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Hi - experiencing battery drain on wm6. Anyone experiencing similar problems?
Change radio version
I must change radio version, i tried 1.38 same problem, now i'm using 1.40.30.00, problem solved.
AvinashDhaniraj said:
Hi - experiencing battery drain on wm6. Anyone experiencing similar problems?
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First it depends on the Rom you are using and on the software running in the background.
And of course it depends on the radio. I'm running Black3 with Radio 1.41.00.10 and think the battery is lasting longer then before.
Short example:
Thursday morning at about eight I turned my Tytn on after charging the whole night. Then I used it during the day for a lot of phonecalls, downloading some emails and playing solitair. At about 09.00pm I switched to flight mode until friday 08.00am. Again I used it during the day for some phone calls, friday evening the battery was at 20% and I had to charge it. I think this is a respectable battery life.
i am getting very similar battery life. at the present time (8pm sunday) i am on 30% i have not charged it since saturday morning.
i was on the phone for about an hour today and about an hour and a half on the saturday, as well as lots of messages, bluetooth/gps occassionally and never switched it to flight mode.
i am using radio 1.41.00.10 and LVSW 3.30.00.9 05/07
Battery Tips
My battery life is pretty similar. Its more down to what you use on your phone and how your radio rom acts than differences between WM5 and WM6.
Things you can do to improve it are:
1) Turn off receive all incoming beams under settings>connections>beam.
2) Set your band to GSM by pressing the 3g/H/U/Whatever icon at the top of the screen then choosing settings>band and change select your network type from auto to GSM. If you receive an error saying the data call already exists, you may need to turn on flight mode first. I find gprs fine for mail and web browsing and mms stuff, I only really need 3G for video calls. Search for Daniel Herrero's Bandswitch if you have difficulties.
3) Turn down your screen brightness, if you need a light that badly, buy a torch.
4) For those that use an underground mass transit system, switch to flight mode when you are underground, otherwise your phone will continue polling for a signal.
I can usually get 3-4 days battery life with my phone with direct push on between 7am and 7pm moderate phone use and a bit of browsing.
Radio Upgrade
Thanks 4 da replies guys. I'm currently using radio 1.38 - Where can I download the radio that would give me better general performance & battery - which would be better 1.40 or 1.41 - where can I download it from?
Radio Download
Oops.....& my ROM is Pro Black 3.0.1 (on HTC TyTN)- which radio would be great?
I'm satisfied with 1.41, but its the best if you try both for some days to see which one is working in your area best.
Here you can find the radios:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_ExtractedRadioRoms
Help on Installation
Thank u so much. As I am a new user please can u help me. do I just run the exe file on my laptop - will it affect rom? will anything on my rom change? can I reflash to a previous version? I heard a member say in a thread that flashing the radio could be dangerous and one could break the phone - please advise me on this. Many thanks
hi, just my two pennorth. Having tried 1.41 with Black v3, I found my battery draining very quick, went back to 1.38 which I have found gives better life. Although I do use it mainly for calls, not data. This is on UK Orange.
DATA Switcher on today screen
Hi guys, Daniel Herrero has done an amazing job! Thank you Daniel! You can now have an icon on your today screen that switches between GSM, GPRS, 3G in 1/2 simple clicks!
go to http://commmgrpro.com/_wsn/page3.html
Hmmm, Daniel Herrero's Bandswitch, now where have I heard that name before......?
Chrisjasper
THANKS CHRISJASPER for telling me about Daniel's Bandswitch. Works like a bomb!
De Nada, its nice to see some enthusiasm.
I have to say that I read some advice on another thread regarding battery drain and someone suggested unchecking the box for incoming beams in the connections for the IR. I think it cut the drain by 25% for me.
hy all. ive tried the following:
black 3.01, radio 1.38 ==> fast battery drain << 1 day
lastest lvsw, radio 1.38 ==> fast battery drain << 1 day
htc latest wm5 wwe rom, radio 1.38 ==> long battery life >> 1 day
black 3.01, radio 1.40 ==> fast battery drain << 1 day
lastest lvsw, radio 1.40 ==> fast battery drain << 1 day
htc latest wm5 wwe rom, radio 1.40 ==> long battery life >> 1 day
black 3.01, radio 1.41 ==> fast battery drain << 1 day
lastest lvsw, radio 1.41 ==> fast battery drain << 1 day
htc latest wm5 wwe rom, radio 1.41 ==> long battery life >> 1 day
so you can see, its not the radio (at all)!!! and there is a real big difference between wm5 and wm6. after a few hours you can see, that wm6 drains the battery very fast.
mfg chief
Battery life ok, but dropped calls
When I switched to 1.41.00.10, I had good battery life, but I couldn't answer calls before they would dump.
I rolled back to 1.40.30.00, and that seemed to solve the call dropping issue. Battery life is still good also.
YMMV, depending on what signal strength you have, +1 for turning off incoming beams.
Chiefcooker said:
so you can see, its not the radio (at all)!!! and there is a real big difference between wm5 and wm6. after a few hours you can see, that wm6 drains the battery very fast.
mfg chief
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Thanks for this information. That's pretty conclusive and reflects my own experience (that WM6 drains the battery much more quickly than WM5).
But it shouldn't put people off upgrading. WM6 is so much nicer (and faster) than WM5 that it's worth the shorter battery life. And most people will easily get one days use out of WM6 (unless you're online all of the time).
I recommend two things to improve battery life - switch off the phone and remove and replace the battery before doing a full overnight recharge (do this once to recalibrate the battery). And download the bandswitch utility to force GPRS for routine data connections (although WM6's seamless transfer from HSDPA to 3G to GPRS is wonderful and you will lose this).
I switched on my phone at 9am this morning (I switch it off every night - good for the device, good for the battery, good for my health and who the [email protected] wants a phone call at 3am?) and I've made a couple of calls and a few texts this morning - and it's still at 100%.
I am not sure whether part of the battery drain problem might be with the latest WM6.0 kernel that the ROM cookers are using? I was using an older LSVW version (I think his second version) for several weeks and was noticing far superior battery life than I had on the stock Cingular WM5.0 ROM that was on the device when I bought it. When I upgraded to the latest version, I noticed that battery life was quite a bit worse (same apps). I tried both the 1.38 and 1.41 radio ROMs and it doesn't seem to make any difference.
I've been experiencing poorer than usual battery perforamance since upgrading to Custel's WM6 ROM. I verified the settings that Chrisjasper suggested but Custel's ROM comes pretty much configured that way from teh start, I made a minor adjustment to my screen brightness but that was all that I could do.
I would typically be able to get several days out of heavy phone usage and moderate data usage on WM5 with plenty of apps loaded. With Custel's ROM I've not loaded any additional apps as of yet and still have crummy battery performance. I've been hitting the 10% warning marker almost daily for the last week.
I'm looking into other fixes for it on the forum as well, I'm not going to jump ship back to WM5 I love WM6.
I'm just doing tired of unistall apps and monitor processes to see what causes this all of a suddent. First i thougt it was phone alarm, then voice commnad..now i start to think that this is since i intaleld htc official rom. I had the touch rom before and everything worked fine...now my battery with regular use dont last till the end of the day. Anyone having this problem...any sugestion?
same problem
i even bought a new battery and it only lasts 1 and half days
With the HTC official rom too?
yeah official o2 wm5 rom, think mine has somet to do with the reset button as ive never pressed it yet as i just got the device and i have relised its stuck so think it keeps restarting randomly..
Anyone knows any app wich i can mesure the battery consuption independetly...i just dont know what to do more. Or i need a opinion on stable WM6 Rom for Artemis with some good store space....
Hi all on this Thread, about Battery drain power.
First of all, it could be better to help you if we can see what kind of OS (original or cooked) you own on your PDA.
I saw an option on Tweaks2k2 .NET that could "Boot @ full power mode" with some warnings. Warnings that talk about draining power of you PDA with some alarm reminders that are still activated.
That could be a way to look for.
My rom is the official HTC upgrade to WM6. I didnt use any tweek so far. Just want to see if anyone had this problem with the official rom since this problem appered after i intealed the offcicial rom. I had the touch rom before and everything was fine. I'll try to put the app to see if is set to full power dont know how...thanks.
get a application like BATTERYSTATUS which permits to over/underclock your system and check if your CPU speed is set to the correct one. sometimes making a hard reset right after upgrading a rom is also a good idea
Already have and always used it...its not the processor speed..i think its some app but i cant find wich or the radio version since when i make a 1 or 2 minutes call always 1 or 2% go down
Imaginati0n said:
Anyone knows any app wich i can mesure the battery consuption independetly...i just dont know what to do more. Or i need a opinion on stable WM6 Rom for Artemis with some good store space....
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Battery status gives you the comsumption. In that case set the refresh delay to something like 2/3 minutes. Of course, in that case, battery status will have itself a high comsumption of battery. But it can give you clues.
I noticed that battery drain is a lot higher after flashing a ROM, some people have a theory that the battery training starts all over after a flashing process. I think I can confirm that. My battery never lasted more than 1.5 days after flashing a ROM and my first GPS fix took about 3 minutes. A few days later my battery was fine again.
If the power consumption info from batterystatus is not enough try this taskmgr: http://www.dotfred.net/TaskMgr.htm or get some battery benchmark software from on of the big freeware sites.
hi
i have no prolem with my p3300 until 4 days ago!!! suddenly my device use 70% of battry in 1 day! i try soft reset, but not solved! also cpu goes to 36santi grad! but no process in task manager.also i try airscanner antivirus! and no virus ...
i use artemis tuch 3
please help me
Hi,
I am having similar problems since I installed Black and Blue 4.3.
Phone appears to discharge twice as fast. However, sometimes a soft reset seems to increase the battery again!!
I am going to try a hard reset to see if that fixes it. I have also ordered a new battery.
Anybody else had this and more importantly did you find a solution.
Regards
same here on orbit.all started 1 week ago.the phone is 8 months old.I can't believe the battery is gone so fast.
same here
same here battery life is crap
even with obly a few calls
whats up? is it the rom?
Okay,
A number of us with the same problem.
Can you all confirm what model you have and what ROM you are running. Also any new apps you have installed at the start of the battery drain. I will kick off
T-Mobile MDA Compact UK model.
Tom Condon's Black and Blue 4.3 ROM.
Only new software is AC S2U2 latest version.
Regards
htc p3300
artemis touch 3.0
no new software
bluetooth and wi-fi is off
no program running in task manager
but when i put my device near headset,i can hear some sound like TEGH TEGH!!!! every 1~3 sec.
i know it will solve by install new rom,but i want to find main problem. today i turn on then turn off my all units(bluetooth,wi-fi,camera ...) i must stay and see what will happend
Yeah thats the reason why i sell my Artemis, battery life is just crap. I call allot for work and use my phone allot, my battery is good for just one day . So byebye artemis and welcome HTC Touch .
I had these problems to..
Who I fixed it: I flashed original t-mobile ROM. Finished the install EXT-rom..
Did a hard reset, 2 soft buttons + reset, then green ring button..
Installed the USPL then HTC WM6 ROM, before ext-rom installation a reset. Then did a radio rom update, to latest version.
I can go up to 3 days without needing to recharge with GPRS @ 30 minutes sync..
Hello,same horrible problem.After 4-5 days the upgrade to B&B 4.1 with flo3the power of battery go down very very fast and a working day is impossible.When i bought the Artemis the first thing thats wondering me was the working life, but now...
I kill all task in background,set to maximum power saving, without effect.
Don't want to think that the best solution is to come back at wm6 standard.
P3300
WM6 5.2.1620
B&B 4.1
Flo3
SDHC support with 4GB card
DualSim 15th generation
I recently read a thread - either here or at ppc-welt.de - where some people found out that the gsm unit consumes a lot more power when you have a cooked ROM. When they put their Artemis next to some speakers the got that strange buzzing noise that you usually get when someone calls or you receive a message.
That sound in the speakers was there a lot more often than usually, when they switched back to the official ROMs the problem disappered. If I can find it again I will post a link. I haven't had any problems with my battery yet using Touch 2.1 WWE, only after a fresh upgrade pdas seem to consume a lot more power for a few days and get back to normal then.
NP9660 said:
Yeah thats the reason why i sell my Artemis, battery life is just crap. I call allot for work and use my phone allot, my battery is good for just one day . So byebye artemis and welcome HTC Touch .
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what a pity because installing betterystatus (or configuring it properly if you had it already) would probably solve all that problems.
most (if not ALL) roms come with batterystatus... and sometimes it seems to misconfigure itself and overclock your CPU very much, which ofc leads to fast battery discharge. configure batterystatus to 201mhz and problem solved (or even lower if you dont need uber speed mobile, but loads of battery)
my p3300 battery lasts 2-3 days, doing some calls, using bluetooth for sync, listening to some mp3 while in the underground and using tomtom to find a street 15 minutes. nearly 4 days if totally on standby
Hi,
I have reinstalled my phone using the T-Mobile ROM.
I will let you know if that sorts the battery problems.
Regards
I had this problem after installing the htc official rom. I installed back the touch rom from the forum and everything is ok now. Tha battery last me again 4 days with mixed regular use.
Hi,
Tried the T-Mobile ROM and whilst under general use the battery drain is slightly reduced as soon as I ran Tom Tom it dropped by about 30% in 20 minutes. When I first got the device I could run Tom Tom for about 4hours before the battery died.
I have ordered a new battery so will see how that goes.
It is a bit frustrating not being able to pinpoint the problem.
Regards
my mobile service provider found problem with their GPRS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i just install this software and disable GPRS
just 23% battery used in 20hour!
but i dont have any program that automaticly connect to internet! and also always i keep my quickGPS up to date by active sync ....
please test this and DISABLE your GPRS and see what happend!! is it our problem or another ... ?
Hi,
Disabling your GPRS may fix the problem but it should not affect the battery this way.
I have just put in a new battery and it is charging just now.
Will update how the battery drain is with the new battery.
Regards
Hi,
Did a quick test running Tom Tom and battery usage is back to normal with the new battery fitted. Obviously the old battery was on the way out.
Regards
but my device is 1.5 month old !!! and i think ...
khepelesibilo said:
but my device is 1.5 month old !!! and i think ...
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mine is over a year old now... it lasts about a day, mainly caus i spend all day on t'internet using GPRS
cant say i've noticed the battery get worse since i bought it.
who know how much temperature affect on battry life ?
it seems when i put my device in a hot place,3.5 day working decrease to just 2 day!
Hi
I have a trinity with the Dopod WM6 Rom installed.
The problem is when it comes from sleep the battery status is not automaticly updated, it takes up to 10 seconds to update the status... This happens almost every time the pda comes from sleep.
Is it normal???
Yes that's normal...
Battery status is not immediately available upon wake-up, and the display of the battery percentage is refreshed only x seconds. Together, this makes for a little delay...
thanks for quick reply
I thought it was hardwre related, so i was thinking it could be a problem with my device...
Glad it's not, but it is rather anoyng, that is why i don't use the status bar on the top bar... every time i turn on the lcd of the device it shows batery status unknown, or something like that!
Hi,
I’ve been a Prophet user for the last two years and picked up a hermes (orange spv 3100) from UK a week back and I use this in India… I wanted to get a WM6.1 rom and searched the forum. On what I read, settled for Faria-R32 / Dr Puttingham WM6.1 HERMES CLEAN ROM and the Radio v. 1.47.00.10.
I didn’t really test my phone before ROM update but the phone had lasted 2 days on my initial charging… But since flashing my phone doesn’t even last a day. My prophet used to give a good 1.5 days for my kinda usage.. The battery drain that showed in Battery status was 95mA. I was happy when in hermes it showed something around 45 – 60 with similar settings hoping the battery to stay longer , but it just dont… I don’t have too may applications. I use
1. Battery status
2. SK Tools
3. Schap’s Adv config
4. cloudyfa esemertec Java
5. HTC Home
6. Quick menu (I’ve deleted this and HTC home & battery status)
Even then the entire thing just don’t fix even after repeated hard resets/ soft resets… Less than 5 mins of non activity my battery will be down from 100 to 90 and in another 10 to 15 mins it’ll go down to 80 and so on. One more thing is that I feel that the battery bar (or is the screen itself) in the power menu seems to be flickering. I’ve tried searching but was not able to find any clue.. could someone Pls help!!!!Thanks
Rgrds
Riyaz
riyazhyder said:
Hi,
I’ve been a Prophet user for the last two years and picked up a hermes (orange spv 3100) from UK a week back and I use this in India… I wanted to get a WM6.1 rom and searched the forum. On what I read, settled for Faria-R32 / Dr Puttingham WM6.1 HERMES CLEAN ROM and the Radio v. 1.47.00.10.
I didn’t really test my phone before ROM update but the phone had lasted 2 days on my initial charging… But since flashing my phone doesn’t even last a day. My prophet used to give a good 1.5 days for my kinda usage.. The battery drain that showed in Battery status was 95mA. I was happy when in hermes it showed something around 45 – 60 with similar settings hoping the battery to stay longer , but it just dont… I don’t have too may applications. I use
1. Battery status
2. SK Tools
3. Schap’s Adv config
4. cloudyfa esemertec Java
5. HTC Home
6. Quick menu (I’ve deleted this and HTC home & battery status)
Even then the entire thing just don’t fix even after repeated hard resets/ soft resets… Less than 5 mins of non activity my battery will be down from 100 to 90 and in another 10 to 15 mins it’ll go down to 80 and so on. One more thing is that I feel that the battery bar (or is the screen itself) in the power menu seems to be flickering. I’ve tried searching but was not able to find any clue.. could someone Pls help!!!!Thanks
Rgrds
Riyaz
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Hey, sounds like the health status of the battery.
Please try a new Battery to confirm.
Please charge the battery with a good charger.
Don't Panic...
hahaha about my name........ Are you Spanish?
Thanks....
Hi Dioxda2
does Dio mean God???? .. thanks for the reply
Yep I was kinda wondering.. What next...
I've just changed the ROM and reflashed the radio.. Hoping this gets me thru at least the 5 min drop did not happen.. Thanks Good day
Rgrds
Riyaz