I recently upgraded to WM6 ROM, "Jwrightmcps Crossbow ROM Update 2.02.02 WWE", and all went well.
But then at 40% battery my phone died... and this is very similar to a problem I used to had in WM5.
Can anyone tell me which WM6 ROM doesnt cause the battery problem?
For the record, I don't think either my phone or PDA is damaged. The last time I had this problem, I went back to the service center (several times I might add), and they replaced everything eventually (both PDA and Battery). Since then it has worked fine (for about 6mths+), until I flashed to the WM6 ROM.
**** man, I hope this has not damaged my device. Out of warranty already.
I had a similar problem and also initially didn't beleive it could be the battery, but guess what -- getting a new battery solved almost all problems I had including the phone dying at 40% or above. So it might be worth a try...
IT"S YOUR BATTERY
Just trust me
the battery 'dies' after like 6 to 12 months. It just goes bad in a week.
Mine went out on like 20%, then a week later on 54%
replacing it fixes it.
mine crashes over 20%.... the battery it's new
I had same problem with battery,then I buy new battery from ebay, and then the battery status was OK it goes from 100- 4% with warning and everything. But the problem was that battery last only a couple of hours, even aftzer a few days nothing change I must have charger with me all the time.
Then I search the forum and found someons solution, that works for me too.
Just charge the battery full take the cable out and put it in again a couple of times so the battery is realy full charged, the put the device in bootloader mode by pressing Power + Light + Reset, which brings up an un-backlit screen with "Serial" at the top, and "v0.XX" at the bottom. And then just put your device somewhere and dont touch it until it died that coul be the all day. Anyway next day I put the charger in and again didnt touc for all day. And my problems are gone, the battery since then last fortwo or three days if I dont use it much.
Hope that will help somebody
Dears,
i used to read about this issue in the forum again and again.....so i desided to wrote this post....everyone was claming the battery is the reason....OK do not belive this.....it is the rom.....i used the wm6 for sometime and i was facing the same problem....and when my carrier started the 3G i had to switch back to wm5.....and now my device never turns off before i get notified that my battery level is too low it about 10% of the battery....so if you do not belive me just do this test....switch back to wm5...i am using now Hilme 3.5 v1.3.1
regards
Mine dies at 35% with wm6 and wm5 and my old battery, but never dies with my new battery.
Use Radio 1.15
My battery life increased by 200% just by upgrading to this radio ROM.
same here
i m also sufrer of same problem. now after this forum i m confused
Here is the simple fact of the matter:
Batteries are EXTREMELY complicated pieces of equipment
They often give false readings because the chemical reaction that creates the electricity is easily affected by heat\age\use\etc. Also, the electronics that measure the temperature are based on the false assumption that the battery drains in a predictable way down to the same level.
Your battery draining quicker\slower and dying when it says it has charge may be because of the ROM. However, this is HIGHLY unlikely. What is most likely the cause is external factors (eg heat, number of programs running, etc) or that the battery has "died" or become unreliable.
Recommendation: Try different batteries, and remember that batteries have a chemical reaction, before posting here
I don't know... I started having problems as well just after a ROM upgrade... but it was an official ROM upgrade. I start thinking this has something to do with the upgrade process, like some setting being "wiped out" during the upgrade and the battery going "out of sync" with the device, reporting the wrong battery level...
But, more likely, this is just a psycological effect, you install the new rom and then start playing a lot with the device to find the improvements, and you begin noticing the problem for the first time!
My relatively new I-mate JasJar also started dying when the battery level reached 40% the day i flashed WM6.
i posted here, trying to explain that it was perfectly alright 2 days back, prior to WM6.. pointless to say, everyone still said it was the battery 100%
well.. i got a new battery.. and it did indeed solve the problem.
but guess what.
i flashed WM5 back, and both batteries work fine there.
not sure what the heck is going on here.. but i'm certain there are two fixes:
- flash WM5 back on.
- get a new battery and stay with WM6
astraman said:
Dears,
i used to read about this issue in the forum again and again.....so i desided to wrote this post....everyone was claming the battery is the reason....OK do not belive this.....it is the rom.....i used the wm6 for sometime and i was facing the same problem....and when my carrier started the 3G i had to switch back to wm5.....and now my device never turns off before i get notified that my battery level is too low it about 10% of the battery....so if you do not belive me just do this test....switch back to wm5...i am using now Hilme 3.5 v1.3.1
regards
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I used to think like you, but now I beg to differ, my dead battery never usable under any OS.
It used to be always dead at some % starting from as low as 0 (good ones) and increase until now it is permanent dead at 100%. I have all your intermediate voltages before reaching 100%.
If your's still usable than your battery is not complete dead yet or half dead or maybe soon to be dead.
By the way, I am using helmi_c aku3.5 v1.3 (add on version) as compared to v1.3.1 (vanilla version).
One last thing, please do use big bold characters in forum, sounds like shouting. Thanks!
You cannot judge the battery is old or new by just months.
This older version of Universal battery, it counts by number of time charged I think, inserting in USB for a sync and remove would probably counted as 1 charge.
I now do not sync using those working condition battery, I change to my dead battery for sync purpose.
As I sync only contacts, now Dotfred has a tool and now I hardly use sync anymore.
By the way, there is one guy in this same forum start another thread without reading this (closest info) or all other previous threads.
People like this deserved to be flamed, but I didnt.
IMHO WM6 uses and drains the battery different then WM5
My experience is that everyone that has problems with their device dying just switched to WM6. It has nothing to do with the WM6 itself, it's just that WM6 is more 'sensitive' to a low battery output then WM5. So if you switch back to WM5 it looks like it might 'solve' your problem but in the end the battery will die, it'll just take a little bit longer before WM5 appears to have problems.
You'll postpone the problem for a little while but it's not a fix
Just my 2 cents
CWKJ said:
I used to think like you, but now I beg to differ, my dead battery never usable under any OS.
It used to be always dead at some % starting from as low as 0 (good ones) and increase until now it is permanent dead at 100%. I have all your intermediate voltages before reaching 100%.
If your's still usable than your battery is not complete dead yet or half dead or maybe soon to be dead.
By the way, I am using helmi_c aku3.5 v1.3 (add on version) as compared to v1.3.1 (vanilla version).
One last thing, please do use big bold characters in forum, sounds like shouting. Thanks!
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Mine still working very good at WM5 as i told you.....just let the battery get off and recharge it till full....now mine is working great and keep working until 10% or less
The point is that WM6 treets the battery and power in different way then WM5. First when you upgrade to wm6 and start it first time it assumes that battery is full (the instruction says that you should charge your battery before uploding new ROM). If the battery was not fully charged then you have a problem. WM6 registers the point of current while starting first time and assumes that this level represents the fully charged batteryl. Then it is programmed for consumption of power according to processor cycles, so after such and such time of use of your device it should reach certain level of power. If your battery was not charged full at the start then it will always show false percantage.
The solution is to fully charge the battery (possibly using the way described in some post above) and then reload the ROM once more.
Of cource when you buy a new battery, WM6 registers this (each battery has unic number) and creats new pattern for this battery. That is way it is so importatnt to properly charge the new battery when you load it first time.
Hope this is helpful.
astraman said:
Mine still working very good at WM5 as i told you.....just let the battery get off and recharge it till full....now mine is working great and keep working until 10% or less
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I have 3 original batteries.
In principle, good battery can goes to perfect 0%.
First battery started half dead (that is phone is dead 30%) after upgrade from WM5 AKU1 to WM5 AKU2 happen to be around 6 months after I start using the phone, I thought it was the problem with WM5 AKU2 ROM. My usage pattern of this battery is that I charge anytime I wish with Power charger and also during sync. This battery is still with me now after 1 year I have encounter the problem. The dead % grow (no change of ROM) until now it is around 100%, that is phone is dead just before it goes to 99%.
Second battery was bought the same time my first battery has problem, 1 year passed. Usage pattern are, never use this battery for sync or short connections to PC USB, never charge my battery until it is 0% (always possible) or less than 5%, never upgrade ROM using this battery. Always charge to LED turns GREEN & always sync & upgrade ROM with the dead stuck at 100% battery. 1 year has gone, the second is still able to reach 0% till now with battery last average 1 to 3 days, normally 2 days & sometimes 4 days depends on usage pattern.
Third battery, claim by vendor that some electronics is modified compared to the those bought last year. Charged this battery, use a few time to check if it is an ok battery, need to do this as I have ever bought brand new dead battery last year. After confirmed it is a good battery, I continue using the second battery and third battery always carry along as backup in case I used up the second battery.
Hope my usage pattern can help some of you to have optimal use of the battery and do not let the manufacturer earn extra money due to the problem in the old version of the battery. Anyway, this original battery will be discontinued soon due to end of life of this product. Guess I will have to look forward of getting imitations when my second & third battery is gone or maybe when my phone is gone too.
Tadeusz said:
The point is that WM6 treets the battery and power in different way then WM5. First when you upgrade to wm6 and start it first time it assumes that battery is full (the instruction says that you should charge your battery before uploding new ROM). If the battery was not fully charged then you have a problem. WM6 registers the point of current while starting first time and assumes that this level represents the fully charged batteryl. Then it is programmed for consumption of power according to processor cycles, so after such and such time of use of your device it should reach certain level of power. If your battery was not charged full at the start then it will always show false percantage.
The solution is to fully charge the battery (possibly using the way described in some post above) and then reload the ROM once more.
Of cource when you buy a new battery, WM6 registers this (each battery has unic number) and creats new pattern for this battery. That is way it is so importatnt to properly charge the new battery when you load it first time.
Hope this is helpful.
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uhh...not true...
try to flash you phone at 50% charge...when you boot your battery will still be at 50%
astraman said:
Dears,
i used to read about this issue in the forum again and again.....so i desided to wrote this post....everyone was claming the battery is the reason....OK do not belive this.....it is the rom.....i used the wm6 for sometime and i was facing the same problem....and when my carrier started the 3G i had to switch back to wm5.....and now my device never turns off before i get notified that my battery level is too low it about 10% of the battery....so if you do not belive me just do this test....switch back to wm5...i am using now Hilme 3.5 v1.3.1
regards
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Not so Dears
i have what the american will say as 20/20 and the rst of the world will say as 6\6 corrected vision.
i can read normal 12 pt text pretty well..
and apart from that what you claim is...well NOT TRUE
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Greetings
I think so after flashing my fone in the last month for more than 50 times.
I see my battery is going wierd.
1. when i take out my battery it forgets the date and time.
2. It is showing weird difference, like at one time it is 88 and after reseting it goes to 90%.
Anybody know wats the problem.
Thanks
Yup.. even me have the same issue like you..
i dont know if its because of the crossbow rom but someone told me that even in wm5..
It is listed somewhere that the WM6 has problem tracking your battery life due to the change of ROM. I recall the thread mentioned that you ought to run your battery as low as possible before recharing it to full again and that ought to fix the battery indicator problem.
BTW, while I'm here, I'm just wondering, what software do you use to check the battery drainage? e.g. how do you check if your plugins / background software is eating your battery like mad.
UPDATE2:
Hmm... I seems to have found it
Just incase someone looking for it (difficult to google for such common words) BatteryStatus
I use battery status
Have the same problem
I've the same problem, but It stared eith me when I was using WM5
join the club...
yuppers. these battery problems are not confined to certain ROMS
It's making my phone unusable. I've tried every WM6 ROM out and none makes a lick of difference. My phone dies in 2-4 hours. Battery readings are unstable in all plug-ins (BatteryStatus) and even the OS % meter. Tried the drain to 0% and fully charge thing before and after a hard reset and it did nothing. I've been using Pocket Battery Analyzer to graph and record the discharge and it's insane. 20%-30%/hr or more. It's sky-high when using the phone or GPRS. And it'll often white-screen/lockup when the battery gets low (but not 0), which it never used to do (nor should it).
This all started after flashing a million different WM6 ROMS. Has one of these ROMs buggered something it shouldn't have? I wish I could remember exactly when the problem surfaced (sometime in the past two weeks) maybe we all used a common ROM that screwed our phones. I think the closest ROMS I used around the time it started were mUn's, MB, and that NTS one on rapidshare (I read somewhere it was an updated MB).
Anyone who knows what IPL/SPL does wanna chime in? Can corruption to that memory code conceivably cause this? Maybe I'll try reflashing that just to check.
Other than that I just don't know. I pray the flashing hasn't killed some hardware component. How many writes are these ROM chips supposed to handle in their lifetime? I know things like SD and USB memory get 10,000's-100,000s writes before failure. Maybe these chips aren't designed for repeated re-flashing. Just a thought...
fluxist
Believe it or not, but certain versions of Battery Status (that same today plug in you are using to monitor battery level) are actually known to deplete the battry quite quickly.
Two nights ago, I had my phone going from 70% to 0 (dead) while I was sleeping... Clearly the phone was not!
Removed battery status: my phone goes back to its true self.
Now, I have to find out which version of Battery Status work, and which one don't... as it has not been always like this.
Regards,
--eluth
fluxist said:
It's making my phone unusable. I've tried every WM6 ROM out and none makes a lick of difference. My phone dies in 2-4 hours. Battery readings are unstable in all plug-ins (BatteryStatus) and even the OS % meter. Tried the drain to 0% and fully charge thing before and after a hard reset and it did nothing. I've been using Pocket Battery Analyzer to graph and record the discharge and it's insane. 20%-30%/hr or more. It's sky-high when using the phone or GPRS. And it'll often white-screen/lockup when the battery gets low (but not 0), which it never used to do (nor should it).
This all started after flashing a million different WM6 ROMS. Has one of these ROMs buggered something it shouldn't have? I wish I could remember exactly when the problem surfaced (sometime in the past two weeks) maybe we all used a common ROM that screwed our phones. I think the closest ROMS I used around the time it started were mUn's, MB, and that NTS one on rapidshare (I read somewhere it was an updated MB).
Anyone who knows what IPL/SPL does wanna chime in? Can corruption to that memory code conceivably cause this? Maybe I'll try reflashing that just to check.
Other than that I just don't know. I pray the flashing hasn't killed some hardware component. How many writes are these ROM chips supposed to handle in their lifetime? I know things like SD and USB memory get 10,000's-100,000s writes before failure. Maybe these chips aren't designed for repeated re-flashing. Just a thought...
fluxist
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May your problem come from hardware ? I mean it's not impossible...if you have an imperfect contact, that will also deplete your battery fast. What are temperature readings with batterystatus ?...do you feel your phone is warm ?
BatteryStatus
Yeah, I've read tons of posts suggesting batterystatus may be draining batteries but this condition persists even when newly flashed without installing batterystatus.
And regarding a short in the hardware, yeah thats surely possible. Ive dropped my phone enough times. But with all the hullabaloo in this forum about battery drain issues i'm more inclined to believe it's something else. And I only got this phone in June. I should hope these batteries last longer than 9 months before becoming unusable.
I just replaced the IPL/SPL using the T-Mobile 2.26 ROM. I'm not hopeful.
fluxist
fluxist said:
Yeah, I've read tons of posts suggesting batterystatus may be draining batteries but this condition persists even when newly flashed without installing batterystatus.
And regarding a short in the hardware, yeah thats surely possible. Ive dropped my phone enough times. But with all the hullabaloo in this forum about battery drain issues i'm more inclined to believe it's something else. And I only got this phone in June. I should hope these batteries last longer than 9 months before becoming unusable.
I just replaced the IPL/SPL using the T-Mobile 2.26 ROM. I'm not hopeful.
fluxist
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do you have battery drain with any rom you use ? try orwell or ..how about a wm5 ... ? or try another battery
I have the same problem!
When i have put Orwell ROm everything was ok!
Then installed mUn rom and also everything was ok!
Both of them could use Omapscaler without any problem (overclock/underclock)
Then i tried the Xplore 1.0 which included the BatteryStatus.
After the BatteryStatus the Wizard changed!
The battery drain was big and when removed the BS and ckeck with Omapscaler the CPU is always 100%.
Then i put again the Mun but the same CPU 100% every time with OmapScaler nad battery drain.
Then i put the NBD ROM and the same with above.
Now using Xplore 1.1 and the problem remain.
My concern is that something changed!
I've noticed the time and date screw up when I'm taking the battery out as well, but other than that my phone acts pretty normal. no huge battery drain. I did not monitor it closely, but a couple days ago I installed Battery Status beta 3, and it seemed to me that the battery drains a litttle faster than previously, but can't tell for sure, as I had some spare time and I used pocket MS reader a lot.
No luck
Well I replaced the IPL/SPL (not that I really thought that that was the problem, but i'm trying to eliminate variables one by one).
And it did............... absolutely nothing. The power problems remain.
I have had BatteryStatusExt installed and maybe it is in fact the culprit (in which case they better get a good lawyer), but by what mechanism could any software cause a condition that persists through ROM flashes? Any ideas?
I would totally think my battery was at fault and buy a new one if this wasn't happening to others at the same time. These battery problem posts have only surfaced in the past few weeks, and at least in this thread, all the symptoms are the same. (That and cell batteries are expensive as hell and they don't allow returns)
So what the hell is going on here? I'm on Xplore now and the problem still remains. Next up I'll try going back to a WM5. However, other posters have reported the problem persists in WM5 as well.
I think I might try and analyze BatteryStatus. Perhaps the author employed some non-standard methods for accessing the battery.
Come to think of it, I used the original BatteryStatus (the one that had no overclocking capabilities) for ages back when everything was fine. Maybe the overclocking method the new version uses is leaving the OMAP chip in an unstable configuration? Really I'm appealing to the experts here. I'll try to look into it myself but more eyes are always better at finding bugs.
OK. Off to find the spec sheet for that chip...
fluxist
I'm also curious about the draining when flashing back to WM5. I'm considering going back, but i would like to read some experiences.
The draining is killing me. I'm on X-Plore and it gets worse every day.
I'm willing to pay for a good solution (;
same here
fluxist said:
It's making my phone unusable. I've tried every WM6 ROM out and none makes a lick of difference. My phone dies in 2-4 hours. Battery readings are unstable in all plug-ins (BatteryStatus) and even the OS % meter. Tried the drain to 0% and fully charge thing before and after a hard reset and it did nothing. I've been using Pocket Battery Analyzer to graph and record the discharge and it's insane. 20%-30%/hr or more. It's sky-high when using the phone or GPRS. And it'll often white-screen/lockup when the battery gets low (but not 0), which it never used to do (nor should it).
This all started after flashing a million different WM6 ROMS. Has one of these ROMs buggered something it shouldn't have? I wish I could remember exactly when the problem surfaced (sometime in the past two weeks) maybe we all used a common ROM that screwed our phones. I think the closest ROMS I used around the time it started were mUn's, MB, and that NTS one on rapidshare (I read somewhere it was an updated MB).
Anyone who knows what IPL/SPL does wanna chime in? Can corruption to that memory code conceivably cause this? Maybe I'll try reflashing that just to check.
Other than that I just don't know. I pray the flashing hasn't killed some hardware component. How many writes are these ROM chips supposed to handle in their lifetime? I know things like SD and USB memory get 10,000's-100,000s writes before failure. Maybe these chips aren't designed for repeated re-flashing. Just a thought...
fluxist
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My phone also dies in a few hours. I'd charge it to 100% and see it goes down 1% every minute or so. After just a call or two it'd restart itself due to low battery. BS says it's using 200+ mA which seems high after reading others at low double digits. This had never happened before I upgraded to WM6. I've tried MBE and Faria's Real Thing and both are the same. I know the battery has overcharge protection. Could BS somehow messed up the battery with its probing?
hi,
i flashed to Faria and my Battery lost from 100 to 10 % during the last 12h.
i installed BatteryStatus and SPB Shell.
Cpuscaler at 156 mhz and it shows +198mA ...
Wat is wrong ?
Yeah from what it seems the BS leaves something behind or puts the CPU or battery in such a state that it, get drained faster I noticed that also. I dont think its the ROMs them selfs I think its the BS. Also we have to remmber that BS was not designed for the wizard, so the person that is developing it is not using the same hardware as we are....... THis is really sad I have 2 batteries and both basicly now do the same thing. I asked that X-Plore would not include BS in 1.1, and thats what I have running on my wizard now. The battery is not as crazy as other people, but still from 8am to 5 and 52% gone with about 13 calls and 3-4 email thru direct push and some browsing. SO I dont know, but it is sad hopefully T-Mo will release a new phone with in this month and I will upgrade
Battery issues
I'm not really having too much problem with my battery so far. I'm running battery status as well. However, I'm pretty moderate with my overclocking. I remember reading when omapclock first came out that some people would find that after a few weeks of overclocking, their wizards would start draining the battery very rapidly, even after cutting back the clock again. I wonder if heavy overclocking can sometimes damage some of the electronics in the wizard, causing persistent power loss?
Hope you guys get things back to normal..
Regards,
I have installed Xplore 1.1 ....without BS.... still huge draining.
40% in 4 houres. Great rom, but too fast out of power for me.
I'm going back to WM5....let you know if the draining consists....
I've recently started having this problem. I charged my wizard overnight, saw the battery was 100%, then as soon as i removed the charger, it drops to around 80%. If i follow this with a soft reset, it drops to 50%. During normal usage the drainage isn't so sudden, but it is still a lot faster than usual. For e.g. a 20 min video would drain 30% of the battery.
My extended rom is clear, I first installed the 2.26 tmob rom, then wrcx1, so I dont think that should be an issue. I've installed the power saving cabs as well. What else could be the problem? I'd really hate to have to switch to another rom just to sort this out...
Forgot to add, this is a recent problem. I used to get excellent battery life, this has just suddenly started happening. I haven't changed my charger or battery.
which BS are you using?
I was using the latest BS release (0263 i think) but have removed it from my today screen and still the problem is persisting...
Battery... that's what driving me crazy now! With WM5, I can use my device almost 2,5 days with lots call/sms and solitaire. Tried 3 WM6 version and couldnot save the O2 life last more than 3 hours (uncontinuosly). Please any one help to solve this.... (
Sounds like either your battery is screwed (they DO go bad after a year or two) OR you've got one seriously ****ed up ROM.
By the way, BatterySpace is known to do this if you use the dynamic overclocking. Somehow something in the ROM or Registry gets trashed, and then the system will peg the CPU at 100%.
This will WASTE the battery like nobody's business! Once this happens the only fix is a HARD RESET - I've not figured out what's getting scrambled, but whatever it is, a reboot doesn't fix it.
Shut off the dynamic overclocking if you're using it and see if the problem goes away.
I just had the same erratic behavior from my battery, it was over a year old. It would charge to 100%, but when off the charger strength would read random levels and drain really fast. I could kill the battery in about 30 minutes of browsing web pages.
A new battery solved it.
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Sounds like either your battery is screwed (they DO go bad after a year or two) OR you've got one seriously ****ed up ROM.
By the way, BatterySpace is known to do this if you use the dynamic overclocking. Somehow something in the ROM or Registry gets trashed, and then the system will peg the CPU at 100%.
This will WASTE the battery like nobody's business! Once this happens the only fix is a HARD RESET - I've not figured out what's getting scrambled, but whatever it is, a reboot doesn't fix it.
Shut off the dynamic overclocking if you're using it and see if the problem goes away.
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OK, thanks!
Now I'm thinking about downgrade to WM5 to check wherther battery died or not, before buy a new one.
I have the same issue on the g3 wizard connected thru tmobile us running the bd3 rom. I have had excellent battery life in the past but in the past 3 days or so the battery status is just inaccurate. The main prob is that when you go connect to the internet 5 min later the device restarts and sometimes it just keeps restarting in a loop. Then sometimes it restarts but battery is at critical, when before it was at 80%.
But i noticed when it gets stuck in the boot loop, just stick it on the charger for a sec and it will start back up fine, but then die after a couple phone calls or so.
I have also cleared the rom thinking it was some battery drain issue that usually happens when you don't flash the original rom before you flash a cooked one. I installed the tmobile original one and then flashed "boring rom for tmobile". That rom works quite well. But the battery is still draining.
I also changed the radio rom from the 2.69 and now went to the 02.25.11 but still the same issue.
I didn't try running straight wm5 and see if it did it their, but the previous poster is trying it so ill see if that worked for him or not.
The next step is to try a new battery but this battery is only like a year old
Believe me when I tell 'ya that Lithium Ion batteries, when they die, do so exactly like this.
Try a new battery.
daishi17 said:
I have the same issue on the g3 wizard connected thru tmobile us running the bd3 rom. I have had excellent battery life in the past but in the past 3 days or so the battery status is just inaccurate. The main prob is that when you go connect to the internet 5 min later the device restarts and sometimes it just keeps restarting in a loop. Then sometimes it restarts but battery is at critical, when before it was at 80%.
But i noticed when it gets stuck in the boot loop, just stick it on the charger for a sec and it will start back up fine, but then die after a couple phone calls or so.
I have also cleared the rom thinking it was some battery drain issue that usually happens when you don't flash the original rom before you flash a cooked one. I installed the tmobile original one and then flashed "boring rom for tmobile". That rom works quite well. But the battery is still draining.
I also changed the radio rom from the 2.69 and now went to the 02.25.11 but still the same issue.
I didn't try running straight wm5 and see if it did it their, but the previous poster is trying it so ill see if that worked for him or not.
The next step is to try a new battery but this battery is only like a year old
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mine is doing the same thing..
if i start any aplication that requests more procesing, the device keeps rebooting, even if the battery was indicating 100% when i started using it
if i plug the charger when he is rebooting, he comes back to life 80-100% charged..
if i do not use it, and leave him on stand by, the battery lasts for like 2 days without any issues.
Draining in Sudden Bursts! Sounds like it feels good.
well i guess i will just get a new battery and hope that solves the problem since I have tried everything besides just using regular wm5, and someone posted that this is what lithium ion batteries usually do, so I'll give it a shot and report my findings after christmas, lol I hope I get a mda battery for christmas
anyone bought a new battery?
did it worked?
i´m still waiting for mine to arrive
I bought a new battery, but i cant say yet whether its working or not. It seems to work fine at times, and gives the same problem at other times. Not sure what acould be wrong....
Are you using TNT5 ROM? I've flashed two days ago this ROM to give WM6 a second go and my battery vanished like smoke... the battery that used to last for about 4 days, was gone in only half a day :\ I'm back to my ROM!
I'm using TNT5 for a few months now. All of a sudden i had batteryproblems. Tried everything but solved the problem with a fresh battery. Only 9 dollars on Ebay....
And now the phone is running smoothly again (lasts about 2 days)...
still waiting for mines to come should come wednesday, its getting worst and worst i used to be able to use it for at least an hour now only for about 15 min off the charger, when it says its at a 100%
I'm having a different kind of problem, except for the burst that I get after taking off power or after a soft reset, my battery life is exceptional. My last charge lasted about 7 hrs (including ebooks, mp3s, sms, and some phone calls).
I flashed XDA Mobile 6 Release 5 RC1 with .NET CF 3.5! recharging full battery. After flashing It showed low battery warning and when i restarted it, it showed full battery. And one hour later it swiched off. Now i flashed another rom .No problem yet.
Hello friends ,
It have been 2 weeks since i got my universal (o2 xda exec) , I have tried most of the WM6 roms here , but most of them dont give good battery life..
Anybody know which is the best ROM with Best battery life? or any tips how to improve the battery life?
I usually read books and rarely hear music and i have 4 apps installed and i find the battery drain fast within 3.5hours. For this reason i turned off the phone and wifi. My uni is a new one , i dont want to have the charger all the time with myself.. I go places , do please help me..
Thanks in advance
battery life is awfull and unpredictable
I have the same problem. I use the same crossbow 2.12.08 version
with update radio ( from 1.15 ) to 1.18
I have a larger battery 3200 mAh, but th ebattery life is never more than one day. Though the battery is brandnew...
Worse is that when charging sometimes it shows 100% but most of the time this drops within a few minutes ( 2-4 ) to 97%
Then after 1-2 hours it is on 60% while usage is minimal. no WLAN, no BT
Also sometimes for some reason the battery is very warm ( during loading ).
When disconnected it turns out the universal is almost empty. Tried to disconnect the battery and leave it outside for 5 minutes then back in. but nithing seems to really improve. Also without memory card the results are more or less the same. Also always I close the applications fully.
Maybe someone can tell me what are the possible reasons...? Is is the software. Does it not see the actual charge correctly? Or is there a "hidden"battery user. Read the article about leds and all that, but this is way out of that league.
Rgds
I think that your battery is no good. My battery is 2 years old, it's the original battery 1650mAh and the battery life is 2.5 hours with WiFi enabled (internet navigation via WiFi)
If you want your battery to last longer, check the wiki:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=UniversalSmallBattery
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=UniversalBatteryIssue
openone said:
I usually read books and rarely hear music and i have 4 apps installed and i find the battery drain fast within 3.5hours.
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Before blaming ROMs check the device with another battery. I had the same problem too, checked several ROMs and even downgraded to WM5 and at the end it appeared that my battery simply dies, while my other battery showed far better lifetime.
You are definitely having a battery issue rather than ROM. I am using 2.1.2.08 also and can get 3 days of normal mixed use from my original 1620mah battery.
Why not try "resetting" the battery, as discussed in previous forums, I for one can testify to it's success.
Hello all i have seen those threads about battery life but i beleive i have the worst..!
My battery last from fully charged condition in about 10 minutes of reading rss news!
It is rubbish it is also this shi* after flash. . .
anyone has a nice solution? or knows why is this happening?
i am a bit afraid of bying a new battery, because this may continue.
I dont know why vox is draining so much.
Second problem is that i cant get any micro sd wo work on it...!
It is really awfull cause vox has very little flash memory...
Please Give as many advices as you can i would be really gratefull!
Friendly Akuma.
Edit: sometime it hard shut down and then gives me false baterry indicate...
I was experimenting with battery life since mine was quickly falling down from 100 to around 75-80% within 15-30 minutes without much using the phone. My observations are as under:
1) Radio 4.1.13.47 seems to be the best in terms of battery use and call quality.
2) while charging I noticed the progress bar under "Power management" menu in settings. What I found is it suddenly shot to 100% (full) from around 80-85 clearly indiacting false charge.
3) To combat this I used my vox for sometime and it quickly dropped below 80% and then I again put it to charge. This time it charged normally for say upto 90-95% and again jumped to 100%
4) I again used it to drop the charge below90% and recharged.
5) This was continued till actually the battery was charged to 100% in normal spped. The experiment took some time.
6) Now I observe that the battery is much much stable and doesn't drain quickly and behaves like a normal battery should do.
7) Regarding battery showing inflated level after hard shut down, I think this is a problem with vox (or windows mobile?) and I also suffer from this.
Anyway you can try my method for battery charging and report any improvement if you find.
many thanks i will do some testing and try this re-charging method and i'll post my results!
One more thing I observed - Operamini 4.1/4.2beta consumes huge power - almost 1% gone every 2-3 minutes. Better if ucweb is used. I have just downloaded ucweb 6.1 for smartphones (English ver) and testing. Hope Ucweb will help to conserve battery better.
If you wish to test, link below.
http://forum.ucweb.com/viewthread.php?tid=226&extra=page=1
and some other things are that if you have windiows update automatic it runs as a process and using your ram.
i found out that rss is too
anyway you can check out your processes and some disable automatic update for them to stop running.
i hard reset and it got better i will do some further testing with you battery trick.
Don't try Ucweb for smartphone. The device is freezing.
Hi guys,
I have been struggling for quite a while to investigate why my battery drain is about 150mA best case. I have installed Onyx micro version and disabled almost all unnesessary services and applications, and yet could not live a day even in stand by mode without recharging. Battery capacity is 1100mA, so with 150mA drain, it lasted less than 10 hours per day.
I have checked almost all available ROM's on this site, starting with the original HTC one.
No luck ! So, I've concluded it was no ROM issue. Then, I started to play with IPL and SPL. I had both version 3.14.
To make the long story short, I found the best combination of IPL 3.14 and SPL 3.10
Now I have 91-100mA stand by current drain all the time. Sometimes during the night this value droops to 41mA.
I am preety happy with this and also wonder whether anyone has managed to get a better battery life for his Elf ?
Cheers.
The two things you haven't looked at are the radio and the SIM. I'd try with a different sim for 24 hours and search for the best radio rom. My Elfin battery life is terrible but I think it's down to using M2D.
there is a lot of factor that could affect the battery life, from software, to hardware, the most common problem, is battery age, as old your battery are, the less it will hold the charge. on my elfin I have onyx 5.1.1, IPL 3.10 and HSPL 3.10, radio 3.39.90(I'm having better signal with almost no difference in battery drain) I use the backlight on the second darker step, not the default second brighter one. I usually take no more than 10 calls at day, each one of about 1 to 2 minutes, usually don't use(and is always off) the wifi, the bluetooth I use it occasionally while driving about 3 miles from work to home, and to listen to music at work, 1 or 2 hours per day. data connection(EDGE) is always on, but not used very often just to check email once in a while and update weather once of two time a day.
my battery holds for 2 days, most 2 days and a half.
I think your battery may be the problem, maybe is quite old.
dont forget it can be affected by the network coverage too. in fact some of the power regulation in gsm network is managed from the base station.
EDIT: i mean, besides a hundred other things network-controlled that can affect your battery life, the antenna can actually tell your phone how much power it must use when transmitting.