Battery problems after hard reset

[darkfire62]

I need some advice/help. Here's the story:

My Dash with Kavana wm6.1 started giving me "out of memory" errors. At one point, I couldn't send text messages, and I opened CeleTask to see what was running. Nothing appeared in the list--no running programs, no free memory options, nada. So I rebooted the phone. Then it would freeze at the green Windows Mobile screen. Removed the battery, SD card, Sim card--still nothing. So I Googled the problem and found out how to do the hard reset (hold down both soft keys while pressing the On button, release, wait until DOS-like screen appears, hit any key).

Okay, phone did start up--but it reset the phone to default, wiped out memory and apps. Okay, no biggie. Got everything set up again. But here's the kicker: Whenever I spoke on the phone for, like, a half-hour, the battery charge would drop from 100% to one bar--maybe 28%??? And this is after just unplugging it! But when I plugged it back up again, the charge would read either 100% or somewhere close???

So my question is, could doing a hard reset have damaged the battery? Or is there some setting that I may have lost from the hard reset that messed up how the phone is monitoring the battery? I ordered a high-capacity battery (which was long-overdue anyway, because even before all this I got 8-9 hours of use out of the battery), so maybe the point is moot. But has anyone run into this before?

DF

[jdoggraz]

I need some advice/help. Here's the story:

My Dash with Kavana wm6.1 started giving me "out of memory" errors. At one point, I couldn't send text messages, and I opened CeleTask to see what was running. Nothing appeared in the list--no running programs, no free memory options, nada. So I rebooted the phone. Then it would freeze at the green Windows Mobile screen. Removed the battery, SD card, Sim card--still nothing. So I Googled the problem and found out how to do the hard reset (hold down both soft keys while pressing the On button, release, wait until DOS-like screen appears, hit any key).

Okay, phone did start up--but it reset the phone to default, wiped out memory and apps. Okay, no biggie. Got everything set up again. But here's the kicker: Whenever I spoke on the phone for, like, a half-hour, the battery charge would drop from 100% to one bar--maybe 28%??? And this is after just unplugging it! But when I plugged it back up again, the charge would read either 100% or somewhere close???

So my question is, could doing a hard reset have damaged the battery? Or is there some setting that I may have lost from the hard reset that messed up how the phone is monitoring the battery? I ordered a high-capacity battery (which was long-overdue anyway, because even before all this I got 8-9 hours of use out of the battery), so maybe the point is moot. But has anyone run into this before?

DF

No that would not affect it, it sounds like you need a new battery. My personal opinion is if you do get a new battery to get an extended one off ebay for like 26 dollars with shipping... You will love this battery...

Here is the link to an extended battery off ebay which I myself own as well...
EXTENDED BATTERY LINK (http://cgi.ebay.com/T-Mobile-Dash-series-2200mAh-Li-Ion-Extended-Battery_W0QQitemZ320301421920QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPD A_Accessories?hash=item320301421920&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A13 18)

[darkfire62]

Yeah, I ordered the 2200mAh extended battery last night, really looking forward to getting it...but I'm still wondering why this happened all of a sudden, right after the hard reset. I mean, what if I get the extended battery and (heaven forbid) I do a hard reset in the future. Do I have to look forward to the same thing happening?

I mean, I've read where the OEM Dash batteries were basically UGH--old, decrepit, underpowered. Maybe this was the last straw for the battery, I can buy that. But if it's something more, I just want to know that before I try a hard reset again, know what I mean?

DF

[renegadedj]

Yeah, I ordered the 2200mAh extended battery last night, really looking forward to getting it...but I'm still wondering why this happened all of a sudden, right after the hard reset. I mean, what if I get the extended battery and (heaven forbid) I do a hard reset in the future. Do I have to look forward to the same thing happening?

I mean, I've read where the OEM Dash batteries were basically UGH--old, decrepit, underpowered. Maybe this was the last straw for the battery, I can buy that. But if it's something more, I just want to know that before I try a hard reset again, know what I mean?

DF

i think even tho, when you do a hard reset especially, the phone is plugged in, the battery being crap to begin with, certain actions, draining actions such as a hard-reset, just kicks the battery off the cliff.

[pfunkside]

If your battery is about a year or so old then I believe it might just have been it's time. Now this is just my opinion but I always flash my phones to another Rom only when the battery is 100% charged. I've heard similar problems with other phones in the past. I also noticed if you have your email settings to update or check your email every 10 minutes or a newsfeed reader checking ever so often you are going to get ridiculous drain on your batteries. So, in other words it could be a number of reasons why your battery drains. It's just checking those settings. Timeout settings etc... So, in other words try a number of things to see if that's the issue.

[darkfire62]

The general drain issues, yeah, I use ActiveSync to my company's OutLook webmail services and that's going constantly; plus I check my Yahoo! Mail like every 10 minutes. But that was prior to this and I got 8-9 hours of use out of a fresh 100% charge. Plus, I constantly keep the phone plugged to one laptop or another using a USB cable. I have noticed recently that it seems to drain relatively quicker (maybe 4-5 hours) after keeping it plugged up all day. But this half-hour thing was just ridiculous. All in all, I accept that the hard reset probably helped the battery kick it, but that it was already on its way out.

And the good thing, of course, is that if I have to do a hard reset again, I will pop in the original crappy battery, to do it with. No harm, no foul that way...

I'll let you know how the extended battery works. Thanks, everyone.

DF