Battery Drain Problem - Solved??

[BruceS]

There has been a lot of posts here about battery drain with varying theories about why many people experience this.

My Dopod D810's battery usually lasts me a day before it finally complains and shuts down around 11:00pm.

During this time I had been using Exchange activesync to push email to my device. However we do have a Blackberry enterprise server at work so I decided to remove exchange and install Blackberry in order to see what differences there were.

Imagine my surprise when I found with Blackberry rather than Exchange that my battery is still at 70% when it normally would have been switching off. It has been like this now for over a week. My usage has been normal during that time and there have been no other changes made,

Has anyone else experienced this? I would be interested to hear from anyone who has. Perhaps this is an explanation?

Cheers

Bruce

[lmjabreu]

"Imagine my surprise when I found with Blackberry rather than Exchange that my battery is still at 70% when it normally would have been switching off."

That's probably 'cos of how MS's Push Mail works, although it only transfers data when really needed, it also pings the server at an interval( default each 8 mins ) just to check if the connection is still alive( if not it'll re-establish it ).

BB doesn't need to( but it does need to be supported by the carrier ).

At least that's what I read.

[R3PUBL1K]

just a quick post to say that I think the battery drain - for me - is worse when I changed ROM, I use push email for my old ROM and the drain was normally 3 days now with this ROM I find I charge every day. I am doing nothing different from the previous ROM

[esackbauer]

I have tried several WM6 ROMs by now, and all seem to have the same problem: I get a MASSIVE battery drain, when I use ActiveSync Pushmail over UMTS connection. Also the device and battery gets warm, if not to say HOT.
I tried already different Radio ROMs 1.4x and 1.50.08, still the same.
I would lose about 20% capacity per hour.

However, if I configure the phone to use only GSM bands, there is almost no battery drain.

Any ideas on this? I use UMTS quite a lot for browsing/email and would need pushmail as well.

[dta1974]

I have tried several WM6 ROMs by now, and all seem to have the same problem: I get a MASSIVE battery drain, when I use ActiveSync Pushmail over UMTS connection. Also the device and battery gets warm, if not to say HOT.
I tried already different Radio ROMs 1.4x and 1.50.08, still the same.
I would lose about 20% capacity per hour.

Same issue here.
I live in the USA and last month I went to Spain and there I was using Movistar as my cell provider with a Movistar simcard everything was working great (UMTS,Activesync Pushmail,videocall etc...) but man like you said,once the phone was switching from GSM to 3G the device starts craving battery like you wouldn´t believe plus the temperature of the battery was kind of outrageous.
So I switched to GSM and everything back to normal in Spain and in the USA,I don´t know what to say other than 3G and Pushmail drain a lot.
I have noticed this with every rom.

Bye

[HikL]

Same issue here.
I live in the USA and last month I went to Spain and there I was using Movistar as my cell provider with a Movistar simcard everything was working great (UMTS,Activesync Pushmail,videocall etc...) but man like you said,once the phone was switching from GSM to 3G the device starts craving battery like you wouldn´t believe plus the temperature of the battery was kind of outrageous.
So I switched to GSM and everything back to normal in Spain and in the USA,I don´t know what to say other than 3G and Pushmail drain a lot.
I have noticed this with every rom.

Bye
Same story here. I live in the Netherlands with the Orange version of this phone and no matter which rom I use, it always drains rapidly when i used a 3g connection. So after I browsed with a 3g connection I switch back to GSM for push mail etc and to stop the draining.