Hi i have just installed the lastest rom for my XDA exec, v1.13.188. However after the install i have a few questions.
1) Where can i get the gprs monitor from as its gone?
2) Where has the 02 symbol gone from the top taskbar
3) Where has the battery icon gone from the same place?
Thanks.
Im new to this but I have just done the ROM upgrade.
Did you do the basic install ?
After the upgrade I soft reset my PDA and got the o2 logo back.
Has the batery icon gone small and at the bottom of the screen? Mine did this. I went into settings :- today :-Items and ticked BatteryNFO and it comes back.
As for the GPRS stuff I got this on a disk with o2 and had to put it back on. But its rubish anyway. so I took it off again.
Hope this helps.
Like I say am new to this.
Yes i did the basic update, i cant find the cd with the file on for the gprs.
I will try the today options for the Battery info.
I have soft reset the phone and i still dont have an 02 logo, strange.
I'm sorry I could not be any more help.
Try here http://www.my-xda.com/xdaexec_soft3.html you can download the application and the OS (if you are not upto date) - Mike
Hi...
I did a quick search on this but couldn't find an existing topic on it - apologies if its alrady been coverd...
I'm having the occasionl problem where my M3100 flags up a warning and tells me the battery is low even though its fully charged (I think its also powered itself down a few times because of this too...).
A soft reset doesn't seem to fix it but switching the device off and on again does.
Anyone else experienced this and more importantly has anyone got any suggestions on how to prevent / fix it?
TIA
Minestorm
Had my UK Orange SPV M3100 since last Monday and it's been working fine re battery.
In fact, i've been surprised how good the battery life has been so far!
See tag for my ROM details...
no not atom Live ;-)
just wanna fetchup the battery issue on Atom.* devices.
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iam hardcore-user ;-)
so the battery lasts with me just 10-15 hours (max)
but on the road ... with just phone usage (standby) the battery drains so quickly.
its just sad ... just the new o2 plus is such a cool software ...
and well tapping to death until to get where you want is also anoying ...
is there any option to use O2 Plus .. but let it runns more "battery friendly" ??
any suggestions ?
Hi, i have a Xda Atom too. Since two days, my battery drains very quickly in standby mode. It's incredible. Only 15-16 hours.
I have tried to uninstall O² PLUS. Now it's better, but i think that i have left my Pocket PC too many time on his docking station. (I can leave my Atom connecting to PC a few days in a row if i don't use it)
My battery is surely died.
CLaunch works on the Atom. If you really need Today screen shortcuts, then you can use that instead - low memory footprint, negligible hit on battery life.
(Then again, battery life on the Atom has always sucked. Even on an empty Atom, the most I could ever make it last is 1.5 days, and even then, the battery would kinda overdrain once in awhile, until I forcibly pull the battery out, and reinsert it.)
Oh, and the battery that comes with the Atom? After I discovered it was no longer holding its charge (drains 30% overnight), I switched to a third party. The Atom's original Taiwan battery isn't very good - Shame on you, O2 - this third party battery (worcell, SG, Japan-sourced cells) not only solved the strange battery drain issue - it also worked slightly better whilst at the same rating (1-2% improvement in battery drain).
Yep, it's very strange. I think i will buy a new battery. This Atom costs me a lot of money and with a battery like that, this pocket PC is totally useless.
It's just incredible.
If a member has changed his battery by a new one and can give some advices on it, or just posting a reference. Thanks in advance.
tghanks for the update on that ...
well i live in thailand .. here you can buy uncountable of batterys from diffrent manufacturers .. where the sellers not really knows what they sell ;-)
i will spread out and take a look for the japan name .... iam sure to get it here somewhere and update you here about price and possibility to ship somewhere ...
;-)
wish me luck ;-)
altf4 said:
thanks for the update on that ...
well i live in thailand .. here you can buy uncountable of batterys from diffrent manufacturers .. where the sellers not really knows what they sell ;-)
i will spread out and take a look for the japan name .... iam sure to get it here somewhere and update you here about price and possibility to ship somewhere ...
;-)
wish me luck ;-)
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I think it's important to keep this thread alive. I'm sure that is the biggest pb of this Pocket PC. It's incredible to develop a such powerful machine without thinking of battery. Thanks 0².
Gould luck altf4 !
battery for atom
i am in the Philippines, and this is a nice thread because it has opened my eyes to my recently bought atom (2nd hand of course).
I bought it from a friend of mine who was disposing it and I love the o2 phones (I previously owned a mini - 2nd hand from my sister).
This thread showed me that there are battery related problems, and I will keep all that in mind. I have two batteries - the original one and a 3rd party one.
I do have a question, however, how does one properly maintain the battery? when should I charge it? How should I charge it? etc. . . . .
Since the Atoms run on Lithium Polymer batteries, we don't have to worry about charging. Just plug it in whenever you need to charge it. Don't worry about memory effect, or full charge and discharge, and you don't need to prime or condition a new battery. Ah, the beauty of Li-Poly. You just need to full charge-discharge it like once a month to reset the battery charge gauge and make the full charge more accurate.
So O2 Plus is one of the culprits? A shame, O2 Plus has some really good functions. On my old PPC (iPaq 6365) I used vBar as my taskmanager and app closer, but on the Atom Exec I used O2 Plus. But if O2 Plus is no good, I'll try uninstalling it.
But I need a replacement for it. I can try CLaunch, though I don't really need the Today shortcuts. What I need the most is a Taskbar app, and unfortunately I found vBar to be buggy on the Atom (doesn't take the theme color, and randomly crashes) -- it's unknown whether this is an issue with WM5 or the Atom itself, or whether O2 Plus is interfering with it.
Any suggestions for a taskbar manager? I prefer something that displays battery life and lets me manage the memory by shutting down tasks. Preferably like vBar it can quick switch between tasks at the click of a button on the status bar.
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BTW -- a quick tip to save battery life: I have found that enabling the "Receive All Incoming Beams" makes my standby time a lot shorter. Make sure it's off unless you're trying to get a contact or picture or something from a fellow beamer.
I have some pretty good news to report.
I uninstalled O2 Plus and I seem to be getting better battery life already.
I fully charged my phone and pulled it out of the plug around 8:00am EST this morning. It was at 99%. Over the course of the day I received 5 SMS, sent 6 SMS, played about 15 mins worth of video on TCPMP, used BT to send over a 10MB file to another phone, did some Memmaid Cleaning and played a couple of MP3s and did various PIM tasks and used voice command all throughout and have the backlight set to 4.
And it's now 5:42pm EST and I have 78% battery life left. This bodes well, in the past I would be at like 50% battery life, and heck that's after charging the phone in the office during the day!
Very promising my phone can easily last 3 days like this with this kind of usage if the battery indicator is correct.
To compensate for O2 Plus I instaled pBar instead as my task manager/landscape mode/battery checker.
It's looking good.
This is the stuff I have on my phone:
Adobe FlashLite
TCPMP
Opera
Conduits Pocket Player
Worldmate
Atom Phone Pad
Spb Backup
Tengo Free
Resco Explorer + Today/Registry/FTP Plugin
Dynomite
Bookworm
Memmaid
O2 Keyboard driver
Worms World Party
Chess Genius
Voice Command 1.6
Code Wallet Pro
O2 Phone Plus
i do think so
I'm now using HTC device and been used a while...i found the batter life is definitely a satisfactory concern of part of HTC!! In a word, it's good...but before that i had o2 Atom, and its battery was totally disappointed....
Guys,
i found this to make the standby hours longer...not sure wat it does but no conflict with watsoever
And for task manager i always use wisbar advance
its looks nice and works wonder!! very customizable!! This ver3 used much lesser resource than the ver2 but still in beta mode and expire in less than 2 weeks
hopefully i can find a version that will not expire!!
Cheer!!
kaidi
thanks for the wonderful idea about the battery. This is my problem before..dont use also SPB mobile shell (if u want a registered copy just PM me,or serial)
try also to reflashed a new ROM created by jiggs(better the evaluation version 1st-there is sms issue in final), fast and stable. Use XCPUscalar and put autoscale so the processor will not be always in a full blast that consume a battery. hope i shared a good ideas to you..thansk to all
Can i use o2 mini or dopod 818pro battrey on my atom exec
SPB mobile shell
Do you think that the SPB mobile shell is infecting the battery life ??
I'm using the SPB phone suite looks ok but my memory is low arround 15MB
And the battery is low after few hours
matin78 said:
Can i use o2 mini or dopod 818pro battrey on my atom exec
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Nope im pretty sure its different by size and type.
Ronv said:
Do you think that the SPB mobile shell is infecting the battery life ??
I'm using the SPB phone suite looks ok but my memory is low arround 15MB
And the battery is low after few hours
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DONT USE it...also dont use xcpusclar..try to search in atom upgrading forum..
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DONT USE it...also dont use xcpusclar..try to search in atom upgrading forum..
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What about HTC HOME
Battery Life / O2 Plus
Hi All
Reading through this thread it seems that o2 plus is battery loving.
Is there any other software out there that will do the same thing. I use the o2 calender on the today screen and am about to have more than one appointment on the screen. I would hate to lose that feature!
it seems i cant find the O2 plus program here on my phone, the O2 programs are:
O2 Auto Installation
O2 Connect
O2 Media Plus
O2 SMS Plus
which one will prolong my battery life Mochan....
xcpuscalar
ei..don't install xcpuscalar..auto scale doesn't help in battery improvement...they just slow down ur ppc, but still they uses the maximum cpu clock..so it still consume battery a lot.. just use it for overclocking,,not for battery saving...
hi all this is strange when I take the battery out of my spv m600 and when I put it back in I lose the date and time does the m600 have a backup battery cos nothing shows next to main battery in settings any ideas
Hi! I have the same problem, with my qtek, with WM6. I put back WM5 and all work ok again.
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hi all this is strange when I take the battery out of my spv m600 and when I put it back in I lose the date and time does the m600 have a backup battery cos nothing shows next to main battery in settings any ideas
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If you take the battery out for any length of time it will loose time and date yes, this happens with any rom as SPV/Jamin/Qtec does not have a backup battery. Solution: dont take yur battery out
same problem to my dopod 838pro...started after upgrade from wm5 to wm6..everytime it reset to 1:00 1/6/2007...why???
others problem: 1. on lock / pasword...some number and letter onscreen keypad dosnt work..cant key in e.g "a, s,... "... but still work limited selection password
2. i guess will enjoy with new battery ..but it always shutdown despite indicator full charged...it worse cant on back , need to plug on charger.....?USB pin problem....but no problem with old original bat..
the battery is same except regulatory number ori..HERM161 Manuf. by Dynapack Co LTD, new bat. PA 16A by Celpert Energy Co ltd ..both from taiwan....dos it make sense!!!
cheers,
my last phone was a magician. Everytime I missed a phone call a red LED (the one which shows "charging") started blinking so I could notice it at one glance.
Now I got myself a Niki (xda star, no mods except for some fixes). I set it to "blink" after a missed call in "Sounds and Notifications"-menue. But nothing happened, same thing for Messaging.
Is that different for your phones? Can I turn it on someway?
help is very much appreciated !
Where u did find settings for LED?
On my phone, it can be changed only by 3rd party programs
btw led codes are:
(Standing) Orange - Charging
(Blink middle) Orange - Missed call/message
(Blink short) Orange - Charging error
(Blink) Blue - Bluetooth on
(Blink) Green - GSM on
(Standing) Green - only OEMSBL running
(Blink) Red - Low battery
(Standing) Red - No battery
re
you cant change the LED-settings, but you can enable blinking for missed calls in "Sounds and Notifications"-Menue (Start -> Settings).
OK: I hard-reseted the device and it worked. I soft-reseted it and then it was still working.
Then I installed the following software:
Mobipocket Reader
TrueTerm
TotalCommander
SpriteBackUp
and the following fixes from this forum:
NikiSimFix by gfreek
"HTC+Touch+Dual-default-ABC" to disable abc
I soft-reseted it and it was still working. The next day it was blinking green all the time again - no red lamp notifications (charging does work and shows a red lamp)
obviously the fixes worked for the others since nobody complained about similar problems.
Anyones got an idea?
ROM: 1.31.207.12, german by o2, no mods
Type: xda star
Funny how a lot of ppl I find with a Touch Dual used to have a Magician...
I used to have one too, it just seemed like the best upgrade at the time, whithout loosing much ram/cpu.
A tip, you can also choose the colours of the led to all those settings with NUELED, here on the forum.
solved
Ok - its redicolous.
After 10 hard-resets and whatever, I figured out that by disabling "Sounds for Notifications and Programms" you also disable the LEDs. That was different for the Magician - there I had it disabled and the LEDs still worked.
@twolf: Yeah, I thinks thats the reason. though I would have preferred to keep mine if it haddnt frozen outside. I'm serious: If temp was below 5°C it just froze and I had to reset it. But the quality of the phone was superior. I cannot say that about the niki. Moreover it is slower with the same aplications compared to the magician.
But then - the niki was a lot cheaper .
cheers
btw: to all xda star owners who read that: NEVER try to install the original htc wm 6.1 update. You'll kill your phone!!! I think someone should put that into one of those sticky threads.
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btw: to all xda star owners who read that: NEVER try to install the original htc wm 6.1 update. You'll kill your phone!!! I think someone should put that into one of those sticky threads.[/U][/I][/SIZE]
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where do you get that statement from.
I've been running on it fine for months now!
I think he means the o2 branded version xda star.. With the original one from htc - no problems!