Radio 1.20 - UMTS and battery life

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I have radio 1.20 and it seems to be working OK but in UMTS mode, the battery dies quickly and the TyTn gets very hot. In GSM mode, the battery seems to last forever. Anyone else experience this?

How quickly does the battery die? Do you use push mail? How's the signal, coverage? What about BT? The battery consumption depends on a lot of things .. some of which I list already ..

It shouldnt be getting hot in any case .. from what I know the only reason the TyTN might get hot is if you use wifi ...

Originally Posted by gravejoker

How quickly does the battery die? Do you use push mail? How's the signal, coverage? What about BT? The battery consumption depends on a lot of things .. some of which I list already ..

It shouldnt be getting hot in any case .. from what I know the only reason the TyTN might get hot is if you use wifi ...

Battery was down 20% in about 2 hours. push email and bt on. I've downgraded to 1.16 and will see how that goes.

UMTS, DirectPush and BT are a dangerous combo .. but 2 hrs is still pretty bad .. You should be able to last 10-12 hrs on an av with UMTS/DirectPush .. less with BT ..

Shutdown DirectPush and BT for a day and see what happens ..

Originally Posted by gravejoker

UMTS, DirectPush and BT are a dangerous combo .. but 2 hrs is still pretty bad .. You should be able to last 10-12 hrs on an av with UMTS/DirectPush .. less with BT ..

Shutdown DirectPush and BT for a day and see what happens ..

Thanks. Need Direct Push, but will try to keep BT off when I don't need it.

Basically, MS DirectPush keeps a connection constantly open to the Exchange server to get any latest changes from the server ... This basically kills the battery literally ..

And if it's just emails (not too huge) .. you can probably just go back to Edge .. to save battery ..

One more thing you might want to do is download a TaskMgr and monitor the CPU Usage and Processes .. to see if you have something running in the background that you dont know about ..

I keep BT and DirectPush (99% of the time with UMTS) on all the time, and I am not experiencing the battery drops you're describing.

Are you on Cingular? and if so, which data plan? If you're using a MediaNet plan, perhaps your issue is server timeout related...

Maybe got a bad battery somehow???

I'm on medianet (cingular). So far, 1.16 is working OK. The real test will be tomorrow. Can you recomment a TaskManager?

Your issue might be your data plan. As you are forced to use wap.cingular and are thus saddled with a constantly changing ip address, you're probably timing out, which forces more polling and decreased battery life -- and there's nothing you can do about it, short of changing your data plan.

PDAConnect does not have this issue but costs twice as much.

For more info, check out Sleuth's analysis of the problem.