Battery and GPRS connection queston

[interestingfellow]

***EDIT***
Turns out it was a bad battery.
***END EDIT***




SO, I have an sx66 that will connect with little to no problem when the battery is above %50... but as soon as the battery hits that %50 (or below) mark, all bets are off, and it keeps telling me that the answering modem keeps disconnecting, or is unavailable. But, as soon as I plug it into a charger, viola, I can connect and keep going.


I'm assuming there is a setting somewhere in the registry that has to do something with something. I could understand the battery being wayyyy down, and the phone just not having the juice to connect, but this is very consistent. I also can't find any relevant posts concerning this issue.

please help.

[cerjam]

do you have a voltage multimeter? because this sounds alot like the problems my BA have that nobody gave me any input on.

when the phone was on hte charger, i couold make calls and shit noproblem. however, when i took it off? dead. instantly, it dropped all cell reception.

i figured it was the battery, so iswapped it out. and it SEEMS to have resovled itself.

so my opinion is, swap out the battery and give that a shot. its very likely thats the problem.

if it doesnt help, try flashing it with WM5 and setting it up. that may give us some insight as to if its hardware or software.

[interestingfellow]

I'm gonna go with it's a bad(ish) battery. I noticed the other evening, and again tonight (paying attention) that the battery was registering %49, but the whole unit kept cutting off as follows: do some stuff, close all with pocket nav, turn off the screen, and into my pocket. Pull it out, 5 minutes later and turn it on - to the boot screen. do whatever, turn off the screen, back in my pocket. 5 minutes later, same problem. I think the battery is registering it's capacity wrong? I'll look to see how to re calibrate.

[cerjam]

boot screen being what, the screen alignment or what?

btu yeah. it sounds like the battery. that or the blueangels have really inconsistent radios.

[interestingfellow]

tmo splash screen with the rom radio and ext rom numbers....

[cerjam]

ass i thought this was hte otherthread lmfao.

and yeah. that same shit happend to me when i first got my imate. it's the battery.

[interestingfellow]

Tried to recalibrate. not good.

I tried to cover that pin like it says in the wiki (universal's battery problem) and put the battery back in... the device wouldn't power on, so i pulled the battery and tape, and now the unit boots and all, but won't find service. at all.

Gonna try the newest radio stack, and see if that helps.

[interestingfellow]

Upgrade to 1.15 saved the radio. It works now.

[cerjam]

ohgood., you had me worried, i think its sad i care about your ba almost as much as mine.

butyeha. you should do a SD backup, theres a section in the wiki wiht the commands. then dump it with dd as an image to your pc, so incase you do fuck something up you can flash from SD. of course if its a actual brick, it wont help but its a decent insurance policy.

[interestingfellow]

Gotta say, God has smiled upon my cell phone situation(s).

I had to use a shitty frankenrazr (built from parts of others) for like 2 years, and it was a phone/txtr, and that's it.

I guess for my patience, I have been rewarded with bounty... A BA, now with a camera, aluminum case, sync cables, new speaker, an a pen stylus, for about $45, and just two days ago I got a universal for some old fujitsu touchsceen computers and a little cash - about $150 in all.... Awsome

[fpopic]

i have same problem with my MDA III from tmobile

i dont have any SD but i"ll buy 2GB

i have orginal microsoft 2003 softwere installed and i got the phone like gift
when is it charging everything works fine (wifi,gprs) but when i put out phone from USB CHARGER and go to wifi,gprs,night mode for camera or similar
IT JUST FLASHES-BLACK AND IT TURNS OFF

[interestingfellow]

YEah, got a new battery, and it still cuts off at 42%. Eh...