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Hi all. My first post...
So, here the point. I have an Universal, i think one of the first in commerce at least in Italy (well, i've buyed it.. oh.. 2 years ago, more or less).
Now, it had some problems: slow in some moments, bad call sygnal and sound quality. Nothing that a good Windows mobile 6.0 ROM cannot resolve!.
But in last 6 months, something going wrong: the phone is unstable, when i wire it at the charge, sometimes it don't start quickly to charge.. the red light don't appear and the battery don't be recharged.
Also, even with full charged battery, when i launch TomTom, after few seconds it reset, as all battery energy was quickly drained.
The combination of both events is funny: when i'm in car, and i want to use the tomtom, i have to collegate the Universal to car charger, but the universal have to auto-reset itself before starting to use energy from car.
Well, in my opinion this is a battery issue, and in yours? It can be also an hardware problem?
And, if it is a battery problem, i think it can be resolved substituting the actual battery. Can you suggest me an idea for an efficient but economical new one?
Thanks all.
wow...
too muck answers....
someone that can syntetize?
Hi,
If you search around, you'll find plenty of threads dealing with the problem. God helps those, who help themselves...
Mowk said:
Hi all. My first post...
So, here the point. I have an Universal, i think one of the first in commerce at least in Italy (well, i've buyed it.. oh.. 2 years ago, more or less).
Now, it had some problems: slow in some moments, bad call sygnal and sound quality. Nothing that a good Windows mobile 6.0 ROM cannot resolve!.
But in last 6 months, something going wrong: the phone is unstable, when i wire it at the charge, sometimes it don't start quickly to charge.. the red light don't appear and the battery don't be recharged.
Also, even with full charged battery, when i launch TomTom, after few seconds it reset, as all battery energy was quickly drained.
The combination of both events is funny: when i'm in car, and i want to use the tomtom, i have to collegate the Universal to car charger, but the universal have to auto-reset itself before starting to use energy from car.
Well, in my opinion this is a battery issue, and in yours? It can be also an hardware problem?
And, if it is a battery problem, i think it can be resolved substituting the actual battery. Can you suggest me an idea for an efficient but economical new one?
Thanks all.
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hi,
yes search
but buy a new battery first
greetings,
wout
Hello,
I have a problem with the S9. While listening to music every couple minutes or so, it's like it skips for a second or two.
Also it sometimes will turn itself off.
Anyone experienced any of the two ?
Known problem. Even says so on the box. (Says you should keep it above your waist otherwise it will cut out).
That's bs. it is above my waste...
marek101 said:
That's bs. it is above my waste...
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I had the same - with all 3 of the S9s that I had. Sound quality was great, but it was hyper sensitive to phone location.
And all 3 of them failed with exactly the same problem. They're supposed to be suitable for active people - I used mine whilst running on the treadmill down at the gym. Bit of perspiration in them and then went bzzzzt, stop. Rubbish.
The Jabras that I'm now using don't look anywhere near as good, and don't sound quite as good, but the battery lasts for twice as long, and they don't die when I get a bit sweaty (ewwwww!)
hmmm that really strange as i constantly use my S9 with both my wizard and athena and have never noticed this problem even though my phones are usually lefin my trouser pockets below my waist
True, but it dies after a bit of sweat hits it...and you may find some work better with other phones. IMHO I suggest wait for it to become in-ear and better water protection.
I found the range to be dependent on the bitrate of A2DP
When i 1st got my S9 i could listen from 2 rooms apart but the sound was a bit low quality, ofcourse i value quality and i cnaged it and now the phone has to be really close to me, but its not a prob since i only use it omw to school n back.
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I have a similar problem with my S9, except it constantly stutters, playing less than a second at a time. It's completely unuseable.
I've tried changing the bitpool settings, but it didn't make a difference, playback still unuseable. Does anyone know what else it may be? Or if there are any hacks or apps, or any way in which this can be resolved? It used to work fine before I upgraded from WM5 to 6.1
Moto S9 -> SPV M700 (trinity) -> WM6.1
S9
I got my first S9 today by mail, and I connected it so it would charge, and first the light was red and then after about two hours turned blue so I tought it was fully charged, but when I disconnected it the light was just stucked there and I'm unable to turn it off or on, does anyone have any idea why this might be?
Did you order off of ebay jcostantini? If you did you might have a fake or defective there.
Kraize
Yes - Have an S9. It worked fine on my Trinity (SPV M700) before I flashed the roms and upgraded to 6.1
Now it doesn't want to work. Every half second it skips for a 10th of a second, this happens no matter how I change the bitpool sizes etc etc.
Does anyone... ANYONE... have an idea.
I have tried it on a couple of different radio ROM's too...
Cheers!
could be just the ROM, i would suggest just waiting for a good final version to come out for your 6.1 loaded phone... if its already loaded, then i suggest you post it in your specific phone problem to troubleshoot
i have s9 + HTC juno/phoebus with the clean dev 6.1 running and they run awesome, phone placement is no issues and i only have some skip issues every few minutes which i dont' mind... sound clarity and quality is excellent
my htc s621 is randomly turning off on itself. i notice it does this either when it is feeling warm, or when im outside and the weather is a little chilli. i thought it might be a battery problem but i dont want to waste the money buying a battery if its not going to solve my problem. anyone encounter something like this before? any help or advice would be much appreciated. thank you.
had same issue a while ago. i solved it with a new battery...
you can check if your battery is bloated by making it spin on a flat table. if the battery keeps spinning, then it means you likely need to get a new one...
Probably the battery. I'm still managing with my original battery but I talk and text very little. When I put it under a heavy load like browsing, it shuts down. Doesn't do it when it's plugged into AC.
dboyer said:
Probably the battery. I'm still managing with my original battery but I talk and text very little. When I put it under a heavy load like browsing, it shuts down. Doesn't do it when it's plugged into AC.
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get a new battery... a friend of mine had that same issue.. turned on wifi, opened google, bye phone... i told him to get a new battery and he's fine with his dash
i have the same problem. I have buy a new battery on "battery update" (Hong Kong web site) payed €20,00 (almost £18,00) ..perfect!
But i must say that..unfortunately ..since i use 3evo roms...battery seems going crazy! Maybe i wrong...however
my batter is almost 4 years old but only from few time it's seems "go away"!
i't happens since i use often dash for watch divx and listem music !
task manager say :"battery backup 255% status high but "mAh" are very down!! Change your battery mate!
I have to concur. The same thing was happening to my phone over the past 2 weeks. Purchased a new battery from ebay (~$10) and everything is good to go. In fact, with the latest 3vo Rom, in the past 2 days my battery has been lasting longer!
hey guys deff a battery issue went through same thing with my wifes. fyi if you have had the phone less than a year call htc they will replace battery under warrenty no questions asked just have to have the imei number. swapped out the wifes payed nothing and fixed the problem.
hey, i just started getting this too.
and my battery is only 2 weeks old...
battery, I had same problem
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=499819&highlight=phone+turning
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=441703&highlight=phone+turning
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=539245&highlight=phone+shutdown
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=368495&highlight=phone+shutdown
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=438221&highlight=phone+shutdown
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=418839&highlight=phone+shutdown
That's just a few yep it's your battery
THANKS you guys were a great help
Ray_jai said:
hey, i just started getting this too.
and my battery is only 2 weeks old...
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did you buy your phone used or new?
trinistylez said:
my htc s621 is randomly turning off on itself. i notice it does this either when it is feeling warm, or when im outside and the weather is a little chilli. i thought it might be a battery problem but i dont want to waste the money buying a battery if its not going to solve my problem. anyone encounter something like this before? any help or advice would be much appreciated. thank you.
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oh yes. mine would actually turn off, and even when its on, the network goes on and more off than on, impossible to do anything but browse th net, if anyone has any idea on wat to change on it, i've also upgrade to WM6.5 but it didnt help,
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Turns out it was a bad battery.
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SO, I have an sx66 that will connect with little to no problem when the battery is above %50... but as soon as the battery hits that %50 (or below) mark, all bets are off, and it keeps telling me that the answering modem keeps disconnecting, or is unavailable. But, as soon as I plug it into a charger, viola, I can connect and keep going.
I'm assuming there is a setting somewhere in the registry that has to do something with something. I could understand the battery being wayyyy down, and the phone just not having the juice to connect, but this is very consistent. I also can't find any relevant posts concerning this issue.
please help.
do you have a voltage multimeter? because this sounds alot like the problems my BA have that nobody gave me any input on.
when the phone was on hte charger, i couold make calls and **** noproblem. however, when i took it off? dead. instantly, it dropped all cell reception.
i figured it was the battery, so iswapped it out. and it SEEMS to have resovled itself.
so my opinion is, swap out the battery and give that a shot. its very likely thats the problem.
if it doesnt help, try flashing it with WM5 and setting it up. that may give us some insight as to if its hardware or software.
I'm gonna go with it's a bad(ish) battery. I noticed the other evening, and again tonight (paying attention) that the battery was registering %49, but the whole unit kept cutting off as follows: do some stuff, close all with pocket nav, turn off the screen, and into my pocket. Pull it out, 5 minutes later and turn it on - to the boot screen. do whatever, turn off the screen, back in my pocket. 5 minutes later, same problem. I think the battery is registering it's capacity wrong? I'll look to see how to re calibrate.
boot screen being what, the screen alignment or what?
btu yeah. it sounds like the battery. that or the blueangels have really inconsistent radios.
tmo splash screen with the rom radio and ext rom numbers....
ass i thought this was hte otherthread lmfao.
and yeah. that same **** happend to me when i first got my imate. it's the battery.
Tried to recalibrate. not good.
I tried to cover that pin like it says in the wiki (universal's battery problem) and put the battery back in... the device wouldn't power on, so i pulled the battery and tape, and now the unit boots and all, but won't find service. at all.
Gonna try the newest radio stack, and see if that helps.
Upgrade to 1.15 saved the radio. It works now.
ohgood., you had me worried, i think its sad i care about your ba almost as much as mine.
butyeha. you should do a SD backup, theres a section in the wiki wiht the commands. then dump it with dd as an image to your pc, so incase you do **** something up you can flash from SD. of course if its a actual brick, it wont help but its a decent insurance policy.
Gotta say, God has smiled upon my cell phone situation(s).
I had to use a ****ty frankenrazr (built from parts of others) for like 2 years, and it was a phone/txtr, and that's it.
I guess for my patience, I have been rewarded with bounty... A BA, now with a camera, aluminum case, sync cables, new speaker, an a pen stylus, for about $45, and just two days ago I got a universal for some old fujitsu touchsceen computers and a little cash - about $150 in all.... Awsome
i have same problem with my MDA III from tmobile
i dont have any SD but i"ll buy 2GB
i have orginal microsoft 2003 softwere installed and i got the phone like gift
when is it charging everything works fine (wifi,gprs) but when i put out phone from USB CHARGER and go to wifi,gprs,night mode for camera or similar
IT JUST FLASHES-BLACK AND IT TURNS OFF
YEah, got a new battery, and it still cuts off at 42%. Eh...
Got a stock Sprint CDMA Touch Pro 2 (WM 6.1) from a European seller on EBay about a week ago. Put my Vodafone SIM card in it and away we go... worked fine. I unlocked it with Olipro's web site and replaced the radio with his 2.05.00WV so I can use it with GSM carriers in the USA when I go there. So far so good, and I began piling on a lot of software -- upgrades of things I had been running on my hx4705 iPAQ. SPB Pocket Plus, Pocket Plus Diary, SKTools, Flexmail, and so on and so forth. I sync it with Thunderbird using Birdiesync (which I can recommend).
At some point in this process it began to get very slow and flaky, with lots of crashes. I began to get worried and removed Pocket Plus Diary -- I have over 1600 contacts. That sped it up some, but I noticed my battery was draining at a terrible rate. I had installed Advanced Config and set it for maximum performance, but most of those settings have to do with cache sizes and don't actually burn CPU time. I also set all the power management settings to Enabled. But it was still dropping like a rock within a couple of hours.
Eventually I began to despair -- slow, buggy, no battery life... I thought I had bought a lemon. I was on the point of flashing somebody else's ROM (without knowing who in the hell's I should choose -- everybody brags about their speed but few brag about their battery life). I decided to hard-reset the thing and see what happened. I charged it back up to about 67%, left everything else alone and put it in Suspend Mode by my bed. (No Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, of course, I'm not an idiot.) I live in an area with good coverage.
In the morning it was dead as a doornail and I was sure that I had bought a pup. I can't deal with a phone that I can't put by my bedside for 8 hours -- I travel constantly and don't always have access to power. But since all the software was off it again, I starting putting things back, very slowly and carefully.
Long story short, I now seem to have very good battery life indeed WITHOUT flashing a new ROM. I'm not entirely sure why, but these are the steps I've taken, just in case it helps somebody else:
Touch FLO 3D off. It's a kludge anyway. I'm stylus guy.
Flashed yet another radio, 2.32.00WU
Phone network set to GSM only, not Global. (Settings > Phone > Network)
Backlight auto adjust is OFF, backlight turns off after 2 minutes on battery.
Device turns off after 3 minutes on battery.
Turned off Error Reporting. (Settings > System > Error Reporting)
Turned on all the Power Mangement features in AdvancedConfig.
Made a lot of registry tweaks recommended by Ninja Duck over at PPCGeeks. HAICH TEE TEE PEE ://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=110813 I didn't use his cab, just did them by hand. Among other things it turns off OBEX -- although I only turn on Bluetooth as necessary anyway.
HKLM\Drivers\BuiltIn\Battery "PollInterval" set to 20000 instead of 5000.
In the Comm Manager, I keep data connections OFF until needed. No push mail, weather, etc. for me. When I want to read mail, I'll check for mail.
ALSO using RedFrogFish's Data Controller 1.0.1.8 just to be dead certain data connections are disabled.
Renamed OperaL.exe in Windows to OperaL-.exe. This prevents Opera 9 from starting on boot.
Messages > Options > my account > Send/Receive Schedule > Automatic Send/Receive set to Manually.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\SDCARD\ClientDrivers\Cl ass\SDMemory_Class "DisablePowerManagement" = dword : 00000000
Removed PKG.lnk, poutlook.lnk, and HTCStartUp.lnk from Windows\StartUp. I dunno what these do but I don't seem to need them.
Put SBP Pocket Plus back on but NOT Pocket Diary.
One other thing -- on the strength of good experiences with PocketInformant on my old iPAQ, I originally installed the latest edition (9) on the Rhodium, but after the hard-reset I didn't reinstall it. It's slower than M$'s own Contact and Calendar managers, and while those aren't as good, they're good enough -- much better than they were under WM2003SE. I don't entirely trust PI. It's big and I suspect it of grabbing things that don't belong to it.
Bottom line: I am a MUCH happier camper. I don't know which of these was the most effective, but the phone is now both fast and easy on the battery. The battery savings might all be coming from the GSM Only setting and the new radio, for all I know.
Sorry this is so long-winded. I just wanted to say... if you're suffering... don't give up! I got much better battery life WITHOUT having to choose and flash somebody else's ROM. (I don't mind flashing ROMs but I'm damned if I can figure out how to choose one. Somebody needs to do a big review with a side-by-side table of features.)
Quick further update. I left it last night at 91% battery, and everything turned off that CAN be turned off except the radio. This morning, after close on 9 hours sitting there, it's at 86%. I'm pretty stoked!
A well done for perseverance!
nice hopefully these tips bump up my battery life
thanks for the tipps, i'm going to check those reg-tweaks by ninja duck you mentioned.
i would be interested in the mean duration you can use the phone without charging, i'm getting about 3-4 days of medium usage from one charge.
i also rather prefer a good battery life over some eye candy, so no htc tf3d for me to (noticed, that this is the main power consumer). in fact, i like the old school today plugins better, as i can see all upcoming appointments with today agenda, have some nice quick start buttons with easy today launcher (including a link to zlaunchy, where i can start all programs via t9 typing), i see the connection state and messages status with phone wheaver and the bandwidth usage with spb wireless monitor.
one thing i would recommend you is phone wheaver, where you can set profiles, that are activated at a specific time.i use a day and a night profile - in the second one, PW will disable all connections, as i wont need them at night (including the cell connection - i dont know the proper name, i mean this standard phone connection to the carrier) and so the battery life is better even more. PW also has the possibiliy to place a toggle data connection button in the today plugin, so you can switch connections fast. (hope, this was not too much of a commercial, i just like the software.)
EWAdams said:
Removed PKG.lnk, poutlook.lnk, and HTCStartUp.lnk from Windows\StartUp. I dunno what these do but I don't seem to need them.
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If you sync to Outlook on the PC and set appointments and reminders on your calendar, having this turned off on the phone means you will not get any notifications of these events. Been curious about the other two, though.
Thanks for the advice. Battery seems to be an issue regularly cropping up. Maybe someone can help withm y current 'not' postive experience.
I have the TP2 exactly 12 months, and its been pretty good. Occasional freezes but nothing a soft reset doesnt handle, and its not too much hassle and i accept it because im a heavy user.
Battery has been reasonable. Always got me through the day, and it went on the charge every night.
About 2 weeks ago i suddenly noticed a change. Tbh it probably was creeping up up but i never noticed. Anyway, suddenly all im getting is about 4 hours!!! Battery will be showing about half full, next thing its beeping then off!!! Before if you went to bed with it fully charged and left it off the charger it would still have charge in the morning- now its dead as a doornail despite NO activity (email off, wifi off,bluetooth off, no progs runnign etc).
So onto ebay. Got a replacement battery but guess what- exactly the same!! I really dont think the new batterys faulty. Another one on the way just in case, but i think its a phone thing.
Any ideas???
Quincey113 said:
Thanks for the advice. Battery seems to be an issue regularly cropping up. Maybe someone can help withm y current 'not' postive experience.
I have the TP2 exactly 12 months, and its been pretty good. Occasional freezes but nothing a soft reset doesnt handle, and its not too much hassle and i accept it because im a heavy user.
Battery has been reasonable. Always got me through the day, and it went on the charge every night.
About 2 weeks ago i suddenly noticed a change. Tbh it probably was creeping up up but i never noticed. Anyway, suddenly all im getting is about 4 hours!!! Battery will be showing about half full, next thing its beeping then off!!! Before if you went to bed with it fully charged and left it off the charger it would still have charge in the morning- now its dead as a doornail despite NO activity (email off, wifi off,bluetooth off, no progs runnign etc).
So onto ebay. Got a replacement battery but guess what- exactly the same!! I really dont think the new batterys faulty. Another one on the way just in case, but i think its a phone thing.
Any ideas???
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I noticed that once the other day: battery was about 40% and the next morning the device had shut down. I have no idea what the reason was, but I guess I left googlemaps running with gps on or something... however, I didn't have this issue another time...