Battery Life using PushMail

[sunmaker]

Hello all,

I'm using PushMail with MS Exchange and I am very happy about figuered out this feature. But now I have a new problem. If I have charged my battery up to 100% it only need half of a day to be empty without using my hermes (only UMTS for Push Mail)

Has anybody the same problem or a sollution ?

Thanks
sunmaker

[Sleuth255]

Ok, try this. Open your maillbox in Outlook, then send yourself an email from another email account. Does the mail item hit your hermes and your inbox at (about) the same time?

note: if you have cache mode set in outlook then it should hit your hermes before you see it in your inbox.

If you can't access your mailbox with Outlook, then use OWA and hit refresh often to see when the mail item hits.

I suspect that you're going to find out that mail to your Hermes is delayed for up to 7 minutes from the time you see it in your outlook/owa viewed inbox. If you are seeing mail hit at about the same time, try this test periodically for an entire day to see if there's any time that this isn't the case. Let me know what you find out!

[mnez]

I'm using PushMail with MS Exchange and I am very happy about figuered out this feature. But now I have a new problem. If I have charged my battery up to 100% it only need half of a day to be empty without using my hermes (only UMTS for Push Mail)

It's UMTS that is so power-hungry.
download Daniel Herrero's Bandswitch and force GPRS-only, to see the immediate result. Let us know; in my case it improved battery life from 20h to ~80h.

[Sleuth255]

This doesn't necessarily account for a one half day drain. I'm on UMTS direct push and I go two days between charges. There's something else that I'm thinking about here. If sunmaker is seeing the delay I'm looking for then I'll reveal the reason.

Btw: on mine, email always hits my TyTN before I see it in Outlook.

[gravejoker]

You should be able to survive around 2 days with UMTS + DP .. and approx 3 days with just UMTS ...

You need to check for any processes/services that might have excessive CPU utilization ...

[jasjamming]

You should be able to survive around 2 days with UMTS + DP .. and approx 3 days with just UMTS ...

You need to check for any processes/services that might have excessive CPU utilization ...

I have around the same usage in between charges. I get around 2 days with PM+UMTS but if I use my device extensively during the day i charge the same night.

half a day to empy sounds like there is a process chewing up your amps, or the battery is faulty.

[mxlaser]

It entirely depends on usage.

I get two days (similar to others above) using push and UMTS.

However, if ihave wireless enabled and bluetooth too, and using a bluetooth headset and make a couple of hours of calls in the morning, i'd be hard pressed to last the day out on the same charge.

[amster]

I'm running Pushmail and UMTS also Bluetooth is enabled all day.
i spend about 35 minutes a day in calls and do send about 5 SMS mess. a day.
My battery last for about 20 hours.

[mxlaser]

Like i said, entirely depends on usage.

i recieve close to 30-40 work orientated emails a day ,of which at least 20 get replies instantly. add in 2hrs easily of actuall call talk time and its easy to see where my battery life goes.

a lot of people whinge about battery life, but if you expect alll the bells etc that a good WM5 device has theres going to be issues with long battery lifes.

My blackberry 8707g using UMTS and recieving maybe 10 emails a day barely last a day and a half from full charge. Thats without much else, and probably 10 mins of call time. SO i consider the Dopod 838Pro (or Hermes! :) ) to have more than adequate battery life for what i use it for. Besides a great, powered car holder and hard wired GOS device in the car has just about made this Hermes the best of any unit i've used, WM5, WM2003, Blackberry and palm inclusive.

[sunmaker]

thank you for so much response.

I have about 30 Mails per day some SMS and 60min phonecalls. I'm using the 1.20 radio so far. Could it be the radio ?

The radio versions i used before I have a lot of trouble with. Because my Hermes always loged out.

I have no other progs in the memory only the necessary (CommMgr, Active synk, Email).

I've ordered some new batteries (1350mAh ans 2.400(!) ) So I will look and see if it is the battery.