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T-mobile MDA Compact | poor battery life | re-sending messag

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.

8525 won't stay asleep

Hello,
I just migrated from a 8125 to the 8525. One of the first things I did was upgrade to the latest (official) ATTWM5 Rom.
Something that the 8525 is doing that the 8125 did not do is staying asleep. From time to time when I put the phone (or it goes) into standby mode the phone will wakeup, and the screen comes back on.
Sometimes it does it when I get new a new message, otherwise it wakes back up for no apparent reason.
Is this a known bug or an isolated issue?
Thanks
BigTex

texas said:
Hello,
From time to time when I put the phone (or it goes) into standby mode the phone will wakeup, and the screen comes back on.
Sometimes it does it when I get new a new message, otherwise it wakes back up for no apparent reason.
Is this a known bug or an isolated issue?
Thanks
BigTex
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It may be the Active Sync auto connecting (or trying to) problem. If you do not use direct push e-mail then you could try the fake server procedure here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1288215&postcount=36
Mike

mikechannon said:
It may be the Active Sync auto connecting (or trying to) problem. If you do not use direct push e-mail then you could try the fake server procedure here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1288215&postcount=36
Mike
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Thanks for the reply Mike.
But the thing is, Active Sync always ran on my Wizard (8125) when the phone was in standby/sleep mode. Even upon getting a message on the Wizard the phone would beep, and or vibrate but it would not wake up (come on).
I had a total of 2 8125's and both behaved the same way.
This being my first 8525 I can't compare this behavior to another.
I've also basically have the 8525 setup the same as my 8125 with much of the same programs installed.
BigTex.

mine is doing the same too. I format the whole phone and didn't install any applications just in case they wanna sync or something and yet still the screen doesn't wanna go to sleep. Keep on coming up every 15 mins or so which is very annoying and wasting my battery. I will try to sync thing and hope it fixes my problem.

My TYTN also does it... but it is so rare (less than once a month) I
haven't searched for a solution.
I have read that it might be caused by the ir port: the default
functionality is to accept incoming connections (in Settings > Connections
> Beam > accept all incoming beams). Light falling on the ir window
might trigger the device into thinking there is ir activity. If
this is the case, disabling this function might be a solution...
Jörg

my ir is turned off. so it can't be the problem. Plus I found out that if i don't accept all incoming beams, even if somebody else wanna send me something through bluetooth, my phone doesn't accept anything. So I have to turn on that feature to accept from bluetooth. I think it's weird.

V J said:
My TYTN also does it... but it is so rare (less than once a month) I
haven't searched for a solution.
I have read that it might be caused by the ir port: the default
functionality is to accept incoming connections (in Settings > Connections
> Beam > accept all incoming beams). Light falling on the ir window
might trigger the device into thinking there is ir activity. If
this is the case, disabling this function might be a solution...
Jörg
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Thanks for the reply V J.
Took a look at the settings on the IR port and it is off (not checked).
BigTex.

Try setting Active Sync to manual otherwise it will run by itself (unseen) in the background.
The person who posted above with a very regular switch on every 15 mins sounds more like a push mail setting.
Mike

mikechannon said:
Try setting Active Sync to manual otherwise it will run by itself (unseen) in the background.
The person who posted above with a very regular switch on every 15 mins sounds more like a push mail setting.
Mike
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But what I am saying is I shouldn't have to do that. On my 8125 Active Sync was set to sync "As items arrive" during peak times. Just like on the 8525.
I set the AS to only sync manually at night (11p-7a) and best I can tell it doesn't wake up. So I concur it is something to do with AS but why is the 8525 behaving differently then the 8125? I know it's a different phone, but both are running the same OS (WM5).

ok. i tried that activesync to manual and then my phone is still turning on the screen by itself. It's very annoying. Now I don't have any applications at all. Active sync is set to manual already. no 3G is connected. what else can I do? should I just reflash the firmware again?

texas said:
Hello,
I just migrated from a 8125 to the 8525. One of the first things I did was upgrade to the latest (official) ATTWM5 Rom.
......
Thanks
BigTex
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Do you have email account set up 8525?
One of the option while setting email is to check email at every 5 minutes. if this is check (if you have email) then uncheck and see if that solved the problem.

v3patel said:
Do you have email account set up 8525?
One of the option while setting email is to check email at every 5 minutes. if this is check (if you have email) then uncheck and see if that solved the problem.
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The only email account I have on the phone is my Active Sync Exchange account that's been discussed earlier in the thread.
One thing I observed today. I still have my AS set to sync as items arrive and while I'm still having the issue, it doesn't seem to "wake up" every time.
Strange.

My 8525 does this too. I just set the profiles so that when the phone is off charger, the screen shuts off in 1 minute. For the nightime I set the screen to shut off in 30 seconds.
In the car (the car profile) it is set for 2 minutes.
That way this turning on uses as little battery as possible. i live in Providence, RI and think this might have something to do with switching from 3G to Edge - based on which signal is stronger.
OH! Yeah! You have to get phonealarm from PocketMax to do the profiles thing

see before i upgraded the firmware, i dont have that problem. so now i just took a chance and upgraded to WM6. no more screen problem.

v3patel said:
One of the option while setting email is to check email at every 5 minutes. if this is check (if you have email) then uncheck and see if that solved the problem.
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That is correct with my Dopod P800W.Thank you.

WIFI turns on automatically

Hi all,
every our my wifi turns on automatically and downloads my emails... nice one, but i don't know why and actually would like to stop it to save the battery...
I think it's something with the schedule option from activesync...
anyone have the same problem?

Well I was playing with the phone yesterday setting up emails. In your settings for email, there should be one that dictates how often the phone picks up email. Now, mine does it through the GPRS data plan, and I'm not sure why yours does it through wifi.
But there is an option for getting emails every few mins to every hour to every 4 hours to once a day.
So dig a bit in the email accounts and click things that look like 'settings' or 'options' or 'advanced' and you'll find the drop down box that have these options.

Xperia, no pop3 check while in stanby

Hi folks,
i have an issue with my Xperia.While in stanby (display off) the device doesn't do any pop3 checks (send/receive) even tough it's set up to automatically check every 15 minutes.
Does anyone have an idea ?
Thx in advance...

I have the same impression with mine but I am not completely sure. It seems that the emails are only notified when I actually turned on the device doing something else with it.

Thats dissapointing if it's always like this.

Don't use the built in POP client, but using Seven (beta) I'm able to get Gmail pushed to me all day long even with the phone in Sleep (me pressing Power button).

Nice hint. can you post a link?
Any other ideas?

http://community.seven.com/

How do you keep data connection always on?

Hi, when using programs like windows live messenger I've noticed that if I'm connected and running the program in the background and don't access the phone for about 10-15 minutes the connection is lost This happens with other messenger programs too like ebuddy.
I think it's the data connection automatically turning off but can't find any settings for this. I don't think it's to do with power settings as i have my phone set to auto turn off after 1 minute but the messenger can stay connected for a lot longer than 1 minute without any phone activity.
I'd like to run Live messenger in the background and have it connected all the time. Does anyone know how to do this or what settings i need to change?
Thanks.

Does no one have any ideas?

Solaris81 said:
Does no one have any ideas?
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one option u can do is set your email to be checked every 15 mintues or so, or even weather. that way the connection is always refreshed and even if your disconnected you can get reconencted quicker.

if you are using your live id email at your phone there is an option for the email push at arrival. with this setting there is always data on (works fine but takes much of the battery)

papa Marco said:
if you are using your live id email at your phone there is an option for the email push at arrival. with this setting there is always data on (works fine but takes much of the battery)
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Yeah i have it set as that but for some reason Live messenger always disconnects after i have the phone idle for over 15 mins. When i access the phone again it says refreshing contact list and basically signs me back in. Could it be a setting for Live messenger to disconnect after a period of phone inactivity?

Solaris81 said:
Yeah i have it set as that but for some reason Live messenger always disconnects after i have the phone idle for over 15 mins. When i access the phone again it says refreshing contact list and basically signs me back in. Could it be a setting for Live messenger to disconnect after a period of phone inactivity?
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I think you`ll have to not let go the device to standby in the energy-settings advanced for this to get worked.