T-mobile MDA Compact | poor battery life | re-sending messag - JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General

Hi,
I got my MDA COMPACT about a month ago and am having some issues
1. battery life: lasts 14 hours max. I got a new battery (as read another post in forum that suggested this) and it has same battery life? Listed as 14hrs max charged on battery indicator on Sbp Pocket Plus.
No where near the couple of days T-Mobile says it lasts. I would like at least 48 hrs, i need to charge it everyday now!
2. re-sending of messages. - for some reason it sends messages twice quite a lot and sometimes it seems to block and i can get calls or messages and receive them after performing a soft-reset. anyone had similar issues?
any advice would be much appreciated. i dont really want to go back to the store i got it from as i can imagine they will say "you should have got insurance bla bla bla" and try to charge me to fix it.
let me know what you guys think. other than those annoying issues I think he's a complete legend of a phone!
thanks!
-Neil.

With regard to battery I had it my self and I said bla bla bla more than did so they change it to spare themself the headache and my visits every day.
The secound problem acccording to my little knowleldge I know one program that causes this which is Pocket plus just in case you have it installed there is special setting to aviod it.

hi,
thanks for your response.
yes, it was pocket plus causing that - i fixed it now.
about the battery - did you get a new battery or a new handset? how long does the batter last now? do you know how long the battery life is supposed to be?
thanks again!
-Neil.

neilkk said:
hi,
thanks for your response.
yes, it was pocket plus causing that - i fixed it now.
about the battery - did you get a new battery or a new handset? how long does the batter last now? do you know how long the battery life is supposed to be?
thanks again!
-Neil.
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Have you set your screen to shut off at 30 seconds, and the device to shut off at 1 minute of inactivity? Also, don't run BT unless you are actually using a BT device.
My XDA mini lasts about 2 days under normal use (don't know exactly - I generally charge it daily when I sync my schedule).
If I use GPRS a lot, it might need a charge once per day. But with light use I have used it 2.5 days before recharging. I don't usually do this, but it would be capable of charging at work on Friday and not charging it again until Monday morning.

neilkk said:
yes, it was pocket plus causing that - i fixed it now.
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what was it that you changed to fix this problem? I'm having the same issue with Plus also.
thanks.

LordPhong said:
what was it that you changed to fix this problem? I'm having the same issue with Plus also.
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The problem is that Pocket Plus is closing the messaging application when you are hitting the close button and that *may* be before the message has been confirmed sent, so messaging re-sends it or something. Basically you have to set the messaging application as an exclusion in Pocket Plus:
Open the Pocket Plus options;
Select the Close Button and hit "Feature Options"
Select the right hand tab (Exceptions)
Click "Add" and then "Browse..."
Find \Windows\tmail.exe and click OK.
That will stop Pocket Plus closing Messaging when you hit the close button (you can still tap and hold the close button for the Pocket Plus option menu and close it from there) and should solve the duplicate message problem.

brykins - that worked great.
My problem now is that the time stamp on the recipient is off by a couple of hours. The time on my JAM is fine. Any clues?

LordPhong said:
brykins - that worked great.My problem now is that the time stamp on the recipient is off by a couple of hours. The time on my JAM is fine. Any clues?
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No idea - is that on text messages or emails? I've heard of problems like that on emails where smtp or the recipients pop3 server is mis-configured, or one of the other is set to the wrong time zone, but never on text messages.

Re: T-mobile MDA Compact | poor battery life | re-sending me
neilkk said:
Hi,
I got my MDA COMPACT about a month ago and am having some issues
1. battery life: lasts 14 hours max. I got a new battery (as read another post in forum that suggested this) and it has same battery life? Listed as 14hrs max charged on battery indicator on Sbp Pocket Plus.
No where near the couple of days T-Mobile says it lasts. I would like at least 48 hrs, i need to charge it everyday now!
-Neil.
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Have you set you backlight to the lowest level, set the backlight to turn off at 30 seconds, and set the device to power down at 1 minute? I usually get 2 days or so out of mine. However, the time between charges will vary based on how often you use the device.

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Help with Blackberry on Universal

Hi all,
In need of some help here... :-( Got my replacement Uni all setup back how I like it and my boss finally signs off the paperwork to get Blackberry enabled on my phone. O2 eventually got it all setup and I start to receive email, however am having some problems.
1. If I turn the PDA off (or it turns itself off as battery saving) then Blackberry seems to quit and won't restart without a soft reset. Obviously not very useful
2. When Blackberry is running it doesn't display any notifications for other events (such as the alarm clock, new text messages, calendar notifications etc) which means I can't cancel them so when I soft reset my phone I get 5 minutes odd of the phone ringing, and MemMaid doesn't seem to be able to get rid of them
3. Not a Blackberry issue but my phone just completely stops working at 72% battery life, bearing in mind this is a replacement provided by O2 and is supposedly brand new do I need to do anything likefully discharge the battery in boot mode or something like that.
I remember reading something but browsing the forum over GPRS is a bit painful so please if someone knows the right thread if you could reply to this would really appreciate it, won't be back near a proper net connection for about 6 days so stuck with GPRS for the moment (not got a 3G enabled SIM yet, meant to have but O2 sent one which wasn't and are now taking an age to sort it out).
Thanks
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Who lives in Switzerland and can help me out please

hi you all
I just bought a htc cruise and flashed it to English rom. but it doesn't work very well, so I want to go back. but how?
I'm using 6.1 german and radio 1.58.21.23 from bepe right now, but the radio thing is killing me. I don't have signal or very low, why is that so? my provider is sunrise.
BIG issue, there's almost no signal and the battery drains quickly! I can't phone or receive calls. i got no more battery over one night.
Please who lives or uses the same thing pls tell me how to fix it. I want to go back to 6.0 or solution to fix phone issue.
Thank you all so much who can evtl help me out, have a nice day
There are many threads about this problem...
For example:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=386281
Try to flash Murata radio...
hey, thank you so much, it did solve my problem with that russian stuff.
now i got 4 bars indoors and outdoors. see ya
I've no problems with mine, Radio 1.58.21.23 - Swisscom Mobile.
that's weird, but another problem:
My battery only holds like for 30 min. with original rom it holds like 10 hours and many days without screen backlight.
What's wrong with that now?
There are many things that can drain the battery.
1. you use Push Mail every 15 minutes or every hour?
2. is your 3G/data and your wireless line ever connected?
To test the battery you can use Battery Status plugin, in idle mode the battery must be around 25-35mA.
hi What is push mail? i haven't configured any mail service yet.
wireless and bluetooth are off for sure. There's only an icon with big E,
I assume that's a regular phone signal gms, no 3G
ok, if i turned that phone off in idle mode without backlight. it's about 5-8mA. As soon as I turn the screen on using that power button, it's going high up to 80mb.
That should be normal you say?
with 6.1 where is my GPRS? it seems not to be able to turned on.
NODATA doesn't work with 6.1.
thank you

A hot tytn

Hi, My Tytn becomes hot after about an hour and the battery doesn't last a day even in stand by. Is it a hardware issue? please help.
lechikh said:
Hi, My Tytn becomes hot after about an hour and the battery doesn't last a day even in stand by. Is it a hardware issue? please help.
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This has been asked before.
In short it may be running applications needing properly closed (not just tapping the X) or perhaps Active Sync is running in the background or your phone is constantly swiching bands and should be set to a fixed band or maybe you have it polling push mail every 5 minutes etc etc.
Have a look at these suggestions:
http://michael-channon.spaces.live....BlogPart&partqs=cat=Hermes+Freezing%2fHanging
and also do some searches here - it has come up before.
Mike

HD2 nags id love to get fixed

guys here is a list of little nags that i have, i have tried everything to try and fix them, flashed every radio and rom with no success, and tried changing every setting on the phone. id be so grateful to get any of these fixed.
1) latest version of Swype (v2.0) with skin crashes frequently, i am able to use the keyboard but no text is entered, to solve this i must switch back to the full keyboard and then back to Swype
2) opera says a download is completed, when the file is launched it is for example 300kbs and will not launch, when i download the same file again the file is downloaded and is for example 8mb, the file then opens. Double click to zoom also doesn't work for me on certain websites, for example BBC
3) there is NO solution to this, i have looked high and low for this, my internet connection disconnects very frequently, i have tried every single option to no avail, the internet disconnects very frequently if HSDPA is enabled (supported by my payment plan) and fairly often if disabled. put simply, this makes internet browsing a royal pain in the backside
4) after reading so many good things about the battery life of the phone i convinced myself it must have been a bad battery. bought a second official one - not cheap, even worse. 15 minutes of web use with all data services disabled in a strong reception area will drain roughly 20% of the battery, have tried all sorts of power management cabs and tweaks. ive drained the battery and charged it fully going on 8 times now.
5) a calendar appointment is created which lasts the whole day (a birthday), no reminder is set, so i dont appreciate it when i get reminded at 12o'clock at night when im sleeping
6) the weather is set to download every 3 hours, so why does it download every 20 mins?
im not complaining guys, honestly this is the best phone ive ever had and i recomment it to everyone, but some of the issues i have truly are annoying. id greatly appreciate ANY help in regards to any of the issues above
thanks
1 - i had trouble with the latest swype (the pale grey one? silvery coloured?) i went back to the dark one, it was unuseable (cant seem to find out how to bring up its version number, , the cab just says swype.cab, , , heh. So i'd say try get an earlier version, Mine works lovely.
2 - move the opera cache to the sd card, and clean it now n again. I have a lot of that kind of trouble with podcasts from bbc, 15 meg or so, , seems to help with the cache on sd.
3 - dont really know about the network details. sorry.
4 - i DO know that if you live on teh edge of the decent signal area, your phone jumping between 3g/hsdpa and edge/gprs will eat your battery. find comm manager and switch off the 3g button (if you have one) when you dont need fast access, can vastly improve battery, and email and other syncs dont need 3g most of teh time, only browsing.
5 - thats probably outlook adding the default "the day before" reminder, (or maybe the htc one works the same as the outlook one) either way, you have to manuall edit the appointment to set the reminder to no reminder.
6 - it will download if you linger on the weather tab for a second or so when swiping. Gives the impression that it is always updating.
Hope some of them at least help!
sam
thanks for the fast reply, not the first time too
1) ok ill uninstall swype and install the older one, hope this gets fixed as i prefer this layout
2) thanks - i have moved the opera cache to the sd card
3) my operator is tmobile uk, HSDPA is supported and so is 3g, i have unlimited data plan, the connection will drop after a couple mins, normally less, if HSDPA is disabled, the connection is slower but more stable, but in the end, the connection will drop
4) ive disabled HSDPA because atm its unusable, i do indeed have that 3g button and is always off, my connection is always on G, still 20% battery loss after 15 mins surfing
5) i mentioned that i set it to no reminder, what do you mean?
6) that makes sense - thanks
if you have any ideas how to solve number 3 id really appreciate it
I had the same issue with Virgin UK (uses Tmobile as you are aware) I flashed to 1.66 rom and my problems went away - battery life as much better also, hope it helps
thanks for your reply
i have also flashed to official 1.66 rom, the problem didnt change at all
i even tried different radios with this rom
any other ideas?
thanks
backup before you do the swype change, if you use a lock password, i believe some version of swype can affect that? (i dont use one so i wouldn't know, there are threads on it)
about outlook and the reminder thing, i'm not really sure of the details, but i've been syncing the same set of contacts and calendar with outlook for probably 6 or 7 years, and several times ive come across a situation where you set up an app, or event or something, and set no reminder, and it goes off at midnight the day before - the setting is actually 'one day' and the day starts at midnight, d'oh.
How it comes to be that it doesn't get saved i haven't pinned down, but it generally seems to be after a hard reset/complete wipe and resync. It often (not always) also creates duplicate birthday reminders.
This has happened to me from office 2000 right through to 2k7, and on different phone OS's, and different sync programs but it doesnt happen all the time.
(bit non specific, sorry)
it sounds to me like an outlook related problem, but i dont use outlook at all to sync anything to my phone
i still dont have a clue why i cant double click to zoom on certain websites, bbc is the one i look at the most its very annoying
Yea i hate the no double click on bbc site . Must be something about how its constructed i guess. , , cuts coming next year, it'l fall appart....
cgrec92 said:
4) after reading so many good things about the battery life of the phone i convinced myself it must have been a bad battery. bought a second official one - not cheap, even worse. 15 minutes of web use with all data services disabled in a strong reception area will drain roughly 20% of the battery, have tried all sorts of power management cabs and tweaks. ive drained the battery and charged it fully going on 8 times now.
thanks
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Your battery should not behave like this and you should stop draining and charging the battery because you will ruin it and I suspect that you may have already done damage.
The batteries need a good few weeks of use to reach their max usable capacity and to achieve this charge it as often as you can for as long as you can. Nothing more, nothing less. No draining, cycling, conditioning of any sort. Just use it and keep it on charge.
I have mine on charge always at home and in the car and I have never got below 40% during the day and I'm a heavy user of the internet.
I have two backup power packs and have needed them only once when I was away for two days and couldn't easily charge.
thanks for your reply, i will do this for the battery, ill report back if it helps
thanks
anyone have a clue?
thanks in advance
cgrec92 said:
guys here is a list of little nags that i have, i have tried everything to try and fix them, flashed every radio and rom with no success, and tried changing every setting on the phone. id be so grateful to get any of these fixed.
1) latest version of Swype (v2.0) with skin crashes frequently, i am able to use the keyboard but no text is entered, to solve this i must switch back to the full keyboard and then back to Swype
2) opera says a download is completed, when the file is launched it is for example 300kbs and will not launch, when i download the same file again the file is downloaded and is for example 8mb, the file then opens. Double click to zoom also doesn't work for me on certain websites, for example BBC
3) there is NO solution to this, i have looked high and low for this, my internet connection disconnects very frequently, i have tried every single option to no avail, the internet disconnects very frequently if HSDPA is enabled (supported by my payment plan) and fairly often if disabled. put simply, this makes internet browsing a royal pain in the backside
4) after reading so many good things about the battery life of the phone i convinced myself it must have been a bad battery. bought a second official one - not cheap, even worse. 15 minutes of web use with all data services disabled in a strong reception area will drain roughly 20% of the battery, have tried all sorts of power management cabs and tweaks. ive drained the battery and charged it fully going on 8 times now.
5) a calendar appointment is created which lasts the whole day (a birthday), no reminder is set, so i dont appreciate it when i get reminded at 12o'clock at night when im sleeping
6) the weather is set to download every 3 hours, so why does it download every 20 mins?
im not complaining guys, honestly this is the best phone ive ever had and i recomment it to everyone, but some of the issues i have truly are annoying. id greatly appreciate ANY help in regards to any of the issues above
thanks
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I experience the same problem (frequent loss of internet connection). I then shut down data connection and immediately re-enable it to turn it back on. This works, but it's annoying and a definite let-down for any smartphone, especially our powerful HD2.
I can't believe nobody has a solution for this. Apparently not even HTC does.
Anyone???
im glad im not alone, there are many many people with the same issues, whoever finds a fix is a saint!
My battery seems fine since i dropped a radio version and can now lost 3+ days with a lot of use and everything downloading automatic.
there are only two things that annoy me, slow/ lag when texting on the keypad and finally the random ghost typing
could you mention what operator youre using and where youre located?
perhaps your radio would be suitable for mine too
Make sure your birthday reminders are set to "none" and not "0 minutes".
I had this problem with birthdays also. They seemed to revert back to 0 mins when i flashed my phone and re-synced my contacts wo had to go through them and set from 0 min to none. Pain in the neck but better than being woken up at midnight!
cgrec92 said:
im glad im not alone, there are many many people with the same issues, whoever finds a fix is a saint!
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I contacted the HTC customer service via their website and this is the reply I got from them:
This could be a driver conflict and we recommend to try a hard reset on it make sure that you back up all your data before the reset. If the problem still going on after this then contact us in this line +44 8458900079 and we will send your device to be repaired.
Does this make any sense? It almost seems to good to be true. My phone is fresh out of the box, been using it for about two weeks now with a standard 1.66 ROM. The data disconnect problem has been there since day one. I kinda feel like they recommend a hard reset no matter what the problem is
Anyway, I've read about other people having the same problem as cgrec92 and I but... is this an universal problem or are there lost of users out there who have no data connection problem?
that's really useful information thanks for posting that ill definitely keep in mind that i can send it off to get repaired, although keep in mind most people who have done this say nothing changes, from all I've read, tmobile customers are the most affected, i have done hard resets before but they em nothing, I'm going to try mtty to completely format the phone, maybe its something left over from the tmobile stock rom? anyways ill try that and report back
By the way: I'm on 3 network in Denmark.
i have used mtty and flashed artemis 5.0 with radio 2.06 as the rom recommends
have had some connection dropouts still although less common
what i have found though is that in connection setup, right click and click on update database, equip the new settings
not minimizing opera seems to keep the internet from dropping out too

EMail app at 100% CPU load

I had a problem with the stock EMail app.
It stuck at 100% CPU load, the phones back was hot and the battery lost ~70% in half an hour.
I can't understand how this could happen, the app is set to check both my EMail accounts every hour and there has been nothing out of the ordinary (no big attachements or so on).
Anyone else had this problem? Any solutions? Should I use a 3rd party app for EMails?
the same problem
skycamefalling said:
I had a problem with the stock EMail app.
It stuck at 100% CPU load, the phones back was hot and the battery lost ~70% in half an hour.
I can't understand how this could happen, the app is set to check both my EMail accounts every hour and there has been nothing out of the ordinary (no big attachements or so on).
Anyone else had this problem? Any solutions? Should I use a 3rd party app for EMails?
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I have the same problem, since yesterday, today I reset ROM and problem still appear, I think this is caused by sd card, any ideas?
skycamefalling said:
I had a problem with the stock EMail app.
It stuck at 100% CPU load, the phones back was hot and the battery lost ~70% in half an hour.
I can't understand how this could happen, the app is set to check both my EMail accounts every hour and there has been nothing out of the ordinary (no big attachements or so on).
Anyone else had this problem? Any solutions? Should I use a 3rd party app for EMails?
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It happened to me three days ago Using OS Monitor, I only showed 34% usage, but this time, Android System Monitor acknowledged 100% usage, but was unable to account for where it was being used. where did you see it stucks at 100 % , it sometimes shows wrong , ;
you can also check ur email mobile or 3rd party app or reboot ur device you can also fallow these steps , maybe it helps you.
go into "Settings...Voice input and output", and, if the Eyes Free TTS engine available, the default TTS is not set and check the box to have the native TTS as the default, and checked the box for "Always use my settings".
I saw it in the Samsung Task Manager. I think it showed correct because also the phone's back became very hot.
But, fortunately, this never happened again until now. The battery life is terrible after all, but the EMail app seems to be fine
I have a similar problem if I'm not using the standard Samsung keyboard.
It's a bit of a pain in the arse as I have to remember to swap keyboards if I decide I need to reply to something. If I forget the phone locks up and the battery drains very quickly.
I've seen other posts with same problem. Wouldn't be so awkward if the standard keyboard wasn't so useless.
I binned the stock samsung email app, and use the 2.3.4 vanilla email app
I'm having major problems with the Mail app too - consistently high CPU usage, short battery life, back of phone warm to touch and Mail showing as the top battery hog (& CPU hog in Watchdog). Not impressed!
High CPU usage and email app gets stuck
I have the same issue. When I am in the email app it just gets stuck. This is crazy. I switched out from a HTC EVO 4g to Samsung Galaxy so I could have more ROM. I hope I don't regret it. Tell me if you find a solution.
I had the same issue on my SGS II and now my Note. I finally figured out it started after I installed Viber. I uninstalled Viber and the issue went away.
Does anyone else with this issue have Viber installed?
I had this problem only once yesterday - picked up my phone to answer a call and it was very hot. I can't think it was a co-incidence that earlier that day I had enabled Contacts sync with Exchange. Whatever the issue was it has gone away by itself. The only other factor worth mentioning is I was in a supermarket with Free WiFi - but it only works after you click through their homepage. Previously I seen this cause background apps using data to constantly stall due to the HTTP redirect they encounter.

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