T-mobile MDA Compact | poor battery life | re-sending messag

[neilkk]

Hi,

I got my MDA COMPACT about a month ago and am having some issues

1. battery life: lasts 14 hours max. I got a new battery (as read another post in forum that suggested this) and it has same battery life? Listed as 14hrs max charged on battery indicator on Sbp Pocket Plus.

No where near the couple of days T-Mobile says it lasts. I would like at least 48 hrs, i need to charge it everyday now!

2. re-sending of messages. - for some reason it sends messages twice quite a lot and sometimes it seems to block and i can get calls or messages and receive them after performing a soft-reset. anyone had similar issues?

any advice would be much appreciated. i dont really want to go back to the store i got it from as i can imagine they will say "you should have got insurance bla bla bla" and try to charge me to fix it.

let me know what you guys think. other than those annoying issues I think he's a complete legend of a phone!

thanks!

-Neil.

[jmfa59]

With regard to battery I had it my self and I said bla bla bla more than did so they change it to spare themself the headache and my visits every day.

The secound problem acccording to my little knowleldge I know one program that causes this which is Pocket plus just in case you have it installed there is special setting to aviod it.

[neilkk]

hi,

thanks for your response.

yes, it was pocket plus causing that - i fixed it now.

about the battery - did you get a new battery or a new handset? how long does the batter last now? do you know how long the battery life is supposed to be?

thanks again!

-Neil.

[stevedebi]

hi,

thanks for your response.

yes, it was pocket plus causing that - i fixed it now.

about the battery - did you get a new battery or a new handset? how long does the batter last now? do you know how long the battery life is supposed to be?

thanks again!

-Neil.

Have you set your screen to shut off at 30 seconds, and the device to shut off at 1 minute of inactivity? Also, don't run BT unless you are actually using a BT device.

My XDA mini lasts about 2 days under normal use (don't know exactly - I generally charge it daily when I sync my schedule).

If I use GPRS a lot, it might need a charge once per day. But with light use I have used it 2.5 days before recharging. I don't usually do this, but it would be capable of charging at work on Friday and not charging it again until Monday morning.

[LordPhong]

yes, it was pocket plus causing that - i fixed it now.

what was it that you changed to fix this problem? I'm having the same issue with Plus also.

thanks.

[brykins]

what was it that you changed to fix this problem? I'm having the same issue with Plus also.

The problem is that Pocket Plus is closing the messaging application when you are hitting the close button and that *may* be before the message has been confirmed sent, so messaging re-sends it or something. Basically you have to set the messaging application as an exclusion in Pocket Plus:

Open the Pocket Plus options;
Select the Close Button and hit "Feature Options"
Select the right hand tab (Exceptions)
Click "Add" and then "Browse..."
Find \Windows\tmail.exe and click OK.

That will stop Pocket Plus closing Messaging when you hit the close button (you can still tap and hold the close button for the Pocket Plus option menu and close it from there) and should solve the duplicate message problem.

[LordPhong]

brykins - that worked great.

My problem now is that the time stamp on the recipient is off by a couple of hours. The time on my JAM is fine. Any clues?

[brykins]

brykins - that worked great.My problem now is that the time stamp on the recipient is off by a couple of hours. The time on my JAM is fine. Any clues?

No idea - is that on text messages or emails? I've heard of problems like that on emails where smtp or the recipients pop3 server is mis-configured, or one of the other is set to the wrong time zone, but never on text messages.

[stevedebi]

Hi,

I got my MDA COMPACT about a month ago and am having some issues

1. battery life: lasts 14 hours max. I got a new battery (as read another post in forum that suggested this) and it has same battery life? Listed as 14hrs max charged on battery indicator on Sbp Pocket Plus.

No where near the couple of days T-Mobile says it lasts. I would like at least 48 hrs, i need to charge it everyday now!

-Neil.

Have you set you backlight to the lowest level, set the backlight to turn off at 30 seconds, and set the device to power down at 1 minute? I usually get 2 days or so out of mine. However, the time between charges will vary based on how often you use the device.