Hi All - Did a search but couldn't find much about any 'battery life' problems with this device.
I'm experiencing poor battery life on my new XDA IIi. This is my second machine (o2 replaced the forst one due to poor battery lifery life and dead pixels on screen)
I just wondered what others are experiencing...I tend to have the phone switched from 8am til 6pm. The signal strength is good and I have wifi and bluetooth turned off.
Here is a typical set of figures for the battery through the course of my typical day
8am 100%
9am 84%
10am 75%
11am 61%
12am 50%
1pm 41%
2pm 32%
3pm 19%
4pm 11%
5pm 6%
6pm 3%
O2 say that the battery is at fault...but they've changed the battery twice and the unit once, and it's much the same. My guess is that something is draining the battery, but there's nothing special about my set up as far as I know. it's running a 1 gig SD card...but I took that out to see if it made a difference - it doesn't
Even with the phone switched OFF for extended periods of time, the battery doesn't seem to survive the day - I certainly cannot get to 8pm in the evening without having to charge it up.
I just wonder if the behaviour is fairly normal! If someone else out there is able to offer me some advice, or better still, some comparable figures, that would be helpful - just so I know it's not just me!!! ))
Alternatively has any one got any suggestiosn as to what might be draining the battery? (I'm always in a strong signal area for the phone)
Thanks
Hi I also have an XDAIIi.
My battery seems to be a lot more stronger than yours :?
If I don't use my XDAIIi at all, it can last about 4 days on standby, by this I mean phone on, wi-fi and bluetooth off. I have installed a LOT of applications on it and nothing seems to drain the battery.
My backlight is on full, my SD Card is always in.
If I use the phone say for about 30 minutes every night, then it lasts for about 3 days, still as the set-up above.
I find that if I am constantly using it, it will last about a day.
I am probably being pedantic, but as you probably know, rechagable batteries, in particular Li-Ion. Then they benefit from being run-down completely and leaving dis-charged for about 12 hours, then trying to turn them on again, (i.e. soft re-set) and then leaving them to turn off (almost instantly) Then whilst the XDAIIi is in it's "dead state" put it on charge using the mains charger and leaving it charging for about 3-4 hours. Then take it off charge and turn it on again.
Batteries don't like being half charged then run down a little then charger again.
Also the complete run-down time of a battery will only reach it's fullest after a couple of run-down and full re-charges.
This is what I do.
Hope it helps.
lydiachris
ps. the strenth of your signal should not make any difference. I am also in a strong signal area.
Battery...
Wow! Yours seems much better than mine with batteries. I just can't figure out what's wrong here and its very frsustrating - new battery..new XDA2i seems to make no difference, so it MUST be something I'm running...but there's nothing running in the background at all...very strange
Thanks anyway..at least I know it IS possible to get better battery life
S
Just out of interest, what mAh is your battery which came with your XDAIIi.
Mine is the standard 1300mAh
Lydiachris
ps. write me a list of what software you are running.
pps. Kettering??? Very near me Peterborough!!!
Battery woes...
MIne came with a 1300...but I bought a spare via the O2 shop that came with a 1200 :?:
I've got hundreds of progs on the XDA. Do you mean a list of ones that are running on startup?
Thanks
PS USed to live in Werrington!
do you have bluetooth or wifi or both turned on all day ?
is the pda on all the time or off and only the phone on ?
is gprs turned on all day ?
IR is it set to recieve all incomming beams?
how long before the backlight turn itself off ?
how bright is the backlight set to be ?
many many factors
Battery troubles
do you have bluetooth or wifi or both turned on all day ?
Both OFF
is the pda on all the time or off and only the phone on ?
Phone scheduled to be ON between 9 and 7pm
is gprs turned on all day ?
..Nope
IR is it set to recieve all incomming beams?
..Nope it's Off
how long before the backlight turn itself off ?
..1 minute
how bright is the backlight set to be ?
..about as low as it can go :lol:
As you can see, I've switched OFF most things to get drainage down to a minimum. As this is my SECOND device (o2 replaced the first one - same problem) and I'm trying out a second battery...my deduction is that it *MUST* be software related. I may be wrong and I'm hoping someone can point me in a different/new direction
I had a lot of hair when I bough this device - now I've very little left :wink:
Make sure lock all buttons is engaged, second set turn lcd off after 30 sec, third turn off device after 1 minute and you should be dialed in. If this does not work, preform a hard reset then repeat process. Do not install any additional apps/progs! Now if it works try installing one proggy at a time and test the device. It is most likley that there is a program running a daemon that is killing your XDA-IIi
Mikee
One more note. If you do a hard reset, which if I where you, I would, pay attention to the setup screen on the hard reset. When you see the O2 personal user corporate user screen, preform a soft reset with your stylus immediately! Then you will not get the O2 garbage and Icons.
Mikee
battery power
hi
just got a xda2i and my battery doesent last long also my car phone charger wont charge it up quickly enough when its being used i took loads of stuff of but no difference.
regards kevin
Thanks Mikee
Hi Mikee
Thanks for your advice. I'm a little uinlcelar how a hard reset will help. This is NEW machine, I only got it last week. How does a HARD reset help the bettery management?
Make sure lock all buttons is engaged,
Done
second set turn lcd off after 30 sec,
Done
third turn off device after 1 minute
Already switches off after a minute
and you should be dialed in.
ehhh?
not sure what you mean
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stevep said:
Hi Mikee
Thanks for your advice. I'm a little uinlcelar how a hard reset will help. This is NEW machine, I only got it last week. How does a HARD reset help the bettery management?
Make sure lock all buttons is engaged,
Done
second set turn lcd off after 30 sec,
Done
third turn off device after 1 minute
Already switches off after a minute
and you should be dialed in.
ehhh?
not sure what you mean
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There is a fault with your device - under Consumer Service Guarentee you can return and have it replaced immediately as these goods are definetly NOT fit for purpose.
Mind you, you should hard-reset and double-check, but I'd say you've got a lemon flavour there.
Tkae heart, if you're the only one then it should be easy to fix!
My XDA ws the same when i first got it ... i'd deffo agree that the battery needs to be "optimised"
after a week or so you should notice a difference.
Heavy use of mine, ie listening to ,mp3s all day will take it down to about 15% (9 till 4 ish)
I have WIFI , bluetooth off
screen to the lowest brightness
power off after 30 seconds
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I just thought ..... You dont have the "Turbo mode" on do you ?
Battery on XDAIIi
Hi Guys - Thanks for your advice. What I find hard to believe is that this is the SECOND device where the battery life is c***. All my instincts tell me it's NOT the device - this is the second one they've sent me - nor the battery (as I'm now on my THIRD one)
I really want to avoid a hard reset because of the time taken to reinstal everything afterwards. I lead a very busy business life :? , and I just don't have the time to 'start from scratch'
...but I guess I will, if enough people tell me a hard reset will sort it :wink:
i did a hard reset but it didnt make a difference and when i spoke to 02 they were very quick to exchange it and when i spoke to the guy he said i should expect it to crash every so often like windows does on a computer i disagreed with this abd explained my xda2sw didnt crash like this one did.
regards kevin
stevep, in that case why don't u just make a complete backup of ur IIi, then perform a hard reset..
Sometimes the apps installed are the cause.. Also take note that switching to 'Turbo Mode' all the time will drain the batt pretty fast..
Battery drain - hard reset
Thanks for your reply - it's appreciated...but I don't understand how a hard reset helps. Yes, I can back it all and restore it, but surely that'll just put the problem back on the XDA (if it's an app thats causing the drain) :wink:
Can anyone explain (from a techy point of view) how a hard reset MIGHT corrrect the battery drain problem :shock:
Have you checked your turbo button under start, settings, power and then the processor speed? if you set it on turbo, it will eat up the battery VERY FAST. If else, I am using one and I am Happy with the battery life.
I've actually tested it with turbo 'on' and 'off' and I didn't notice much difference either way. It's actually on 'standard' currently
stevep said:
I've actually tested it with turbo 'on' and 'off' and I didn't notice much difference either way. It's actually on 'standard' currently
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backlight - min??
turn off the backlight after 30sec??
button lock except power button??
Greets.
I have an Qtek S100 and it only last for 2 days max.
And I don't do alot of phone calls...
Is this normal?
And mine 2 days as well. but i think it's normal.
I read somewhere that the today plugins (phonealarm etc) suck up a lot of juice. Since the PDA part of the phone is switched off all day, I dont' see why it should?
V
I use Pocket Plus and I see no difference, even after a hard reset it last the same.
Is there any way of knowing the time that the device will last on standby?
Just like the pocketplus plugin, but for the standby?
Fairly boring actually, stays behind a cover and rarely gets to see daylight except for when his twin brother comes in and takes his spot.
:roll:
:shock:
My lasts about 30-35 hours ... i talk nearly 30-40 minutes a day
So, here's my problem. I owend (or still own) the following phones:
... (a lot of phones in the past)
HTC Neo
Iphone 3G
HTC G1
Palm Pre
So, actually the Pre does it for me! I sell the Iphone right now on Eba*. But here's my problem -> Batterylife!
I hate the batterylife of the Palm / IPhone and the others. The mainproblem is, I love the internetfunctionality, it's great to go online where ever I like, got my mails all 15 / 30 minutes up to date and so on.... But e.g. the Pre is empty at the next morning! I got a tool installed which switchs the phone into the flight mode over night, but the battery is on 10% or empty at the next morning!!! The Iphone does it better, but at the mid of the second day it's empty as well.
OK, what should I do? Should I buy the HTC HD2? HTC says it could play 8hours of videoplayback!!! If this is true, the standby time should be good enough, too! I read the thread about the people which are telling about the low batterytime, is this normal or just in a few cases? I don't like to switch of my wireless/3G at night, or if I'm not using it, where's the sense!? I like to use it right out of the box, and not going to switch it on or off befor!?
What did you think? Should I buy a HTC HD2 and sell the Pre? It doesn't matter which OS comes with it, because I love WM as well as WebOS or the Iphones one, every of them got a good and a bad taste.
P.s.: Does the Windows Marketplace a good job, are there many apps in? Oh, and could you still install over the mobility center manually?
Cheers
Schakal
lol they are all the same. Just charge them every night while you sleep. Problem solved.
No sorry, not solved
Ok, is it possible to use the HD2 a whole day, I mean 16h, with normal use? Like e.g. I would use it one hour for internet, half an hour for calling and maybe one hour for work with mails?
My Pre says good night at nine o'clock!!! That's toooo less for me! I was at a customer and I got an important call, but the Pre tought it would be OK if I would call back, when I'm at home (battery empty).
So, is it possible?
I charge mine bedside overnight and yes, it lasts a whole day (a whole day typically being; up at 5am & bed by 10.30pm + between 1 and 1 1/2 hours music playing in the gym + lots of fiddling with it [it's a new gadget] + about 15 mins of call time + about 10 mins txt time + about 15 mins surfing (I'm at a PC all day with a phone, otherwise it would be more) AND I have the screen power set to bright.
Even with all that I still have 2 bars on the battery when is gets plugged in at night.
HTH
schakal00783 said:
.... But e.g. the Pre is empty at the next morning! I got a tool installed which switchs the phone into the flight mode over night, but the battery is on 10% or empty at the next morning!!! The Iphone does it better, but at the mid of the second day it's empty as well.
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This implies you are not charging overnight. You are saying the battery is empty by the second day. It will be. It needs charging every night, all night.
On cyn v 5.03
Anyone having weird time related issues?
Took about 8 hours for my clock to set itself to daylight savings time.
I have an alarm that goes off at 130am....well it went off at 1230 and keeps repeating every ten minutes.
I did a nandroid recovery on Friday...could that have anything to do with it ?
move to Arizona... problem solved
mine has been acting up all day.. for most of the day it went 2 hours ahead instead of 1.. and my texts come in with all different timestamps.. sometimes it says an hour later and sometimes an hour early.. frustrating as ****
build CM5.0.4.1
No problems here..stock and unrooted.
Hey all,
I'd like to know if there will soon be a better battery available for the HTC HD mini. I looked for it, but as 1200mAh is the default battery, I haven't found a better one... Someone has ideas?
Thanks in advance
MadMatt
Hi all, Monday i got my hd mini finally. It appeared that a micro sd card was not included. To bad. First thing i did was to configure the device and installed my necessary apps. Even tomtom was working well. In the meanwhile i had fully loaded the battery. Afterwards i was testing the device if everything worked well. This was the case alright. In the evening i went to sleep and i noticed the battery was 70% full. I went to sleep and turned off the device. The alarm i had preconfigured so i would wake up. Now the strange thing happened. The device woke me up as planned. But afterwards the device went off. Switching the device on only leaded to a screen with the green letters HTC for a few seconds and immediatly the device went off. I have tryed to switch on the device several times and all the times the device went off immediatly. Now i have searched the manual and maybe the battery was already empty. LOL. Impossible i thought. I put the device on the loader and the light was continuous orange. After a few seconds it blinked for a while and then it was continuous orange again. So maybe it could be a battery problem here. Impossible cause the battery was 70% when i went to sleep and the very next morning it would be empty? Anyway, now i will load the device for some hours and then try to put it on again. Lets see what will happen for ****sake.
hello,
don't be too bothered on this, it will take a couple of days to get decent usage from standard battery. Mine took 3-4 cycles now is holding about 2.5 - 3 days - first cycle was not more that one day.
as for better battey, check this out, maybe is worthy for you, i ordered one but will come to my place in three weeks time.. anyway i hope for the best as it should be a 40% improvement.. hopefully.
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watch for the two XX in the header, can not post the external link, as is..