Hi,
I have been a smartphone (non touchscreen) user for years, I had a pocket pc (universal) for a while but didn't get on with it due to its size and flakyness and this very same issue, though at least its screen would switch off.
My trusty old s710 started corrupting its memory cards at regular intervals (every couple of days) so I decided to go for a pro. so far its been a big mistake can anyone please make any suggestions?
I managed to work out most of the issues, very poor performance, etc were down to a very old rom, though the very poor cellular and gps performance i guess there is no fixing but I have an issue where your help/comments would be appreciated before it goes back to /usr/ebay/
The main issue is with the power management, I want to be able to pick up my email at regular intervals and leave nimbuzz (chat client) running on wifi or cellular, with my old s710 this isnt a problem but I cant find out how to get the wifi to stay on or programs stay running when it goes into standby. If I tell it not to switch off the backlight stays on dim and the screen stays on. It seems to be the power state modes on PPC are some what different. On a smartphone when it goes into standby everything still runs, wifi is on etc.. but this thing just grinds to a halt so to me its useless as it stands. Can anyone tell me how to keep the phone running but switch off the backlight? and will this seriously impact battery life (will it still do 18hrs like my s710 would)?
If this isn't fixable is there another smartphone I should be looking at? I like the s710 but it hasn't enough memory. Just not the rose its just too big.
Many thanks
j
Haven't tried this myself, but I saw it. Try installing Advance Config, then go to the More settings (right softkey) then hit connections. There's a check box for enabling wifi on standy. I've noticed though, even on standby, wifi kicks in at certain intervals to retrive mail, but I have my mail through exchange, so I don't know if that's the reason why. Hope that helps.
There's no way you gonna get 18hrs with wifi turned on continuously.
TP's battery life is crap
Pro driving me miss daisy
Hi
thanks for that one, yes it works as far as keeping the wifi on but the programs still stop or at least no longer make a noise when a message comes in....
re battery, bummer, maybe an extended battery would help?
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What is with this? I 've gone through several HTC phones on the EVO and everytime I lose my wifi. Anyone can help?
When do you lose the Wi-Fi?
I use the wi-fi in my house and it will maintain a constant signal.
UNLESS
It goes to sleep mode, then it turns off the wi-fi as well.
Whenever I bring it out of sleep, it always has to re-connect.
I don't know if there is some registry setting you can set to keep wi-fi turned on.
I think the risk is that it will drain the battery much quicker though.
I'm using the MAPL build 2.60 beta for a Dash 3G and the battery life is incredible.
You can make it stay on by going to: Comm Manager>Settings>WLAN Settings>Power Mode and unchecking the "Auto turn off..." box. And yes, it does suck the battery like a vampire and makes the phone HOT! You can also adjust how long it will stay on for after LCD OFF.
Wifi question
Hi, before i drive myself mad, I am convinced that my phone uses gprs for data, not wifi. And my bills seem to agree with me.
When I use things like MyPhone, either connected to my PC or connected to my wifi at home, it seems to appear on my bill as a data charge, which would indicate that it is using the network??
Am I right, wrong or stupid? Any help greatly appreciated.
Hey guys-
Just upgraded to the FR008 Liberated and I dig everything about it but one thing. The battery life was immediately radically reduced from what I was getting with Eclair, and after turning off push and doing everything else to preserve battery life, it seems clear now that the problem is that it is searching for wifi hotspots everywhere.
The Y5 "Battery Saver" utility worked brilliantly on Eclair to turn off the wifi unless I was in a location where I used wifi, and then remembered if I manually turned on wifi in a certain location. I bet this tool increased my battery life by 50% on Eclair. But it totally doesn't work at all on Froyo.
Is there any way to get equivalent functionality from Froyo? Or does anyone know of an update to Y5 that will fix it with Froyo? It doesn't crash, it just doesn't do anything on Froyo.
I tried searching for this but it won't match "Y5" since the word is too short.
I've tried the various things and they all lag the hell out of my phone. And yup, the battery will drain terribly, no one believes it's a problem though, everyone seems to cite "check your apps" and don't realize that people aren't dumb and that the ROM drains battery.
the ROM doesn't drain the battery, but constantly searching for wifi hotspots does. Y5 solved that problem by turning on wifi only when you are in a location where you have configured it to use wifi.
As an example, when I go for a 2-hour bike ride with my phone, it drains the battery about 60% during that two hours, just because I happen to ride through neighborhoods where there are a ton of wifi networks (people's home networks). With Y5 working, it just stopped looking for wifi once I left my house and it only went down about 5-10% during that same 2 hour period.
I'm not sure about liberated, but on cm6 froyo if you go to settings> wireless & networks> wi-fi settings, and then press your menu button three is an advanced option. From in there you can set your wifi sleep policy to disconnect wifi while the screen is off. The phone shouldn't search for a wifi connection when the screen is off in this mode.
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I suppose that'll help a little bit, but won't help much if the screen is on... like I am using the phone (say, in the car, especially while using navigation)...
Still would be nice if Y5 worked. It was a brilliantly simple solution. Not exactly in the mood to pay $10 for an app to do this but I might have to if it gets too frustrating.
check out Settings Profiles Lite - limited to one rule in the free version and should be able to do what you want.
T
looks like that MIGHT do it, but what a pain to set up for something so simple.
THe wifi sleep thing won't help me, mostly because when wifi goes off and on the network seems to be a bit flaky.
At the moment the only thing that'll work is manually disabling/enabling wifi. However, the widget seems to turn it off only to have it come back on.
sorry to bump, but wondering, does anyone else has a suggestion or a way to get Y5 to work in Froyo?
My HD7 worked without issue from the beginning of the year til around a month ago.
All of a sudden, my WiFi became extremely unreliable, sometimes taking an overly long time to recognise or connect to an obvious access point, sometimes finding none at all.
After I do manage to connect wirelessly, I see no speed increase in data transfer to suggest that the phone is even using the wireless link. Web pages sometimes load slower than over 3G. I had read that HD7s have trouble using certain WiFi protocols and adjusted accordingly, but the workaround was to no avail.
Additionally, once WiFi has been selected, I cannot switch it off. I am 'locked out' of the WiFi settings page. When I tap it in the menu it responds as if I've nudged it but it cannot load. The only solution is to remove the battery. On occasion, this stuck WiFi has also caused the capacitive buttons, camera and power switch to become inactive. Curiously, touch screen function seems unaffected.
I thought maybe this issue was tied to corrupt settings with my hub, but changing SSID / WEP key etc etc on my router hasn't fixed the problem, and connection to other open WiFi signals jam the phone just as badly.
I upgraded to Mango in the hope that a fresh OS update may 'rejig' my wireless settings into working, but again, no joy.
Anyone experienced anything similar? My final options seem to be factory reset the handset to see if that solves the issue, or return the handset to O2. (Both involve losing all my data, game saves, application data AND the recently delisted SW: Battle for Hoth permanently.)
Anyone got any other thoughts?
*EDIT* After a bit more research, I found that even when the phone has connected to a WiFi source, by turning Operator Data Service off, you can see that the WiFi service is in fact not doing anything.
I braved a factory reset, managed to whack WiFi on no problem, browser ran at appropriate speed, then everything crashed as per usual, I couldn't connect to the marketplace and had to pull the battery in order to use any of the capacitive buttons. I guess it was a hardware issue individual to my phone after all.
Guess I'll give O2 a ring sometime soon to sort a replacement. Not looking forward to losing all my game progress though it has to be said.
bro i m having the same exact problem havent find any solution yet i even tried to copy and replace the wifi files from another clean htc hd7 but useless when i upgraded to 7740 the wifi worked perfectly for 1 night only then at the morning it stopped working, everything else works great. my theory says that its not a hardware problem cz i used internet sharing which uses the wifi adapter (if i m right) so its a software I GUESS
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bro i m having the same exact problem havent find any solution yet i even tried to copy and replace the wifi files from another clean htc hd7 but useless when i upgraded to 7740 the wifi worked perfectly for 1 night only then at the morning it stopped working, everything else works great. my theory says that its not a hardware problem cz i used internet sharing which uses the wifi adapter (if i m right) so its a software I GUESS
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I had the same problem as well, couldn't connect, got to the point where even the power button stopped responding. Hard resets would only help for a short time and enabling WIFI would never connect right and eventually get me back to the same problem. I then got a replacement device, but it's not much better, I still can't connect to any WIFI, but at least it's not freezing up on me. My solution thus far has been just to avoid turning on WIFI if at all possible, but it's far from a perfect workaround. I'm guessing it's the HTC WIFI driver that's got issues.
i got similar problem.. send phone to service problem was "circut board"
replaced working fine...
when i was using wifi my phone was freezing some menus stop working and i have to remove battery
Hi, all.
This is my first time posting. I have searched the web and through this forum for an answer to my question but no dice. I hope someone here can help.
(By the way, I'm currently using the Oxygen ICS rom. I used to be on Oxygen Gingerbread, and I briefly tried the latest Kitkat build, but couldn't use as a daily driver).
Over the past months, I've transitioned off of my monthly cell plan in favour of a prepaid data add on + VoIP app (Fongo) for calls/texts. I WFH so my cell is on WiFi 90% of the day.
The issue I'm facing is that when I use the WiFi lock option in the app itself, my battery life dips down considerably. But when I don't use this option, I often miss incoming calls (the WiFi appears to go to sleep after awhile, even though I have WiFi set to be always on even when the device is sleeping).
As an alternative, I've tried many apps in the Play Store, such as Wifi Keep alive (Roys and Shantz), and Wifi Fixer.
I've tried them all individually and in combination with each other. They do make the device more efficient at receiving incoming calls while preserving more battery life than the above WiFi lock, but it's still not 100% perfect.
I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions to improve WiFi connectivity when my phone is in sleep mode without sacrificing a lot of battery? I realize there has to be some impact on battery if WiFi is on, but given that Fongo drains the battery whereas third party apps are more forgiving on it, I'm wondering if there's a better solution/configuration out there.
I experience this issue in Gingerbread and ICS. I don't experience it in Kitkat, but the battery barely lasts for 6-8 hours.
I hope I'm explaining this clearly. Any help would be greatly appreciated!! TIA.
Apologies for the double post. Mods, please delete this one.
Hello there.
I am facing a problem which i think is caused from the bt.
Everything works fine (no battery drain, no heat, not lagging, no crashing apps, perfect voice quality etc) EXCEPT when i connect my bt headset(-s).
At first it works fine, make my calls, download emails browse everything. At some point (it could be 5 minutes it could be 5hrs) i am facing disconnections with the connected bt device. The phone may or may not show it is disconnected, it may or may not enable voice through bt (but i cannot hear anything). During the call i can toggle bluetooth and speak through the phone.
Here is the chain of events.
After this it drops the connection with the wifi and the menu stays at Searching mode (i left it in search mode for >5hrs with no luck discovering any wifi). If i disalble wireless or bt or enable/disable airplane mode the menu stays grey forever and with the dots in the upper screen keep coming and coming. Long story short i cannot toggle on/off any connectivity feature (only cellular data works under any circumstances), i have to either turn off and on the phone or soft reset it. I did two hard resets (one of them was clean state) but this behavior hasn't changed.
Also if i have only bt on and connected and i leave it overnight in the morning it shows about 10 - 15% battery and quiet hours are not auto disabled (also tried to turn Cortana Off) BUT if i plug it for FIVE minutes it goes back to 90-95%. and have normal battery consumption during the day.
The only thing i havent tried (and if i do i will do it only for testing reasons) is roll back back to WP8.0.
Am i facing a warranty issue or is it a glitch of the software (i am running Cyan)?
Lef84 said:
Hello there.
I am facing a problem which i think is caused from the bt.
Everything works fine (no battery drain, no heat, not lagging, no crashing apps, perfect voice quality etc) EXCEPT when i connect my bt headset(-s).
At first it works fine, make my calls, download emails browse everything. At some point (it could be 5 minutes it could be 5hrs) i am facing disconnections with the connected bt device. The phone may or may not show it is disconnected, it may or may not enable voice through bt (but i cannot hear anything). During the call i can toggle bluetooth and speak through the phone.
Here is the chain of events.
After this it drops the connection with the wifi and the menu stays at Searching mode (i left it in search mode for >5hrs with no luck discovering any wifi). If i disalble wireless or bt or enable/disable airplane mode the menu stays grey forever and with the dots in the upper screen keep coming and coming. Long story short i cannot toggle on/off any connectivity feature (only cellular data works under any circumstances), i have to either turn off and on the phone or soft reset it. I did two hard resets (one of them was clean state) but this behavior hasn't changed.
Also if i have only bt on and connected and i leave it overnight in the morning it shows about 10 - 15% battery and quiet hours are not auto disabled (also tried to turn Cortana Off) BUT if i plug it for FIVE minutes it goes back to 90-95%. and have normal battery consumption during the day.
The only thing i havent tried (and if i do i will do it only for testing reasons) is roll back back to WP8.0.
Am i facing a warranty issue or is it a glitch of the software (i am running Cyan)?
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I got the exact same problem with my own L1020, have been fighting with support to have it fixed, they changed about everything (except the mainboard...) and the problem is still there.
I started to be really angry and got a free Lumia 930 in "replacement"... as I still got the L1020, I tried to put it under W10 preview, and it looks like the problem is really a software issue... with some builds, Bluetooth was working fine, with some the same problem appeared again...
I don't know if you found a solution in the meantime... if you did, I'd like to know what it was, because I like the 1020 better than the 930 (size and camera mostly) and I'd love to have it working with my MS Band