Battery on my XDA IIi drains very fast

[BBBenj]

Hello!

I took time to search on this forum (and elsewhere as well), up to 2005 (yes, I did it!), but no part of answer still.

Here is my problem: I have this XDA IIi for a long time, and I flashed it a couple of weeks ago (WM2003SE, french rom 1.11.02 FRE from QTek, Radio 1.04, ExtROM 1.11.116 FRE), and everything worked correctly for a while. I installed TomTom v6.03, then Igo 2008 (much better), SPB Time and SPB PocketPlus.

Since about a week, my battery (quite old, it's true. 1300 mAh) is draining very fast. Less than a day, with no phone call, no screen, nothing... I charged it for all night, 5 hours later I find it empty!

I also have to say that I can't use my phone with less than 20% of battery, or it stops, but since the beginning (it's a second hand phone). No way to drain the battery to 0%...

Moreover, I sometimes noticed the indication on the screen that it is busy (sorry, I don't know the word in english!) since last week. It comes on the screen for a second or two, then disappear for a second or two, and so on. I also noticed a change in memory occupation, for about 0,2 ko (thanks to SPB Pocket plus today plugin). But nothing is running in Parameters/Memory. Totally empty.

I say "sometimes", because when it appears, I know my battery is draining fast, so I do a soft reset, and it doesn't reappear everytime. Sometime it helps, sometimes not: it cames back :(

It is for me a professional tool, as well as my only cellphone, so I desesperatly need it functional!

Can anybody help me? Please....

[BBBenj]

Hi again...

Fully charged.

Less than 2 hours later, 17% lost...
No wifi, no bluetooth, no program launched, no phone call, no screen turned on, nothing, nothing, nothing...

Anybody?

[skeeve666]

basically u need a new battery, they can go any time, try and get original, the higher powered ones can be unreliable

[BBBenj]

Coucou!

I hoped it can be solved in another way... Are you really sure? One day it works well (or quite well, at least), and the next day, it's done?

By the way, is it worth in investing in a new battery with such a PDA, or should I change it for a newer one???

Anybody can help me making my choice?

[The Owl]

I bought a new Heavy duty battery (3600ah) and it works fine but a lot of the current drain could be due to settings i.e. do you have the cpu on standard or Turbo mode obviously the turbo is a heavier drain, turn down the time the screen stays on etc etc although I am fortunate in that its usually sat in either a cradle indoor's or in the Car unless I am walking about which is rare as I am disabled longest it went without charging was about 15 hours recently when I stayed with friends in Wales it dropped to about 57% but I have since bought a mains charger for such situations

[BBBenj]

Coucou!

In facts, nothing absolutly changed during this time. Since a long time, it's been quite usual... 2-3 days before battery drains completely, with phone calls and so on...

But, due to troubles with application, 2 weeks ago, I flashed it again (ROM specified in my signature), and reinstalled all my applications...

Some days after (I didn't noticed first), my battery started draining very fast. So, one day it's OK, the next day, everything goes wrong.

Nowadays, it losses about 8 to 10% per hour. No phone call. Screen turned off most of the time, minimum light mode. No wifi. No bluetooth. And as my PDA completly stops when battery reaches 20% or so... No way to drain it completly. So it lasts 8 to 10 hours max. A night... When fully charge before going to sleep, at dawn it's over. Off and refuses to turn on: less than 20% battery.

And yes, it's "CPU turbo mode ON", but since the beginning........

Should I change my PDA?????

[MrLeche]

Should you change your PDA?

well it depends:

1. if you have a budget. in case you do, sell you're stuff and get a newer one. There are lots of new PDAs around that is worth the money with a newer model that run wm6.

2. If you don't have the budget or just don't feel like having a new PDA. I guess you just need s new battery. stick to the original. mM best bet is you'll get the same standby time when you already replaced it with a new one. I had an experience that my battery reports I'm low then after a whole night it went up to 77% which is weird because I did not charged it. I'm too lazy to get up so I had it under my pillow. I had it checked and the issue was the battery.

3. If you feel that the battery isn't the issue. Try flashing it back to the original. or try flashing it with another build. then observe if it still drains as fast as before.

[The Owl]

IMHO the XDA IIi is still one of the fastest PDA's around, be a long time before I change mine out (barring accidents)

[robsno]

The XDA2 still holds its head high with the latest models on performance, in fact many of the latest ones appear sluggish to use in comparison I think due to the persistent memory. I bought a 3600 Ma battery from ebay and even with a reasonable number of phone calls (2 hours a day) and a lot of daily use as a PDA it does 2-3 days between charges if I don't plug it in. However sometimes the power monitoring looses it and needs correcting by taking the battery out as if you were swapping batteries putting it back and then doing a soft reset and when booted up put on charge for 12 hours. It may be your Rom (mine is the standard last O2 one but patched with the radio 1.4) but likely cause is the battery. Basically batteries start to degenerate after 1000 charges, sometimes a bit earlier. If you do get one of these batteries give it a good long charge before you start to use it to "condition it"

[BBBenj]

Coucou! I read attentively what all of you have written, but I was away due to sick [:mad:censored:mad:] sickness...

To MrLeche:
No, I don't have much money to change my PDA, as my main complaint about it is its really poor camera. Otherwise, it is as fast as I need, including for Igo2008... And I don't really need WM6, objectively!

And may be your pillow is an excellent free/green phone charger!!! :lol:

I'll try to flash it and test...


To Robsno:
After I will have tested with another ROM and see if the battery still drains quickly, I'll certainly buy another battery, but not a 3.600, as I need my PDA to stay flat to plug in my car craddle!!!



And why does it allways stop as there's 20% battery left ??????

[robsno]

Fair enough I had to modify my take and talk car cradle to take the 3600ma one so I know what you mean, there is a standard sized 1700ma battery available from a seller in the states, i used that before the 3600ma and they do give that bit extra as a second option. Best of luck

[BBBenj]

Hi!

Thanks for your answer, Robsno... I'll take a look at it quite soon, I think http://smileys.sur-la-toile.com/repository/M%E9chant/0060.gif

Fully charged at 17h, Only 15% for now and it stopped... http://smileys.sur-la-toile.com/repository/M%E9chant/0003.gif As usual... http://smileys.sur-la-toile.com/repository/M%E9chant/fache-rouge-colereux-12.gif

WHY CAN'T IT DRAIN ITS BATTERY TO THE REAL END ? http://smileys.sur-la-toile.com/repository/M%E9chant/grr.gif

(Sorry, but I'm really fed up with it, and I won't have time to flash it til sunday... )

[The Owl]

I have a 3600 on mine I also have a Brodrik mount the XDA still slide's in and "Just" fits the leather case, you have to remember your not running a phone your running a PDA / COMPUTER so if the screen is on it will run down the battery quick if you only have one of the small batterys your talking minutes, it also has to shut down to maintain a small ammount to revive the computer i.e. the 15% the main way to save power is keep the screen off except when connected to external power of course and dont play silly games / multimedia files, I presume your mount does have a external power pick up?

[BBBenj]

Coucou !

When I say "it stops", it stops completly ! No way to turn it on until... long minutes... And even then, it stops again after just few seconds.

And there's still about 20% shown!!!!

Someone can explain this to my low-battery brain?!!

[Moses_Ivanov]

I had the same problem with my Qtek 2020i. This is not a battery issue. My PPC also used to drain out its battery in one night (no calls, no programs running, screen switched off, sleeping near its user's bed). I had many programs installed on it and I did not want to lose them, so I tried many ways to make the device work.

I will not describe all my worthless attempts. At last I made a hard reset and reinstalled my programs. Since this time my PPC works as it should be. The problem happened 1,5 years ago. Since this time I did not change my battery. This battery was bought together with the device and keeps working for about 3 years. It may sound a miracle, but it is real.

My advice in this situation is hard reset and reinstallation of all programs. One may try to make backups after installing any program to find the one that causes this bug. As for me, I don't know the reason and don't care. The thing that the problem is solved and does not reappear is enough for me.

[georsc]

i have Qtek 2020i and i have the same problem.
i have 2 batterys (original + brand new one) - same probmems. :(

in sd/mmc slot card i have SD card Sandisk ultraII 2 GB (class4).
if i remove de card from slot my battery drain in "normal" mode:
08:00 full charged
22:30 50% (with total calls 08:21)

so
in these case i use my 2GB card only in my car for igo8

[zenity]

I also had this problem, and after some testing I tried a Hard Reset, which fixed the problem for me too, yes I had to reinstall a load of stuff, but since then I have had no problems with battery life, it's still the original battery.

I now own a Kaiser, a Touch Diamond and a Touch HD ( work in progress, repair), and still my XDAIIi is faster and in some ways better than those, ( I cannot use any of the others as an Oscilloscope/Frequency analyser ).