is to low on most smartphones - but then again, most people doesn't seem to bother - iphone for example is terrible on batt time.
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I was expecting a lot more improvements from Desire HD versus the Desire.
Like:
- Higher resolution of the screen. It's 4.3 but the same resolution as the Desire, so you will end up with bigger pixels.
- Front facing camera. Facetime like experience is kinda girlie thingy, but actually ended up wanting this for example when you are on a long trip and you want to see your family.
- A faster processor - why not 1.2GHz?
- A kick stand, like the HTC Evo. Ended up wanting one of those while trying to watch some episodes of Friends on the plane. I had to hold the phone all the time - kinda frustrating.
At the end since it does not have higher specs compared to the Desire and since I swap my HD2, first because of Android, second because of the huge brick that I had to carry around, so I'm sticking with the Desire 1st gen.
why does everything has to be 4.3 inchs, I would love to see a better screen then an iphone 4G, and a tegra 2 Chip be awesome.
Think I'll lay off the Desire HD and Desire Z for now. There's not much noticeable improvement from our Desires. I'll wait for HTC's next big announcement
Hey guys, I'm currently using a Nokia N900 and thinking of changing to the Desire Z.
I was wondering how's the battery life on it? I've heard good things about it, that it lasts for quite a decent amount of time. But can someone give me a figure? I'm looking for just normal use such as txting and making phone calls, and occasionally WIFI browsing. I don't use my phone for gaming or music, just running typical apps and all those stuff i mentioned above.
The 2nd is, how are the custom roms development and support for this phone?? I searched around and couldn't find much, or at least decent ones. I'm looking for ROMS that are as good as the equivalent of the Energy ROM for the Windows Mobile devices. Before I stopped using my HTC Touch Pro, I used to be very active on this forum and can find tons of custom ROMS for Windows Mobile devices easily, but i'm not sure about Android though......there doesn't seem to be much.
Oh and it seems there are very little differences between G2 and Desire Z. Both are under the "HTC Vision" category and yes I've already read the topics and did the search on this. I was wondering which one is better overall in terms of performance? It seems the G2 has more ROM or something (can't remember), like 4GB as oppose to Desire Z's 1.5GB....but i'm not sure how that'll affect the performance.
I don't care about the FM radio either so maybe i should go for a G2 instead?
It pretty much comes down to sense or stock android. the roms are generally compatible with both phones.
the battery life is actually much better than i expected coming from a nexus one, htc desire and htc hd2. you should have no problem lasting the day.
I went for the DZ and am very happy with it, the battery life is excellent even with quite a few widgets, a constant live wallpaper running too.
I do need to charge it every night but at work it's using wifi all the time even when asleep and so far i've sent about 20 txt's today, and spoken on the phone for an hour and it's been off it's charger for 8 hours and i'm on 75% battery left.
Reason i haven't put any other ROM's on it yet is because i don't see a need for it yet, my G1 got to CM6 as i wanted stuff that was above android 1.6 but currently the DZ on 2.2 with Sense is working well for me. If i put another Rom on i'd lose my Locations app which i use a lot, free GPS with maps of the world! And some other great Sense things like the selecting text and copy/paste feature which gingerbread mimics. the free tracking and online backup to HTCSense.com too is very useful.
I had 1gb on internal left after the OS is installed and i've still got about 890mb left of that, it shipped with an 8gb microSD card and that's only got about 2gb of stuff on it (locations maps, some music and app backup). Since 2.2 does install apps to the SD card the extra space isn't that vital.
quadrant scores are 1550 - 1580 depending on what it feels like doing lol, which is literally only a few digits below the G2 stock so Sense is hardly using any brain power.
Lag - what lag? i've yet to see it or wait for anything on the phone - it flies.
Scenes, Skins and HTC Hub are just a few more things that customise the device for new users, i'm a veteran but i like what they've done and it makes my friend who just got the Desire HD (and she's an android virgin) so happy and easy for her to use it since Android gets critized for being to hard to use...?! I don't see it
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I went for the DZ and am very happy with it, the battery life is excellent even with quite a few widgets, a constant live wallpaper running too.
I do need to charge it every night but at work it's using wifi all the time even when asleep and so far i've sent about 20 txt's today, and spoken on the phone for an hour and it's been off it's charger for 8 hours and i'm on 75% battery left.
Reason i haven't put any other ROM's on it yet is because i don't see a need for it yet, my G1 got to CM6 as i wanted stuff that was above android 1.6 but currently the DZ on 2.2 with Sense is working well for me. If i put another Rom on i'd lose my Locations app which i use a lot, free GPS with maps of the world! And some other great Sense things like the selecting text and copy/paste feature which gingerbread mimics. the free tracking and online backup to HTCSense.com too is very useful.
I had 1gb on internal left after the OS is installed and i've still got about 890mb left of that, it shipped with an 8gb microSD card and that's only got about 2gb of stuff on it (locations maps, some music and app backup). Since 2.2 does install apps to the SD card the extra space isn't that vital.
quadrant scores are 1550 - 1580 depending on what it feels like doing lol, which is literally only a few digits below the G2 stock so Sense is hardly using any brain power.
Lag - what lag? i've yet to see it or wait for anything on the phone - it flies.
Scenes, Skins and HTC Hub are just a few more things that customise the device for new users, i'm a veteran but i like what they've done and it makes my friend who just got the Desire HD (and she's an android virgin) so happy and easy for her to use it since Android gets critized for being to hard to use...?! I don't see it
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thanks for the reply and I see you're a fellow New Zealander!
Did you buy it on Trademe? How much did you pay for? There's one on Trademe for $800 but that's a G2, otherwise the Desire Z is $849 including free shipping and free accessories.......i'm trying to hold it off until it goes down to $700 though
anyway, i was looking for statistics like how long it lasts after a full charge?? My Nokia N900 on standby lasts about 5 days, if i use it for heavy txt or internet browsing (using wifi) then I can use it for maybe 2 days, until the battery drains completely.
If the Desire Z only lasts 2 days, that's still pretty crap to me.........i'm looking for phones that don't drain as crazy coz that's one of the thing that pisses me off
I came from the Touch Pro 2 with EnergyROM too. But the big difference for me there is that the stock TP2 ROM is absolute garbage, and EnergyROM made it much better. So a custom ROM was much more necessary with WinMo.
I find that my stock DZ ROM is fantastic, it is really smooth and fast. I'm sure I could get even more cool stuff if I upgraded to a custom ROM but right now I'm staying with stock. Cyanogen seems to be by far the most popular custom ROM for the Vision (G2/DZ), though it doesn't include the HTC Sense features that the DZ stock ROM has (stock G2 doesn't have Sense).
By the way, the memory is identical on the G2 and DZ, they're the same phone just with different radio bands. T-Mobile advertised it as having 4 GB but in fact, just like the DZ, the internal storage is setup in the factory to only present 2.2 GB to the ROM (full explanation in the Wiki as to why this is). So performance is identical on the G2/DZ - same CPU, same memory, etc, etc.
I have a G2 and I am a heavy user. On average, I download 1-5 things a day, be it market or otherwise, 150-200 text messages, less than 20 minutes talk time, constant running live wall paper, facebook widget, foursquare widget, weather and time beautiful widget, battery widget, music widget, feedr news widget (all these widgets get used daily), plus a Yahoo! mail app I use daily and I can almost always make it through a full day of use. There are those days when I send more texts or download more things or browse the web more often if there's a lot of good articles on feedr and I might need to charge before the end of the day, but thus far it has the best battery life of any Android phone I've ever used. I typically wake up around 2 or 3pm and go to bed around 6 or 7am, so 13-14 hours of use and It's usually at about 10% when I plug it in.
I do not run any task killers, stock ROM, unrooted. I charge every night and start every day with 100% charged. This is, by far, the best phone I've ever owned period. It's highly recommended. Hope this helps.
Its reasonable.
If you use Bluetooth (music stream) extensively & connect to a WIFI network, you might be in the yellow fairly quick.
Its NO BlackBerry (battery wise), but then again you get so many options and features that it blows the BB out of the water.
Hi,
I just got my HTC One X and I love it. The only downside to it so far is after leaving it on charge overnight im lucky if I get 5-6hrs out of it.
Im on the default OS and ive only installed some apps but im pretty much in the dark where to start.
Can anyone recommend the best rom to use or even just good apps or ways to make my battery life extend?
Thanks and again sorry if this is a noob question.
Have you updated your device with all the official updates? Have you disabled fast-boot, auto-brightness, satellite-GPS and all other wireless options that you don't need and opted for a 30-40% luminance rating (screen remains legible) in Settings? The operating time you get, as stated of 5-6 hrs seems pretty low. I get at least double that with intensive usage, and I mean it, THD Games! Keep in mind however that the screen of HTC ONE X, REALLY, IS the most power-demanding component of our smartphone and there isn't much that can be done about it.
As to your question, Villain rom is considered by many to be battery-friendly although pretty basic. In addition and if you have a rooted/unlocked device (I still haven't rooted mine because I'm perfectly satisfied with it for now), you can also give a try to the SetCore app that can be found i the Apps section of the HOX forum and as its name implied it allows you to control and deactivate cores at will. Also try out the well-known SetCPU app to underclock the processor and get more life from it.
Although, if you've purchased your phone recently, you may simply have to charge some more to condition the battery and then it will get to normal levels, of ~12-15hrs of serious usage.
first of all you do not need a rom that is based on battery life..all roms are the same with just few different modifications to it. choose a rom that YOU like and not based on what other people tell you. Then you can do a few things to get better battery life. as the poster above me stated you can do what he mentioned..but i still with autosync on, GPS on and autobrightness i can manage to get over 3hrs screen on time and over a day and a half battery life. Go into settings and sound and untick touch keypad sounds and lockscreen sound and dialpad sounds...come out and reboot the phone..you might think why but trust me that causes drainage to the battery and keeps the phone wake when the screen is off. second if you use twitter and facebook i would suggest to use them only when you log in..do not have it on in the background. if you still need more help PM if you like
but search for Touch Xtreme rom by Smarberg...that is a good rom based on battery more than anything else.
Rowan88 said:
Hi,
I just got my HTC One X and I love it. The only downside to it so far is after leaving it on charge overnight im lucky if I get 5-6hrs out of it.
Im on the default OS and ive only installed some apps but im pretty much in the dark where to start.
Can anyone recommend the best rom to use or even just good apps or ways to make my battery life extend?
Thanks and again sorry if this is a noob question.
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Have you updated your device with all the official updates? Have you disabled fast-boot, auto-brightness, satellite-GPS and all other wireless options that you don't need and opted for a 30-40% luminance rating (screen remains legible) in Settings? The operating time you get, as stated of 5-6 hrs seems pretty low. I get at least double that with intensive usage, and I mean it, THD Games! Keep in mind however that the screen of HTC ONE X, REALLY, IS the most power-demanding component of our smartphone and there isn't much that can be done about it.
As to your question, Villain rom is considered by many to be battery-friendly although pretty basic. In addition and if you have a rooted/unlocked device (I still haven't rooted mine because I'm perfectly satisfied with it for now), you can also give a try to the SetCore app that can be found i the Apps section of the HOX forum and as its name implied it allows you to control and deactivate cores at will. Also try out the well-known SetCPU app to underclock the processor and get more life from it.
Although, if you've purchased your phone recently, you may simply have to charge some more to condition the battery and then it will get to normal levels, of ~12-15hrs of serious usage.
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Im sure all the official updates are done. I use wifi in house and 3g when outdoors. Ive got bluetooth and gps disabled and as of now my screen is off automatic. Ill keep charging like you say to condition the battery but can you overcharge it?
I'm on stock and my battery seems to be OK.
The multitasking on another hand is shockingly bad.
Please someone give me aokp or cm9
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I fixed multitasking with an init.d script that lowers the low memory killer values. All the apps stay in memory now without closing... like they are supposed to.
Some say HTC set the values so high to save battery, but that is crap. No power is used when the app is held in memory, infact less is used as the apps aren't constantly being opened closed and reloaded. I think they just messed up.
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I fixed multitasking with an init.d script that lowers the low memory killer values. All the apps stay in memory now without closing... like they are supposed to.
Some say HTC set the values so high to save battery, but that is crap. No power is used when the app is held in memory, infact less is used as the apps aren't constantly being opened closed and reloaded. I think they just messed up.
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Hey tell one, tell all...
I can't deal with all these reloads
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Hi all, I bought my brand new original HTC One X 3 days ago and it got the newest android version for it, JB. But there is a big problem and it is the battery, it's just horrible to see such a awesome phone with a battery life like that. Does anyone know which things I can do to have a better battery life? I already have the almost lowest brightness, no live wallpaper and no antivirus on the phone. I also use the official energi saving function that comes with jelly bean but it doesn't even make the battery better at all, not even a little bit. Please help!!!
Tomb_Raider_Legend said:
Hi all, I bought my brand new original HTC One X 3 days ago and it got the newest android version for it, JB. But there is a big problem and it is the battery, it's just horrible to see such a awesome phone with a battery life like that. Does anyone know which things I can do to have a better battery life? I already have the almost lowest brightness, no live wallpaper and no antivirus on the phone. I also use the official energi saving function that comes with jelly bean but it doesn't even make the battery better at all, not even a little bit. Please help!!!
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You will find your phones battery life will improve, mine wasn't that good for the first few days.
When ever i get a new phone i always charge it over night & then when its off charge leave it till it bleeps to be put back on charge, do that for the first few times as i find it gives the best life.
Mine is very good now
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Tomb_Raider_Legend said:
Hi all, I bought my brand new original HTC One X 3 days ago and it got the newest android version for it, JB. But there is a big problem and it is the battery, it's just horrible to see such a awesome phone with a battery life like that. Does anyone know which things I can do to have a better battery life? I already have the almost lowest brightness, no live wallpaper and no antivirus on the phone. I also use the official energi saving function that comes with jelly bean but it doesn't even make the battery better at all, not even a little bit. Please help!!!
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can u say how long your on screen time or general battery life is? but at the first few times/days/weeks it's really bad but after few charge cycles it will bet better because the battery has to improve itself with the information the phone gives, you know? wait and charge and after a week or so it will be really better...
Or if you just disable google now you will be good. If you disable google maps aswell your battery life will be perfect. Something is wrong with those two
That issue is just with jelly bean
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tadas_max said:
Or if you just disable google now you will be good. If you disable google maps aswell your battery life will be perfect. Something is wrong with those two
That issue is just with jelly bean
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yup that's also right ^^
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It says 4H 56M on the battery but when I fully charge it and use it for 3 houres (games, music and wifi surf) and almost the whole battery is gone so I have to charge it again
And how do I disable those google things?
Tomb_Raider_Legend said:
It says 4H 56M on the battery but when I fully charge it and use it for 3 houres (games, music and wifi surf) and almost the whole battery is gone so I have to charge it again
And how do I disable those google things?
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if you play more then 1 hour or so then that's not so bad because if you play a game or two only from full charge you can reache 2- 2,5 hours...with games like THD games or other which make a lil bit more heat or so ....and if you play only games like solitaire for this time or so ...then that's really not normal...you know that in the hox are 4 cores and 8 gpu cores, and therefore the battery isn't like in a phone with 2,500 or more mAh because our has only 1,800 mAh ...if yo uwant to disable it press long home button and then you can press the menu button and there will be settings in that you can disable google now and for the other google things just go in settings then apps and then all apps and there you can click on any app ! but don't deactivate system apps! and if you click on them there will be a button deactivate and yes press it and it is disabled
I usually play Dead Space but not for more than 20 minutes because the phone heats up like hell -.- And I disabled google now hope the battery will be a little bit better, but any more ideas how I can get better battery life please
With my HOX, I found having brightness at 60% or less made the biggest impact. Also, disabling wifi when not needed made a huge difference. Decrease the time between auto syncs, and also check for wakelocks. Might have an app waking the phone a lot.
But I do understand where you are coming from. The battery life was killing me also, so I bought a Note 2 as a primary phone and now use the HOX as a music player for which it is outstanding haha
the first time the battery is always bad ._. just wait some days or so and it will be better...and look with betterbatterystats which wakelocks you have then you can see which apps might make the battery life also more worse...
Thank you very much I will try them, the battery seems to be a little bit better when I turned Google Now off
i have the AT&T HTC ONE XL (L For LTE)
has the Dual Core Snapdragon and i say the battery is better lasting than ones with out the Dual Core CPUs
markjcc said:
i have the AT&T HTC ONE XL (L For LTE)
has the Dual Core Snapdragon and i say the battery is better lasting than ones with out the Dual Core CPUs
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Pretty obvious, isn't it? Plus the Snapdragon S4 Krait has a better manufacturing process (I think 32nm) compared to Tegra 3's 40nm process, so it's more efficient and less power hungry.
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To sum up. You want good battery go back to keypad £20 Nokia or Alcatel phones.
Smartphones will be pants for years to come
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With normal usage... Talk, wifi, handset Bluetooth... I only put my hox to charge wen it gow out of power. And my batery goes between 2 and 3 days. without gaming just regular usage...
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arknailed7754 said:
To sum up. You want good battery go back to keypad £20 Nokia or Alcatel phones.
Smartphones will be pants for years to come
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Not true. Look at the RAZR Maxx. If Motorola can put such a huge battery in a thin phone, there's no reason other manufacturers can't. Also, it was definitely possible to put a bugger battery in the One X, but HTC just didn't do it. They instead released One X+ sometime later and claimed better battery life as a 'feature'. That's just wrong, and very similar Motorola releasing the RAZR, and then the RAZR Maxx soon after. The phone should have had that battery since the start. The only reason I can find with Motorola is that the RAZR is slightly thinner for those who want it that way. But the One X and One X+ have 0 design difference.
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My point was in comparison to old phones.it'll be a long time before we get as good batrery life as on old phones. Reason being smArt phones just do to much nowadays..many forgetting it's actual purpose
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Just don't forget that the T3 is a pretty "old" chip, it needs a lot of power.
Nevertheless, I think the One X isn't that bad regarding battery life. It will drain quickly if you start gaming, but you should expect that. It's no gaming device, it's still a smartphone. Of course you can play your games every now and then but if you expect you can game with that thing for hours without getting it to heat up or charge it in the meantime, you put your money on the wrong device
Hi guys.
I cannot disable Google Now. In my Settings there is nothing like that?
Stock ICS ROM.
Help pls. Thnx a lot.
xsardax said:
Hi guys.
I cannot disable Google Now. In my Settings there is nothing like that?
Stock ICS ROM.
Help pls. Thnx a lot.
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There's no Google Now in ICS.
Sent from my faster than SGS3 HOX.