Battery dies in less than 24 hours.

[funky_Saggi]

Hi guys.

My wizard battery lasts less than a day. I hardly use it. Wifi and other radio are off most of the time.

I tried changing ROMs, radio roms etc. I even got a new battery but to no effect.

Any help ?

[xeno1]

I had that problem until I found out that activesync was staying active even after I unplugged the cable. I never found a way to keep it from doing that though so now I just make sure activesync is shut off wheneve I disconnect it. Kind of a pain, but it beats the battery dying on me.

[funky_Saggi]

Well ill make sure Activesync is off.

But do you think the problem would persist even after I changed roms!

[xeno1]

It did on mine. It's something to do with activesync itself apparently. It doesn't stay on as often as it did when I was using T-mobiles ROM, but it still does it occasionally.

[mikaarce]

make sure your extrom is ok, because a corrupt extrom is also a cause of battery drainage, better yet there was a rom floating that only erases your extrom (blankextrom), i forgot who made it but its from the wizard forums

[mikaarce]

found it, go to post number 7, look at the sig below there is a link for the blank ext rom, enjoy

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=311225

[nvgear]

guys, please take a look at here, i think we have the same issues, but i have the t-mobile wing (htc herald):

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=319897

[GaMeR64]

Maybe your battery is bad. Buy a new one on Ebay for small cost. I bought mine for like 7 euro`s including shipping (battery itself was € 3,5). Also disable mail fetching every few minutes.

[nvgear]

Maybe your battery is bad. Buy a new one on Ebay for small cost. I bought mine for like 7 euro`s including shipping (battery itself was € 3,5). Also disable mail fetching every few minutes.

i tried two different NEW batteries straight from tmobile and the problem persists. and mail checking is on manual, which means only when I click send/receive

[xeno1]

I'm pretty sure mine was caused by activesync running even though it wasn't connected because ever since I started making sure it wasn't running after disconnecting it from the cable my phone hasn't had that problem at all.

[nvgear]

I'm pretty sure mine was caused by activesync running even though it wasn't connected because ever since I started making sure it wasn't running after disconnecting it from the cable my phone hasn't had that problem at all.

i end-tasked (closed) activesync from running in my phone when i went to sleep, and when i woke up i lost 50% battery again, (with all radios off)

[calouro]

Some programs can drain the battery. As an example, I really like PhoneAlarm, but it drains the battery tremendously, I think it's because it polls different system parameters. This polling causes the battery drainage.

Also, the way to stop activesync from turning on by itself it to create an exchange server account. I use mail2web, it’s free. After you set up the account on the phone, when you go to the activesync menu, hit schedule, then set it up for manual.
After I set this up, I never have a problem with activesync. You can do a Google search to get the step-by-step directions on how to set it up.

Also, charge the battery with the wall power cord, try not to use the USB power. Each one uses different circuits in the wizard. I also let the battery drop below 10% before I charge it. My battery lasts about 4 days.

[xeno1]

i end-tasked (closed) activesync from running in my phone when i went to sleep, and when i woke up i lost 50% battery again, (with all radios off)

Like calouro said, there are other programs that can drain a battery pretty quick, mine happened to be activesync. Since you shut it off and you still get battery drain then yours must be a different one, possibly a today plugin if you didn't have any other apps running in the background.

Just had a thought, you don't have any today plugins such as weather panel that are set up to update over gprs on a regular basis do you? If you're turning your radio off and it can't update it may be trying over and over to update and draining your battery.

[nvgear]

no i don't have any today-addon or plugins, i have batterystatus installed but this problem persists even without batterystatus and it does this even after a fresh HARD reset, which tells me this is a manufacturer's program or hardware causing this flaw, i'm not the only one with this problem, there are others, look at our discussions here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=319897

[xeno1]

Yah, I read that post. Did you try not turning off the radio over night and see if that sloved the issue?

[funky_Saggi]

I've changed batteries. Using a brand new one now.

No active today plugins or anything else. Dont even have activesync running. Made sure I exited that. Still no help!

[nothin]

how did you flash?
i think it may be extrom prob, as someone said earlier. if you are flashing with shelltool, extrom(corrupted or not) is not replaced, when its broken, shelltool rom change will not help.
second thing is "fake connection" for activesync to stop it from turning on and on in searching of sync.
third thing is using soft, that is waking up/keeps machine awaken somehow...
xeno1 said it all before...
i think it may be something installed from good extrom too(extrom holds programs which are installed after first boot)....

one more thing:
after >60 flashes i noticed, that level of battery while flashing may be reason of fast nrg loss.
If it was 50%, machine(even charged to the max after flash) drops fast to 50% then drop slows down - wise thing is to let it discharge to ~5-9%, then charge to the max. After 1-2 such operations battery is ok.
It is useful, even if battery was full(machine "learns" about battery as it is new - sth like that).

there are no miracles.

sorry for funny english..

[funky_Saggi]

HEre's something funny that happened.

Before flashin a blank extended rom I had 73% battery. Once the flash was over I had 100% battery.

Now I'm tryin to drain the battery with backlight and phone and wifi continously on. Once that is done, I hope things will get better. I'll keep posted with what happens.

[funky_Saggi]

Even after a full recharge, the battery now doesnt last even 12 hours. And this is me not using the phone at all. It's just been switched on and kept that way.
And no thebacklight doesnt stay on, or the phone doesnt stay on (it goes into the standby mode as it should)

[nvgear]

Yah, I read that post. Did you try not turning off the radio over night and see if that sloved the issue?

yea if i don't turn off the cellular radio then the battery only loses about 1-2% overnight (9 hour sleep).

[xeno1]

It almost sounds as if turning the radio off is causing it to search for a signal, but since the radio is off it just keeps sucking the life out of your battery while it searches. When you turn the radio off do you get an x at the top next to the antenna icon or the . .. ... thing?

[nvgear]

It almost sounds as if turning the radio off is causing it to search for a signal, but since the radio is off it just keeps sucking the life out of your battery while it searches. When you turn the radio off do you get an x at the top next to the antenna icon or the . .. ... thing?

i get a X, it doesnt 'look' like it's searching for a signal, but who knows...

[xeno1]

I was just kind of thinking out loud there anyway, I'm not sure if the signal search gets shut off when you shut off the radio or not or if it's a software function independent of the radio. I just can't think of any other reason that it would do that only when the radio was turned off other than the things we've already ruled out. Have you tried turning off the radio and then running task manager and seeing if theres a process that becomes very active?