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Hi to all,
I, among some others am experiencing battery drain since upgrading to WM6 even though I am running under the same circumstances as before the upgrade with just a few less programs running etc. If anyone can shed any light on a fix for this or suggestions (turning off bluetooth has no great effect) then I would gladly like to hear them.
I know Malik is also experiencing the problem so I know I am not alone.
Thanks.
I am experiencing the exactly the same great battery usage rates between faria, super rom, and wm6. All overclocked at 260.
shannoncole05 said:
I am experiencing the exactly the same great battery usage rates between faria, super rom, and wm6. All overclocked at 260.
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when u overlock a device it drains the battery much much faster then u expect so to help that don't overlock but if u overlock then the battery goes mad because overlocking takes great deal of amount out to make the device faster.
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when u overlock a device it drains the battery much much faster then u expect.
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I overclocked to 264 (omap) / 286 (bs) MHz without issues. It seems the cpu drains the batt a lot only during "heavy" task execution, e.g. playing a game or watching a movie that is not adapted to qvga. Most of time it just sleeping, as before.
So, i flashed wm6 (pdaviet v.3) and have noticed the same or even less battery drain as before (when my wizard is left alone). You have to check all you're installed to fugure out "the swine"
Vladimyr said:
I overclocked to 264 (omap) / 286 (bs) MHz without issues. It seems the cpu drains the batt a lot only during "heavy" task execution, e.g. playing a game or watching a movie that is not adapted to qvga. Most of time it just sleeping, as before.
So, i flashed wm6 (pdaviet v.3) and have noticed the same or even less battery drain as before (when my wizard is left alone). You have to check all you're installed to fugure out "the swine"
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i have it overclocked to 299 with batterystatus, and no battery drain... the OS isntalled is pdaviet v2 ...
If anything, I've found WM6 to be *better* on battery life than any of the previous WM5 AKUs.
AKU 3.3 would be the best in the WM5 range.
I've also found that the battery life on my device has dramatically increased. I don't have to charge it now for about an extra two days compared to before.
This has been an issue with me as well. I'm running the clean Crossbow ROM (aka Orwells1984 et.al.) Here are the programs I have been running:
2.19 radio rom
Resco Med. Suite 5.42
Pocket Weather
Sprite Backup
Smartskey
Omapclock @ 240mhz
CE Star
I had issues with the today plugin from Resco cutting down my battery life on the old iPAQ 6365. Haven't had ANY problems with previous AKU 3.x versions.
If you're using omapclockplus your device is at normal speeds during standby. I think its the crossbow radio that drains it. Switching between OSs might not change your rom, leaving the battery drain
av0 said:
If you're using omapclockplus your device is at normal speeds during standby. I think its the crossbow radio that drains it. Switching between OSs might not change your rom, leaving the battery drain
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CB does not come with radio. CB is only OS updated.
imisim said:
CB does not come with radio. CB is only OS updated.
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maybe it really is the radio... i moved to 2.17 and since then no battery problems, but im not for sure its that, but possibly since i have same apps installed on fresh WM6 as before when i had battery probs.
Well, I finally did a hard reset and lo and behold the battery drain problem is gone. I had it off the charger for most of the day and kept the WiFi on a bit as well. The ROM on which I really noticed the problem was the Pdaviet3. I'm going to reinstall the Resco Today plugin and see if that does anything. I love this ROM. Clean and fast!
try disconnect "Error reporting". It's on by default.
jwzg said:
Well, I finally did a hard reset and lo and behold the battery drain problem is gone. I had it off the charger for most of the day and kept the WiFi on a bit as well. The ROM on which I really noticed the problem was the Pdaviet3. I'm going to reinstall the Resco Today plugin and see if that does anything. I love this ROM. Clean and fast!
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Weird.. I did this last night too and it seems to have cured the problem...
Anyway I still have the automatic power up issue... Is there a solution other than locking the device? i.e. A registry edit to turn off push email?
I think the battery drain problem MAY have been solved by the hard reset as well.
Tomorrow will be my second day of use since hard reset so I will report my findings.
I remember (when I had Motorola MP220) advice for longer battery life: device should be 100% charged when flashing new ROM. If not, charge it 100% and do the hard reset.
BTW, I had battery drain with Pdaviet ROM v3, 'cose the smatskey was set for overclocking by default.
i own a xda mini s with crossbow (orwells ROM and Radio 1.19), i use direct push and don't have any battery problem.
Had the same problem: batter drained 2 or 3 times as fast as regularly.
Used:
- TomTom6
- SPB Weather
- PocketPC Wakeup
- Resco todayplugin
- Todaytime
Just did a hard reset and reinstalled TomTom & SPB weather.
Everything ran fine, til I installed PocketPC Wakeup.CAB...
So that one might be the problem....
Anyone else tested their software for batterydraining problems?
batterystatus might also be a problem.
I hard reset, did not install batterystatus but installed rest of my normal apps; this solved both my wakeup issues and battery drain issues.
P.S. simply uninstalling batterystatus did nothing, had to reset.
No batterystatus is not the cause because the first time when I had the issue was without batterystatus ever being installed. The problem hasn't really been back even though I now have it installed.
I recently upgraded my wizard from a wm6 rom to another and started to notice the battery indicator dropping much faster if I'm on EDGE networks (but maybe also with GPRS, I'm not sure). Since I didn't flash to the official rom before, I thought I had the common battery drain, so I did this: full backup using spb backup, remove hardspl, flash to original qtek rom, hard reset, flash updated radio rom, softspl, flash to wm6 rom, hard reset, restore previous full backup.
The problem is that I'm still noticing the battery going down faster than before. I'm not sure about it, because with this new rom I have a more reliable way to measure the battery, but before flashing all over again and reinstalling every single program (lots of time) I wanted to ask if my method of flashing does solve the battery drain problem (and therefore this is normal for this rom) or if this method does not solve the problem and I have to do everything without the full backup.
- check if processor speed is always high. Latest BatteryStatus allows variable speeds according to the needs of the OS - calls it CPU scaler;
- check if bluetooth or infra-red are turned ON as they drain some energy;
- check the backlight. Mine is always at the minimum and works fine in almost all occasions (except under bright sun light)
- disable Today timeout
- check power drain with a new battery (if you can get one)
that's all i can think of. maybe others can think of other reasons.
good luck
maybe I didn't explain all... I know what can cause greater battery usage, and I try to avoid it, but comparing the previous rom with the new one it seems the new one uses more battery. I also know this can be a "feature" of the new rom and I don't mind about it, because it's really much better. What I want to make sure is that the battery drain is not caused by improper flashing, because that's just wasting battery for nothing.
ah, right.
I don't think there's such a thing as 'improper flashing' when the new ROM works ok. Except for not performing a hard-reset afterwards i guess nothing can cause that kind of power draining, although some have mentioned corrupted extended-rom but i can't vouch for that
Currently I DO think there is something like 'improper flashing'.
I've read about it in another topic as well.
Since I upgraded to WM5SE rev4 I suffer from a severe battery drain.
For some time I suspected my dual sim adapter (did change to that one about the same time as upgrade), but even without adapter the drains stays wel above 100ma!
Until now i have eliminated all other possibilities.
The best way to upgrade to any custom rom appears to be:
- Flash to an official ROM
- Flash the custom ROM.
I seems to have something to do with the ExtROM that sometimes get 'a bit' corupted causing tha battery drain. Flashing an official ROM makes sure youre device is all fresh before getting the custom things on.
ok, but I already did that. The problem is that I'm still seeing some battery drain, especially if I'm on an EDGE network. I just wanted to know if restoring from a full backup using spbbackup after flashing properly could be the reason or if I must find another cause.
Sometimes can be a Today plugin that is performing some task all the time and that might cause battery drain.
there used to be old topics on that matter so i guess you must dig and raise some dust to get it clear
now that you mention it... there is a new plugin in this rom, I'll disable and test. But I still find strange that when I'm on gprs the battery drain is almost inexistent, but on edge is really big
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now that you mention it... there is a new plugin in this rom, I'll disable and test. But I still find strange that when I'm on gprs the battery drain is almost inexistent, but on edge is really big
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Did you solve your problem?
I can't!
I have experience some issues
When I started trying PDA VIET Roms i feel like I got a new device cause it has superior speed but its caused by An app called OmapClock PLUS that enables an overclock, thats why the speed but it has too many batt drain... so i leave the PDA Viet Roms... I always first downgrade to an original ROM Wm5 then upgrade to a Custom and then hardreset... of course sometimes with a batt at 55% (enough to flash) but Mr SVI on his first release BrightRom has too much Batt monitor... it causes too a batt drain cause the reload constantly by itself to show batt drain... disable all. and no more problems jeje even on his Hornet v1.1 it has drain for me.
Somebody tolds me that I need to reflash my device with a batt at 100% but i didn't prof that solution so if you like to check that. tell us how is it going.
Hope it was usefull.
Just want to inform to whom wants to upgrade their Himalaya's Radio. As my experience i have test almost all Radio version as below:
V1.17 Quite good for Himalaya but sometimes when i sent the SMS it says Undelivery but the recipient has receive our SMS.
V1.18 & 19 Quite good as well bec it suck less baterry than 1.17, but flight mode not good at all when u tune off flight mode ur need to restart ur device. Now i'm using Radio V1.19.
how about 1.08? it said use to be the best for wm6..
but i'm using 1.17 myself coz of battery effect
so whats the best radio version?
whats the best radio version for BATTERY SAVINGS?
whats the best radio version for SIGNAL RECEPTION?
whats the best radio for FUNCTIONALITY, eg. flight mode on and off?
overall whats your best radio version that you could recommend?
i am using had experienced two radio versions.
v 1.08 - very draining on battery of you have a weak signal.
v 1.17 - looks ok but i still want more battery life, i am even using an EXTENDED 3600 mAH battery and under heavy use, approx 80-90 sms per hour for 10 hours, i still charge every night.
I have tried a lot of roms,including touch it v4.5,Jack's 3.0,offocial rom R2AA010 and some chinese roms etc .
The battery performance of R2AA010 is the best,much much better the others.
I don't know why,someone says the official rom lower the CPU frequency,but it still runs quite smoothly and fast.
I hope someone would find out the real reason and this power issue can be resolved in new roms.
The batt life for the cooked roms seems abt the same to me...
well, doing my personal testing, I just tested official (R1 and R2) and Jack's 4.0, 4.5 and now 5.0 (waiting till fix'd version to do a batt test) and I just find all version with the same autonomy.
the main thing I see, Is that I don't configure HSDPA connection autodisconnect in advanced settings (so the connnection is keep alive) battery drains much faster (in all roms).
why my battery drained so fast besides the official rom,maybe somewhere default settings are different between the various Roms.
tf3d just needs more cpu power and memory than the usual today screen of the stock roms. this, of course, drains the battery faster.
Battery consume depends only on cpu and memory (flash too) use (and on the radio, but you can't change that), so it is independent from the roms. Of course heavy loaded roms and today plugins use more power, so you decide what is important for you.
chalid said:
tf3d just needs more cpu power and memory than the usual today screen of the stock roms. this, of course, drains the battery faster.
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I also use TF3D
Yes
I agreed. But my big disapointment is the official have a lot of anoying application that I think I can't live with it.
The official ROM cooking might be the good chance.
it's quite surprising me that x1 battery (1500 mAh) performance is not better than TP (1340mAh).
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vibranze said:
it's quite surprising me that x1 battery (1500 mAh) performance is not better than TP (1340mAh).
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TP has only VGA screen while the X1 has WVGA and the higher resolution screen consumes more power. So it's not so surprising
imo, battery life for wm6.5 by itje is the best
official rom lasted me around 2 days or less back then
my battery was only lasting about a day until i changed to Touch-IT by itje and the battery is now 3-4 days depending on use.
my battery life is completely pony
This is something that is a big pain for me - my battery doesn't even last a day using itje's roms (haven't tested others yet)
I think HSDPA/3G has a lot to do with battery drain. The stock rom seems to disconnect it when it's not in use, but checking my phone now, it's been connected 11hours (since I last reset it). I could be wrong with this comment tho as I've not run the stock rom in months.
Have had a poke round the registry and can't find anything that might be a timeout...anyone more knowledgeable about this than me care to chime in?
djs10 said:
This is something that is a big pain for me - my battery doesn't even last a day using itje's roms (haven't tested others yet)
I think HSDPA/3G has a lot to do with battery drain. The stock rom seems to disconnect it when it's not in use, but checking my phone now, it's been connected 11hours (since I last reset it). I could be wrong with this comment tho as I've not run the stock rom in months.
Have had a poke round the registry and can't find anything that might be a timeout...anyone more knowledgeable about this than me care to chime in?
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you can setup a timeout with the "advanced config" application and yes, leaving data connection enabled draws more battery than just letting it connect when needed.
Hi,
I recently (yesterday) updated to the new official ROM (WWE:2.53.405.5) from the HTC website. Today I have found a serious drain on my battery. From full over night charge it dropped to 42% after about 1.5 hours of no use, an hour or so later and the battery was flat.
There doesn't seem to be any tasks running in the background, but even if there were a battery life of around 3 hours isnt right.
Has anyone else found this with the new update? Any ideas?
Thanks
Gary
Mine drains like never before also, did you hard reset your device after the flash? I did at least.
Yeah, tried a hard reset. I don't understand what could be causing it. Are you getting the same ridiculous short battery life that I am?
Not really, but sometimes if I charge my battery to 100% then put the charger out it can go down to 10% within an hour, that happend to me a week ago. But yes, my battery drains very fast, when listening to music, browsing or whatever, 10% in less than 20 minutes..
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Has anyone else found this with the new update? Any ideas?
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I am experiencing something simular.
In the same configuration and the stock ROM, I got a little over 2 days on a single charge with normal use. Now I am luckly to make it through the day and need to charge my phone every night.
I have improved somewhat by limiting active sync to look for e-mail every 10 minutes instead of "as mail arrives" which tells me that the drain has something to do with the 3G networking.
Assuming the ROM flashed a different radio version, flash back to a different version and see if that improves your battery life.
Assuming the ROM flashed a different radio version, flash back to a different version and see if that improves your battery life.
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I try that and this procedure dont change nothing, from some reason new stock rom drain battery so much, i turn off all radio on my one, no radio at all an battery keep going down, about 10% for 1h-1.5h , so i have to back to previous rom 6.5 stock with manila 2.1 the best one for me, average 3 days on battery
There are some battery improvement tricks available and as there are a lot of requests for these, maybe it would be nice if someone could compile a list and sticky post?
(I heard something about the battery polling frequency for example)
I contacted HTC support and they stated that they were receiving more reports regarding battery drainage after the latest ROM update and that they are in the process of investigating what the root cause is.
Same here after flashing of newest radio rom. Now I´m back on 4.47.25.01 and battery life is much better.
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prdic said:
Same here after flashing of newest radio rom. Now I´m back on 4.47.25.01 and battery life is much better.
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Greetings
The rom you flashed was 2.53.410.3 with the radio 4.49.25.91?
I have that same rom and radio too and my battery drain is simply bad bad bad.
Every reset takes 7 or 10% sometimes of battery too.
This rom with the radio you flashed 4.47.25.01 works better? no more battery drain? That radio version is quite old, from 6.1 rom?
Battery drain is driving me mad
Greetings
Similar problem on my Topaz.... It has been driving me mad for two months now.
The severe battery drain started after flashing the HTC newest ROM (WWE). The battery started draing fom 100% to 0% (without even warning before switcing off) in less tha 5 hours.
So far I tried the following (by order) all with 3G disabled (GSM only) and all data connections off:
1. New battery bought from HTC -> problem persisted
2. Flashed previous ROM version (WWE 6.5) -> same problem
3. Flashed old 6.1 ROM -> same problem
4. Battery calibration and similar "voodoos" -> problem continues
5. Contacted HTC -> they proposed to do all that I previously did and upon my answer said that I would have to send the mobile to repair (under warranty)
6. Sent mobile to service -> motherboard was replaced (new IMEI) and the poblem continues (mobile returned with Portuguse ROM 6.5)
7. Flashed again the wwE ROM 6.5, calibrated battery, applied all the proposed tweaks after reading hundreds of posts in forums -> same problem
8. Maintained ROM and previus radio version 4.49.25.17 ->still continues
The mobile is always consuming 160 mA (wheb screen is on( jumping sometimes to 330 mA
I am running out of ideas. I am considering trying the ANDROID version for TOPAZ and see if at leat the battery lasts more than 5 hours (to disregard hardware fault)
I still did not try any cooked ROMs
I noticed that in spite of all the tweaks the ActiveSync is not disabled as it keeps writing in the logging file. I wonder if there are other processes running and consuming the battery
Any help (that does not touch the obvious as you can see I already tried plenty) will be appreciated
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Greetings
Similar problem on my Topaz.... It has been driving me mad for two months now.
The severe battery drain started after flashing the HTC newest ROM (WWE). The battery started draing fom 100% to 0% (without even warning before switcing off) in less tha 5 hours.
So far I tried the following (by order) all with 3G disabled (GSM only) and all data connections off:
1. New battery bought from HTC -> problem persisted
2. Flashed previous ROM version (WWE 6.5) -> same problem
3. Flashed old 6.1 ROM -> same problem
4. Battery calibration and similar "voodoos" -> problem continues
5. Contacted HTC -> they proposed to do all that I previously did and upon my answer said that I would have to send the mobile to repair (under warranty)
6. Sent mobile to service -> motherboard was replaced (new IMEI) and the poblem continues (mobile returned with Portuguse ROM 6.5)
7. Flashed again the wwE ROM 6.5, calibrated battery, applied all the proposed tweaks after reading hundreds of posts in forums -> same problem
8. Maintained ROM and previus radio version 4.49.25.17 ->still continues
The mobile is always consuming 160 mA (wheb screen is on( jumping sometimes to 330 mA
I am running out of ideas. I am considering trying the ANDROID version for TOPAZ and see if at leat the battery lasts more than 5 hours (to disregard hardware fault)
I still did not try any cooked ROMs
I noticed that in spite of all the tweaks the ActiveSync is not disabled as it keeps writing in the logging file. I wonder if there are other processes running and consuming the battery
Any help (that does not touch the obvious as you can see I already tried plenty) will be appreciated
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Regarding Android on Topaz you will get around 6-8hours of moderate usage but we have some problems with the battery meter right now so android will not show you the exact percent of battery. We still need to optimize battery drivers and so on...
Well fast battery drain is usually a common problems among smartphone device running WinMo, Android,... The touchscreen and its backlight are consuming a lot of battery and of course the hardware in it. Regarding WinMo devices fast battery drains occurs when changing driver bases and radio roms. When you change your driver base be sure to calibrate the battery and wait for few days until drivers & battery "settles down". Anyway the other cause may be that your battery is dead. Thats all i know.
Thanks for the information regarding XANDROID.
The phone worked fine for 7 months on WM 6.1 first and WM 6.5 later, with several ROM upgrades in the between (followed by hard resets) .
The battery used to last 1-1.5 days depending on usage and carrier coverage.
The problem developed recently... And my first step was buying a new battery (which is the one I am using now).
I am now in the process of charging, discharging a bit (20-30%) charging again, to try the "driver settling" theory (I must confess that it is hard to chew but since it cannot get worst....)
bgonc said:
Thanks for the information regarding XANDROID.
The phone worked fine for 7 months on WM 6.1 first and WM 6.5 later, with several ROM upgrades in the between (followed by hard resets) .
The battery used to last 1-1.5 days depending on usage and carrier coverage.
The problem developed recently... And my first step was buying a new battery (which is the one I am using now).
I am now in the process of charging, discharging a bit (20-30%) charging again, to try the "driver settling" theory (I must confess that it is hard to chew but since it cannot get worst....)
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Yeah, carrier coverage also affects battery life + sense 2.5 is really battery hungry so maybe thats the point. My battery also lasts ~1-1.5 days.