[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] diable57:
I have an HTC Softbank X01HT windows mobile phone which I bought a few weeks ago while in Hong Kong january 2007.

It seemed to work fine when trying it out before buying in Hong Kong, (tried my SIM card to make sure that the unit was not locked) tried the basic functions etc. but since I have had it and after returning to Canada, I noticed that the unit was using up the batteries within a 6-8 hour period even when not being used. This was even with the phone, wifi, bluetooth functions disabled. I also tried to recharge the phone (which works fine), and put it on standby with and without the micro SD card in the slot, (nothing in the slot not even the plastic spacer), just in case there might be a power draw through the micro SD contact, and the same results, the battery discharges at a very fast rate regardless. I have noticed however that the phone remains very slightly warm at all times when it is in the standby (off, but able to receive calls) mode, giving me the impression that there is some kind of processor use or battery use going on even when the phone should be idle. I have installed B-idle and it does say that the processor is idle during standby so I guess there are no apps running and no processor use going on, and yet the phone stays as I mentioned ever so slightly warm to the touch. Also I have no second party or other programs installed.

I have tried doing soft resets and even did a hard reset to see if it might be a software problem all to no avail with no results. I have even tried to put the phone on standby with and without the SIM card in place also with no results.

It has happened twice that the phone did keep its charge, but I can't tell you why, it seems to have been completely random.

Once overnight when I noticed that the phone was cool to the touch and at 50% battery power that evening I decided to leave the phone on standby mode overnight. The next morning it was still at 50% battery power. (at this time I had no SIM card in the phone,) but after turning the phone off completely, then taking out the battery and inserting the SIM card and replacing the battery and turning the phone back on (on standby), the battery immediately began to discharge at a rapid rate again and was down to low battery in a matter of 4-5 hours. The other time that the phone seemed to hold its charge was after having performed a hard reset, and the phone seemed to feel normal and cool to the touch after an hour of sitting on standby and again the battery which had read 50% before performing the hard reset stayed at 50%. I then charged the phone and after taking it off the charge again the phone would feel warm to the touch and would loose about 10% charge every hour to hour and a half.

I have also tried to charge the phone with no SIM card in the phone and leave the phone on standby and still the battery discharges at a quick rate and the phone feels very slightly warm to the touch at all times.

It seems that there is no obvious cause for the discharging of the phone. I'm wondering if it might be a short somewhere in the hardware?

here are the specs:

Information in:

Settings/about:

-microsoft windows mobile 5

-OS 5.1.195 (build 14955.2.3.0)

-processor- SC32422-400mhz

-memory-49.33

Settings/device information/version:

rom version- 1.35.255.2

Rom date- 11/14/06

radio version- 1.18.00.10

protocol version- 32.55.7018.01H

Ext Rom version- 1.35.255.102

Settings/device information/hardware:

cpu- Samsung(R)2442A

speed- 400mhz

ram size- 64mb

flash size- 128mb

data bus- 32bits

storage size- 56.22mb