How to avoid battery drain in WM6?

[daghood]

I've been playing around with all the WM6 rom for my trinity and found that just about all of them have a "battery drain" problem....

Anyone, anywhere has a soltion to this?

Thanks

Dag

[steladamo]

I've been playing around with all the WM6 rom for my trinity and found that just about all of them have a "battery drain" problem....

Anyone, anywhere has a soltion to this?

Thanks

Dag

Well try to keep your bluetooth active only when needed. same applies to wifi and gps.

Other than that some people have suggested that original radio is less power consuming so if you have upgraded it maybe you can consider going back to standard!!

For me the phone with periodical use of bluetooth, wifi, gps and about half an hour of talking time in calls, can last easily on two days!!!

[MarvinX]

I have the same problem. For "steladamo": Of course I have a GPS, BT and WiFi turned off.
In such a circumstance my batery drains after one day whereas WM5 kept my battery alive for several days.
Any solution?
Is there any tool how to log system actions? I'd like to see what my WM do.

Thx!

[Flipside]

Just upgraded to wm6, found out that the incoming beam (infrared) is turned on by default...and that is a power-user...no probs after I switched it off...

[Arilexed]

Have the same issue.

Infrared was turned on also in my case. Turned it off, let's see how long my device will last now.

Thnx anywayz.

[cafpeter]

How can you tell infrared is on or not?
By 3rd party tool?

[JeRoMe_aKa_JaY]

do you try last radio 1.46.00.11 or 1.46.30.11 ?

[hotplainrice]

How can you tell infrared is on or not?
By 3rd party tool?

Yea, how do you do that?

[aburman]

Settings --> Connections --> Beam

[shym]

Or with the cab which allows to have 10 buttons in commanager ;)

[Krad213]

just flash 1.46 radio ...

[whitesnake]

same problems with both radio 1.41 and 1.46

wm6 and the battery lasts one day, without beam, wifi, or bluetooth on

[Arilexed]

Turned off infrared. Switched synchronize every X minutes to manual outside office hours. Made a lot of difference for me.

[TheBlackDragon]

Go to settings and choose phone icon then go to the band tab don't use auto but just put it to gsm....utms eats power....

[jjplayground]

Does that work with the ax3l rom?

[WWWeed]

I can confirm that the AX3L_WM6_WWE_v2.0.8.1 rom has had the battrey leaking problem resolved! (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=312499)

So if your not using this rom, flash it now!

[Arilexed]

I can confirm that the AX3L_WM6_WWE_v2.0.8.1 rom has had the battrey leaking problem resolved! (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=312499)

So if your not using this rom, flash it now!

I confirm that with heavy use I can still "drain" the battery every day.

[mo7al]

Anyone has the CAB file for the Communication Manager with the IR Beam on/off button in an HTC Touch style ?

I can see that NBD has it in his Wizard ROM

[RobRoy]

Hi,

Did a quick assessment in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=319278

Here it is for your convenience:
Here is a guide from my recent observation.
It is based on WM5 using BatterieStatus.cap, would be great if someone can do similar to WM6 in comparison.

I also used :
HTCustom1.7 to turn off HSDPA
Turned off Bluetooth and Infrared Beam

(I did discount short burst when app switching)

Idle, screen off = around 21mA
Idle, screen on, low brightness (3 notch from left) = around 62mA
As above, connected to 3G, No applications running using 3G = around 64mA
Active browsing, basic sites, 3G, around 300mA - 400mA
Active browsing, graphic intensive sites, 3G, around 400mA - 600mA
Active browsing, HSDPA on, basic site 500mA - 600mA
Passive browsing, IE open, no action, 3G, drops to 68mA
TomTom using inbuilt GPS, waiting for GPS lock, 180mA
Idle, screen on, low brightness, but 'Receive all incoming beams' (IRDA receive on) also 62mA!!!
Audio call, 3G, 350mA
Mediaplayer, streaming video from Internet, around 600mA.
I believe 600mA is around the ceiling.

Some calculations: Standard Batterie is 1600mAH.
So total idle/standby time is about 1600mAH/20mA = 80hours or 3.3 days
Total call time is 1600mAH/350mA = 4.3 hours approx
Total surf time is 1600mAH/400mA = 4 hours.

This lines up with my usage patterns, idle, screen off most of the day, usage about 30 mins browsing every day, batterie last about 2.5 days.

(Hobby engineer hehe):D

[Arilexed]

Nice man!

And this does also fit into my calling pattern. I have to load my battery every evening, but I also call for about 2 hours per day. Use wireless mail/calander/contactsynchronization with outlook and Windows Live mail. And regular use of some other features.

So like i said in other posts, the drain issue has probably also to do with the expectation people have from the standbytime of their device on heavy usage.

[robotech]

I've found that if push email is activated, the battery will drain in under a day... The reason for this seems to be that it checks for emails every 5 mins or so (you can watch the HSPDA connection icon turn on & off all the time). I thought the point of push email was that the exchange server notified the phone when there was an email so you didn't have to check for emails every 5 minutes, so it doesn't make sense that my phone is using HSPDA so much with push email on, but once I turned it off my battery life went back to normal. :confused:

[Arilexed]

I've found that if push email is activated, the battery will drain in under a day... The reason for this seems to be that it checks for emails every 5 mins or so (you can watch the HSPDA connection icon turn on & off all the time). I thought the point of push email was that the exchange server notified the phone when there was an email so you didn't have to check for emails every 5 minutes, so it doesn't make sense that my phone is using HSPDA so much with push email on, but once I turned it off my battery life went back to normal. :confused:

That is because the push mechanism doesn't actually works as push like the bb.

So you are right. Sucks huh? :D

[nealed]

same problems with both radio 1.41 and 1.46

wm6 and the battery lasts one day, without beam, wifi, or bluetooth on

My Trinity performs very differently using the SIM card from the providor who sold me the phone (SFR France) and my Virgin Mobile UK SIM card. with my Virgin Mobile SIM card I was eating the battery in less than a day.

With the SFR SIM card I have no battery drain problems whatsoever.

Interestingly, SFR changed my SIM card when I got my Trinity.

How old is your SIM card? Do the 3V ones cause more battery drain than the lower voltage ones?

[tattoo_gaz]

My Trinity performs very differently using the SIM card from the providor who sold me the phone (SFR France) and my Virgin Mobile UK SIM card. with my Virgin Mobile SIM card I was eating the battery in less than a day.

With the SFR SIM card I have no battery drain problems whatsoever.

Interestingly, SFR changed my SIM card when I got my Trinity.

How old is your SIM card? Do the 3V ones cause more battery drain than the lower voltage ones?



Same issue for me. With my old Orange UK SIM the battery drained REALLY quick, but with the new SIM that they sent with my upgrade I dont seem to have any battery drain problems.

[thinh30]

Hi,

Did a quick assessment in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=319278

Here it is for your convenience:
Here is a guide from my recent observation.
It is based on WM5 using BatterieStatus.cap, would be great if someone can do similar to WM6 in comparison.

I also used :
HTCustom1.7 to turn off HSDPA
Turned off Bluetooth and Infrared Beam

are you using? :BatteryStatus - A battery plugin for the ToDay-Screen

http://www.chi-tai.info/cs_BatteryStatus_XDA_Neo_WM5_iM_cs.htm