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Battery Drain fix for WM6?

I remember seeing a cab that fixes the battery drain problem for WM6. Ive been searching and searching but couldn't find it. The search tool on the forum is useless at finding what i want. can anyone link me to that cab? I just want to try it on my T-mobile Wing cause the battery drains like crazy.

I think the only fix that was posted was the SD card power managment disable thing - the .CAB was called 'sd-battery-save.cab' and contained the registry settings:
Code:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\SDCARD\ClientDrivers\Class\SDMemory_Class]
"DisablePowerManagement" = dword : 00000000
I could be (and usually am) wrong.....
HTH
Andy

thanks for the quick reply. really helpful. im going to try it to see how it goes. thanks again.

another thing is some apps that you might have may cause your battery to drain also. I.e. batterystatus, push mail, some weather apps. pretty much anything that keeps you wizard busy by connectin to gprs or updating constanly things like that. so play with your apps do a little test. I actually have that power saving cab. ill upload for you when I get home, but in the mean time try some of those things I meantioned.

from my experience:
1. 318 OS ver is the best for power
2. push mail (exchange or live) and constant weather update using gprs will very fast drain battery. For example: i just use exch mail with push my battery will last 1-2 days if i change from push to check every 5 min i get o extra day...
3. batterystatus: using it i get around 10-15% faster drain but a lot of improvement in speed
there are 2 cabs out there one is something like HTC power management and another is the above SD battery fix.

here's the 2 fixes, SD batt. save improved the rom NBD 7.4 im using, enjoy
View attachment 43096
View attachment sd-battery-save.cab

lsnizzle said:
I remember seeing a cab that fixes the battery drain problem for WM6. Ive been searching and searching but couldn't find it. The search tool on the forum is useless at finding what i want. can anyone link me to that cab? I just want to try it on my T-mobile Wing cause the battery drains like crazy.
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you better check EXTrom, if its empty/broken.

mikaarce said:
here's the 2 fixes, SD batt. save improved the rom NBD 7.4 im using, enjoy
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Thanks these fixes should help. But please can these cabs be run on hermes-100. Please cnfm

mikaarce said:
here's the 2 fixes, SD batt. save improved the rom NBD 7.4 im using, enjoy
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Thanks these fixes should help. But please can these cabs be run on hermes-100. Please cnfm

I am running wm6.1 ajc2003s build....5.2.19521. The battery life is stupendous!! I have my device steady overclocked at 286 running a bluetooth WMP stream for a good 3hrs in the morning w/ calls. My gprs is always connected. I run spb mobile shell, pocketCm, opera mini, ms voice command 1.6 w/ bluetooth support, my battery has been about 65-70 % remaining after being off the charger for a good 9 hrs with good use on it. Ask me about a batt fix.....this ROM is the ultimate batt fix!! Oh yeah i forgot to mention this ish is FAST.....windows directory in explorer, fully loaded and skinned....FAST!!

Look up " HTC Power Management cab" it usualy sets up everything to save power.
However I agree about AJC rom. I'm using it right now. the battery does not go down to 50% since I installed it. I was on an 8hr bus ride from NY to PGH and used GPRS most of the time only then it went down to 51% with very heavy usage.

i will accept S.V.I a hundred percent.i am running same rom.ajc windows mobile 6.1 rom battery life is almost perfect.i have another suggestion for you.you should install Advanced Config version 2.there are some adjustments for power savings.apply all off them.also under the today theme change menu unmarked desktop timeout 4hours.i hope that will help.

nothin said:
you better check EXTrom, if its empty/broken.
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What is meant by this? If it's missing will it cause your battery to drain down quicker?
I installed this XM6R5 and my battery is draining quickly. My ExtRom is empty - I deleted it thinking I would free up more memory. Did I mess up?
If I install an OEM rom again and then my XM6R5 rom and preserve the ExtRom would this fix the battery drain or should I just apply the two can files listed earlier on?

sunseaker said:
What is meant by this? If it's missing will it cause your battery to drain down quicker?
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look for an empty ext rom and flash it, that clears out your extended rom which can cause battery drain issues.

I had a huge battery drain issue after a ROM upgrade a few months ago. I bought a new battery but it was the same.
I applied all the registry fixes but didn't notise any big difference.
The thing that increased(restored) my battery life to normal was to fully drain & fully recharge the phone 2-3 times.

ndn715 said:
look for an empty ext rom and flash it, that clears out your extended rom which can cause battery drain issues.
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Does any have a blank Ext Rom or know a link to one? All the links I have found point to the ftp server but no longer exist.

Here is one, It has IPL/SPL 308 and Radio 2.19.11 and a nice windows startup screen. I use it all the time.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/3mfo98

S.V.I said:
Look up " HTC Power Management cab" it usualy sets up everything to save power.
However I agree about AJC rom. I'm using it right now. the battery does not go down to 50% since I installed it. I was on an 8hr bus ride from NY to PGH and used GPRS most of the time only then it went down to 51% with very heavy usage.
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Can anyone suggest a similar rom for HERMES-100 or TYTN or Imate Jasjam

hey cn u please send me the link to AJC rom.. coz im new to this and i dont no wat AJC AJC windows mobile rom stands for. cnt find the link. thnks

had found this tweak and I must say it gave my battery new life... also noticed this tweak is already in the advanced configuration but set to disabled...
enabled this tweak and found my wizard to be doing an excellent job of extending the battery life to as much as 3days standby now... hehe!

sleep of death

any one else getting it? unit goes in to standby and then wont wake up you have to soft reset.
ive been getting it frequently very anoying im using the big storage rom i dont rember who made it i can find out of some one wants to know
but is any one else having problems like me?

No problems here. I'm using the clean 1978 ROM...

I had it happen yesterday, running the stock AT&T ROM.

Hi
No problems here either.
It's worth remembering the phone wakes itself up about once an hour, although the display is dark so you will not see this happening.
If you have installed some software that doesn't handle this switching on very well and it crashes the phone, it will look the phone has died in standby, but it probably hasn't, it just looks that way.
I would advise a clean reset and not to install any programs, and see if it happens again. If it does your phone may be faulty, for example a memory problem that surfaces when the phone goes into a low power state.
Regards
Phil

Mine SOD'ed last night. I was using the phone, turned the screen off using the power button, then plugged it into my computer USB to charge. I was trying to do it one-handed and as you could imagine I was fiddling with the cable/phone for 30 seconds before I got the mini-usb plug into the phone. I watched to see the charging light come on but it didn't. I then tried to turn on the phone and realized I was SOD'ed. It only happens to me once every 1-2 weeks. My phone runs the stock Tilt ROM, but with lots of custom cabs installed, ie:
HTC Home 6 button
HTC Taskmanager 2.0 30995
Skype
Color Dot battery indicator
Schaps 10 Button Comm manager
PocketCM
Funambol 6.5.4
I push my phone all day long, surfing, ssh'ing into servers with putty, imap email, playing music etc, and I think if there was a bad memory issue Id see something other than an SOD. IMHO,theres a bug in the power management software.

SOD happened on my Tilt too. Im runnig the ATT rom. I had the same problem with the 8525 with the earlier ROM. The problem is IMAP email push. IF you use IMAP there is a chance you will get SOD once in a while. I changed all my emails to POP3 never had SOD since then.

I think you guys have to run the kaiser tweek to turn off the sleep mode in the registry. I had the SOD once....forgot to modify the registry via the kaisertweak app. 1st 2 options i think is what you have to modify.....that should fix you guys up.

Happened With Me too !!!
Now after using my at&t tilt flashed with HTC stock rom for 5 days, suddenly today my device suffered from a SOD.... had to soft-reset.... tried to figure out what went wrong but without any luck..... do any of u guys figured out the cause.... Kaiser Tweak only allows us to disable the sleep mode during call.....

kaiser falling sleep happens to me so frequently that I read all the posts with the key words KAISER FREEZE on xda-developers.
The only solution seems to power off and on again.
On modaco.com somebody posted a small applet which does automatically the power on-off for you.
Of course this does not remove the problem, just hide it...
Additionally I have tried 4 different WWE ROMS! from Att to HTC original ROMS to cooked Helmi aka 0.7.0 etc... No way to solve.
Please if modifying the registry can solve, can somebody post the link for kaiser tweaks and possibly the application?
Thanks
Saulo866

I think it might have something to do with Windows Live Maps program. This happend to me everytime I was using the program in the background. I upgraded the version and it stopped the problem I was having.

hollywood said:
I think it might have something to do with Windows Live Maps program. This happend to me everytime I was using the program in the background. I upgraded the version and it stopped the problem I was having.
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Same here... I upgraded to helmi_c's Tilt ROM and haven't had the problem since. Pretty much guarantted though, if you leave Live Search running in the background and your phone goes to sleep... it will not wake up with the stock ATT ROM (at least with the current version of Live Search).
Cheers!!

SOD has typical been associated with running programs off of a Storage card. I had tons of SOD problems with the early WM6 Hermes ROMs. So far I have only had SOD a few times on my Tilt (running austinsync's BigStorage ROM). I installed Google maps to my microSD and within 20 minutes had 3 SODs. I uninstalled it and they stoppped immediately (Live Search is way better anyway).
I would recommend installing any programs that you use heavily or leave running onto the main memory. Also, saving attachments to a storage card has been a known cause as well.
I think SOD issues will get better as more ROMs start coming out for the Kaiser (and the chefs keep cooking).

OK, this keeps happening to me with the AT&T ROM....today it happened with no programs running in the background, anybody figure out a solution yet?

Me too
well I've had this problem also while running my own cooked rom, however to be fair i had this problem in the early days of the hermes. I thought however that the hermes problem was related to activesync's push email and the data connection (i.e. switching between 3G and 2G alot making activesync trip out) That all said maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree?!
Oh just in case anyone as the time to investgate this problem, I do know the Toshiba G900 had alot of problems with SOD inwhich tosh releases a fix for...... maybe if someone was to look at what that fixed it could help us here? have a read here > www.my900.com

Kaiser won't power back up
My unit after reset won't either power up or down with the power button. Everything still functions.
I found that if I have the power charger connected it works fine, so I thought I had a weak battery. Got a new battery and same thing.
Don't know what's going on, but if you do a soft reset with the charger plugged in, it will reset fine.
Hope someone figures this out!

Be careful overconfiguring...
PhilipL said:
Hi
No problems here either.
It's worth remembering the phone wakes itself up about once an hour, although the display is dark so you will not see this happening.
If you have installed some software that doesn't handle this switching on very well and it crashes the phone, it will look the phone has died in standby, but it probably hasn't, it just looks that way.
I would advise a clean reset and not to install any programs, and see if it happens again. If it does your phone may be faulty, for example a memory problem that surfaces when the phone goes into a low power state.
Regards
Phil
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This might be the case, but I tried calling my phone when it SOD'd and didn't get a ring (it rang on the phone I was calling from.) I bet the problem is installed programs conflicting somehow, maybe kaisertweak will fix it in the future.
I can't guess what causes it tho...
For now, I'm running Kyphur's XDA Live and it has yet to happen.

PocketCM
rotohammer said:
Mine SOD'ed last night. I was using the phone, turned the screen off using the power button, then plugged it into my computer USB to charge. I was trying to do it one-handed and as you could imagine I was fiddling with the cable/phone for 30 seconds before I got the mini-usb plug into the phone. I watched to see the charging light come on but it didn't. I then tried to turn on the phone and realized I was SOD'ed. It only happens to me once every 1-2 weeks. My phone runs the stock Tilt ROM, but with lots of custom cabs installed, ie:
HTC Home 6 button
HTC Taskmanager 2.0 30995
Skype
Color Dot battery indicator
Schaps 10 Button Comm manager
PocketCM
Funambol 6.5.4
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I was running Kypher's Tilt XDA-Live v 1.0 (AWSOME) with several custom cabs including PocketCM and was getting the SOD every time. I wiped the phone and started adding all of my cabs one at a time and all of them are loaded back in except PocketCM and since then i have not seen a single SOD.
Tim

I've noticed that I get the SOD a LOT more when I have bluetooth active. Not sure if that's just coincidental but literally the only time I've noticed the SOD has been when I've had BT enabled.

Happens to me a few times a week very annoying.

Well, I don't do emails, use Windows live, have pocketCM, used my bluetooth, tried Google maps, or have any programs on my sd card (basically whatever you all mentioned above, I don't have or do!), and still get SOD. So I guess I start backtracking. Sigh...
tilt with xda Live

question for all universal experts

I bought a used universal three months agn universal was wm6.1 rom but universal freezes and i have about a 10 resets per day,i tray to change rom and radio rom to some of wm6 but still device work very unstable,universal just freezes and when i reset he works normaly even i tray to flash wm2005 rom but i have same problem,i begining to think that problem on my universal is hardware is that posible,do anybody have eny solution or opinion on my problem,maybe i have to install some fabrick rom or somethung like that please help i just want to my universal work properly and i want to dont have a 10 even a 20 resets per day,help!!!

It seems hardware problems maybe the battery, try another bat...

i already buy a new battery and he works good for 2days without crash but then same story,freeze

Could Be Hardware Or Software.
Could Be A Software Issue.
What Rom Are You Using And What Software?
HTC Home Is Known To Cause Lagging/Freezing On The Universal I Believe.
Also OverClocking G3 Devices Can Prove Unstable, Some Roms Enable Overclocking By Default.
Regards,
OllieD

krle92 said:
i alerady buy a new battery and he works good for 2days without crash but then same story,freeze
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What rom are you trying? Are you installing something else in it? what's your cpu speed 624 or 520?

i tray ranju,Jwrightmcps,PDAViet,Beasty & Laurentius now i am testing KDSkamal WM5 Ultimate edition,on some there was option to overlock but i try dont to use them and when i am test i dont use htc home or same programs but phone freeze

when i buy new battery i use that and old battery sometimes, maybe its have something because i use that old battery

krle92 said:
when i buy new battery i use that and old battery sometimes, maybe its have something because i use that old battery
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I don't think so. Just one question your Uni freezes no matter what, or only when you power on? (turn on the screen)

uni works normaly during the work on it but when i put backlight of or stand by and try to turn on he freeze,or do not come back from stand by and have to reset.Or sometime when i do not turn backlight of ,he just stay turned on for 10min and when i tap screen he freeze,i also have a few freeze during the work on it

but that freeze during work are rare i can sey that they are normaly but real problem is from stand by

That happens to me, but it was the HTC Home plugin.
Try again Ranju's - v7.6, remove SD card, and don't put anything (contact's, etc) or install anything on it!! Sim card only and test it for a while...

thanks i will try later because i nom test some wm2005 rom and it seems that work good but i will see in a few days also i will try ranju,i can see on forum that he is one of the best

IE problem
how to not make any ie(internet Explorer) page pooling in my program memory

loiz said:
That happens to me, but it was the HTC Home plugin.
Try again Ranju's - v7.6, remove SD card, and don't put anything (contact's, etc) or install anything on it!! Sim card only and test it for a while...
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Many roms are settings "Performance applet" in 624MHZ. This is my problem in all roms, but setting "Performance applet" in 520MHZ solve my problem and not random freeezes and never reboots!
My english is very bad!

ROM is one thing to look but Radio is also something you need consider. if your reception pure then universal may freeze

i try diferent radio roms,now i use ranju 7.7rom and 1.15 radio and still i have 2-3 freeze on day and also 3-4 restarts

krle92 said:
i try diferent radio roms,now i use ranju 7.7rom and 1.15 radio and still i have 2-3 freeze on day and also 3-4 restarts
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My advice would be to reset partitions, instructions are in the wiki.
After resetting with MTTY, flash the rom of your choice, but also flash the radio and a blank extended rom image, all at the same time.
If you still have problems after this, it could still be a battery issue, there are lots of bad batteries being sold on Ebay that do not provide enough power for all the devices functions, especially when using WM6 and Wm6.1 Roms.
Please reset with MMTY as above, and post back your results, if you are still having issues after this, charge the battery, and test with a full battery and powered device from the mains.
Cheers,
Beasty

can you give me link on wiki,or say how to reset partitions,does the reset do with commands like set 14 0,task 28 55aa and task 28 or with something other commands,please help sory if im borring,my english is bad can you explain how to test battery

can you please answer me the question

krle92 said:
can you give me link on wiki,or say how to reset partitions,does the reset do with commands like set 14 0,task 28 55aa and task 28 or with something other commands,please help sory if im borring,my english is bad can you explain how to test battery
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Yes - the commands "task 28 55aa" should reset the partitions (via the MTTY tool)
As for testing your battery - you should get a couple of days and it should drain to about 5-15% before dying, if not check the wiki

Random hangups on incoming call

Hello,
My phone sometime hangs on incoming call. There is no ringtone, only vibra is vibrating (not normally, it's just constantly vibrating) . Nothing can be done. Only reset helps. I have tried several ROMs (6.1) and it's with everyone.
Any ideas?
Regards,
woocky

Well I too had the same problem with all wm6 roms... Doesn't matter what kind of radio I use. Always the same problem. Phone freezes with every second phonecall.
I have been around here a long time and tested all roms. It happens with all wm6 and 6.1
Some roms more or less but never stable enough for me.
Now I am back with wm5 and psidocs sdhc-cab so I can use my 8gb sd-card... The latest official rom (2.00.41) with radio 1.17 and sdhc-cab is 100% stable at least.
I have tried to find out why but it looks like no one knows the answer. Think it never happens on G4-phones only G3 like mine.
Of cource I have Super-CID my phone so that cant be the problem.

6.1 is too pretty to drop it ;-) Luckily it is not so often - max 5%.

Confirmed.
I've had the same issues with a number of WM6 & 6.1 images. Its very frustrating.

During my searches here I have found: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=333521
and as I understand it can be connected with mentioned issue.

I reported the same problem 6 months ago
I've taled to Laurentius back then and reported the same problem but Laurentius didn't manage to replicate the hang and therfore the problem was dismissed. This is why I quit using WM6. Now I use WM5 and it's ok. I new I was right....actualy sad. The error is not actualy random. I managed to find a pattern to the hang. Try to make a verry short call to the uni and hang up before the Uni starts to ring. This is when it hangs. If you call the uni and dont hang up cuickly it si fine....

Vibrating-Reset-Error
scortan said:
I've taled to Laurentius back then and reported the same problem but Laurentius didn't manage to replicate the hang and therfore the problem was dismissed. This is why I quit using WM6. Now I use WM5 and it's ok. I new I was right....actualy sad. The error is not actualy random. I managed to find a pattern to the hang. Try to make a verry short call to the uni and hang up before the Uni starts to ring. This is when it hangs. If you call the uni and dont hang up cuickly it si fine....
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Wow, that's really interesting!
I'm pretty much fascinated by the way of reproducing this error. I immediately tried it and it worked.
I once had this problem, but it never appeared again. But now I know how this can happen.
So the only thing I'll have to do is to tell my friends to let it ring.
Thanx for the hint

The problem has to do with HTC Home. If you uninstall it... no more hangups!

snook said:
The problem has to do with HTC Home. If you uninstall it... no more hangups!
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I wish it were that easy... At least not in my case. I never had HTC Home installed...
I'm more of a Pocketbreeze kind of guy that use pb as a base for the todayscreen with everything tabbed within it.
But I guess there could be some Today-program that causes the freeze in my case too.
Usually have Pocketbreeze, Phoneweaver, Pocketweather on todayscreen... WkTask as programmanager.
And when I have wm6 I always use RealVGA.

Same hangups with no HTC home or SnapVue
I´m running PDAViet latest rom now and still hangups (4 in a day)
I also tried Ranju´s V.4 & V.6 and same thing.
Now flashing to Ranju´s V7.7
Hope this ROM can be more stable
Cheers
Gracias

snook said:
The problem has to do with HTC Home. If you uninstall it... no more hangups!
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Sorry snook, but I only have Opera 9.5 and Voice Commander 1.6 installed.

LifeIsAnUpgrade said:
Sorry snook, but I only have Opera 9.5 and Voice Commander 1.6 installed.
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I can see you have Qtek 9000, G3... Thats exactly the same as mine...
Could it have to do with that?
Are there differences with the different models of HTC Universal?
(Except G3 and G4)

I have VPA IV (G3) from German Vodafone.

DrBeer said:
I can see you have Qtek 9000, G3... Thats exactly the same as mine...
Could it have to do with that?
Are there differences with the different models of HTC Universal?
(Except G3 and G4)
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No, after exchanging some different views with other fellows, this incidence must have something to do with WM6 or WM6.1!
It also appears in different ROMs.

signal problem after upgrade

hello i recently upgraded my htc to wm6 but the signal status stops an comes back , when i install the wm5 it works fine but with the 6 it starts doing that and displays some errors like clocknot.exe, what can i do??

preppye said:
hello i recently upgraded my htc to wm6 but the signal status stops an comes back , when i install the wm5 it works fine but with the 6 it starts doing that and displays some errors like clocknot.exe, what can i do??
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Hi buddy ... Check what flavour of WM 6 you installed in your htc. After that, check the thread for that flavour for the solution. If this problem arises before, you will get one from the old posts in that thread. If not, then post this problem in that thread so that Cooker of that ROM analyze your problem. However you have one more thing that may solve ... Try changing Flavour of WM6 like SVI , CR86 , TNT etc.

installed rom
i installed TNT.1921 TouchFlo 10Mb , its working ok rigth now i just reset the phone and it started working normally but now on the battery displays that its conected and when i click on power settings it says that main baterry unknown , and on the battery remaining power meter its blank so i dont know whether is charged or not , what do you guys think could be that??

Then post this problem in the rom's thread.