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Batery??

My mogul has to be recharged half way through the day? Im on it an average/alot but dont surf the net alot and I have installed teh x button so nothing is constantly running (or at least i think it isnt)
could i just hvae a faulty batery or is something goin on that is draining it?

The only things I can think of that are draining the battery are bluetooth being on, wifi being on, and possibly if you have it set up to check your mail very frequently. With wifi and bluetooth on even if you aren't actively using them they drain power cause they are constantly looking for signals. Other than that it should be lasting longer.

How do I change how often it checks my email?

are there any power saving tips? my blue tooh was on and turned it off and it still is draining.

Tregrad said:
are there any power saving tips? my blue tooh was on and turned it off and it still is draining.
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To save power on the Mogul:
1) Turn off the data connection after using it using the comm manager. (Two arrows on top of the screen above the signal strength indicator.)
2) Turn off the bluetooth radio after you are done using it.
3) Turn off the Wi-fi when not using it.
4) Make sure all of your mail accounts are set to manual instead of automatically checking for mail every so often. This will keep your device from opening data connections.
5) Turn down the backlight when the unit is on battery power. I have mine set to the third lowest setting.
6) Set your auto shutdown time to 30s when on battery.
7) Press (don't hold) the power button when you are done using the device.
When I use the device in this way, I can almost get two days of regular use out of my device.
Hope this helps!

Do this!
Tregrad said:
are there any power saving tips? my blue tooh was on and turned it off and it still is draining.
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I'll second the above poster's suggestion of changing your schedule for checking outlook. To do this, go into ActiveSync on the phone, go to the 'Schedule' option and change from 'as they arrive' to 'every 5 minutes' or longer. This will help a lot
Here's another thing you can try. It had HUGE results on mine. You will need to edit the registry. I will suggest getting Total Commander (this is a great file explorer as well as a registry editor, and a text editor. Basically, these keys disable the mogul's ability to manage the power management functions it has built in. changing them to a value of zero will allow it to manage power more effectively.
Before doing this step, I would be typically close to a drained battery by the end of the night, after doing this, I'm still around 60-70%
To get to the registry in Total Commander, go to the topmost level of folders. You'll see an entry with two slashes that looks like this - '\\' Click on this and you'll have three options, FTP, LAN, and Registry. Click Registry.
Go into these places, and change the following keys:
HKLM\Comm\AsyncMac1\Parms
- Change the key 'DisablePowerManagement' to 0 (zero)
HKLM\Comm\Irsir1\Parms
- Change the key 'DisablePowerManagement' to 0
HKLM\Comm\PPTP1\Parms
- Change the key 'DisablePowerManagement' to 0
HKLM\Comm\L2TP1\Parms
- Change the key 'DisablePowerManagement' to 0

thanks for both your replies, havent tried it yet but will. is there a "push email" program for the mogul that you guys know of that will allow emails to come through like that so there is no setting for the mail to be checked every so often? it will just come in when its there.

Tregrad said:
thanks for both your replies, havent tried it yet but will. is there a "push email" program for the mogul that you guys know of that will allow emails to come through like that so there is no setting for the mail to be checked every so often? it will just come in when its there.
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well, are you connecting through an exchange server, such as a work email account, or are you trying to sync with something like yahoo,gmail, etc?
if you have outlook at work, then you can set it up with activesync to push it out to you. this can be done on your phone's activesync program menu. then you can go into the schedule option and adjust how often it syncs with the service. many people set it up to 'as they arrive' which maintains a constant data connection, and thus drains more battery. thats why 'every 5 minutes' saves you alot of battery drain. make sense?

Yeah that makes sence. I used to have a black berry and the mails just popped in without having to maintain a constant connection (as far as I know)

Teething troubles

Hello, I got my new device on the 3rd Jan so it's still relatively new and vanilla. I have had a look here through FAQs and searched the X1 forum to no avail. I hope these are not too difficult to answer, many thanks for any advice
1. Freezing:
When I make a call the touch screen no longer takes touch inputs, it does display the call time etc. I have to end the call with the soft button then the screen comes back to life
Also, when I run Windows Media Player and start playing a track the same behaviour occurs and I timed a 2 minute delay before I could use the screen to do anything.
I am not running anything in the background when this happens
All I have installed on top of the new phone (<1 week old) is a torchbutton tool and a battery monitor (although his happened way before the battery monitor was installed)
2. Auto disconnect from 3G etc:
When I set my phone to auto check email for me I didn't realise it would leave the 3G connection running. I can't find anywhere to set this and have it shut down the connection when done. I am not worried about cost (much) but I do want to preserve battery lif.
3. GPS way off:
everytime I try the Vodafone tracker or google maps it never pinpoints my location accurately. I don't want this directing me into a river or car crushers at a scrap yard...
Any ideas?

I don't know about the other two questions but as for number 1) I'd say it's a fault with your device as i haven't heard of the problem before and i have no such issue with my Xperia. Maybe someone can help you...

Question 2
It seems by default you have to disconnect in Comm Manager.
Actually it's great it does not disconnect after every action, it would be hell to check 3 or 4 email accounts and connect each time (I had it on my other smartphone...)

OK I can live with the disconnecting thing, I'll just have to keep an eye on it and the battery usage.
I found something interesting with the media player freezing issue though, if I use the button on the side to adjust volume the screen become available in the volume slider and then the problem goes away, rather random but again - livable if this fix works every time (which it doesn't) I have noticed it seems to be the same tracks that cause this - is it the file size?
Still stumped for the screen freeze during calls though - fix that and I will sing your praises for at least a week and a half

OK The device got replaced... then broke again - ran out of power then wouldn't take a charge
Came back from repair (they wouldn't replace after the 14 days grrr damn vodafone)
Now it has new software on it (spb mobile shell and some random games)
I setup the stuff I like such as the Soft Buttons set to Rotate screen and bring up the Today screen
Now when on the X panel or any of the panels and Opera the Today button refuses to work
It is fine in IE or File Explorer
I am so sick of this damn thing getting so close to being useable and then dropping out on me
Any ideas before I have to go back to the shop and they send it away AGAIN?

Today timeout - what is what

Can someone please tell me what this in settings does: Today timeout - 4 hours
Thanks

Not 100%- sure but I though it was the time that you phone will automatically flip back to the home screen (if you didn't play with the phone in the mean time.)

This was already in wm6.1 withou that manila...so I think this is not this what you explained...

Lynehammike said:
Not 100%- sure but I though it was the time that you phone will automatically flip back to the home screen (if you didn't play with the phone in the mean time.)
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Corrent. Say you are on opera, you let the phone go to sleep, turn back on 5 minutes later, still on opera. let go to sleep, turn on after the timeout (say 1 hour) and you will get the homescreen instead of opera.
Whether it actually works or not is a different matter. Shame it cannot be set to 5 minutes, it would make it easier to test.

I remember people discussing this on the old-aximsite now mobilitysite about my old ipaq and WM 6.0.
It shouldn't matter much what you set it to in a smartphone, because it's basically "always on", but on a simple pocketpc it meant that the device turned itself on at every given time (for example every 4hrs, or 4hrs after the last time you turned it on) to open the today screen and "update" its content, for example in case you have plugins like "todayagenda" that needed to modify the next appointments according to the current time/day. It was a useless battery drain on a plain pocketpc.

My settings say that my today's timeout is set to 4 hours, but I can tell for sure that device doesn't update the weather which is set to auto-update every 3 hours...it updates when I manually turn screen on...

Face book feed, news feed, bookmarks

I love my new phone having come from touch pro, touch pro 2, HD2 I am very impressed. I do however have one annoyance when I set my Face book feed, news feed and bookmarks up as widgets and then turn off the phone for 1-2 minutes when I turn it back on it takes a couple of seconds per widget to display any information instead saying "loading". Now you may think I'm picky, and I am but surely even if the phone is receiving updated data why can't it display the old data there at the same time leaving you something to look at and click through if you want. Same applies to weather why the hell does it need to load up every time I switch the phone on!? Any ideas would be helpful

What are you refresh settings on each of them?

sync schedule
every 2 hours but changing that longer or shorter seems to make no difference. It seems to me as if the phone is shutting down the program every time i turn the phone off and only starting it again when im actually looking at the widget

[Q] How can I tell what is syncing and at what time?

Basically,
I'm trying to limit my battery usage and I find alot of it is down to sync'ing of stuff such as emails, facebook widget, twitter widget and constantly having my hsdpa/3g switched on.
I am using Tasker to manipulate alot of what i do daily such as profiles for when im at work Mon-Fri - Silent my phone etc.
What I am interested in doing is turning off 3g/hsdpa and having it only periodically switch on just to run a data sync for all my apps and then deactivate after say 5 minutes after hour.
I have a profile setup to activate it when I launch the applications individually but I want something to automatically poll my email, sync my facebook/twitter widget and my accounts and then switch back off again.
Anybody have any ideas or suggestions please?
Cheers.

I use automateit from the market to reset the brightness when I come out of the camera,think you can do some advanced stuff with it,may be of use?

Hi bombadier
Cheers for the reply, Tasker does all that in a similar fashion the problem I have is I don't know whats times the widgets attempt to refresh at or my emails poll at they just have the option to set the interval at 30 minutes / 1 hour etc.
I want to know does it mean 30 minutes based on my system clock so 13.30? or 30 minutes from when I choose the option i.e I chose it at 13.36 so it polls at 14.06? 30 minutes later.
Basically I just need to either find a way of turning all my syncing/polling off and an app to force do it ALL for me that I can set to launch using Tasker at a specific time, or need to find the timing so I can turn my 3G on for that period and then back off again.

I would think it takes the time off the time at setting,If you could turn on autosync that would get everything to sync then somehow disable autosync and 3g?

I think juice defender pro does what your looking for

I use timeout-3g
I use an app called timeout-3g which turns off the internet connection 10 min (configurable) after the screen goes off. When the screen comes on it turns the data connection back on again. Also the internet connection is turned on once an hour for 5 min if the screen is off that long. If you purchase the app (which I did) you get more options.
Try it out.