Battery Life with New ROM 20060426

[Anand Bhargava]

I am getting very poor battery life.
The battery drains within 24 Hrs to a dead phone.

Is it normal? I have heard, people talking about a battery life of 3-4 days.
What can I do to correct this problem.

Please help.

[kevinnugent]

Hi Anand

I, too, had terrible battery life once I upgraded. I had heard that sometimes if you flash the ROM again over the last time it improves the life. I was skeptical ... until I did it last night.

My device was still at 94% when I woke this morning, and by 5pm this afternoon had only dropped to 87%. I have never had such great battery life! Never!

Give it a try. Can't hurt.

Kevin

[Anand Bhargava]

I tried reflashing the ROM, but it did not had an impact on the battery backup.
Do I need to take care of something while reflashing it.

Thanks a lot for the reply and the help.

[sirroger]

Has anyone else had issues with draining battery life? After flushing with the latest official ROM, 30% left after left switched off O/N!!!!
Any fixes? is it a known issue?

Thanks!

[darkstarbd]

i am having the same problem...i also reflashed...but it seems like the device doesnt go to standby mode after 'x' minutes of inactivity as selected in the power options. is the same thing happening with u 2?

also, are u using O2 Plus?

[rickO]

have tried recharging your atom for 8 hours when you first bought it? try it. it worked for me. it extended my batt's life

[Anand Bhargava]

Yes, I am using O2 Plus, also, I think charging of Li-Poly Batteries does not require to be charged for 8 Hrs. Infact it may result into over charging.

By the way, I am getting precisely 24 Hrs of backup when using PUSH email support with Ms Exchange Server.

[rickO]

check the manual.. it says there u need to fully charge the atom for 8 hours.. that's for the initial charging. i also called one of the reps in the service center for atom here in the phils and that was waht he told me to do. cheers mate

[stanleybktan]

Hi try removing the WM5 Battery Icon on the top bar through the registry... i notice that helpson my atom. i have O2 batery meter running instead.

[henrylim]

I have poor battery life as well. Unit is discharge within 12 hours.

I have a whole lot of applications installed, so after I've reinstalled the ROM, I'd my backup fully restored.

I am wondering if that's a mistake as it might also "restore" the issue with the battery life. Anyone has advise on this matter?

Thanks!

[Nazar78]

I neva did that 8hrs initial charge since too excited to explore on the 1st touch~ hehe..

Btw, it's said many times that plug-ins that probes hardware needs extra battery power ie. memory/battery/storage. I've none of those plugins and even on a2dp stereos, the battery only drops from 100 to 80+ on few hours of mp3s. Some players can switch off your backlight and still continue playing mp3s ie. WM10/TCPMP, see their button assignment options. You might also wanna remove that battery icon on the top right through the registry. Set the backlight 10secs, slider to 1-4 and power down 1min helps me alot too.

[Genial82]

heya ppl...what do you mean by reflashing?Cheers...

[jj-malaysia]

hey the battery was low, and i plugged it into the computer jack (to synchronize), which was supposed to rechareg the battery, an hour later, it beeped saying battery was too low, and was shutting down. and it shut off completely.

now i am rechanging with the charger, and the amber light is on.... but after 30 mins of charging, i still can't turn on the phone.

when i try, the green light seem to flash onmce every 30 seconds....... and i have put it back in the charger

when it completely discharges, do i have to fully recharge before i can switch it on?

[pelicantacos]

Well, after getting fed up with my poor Atom's battery life, I checked out the manual to see what it said about battery life. It does say to charge the battery for 8 hours intially, and for the first 3 charges after that you must drain it completely then recharge it fully--for a total of 3 times. Okay, so I did this and I haven't noticed a difference (I know others say you aren't supposed to do this with a Li-Ion battery but it's in the manual!).

Anyone else tried this?

The only other thing I haven't tried was reflashing (reloading the ROM).

It seems this issue is the bane of the Atom.

[idzilhafis]

try to reduce the "brightness" and make sure to end every task completely! 8)

[hsanghavi]

I already wrote about this in some other forum but this the same problem with my O2 with Bluetooth not more then 8 hours max. Without bluetooth. 20 to 24 hours.

I never leave any application running I use the memory settings to close all applications.

I still do not find any diff. I have closed the IR, I have reduced the backlight time to 10 Secs. I have reduced the backlight to 3. No change.

I have already complained about this to O2 but no result. They are probably stuck with Windows people not supporting them or with no solution. They are not even responding now on this issue. TOOOOO BAD

I hope someone can find a solution.

[hsanghavi]

Flash the ROM exactly as per the procedure. Normally the last part is not read properly. After the ROM is flashed they ask to reset the device twice. One time a Hard Reset and another time a soft reset before you load the data and programs. If you follow the procedure properly maybe you will solve the battery problem like me and many others.

If you are using bluetooth switch it off and check you will come to know the exact battery life. Secondly in settings keep IR off. Backlight a bit low 3 or 4 as you get proper vision, without reflection and most of all saves battery. Most important close all programs by going to Settings>Memory>close all so that all applications will close and not consume the battery. This is a windows software flaw which needs correction but no one does anything for it, not even microsoft.

[bacardilima]

I am getting poor battery life with New ROM 20060426 i also reflashed but nothing :(

it's the same prob with old roms ??
thanx

[kropotov]

did you perform reset twice after reflashing? first rard reset, second soft reset?

[bacardilima]

thanx kropotov with reset twice after reflashing all ok . after 24 hours battery still in 75%
thanx

[yanivw]

I have the same problem.
After reflashing the 426 ROM, the device perform hard reset automatically.
Do I have to perform another Hard reset before the sofe reset ?
Yaniv

[gunniboy]

Hi.. I've tried almost EVERY suggestion out in the net for better battery life. No satisfactory result yet. So as a last resort I just have 2 more options which I haven tried yet:
#. Flash with the Atom Exec ROM
#. Flash with an older but stable ROM of the Atom itself (like say the january version)

Can any of you experts please shed some light on these ideas? PLEASE..

[bedav]

I have the same problem, and I flashed my atom with Xda-Atom-Exec-ENG-20060721-MOT0822.exe. And now it's perfect !

my battery life = 4 days !

[jackkkkk]

I have the same problem, and I flashed my atom with Xda-Atom-Exec-ENG-20060721-MOT0822.exe. And now it's perfect !

my battery life = 4 days !

wow~ so basically just flash it to Atom Exec will fix the prob!!!

Did you happen done a Hard Reset then a Soft Reset???

Thanks mate~

[jackkkkk]

I can't download Atom Exec Rom... coz my device is Atom only!!! :(

How did you manage to download it???

[bedav]

i flash twice with Xda-Atom-Exec-ENG-20060721-MOT0822.exe
hard reset
soft reset

and all is good since 1 month !


I have upload all roms i have on ftp :
clic on FTP Root link on this page : http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=BA_FTP_Site

in the folder upload/Atom

[Ultimate Chicken]

Funny, I saw no difference in battery life after applying the ROM (drains to 50% or less in 8 hours). Could be a bung hardware issue.

[bedav]

sorry for u ! flash again !

[cnadra]

is there a possibility that the new rom to be relased will fix this problem please reply

[Ultimate Chicken]

sorry for u ! flash again !

Well, actually, the thing has been flashed over 3 or 4 times. >_>

And hard reset many, many times. (yeah, was playing with the extrom reveal hacks... >_>)

See no difference. Except that power drains slowly on standby, and drains hella fast when not on standby. If I did leave it on standby it would indeed last 4 days. If I didn't, it would barely last 24 hours.

Time to UN-overclock this processor methinks.

[cnadra]

Well I do have the same problem with my atom exec. If I leave it in standby mode it would stay like two days if not only one day anyone can help please please

[mxch]

i ve get such trouble: my 02atomexec has flash lamp always lightning(shining),but i could see it only in dark room(without daylight at all).I take out the battery, than inserct it in to device (not turning it on) and flashlamp begins to shine,very poor, but i can see it in the dark room.So you need a very dark room to see it shines!!!
i think,that not only mine device has such a problem.Cause of this problem my batt get low so fast(i think so).
now my device is in service.Very miss it :-)

p.s.sorry for my english!