[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] SeanFromSoCal:
Still Experiencing Excessive Battery Drain

I'm getting so frustrated. I thought I had it all worked out. I un-did the registry setting for the Flash card power management and performed the ActiveSync schedule tweak using a fake server. After this it seems as though finally the device was sleeping as it should have. I would reset the uptime stat program, push the power button and then wake it up after about 20 minutes and it would say:

20m

Uptime: 0m

Then my

big mistake

. I got impatient and then fooled around with it a little more and made a couple "suspect" changes that I should have taken my time and did a step-by-step test. What I did was:

1) changed from BatteryStatus to BatteryStatusExt

1) flash it to 2.61 Radio

2) within 30 minutes change my mind and flash it to 2.19 Radio

3) install a couple programs into the storage card

4) install iLauncher and add it as a tab to PocketBreeze and added a bunch of icons and the full array of 4 meters.

And now its not sleeping again. GRRRRRRRRRR!!!

Unplugged it last night fully charged between midnight and 2am. Didn't touch it at all. Touched it again at 11:30am and it said 68% and then I made it go back to sleep. On the way to work at 12:45pm looked at it before I made a phone call and it said 55%. At 8pm on the way to the gym it showed 20% on the way to the gym. I would get the running out of battery error, put it to sleep. At the gym its turns itself off. I plug it into the laptop and turn it on and it says 2%. WTF! That was only 2 hours and I didn't use it at all. It should have been showing 20% when I was done. I only made 2 phone calls each less than 2 minutes, checking 1 e-mail every 30m, 2 e-mails every 60m, updating WeatherPanel every 4h, and received 3 text messages. HORRIBLE!

My previous ROM setup would go through 6-8 hours stuck at 100% and then at the end of a typical day it would show no less than 70%. Low 80s were more common.

I'm not sure which step changed it. It could be iLauncher because of the meters, but then again I also run a second Today Screen with just Battery Status and its still having that problem.

It could be the change to 2.19 Radio?? I've only had it installed for 2 days and I'm not all that fond of it. I drive thru a canyon on the way to work and 2 miles out of the canyon its still searching for signal. I had to soft reset the phone to make a phone call. Molski 2.26 with 2.47 Radio was better. But this is new. I'm going to give it a week and see if it gets better. The 2.19 Radio

definately

is better than the 2.47 Radio with Underground.

This is what I'm have installed running on start-up:

- AEBPlus

- GSPMagic

- MoreTodays!

- PHM TrayLaunch

- Pocket Mirror

- PPCProfilesPro

- Resco Keyboard

- VJ ToggleToday

- Voice Commander (original Underground version)

Today Screen Layout #1

- PocketBreeze

- iLauncher (*)

- WeatherPanel

- BatteryStatusExt Beta 0173 Build (*)

Today Screen Layout #2

- BatteryStatusExt Beta 0173 Build (*)

I'm having the same battery drain problems no matter Layout #1 or Layout #2. The (*) indicates a new version or software that I did not have on my previous Molski 2.26/2.47 ROM.

Synopsis - I LOVE WM6 and XDA-Developers.com. There are other people with the same device and ROM and not having the same problem so I will NOT give up on my Underground =). I'm just voicing my tribulations in attempts to help others.