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WM6 Crossbow battery drain

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.

Mahmood said:
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.

Battery drainage

Hi,
I was wondering if any of you who are using Touch Pro had a this problem: my battery drains very fast AFTER I use programs like tomtom or skype- I mean that after I close these programs (or other) and charge the battery to full level it drains very fast. The only solution I found so far is to soft reset.
Any ideas? Thanks.

mbpiano said:
Hi,
I was wondering if any of you who are using Touch Pro had a this problem: my battery drains very fast AFTER I use programs like tomtom or skype- I mean that after I close these programs (or other) and charge the battery to full level it drains very fast. The only solution I found so far is to soft reset.
Any ideas? Thanks.
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Hey the battery life isnt great, but you can do something to make it better. There are currently three + threads opened discussing the battery life problems. Try one of those. The next time you post it might help to search and include your ROM, Radio, and location information.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=462519
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=460715
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=472996

Thanks slawcop!

Please help me my battery drain quickly after upgrading wm6.1
Hello, ive problem after upgrading my dopod 838 pro to wm61. crc 13.3 rom normal, my battery very fast draining, I try also many rom, its still the same. if i make a video call my phone suddenly shut down, i think my battery run out 5% to 10 Percent every minutes. After full charge of my battery only can use around 5-10 minutes. the most worse if my battery full charge i only can acess to internet not more then 5 minutes.
Firstly i thought my battery is dead. when i bought a new battery still the same problem no change.
Please help me..any idea.
* it is possible if to downgrade my official rom wm 5? btw i upgrade my SPL V9 2.60 too.
im panic now, please help me. what should i do???

rvr74 said:
Hello, ive problem after upgrading my dopod 838 pro to wm61. crc 13.3 rom normal, my battery very fast draining, I try also many rom, its still the same. if i make a video call my phone suddenly shut down, i think my battery run out 5% to 10 Percent every minutes. After full charge of my battery only can use around 5-10 minutes. the most worse if my battery full charge i only can acess to internet not more then 5 minutes.
Firstly i thought my battery is dead. when i bought a new battery still the same problem no change.
Please help me..any idea.
* it is possible if to downgrade my official rom wm 5? btw i upgrade my SPL V9 2.60 too.
im panic now, please help me. what should i do???
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I would love to help you, but it has been 4 years since I messed with that phone...go to here and search......You will find lots of help there especially if you search....http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=254

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I would love to help you, but it has been 4 years since I messed with that phone...go to here and search......You will find lots of help there especially if you search....http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=254
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Thanks a lots, i hope i can find the solution.

Battery problems

I haven't used my himalaya for a while. When i saw there was wm 6.5 available, i grabbed my himalaya. In wm 6.1 my phone said that the battery was empty. So it's been in the dock for a whole night, but it was still empty.
I was a little bit hasty to see wm 6.5, so i flashed it anyway. Now in 6.5 my battery is not recognised. (It says Main battery: Unknown). The battery is a half year old. Does somebody know what might have happened or how i can recharge my battery again?
I allready pulled it out and plugged it in again, but it didn't help. Same as a hard and a soft reset.
Any advise is welcome.

kareltie said:
I haven't used my himalaya for a while. When i saw there was wm 6.5 available, i grabbed my himalaya. In wm 6.1 my phone said that the battery was empty. So it's been in the dock for a whole night, but it was still empty.
I was a little bit hasty to see wm 6.5, so i flashed it anyway. Now in 6.5 my battery is not recognised. (It says Main battery: Unknown). The battery is a half year old. Does somebody know what might have happened or how i can recharge my battery again?
I allready pulled it out and plugged it in again, but it didn't help. Same as a hard and a soft reset.
Any advise is welcome.
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i think what you need to do is to get your battery off your himalaya and have it shocked using a tester or some ac/dc adapter. your battery is dead and for it to be alive again it needs a little burst of energy. i hope it helps...

If you leave lithium ion batteries discharged for a long time they ususally die out and will be unusable. Buy a new battery.

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kareltie said:
I haven't used my himalaya for a while. When i saw there was wm 6.5 available, i grabbed my himalaya. In wm 6.1 my phone said that the battery was empty. So it's been in the dock for a whole night, but it was still empty.
I was a little bit hasty to see wm 6.5, so i flashed it anyway. Now in 6.5 my battery is not recognised. (It says Main battery: Unknown). The battery is a half year old. Does somebody know what might have happened or how i can recharge my battery again?
I allready pulled it out and plugged it in again, but it didn't help. Same as a hard and a soft reset.
Any advise is welcome.
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sorry, i'v got confused, hence, this clarification..
did you mean you were able to use your old batt to run your BA while in 6.1 though its empty and, thereafter, while still empty, you flashed your BA with 6.5? or it is not totally empty at all when you did it?
otherwise stated, could it be the battery indicator *whether empty/unknown" that you wanted to resolve? .. regards

my phone is running out of battery very fast

my phone´s battery is empty in less then half a day since a few weeks. before that is least at least two days. sometimes it´s just the whole day in my pocket and it start vibrating when empty. And als my power button stopped working.
I dont know what to do i need help please help me fast!
I tried every thing changing rom and hard resets nothing helps

Do you have a data connection, bluetooth or wifi turned on? These are known to drain your batter. Have you done any modifications to your phone ie changing Rom, Radio?

I have the same problam, my battery is empty within aprox. 4-6hours. The weird thing is that android itself uses about 97% of the battery.
Info: I have changed the default rom,radio - is that the reason?

kossie12 said:
my phone´s battery is empty in less then half a day since a few weeks. before that is least at least two days. sometimes it´s just the whole day in my pocket and it start vibrating when empty. And als my power button stopped working.
I dont know what to do i need help please help me fast!
I tried every thing changing rom and hard resets nothing helps
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pointia said:
I have the same problam, my battery is empty within aprox. 4-6hours. The weird thing is that android itself uses about 97% of the battery.
Info: I have changed the default rom,radio - is that the reason?
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Try running again stock ROM

i changed rom and radio and did hard spl. i restored to original htc rom (not sure radio, could someone tell me what version is the original) can i remove hard spl completly?

Would buying a new accu fix most of the problem

either get back to old rom or update your radio and Rilphone. Do some research and see for yourself which radio version and Rilphone will suite you best with your cooked rom.
Im using radio 1.17.25.09 and i noticed that my battery life is longer then before with my old 900mah battery.

Karbo81 said:
either get back to old rom or update your radio and Rilphone. Do some research and see for yourself which radio version and Rilphone will suite you best with your cooked rom.
Im using radio 1.17.25.09 and i noticed that my battery life is longer then before with my old 900mah battery.
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I use stock htc 2.03 rom.
i'm going to test your radio.
what means rilphone?

Updated ROM: Serious battery drain.

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..

gawwee said:
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

bgonc said:
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.