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Battery always at 100%

Hello,
since last night my Hermes has the battery always at 100%...
I have tried to browse the net for some time thru wireless, listening to music, use the gps functions, but the battery show up always at full charge.
Tried a soft reset many times but did not help... and I don't wanna hard reset it because I've installed black 2.5 since it came out and I have installed all my applications and data.. I don't wanna spend anymore hours to import everything.
By the way.. the only thing new i have installed last night is the jasjamming "buzzing" cab patch.
Anyone had the same problem before?
Thanks

i want your battery, it must be "buzzing"....
seriously though, not sure what has happened here or why it is happening.

haha.. yea right, my battery felt that buzzing effect for sure!
Maybe it will last forever... who knows
The obvious problem is that I just can't know how much battery I have left now... Since none of the solutions I've tried seemed to work (including "buzzing" uninstallation) I think i'm gonna wait till my device goes off by itself, then recharge completely the battery from the AC adapter (I never use it) and see what happens...
I think a HR would solve it for sure cause till yesterday it worked fine... I recharged it as always thru USB

something must have changed in the registry as its not polling the battery level anymore.
what 3rd party apps do u have installed, and
have u made any reg changes yourself?

Hi mates..
First- Jas... thanks for black.. testing since yesterday and I feel almost ecstatic. my rom of choice...
Second- gotta same problem.. batt always 100%. first I though it is caused by this option in htweakc to increase batt life, but I've switched it off... no luck.
I dunno, but when I was testing htweakc on wm5 it didn't let me chose wma ringtones, so maybe this app is a damn bugger??
oh yeah.. one more thing- reporting, that softick card export II is not working properly aswell.. cannot connect as a drive.
sorry for off top and thanks 4 help Jas. keep it up mate.

Hi bronx,
may I know which Hermes you have? Mine is a O2 XDA Trion HTC100.
Last night I did the Hard Reset I was NOT planning to do and guess what, after reboot battery was recognized at 80 percent (so all fine again, I tought) but now its not going down anymore stays stuck at 80 percent.
All this is so strange, 2 days ago it was running all fine... and now even after a HR ... without installing apps, well, I really don't know.
Do you remember what you've done before having this problem?
If you can, try a HR too, and let me know.
Thanks.

well... guess what?? today while I was working my batt went down 10%. heh
I guess it's coming back to normal.. I dunno what causes this weird thing with battery, but I was playing with HTweakC options abit and I switched increase batt life (on) and show batt indicator (on).
seems to be ok since then.
maybe with black 2.5 we get wonderbatt... one week on one charging.. well... that would be great
THANK'S ANYWAY JAS! will donate soon...
btw - I use mda vario II

lose 70% charge in 1 day!

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!

Battery Fix?

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

Battery eating update winmobile 6.5 !!!

I have updated my tp2 with the official dutch 6.5 rom.
But my battery is eating in a day !! with use.
and no I have no push internet ,wheater or stocks updates automaticly on !!
While with winmobile 6.1 2 days battery time with verry often internet use !
Sometimes its fully loaded en after 1 night ( 8 hours the phone is completely empty on standby !!! en the device is turned off because the battery is completely empty.
How can a phone eating the battery on standby ? doing nothing
sometimes when I locked the phone I see for 1 second a red underlined box but
its gone before I can read the message.
The redunderlined box seems to be identical to the box : cant get "connection" wich you can get when the phone has not a connection.
Please help !
6.5 has a better internet experience.
but the the wheater or stocks tab update sometimes get out of connection even the internet has sometime this problem.
The 6.5 sometimes freezes for 3-4 seconds when locking the phone.
But Overal I must say I want to keep the 6.5 I like it !!
NOW ONLY SOLVING THE BATTERY EATING !!
Has someone the solution or same problems ?

same problem here...
I might have an Idea about the problem
Before the TP II I had the Tytn II. I've updated that phone with manila, and that also drownes my battery. A while later I updated my RADIO, to an older version, and the problems were gone.
So my guess is here:
The standard Radio with the dutch TP2 WM6.1 ROM is not suitable for WM6.5 somehow it drowns the battery very fast.
question is: where to find a (good) ROM?
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second question:
I've opened another topic with the same question. Please concentrate all reply's to 1 topic.
please close my topic with the same question.
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hi one thing to do flash a custom rom sergio cell pro 5.5 rom is good for battery speed stable or any of the ohter roms ngrz fusion shadowline ark try a few custom roms out and see what you like stock rom sucks remember to use hard spl and follow the steps theres a styki thread in rom section how to do this
grtz weesje

Yes ok but I do not want to use hardspell because I lose the garanty from my new phone.

besides that.
HTC is delivering an update for their own product. Don't they have an obligation to make sure that even the battery stays okay?
I don't want custom roms (though I appreciate the work done on Cust.Roms by the XDA users!) because of my guaranty!
but 12 hours with 1 battery is also NOT an option!

Don't know yet if my battery is suffering under WinMo 6.5, but what I do know is that 6.5 uses a lot more RAM than 6.1. You've already disabled pushinternet and here is what youi can do to release even more RAM:
" Trying to relase even more RAM, my search ended at pocketnow.com with an article regarding your cab and they also suggested to perform another registry tweak (via PPCGeeks) to release even more memory. The suggested reg tweak is: “go to HKLM\SOFTWARE\HTC\ResProxy” using a registry editor and change “ShareMemSize” to 0" (on my TP2 it says 391891).
After a soft reste my TP2 starts with 41% of RAM usage instead of 55%. That should save battery life.
regards, kuzibri

Can i have the s/n of someone who has a WWE English phone?
I have a dutch version also..
But i dont want the phone in Dutch..
want to keep it english..
Thnx..
p.s. maybe also the solution to the battery drain?

kuzibri said:
Don't know yet if my battery is suffering under WinMo 6.5, but what I do know is that 6.5 uses a lot more RAM than 6.1. You've already disabled pushinternet and here is what youi can do to release even more RAM:
" Trying to relase even more RAM, my search ended at pocketnow.com with an article regarding your cab and they also suggested to perform another registry tweak (via PPCGeeks) to release even more memory. The suggested reg tweak is: “go to HKLM\SOFTWARE\HTC\ResProxy” using a registry editor and change “ShareMemSize” to 0" (on my TP2 it says 391891).
After a soft reste my TP2 starts with 41% of RAM usage instead of 55%. That should save battery life.
regards, kuzibri
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I am not familiar with a registry editor do you have a link to that program ?

specialist88888888 said:
I am not familiar with a registry editor do you have a link to that program ?
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here you go: http://ceregeditor.mdsoft.pl/

Have you done a hard reset? My Tilt 2 will last almost 2 days in standby with my normal set of programs running, S2U2, cellid (uploads CID every N minutes if changed), aebattery, using Pocket Plus for today screen with Pocket Weather running inside it, etc.
If I enable FlexMail with 2 online IMAP mailboxes and 6 periodically synced boxes, it drops down to 19 hours or so.
Your situation is not normal.

hard reset who knows the buttons I must press ?
volume up - volume down en power button ?
something like that ?

there is another possibility to perform a hard reset (only works as long as you can access your phone):
go to settings - system - (and because your have a Dutch ROM) - go to the item "opslag wissen" (erase everything). This returns the phone to the factory settings, e.g hard reset. It will ask you to enter the password to perform that action: this is 1234.

Some of my battery data for you to compare with your own TP2:
I'm running stock WinMo 6.5.
battery data:
standby time: 22,5 hours
talking time: 3 mins
device usage: 2 hours
remaining battery: 72%
RAM usage: 43%

Hard reset did the job.
pressing green-red-power button and read the message.
pres only volume up and device resetting.
after that I had 30 hours batt life en stil 2 stripe on batt indicator
Oh backup your device before hard resetting !!

maybe I was to fast reacting before ...
I've recharged my battery again. Now, after 30 hours and 31 minutes, I still have 51% battery life left. (with 20% drowning last 3 hours...)
so there's hope!

darkdaan said:
maybe I was to fast reacting before ...
I've recharged my battery again. Now, after 30 hours and 31 minutes, I still have 51% battery life left. (with 20% drowning last 3 hours...)
so there's hope!
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WHAT???? how in the world are u getting this much life out of ur battery...mines dead in about 12 hours with minimal usage

Location Service
Hello. ..Someone tried to turn off Location Service Settings? .. Text there is: "Improve location service by collecting location data at any time when device is in use ...I switch this off and as if the rate of the battery noticeably decreased. .. I try battery tomorrow after a full charge.

Martikn said:
Hello. ..Someone tried to turn off Location Service Settings? .. Text there is: "Improve location service by collecting location data at any time when device is in use ...I switch this off and as if the rate of the battery noticeably decreased. .. I try battery tomorrow after a full charge.
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Where is this? I can't find it, was curious to see what the value is on my phone.

On my phone (i use SPB mobile shell): Settings -> System -> Location Settings and there is Location service

Martikn said:
On my phone (i use SPB mobile shell): Settings -> System -> Location Settings and there is Location service
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No SPB here, but Settings -> System is where I looked, perhaps not in my ROM. No biggie.

Battery life and radio and rom version

hey guys plz post ur battery status here along with the radio version you hav on ur phone
this wud be of great help for future reference for all of us and to select the best Radio version
Plz charge the battery to full and use it upto the limit
lets see which Radio and Rom drains the minimum battery juice!!
Smartphone battery life is obviously the prime factor in buying a Smartphone
Thank you guys
plz join in and help all

plz update guys
it wud really go a long way in helping all
atleast post ur recent usage stats

standby 22hours
talktime 1hour
internet 30mins
now battery is at 23pc
my rom is the official htc 6.5

That will depend on the usage and can be different as some radios work better with some mobile providers
The best way is to test several combinations ROM/radio till you get the best.
I´m using latest Energy Photon 6.5.1 with radio 4.46 and my battery lasts me 36hr aprox. with a lot of usage, customization, calls, wifi, bt.

orb3000 said:
That will depend on the usage and can be different as some radios work better with some mobile providers
The best way is to test several combinations ROM/radio till you get the best.
I´m using latest Energy Photon 6.5.1 with radio 4.46 and my battery lasts me 36hr aprox. with a lot of usage, customization, calls, wifi, bt.
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ok, how in the world are u getting such good battery life...ive got the same rom loaded and ive sent about 20 text messages and its already down to 75%....also, it appears as tho my data connection keeps turning back on by itself and i KNOW for a fact that there is nothing auto updating that would cause it to turn back on

mwrood said:
ok, how in the world are u getting such good battery life...ive got the same rom loaded and ive sent about 20 text messages and its already down to 75%....also, it appears as tho my data connection keeps turning back on by itself and i KNOW for a fact that there is nothing auto updating that would cause it to turn back on
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my data connection keeps turning on and off as well. it's annoying. i've turned everything off but it still keeps coming on 3 min after i turn it off

I'd be interested in doing some kind of standardized comparison also. I read posts where some people get great battery life, some people get terrible battery life (I'm in this category), how some people's battery life improve after a few recharge cycles, etc. At this point it's hard to tell whether some people have faulty batteries, some people use their phone more than others, or some ROMs just consume more battery than others. To do a comparison, we'd had to have some kind of agreed upon methodology and here's my proposal:
1) Install acbpowermeter. Just assume that it works the way it's supposed to. Even if it doesn't, since everyone uses it, the methodology is the same so that results can be compared.
2) Whatever ROM/Radio you have, just report it.
3) With phone plugged in, soft rest your phone and wait 5 minutes for everything to get loaded.
4) Turn off the backlight, and run acbpowermeter. It will start measuring power consumption.
5) Turn off the phone right away and after 5 minutes, turn on the phone and pause acbpowermeter.
6) Report your average power consumption and total power consumption, as given by acbpowermeter.
This will give us an indication of how a ROM/radio performs with no activity. This assumes you have no other programs installed/active that contributes to power consumption, but even if you do, I don't think the results would be that far off. I'm curious to see what the idle power consumption is. You might want to run this a few times to get some consistent results before reporting. Also report if you get some spikes in the graph or if power consumption is stable during the 5 minutes. My initial results are an average of about 90mA and 6mAh during 5 minutes. One big spike up to about 360mA at the beginning. This would mean about 72mA per hour or about 21 hours for a 1500mA battery. This is close to my experience of going from 100% to 80% when I wake up in the morning (5 hours of sleep). Terrible. I might just have a bad battery....
EneryROM 11/8 23504. 4.47 Radio.
If anyone else has some suggestions on how we can compare battery consumption, do share, as I think this would be useful information to have.

mwrood said:
ok, how in the world are u getting such good battery life...ive got the same rom loaded and ive sent about 20 text messages and its already down to 75%....also, it appears as tho my data connection keeps turning back on by itself and i KNOW for a fact that there is nothing auto updating that would cause it to turn back on
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thevuman said:
my data connection keeps turning on and off as well. it's annoying. i've turned everything off but it still keeps coming on 3 min after i turn it off
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On WVGA tweak there is an option to auto disconnect GPRS every certain time, enable and reset.
Or install this app (attached)
Thanks to original creator, not me

orb3000 said:
On WVGA tweak there is an option to auto disconnect GPRS every certain time, enable and reset.
Or install this app (attached)
Thanks to original creator, not me
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ill be happy to install this cab and use it but i wish i could figure out why the data connection keeps turning on in the first place...its highly anooying and very unneccesary

after trying about 12roms i am back to the htc official 6.5rom
it has good stability nd battery life!!
but still i like the leo or manila 2.5 very much!!!
hope it supports landscape soon!!!!!!!!