Related
I swear the mda compact has the crappest battery life ever.
I run tomtom for 1hour and it saps 50% battery power
I have to recharge my battery every night even if i've only spoken on the phone for like 20 minutes.
Is it just me???????
I would say your battery is fubar. Try a replacement battery.
My Qtek S110 drops 15% per 24h standby with wireless enabled and 10% in flight mode. Working 1h with med backlight will drain about 15-20%. Really stressing the system running benchmark loops (similar to what Tomtom will do) 10% of the battery are gone in 20min. But I'm nowhere near loosing 50% in an hour.
Overall the battery performance is way better than with my old iPAQ 5450. I need to recharge my Qtek S110 after 3-4 days with my usage that consists of stanby consumption, some 10-15min calling each day average and some 1-2 hours active work per day.
I recharge mine every day and all I do is play solitaire and virtual pool! I'm not getting a gps system for mine until I get an active car mount with charger and speaker built in.
When I first got my jam I could kill the battery in 1 1/2 hours by playing Age of Empires flat out!
my magician holds for 1 week with every day 1h movies or mp3s and 10min. talking.
So how i manage it? I dont know, the only thing i do is i fully load the batt. and sap it off till 10% and then the same... (some in this board told me that this is a good way to destroy the batt. - however it works pretty good for me !)
i have seen a program called battary backup (i think??). has anyone use it?? what does it do??
How about a bigger battery?
Here is a google search for extended batteries. They are only 1500, but that is something extra.
http://www.google.com/search?q=XDA+...ient=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official
Here is a 2400, from Australia
http://www.mrgadget.com.au/catalog/...city-liion-polymer-2400mah-battery-p-947.html
BTW, it is best if you don't do two things with a LiIon battery:
1. Run it all the way down.
2. Keep it constantly charged near 100%.
(I learned these from my laptop battery).
Well I try to keep mine between 30% and 80%, that way it should work well.
JuNiOr_Gr said:
i have seen a program called battary backup (i think??). has anyone use it?? what does it do??
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I use Phone Snooze who do a good job. This software automatically switch the radio off at night and on at mornin' (but you can parameter easily days/hours). It works very well and it permit to increase life battery.
Doesn't phonealarm do that too? I mean switching wireless settings and profiles at set times.
Private-Cowboy said:
Doesn't phonealarm do that too? I mean switching wireless settings and profiles at set times.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
i dunno, maybe palarm do it, but phonesnooze is a light soft and it's very fast to set up , I just use palarm as profile/counter.
I know but if palarm does that too why waste space on another tool that does the same?
By the way, you got the wrong flag in your profile. Isnt that hungary?
Private-Cowboy said:
I know but if palarm does that too why waste space on another tool that does the same?
By the way, you got the wrong flag in your profile. Isnt that hungary?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
NO IS THE ITALIAN FLAG > A google search may help you to learn better world flags
placidof said:
Private-Cowboy said:
I know but if palarm does that too why waste space on another tool that does the same?
By the way, you got the wrong flag in your profile. Isnt that hungary?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
NO IS THE ITALIAN FLAG > A google search may help you to learn better world flags
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
ha ha
I think my battery is deffo fukked
placidof said:
Private-Cowboy said:
I know but if palarm does that too why waste space on another tool that does the same?
By the way, you got the wrong flag in your profile. Isnt that hungary?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
NO IS THE ITALIAN FLAG > A google search may help you to learn better world flags
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Haha, you got me there. I did a google search because I know that green-white-red is not the flag for france. Hungaria and Italy are the same here, just the orientation is different. Italy has the stripes vertically and Hungaria has them horizontically. I didnt want to offend you.
Private-Cowboy said:
placidof said:
Private-Cowboy said:
I know but if palarm does that too why waste space on another tool that does the same?
By the way, you got the wrong flag in your profile. Isnt that hungary?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
NO IS THE ITALIAN FLAG > A google search may help you to learn better world flags
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Haha, you got me there. I did a google search because I know that green-white-red is not the flag for france. Hungaria and Italy are the same here, just the orientation is different. Italy has the stripes vertically and Hungaria has them horizontically. I didnt want to offend you.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You probably didn't know but if you hold your mouse over the flag it tells the country.
That is true but only in Internet Explorer and I'll stay away from that as good as I can. I use Opera and there it does not show.
Country doesn't come up in Firefox either, but I'm pretty good with flags anyway....
Oh, and on topic, I found a page which offers a little insight into battery care. Doesn't tell you too much, but here it is.
Hi
am working in very close place and get harder to conect to GSM network, and diffeculty searching for a place to put in my phone
I asking is there a big acurate meter to display signal strength working as a plugin in today screen with alarm for % poor signal "WM5"
thanks for help
your looking for signal strength really - not quality.... :roll:
Hi rabmc
thansk for EXPLANATION,
any idea
thansk for EXPLANATION,
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
:lol:
This plugin has no alarm but a numerical signal meter and it's free.
http://www.jgui.net/phones/
I read on http://hardware.mcse.ms that you can retrieve the signal strength as a percentage on WM5 by using Microsoft.WindowsMobile.Status.SystemStatem.PhoneSignalStrength but still it returns percentages in coarse increments, e.g. 100%, 88%, 66%, 28%, 0% so apparently there's no easy way to make a precise meter for this.
[/quote]
Hi andresp
thanks for help, I test MY|Phone Today plugin but not working with WM5
if is there another today plugin that you know please inform me.
100%, 88%, 66%, 28%, 0%, that is strange in WM5, as you said this is coarse increments
any help from good developers here in this great forum
thanks
u can use ipdashboard 1.90 (wm5) from www.hudsonmobile.com it has a pretty accurate signal strenght but still in percentage no meter view.
this software is not free though.
Hi mazam
thanks for replay, I test ipdashboard, it's not bad but hardly I can read the value of the Signal Strength, am :shock:
thanks for help
I hope that any one from the developer can make a today plugin graphe meter for Signal Strength
thanks
u can make the font larger,
ipdasboard->setting->viewtab->advance->font-change from default to large and bold, now i hope u can see the signal.
Hi mazam
thanks for help
Try the DKToday which is a phone usage display thing that has a built in signal strength graphical display. See screen shot.
hanmin said:
Try the DKToday which is a phone usage display thing that has a built in signal strength graphical display. See screen shot.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Is it WM5 compatible.?
i want to try it?
Hi hanmin
DKToday is not WM5 software although some one said that it's work on WM5
I try it with Jamin but refuse to install, don't know why !!!!
still waiting for developer to make an " acurate meter to display signal strength working as a plugin in today screen with alarm for % poor signal in WM5 "
thanks
mazam said:
Is it WM5 compatible.?
i want to try it?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes, the DKToday is WM5 compatible. I've had it installed among the first few software that I think are 'must have' after a few un-planned hardreset. It is one of a few software that works alright with WM5. The only thing that is not working yet is the SMS counter as the author is still working on it (I think).
secoseco said:
... acurate meter to display signal strength working as a plugin in today screen with alarm for % poor signal in WM5 ...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Pesty statment here.. but why do you want an alarm for that? During my frequent train trip up and down the UK, I had expeirneced a lot of 'cut-off' for the signal, I guess you will be getting tons of beeps for that Anyway, I don't think it is that easy to do that anyway, as most of the software runs while the device is in suspend mode rely on the notification queue, which has a certain conditions to activate the specific software. However, I don't think signal strength is one of the many conditions. Unless you are doing to have the program running background, which may drain your battery a bit.
PhoneAlarm (at least on WM2003) shows signal strength as a number or graphic (eg 77%) and will also give an alarm on low signal strength.
V
get wisbar advance and wisbar advance desktop and it has a signal strength meter in %
Hi hanmin
you are right about alarm, about the the program running in background I don't need it, am in office and want just an accurate meter from the range of 0% to 40% to discover the best plase to put my phone in it
________________________
Hi vijay
I test PhoneAlarm and it's not accurate meter in range of 0% to 40%
________________________
Hi PiTT
I will test wisbar advance and wisbar advance desktop, and hope that is useful
Thanks for all of you to try help
recently i have found really nice piece of software for our beloved toys - BatteryStatus today plugin, which has some interesting features, such as showing current battery charge, available memory, network name and also call time and SMS counter. more information and downloads are on author's website and Prophet forum:
http://www.chi-tai.info/cs_BatteryStatus_XDA_Neo_WM5_iM_cs.htm
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=270751 (MASSIVE thread!)
i've started using it few days ago, but i noticed that it does not count outgoing call times right, while message counter works fine. author of BS replied that he never got that issue reported, so i'm thinking it may be some kind of hardware-related problem with Hermes/TyTN only. author also said that he got one complain about rebooting problems from Hermes user, however i didn't notice anything like that.
since mentioned thread is too big to check it up quickly, i thought it will be good idea to set up separate thread on TyTN forum, so anyone could install BS and test it and that way give feedback to developer.
please report your observations on BatteryStatus below in this thread. TIA.
I will test it tonight, it looks great.
I take it this will still only report in increments of 10%?
LeoPheonix said:
I take it this will still only report in increments of 10%?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
no, it will not. A future rom upgrade will hopefully fix it, but no application will do it as the 10% increments are reported by the OS power management functions which all the battery reporting tools query to show you the status.
So it works normally, but for CPU Speed it 300Mhz is that Normal?
Jorshua said:
So it works normally, but for CPU Speed it 300Mhz is that Normal?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Might be wrong so dont quote me
But does the CPU not slow down if not being used ? so maybe would show 300Mhz at certain times ?
I don't know, that's why I am asking.
Did somebody else test the program?
I'll install it tomorrow and report back my initial findings and/or bug reports... Getting a replacement TyTn sometime next week, as I've started to had microphone issues, so I'll have a chance to test on two devices
I forgot to post my comments! Oops :X
Might as well bump this thread cause imo it's worth it
Well, it's installed on my Hermes, and it's working perfectly - no spontaneous reboots (yet!), loads of stuff displayed, and it all just.. works. Perfect. Using v.04.200 build 0171.
Did someone try it with WM6?
killabeezz said:
Might be wrong so dont quote me
But does the CPU not slow down if not being used ? so maybe would show 300Mhz at certain times ?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
i get a speed of 400Mhz!!
i have been using this piece of software since i got my TYTN its a good piece of software only thing i notice is some screen alignmewnt problems, and call counter
Prerna said:
Did someone try it with WM6?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yes, works with no problems at all.
I liked the software, but my phone was having stability issues so it had to go.
The power consumption report was most interesting and now I know to keep IE closed and that turning the back light down from level 2 brightness to level 1 uses half the power, hopefully doubling the battery life
I'm using LVSW 19-5-07 ROM (WM6) but can't blame this BatteryStatus for the issues I was having, but things have improved since. I also had a number of other programs in the Today screen, so may have been an odd combination...
Ciao! Oggy.
This is excellent software.. i have worked with ikarus on some of the fixes for hermes... and would suggest anyone who is going to download this to get it from the thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=270751 instead of from his site... the old version used to report a 300Mhz cpu.. this has since been fixed.. i have had issues with it counting anything outgoing, sms, call's, data, etc... But its very nice software...
does anyone else experience where their battery meter only decreases by 10%... at first i thought it was battery status.. it would go from 100%-90%-80% etc, so i opened the actual battery meter that is built and it does the same thing.. what i wouldnt give to see my battery meter go 100%-99%-98% etc... maybe im just to anal
I thought I was the only one!
I just got my 8525 yesterday - upgraded from the 8125. I noticed the battery meter "issue" also and it has been driving me nuts. I googled a little and couldn't find any information. I have reinstalled the Resco today plug 3 or 4 times thinking it was the problem.
Is there any fix? A registry hack? I hate 10% increments - would prefer 1% like my 8125 use to be. Can anyone help?
Atken said:
I thought I was the only one!
I just got my 8525 yesterday - upgraded from the 8125. I noticed the battery meter "issue" also and it has been driving me nuts. I googled a little and couldn't find any information. I have reinstalled the Resco today plug 3 or 4 times thinking it was the problem.
Is there any fix? A registry hack? I hate 10% increments - would prefer 1% like my 8125 use to be. Can anyone help?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
i hope there is a fix somewhere...
Atken said:
I thought I was the only one!
I just got my 8525 yesterday - upgraded from the 8125. I noticed the battery meter "issue" also and it has been driving me nuts. I googled a little and couldn't find any information. I have reinstalled the Resco today plug 3 or 4 times thinking it was the problem.
Is there any fix? A registry hack? I hate 10% increments - would prefer 1% like my 8125 use to be. Can anyone help?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Your not the only one, and somewhere I have seen other posts on this so it's just standard. I have also tried other meters but they all seem to draw on the same battery info, i.e. the 10% at a time. I suppose it's not a critical matter unless your on your last 10% in which case it can suddenly become critical.
I haven't seen a solution but I would like to be proved wrong!
Mike
Dang, I have the same issue. I was hoping there was already a fix for it.
I keep thinking the 8125 did this as well at some point.
Either way, we definitely need a fix for this 10% decrement crap.
This maybe a dumb question.... When a device reports in such small incriments of 1% lets say.. Does'nt that sorta require more CPU power in the long run?? Better for the device not to report so much right ?? 10% left means hmm I should get to a charger in about 30mins..
mrderby said:
This maybe a dumb question.... When a device reports in such small incriments of 1% lets say.. Does'nt that sorta require more CPU power in the long run?? Better for the device not to report so much right ?? 10% left means hmm I should get to a charger in about 30mins..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Not dumb, very sensible in fact, just not very satisfying for us obsessive compulsives
Mike
i guess i will admit i must be obsessive compulsive... cause this shouldnt bother me as long as its halfway accurate.. but it does.. i think what bothers me is that you see it sit at 100% for a long time, then all of sudden you look and its 90%... just bothers the fk out of me..
Now that my therapy session is over...
Now here is a good question... does this happen the same way on the stock TyTn's and hermes? or is this just a cingular 8525 thing?
Happens the same on ALL Hermes devices, sadly...
This is the way the driver gives the battery status to WM. The only fix would be a new driver from HTC.
I think that this is a minor problem in a device almost perfect (in my opinion)
i wonder if its possible to steal the driver from the wizard.... hmmmm... unfortunately i wont get time to dig and see until this weekend
I have the same problem and I find it really annoying.
shogunmark said:
does anyone else experience where their battery meter only decreases by 10%... at first i thought it was battery status.. it would go from 100%-90%-80% etc, so i opened the actual battery meter that is built and it does the same thing.. what i wouldnt give to see my battery meter go 100%-99%-98% etc... maybe im just to anal
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
sorry di not see you message before in msn,
here is the file you need from the wizard 3.2
remove the ZIP extencion
put into the window folder.better yet make a cab file ,make sure is set to hard path.
dont know if i will work......it also depends of the inbuild battery poolling timer. most problably found in the registry.
faria said:
sorry di not see you message before in msn,
here is the file you need from the wizard 3.2
remove the ZIP extencion
put into the window folder.better yet make a cab file ,make sure is set to hard path.
dont know if i will work......it also depends of the inbuild battery poolling timer. most problably found in the registry.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
thanks faria, you are still my hero.. i will try to give that a shot tonight if i have time, i have to work till 11pm tonight then back in to work at 8am(not to mention the hour drive time to and from .... i did find the battery polling timer in the reg earlier today and its set to 5000.. if someone has the time and the know how they are more than welcome to take a crack at this...
FYI just a regular copy/paste of that file cause the battery meter not work, lol... will maybe try a cab later
shogunmark said:
thanks faria, you are still my hero.. i will try to give that a shot tonight if i have time, i have to work till 11pm tonight then back in to work at 8am(not to mention the hour drive time to and from .... i did find the battery polling timer in the reg earlier today and its set to 5000.. if someone has the time and the know how they are more than welcome to take a crack at this...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
also look for the references of the %
most problably all you need to do what u want to achive can be done in the registry.
faria said:
also look for the references of the %
most problably all you need to do what u want to achive can be done in the registry.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
i looked and looked last night... even tried a few things... but still had nothing.. if i sent you a reg dump would you be willing to check it out and see if you can come up with something?
shogunmark said:
i looked and looked last night... even tried a few things... but still had nothing.. if i sent you a reg dump would you be willing to check it out and see if you can come up with something?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
i take a look and compare to the wizard to.
We've been banging our heads against this one on the TyTn for a while with no success. Good luck! Nothing like a new perspective to maybe find something!
I'd actually thought the 1.34 ROM didn't show 100% initially after powersave though. That's interesting b/c it was on Cingular's fix list from the 1.31 ROM...
Sleuth255 said:
We've been banging our heads against this one on the TyTn for a while with no success. Good luck! Nothing like a new perspective to maybe find something!
I'd actually thought the 1.34 ROM didn't show 100% initially after powersave though. That's interesting b/c it was on Cingular's fix list from the 1.31 ROM...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
funny you mention that.. on wakeup on the factory battery meter is shows "unknown status" for about 2-3 seconds before displaying the actual status of the battery... and glad to see i am not the only one that is anal about it
Hi I recently purchased an 8525, upgrading from the 8125. One thing i noticed is that on the 8525, the battery status only shows in intervals of 10%. Its like, one second it shows 100% charge, then the next it shows 90%. The 8125 showed every percentage in between.
My 8525 has wm6 installed on it (got it from the ATT website). Is there a reason its only showing multiples of 10, and can it be changed to show every percentage? I just find it misleading when its skips 10% every time.
Any help is appreciated!
Its always been like that for me as well, and I don't think anyone has figured out how to change it.. Its a common "problem".
Unfortunately, u can not change the Hermes 10% intervals...
Thats kind of weird...its pretty annoying....
1 more issue I'm having is that when waking my phone up, my battery will show -1% for a few seconds, then will show the correct percentage...
I have the Battery Status today plug-in installed....I'm also using s2u2 (slide 2 unlock), could either of these programs be causing this? Or is this a known issue? I've tried searching Google for this issue but found nothing.
Thanks for the help.
Its BatteryStatus which has a bug in it...
i uninstalled batterystatus...and it when waking up my phone, it still shows -1% half the time....any ideas?
I installed the latest batterystatus build last month and no longer have -1%show with my current rom. I don't use s2u2...
which version is that? I was using what i thought was the latest version...."BatterStatus Extended Clock V. 1.04 Beta nightly build"
V1.04. Build 0264, And it could also be how it interacts with different os roms. Have u tried another rom...
OK I tried the latest, V1.04. Build 0267 , and I still have the same problem. I may try a different rom. I'm using the AT&T WM6 rom. Can you make any recommendations?
There are a lot of good wm6 roms by are cooks like vp3g, K's, TNT's, Schaps, Pays, Randomize, etc. Also, wm6.1 are just starting to get cooked. Take a look at Post# 1 of these guys threads for content info & pic's in the Hermes WM6 forum section. Really depends on what you prefer as far big, lite, apps, etc...
I'm assuming u have hardspl installed (a must before flashing)...good luck
lupes5 said:
Hi I recently purchased an 8525, upgrading from the 8125. One thing i noticed is that on the 8525, the battery status only shows in intervals of 10%. Its like, one second it shows 100% charge, then the next it shows 90%. The 8125 showed every percentage in between.
My 8525 has wm6 installed on it (got it from the ATT website). Is there a reason its only showing multiples of 10, and can it be changed to show every percentage? I just find it misleading when its skips 10% every time.
Any help is appreciated!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
well you need to change rom to smth like Tyr0 v1.2 (19213). it shows all percentage you need^) cheers
_PREZIDENT_, This post was from back in February... If the op hasn't worked that out yet then its hopeless...
Cheers...