Many Android users have been looking for to improve battery life to extend the usage time including the HTC Sensation owner. One of the tips to improve the battery life is undervolting. This is the most popular tips that recommended by Android fans because by run undervolt on your phone, you will decrease the processor’s voltage to consume less power than you will have better battery life.
Just not the entire kernel used in android phone has a feature undervolt mainly stock kernel. To use the undervolt feature in kernel, you must wait a kernel developer to include on their custom kernel but sometimes it takes so long since the kernel developer has others job to do. For some android fans, this situation is a nightmare.
However, it will old story for HTC Sensation because there is a new tool to add undervolting feature to any kernel you use. This is great news especially who loves to run custom ROM and custom kernel on their phone to expand the ability of the Android smartphones to new stage such as installing the latest version of Android OS to HTC Sensation that not support yet by manufacturer.
In addition, it will more interesting if the undervolting tool can be use on any Android kernel not only HTC Sensation. We hope some Independent Android kernel developers out there inspiring to build the undervolt tool for any Android kernel. Let’s see perhaps in next few months the undervolt tool for any android kernel release for public because we would like to know if Xperia X10 could run undervolt tool too.
The undervolt tool uses the popular AROMA installer to help you to choose the degree of undervolting used. Users just simply need to re-flash the mod and choose a new setting to change it. To use the mod, the developer who builds the undervolt tool suggested to users start at -100mV and wait for moment for stability, if okay than you can go further by gradually decreasing the value of voltage until you find the stability condition.
How to know you have the stability condition?, you can figure out if it’s stable first by checking whether the ROM boots and using stability app to test for another test. Those stability test refer to developer explains, ” Choose -100mV undervoltage first. If phone boots, try system stability test. If all is ok – your chip can handle this UV. If no, flash -87.5mV, try system stability test etc”.
How to Improve Battery Life HTC Sensation
So what do you need to use undervolt tool on your HTC Sensation Android phone?, the requirements are already available on your phone since you already run custom kernel and custom ROM. You need CWM or 4EXT recovery, custom kernel, and custom ROM. Well, you already have all those requirements, now you need to download the undervolt tool than put on your SDcard root directory. Now, reboot your phone, enter to recovery, flash the package, than choose the undervoltage what you want.
If you interested to apply undervolt tool on your HTC Sensation phone, you can find the undervoltage installer from download link. You will find also the stability test app to test the undervoltage tool on your phone from Google Play Store link. If you need more information regarding the tool, please visit the original page to get the latest updated information and perhaps updated undervoltage tool with new feature and improvements.
Than how if you would like to uninstall the undervoltage tool?. You can uninstall the tool by deleting the file 21uv from /system/etc/init.d/ directory on your phone.
There are many ways to get better battery life for your android phone, but now the undervoltage tool only improve battery life HTC Sensation.
