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Battery drain - Touch HD

Hi,
I have XannyTECH rom installed Xtrom Leo 2.6 WWE
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=565290
And radio version 1.17.25.09.
I am concerned that I am charging it constantly - every night I plug it into my AC charger. During the day I have it plugged into my laptop to recharge.
If I don't it will defintely run out daily.
I use the phone WIFI now and again daily for facebook, email etc.
I have data settings all to off.
I have power settings for screen dimming at 30 seconds, off after 1 min on battery and 1min dim on AC and 2 mins off on AC.
Does it look like my battery is on it's way out?
I have tbattery installed as default and can log the battery, although I do not know what I am looking at.
I always close applications after use via task manager.
Any help/thoughts appreciated - is this normal for Touch HD?
If it is a case of the ROM could be improved for better battery drain then I will change.
Thanks

Hi,
i've used many coocked ROMs, but everytime i wen't back to the original ROM's from HTC because of battery drain.
Then I read somewhere that when you use radio 1.17.25.09, you have to use Rilphone 1.15.25.14.cab.
I flashed BlackStonehenge with radio 1.17.25.09 but without Rilphone 1.15.25.14.cab
-> battery drain
Then I flashed BlackStonehenge with radio 1.17.25.09 and installed Rilphone 1.15.25.14.cab
-> no more battery drain!
Search the forum for 1.15.25.14.cab
It works perfect for me!
It's on the Wiki-page: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=466274

My phone lasts about 3-4 days with moderate use (which is more than you seem to be using yours based on your description). I recharge when it hits 15-20%. I'd say maybe you need a new battery, if you have already tried different radios.

I tried Rilphone 1.15.25.14.cab as an experiment and it ended up causing problems, phone hanging and not responding etc.
I have reflashed with various roms and some are draining quicker than other. I have gone back to Xtrom Leo 2.6 WWE and the battery seems to be lasting longer although I am charging it every night.
It is 38% now - 8 hours after being uplugged. Today's usage has been about 10 minutes phonecall and about 15 minutes WIFI this morning listening to Radio 1.
I've disabled 3G and always turn WIFI off etc.
I'll order a new battery and try it out, it wouldn't hurt to have a spare anyway

U better try Topix ROM with Radio 1.17.25.09....

Now using this:
- kwbr topix 3.6 WWE
- OS version 5.2.21901 (21901.5.0.92)
- Manilla 2.5.20121225.0
- Radio 1.17.25.09
with Rilphone1.15.25.14
This gave me again batterydrain!!!
Then I installed MMTaskManager1.8.100421
and made sure only these processes are running:
- nk.exe
- filesys.exe
- device.exe
- connmgr.exe
- JBlendDaemon.exe
Now no more batterydrain!

[WP7]Heavy Battery drainage!

full charge 0% after 10h no data or wifi activated! can you confirme ?

nope I had a pretty good battery drain on wp7 even better than winmo 6.5
try to reinstall wp7.
if the problem persists contact the DFD for the problem
and don't forget that this is not a official release from DFD so there are some minor bugs
wait for next releases for a better experience

make sure you have hspl 2.08! good luck!cheers!

thanks guys! i will do a full instal from scratch! i suspect a calibration probleme

installed android then i did a full charge! after that i install wp7! but still have the heavy drain ! what radio version are you using

I charged my phone last night took it off the charger and when i woke it had 10% left :S

projektk said:
full charge 0% after 10h no data or wifi activated! can you confirme ?
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Yes. I had the same problem in day one.

I haven't done much testing yet, but I was thinking my battery seems to be lasting very good.... at least in standby. 8-10 hours since I took it off charger and it looks like the battery meter only went down about 20%... so there's still 75-80% left! But like I said, I haven't done that much with it today except play around a few times for 5-10 minutes at a time.

No problem for me.the battery life is very good.

maybe its related to sd card class?! can you give your radio rom version?

Last night i fully charged the battery before sleeping
no wifi or Data nothing
today morning 60 percent gone
but day before yesterday i didnt have this problem, i installed few apps recently (attentive phone, htc hub, fb n few games)

Many people are saying that you should flash Radio 2.15.50.14.

nova hands said:
Many people are saying that you should flash Radio 2.15.50.14.
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my one is having the same radio and im experiencing high battery drain

battery drain fast,, same here.. run out after 10 hours...
if i used android,,usually 30% would left after 10 hours' usage

Have you checked it without SD card? (to see if it's SD card related)
I have pretty good battery drain, too. Radio 2.15, some crappy 512MB SD-card, data and wifi on, mail/facebook/twitter/google sinc on (every 30mins).
Running for ~ 13h, including WP7 installation, testing, all the setups, etc.
Battery went from ~70% (was not fully charged) down to ~20-30%.

okay guys..seriously a stupid question...how do you check the battery drain with percentage??wp7 has no battery percentage..or is there somewhere i cant see it???i am using wp7 with 8gb class 6 and is fine with radio 2.15!i have it for 10 hours and my battery went down to the half from fully charged..!

edangel said:
okay guys..seriously a stupid question...how do you check the battery drain with percentage??wp7 has no battery percentage..or is there somewhere i cant see it???i am using wp7 with 8gb class 6 and is fine with radio 2.15!i have it for 10 hours and my battery went down to the half from fully charged..!
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you don't (and currently can't, not supported by WP7 API yet afaik) =) you can either estimate by the width of the battery bar, or wait until battery is at 0%.

Can it be that the battery indicator is not reading correctly or that the calibration is incorrect. I had a full battery and one hour later it flashed a low battery message. I booted into Android on the sd and the battery showed 78%.

i had good battery .. when you going to sleep off location and data

Batterylife is OK for me. With push mail ON, some calls, some mails and attachment viewing and 2 market place installs + 2 photos taken I'm at 50% after 12 hrs. It's not grounbreaking but OK. I friend has a HD7 and his unit usually lasts a day. So don't expect miracles from the battery My SD in SanDisk 4GB Class 4.
Yesterday it was GAME OVER after 6 hrs but with at least 200 MB data downloads, over 1 Hrs ot voice calls and constant playing around with the phone.

Hd2 with 7720 rom -insane drain battery :(

radio 2.15.xx
spl 2.08
rom 7720 with sd working
hi guys after i complete everything working good , i start to test my battery drain ,
my phone only keap alive about 8 hours its draing 10% 10m and 10m in standbye mode,
after that i install battery tools and i see :
7720
battery current: -42 ( standbye mode)
pd_M: 12
Well with this drain battery is impossible to use daily ,
with 75xx version in standbye mode the values was
75xx
battery current: -1 ( standbye mode)
pd_M: 0
and the battery stay alive about 3 days with using daily..
anyone have the same problem??
tnks to all

Have you tried the camera trick?

yes i tested dont work....

Edwin320 said:
Have you tried the camera trick?
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what is this camera trick? link?

I am also having massive battery drain.
According to the Battery saver under settings, I was at 100% 5 hrs ago (estimated 1 day and 19 hrs of usage left).
5 Hrs from when i unplugged my device from charger, it is now 2 hrs left (which i estimate to be 30 minutes before the device goes dead).
battery is horrible on this build. anyone else?
btw, my bluetooth doesn't work either.

strange, please try to do camera trick. My HD2 7720 use 10% battery per 7 hours. so far so good. Btw I can not install .xap file on 7720, is this rooted or not ?

How come is this related to development, this thread belongs to Q&A.
Please Post in the correct forum.

can someone please confirm if the camera trick is simply:
1. go into camera app.
2. click into video mode.
3. exit to main screen by pressing start button?
is that it? am i missing something?
if it is that easy, where is there SO much junk just to specify how it's performed?
sheeze?

don't be stupid
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1041912
this is the camera fix, it's in the first page of this forum wp7 discussions
it's simply.. all witch has hd2 tmobile 1gbNAND HAS HIGHT BATTERY DRAIN.
who have hd2 europe 512mbNAND HAS HIGHT BATTERY DRAIN IN 2GMODE, not in 3G
camerafix works only with 5.51T radio
YOU CAN'T CHANGE RADIO IN YUKI'S AND XBMOD'S ROM, it changes every upgrade with new one.
so, use 2 batteries if you don't have right autonomy

Guys..with some roms like Yuki v5, you need to reboot if you have charged your phone to full..to show correct reading and drain..so try it:]
Sent from my Schubert using XDA Windows Phone 7 App

Can you guys with 7720 build post the battery drain, to see how much drainage the build has?

unplugged this morning at 7 am
its now 17.23 pm and battery life sais it has 4 hours left (with battery saving, wich is now on)
so 14 hours
max of 1 hour calls.
evrything is off (bluetooth, 3g, location, xbox, wifi, etc). only thing on is data connection for echange mails and schedule. this syncs all the time

wolfpt said:
with 75xx version in standbye mode the values was
75xx
battery current: -1 ( standbye mode)
pd_M: 0
tnks to all
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what version of wp7 starts with 75XX?

i t ohave everythang running good and seam to have fast battery drain but i juts got the phone 3 days ago and have spent all of those days on thease forms and am running the new back to the fucher rom wich i updated over zune!
if someone can pm me a fix that would be great!

I have the same battery problem, but i haven't tried the camera fix!
I hope this will help..

nemuro said:
what version of wp7 starts with 75XX?
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Green Mango (mango beta 1)

anyone measured the current drain with HTC battery tool, im just finishing updating the 7720 language packs and will test it .. It will be nice if we could update the radio with the WP7 update cab sender.. we could try other radios, i know that the 5.51T works very well with my 2 t-mobile HD2´s.

Particularly my battery has lasted as in other versions. But now I started using economic mode available in Mango, which in turn made ​​it last longer still.

FelipeMR said:
Particularly my battery has lasted as in other versions. But now I started using economic mode available in Mango, which in turn made ​​it last longer still.
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in theory, it should work, but it wont help considering how fast the battery is draining on the hd2 with 7720.
i already tried.

FelipeMR said:
Particularly my battery has lasted as in other versions. But now I started using economic mode available in Mango, which in turn made ​​it last longer still.
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same here, between -5 and -7 in standby,same as other builds I tried..

HD2 7720 very bad battery life

OS: 7.10.7720.68
radio: 5.51T.09.29a_22.32.50.10U
Battery tool/Battery Current: - 138 !!!
Yuki back to the future rom.
My battery only last 10 hours standby! by end of the day, the battery is completely dead! Tried the camera trick, but this version of rom had green button mapped to voice dail so just went to camera tool, then go to video and
autofocus. Does not seems to help.
Anyone have solution? With this kind of battery life, I would have to revert back to wm6.5

kelingdun said:
OS: 7.10.7720.68
radio: 5.51T.09.29a_22.32.50.10U
Battery tool/Battery Current: - 138 !!!
Yuki back to the future rom.
My battery only last 10 hours standby! by end of the day, the battery is completely dead! Tried the camera trick, but this version of rom had green button mapped to voice dail so just went to camera tool, then go to video and
autofocus. Does not seems to help.
Anyone have solution? With this kind of battery life, I would have to revert back to wm6.5
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Mine is the same way. Just a few minutes (10 to 15) doing things on mine from a fully charged battery and it goes down 20%.
I think it has more to do with magldr than the ROM, though. My other HD2 is using a cLK version of Tytung Android and it is the actual first Android build I've ever used that has acted like a stock ROM. The battery life is great and in standby it stays charged really well. Not so with the magldr version. In standby with the same ROM booted with magldr, the battery drops quickly.

There are people here experimenting with different radios to try and get the battery drain down. Both the hardware and software radios and different combinations of both.
As changing the hardware radio is easier at the moment than the software one (you have to re-flash and update to mango), you may want to try that.
Good luck

I have the same configuration but mine works fine (after doing the camera trick the battery last more than 24 hrs.). Maybe it is due to the battery lifetime, capability, quality or any other hardware issues.

i dont seam to recall haveing any battery issues on yuki v1 but after i update to v2 i strted experianceing fast battery drain auto focs trick with camira dosent seam to work ither i updated all the way to 7200 i was still not happy about the battery drain tehn i install teh device provisioning and isv beta clean up through zune hopeing to fix my batter issues it didnt i gave up then i wanted to get wireless radio and installed DEV_FM_ANTENNA_INTERNAL.cab and now its even worce i littery wach 17 hr's of battery life dran in 7 min's
11:58 pm
battery info
remaining batter life 100%
estimated time remaining 1 day 20 hours
time sence last charge :less than one hr's
this is my battery info in settings after just disconecting it!
12.00am
and as i wright this i just lost an hr and am down 99%
will edit post agin!
12.40
90%
estimated time remaining 1 day 7 hr's
i just lost 17 hr's in 40 min's
with both battery saveing options checked!
edit!
1.02 am
remaining batter life:82%
estimated time remaining:14 hr's
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i thought only people wear wrong not computers opps gess i was wrong because to me this seams like a fatel error!
the system menu is displaying faulse information
its one thang to have fast battery drain but for the system to display faulse info in the system settings and be totaly inacurate?
whats up with that?

Everytime you start the phone or after a reset, you have to do the camera trick.
Also, when you take a picture... before you shut down the camera, do the trick again.
After the MANGO installation, also download and install 2.12 Radio. That seems to be keeping the drain down a little. After I installed the 2.12 radio AND keeping an eye on the camera trick is done, the phone lasts for 1 day and 9 hours. (It's been 1 day and 10 hours now, 11% left...)

update 2.12 rom works!
update. I flashed with 2.12 rom, then did a factory reset, then camera trick.
Now 16 hours after the charge, made a few phone calls and some light internet surfing, I still have 48% battery. This is a remarkable contrast from yesterday. Don't know if this is due to 2.12 or the camera trick, but the combination of the two definitely worked. Now I ca keep my Mango
Thanks all for the help

kelingdun said:
update. I flashed with 2.12 rom, then did a factory reset, then camera trick.
Now 16 hours after the charge, made a few phone calls and some light internet surfing, I still have 48% battery. This is a remarkable contrast from yesterday. Don't know if this is due to 2.12 or the camera trick, but the combination of the two definitely worked. Now I ca keep my Mango
Thanks all for the help
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I also flashed 2.12 earlier today and have just now done a reset (in the "About" menu) and am going to see if it helps with the BL. Mine was down to about 45% after just probably 3 or 4 hours...in standby. Not being used at all.

KrewsialNL said:
Everytime you start the phone or after a reset, you have to do the camera trick.
Also, when you take a picture... before you shut down the camera, do the trick again.
After the MANGO installation, also download and install 2.12 Radio. That seems to be keeping the drain down a little. After I installed the 2.12 radio AND keeping an eye on the camera trick is done, the phone lasts for 1 day and 9 hours. (It's been 1 day and 10 hours now, 11% left...)
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Please can you explain what the "camera trick" is?

Skyjouby said:
Please can you explain what the "camera trick" is?
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start camera, switch to video, exit from camera

dxdy said:
start camera, switch to video, exit from camera
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Like this, but don't back out of the camera, tap the homescreen button. You want to leave the camera running in the background.
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Regarding flashing the 2.12 radio and then resetting it, something helped. I won't say flashing the 2.12 radio helped because I flashed it first and later I did the reset. My HD2 still drained faster than an old Chrysler sucking gas through a straw. But after the reset, it is still at about 85% since last evening about 8:30PM. It is currently 1:11PM the next day. So that gives me about 17 hours on this one charge. And no, I am not exaggerating. My previous post lists the time I flashed it to 2.12...actually before I made the post. And I just now took another look at it....about 5 minutes ago. It hasn't been used at all during that time period and, in fact, I haven't even set it up yet....no wifi, no syncing of any kind, not even signed into my account. After resetting it, I simply set it aside and did nothing with it. So lets see how it does after I begin using it again...syncing, turning on wireless and all.

My current is -318!!! And I only have 3G on. I tried the camera trich and it does nothing. Any other suggestions.

Robbie P said:
There are people here experimenting with different radios to try and get the battery drain down. Both the hardware and software radios and different combinations of both.
As changing the hardware radio is easier at the moment than the software one (you have to re-flash and update to mango), you may want to try that.
Good luck
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Please can you explain how to change the radio without flashing new Mango?

mentjens said:
Please can you explain how to change the radio without flashing new Mango?
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I'll help.
Put your HD2 in bootloader screen by powering off first, then press and hold the down-volume button and tap the power button. Hold the down-volume button till the red/green/white screen appears.
Then connect your HD2 to your PC and at the bottom is should say USB once Windows sees it.
Once you have the appropriate radio file downloaded and unzipped, open its folder and click the "LeoCustomRUU.exe" file. You may need to right-click and open it with "Run as Administrator".
Go through the checks and it will flash the radio. Once finished, disconnect your HD2 for your PC. It will reboot and your new radio is flashed.

Regarding the battery usage of my HD2 after a reset, I can report that I'm now seeing above normal battery life. Earlier today, around 1PM, I set up my HD2 and established all my accounts...3 email accounts, FB, Twitter with default syncing...and enabled wifi. All of the usual stuff I normally use except the installation of all my previous apps.
Currently the battery is exactly 70%, according to the built-in battery saver menu in the settings. It has not been charged since yesterday about 8:30PM. That's approaching 24 hours since a charge.
EDIT - I took a picture of the current battery condition. It shows time since last charge and time left on charge plus the current charge level.

MartyLK said:
Like this, but don't back out of the camera, tap the homescreen button. You want to leave the camera running in the background.
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Regarding flashing the 2.12 radio and then resetting it, something helped. I won't say flashing the 2.12 radio helped because I flashed it first and later I did the reset. My HD2 still drained faster than an old Chrysler sucking gas through a straw. But after the reset, it is still at about 85% since last evening about 8:30PM. It is currently 1:11PM the next day. So that gives me about 17 hours on this one charge. And no, I am not exaggerating. My previous post lists the time I flashed it to 2.12...actually before I made the post. And I just now took another look at it....about 5 minutes ago. It hasn't been used at all during that time period and, in fact, I haven't even set it up yet....no wifi, no syncing of any kind, not even signed into my account. After resetting it, I simply set it aside and did nothing with it. So lets see how it does after I begin using it again...syncing, turning on wireless and all.
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MartyLK said:
Regarding the battery usage of my HD2 after a reset, I can report that I'm now seeing above normal battery life. Earlier today, around 1PM, I set up my HD2 and established all my accounts...3 email accounts, FB, Twitter with default syncing...and enabled wifi. All of the usual stuff I normally use except the installation of all my previous apps.
Currently the battery is exactly 70%, according to the built-in battery saver menu in the settings. It has not been charged since yesterday about 8:30PM. That's approaching 24 hours since a charge.
EDIT - I took a picture of the current battery condition. It shows time since last charge and time left on charge plus the current charge level.
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When you speak abour reset, it is the"Parameter/About/reset"? To gain this autonomy you still use the "camera trick"?

Skyjouby said:
When you speak abour reset, it is the"Parameter/About/reset"? To gain this autonomy you still use the "camera trick"?
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I have been using the camera trick, but I don't really have faith in it that it is doing anything useful. Once I see how far this first charge will go, I will do more experimenting like not using the camera trick. Right now I want to leave my HD2 exactly like it is...not using it, just leaving it in standby...till the battery dies out.
It's actually not all that good for standby battery life. Being in standby, it should last much longer than the projected 54 hours on this one charge. My iPhone will last longer than a week in standby. My Inspire and other HD2 with Android lasts about the same as this, though.
And the reset I speak of is in the "Settings" > "About" screen. At the bottom of the screen is the "reset your phone" rectangular box.

MartyLK said:
Regarding the battery usage of my HD2 after a reset, I can report that I'm now seeing above normal battery life. Earlier today, around 1PM, I set up my HD2 and established all my accounts...3 email accounts, FB, Twitter with default syncing...and enabled wifi. All of the usual stuff I normally use except the installation of all my previous apps.
Currently the battery is exactly 70%, according to the built-in battery saver menu in the settings. It has not been charged since yesterday about 8:30PM. That's approaching 24 hours since a charge.
EDIT - I took a picture of the current battery condition. It shows time since last charge and time left on charge plus the current charge level.
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Damn, that's nice I manage 1 day and 18 hours on a full charge, according to the battery saver app. As soon as I go to work I use the internet a little (Twitter/Facebook/IE). By the time I get to the office (40 minutes), it dropped a good 30%.
When i'm not using the phone, it's good, 1% per hour or so. As soon as I start using it a little, it goes down like an elevator on meth.
What I also noticed, is that when the signal is not very good, the battery will drain up to 6/7% per 30 minutes... i have no idea what that's about.

update: the camera trick is spradic.not working no more im back to 10 a day standby. i will give up and flash back to andr9d this wkend

kelingdun said:
update: the camera trick is spradic.not working no more im back to 10 a day standby. i will give up and flash back to andr9d this wkend
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And you have done a reset?

[Q] Battery

Dear XDA members,
I've just reinstalled WP7 after Android, but my battery life is very short (approx. 5 hours after full recharge). My procedure:
1. Back to WM6.5
2. Install HSPL 2.08
3. Flash radio 2.15
4. Install MAGLDR
5. Install WP7 (HD2O ROM)
6. Hard reset at '1234...'
Now, when I check Settings > About, my software radio version is 5.71.09.02a_22.51.50.21U. Shouldn't this be 5.51? If so, how can I fix this? And is this the problem regarding my battery life?
Thanks in advance!

read battery tricks in my signature
to install ROM with radio 5.51 use Pdaimatejam ROM or manually replace part00.bin in data.zip file (look first link in my signature)

Thanks for your reply. So I can just download the Pdaimateja rom, extract the radio, put it in the HD2O rom and flash it again?
Also, I've used the HD2O rom before I switched to Android, never had any issue with the battery (it lasted for approx 20/24 hours). How's that possible?

Alright, I've tried to flash the rom again, now with the 5.51 radio extracted from the Pdaimateja rom. When I check Settings > About the radio version is indeed 5.51, but the problem is still there. Battery life seems to be a bit better (approx. 6-10 hours after full charge), but still not what it used to be (approx. 24 hours).
Something I noticed today: when booting to the tri-color screen, on top it says: "PB81*** HX-BC", I can remember this used to be different. Should it be different?
To be clear, I have a (non T-Mobile) European HD2.

did you use camera trick and other battery savings tips?

I've used the camera trick and now using radio 5.51. The weird thing is, I've used the same rom before, back then the battery life was very good (approx. 24 hours), now with the same rom my battery life is much shorter, while I use exactly the same apps and settings. There must be something wrong, maybe I've overlooked something... What about the "PB81*** HX-BC" at the bootloader? Shouldn't this be something like PB81100 HX-BC? I can remember it was like that before, but don't know how it changed.

I'm sorry to bump this thread again, but I'm still curious about this.
canaQ said:
What about the "PB81*** HX-BC" at the bootloader? Shouldn't this be something like PB81100 HX-BC? I can remember it was like that before, but don't know how it changed.
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nothing changed... yes my device have
PB81100 HX-BC
SPL-2.08.HSPL 8G XE

So there's nothing to worry about? Since every screenshot/video I see of the HD2 shows something like PB81100 HX-BC instead of PB81*** HX-BC.

I switched to Clean ROM - Stock UI, and now my battery life is 1 day and 15 hours after full a full charge. It's a huge difference, so I'm staying with this ROM

canaQ said:
I switched to Clean ROM - Stock UI, and now my battery life is 1 day and 15 hours after full a full charge. It's a huge difference, so I'm staying with this ROM
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i have almost 2 days of battery use (WiFi and data is turned on non stop) with Pdaimatejam ROM and original HD2 battery old 2 years...
very important it is if you know how to use ROM... SDcard maybe also can make difference....

I use the same SD card, and since I'm a student I can't afford to test multiple cards To be honest, I don't like all the extra apps and modifications on the Pdaimatejam rom, so I will keep this rom for now. I noticed battery life decreases a bit after a couple of hours, but it still lasts approx. 20-24 hours, which is good enough since I charge my phone every night.