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Root HTC Wildfire S Battery Stands for HARDLY 1 day....!!!???

senthamil

senthamil

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Hi,

Sorry if i'm posting this at wrong place or so very late!!....

I am thinking that having a wonderful phone HTC WILDFIRE S. Everything is doing good except....

1. Internal Memory is too low and not able to do anything fast(have to wait for sometime. Before rooted) .

Ok. I Solved this issue by: "ROOTING" (I Lost my warranty for this one major issue and also No Official Updates.).

Now the Internal memory has been increased by the help of Link2sd. All the apps were linked to sdcard and got more memory. FINE!!!


2. Now I think to lose the phone because of BATTERY LIFE !!.

Charged 100% and stands for hardly one day when the data connectivity is activated & used for < 2 hours!!. And also when i go to sleep it was fully charged and in the morning more than 15% to 20% is drained....

I googled all the guides on the net & followed regarding this and got no result.(Is this happen to only "ME"...?)


I'm really wondering how this "HIGH TECH COMPUTER" is providing this kind of battery...?

Is there any other option (other than changing the phone)....?
Please reply or express your experience.....
Thanks.
 
Me too - I think it's just something we have to live with unless you want to disable all connectivity and use it just as a 2G phone for calls and text. It's a small battery.

Put it into airplane mode before you go to sleep - you'll save a couple of hours...

Oh yes, you should consider installing Juice Defender also.
 
I solved that problem by adding a charger onto my night stand and plugging it in every night.... i also have one in my car, in case i need to charge it, but i haven't had a need for that in a while.... I also got a business card stand for $1.99 that i keep my phone on... it's great!!
 

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HannaBlu said:
I solved that problem by adding a charger onto my night stand and plugging it in every night.... i also have one in my car, in case i need to charge it, but i haven't had a need for that in a while.... I also got a business card stand for $1.99 that i keep my phone on... it's great!!
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Thanks for the tips....

Actually any device must support for the basic features they meant without any restrictions or problems.

I used to have a Galaxy Note for sometime yesterday(My Uncle's) and thrilled by the speed and performance....

It's too far from HTC WFS.
 
Here's my $0.02 on the matter: Juice Defender doesn't really help that much. Android does a great job of managing the battery on its own.

When you rooted the phone at some point you probably did a factory reset wiping out the batterystats.bin file where the battery calibration data is stored. So your bad battery life is temporary until Android rebuilds batterystats.bin. You can help by doing the following (once):

1. Run the battery down to zero and ignore all the warnings. Let it go until the phone shuts itself off. *** This is hard on the battery -- only do it once! *** This will help Android find the bottom of the battery's voltage.

2. Charge the phone back to 100%. Once at 100%, remove the USB cable, shut the phone down, remove and replace the battery.

3. With the phone *still off* plug in the USB cable and charge it until the orange light turns green. Once green, pull the USB cable and repeat once or twice to ensure that the battery is charged to the max.

4. Restart the phone. Now Android has the top end voltage of the battery.
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Even so, it normally takes Android a week or two to build batterystats.bin for optimal battery life, so be patient--it will come back. ;)

Hope this helps!
 
Caro332 said:
I would say the best solution is to buy a better battery. But yeah it'll cost ya
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After following CafeKampuchia's method, I installed CM9 also. So either one or both of this reasons, now the battery life is much improved. Not need of a new one......
 
I'm still using the same ROM, but will cautiously state that I'm seeing some improvement. Of course it's early days and CafeKampuchea did say give it a couple of weeks...
 
Hi . I think the problem is due to dailer process of sense Rom running in background . I noticed same battery life in HTC explorer with sense 3.5 .
 
idhbar said:
Hi . I think the problem is due to dailer process of sense Rom running in background . I noticed same battery life in HTC explorer with sense 3.5 .
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I'm running a "Sense" less ROM now (CM9 Alpha 7).

I don't have the battery issue now.
 
Stock battery is way too small, I bought a 2500maH one and now go 2-3 days between charges. Apart from calls/texts, main use is streaming music and takong photots.

@selvan1973 -how stable is CM9 Alpha7 and what features are disabled or compromised. Do all your apps run OK?
 
Davdi said:
Stock battery is way too small, I bought a 2500maH one and now go 2-3 days between charges. Apart from calls/texts, main use is streaming music and takong photots.

@selvan1973 -how stable is CM9 Alpha7 and what features are disabled or compromised. Do all your apps run OK?
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It is really more stable. If you install many more apps, the HTC STOCK ROM or any other Custom ROM couldn't manage well and phone becomes little slow and doesn't respond quickly. It's the main reason I switched to CM9. It's really a speedy ROM & there's nothing to compromise on features. You can know it only on when try!!.
 
I just posted in another thread in regard to getting a 2500 battery. Search "Schubert 2500" on ebay-- I got mine for 4 bucks shipped. HUGE increase in real time battery life. Was thinking of finally ditching this phone (and Virgin Mobile), but with this battery I'm sticking with the 25 dollar plan for quite a while!

Quick question-- are there ANY good custom roms for the Virgin Mobile model?
 
Well, a lot of things go into the factor of battery life:

-Use of the phone, whether its call, texting, or other uses like apps drain battery. (Obviously.)

-Display settings and sound settings. Lowering brightness and turning off any haptic feedback would help reduce drain as well. Vibrate drains energy as well.

-Data services/ Wifi services. You can turn these off and then turn them on when you need them, you really don't need them on all the time.

-Widgets also drain energy, maybe not much, but it adds up the more widgets you have.

So just adjust your phone and you'll definitely save battery energy.
Regards to internal memory, the HTC Wildfire S isn't a high-end phone, as it was made pretty cheaply compared to most Smart phones. Though it's a big jump from the usual smart phones that Metro PCS or Virgin Mobile pull out at a low price. To get around this memory issue, there are tutorials on an App2sd type set up, where you would use an SD card for Apps and save room internally.

Also, I would suggest CM7.2 as it's the most stable for WFS at the moment, or so I've read.

I'm just throwing out this info for you all to chew on, hope it helps and if anything is wrong, I apologize.

~Blue
 
i too have wildfire s, battery life is poor
but one thing that helped my battery was not using the official charger so much
and using the USB Computer as a charger, it charges much slower but seems to have increased the battery life since doing it via the USB

hope this helps
and my brother has a samsung, i suggested this to him, and he has noticed a difference with his phone too.
 
I am surprised that phone makers don't focus on a solution to prolong the battery life. I like to go on bike rides and listen to music or other streaming stuff. At the end of the bike ride normally 2-3 hours phone is dead or ready to die. I do have map my ride going as well. I understand I'm using lots of energy but there has to be a solution.

I just got the LG Nitro HD so I'm not too sure how well that will go but my LG Thrill sucked and the Motorola Atrix HD that I had for 5 days was no better.

Manny
 
RballCoach said:
I am surprised that phone makers don't focus on a solution to prolong the battery life. I like to go on bike rides and listen to music or other streaming stuff. At the end of the bike ride normally 2-3 hours phone is dead or ready to die. I do have map my ride going as well. I understand I'm using lots of energy but there has to be a solution.

I just got the LG Nitro HD so I'm not too sure how well that will go but my LG Thrill sucked and the Motorola Atrix HD that I had for 5 days was no better.

Manny
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Well, my dad once told me that he thinks that companies make the batteries like that so you can buy new ones, or those expensive extended batteries. Haha

But what I would suggest is either buy an extra battery and charge it as well so when your phone is almost dead, you can switch the batteries in a few seconds. Or, I think I've seen a wristband type thing that you can charge and then car your electronics on the go.

Otherwise, I would suggest turning down brightness and sound and hopes that helps a little at least.
 
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