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Battery life is horrible!

I'm currently running the XM6r3 ROM, and my battery life is less than half of what it was with WM5. Anyone else notice this? I'm thinking it might be related to the weather panel app.

First, did you flash an official rom before you upgraded to XM6r3? If you have a corrupted Extended ROM, this has been shown to cause battery life that goes down very quickly.
Second, Yes, other apps you put on that are constantly accessing the network and such can cause battery life to go down faster. Did you have WeatherPanel on WM5? DO you do Push email (and how often is it setup to check / push)? Are you running BatteryStatus and overclocking? That definetly pulls more on the battery.
What Radio are you using on your phone? Newer radios (2.47, 2.61, and 2.69) all pull more on the battery (IMO) than the stock 2.25 radios from T-Mobile and Cingular. I think 2.19 is probably the most efficient (but also doesn't have as good of reception for some, but seems to work well for me).
When I first started messing with custom roms here, first AKU 3.3 (so WM5) and then WM6 roms, I would gripe about less battery life. Then it hit me, I'm using my phone WAY more than I was when I was on stock WM5 as it was so unreliable for me on the official roms, and now the phone does so much more. I do WAY more with my phone now with these custom roms. So yeah, battery life is going to go down faster as the phone is now being used all the time.
Also, I do think most of the custom WM6 roms do use more battery, but look at how much more they are doing by default.
If you really want to do a comparison, then build a WM6 rom that looks just like an official WM5 and don't use the phone anymore than you did with WM5 (same apps, etc). I think you will find the battery life is much closer in that case (but you won't be happy since its not overclocked, missing great apps you are now used to, etc)...

I'm experiencing the same issues...with only 2 or 3 days of the iphone theme, with Slide2Unlock and WisBar, my battery barely makes it 18 hours.
I'm going to try the suggestion of flashing it back to original and them just the latest WM6 (screw the iphone stuff).

I do take into effect that I use it more than I did before. I did not have weather panel with wm5, and I also use battery status. I only recently started overclocking it. I also use direct push with our exchange server.
I flashed it with the T-Mobile rom before upgrading. The radio is 2.25.11.
I guess it just comes with the territory I'm going to have get in the habit of charging it more often, because I like it WAY more than WM5.

mfrazzz said:
First, did you flash an official rom before you upgraded to XM6r3? If you have a corrupted Extended ROM, this has been shown to cause battery life that goes down very quickly.
Second, Yes, other apps you put on that are constantly accessing the network and such can cause battery life to go down faster. Did you have WeatherPanel on WM5? DO you do Push email (and how often is it setup to check / push)? Are you running BatteryStatus and overclocking? That definetly pulls more on the battery.
What Radio are you using on your phone? Newer radios (2.47, 2.61, and 2.69) all pull more on the battery (IMO) than the stock 2.25 radios from T-Mobile and Cingular. I think 2.19 is probably the most efficient (but also doesn't have as good of reception for some, but seems to work well for me).
When I first started messing with custom roms here, first AKU 3.3 (so WM5) and then WM6 roms, I would gripe about less battery life. Then it hit me, I'm using my phone WAY more than I was when I was on stock WM5 as it was so unreliable for me on the official roms, and now the phone does so much more. I do WAY more with my phone now with these custom roms. So yeah, battery life is going to go down faster as the phone is now being used all the time.
Also, I do think most of the custom WM6 roms do use more battery, but look at how much more they are doing by default.
If you really want to do a comparison, then build a WM6 rom that looks just like an official WM5 and don't use the phone anymore than you did with WM5 (same apps, etc). I think you will find the battery life is much closer in that case (but you won't be happy since its not overclocked, missing great apps you are now used to, etc)...
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Very hypothetical and analytical description of the Battery consumption problem being faced,cudn't be explained more elaborately .
Stock wm5 Roms never had any such applications as new wm6 custom Roms offer.
secondly over clocking will definitely effect the battery power.

I noticed too. Probably the file connmrg.exe is taking all the CPU power, that's why the battery's life is so worse. Batterystatus gives a constantly 100% CPU usage display...

IF you see battery status showing 100% cpu usage you have some other issue. Mine is only at 100% when I start an app or doing heavy work on it. Otherwise it idles back under 195Mhz most of the time with CPUscalar for me. Also depends on what ROM you are running and what apps you have added.

No Problem with battery
I have been using this rom since it was released and have had no problems at all with the battery life.

Is it possible to damage the battery by installing a new ROM
Is it possible to damage the battery by installing a new ROM? My 8125 battery was fine on old wm6 ROM, but after I installed XM6r3 (and yes, I did install t-mobile os before to clean it), my battery level goes through the floor.
I managed to charge it to over 50% and installed stock cingular rom, and with no extra applications installed, just the virgin cingular software, BT/wifi not enabled, just gsm radio I still see a drop of few % a minute! So basically, my phone is effectively cannot be detached from charger or my battery will drain very fast and loose ability to start os and begin charging again in the phone.
I can see (using wizard service tool) some cingular customization stuff on the hidden extended rom, does this mean extended rom is not a cause of this? Should I use format ROM tool in WST? (sorry for probably stupid questions)
Is there any way to check that it is indeed the battery being shot and not some obscure software issue? I find it hard to believe that good battery can go bad exactly at the same time as OS upgrade, I am hoping I am missing some obvious software fix

I believe its something else because my girlfriend calls me every morning and I take it out of the charger. I talk to her for a couple minutes 5 minutes tops and I hang up I look at batterystatus and it says 79% left tops. This is OD crazy I don't know if its the rom or the battery. I don't feel like paying 40 bux for a battery and same thing happens. I am currently installing a new rom I am gonna try this for acouple days and see what happens. I only noticed it for one rom but that rom I used for two to three weeks straight I didn't notice with the other roms because I never kept them for more then a day.

Strange enough (Battery life)
Strange enough before reading this post I thought that my phone's battery is dying. But know I can say that its definitely this XM6r3 ROM has some problem. To be precise there is definitely some application that eats the battery. As sometime my battery works fine and other time it just drain. If anyone can work on what application is eating the battery would be appreciated.
Rest the ROM is great.
Harwant

Help! Battery Life under WM6 Terrible

Hi guys, first post here. This place seems to be pretty informative when it comes to WM6 on these phones, so good job everyone on the guides and cookbooks and everything that has gone to it so far. I spent a lot of time searching over which ROM to load, and I ended up trying a XM6R3 version cookbook of WM6 (the basic less feature filled version). It seems pretty neat and my complaints are minor except for one thing, which I am wondering if it is my device specific, and that is battery life. When my Wiz (Cingular 8125) was running WM5 stock version, the battery life was incredible. I never have blue tooth enabled, and rarely enable wifi, but I used the internet all of the time and was constantly checking and sending email through the phone.
Now with WM6, I am lucky if it lasts 1/2 a day, and I have cut down my internet usage (so far I think it is related to that, but I am not sure yet). Today I pulled my phone off the charger at 8AM, and it was just about 100% dead by 10AM. This is a pretty new Wiz too (it was a warrantee replacement received maybe 2 months ago). I will admit that I emailed an attachment out twice this morning before it died that was 23k, but still it isn't THAT much and that battery life is pretty extreme... And of course even though it dies a heck of a lot faster, it still charges very slow. Charging through USB all day after dieing and it isn't to 50% yet...
Does anyone else have this problem? Again I have tried searching and haven't found anything out so far. Here are my version numbers:
IPL 3.08
SPL 3.08
Radio 2.69.11
OS 10.1.0.811
I also applied the Cingular Radio.cab fix that I saw on the site. I practicely leave no program running if at all possible. I really don't want to go back to WM5, and am willing to switch to a different WM6 if I need to. I love the features in WM6, as I said my complaints are really low. Thanks a lot guys. My email is [email protected] to contact me directly if you have a definite solution.
Jason

Did you flash back to the latest officiel release before flashing the WM6 Rom?
You might also want to reflash XM6 or try a different Rom (I've encountered no problem at all with NBD and TNT Roms, so...)
Cheers

Try to flash the empty extended rom.
Some users(including me) reported that a corrupt Extended Rom heavily affects the battery life. (You can check this easy by BatteryStatus; If the CPU stays at 20-30% all the time, then that's the cause)

Re-flash your OEM rom. My cpu was running at 25% at idle, I reflashed my OEM rom and then back to the WM6 rom and now the idle cpu is at 1 to 2%. I messed with my extended rom a while back and never should have touched it. Others have had their extended roms become corrupt on their own.
Jeff
edit: I use the same WM6 rom as you and feel it is probably the best overall WM6 rom out there. I use the full version though.

Your battery reaches end of life, to buy new one!

anichillus said:
Try to flash the empty extended rom.
Some users(including me) reported that a corrupt Extended Rom heavily affects the battery life. (You can check this easy by BatteryStatus; If the CPU stays at 20-30% all the time, then that's the cause)
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How do you see this percentage in BS?
I'm using the last freeware version but can't seem to access that???
Edit: Is it the little icon on the left under the battery? If so, mine remains at a solid 100% and Handyswitcher, which also allows to see CPU usage says "idle process"=> 100%...
Do I have to flash a blank Ext Rom?
If so, can you please tell me how?
Thanks
Edit2: Maybe I should also mention that in idle mode, BS says 155mA as concerns the powerdrain...

To see cpu usage, open battery status and select options, select the indicator tab on the bottom and then check show more indicators. With pocket breeze, BS, and the backlight on my wizard draws ~100mA and the cpu is ~1-3% while at idle. I have seen the battery draw as low as 57mA but I never watch my battery draw as it seems to last two days now since fixing the extended rom issue vs 1/2 to 1 day.
I don't know about flashing a blank rom, I just did what everyone else said and flashed my OEM rom back which also flashes the extended rom back to OEM.

Well I also flashed back to the last official release before flashing tnt 1921, so I guess my ext Rom is OK...

Alright about to start the backup & reflash to the latest official rom. Thanks for all of the replies guys, and about the battery being bad I doubt it, or else it would have been bad back under WM5.

All your problem is the corrupted extended rom. Your battery drain goes back to normal when you flash an official rom because Official roms also have Extended rom , along with IPL, SPL , Radio and OS.
I suggested to flash only the empty extended rom, because that's the best way, being super fast (1-2 minutes) and you won't loose any of your data...and won't have to flash 2x times(the official rom and then the custom one) plus add your programs once again.
The extended rom should be either a simple nk.nbf(which you copy in the RUU and flash right away) or an *.nb(which you either convert to a nk.nbf or add it along with OS.nb into a OS+Extended Rom nk.nbf)

I have noticed that it changed my IPL & SPL versions. Do I need to change these again before going to WM6 again? I think I will go re-read the faq...

anichillus said:
The extended rom should be either a simple nk.nbf(which you copy in the RUU and flash right away) or an *.nb(which you either convert to a nk.nbf or add it along with OS.nb into a OS+Extended Rom nk.nbf)
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What do you mean by copying it into the RUU? Do I just put it into the folder where the RUU program exists? Or do I have to rebuild the RUU with only the nk.nbf file?
I flashed back to the release WM5 rom, then flashed the T-Mo 2.26 rom, then flashed XM6r3aLite again, and I have the feeling that the issue is still there (my battery was 100% maybe 2 hours ago, however it is down to 70% now). In the past no matter what I was doing I could never drain it that fast except maybe playing MP3s. The only thing that I have done is sync'ed with my companies' Exchange server and copy some files from my storage card to the main memory.
Again, thanks a lot,
Jason

sweet JESUS...
my point of view.
procedure:
- choose normal(i mean good) rom,
- flash it,
- discharge battery to zero(or just near to zero),
- plug it into charger,
- load to full
- make soft reset.
these stupid bs mah paranoia is useless.
turn it OFF and STOP looking!
if you flash rom @ 70%, you will get 100% after, but it is 70-x(flash time) %.
machine is fooled and only thing you can do is learn it again by full discharge/recharge procedure.
and before someone will say: bull**** - i never had batt problem after using that procedure(3 days is minimum).
p.s. software may be reason too, sometimes.
few people had mainboard issues too(battery was gone fast without reason) - if so, replace mainboard(i hope you not need this).
extrom deletions/broken extrom may lead to drain too(almost always).
try to turn beam off(some roms have it on),
try to turn "today timeout" off(some believe that it "may" be something with it) in /menustart/settings/today.

HTC Battery Life Problem

Hi.
I use the HTC TyTn II (Model No: KAIS160) which originally had WM6. During this I had a decent battery life considering a only call duration of about 2 hrs, which went lower after subscribing to 3G services even though not using them.
I recently flashed it with the following:
-Garmin.DK.10.Final
-Radio version 1.70.19.09
Installed TF3D.
(All the above found from the XDA forums)
Since then, the Battery life has drastically gone down. Even on stand by it is hardly 10 hours.
Is there anything that can be done to remedy this? I really like the TF3D interface and would want to keep it as much as possible.
All suggestions welcome.
Regards,
Ashish

Battery backup?

Just recently bought a Vox and it has Gonzo's WM6.1 installed.
The battery just stays from 13-18 hours and the phone abruptly shuts down on incoming call.
The radio version is latest 3.10.90 and I am wondering if I downgrade, will there be any effect on extending battery backup?
The battery 1050mAH and it has chinese written all over it except some english for battery rating.
Also which rom update is best with battery backup?
WM6.5 / 6.1 / 6.0 / official WM6.0 ?
I guess I must downgrade to official HTC's WM6.0

i think the problem is your battery. i have the same rom on my vox, and i have no problem with it. from my experience, the rom is not affecting battery life so much...i don't think that the official rom from htc(wm 6.1 is available on their site) will give you more battery.

yeah try a different battery...

thank you all for reponses definitely battery has got the issue. Wierd shutdowns at 60% and later at 30% seems abnormal. I will buy a newer battery from my nearest stockist (If its available there)

[Q] Best ROM for battery

Hi all,
I have a few questions about the great ROMs posted on this forum:
1. does WM 6.5 consume more battery than WM 6.1?
2. what ROM do you find to be the best for battery life?
Thanks

well,possibly energy

looser9 said:
well,possibly energy
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As long as you remember this little tidbit:
• Backlight is set to high. You might want to change that.
Then maybe you can get a little bit better battery life on the phone.

Nah.. my ROM is not best for battery. It's built for speed...
However you can run it and expect a day out of it. Like other users suggest, turn down the backlight, turn off 3G and don't sync too much (do not use data too much in general) and you'll have plenty of battery life.
p.s. Let's not forget the batteries in our phones are a couple years old too now, so you definitely wont get the same battery life you were getting when you bought the phone

Right mate, Sense uses a lot of battery so use the standard windows mobile home screen, Disable 3G unless our using the Internet same as Data Connection. I only lost 12% battery today and i was playing a bit of Boing as well installed a few apps and listened to music (only like 3-4 songs) So yeah .....

looser9 said:
well,possibly energy
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No offence, but concerning battery life, try anything BUT Energy ROMs. Even though NRG developer claims there are no reasons for it, these ROMs suck your battery dry in a very short time (a day or so). Especially CHT 2.0 versions, besides they are pretty and fast. Very poor battery life was the reason I had to switch from NRG to stock ROM only 2 days ago.

you mean stock htc rom or a stock-like wm 6.5 rom?

teddybalan said:
Hi all,
1. does WM 6.5 consume more battery than WM 6.1?
Thanks
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Well it depends also of your use voice and data use. Personnaly, I have 2 full working days with Exquisite 4.20 (Radio 1.17.25.09 & Ril 1.15.25.14), Active Sync push @15min, and mainly a mail and web usage (so it's mainly Opera 9.7 that lays in RAM). I consider this as pretty good, but if you have an extensive use of Music, or Video over voice and data, no miracles are possible whatever the rom you use.
As far as I remember, a stock HTC rom did not gave more stamina, but cooked stock 6.5 will do. Sense or TF3D are not neutral for battery at all.

NRGZ don't be so shy...
I use EnergyROM and it can go 2 whole days with good amount of usage before it needs a recharge. And 3-4 if I do not use so much, or just answer calls and send txts.
Anyways, great ROMS! And god thank you that you still update for us Raphael users!

tkima1 said:
NRGZ don't be so shy...
I use EnergyROM and it can go 2 whole days with good amount of usage before it needs a recharge. And 3-4 if I do not use so much, or just answer calls and send txts.
Anyways, great ROMS! And god thank you that you still update for us Raphael users!
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My experiences concern one but latest 21680 ROM. I hope in 21681 something was done with the poorest energy management I had ever seen. My phone couldn't last one whole day (sic!), so I got rid of that ROM and now battery lasts for 2-3 days, as always. Besides, I like NRG stuff very much and consider this a single stumble on a way to perfectness.