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Serious Battery Drain due to RADIO

I am using Dutty's ROM (Dutty's Official WM6.1 5.2.19716 UC RTM) which is by Far the best of them all (IMO).
I have had no errors or trouble with anything (e.g MMS worked fine w/o fixing, GPS works fine, etc)
No issues at all with the ROM itself and its lightning fast
(Great ROM Dutty i must say!).
The Radio I chose to put was 1.64.08.21. This Radio works fine, except for one serious issue : BATTERY DRAIN TO THE MAX.
A 2 minute phone conversation (GSM, not 3G) drains the battery 5%
A 10 minite phone conversation (same as above) drains the batter over 25%.
Is anyone else using this radio with this rom? and if so do you experiance similar drains?
I want to try a different RADIO to see if it will make a difference..Can anyone recommend one (That is compatible with this ROM)?
Thanks

a simple search for battery test would have given you this results
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1974781&postcount=88
there's also this link in the wiki
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1862232&postcount=1464

Diamond battery Life With Extended battery Pack

Hi i have a diamond with the official Htc Extended Battery Pack .... and the thing give me only juice for 3/4 of a day ....with moderate use .... Is it my ROM and radio ??
ROM :1.93.0.0 (Official)
SPL(Original)
Radio:1.00.25.05 (Official)
As you can see i have not flashed the deivce .... but in order to improve my battery liife , I am willing to take that step.

I dont think it makes much of a difference. The Diamond has a powerful processor and the battery doesnt suite the phone except that it makes it thin. If you dont mind a little thickness, buy a larger battery.
I think thats the only way to go.

I think he is saying that he already has a 1350mAh Battery Extension attached, and with this battery he gets only 3/4 of a day.
That seems to short for me. Since 900mAh almost lasts 2 days....
Anyone else can give his opinion about BP270 1350mAh?

I think it matters whether you are using push email or not. Or, even just checking mail automatically on a regular basis. Signal is also an issue. If you don't check mail and have a strong signal, you'll get good battery life. If you're like me and check 2 accounts and work in a basement, better have the charger at your desk

lite user here
my battery lasts about 5 days here

liamhere said:
my battery lasts about 5 days here
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2G or 3G?
Push?
Inet?
Thanks

No Email or 3g
The battery life of 3/4 of a day is with no 3G and no Mail checking .... range is always 3-4 bars .... ....Any help ??

liamhere said:
my battery lasts about 5 days here
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mine only lasts 3/4 of a day as well!!! how do u get urs to last for 5 days???

Hey,
I have the same problem here... I have an extended battery too, and it only last me for about 3/4 of a day as well, which was better then the original battery which only lasted of 1/2 a day... The only thing that I'm using the phone for is a couple of text messages, and like 1hr of talk time a day... I'm also having problem getting GPS to lock with this extended battery. I did some search and some people said that it's the phone, that we might have a defective phone... Because I tried everything, every radio, battery fix, tweek... But if anyone can help, I will donate as a thank you.

With radio rom 1.09.25.23
and Rom v. 2.03.401.2
my 900mAh battery ,provide me about 2,5-3 days without charging with moderate use

liamhere said:
my battery lasts about 5 days here
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...also here!
4-5 5 days with 3g use.

Quick question on the same theme..
How do I turn off the 3g?

flraer said:
Quick question on the same theme..
How do I turn off the 3g?
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I get about 2 days with rather moderate usage, find that if i turn off 3G by default i get more, i also find that my call quality is better here on GSM. I'm running Dutty's v4 ROM & 1.08.25.20 Radio.
To turn off 3G
start menu/settings/connections/comm manager
then change 3G to off.
Good luck!
Steve

After flashing the new 2.03 ROM I noticed, that my battery drained really quickly (compared to older ROMs).
After running Advanced Config, I noticed, that all the power saving features are disabled. Before enabling them the phone used to go from 100% charge in the evening to ~80% in the morning (without any usage, of course).
After applying the power saving features it only loses ~5% during the night.
With moderate usage I get about 3-4 days without charging. Without these settings I used to get only get ~2 days...
ROM version 2.03
Radio 1.00.25.08

2 different devices
I think we face two situations ! The duration of over 2 days and those lasting less than a day! Why?
In my case for example as any in the home do not fall below 100 mA. When Kaiser was consuming only 14 mA

Rom 1.93.831.1
Radio 1.00.25.08
And my battery survive only 12 hours.
i tried a lot of radio version but no luck...do i have the right ROM????

Moderate
I think we should define what "moderate usage" means lol
Mine last 2 days
I don't think 1 hour a day of talk is moderate.
I have found that it seems that some softwares are very power hungry. For exemple klaxon from this forum works perfect but when I use g-clock from this forum too for the same usage, it doesn't work because my battery is empty the next morning lol. Coreplayer is suprisingly low power hungry but allreader+ ask a lot from the battery.
I don't use push mail but 3g and I only enable wifi when needed. I have seen here some softwares that keep gps alive too and this must be power consimming too.

best radio for tilt? for battery

hey . igot the
wm 6.1
radio ver: 1.65.21.18
and my battery can hold like 12 hours.
and that with abit talk no wifi and noting.
i think that its drains too fast.
if i use some straming my battery go low so fast 10 min of streming goes like 20 % its alot
there is a good room that you guys suject for better battery saving?

RFOX100 said:
hey . igot the
wm 6.1
radio ver: 1.65.21.18
and my battery can hold like 12 hours.
and that with abit talk no wifi and noting.
i think that its drains too fast.
if i use some straming my battery go low so fast 10 min of streming goes like 20 % its alot
there is a good room that you guys suject for better battery saving?
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Everybody uses thier phone differently, and since each radio is different and will affect the battery differently based on how you use your phone, there is no real way to say one radio is better then another. That is something you will have to find for yourself. You may also want to make sure you use the recommended radio that the cook recommends. Check out the ultimate radio thread and see what others have used.

RFOX100 said:
hey . igot the
wm 6.1
radio ver: 1.65.21.18
and my battery can hold like 12 hours.
and that with abit talk no wifi and noting.
i think that its drains too fast.
if i use some straming my battery go low so fast 10 min of streming goes like 20 % its alot
there is a good room that you guys suject for better battery saving?
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Try them all and then let us know.

well lol i dont know alot about those radios but i got the normal radio from the orginal 6.1 wb . i can talk hours in the phone really and the battery goes really slow but if i am playing with the phone abit its goes down really fast. i use most wifi and talking. less straming.
my 3g is alwyas on.
any i got in the task manager the activestnc is always on too.

Best battery rom?

Hi, has tried some of the rooms here, but is wondering if anyone can recomend a room whit good batterylife?
I have one energy room now, and like the work all the room bulders have done, but really need more battery.
Thanks

stclem said:
Hi, has tried some of the rooms here, but is wondering if anyone can recomend a room whit good batterylife?
I have one energy room now, and like the work all the room bulders have done, but really need more battery.
Thanks
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Really depends on what radio you use also..
but I found Topix to be good on battery.
Turning off 3G will save you alot of battery, and putting your back light onto auto or turning it right down.
How much battery do you get currently?

I think that auto backlight use a lot of power because the light captor is always on. So, i recommend you to set the backlight to about 25 percent and to disable 3G when you don't use it. There are a lot of tip you can find yourself by exploring your Blackstone a little more

hm, i have to charge the phone every night, and almost every day it runs out of power.
The wifi is almost always off. Backlight is manualyset to lov on batt.
The 3g is in use, and have push mail on.
If this is the reason for battery is lov, i really cant have this phone. Im getting bored of running out of battery if im out on the town, or if i want to lisen to music.

Push mail can be problematic.
So, every HTC user who really enjoys his phone has to charge it every night.
MJ was right, "You are not alone"

stclem said:
hm, i have to charge the phone every night, and almost every day it runs out of power.
The wifi is almost always off. Backlight is manualyset to lov on batt.
The 3g is in use, and have push mail on.
If this is the reason for battery is lov, i really cant have this phone. Im getting bored of running out of battery if im out on the town, or if i want to lisen to music.
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I leave 3G turned off, have emails sync every 2hours, backlight set to auto, wifi off, text quite alot through the day and a few phone calls.
My battery can last 2 - 3 days easy

first_damned said:
I leave 3G turned off, have emails sync every 2hours, backlight set to auto, wifi off, text quite alot through the day and a few phone calls.
My battery can last 2 - 3 days easy
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Tha same. And battary is sooo good

going to try having 3g off, even if i dont want to.
Thinking about trying this rom
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=616294
Thinking about updating radio also, but what is ril?
I have some problems to understand the radio wiki.
If someone have a radio and ril to recomend, please do so.

stclem said:
going to try having 3g off, even if i dont want to.
Thinking about trying this rom
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=616294
Thinking about updating radio also, but what is ril?
I have some problems to understand the radio wiki.
If someone have a radio and ril to recomend, please do so.
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Rilphone is the .dll file which communicates between your phone and the radio.
I recommend radio 1.17.25.09 and Rilphone 1.14.25.24

first_damned said:
Rilphone is the .dll file which communicates between your phone and the radio.
I recommend radio 1.17.25.09 and Rilphone 1.14.25.24
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Have you tried ril 1.15?

I'm also using Rill 1.15 and battery life is better than with rill 1.14
Try for a few days like 4 or 5, than you will observe that battery usage is good. Usage is always higher with WM 6.5 than stock.

I was also having battery consumption problems; i have been doing some test and there are some things to take into cosideration:
- If you've been tying Android you must hard reset because it can mess up battery usage.
- Radio 17....... is giving some people (me for example) high battery usage so i've downgraded to 15...
- With radio 15 and Energy Rom (wm6.5 + sense 2.1) with no mail running or any apps istalled, batt is excellent; good for 2 or 3 days no prob.
- I added my gmail account with sync every 5mins and battery usage stills seems to be more than reasonable.
- I have now added my hotmail account using push and i'll report back to see what the results have been.
- It is also a good idea to recalibrate the battery; let your phone run it all the way down until it switches off, then put it on charge for a whole night (without turning it on), this should recalibrate the battery drivers.
Good luck!!!!

motorboy-johnny said:
I'm also using Rill 1.15 and battery life is better than with rill 1.14
Try for a few days like 4 or 5, than you will observe that battery usage is good. Usage is always higher with WM 6.5 than stock.
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I am going to try rilphone 1.15 now with radio 1.17 as you are using

stclem said:
hm, i have to charge the phone every night, and almost every day it runs out of power.
The wifi is almost always off. Backlight is manualyset to lov on batt.
The 3g is in use, and have push mail on.
If this is the reason for battery is lov, i really cant have this phone. Im getting bored of running out of battery if im out on the town, or if i want to lisen to music.
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Thats my routine too... but only because i use my phone as a music player... A LOT!!!...
during normal "light" use (couple brief calls, some SMS, emails and Twitter updates through 3G, Wi-fi off, bluetooth headset On) my battery can last 2 days with 15 or 10% left at the end of the second day...
the two things i saw that "corrode" battery energy are:
-Wi-Fi
-Music/Video Player (Manilla, WMP or whatever)
Data connection through 3G or Edge are also consuming... but if using few and brief times during the day the impact on battery duration is low...

Sorry to sound extremely sad...but I tried all the ROMS etc for batt life.
Love the Energy ROMS...my fav all time! But just found batt life drained too fast (plus memory slowly creeps up too high)!
So, I went back to the ROM that just gives me the best performance and batt life...Dutty's 6.5 R15...yes I know, the same one Moses used, but just too stable and functional not to have!!
I can go 4 days with normal daily use!

first_damned said:
I leave 3G turned off, have emails sync every 2hours, backlight set to auto, wifi off, text quite alot through the day and a few phone calls.
My battery can last 2 - 3 days easy
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Hi first_damned, Is your phone HSPL or USPL?

dragonpluto said:
Hi first_damned, Is your phone HSPL or USPL?
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Hiya Dragonpluto,
my phone is HSPL 1.56

thanks first_damned for answering my question. I was wondering if the HSPL better than USPL ... Mine is al also HSPL using the same Radio 1.17 + Ril 1.15. however, my phone battery life is not as good as yours. Do you have any more tips for improving my phone battery usage?

motorboy-johnny said:
I'm also using Rill 1.15 and battery life is better than with rill 1.14
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me too ))

please, post the rill here
we want to try it too!!

[Q] battery

How much time can the original battery serve? please help me! And the unoriginal 1800mah battery?

it all depends on usage, at best your gonna get 2 days max. at worst, 2 hours.

and with using wifi?

realy bad battery life help me!
i bought my phone about 3 weeks ago and i have happy with everything els but the battery is so so poor on my phone im useing
ROM version. 1.93.401.2 WWE
ROM Date. 07/10/08
radio version. 1.00.25.05
protocol version. 52.29.25.12H
MY BATTERY DOESNT EVEN LAST OVER NIGHT FOR AN ALARM AND THAT IS WHEN ITS ON STAND BY! i have went out and bought the extended battery aswell and it only lasts about 4 hrs tops and i have tryed lots of roms-radios-reg tweeks any help will be much appreciated i will give anything a shot cheers

Make a low backround light and it will last for 10 hours

The base for a significant battery time is a stock-rom and the following factors:
- Provider network (phone switches to different broadcast strengh, this depends on how far the mast is away from your phone and wich network type your provider uses)
- turn of the auto-feature for GSM/3G mode and set it to GSM (fix)
- turn of wifi
- turn of bluetooth (even though I have it permanent on, and my battery lasts for 2 days)
- what are you doing with your phone, how long (games, internet, email, phonecalls ...)?
- do you have a permanent GPRS or 3g-data connection? (does it look automatically on the emailserver for new mails?)
- what is your radio version?
- backlight and sleep time

realy bad battery life help me!
ok i have bluetooth off and wifi off
i hardly use it i tryed this and it ran down all the same it must last about 4-5 hours
wich is so not good enough and i turn off gps (3g) and for my back light so i could get the best of my new battery i put them all to minimum and i have auto ajust backlight turned on and dim the backlight if device is locked on
ROM version. 1.93.401.2 WWE
ROM Date. 07/10/08
radio version. 1.00.25.05
protocol version. 52.29.25.12H
and thats what im using PLEASE HELP WITH THIS i have looked all over and it is still not solved
thanks again