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Yep, I solved the battery drain issue....

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I have flashed at least half of the custom ROMs released for my G3 CID-unlocked MDA for the last 15 months. It has given me great respect for the efforts of kyphur, faria, molski, anchillus, and others. I have spent too much time, as well, following events here due to the 2 issues that leave my “Wizard” performing less than its best – the radio rom (stuck on 2.19.11 because of missed calls/messages) and battery life.
I do use a few add-on apps, but the main 3 I add to most ROMs that lack them are: batterystatus, todayagenda, and smartskey. I’ve tried placing the blame on battery life on overclocking (via batterystatus, I’ve run mine at all sorts of different speeds with and without cpuscaler, w/wo boost, w/wo extra indicators, etc.). I have updated, removed, reinstalled, backflashed (to ensure a extended rom was present, as many said this would fix the battery life issue) apps and ROMs and nothing has fixed the battery issue. Seemingly ever since WM6, I have been able to get about 24-36 hours out of my phone, about half of what I got before. Last night I went back to Molski’s Wm5 Aku 3.3 Crossbow ROM and over the course of several hours, battery life held firm. Then I added my push e-mail account and synced my mail for the first time (I have a lot of mail) which took like 10-15 minutes, and I dropped 10% of my charge (all levels reported per batterstatus, whatever the bias). Whoa, I thought. Well, I will chalk it up to a squirrelly initial indication of 100% because it sometimes seems to show that when it has just been unplugged from the charger, even if it soon resets to a more accurate value. Anyway, this morning the battery issue seemed to still be a problem. Could it be push e-mail, I thought?
So, I turned off the immediate send/receive, and my battery life improved a great deal. Wait, I thought, could it actually not be push e-mail (which would stink, because I NEED that), but the SD card access when it stores my attachments to SD causing the drain (this was suggested some time ago, but I couldn’t recreate at the time, because the CABs supplied didn’t resolve the issue)? I decided to check. I changed the push settings back to immediate (true push, not SMS triggered) and told the ROM to store attachments in main memory again. And guess what? My battery drain issue appears to be fixed!
I really hope this may be the case. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that all the power users here are setting the option to store to SD card, or running apps off the SD card.
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I have been testing this theory for several days, and I can say with absolute certainty that the above fixed my battery issue. Some (WM6 and WM5) ROMs are better than others in this respect, but it is definitely fixed - life improved in all of them. I am currently using Business Edition v2 and it often shows 24mA consumption in BS. I am now seeing consumption under standby conditions of just a hair over 1% per hour, and excellent life even when I am working on it, using the phone, etc. And this is with bluetooth on, push e-mail, etc.
I admit I was surprised at the relatively limited response when I first posted, because this appears to be a gripe for a lot of people. Maybe I overestimated that....if it helps a post here would be nice, if only so others see it and can help themselves.
Thanks again to all the ROM cookers!

This could in fact improve the battery status for many people, and if so congrats on an awesome find.
However I do not have a data plan (being the poor college student that I am), therefore do not use push email. My battery life is similar to yours and I can stretch to maybe near 48hrs if there is very very little use of my wizard....
But I am glad we are on the right track
Zack

This might be it
I never thought of that. You just sparked something though. On both my HTC Wizard and my old MPx200, which has a full size SD card slot, I remember when I let the power completely drain out that one of the first things I couldn't access was the SD Card slot. I remember being surprised when I couldn't find it.
Nice Job! I'm willing to test with you but I will have to wait for two more weeks. I'm a freshman in high school and have final exams.

Good Looks
Good find, I went to do this and it turns out that I had it already set to that . Also, when not using your phone turn the screen off and while you are in call turn the screen off by pressing the power button up top. Also, changing the brightness of the screen has really helped my battery out and the fact that I had a bad extended rom. with all that said and your finding my battery has been great. and AHHH finals week here for me.. I feel for you guys.. Mine start tomorrow! BOOOO

You mean you ever made it more then 24 hours?
My Wizard needs charged every night. It's usually chirping by the time I get home from work
I do have push email set up though so I attributed that to Push.
Battery life is a bit of a bummer on these devices, but that's why I have a charger at home, in the car, and at my office, haha

Push definitely hurts battery life a bit, and that should be expected, but I have been using that for about a year and I really suspect that it is the combination of the original batteries getting "old" at 1 year and this SD card issue that is causing the accelerated decline. I am still optimistic, and my drain is still not too bad, so hopefully I can just learn to live with "fetching" my attachments to SD only when I need to see them (vs. having Messaging pull all of them automatically) to reclaim several hours to a day of battery life.

I can make it 24 hours. Usually at the end of the day say 10 or 11 my battery life is till about 50%. I tested it that night and didnt have to recharge till around 4pm the next day.

I'm sure that vettejock99 is on the right track for some users. My mail program (Xpress Mail) doesn't use the SD, so this wasn't an issue for me - only GPRS usage. When I use the card / applications that access the card, my consumption goes way up. I can see where an app that always runs in the bg and constantly reading/writing to the SD could have a huge effect on battery life, in addition to hardware that's left on - such as Wifi or beam.
-Matt

I don't know what u guys are talking about here. I use the Faria Vanilla ROM and my battery lasts for 96 hours, it's amazing! But when used other roms I never had my battery last less than 48 hours.
One more suggestion about the battry life: always close all active programs. They really drain the battery. I tested it luanching 15 applications at a time, and guess what happened? The battery lost 50% in 15 minutes. So, that might be one of the other factors...
Oh, and here is one last thing. The battery drain is also high when the phone network is unavailable. If u leave your phone somewhere where there is no network signal it will automatically try to search the network every n minutes. So, that also causes huge power drain.

I wonder if this little SD card thing affecting the battery drain isn't noticed when surfing the net. I set the temp folder on the sd card for IE...just a thought

anichillus said:
I wonder it this little SD card thing affecting the battery drain isn't noticed when surfing the net. I set the temp folder on the sd card for IE...just a thought
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I dunno, maybe (as was speculated some time ago) the power management is turned on/off by one activity such as surfing w/cache to SD and handled differently when writing attachments......

By way of an update, I ALMOST added earlier today that my consumption was creeping back up again, though it still seemed to be about 20% lower (better) than before. I decided to uninstall TodayAgenda and BatteryStatus from the Molski ROM (the versions integrated into it), even though that would make it less desirable to use. The drain still seemed to be creeping up. I was troubled. Then I realized I had installed Today Commander earlier today to ensure I had an extended rom, which I did in fact have (check that box). Well, I installed it to the SD card - so I uninstalled it. And I removed my SD card. And once again, it appears that my consumption is back down. I have used 1% in the last hour, and that is something I have been unable to accomplish in some time. So.....I could be wrong, but I really think this SD card thing has something to do with it.
I remain hopeful this is it, and there is a way we can fix it, or that I can ultimately leave the SD card in at least, and install apps to memory (as there is plenty of room for my needs) and only pull attachments to SD as needed.

Anyone else looking into this?

last bump - updated OP

I thought I remembered seeing a registry hack, or something to that effect, which turned off the polling of the SD slot. I think it was supposed to dramatically improve battery drain times. I'll take a look around for the hack, maybe I'm just dreaming though.

Pastamancer said:
I thought I remembered seeing a registry hack, or something to that effect, which turned off the polling of the SD slot. I think it was supposed to dramatically improve battery drain times. I'll take a look around for the hack, maybe I'm just dreaming though.
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You did, it's out there. Didn't help mine, though. I think that is because the polling does represent some drain, but it appears the actual writing/reading drain is the substantial part.

look here i think i solve this problem
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1259754#post1259754

increasing paging pool of the ROM causes the battery to roll down heavilly.. this was proven a long time ago in himalaya (xda II) section)..
but ofcourse this isnt only the problem..
-dOUbleOfour

i dnt know what my problem is. i charge my fone all night to 100% and take it out the charger only when am leaving for work. when i get on the train its a 40minute ride to work. i only listen to windows media player and by the time i get to work my battery is like 50% or less.
so i bought a new battery today. i will update tomorrow

boto said:
look here i think i solve this problem
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1259754#post1259754
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That is a cause, but as I said, I had an extended rom, not corrupted, and still saw the drain, as have others. So folks need to ensure they have an uncorrupted extended rom, and they need to fix the SD issue in some way or they will likely have battery drain with many ROMs.

Battery Life

Hi Ladies and Gents-I am having the WORST time finding a solution to my battery life problem. I've even goten a replacement device from AT&T in case it was an internal problem.
Sitting idle during the day except for the device checking email every hour, a text here and there, and an occasional 5 minute phone call; my Tilt ends up at 20% at the end of an eight-hour work day.
Others have indicated that they've had upwards of 70% battery at the end of the day, with much more device use!
I've had the battery tested at Batteries Plus, and they conclude there are no bad cells nor leakage.
I live in the Indianapolis area and am using Radio 1.64.08.21 and Utty's April 29th Hybrid ROM if that's useful information.
I also use GPS golf software, but can only last 8 or 9 holes. It's madening!
Can someone help?
Thanks....

i think you answered your own question. the gps drains the battery like crazy

sd73ta said:
i think you answered your own question. the gps drains the battery like crazy
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I agree...gps is a killer

sd73ta said:
i think you answered your own question. the gps drains the battery like crazy
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Thanks, but I thought about that. The other folk have the same device and use their GPS actively without disabling when not in use...

maiahsdad said:
Thanks, but I thought about that. The other folk have the same device and use their GPS actively without disabling when not in use...
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Well, if you leave the program running in the background instead of closing it, then it will continue to actively use the GPS. In which case 8 hours would be a good battery life. Try actually exiting the programs that use GPS when you are not using them to see if that affects the battery life. Some roms will kill the program if you click the X in the corner, and others only minimize it. Just a thought.

skatdawg said:
Well, if you leave the program running in the background instead of closing it, then it will continue to actively use the GPS. In which case 8 hours would be a good battery life. Try actually exiting the programs that use GPS when you are not using them to see if that affects the battery life. Some roms will kill the program if you click the X in the corner, and others only minimize it. Just a thought.
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Obviously, your not just complaining about battery life on the golf course. That does sound like abnormal battery drain during a regular day. I had the same problem when I had push email active.
I hard reset , reloaded all my programs without push email , and my battery life was back to crappy normal. 100% to warning popup in about 24 hours.
The push email was keeping Edge connected all day despite my settings in Kaiser tweaks/Advance Config.

skatdawg said:
Well, if you leave the program running in the background instead of closing it, then it will continue to actively use the GPS. In which case 8 hours would be a good battery life. Try actually exiting the programs that use GPS when you are not using them to see if that affects the battery life. Some roms will kill the program if you click the X in the corner, and others only minimize it. Just a thought.
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Thanks for the thoughts. I appreciate all of you input. This is exactly the first thing I did when I noticed the drain. I set my preferences to "CLose Programs When Tapping X". I also double-check with the "running programs" tab in the top, right corner of the Today screen. At least I feel good about trying the right things to help my situation.
I'm thankful for any and all input. I hopefully will find a solution soon.

denco7 said:
I had the same problem when I had push email active.
The push email was keeping Edge connected all day despite my settings in Kaiser tweaks/Advance Config.
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Thanks so much for you input. Now... I'm using the email setup program that came with the ROM. I set up my POP 3 account (somehow it reverted to IMAP but still works) with SBCGlobal and all works well. but what I DON'T know is if this is PUSH mail. Not familiar with how it works exactly.

i would never use the GPS unless its pluged in...

In the car gps on, I leave plugged in
I also use gps today, cool little program too.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=370384
Listening to music via bluetooth and leaving gps on all day will kill the battery. 4 hours at best.
I charge at my desk and listen to bloototh music, (people think just an IT guy with bluetooth ear piece)
Charge in the car Listen to music, GPS and take calls.
I try to stay above 50% on battery if I can, just in case I want to flash a new rom when I get home.

ChInEsE ChIcKeN said:
i would never use the GPS unless its pluged in...
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If IT refers to the GPS being plugged in... Uh... it's integrated. But if you mean the DEVICE being plugged into a charger... that's not possible if I'm outside of the vehicle. And for my golfing program, carts don't have chargers (I usually walk anyways).
But there's definitely something going on that's eating my battery.....
I appreciate all of the comments thus far.

Hi maiahsdad,
It was me who was getting 70% at the end of a day, what can I say, not anymore... I don't know what the problem is - but i was using the same configuration (Leos V7 with included radio). last week the percentage was falling in front of my eyes... i didn't know what to do, flashed again and again different roms and radios, still no god results. I'm now on Leos v8 light with SPB Shell on top of it, but am not happy with my battery life AT ALL... 7% of battary gone in standby overnight - used to be 3%. the only thing is I have BT onn at all times.
looking for a solution....

slovoflud said:
Hi maiahsdad,
It was me who was getting 70% at the end of a day, what can I say, not anymore... I don't know what the problem is - but i was using the same configuration (Leos V7 with included radio). last week the percentage was falling in front of my eyes... i didn't know what to do, flashed again and again different roms and radios, still no god results. I'm now on Leos v8 light with SPB Shell on top of it, but am not happy with my battery life AT ALL... 7% of battary gone in standby overnight - used to be 3%. the only thing is I have BT onn at all times.
looking for a solution....
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Hi slovoflud, you could try to remove spb shell and see if it is eating up your battery. I used to install it but now no more and I noticed some improvement in battery life. The radio included is the best IMHO in terms of battery life.

dereknas said:
Hi slovoflud, you could try to remove spb shell and see if it is eating up your battery. I used to install it but now no more and I noticed some improvement in battery life. The radio included is the best IMHO in terms of battery life.
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are you talking about V7 or V8 ?

I'm using V7. I have not tried V8 yet because I'm waiting for V9 but I would think that V8 should perform the same.

slovoflud said:
are you talking about V7 or V8 ?
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I've found V7 & V8 to be refreshingly light on battery usage with the 1.58*** ROM that was found to work.

denco7 said:
The push email was keeping Edge connected all day despite my settings in Kaiser tweaks/Advance Config.
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I ran some tests - which I have a hard time believing - on Push on/off and the Kaiser Tweak settings for a constant connection. The tests were run over three evenings (so I was sure I was not using the phone for calls or data sessions). I found that having push on, off or the Kaiser Tweak settings for disconnect after 1 minute or constant on made no difference. Obviously, if you get a bunch of email from the Push connection, that will make a difference but my intent was to check to see if the persistent data connection made a difference in battery life; it did not.
The reason I did this I found that the Kaiser Tweak setting for automatic disconnect prevents simultaneous data and voice connections in HSDPA mode; which is key benefit to using HSDPA, at least for me.
Like I stated; results I have a hard time buying but I have repeated the tests with the same outcome.
As a result, I just leave the Kaiser Tweak setting at constant data connection and turn Push Email on when I need it (usually during the work day when I am out of the office).

slovoflud said:
are you talking about V7 or V8 ?
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Thanks to both of you. Is there a cab for V8 that I can download. I don't have it currently so I KNOW that it's not causing my battery life problem. But I would like to try the cab.
Thanks.

maiahsdad said:
Thanks to both of you. Is there a cab for V8 that I can download. I don't have it currently so I KNOW that it's not causing my battery life problem. But I would like to try the cab.
Thanks.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=400118
over there

I have to kind of disagree with the whole push email thing draining battery. Yes it makes sense but heres my scenario
I'm using Dutty's Diamond V1 ROM
Radio: 1.65.16.25
I'm using Windows Live for my Hotmail acct. which pushes my email
I have Blackberry Connect software from 3 other email accts. for my job
Always using H signal 3.5g speed
Bluetooth stays on even though I don't use it because I find that I save battery life when I keep it on.
Yesterday I charged my phone it was at 100 percent in the morning. Haven't charged it since and right now 3:00 pm eastern time my battery is at 64 % casual use. Which is by far the most pnenominal life I'd had. I'm going to see how long it'll last before it dies.

[Q] How can you make the battery last longer??

Is there a tweak out there that stops the stupid battery from guzzling? Im tired of charing it constantly and I swear it takes hours and hours to charge it back to full power. The thing cant last longer than a day without loosing power I cant stand it. Whats making it use all that power? I thought maybe if I switch wireless it would help but I didnt notice a difference.

I can get 2 days out of my battery.
I let it drain to 1% and then stick it on charge over night. When i get up the battery will be at 100% and then 30 minutes later down to 90% but it settles down after that.
I do not have wifi and bluetooth on all the time, just when I need to.

sORRY DOUBLE POST................

Archangel22 said:
Is there a tweak out there that stops the stupid battery from guzzling? Iam tired of charging it constantly and I swear it takes hours and hours to charge it back to full power. The thing cant last longer than a day without loosing power I cant stand it. Whats making it use all that power? I thought maybe if I switch wireless it would help but I didnt notice a difference.
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I don't understand people telling battery lost for 2 days..... even if we keep phone idle it will lose power in 24 hrs i believe....try like this try to use ROM with out manila & with manila once you will know the difference other than that there is some tips to save battery in Energy ROM thread in 3 rd 0r 4th post ..

4 days normal usage.
Manila2, GSM
15 minutes call, 6~10 text message, sync exchange, 30 minute ebook reading per day

If I build rom myself from the kitchen. It usually runs for 2-3 days.
However, in most cases when I try decent cooked ROM, for example, Energy - battery drains in about 5 hours. That's been the case with other cooked roms as well.
I suspect that some popular configuration change done by cooks causes battery to drain in certain environments. Would be nice to find out which change is that.

Processes and services often place a strain on the life of the battery; add to the mix a buggy service or application that further shortens battery life and one has an unusable device.
Another habit that can shorten Li-ON battery life is full discharges - near 0%. One of the members put out a thread a while back on research he/she had done on batteries - worth the read if you haven't already.
Cheers,

alexnoalex said:
If I build rom myself from the kitchen. It usually runs for 2-3 days.
However, in most cases when I try decent cooked ROM, for example, Energy - battery drains in about 5 hours. That's been the case with other cooked roms as well.
I suspect that some popular configuration change done by cooks causes battery to drain in certain environments. Would be nice to find out which change is that.
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I just had the same experience, cooked for the first time and my battery was better than it has ever been!
Since then I have flashed to RRE 21731 6.3 and it seems my battery has stayed the same (Brilliant, 2 Days no problem).
The only thing ive done differently is I have used the new UK Voda rom as my Stock Rom that i flash before flashing custom, and i believe this may have something to do with it...What, I don't Know.
I also believe changing the Radio After a flash can affect battery life, I always try to flash a new radio before a Custom rom.
I have wondered for some time wether the European Touch Pro is slightly different to the US Fuze in its hardware, Since most Cooked Roms are configured for the Fuze maybe that is what it is?
maybe we will find out..One Day

turn off 3G and you will get much better battery.

Get a Blackberry Bold. My phone has been on for 2 days, sent around 150 texts, got in 150, I'm at 85%

ukjock said:
I can get 2 days out of my battery.
I let it drain to 1% and then stick it on charge over night. When i get up the battery will be at 100% and then 30 minutes later down to 90% but it settles down after that.
I do not have wifi and bluetooth on all the time, just when I need to.
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That will ****-up your battery, you should never let it drain to 1%, just charge it when you have the time, preferably before it drains to about 20%.

I guess it all depends on the eye of the beholder, I come from the Diamond part of XDA, and we are lucky to get 24 hours on the Diam.
I was happpyyyyy with my new TP battery life -compared to Diam that is-
But ya, turning of 3g and being picky about processes and back light helps.
Greets to all.

Search the development and Hacking thread for Windows Long Life/save your gonads. Chainfire is developing a neat application to automatically switch from 3G when not needed. I tried an early version and it seemed to significantly increase my battery life.

Check my sig....it tells you how to deal with Li-ion batteries...

battery stuff on my site
Check out chapter 17. I cover this pretty thoroughly.

Archangel22 said:
Is there a tweak out there that stops the stupid battery from guzzling? Im tired of charing it constantly and I swear it takes hours and hours to charge it back to full power. The thing cant last longer than a day without loosing power I cant stand it. Whats making it use all that power? I thought maybe if I switch wireless it would help but I didnt notice a difference.
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An app that may help is Advanced Task manager, it has a widget to end all running processes/tasks which i tap before putting mine to sleep about 1000+ times a day it seems. go in and exclude ones you may want to exclude always and then its as simple as 1 click. as everyone else said, no gps,wifi,3g when not 100% necessary. also, get widget "toggle disply" from rounded labs and keep your screen completely dim (not like you can't see it...), being able to make it bright when you step outdoors. Also, toggle backlight app for root users keeps the pesky keyboard backlight off when you don't want it on (suggest making keyboard shortcut for quick toggle). last but not least because i'm sure theres plenty more, but yesterday i switched to cyanogen's newest stable ROM and it seems to be much more effective than any other i have tried in the means of saving battery life. had wifi on after a 98% charge for about an hour and a half (30mn usage) and it only went down to 91%... wow. "and that's all, i have to say, about tha-aat"- Forrest Gump

Firstly I don't think this is the right sub-forum for this question since it's not a specific ROM question.
Secondly, try nueDynamicClock, if you use the right settings, you'll extend your batt life by at least 1/2 a day if not more.

alexnoalex said:
If I build rom myself from the kitchen. It usually runs for 2-3 days.
However, in most cases when I try decent cooked ROM, for example, Energy - battery drains in about 5 hours. That's been the case with other cooked roms as well.
I suspect that some popular configuration change done by cooks causes battery to drain in certain environments. Would be nice to find out which change is that.
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It's really very simple. Flash an awesome rom, and the battery burns and burns. Flash a rom you hate, and the battery lasts forever. Don't over-think it.

hi guys.
i was eager to start up this discussion and am glad to find it here itself.
even am really finiky about battery.
tried alot of thing but cudnt find any spcl tweaks.
though i came across some registries from advanced config and other wise also but they seem to be more worse.
;IMPROVE BATTERY PERFORMANCE
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\AsyncMac1\Parms]
“DisablePowerManagement”=dword:0
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\Irsir1\Parms]
“DisablePowerManagement”=dword:0
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\PPTP1\Parms]
“DisablePowerManagement”=dword:0
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\L2TP1\Parms]
“DisablePowerManagement”=dword:0
when i use these tweaks the power consumption of my rom reached to 4.112 volts(as per power detect) which otherwise without these tweaks is 3.992 at startup.
more power consumption i guess means less battery i guess.
and even if its not still these tweaks as per my usage show bad results.
why so?
and arnt there spcl application which can detect the packages which might consume more battery, as i have over 50 packages in my rom and it'll hell to check which eats more.

Some tweaks I do
I have also found for me that disabling these things in advanced config also helps.
Performances
> File System cache: Disabled
> File System filter cache: Disabled
> Glyph Cache: 32kb (advised) I'm not sure if disabling this one is a good idea. I like having a little bit of glyph cache on my device.
Light senor
> Light sensor polling: Disabled.
*Note: If you want to still have light sensor on (this means the auto backlight feature) I would set the:
> Light sensor polling interval: 2000. This will make it poll every 2 seconds instead of every .2 seconds. I would even try setting it to 5000.
The backlight will make a huge difference on how long you battery will last. The brighter it is the more the battery needs to light up that screen. If you turn off the polling all together it will make the battery last longer.
Also running fancy UI apps will also deplete the battery more. Just common sense really as another poster alluded to earlier. The more things you have running and sucking up memory the more battery it will consume. If you disable TF3D or other apps such as this you will get your battery to last longer. Given that these devices are meant to have these types of programs on them you will have to weigh the options of how much you really want to "tone down" your devices to get the most out of your battery.
Also different radios will cause you battery to last longer. I suggest to everybody that they try different radios to see which ones last longer. Also people who live on the edge of 3G and EDGE area will cause the battery to drain faster as it constantly switches in and out of 3G coverage.
WMLongLife is a great app if you don't need 3G while you phone is just sitting in you pocket. It works great for me and when I want to use 3G I simply launch opera and the program will automatically enable 3G once again.
There are many things that you can do to improve your battery life. I encourage everybody to find what is best for them given what they use there device for and try and test things out. The best way to tell which works best for you is to simply try it out for yourself.
**NOTE** I also set all ROMs that I flash with a page pool of 0. I don't know if this has any real effect on battery life but it does seem to make my battery last a little bit longer. Not sure if this is a placebo affect though.

battery standby time problem "high power drain"

First post by me.
I have encountered while using my hd2 a high standby power consumption. After a soft reset the standby consumption was 2-5 mah, but after using the
following programs:
coreplayer
gprofile(remove this app it consumes a lot of battery during standby)
using the wifi and turning it off
BTTrayCE found at the startup folder. (this is needed to operate the bluetooth)
i think all of this and some other programs have memory leaks because if you close them or kill their processes the ram is not changed to the original point when you start the device which for me is 180mb+. It will consume 20mb of flash even after closing.
i have encountered a massive increase in power consumption. Now the battery usage is about 11-37 mah or even more up to 50 mah during standby. This problem sucks out the power of your phone. this reduces standby time to 90-27 hours from 250 hours that sucks.
My Temporary solution for this is to soft reset your phone after using this programs it will restore the power consumption to 2-5 mah.
Clear ram doesn't solve this problem, it doesn't restore the ram to the initial state and the power drain is still high.
my startup apps are:
Arkswitch
Galarm Reload
WifiNoStandby
I'm using Battlog or Battery.exe to monitor the power consumption and RescoExplorer to remove things at the startup folder.
i hope someone will find the solution for this because it is annoying to soft reset your phone every time you finished using it.

I also have this issue with my leo. G-Profile was the culprit.
I know, some users get some troubles with G-Alarm too. It's making a lot of bettery drain.
Why do you have coreplayer in the startup
Maybe your GSM/DATA location may give you some troubles too, phone is allways looking for cell towers.
2~5 mAh is quite normal. 50mAh is a bit too much.
There"s a lot of thread about HD2 battery drain.
You can use BattClock to see immediatly your battery state. very useful...

My advice to you, if you haven't already, is to Download a custom ROM to enable 576 Megs of RAM. And download a decent task manager like Arkswitch so you can manually kill processes. And thirdly, buy a spare battery! It's an absolute essential. I have a programme that monitors in coming and outgoing data & Resco Contacts working away in the background and it doesn't really make much difference to my battery life.
*Edit* Also get RAMCleaner if you don't already use it, it'll free up that leaked memory for you. Not that you really have much to worry about if you have 576Mb enabled.

Guys can you tell me what app you used to measure power consumption in mAh? In Nokia N82 i hat Energy profiler, but i don't saw anything similar for WinMo...

FRANQ_23_PL said:
Guys can you tell me what app you used to measure power consumption in mAh? In Nokia N82 i hat Energy profiler, but i don't saw anything similar for WinMo...
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See two posts above yours...

I use this app and i don't see any option to see mAh consumption, only shows how many % battery left

FRANQ_23_PL said:
I use this app and i don't see any option to see mAh consumption, only shows how many % battery left
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you have to go into the settings and add battery current

I have this only at girlfriend's place. wipes my battery overnight. Must be Myphone trying to sync over gsm and the other data things.
It's patchy - swinging from H to E to G and sucking 60% in 9hours.....at home with full H it sips about 7% overnight (12hours idle), even with bluetooth on.

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Kalavere said:
My advice to you, if you haven't already, is to Download a custom ROM to enable 576 Megs of RAM. And download a decent task manager like Arkswitch so you can manually kill processes. And thirdly, buy a spare battery! It's an absolute essential. I have a programme that monitors in coming and outgoing data & Resco Contacts working away in the background and it doesn't really make much difference to my battery life.
*Edit* Also get RAMCleaner if you don't already use it, it'll free up that leaked memory for you. Not that you really have much to worry about if you have 576Mb enabled.
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thanks for the tips! I have already used clearram also known as RAMcleaner. what Rom would you advice?

Battery drain
woaloo said:
I also have this issue with my leo. G-Profile was the culprit.
I know, some users get some troubles with G-Alarm too. It's making a lot of bettery drain.
Why do you have coreplayer in the startup
Maybe your GSM/DATA location may give you some troubles too, phone is allways looking for cell towers.
2~5 mAh is quite normal. 50mAh is a bit too much.
There"s a lot of thread about HD2 battery drain.
You can use BattClock to see immediatly your battery state. very useful...
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I don't have coreplayer in startup after you close it causes the battery in standby to drain higher than normal.

Darelica said:
thanks for the tips! I have already used clearram also known as RAMcleaner. what Rom would you advice?
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as i read in the development forum, the 576 mb is just a trick. you don't really get physically 576 mb ram. the chiefs there say with this hack you can get whatever amount of ram you like, e.g. 2.048mb.

Darelica said:
thanks for the tips! I have already used clearram also known as RAMcleaner. what Rom would you advice?
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I use NRG's EnergyROM, all the themes are excellent.

Kalavere said:
I use NRG's EnergyROM, all the themes are excellent.
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The user is concerned about battery life..so certainly NRG rom would be one of his last choices..
Try Upgrading to a more recent radio rom first i would suggest..no data will be lost during this.

chris2busy said:
The user is concerned about battery life..so certainly NRG rom would be one of his last choices..
Try Upgrading to a more recent radio rom first i would suggest..no data will be lost during this.
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NRG does many themes, you're telling me Titanium is a battery killer?

Darelica said:
First post by me.
I have encountered while using my hd2 a high standby power consumption. After a soft reset the standby consumption was 2-5 mah, but after using the
following programs:
coreplayer
gprofile(remove this app it consumes a lot of battery during standby)
using the wifi and turning it off
BTTrayCE found at the startup folder. (this is needed to operate the bluetooth)
i think all of this and some other programs have memory leaks because if you close them or kill their processes the ram is not changed to the original point when you start the device which for me is 180mb+. It will consume 20mb of flash even after closing.
i have encountered a massive increase in power consumption. Now the battery usage is about 11-37 mah or even more up to 50 mah during standby. This problem sucks out the power of your phone. this reduces standby time to 90-27 hours from 250 hours that sucks.
My Temporary solution for this is to soft reset your phone after using this programs it will restore the power consumption to 2-5 mah.
Clear ram doesn't solve this problem, it doesn't restore the ram to the initial state and the power drain is still high.
my startup apps are:
Arkswitch
Galarm Reload
WifiNoStandby
I'm using Battlog or Battery.exe to monitor the power consumption and RescoExplorer to remove things at the startup folder.
i hope someone will find the solution for this because it is annoying to soft reset your phone every time you finished using it.[/QUOTE
bsb tweaks works for me, you can try it.
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Kalavere said:
NRG does many themes, you're telling me Titanium is a battery killer?
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As you said NRG rom series do many things..but battery optimization is in no case one of them...Got at leas 2x as much when moved to Artemis series

juwan de leon said:
Darelica said:
First post by me.
I have encountered while using my hd2 a high standby power consumption. After a soft reset the standby consumption was 2-5 mah, but after using the
following programs:
coreplayer
gprofile(remove this app it consumes a lot of battery during standby)
using the wifi and turning it off
BTTrayCE found at the startup folder. (this is needed to operate the bluetooth)
i think all of this and some other programs have memory leaks because if you close them or kill their processes the ram is not changed to the original point when you start the device which for me is 180mb+. It will consume 20mb of flash even after closing.
i have encountered a massive increase in power consumption. Now the battery usage is about 11-37 mah or even more up to 50 mah during standby. This problem sucks out the power of your phone. this reduces standby time to 90-27 hours from 250 hours that sucks.
My Temporary solution for this is to soft reset your phone after using this programs it will restore the power consumption to 2-5 mah.
Clear ram doesn't solve this problem, it doesn't restore the ram to the initial state and the power drain is still high.
my startup apps are:
Arkswitch
Galarm Reload
WifiNoStandby
I'm using Battlog or Battery.exe to monitor the power consumption and RescoExplorer to remove things at the startup folder.
i hope someone will find the solution for this because it is annoying to soft reset your phone every time you finished using it.[/QUOTE
bsb tweaks works for me, you can try it.
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I have been using bsb tweaks, but no results though. thanks
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chris2busy said:
As you said NRG rom series do many things..but battery optimization is in no case one of them...Got at leas 2x as much when moved to Artemis series
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2x less power consumption? may i know what is your average mah consumption on idle and on standby? thanks. i have been using battery.exe. i have found it here on xda.

chris2busy said:
The user is concerned about battery life..so certainly NRG rom would be one of his last choices..
Try Upgrading to a more recent radio rom first i would suggest..no data will be lost during this.
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my current radio is 2.06.51.07, i have updated my phone with the official rom from the main site of htc. i have heard 2.07 but i do not know where to download this update.

Turning 3G and Windows Hotmail push sync off was a winner for me. Now drainage is gone.

HTC Touch Pro Battery

I have a htc touch pro (sprint) and i love this phone, its amazing i love everything but the battery. It seems to last about 8 hours even when im not using it heavy. Is this normal (i hope not), or just maybe my battery? Any suggestions?

My Fuze lasts about that long in sleep mode too... Not sleep mode all day, I do use it to text and surf the web once in a while.
I think it's normal, but I don't know...
I'm on the Tael Sense ROM

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mastarofaqua said:
I have a htc touch pro (sprint) and i love this phone, its amazing i love everything but the battery. It seems to last about 8 hours even when im not using it heavy. Is this normal (i hope not), or just maybe my battery? Any suggestions?
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when your done with the phone press the power button to lock the phoen this greatly improves battery life turn off wi-fi turn brightness down to half way and select display timeout to 10 second and display sleep to 30 seconds also dont have alot of programs running it the back ground when your done with them close them report back if it helps also do you have any apps or your e-mail that constantly use data? if so switch ti to update ever 15 minutes or more

do you have new battery.....? i have used one , so i have exact same problem...but i will try with new one...
also battery caalibration can help you..to improve performannce of battery.....

I also have the same problem ,can somebody doin something...

This is not normal, if you are on custom ROMs make sure you have installed a matching rilphone.dll (plenty of info on this via search)
Also battery calibation is a big concern after flashing custom roms, I always make sure my battery is 100% charged before flashing as from experience found calibration goes a bit off if you have battery partly charged between 50% to 100% & can be a pain to correct. Read Energys notes in any of his ROM threads on battery calibration.
Also on custom ROMs hard reseting after initial setup is good practice & recommended by most chefs.
Last option is you need new battery.

mastarofaqua said:
I have a htc touch pro (sprint) and i love this phone, its amazing i love everything but the battery. It seems to last about 8 hours even when im not using it heavy. Is this normal (i hope not), or just maybe my battery? Any suggestions?
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This thread is useless if you don't give us any more info. 1. Are you using a stock ROM or a custom one (cdma, since you have Sprint)? 2. What do you mean by '8 hours'? Do you mean that from 9-5, with the phone in standby, it fully drains the battery? Or do you mean 8 hours of uptime (the phone turned on, and using it)? If it's 8 hours of use, that's not terrible, depending on what you're doing. That's a current draw of 168 mA, which is about what I get if I'm listening to music on tcpmp. It's also about the same as having the screen set to 10 (full brightness) and just having it turned on.
If you want actual help for your situation instead of generalities, you need to supply the following info:
ROM
Lockscreen (custom or standard)
Processes running most of the time
Bluetooth on/off a lot of the time?
Wifi on a lot?
3G?
Schedule for syncing email and crap like that
Custom UI?
Do you use the accelerometer a lot?
You may be doing some things that will burn the battery, but there's no way for anyone to know if you don't tell us how you use the device. The easiest thing to do is get tbattery.exe and log your battery usage to find out what is killing it (if it really is burning too fast). There are also other similar apps out there.