Touch hd battery 3/4 then next minute empty?? Why

[ryanburger]

Bought HTC Touch HD second hand -(nearly new) the other day and think it's great. Had one locked password screen ( HTC's have habit of doing this occasionally) and needed hard reset, but in the whole great PDA.

However, couple of times now battery charged night before and checked in morning - only two bars gone. Then an hour later gone to turn phone on and it has no battery life in at all. Not been used except for perhaps alarm. No WIfi on and no programs running. This has happened twice now. I have updated to the latest ROM as soon as I got it and problems hae occured after that. Could this be the reason.
It has only happend in the mornings. Charging up fine again now, but has left me high & dry without warning. p.s I check battery life all the time but it just went from nearly full to none in an hour??? Why

[harddisk_wp]

Bought HTC Touch HD second hand -(nearly new) the other day and think it's great. Had one locked password screen ( HTC's have habit of doing this occasionally) and needed hard reset, but in the whole great PDA.

However, couple of times now battery charged night before and checked in morning - only two bars gone. Then an hour later gone to turn phone on and it has no battery life in at all. Not been used except for perhaps alarm. No WIfi on and no programs running. This has happened twice now. I have updated to the latest ROM as soon as I got it and problems hae occured after that. Could this be the reason.
It has only happend in the mornings. Charging up fine again now, but has left me high & dry without warning. p.s I check battery life all the time but it just went from nearly full to none in an hour??? Why


Any ActiveSync / Messaging / IM / other data-pull services active? What is the signal strength in your area? I live in a strange area: in my room I sometimes have 70% strength, ten minutes later only 10% - maybe this drains your battery.

[ryanburger]

Noticed since I turned off 3 G battery life has been great. I t did searchquite a bit on H and 3g. perhaps this was the battery eater. Cheers anyway.

[Who-m3]

May also want to check your running apps as harddisk_wp was discussing. I had a very similar issue come up with my Kaiser/Tilt a few years back. I went from having great battery life to having maybe 2 hours max. Was carrying a second battery, etc., etc... Come to find out, the problem wasn't with my battery, it was with the software the phone was running. Specifically, that time, Emoze. The PC Connector was causing a problem (corrupt file) and every time it connected, it sent a pile of data, failed, then reconnected, and continued the loop, over..and over..and over again...

Needless to say, I corrected the problem (Emoze support made suggestions, a few weeks later I was gone from Emoze completely). Anything using data, heavy or not, can effect your battery life dramatically. Your 3G of course will drain it more, as will WiFi, but in my experience it is related to the data being processed itself...

-John

[ryanburger]

Thxs for that. Since I disconnected from 3G battery life has been great. End of each day still only two bars gone with lots of use. Ryan

[galaxys]

^^yep, that darn 3G can suck the guts out of these batteries!