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Can anyone explain why my wifi connection is dropped when I put my phone into standby mode. This does not happen when I am using GPRS?
If the battery was not so crap I would not need to keep putting it into standby mode.

I guess its because when the device is in standby all the PDA functions are stopped, but the phone functions are not. GPRS is connected via the phone line which is active in standby mode thus it does not drop.
This does not sound out of the ordinary to me.

thanks for confirming my fears. So does anybody know how you can use this device for 8 hours (working day) with wifi switched on? I normally leave it logged into IM when I am at home and do not want to leave it charing all the time.

Try Start-Settings-System-Power-Advanced and untick the battery Power Timer.

Dave,
Agile is clever enough not to power off the device but and all that happens is the screen dims. I am trying to put the device in to standby but leave wifi on along with running agile messenger but this does not seem to be possible. The reason for this is to prolong the battery life by not having the screen on as wifi zaps my juice so much more than GPRS.
It is however possible when using GPRS as the phone function works when it is in standby.
Marc

i needed to do this on my dell axim too, used a program called screenlock which kills the display and locks the buttons. you press 2 buttons to wake the system. Wifi and other apps continue running.
my post http://www.aximsite.com/boards/showpost.php?p=840747&postcount=2
the app
http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=14621
be careful, if you cant work out which hardware buttons its using, you'll have to soft reset your device (if it works at all, i've not tested on wizard)
let me know if it does what you want

just tested and it appears to use messaging and voice speed dial as its 2 buttons

Thanks I will test it asap

Automatically turn phone/internet off when battery is low

Hi,
Does anyone know of any software that'll turn off the phone or internet connection when the battery power reaches a certain point i.e. 30% of max?
I would find this very useful as i often forget that it's on and wake up the next morning to find that my battery is all but flat
Cheers,

PhoneAlarm gives you an adjustable warning alert, so you don't just get the warning when it's too late to do owt about it if that's any use.

thanks, it's not quite what i had in mind though. I really want something that will turn the phone/gprs functionality off automatically at a predetermined level... is there anything else out there?

Predetermined, I don't know. You can hook into certain events in the registry, or use the system event scheduler (eg Memaid, SKTools). Then use software like VJVolubilis to disable wifi and gprs, and my other apps to close the phone.
V

Something draining my battery!!

All of a sudden my battery is draining overnight.
I installed a trial of GPS Tuner the other day and wondered if it's anything to do with it.
I know the gps drains battery but I only used app for about five mins and then shut it (not minimized)
I wonder if GPS receiver is still active after app shuts down.
Does anyone know if there is an app or registry tweak to make sure GPS is off when not needed by an application? Or is there a way to turn it on/off manually?
Thanks
Rog

Normally the gps receiver is turned off, when no application is need. There is a registry tweak to change the time interval after which the the gps is turend off, but the standard value of 500ms should be ok.
Personally I'm using GPSGate, which changes the color of the system tray depending on the status of the gps receiver.
But if you shut down any application that uses gps, it shouldn't be enabled any more.
You should check the processes that are running, maybe it is something different than the gps.

GPS was not closed.

I found that the some GPS tool will not actually close GPS when it was terminated (Google maps seems OK), even when the phone was switched to fly mode. Battery was drained very quickly in this situation. Is there any too can check current status of GPS and also manage it?

How did you found out ?

Normally, I'll put phone to fly mode during night and it will consume about 5% power. But if I used GPS in that day, the power consumption would be ~20%.

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Normally, I'll put phone to fly mode during night and it will consume about 5% power. But if I used GPS in that day, the power consumption would be ~20%.
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I can't provide much more details, but I'd rather tell you to look elsewhere for the solution to that huge battery drain, as from what I know it's very unlikely to be gps's fault.
The gps is turned off by the device whenever you put the hd2 to sleep with the power button, in fact every app that uses it also loses the location (see navicomputer, nonigpsplot, and tomtom) when you turn off the display.
So, even if the app "forgot" to turn off the gps, it would be turned off when you press power button.

Just to make sure, have you checked with a task manager if the gps is really closed? Some apps (GPS or otherwise) dont really close when you close them, they merely move to the background.
The suggestion GPS is always closed when you sleep the device is not correct, some apps prevent real sleep, exactly to prevent loss of fix.

I'm sure that all GPS related software was closed. The answer from HTC customer support was to remove the buggy GPS software.

[Q] GPS stays on even when location access off?

Hello.
Is it normal for the GPS to be on when I have turned off location access (both GPS and WiFi)? Are apps able to override this system setting?
I noticed that sometimes even though I have this off, GPS symbol stays in the status bar for hours. Killing suspected apps didn't help. In battery I see 'fused location' using my GPS.
Please see the screenshot.
How do I troubleshoot this?
Thanks,

Show a pic of your battery stats? Any location wakelock?