Battery Issue with DCD 3.01

[jok3sta]

Ok heres my problem. After the phone reaches full charge, i would unplug it and within a minute it would drop to 96%. And from there on its downhill. I probably get 2-3 hours from a full charge. I have actually been having this problem from the 2.3.2 rom. Could this be a battery problem? or Software?

[jok3sta]

Forgot to put email notifaction

[letsgoflyers81]

My wife and I have both noticed poorer battery performance since upgrading our Moguls' ROMs. Like you, we first tried dcd's 2.3.2, and now we're using 3.0.0.

[Soundy106]

I dunno, I'm finding mine has BETTER battery life now than it did with... whatever the last 2.x was I was using.

[Total_Lag]

My battery actually seems like it lasts longer. Check that you don't have bluetooth or WiFi on and IR. You are letting your phone go on standby right? Another thing to check is your screen brightness.

[jok3sta]

hmm thats weird. bt wifi and ir are all off. im goin to turn down the brightness and see if that helps at all.

[Psionfenix]

My battery life seems better, i wish i would have actually tested it. Oops. I'm using a rom from DCD's 3.0.1 kitchen.

[Maxavius]

Hey Guys,

I just upgraded to DCD 3.0.1 & also noticed the battery drainage problem. I wanted to see if the battery saver tweaks have been implemented on this new rom & sure enough they have not. I have been using the tweaks all day today & and only shows 15 percent decrease (10 hours of use so far). I also turned off GPS by way of settings-personal-phone-services-location setting-911 only. Turn it on when I needed it.
Here are the Reg tweaks:

Battery Improvement Registry Tweaks

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\AsyncMac1\Parms
Default value type and value are
DisablePowerManagement�=dword:1
Change to
DisablePowerManagement�=dword:0

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\Irsir1\Parms
Default value type and value are
DisablePowerManagement�=dword:1
Change to
DisablePowerManagement�=dword:0

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\PPTP1\Parms
Default value type and value are
DisablePowerManagement�=dword:1
Change to
DisablePowerManagement�=dword:0

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\L2TP1\Parms
Default value type and value are
DisablePowerManagement�=dword:1
Change to
DisablePowerManagement�=dword:0

[pocketdoc]

I just flashed DCDs 3.0.1 and tried to change the Reg as you spelled out so well above.

The D values are already 0. He must have changed his ROM.

[dcd1182]

I just flashed DCDs 3.0.1 and tried to change the Reg as you spelled out so well above.

The D values are already 0. He must have changed his ROM.

its been that way for months..

[t00nces]

My battery is definitely draining faster then normal, and with nothing turned on. However, I have experienced this once before, it was so bad 30 minutes of talking on the phone would completely drain the battery. I was about to give up and assume the battery was toast, when I tried a hard reset. After that, life was back to normal, so I can only assume there was some app going crazy and eating up CPU so bad it killed the power.

I'm going to try a reset here myself, hopefully that will kill the problem.

-toonces

[Total_Lag]

it should be noted some moguls come with 1000mAh while others with 1500mAh. check what battery type you have, maybe thats why its draining faster. there was talk on ppcgeeks about an 1800mAh battery for sale, but i dont know much about it.

[gadzuk]

Ditto the battery problems, had consumed 30% of battery in 4 hrs this morning after showing the GPS feature to co-workers.

I'll reset and try settings-personal-phone-services-location setting-off to disable GPS.

Are there reports of accellerated battery consumption with the Sprint ROM?

[answerman]

Well, it's been a little over 48 hours now since I moved from 2.3.2 to 3.0.1 and I have to say I'm pleased with the battery life. It goes down to about 70% after a 16 hour day. And I have not even considered having to soft reset yet... still running off the original reset after flashing the phone.

I think we have a winner here.

[Maxavius]

Sorry guys,

I dont know why, but when I loaded up Advance Config 2.0 somehow it showed those reg settings (power management) as enables? I should have checked with my Registry editor. Either way, my phone battery life is back to normal.
Great job DCD!

[prnorm]

I am having the same battery problems. One thing I'm wondering if it's how it's reporting the battery level that's the problem because my phone indicates that it fully charges abnormally fast as well as drains fast.

running dcd 3.0.0. I guess I'll try a hard-reset as others suggested.

[jyan_osu]

I went with Keys' kitchen that's based of 6.0 and Sprint's latest release and my battery seems to be much better now. I don't know if it's the way it's being reported with the incremental dll or something in 6.1 that's doing it but i'm not down to 70% after 2 hours of doing nothing with the phone now.

[t00nces]

After some playing around I believe it to be the GPS. If I turn the GPS on, I can practically watch the power bar tick down. If I exit google maps, it still seems to keep sliding down the scale.

However, if I reset my phone (not just exit the program) after using google maps, and go back to normal use without using any programs to initalize the GPS, the battery life is what I was used to.

If anyone else is seeing this, try going a day without even activating the gps, and see if you can notice a difference.

[answerman]

A thought on the GPS and battery life:

I have not seen any of the issues related by others with the GPS. However, I am using a nav program called Odyssey Mobile (it came with my Holux GPSlim 236 BT unit that I originally bought for my 6700). With this program, it starts the GPS just like it should with no reason to jump start it, and shuts it down when I exit the program. (Plus, it allows me to keep my maps on the microSD card... I do not want to have to rely on a data connection to get maps a la Google Maps or MS Live Search).

Not a plug for Odyssey, but instead more an observation that maybe progs like Google Maps are not shutting the GPS down like they should when exited. Odyssey has an actual "exit program" button instead of relying on the "X" to close it in the normal WM style (actually you can't even see the WM6 interface at all when Odyssey is running) and using the exit function completely closes it. I suspect that maybe Google Maps isn't really closing for you guys and that's why a soft reset fixes your GPS.

Again, just a thought.

I'm closing in on 72 hours since I installed DCD 3.0.1 and still only going down to 70% battery by the end of the day... plus I STILL have not had to soft reset (it's becoming an obsession to see how long I can go without resetting!) and the phone is still as snappy as it was immediately following the flash. Not one single problem... the 3.35 radio/3.0.1 ROM is easily the most stable combination I have used. No ifs, ands, or buts.

[torankusu]

Hi guys,


i posted the same issue under this same section but different thread about my battery not lasting more than 12-15 hours after jumping to DCD 3.0.1 whereas with Sprint official (using the same programs and usage) i will usually get 35+ hours, even two full days depending of usage. so guest what i changed the power battery tweaks:
Battery Improvement Registry Tweaks

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\AsyncMac1\Parms
Default value type and value are
DisablePowerManagement�=dword:0
Change to
DisablePowerManagement�=dword:1

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\Irsir1\Parms
Default value type and value are
DisablePowerManagement�=dword:0
Change to
DisablePowerManagement�=dword:1

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\PPTP1\Parms
Default value type and value are
DisablePowerManagement�=dword:0
Change to
DisablePowerManagement�=dword:1

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Comm\L2TP1\Parms
Default value type and value are
DisablePowerManagement�=dword:0
Change to
DisablePowerManagement�=dword:1


using DCDs because i'm assuming that when i'm using sprint official (on which i get more batterry life) i don't have these tweaks and my phone went from 74% to 73% in a period of 2 hours and 42 minutes. be my guest and explain whats going on. lol

just wanted to post this.


NOTE: after i changed everything from 0 to 1 on DCDs, baterry was draining like crazy i soft reset and woila!! solved.

[azclown]

Well, I cooked another ROM from DCD kitchen 3.0.1 and removed the latest Home and Home customizer programs just to see if they had any effect. ALL other programs were still included in the ROM. My power drain has gone away???? So I will put the Home Customizer on in the next ROM and have it on there for a day and see if that helps or hurts....

[madman34]

I have found that some apps bring up the EVDO connection and do not kill it when closed, so I have watched it stay up for hours after and kills the battery. Sometimes I notice it just seems to come up on its own, even after telling all apps to NOT connect on their own, but somthing still does every now and then. If I watchdog the data connection I can usually go for days without charging.

[azclown]

Well, I'm going to cook another rom this morning... I left my phone all night and it's power only drop 3 % over night....I couldn't soft reset either, I pressed the button and it didn't work.... weird, I had to pull the battery to reset it, when that was finished resetting the button worked again???? I did leave the GPS plugin in the ON state all night as well.... I do notice that when I actually try to use Googlemaps with GPS is drains way faster than it did before tho, if I try to lock on fora few mins it drains the battery around 2 percent a min...... crazy fast.... and I can't get a lock anymore..... Ive tried a few programs to get a lock and I just can't..... I've got a few more things I'm going to try before getting a new phone.....

[azclown]

Dead - It appears that my GPS is dead.... I've tried several ROMS and can't get a lock with any of them.... Re-flashed the sprint rom, DID NOT let customizations run( I'm verizon) and then installed my own ROM and still a no go..... Putting OEM ROM on now and heading to Store.... lol

[azclown]

New XV6800 arrives tomorrow... lol

[rschell]

I have noticed that if I change the activesync schedule from "As items arrive" (push) to manual or a fixed schedule my battery life goes way up. I typically use 5 minutes on peak and 60 minutes off-peak. Current drain during radio operation is one of the highest draws on the device, 300-400 ma. Compared to 50-60 ma in standby or 100 ma on with a resonably bright screen.

[digiblur]

I'm running DCD 3.0 and as a test I loaded Alltel's latest PRL over my Sprint one. It doesn't matter for me since my EVDO comes from Alltel and I wasn't going to use the phone for voice much. All day at work pulling email, reading threads on the internet, listening to a bit of music...the phone is still at 75%! WOW!! I'll load the Sprint PRL tomorrow and boom I can bet 30% battery by the time I get off work.

[JigSawMan]

I'm running DCD 3.0 and as a test I loaded Alltel's latest PRL over my Sprint one. It doesn't matter for me since my EVDO comes from Alltel and I wasn't going to use the phone for voice much. All day at work pulling email, reading threads on the internet, listening to a bit of music...the phone is still at 75%! WOW!! I'll load the Sprint PRL tomorrow and boom I can bet 30% battery by the time I get off work.

Ditto on that for me. Sprint has not rolled out EVDO in my area either. I also have noticed better battery life when I leave an Alltel PRL on my phone.

Stinks, both Alltel and Verizon have EVDO up and running locally. Wish I knew what Sprint's hold up is.

I guess an interesting battery experiment would be to force the modem settings (in ##778#) to 'CDMA only' while running a Sprint PRL and see if the battery lasts longer.