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[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] yozh:
Well I have GPRS set to always on.

I gata tell you, from before I left to work I charged the phone to 100%

I surfed a little updated my egress, got about 2-3 phone calls 2-3 minute each, got about 3-4 emails thru directpush and just general use check calendar, looked at some settings to help some one out, changed few settings my self and now Im at 75% battery. I guess its not bad, but I gata see when Im on the road, I do heavy surfing and alot of phone calls. I guess 8:00am to 3:00pm 25% drain is not too bad. Seems to me that WM5 it was much less. Maybe Im just being picky, I`ll fall back and just watch what other people will say. :)

Oh forgot to mention that Im using the battery metter cpuscaler the 130-260mhz so.....
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] dwny:
After experencing rapid battery lost, I applied a hard reset and my battery is doing much better.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] sids911:
Even I had Battery Drain issues when I updated my Wizard to Farias WM6 ROM, 2.19.11 Radio rom and 2.26 IPL/SPL.

That battery drain issue was getting me crazy, till I turned off IR and let the battery complete one full charge/full drain cycle.

After this completion of cycle, I started off at 100% battery at 2 in the morning and right now its 11:55, its still 100% !!

Oh, and I have GPRS always ON, BT and Wifi Off and CPUscaler ON/Bettermeter set to overclock the OMAP till 247 Mhz.

MUCH better than initial 5% battery drain every hour, in the same conditions, I say!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] Krypt:
I reenabled the javathingie en sc.lnk and did a softreset. Still no real powerdrain. Strange.. I'll perform a hardreset a little later and check if the powerdrain reappears.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] yozh:
Just to add.

This morning I woke up with the same 2 wizards as yesterday, but this time

the one with the SIM card and GPRS directpush on was at 95% compared to yesterday 85% and the otehr was at 99%.

So Im wondering if the Bettermeter is lying ? I`ll let the battery run all the way out, I gata check if my IR is on I dont think it is, but Ill check.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] monkey_knight:
in the other ROM threads, people use to complain about battery draining issues, but most people seem to have been able to solve the issue by going through a complete battery charge then battery drain cycle (get it to ~10% or lower) and recharge. It seems to help out. Supposedly the OS/phone will adjust to the battery usage and somehow compensate.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] yozh:
In a strange way that kinda makes sense :) Draining my battery now :)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] peterson65:
i think the battery meter isnt very accurate, just now mine says 96% and if i do a soft reset (with pin on side) and when it restarts it says 99%?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] rsfaze:
Power drain and pushemail

I just upgraded my g4 to this rom. I have been watching the posts about battery drain. I charged my phone last night, turned off data in the comm manager because I have an exchange server set. So with phone only on it seemed to consume about 25mA and was at 71% this morning battery life. I have everything still in the startup folder. I am going to remove things one by one and update if there are any changes
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] jocool:
power drain

I have been running this rom for about a week now. At night my push email is turned off, and battery drain is almost 0 during the night.

During the day, the battery drain is problematic at a level that some days it barely lasts the whole day. Very different from the wm5 battery drain I experienced.

Will try to turn push email off during the day to see if that really makes a difference.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] bartje100:
I've noticed that data-transfer draines the battery dramatically. And i also have doubts about the accuracy of the battery-meter....
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] yozh:
See I`m not crazy :)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] rsfaze:
I agree there is something funny about battery status. My phone sits on my desk all day barely any use and the battery status said 89% for the past 2 hrs. I soft reset the phone and now it says 91% and an hr later dropped to 80%. I will try and update the application tonight and let you know of any changes
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] stmasi:
I just upgraded to the new beta3 and it seems to be much more accurate...especially when it comes to the scalar portion of the app.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] yozh:
I been runing the beta 3 ...... Still draining the battery :)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] sgtcasey:
I just updated to the beta3 and I'm going to be using my MDA as an mp3 player all night until the battery is dead. I've also got the screen brightness turned all the way up, Bluetooth turned on, IR turned on, a wireless connection to my router, and that Bubble Breaker game is strangely engrossing all of a sudden. :P

I'll have this battery dead by bedtime (hopefully). :)

Dave
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] yozh:
Well I drain the battery and charged it up. So since 12 today its been at 100%, now Im down to 78% and i made few phone calls and tried to get on google which for some reason didnt work. SO will see what happenes.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] sgtcasey:
After burning my battery down to 0% early this morning (to the point the device would shut off as I attempted to power it on), I charged it back up to 100% by about 8am. As of 11pm it is sitting at 72% with an 18mA drain on the battery.

I sent a few SMS emails, took some pictures with the camera, played that Bubble game a little bit, and made a few phone calls.

When I'm not using the device, I turn off the screen using the power button.

Dave
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] alexn2:
There is a presumption that the battery meter is 100% accurate. No. It reads the remaining battery time based on your usage, consumtption/hr etc; as a result if you shut down the PPc and restart, it will naturally estimate again which results in the overreading and then adjusts as you use the phone.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] blokade:
I upgraded my Imate K-Jam to Faria CB on Fri. Put Radio ROM 2.19.11. I started noticing the power drain on Sat, and then ran the following test:

1. Shut down the Java push service (removed the startup link also)

2. Set CPU scaler to 247 MHz (min 195)

3. Let the battery charge overnight. Took the phone off the hook at 10am on Sun. Used the device normally (with a BT headset on for half the time). Battery drained out in exactly 12 hours.

On WM5 (stock imate ROM) I was getting about 30 hours on similar usage.

Anyone figured this problem out yet? Faria ...?!!

Blokade

-----------------------------------

iMate K-Jam

IPL/SPL 2.16.0001 (G4)

Radio 2.19.11

Faria CB (WM6)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] b.mann:
drain issue, HELP!

right now, my battery is at +463 mA and is on fire! (literally, 111 degrees). Whats wrong with it, and how do i get it to stop?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mfrazzz:
Let me consult my crystal ball to figure this out....

Nope, sorry, it didn't work. Guess without you telling us anything even that didn't help :p

Maybe you should run task manager or something to see what processes are running on your Wizard. :rolleyes:
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] b.mann:
ohh that burnt a little :p

but now its back down to normal (+119 mA), and there were no processes going.

Case closed...?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] yozh:
I don't understand this at times it looks like the battery is lasting long time and other it just seems that it goes down fast. I guess I really have to put it to the test on the road. I let the battery drain to 6% yesterday the charged it all the way. too it of the charger like 3 4 am and was using it all day on and off few phone calls with bt and with out few with speaker and very light surfing with edge and now typing this on it with wifi on for last 10 minutes and the battery is at 61% and its 10pm here oh got 1 email thru directpush. I don't know is that normal seems that it is ?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] ameerxp:
Battery Status

Guys i think the Battery status is the cause of the Battery drain problem, yesterday i remove the battery Status and before i removed SC.lnk from startup Apps, it is been 10 hours i open my wifi some calls and still have 99%, still testing it but we have to consider that battery status is the cause of the problem.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] sids911:
Battery Status

Can we just keep BatteryStatus for CPU scaling and OMAPclock and not have it polling the battery every now and then?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] yozh:
Soemthing strange is going on, after writing that huge thing few posts back. I turned of the WI-FI didnt put my phone to charge and went to sleep. In the morning I press the power button and the lights are on, but no one home :). Had to reset the phone the screen didnt go on, which is not unusual , but it seems to me that this is happening more and more .... Any one else notice this ? It could be my phone, cuz I just got it replaced under warranty, but seems that its happening more and more that I have to soft reset my phone.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] paschott:
Quick note on my experience:

Flash to Faria ROM from 2.26 - no problems at all.

Did something stupid requiring a hard reset (without a backup, of course). Hard reset ROM.

Battery drain like crazy - couldn't even make it through a day.

Upgraded the BatteryStatus to the latest beta. Reset device. No issues at all. Battery drain is still a little higher than WM5 2.26, but I can make it through a couple of days or regular use again.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] faria:
also note that my rom has more services running than any other rom.

phonepad

bt sim access

task manager

etc

obviously this will impact the battery time.

funny thing is that several people reported to me that this is the best battery ever!

we cant compare battery drain one rom to another due to the huge amouth of variables.

this would be possible only if we had 2 Roms with the same setup ,same batt.etc etc....

due to this is quite impossible to determinate if indeed there is a massive power drain or not,even the posts in this tread are quite mixed.

im afraid i got no other answers for you guys at the moment.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mfrazzz:
I have had numerous issues with BatteryStatus 1.04.200 Beta 2 (what I believe is on this ROM) on all WM6 roms. I upgraded to BatteryStatus 1.04.201 Beta 3 and all those issues (lockups, weird battery readings, etc) all seemed to go away. Don't know if it helps with actual battery draw itself, but this new Beta is definetly more stable with WM6 (or thats my experience). As always... YMMV
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] Dwimmerlaik:
That is my experience as well. I've been using the latest Beta of BatteryStatus with Faria's ROM and I haven't had any issues at all with battery drain. I've also applied a few of the tweaks found on the forums, specifically in relation to the storage card and other settings.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] herzzreh:
When I try to install this on faria's wm6 rom it says that the program could not be installed.

Anyone experience this?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] j007w:
really bad!

My phone is only lasting 2-3 hours before auto shutoff. I charge it overnight so it's at 100% in the morning. Even with no phone call or any other usage it'll die within that time frame. This is just crazy! I've tried all the tips from this thread but so far it's the same. Any suggestions, please?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] QBANIN:
Buy new battery.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mfrazzz:
Wow, that is bad... What's your IPL / SPL? ARE you overclocking, if so what are your settings and is it done by BatteryStatus or omapclock? What version of BatteryStatus are you using? What apps do you have running on your phone?

When you upgraded to Faria's ROM, did you flash back to an official rom before upgrading to this one? Or did you go from one custom rom to this one?

Have you done a hard reset to see if that helps? Pull out your SD card and see if the battery drain is still as bad.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] techlogik:
I'm overclocking, Windows push going all day long...battery is lasting longer than ever...used to barely get 8-10 hours max, now I go 16 hours about...that is fantastics...used to live next to a charger and wall outlet previously...
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] j007w:
My battery was just working fine before WM6.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] j007w:
Much better now

I'm using 2.26; not overclocking but have tried the OMAP settings found in this thread to no avail; tried the BatteryStatus version that came with the ROM as well as the latest Beta from the author's site; only running included apps so far.

I didnt' flash back to official TMO US ROM first before upgrading to this one directly from a WM5 cooked ROM

Have tried hard reset a few times and tried removing SD card.

Good news: I flashed back to official TMO US ROM, re-flashed Faria WM6, immediately remove BatteryStatus and it seems much better. On a full charge after 3 hours of use (just 3-4 calls of about 3 minutes each) it's down to 75%, which is much better than before but still worse than WM5.

Thanks
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mfrazzz:
Give it 24 hours (not sure why but it seems it takes 24 hours for things to stabilize after a new flash) and see how its doing.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] bartje100:
Removed the latest batterystatus.....but still draining. No improvement! Can't keep my wizard a whole day alive....pfffff

Never had this problem with WM5......curious what is causing the drain....
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] anichillus:
Try my rom

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=299470

See if you still have battery drain isues
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mfrazzz:
When you flashed to WM6, did you upgrade directly from a custom rom, or did you first go back to an official rom and then upgrade to wm6?

But I do agree that battery drain is larger on all WM6 then WM5. The NotTooSmart one (repack of mUn's) has been better for me than what I saw on MBE (I wasn't on teh Faria one long enough to really guage it there).
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] QBANIN:
I think that battery drain issue depends of Radio Rom. With 2.19 Radio the power consumption was about 5%/h , but with 2.61 1% down after 2h...
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] jpflaw00:
Ya I'll also agree with that...battery status acts a bit funny, and my phone runs better without it (although the problem is something I can live with)...yesterday my phone was around 65%, and I didn't charge it all night...when I woke up it was still at 65%, but I had turn off the radio before I went to bed...after during break in one of my classes the battery jumped up to 90 something percent...and then after class it went down to 85%...I'm thinking that the radio is drawing a lot of power and heat, which is why the phones are draining faster...I installed all the recommended cabs to stop the leak, but it drains a certain percentage every so often (especially when I am using the phone)...if you have a huge power drain and you want to save some battery life I recommend just turning off the radio if you aren't using it...
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] oo3:
I tried everything as well (delete the things in startup, upgraded to batterystatus beta3), and it seems to have gotten a little better...until I get on PIE, then the battery starts draining. It will go down about 3-5% after about 20 minutes of surfing.

This will have to do for now, I'm too lazy to reflash another rom and re-install everything...haha.

My radio is 2.47 or whatever's in my sig.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] yozh:
Try the 2.19 ROM. Seems that it helped me a little with drain issue. Still not great battery usage, but better.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] datawrhsdoc:
Is BatteryStatus a Power Hog?

I'm getting pretty convinced that the problem is one of the settings in BatteryStatus. I just don't know which one for sure, but if I had to guess I'd say there may be a problem with CpuScalar. I was using Faria's ROM until I couldn't deal with power drain issue anymore and switched over to NotTooSmart - Vanilla WM6 - 10.2.0.8 which does not have BatteryStatus.

Battery performance under NotTooSmart's ROM had been great until I installed BatteryStatus 1.04.201 Beta3. Only then did I begin to see rapid battery drain. Then I set OMAP back to 195mhz speed, turned off all BatteryStatus option, and turned off BatteryStatus in that order. Rapid battery drain problem was still there. I finally uninstalled BatteryStatus last night. So far, it looks like the battery drain problem is still present as if BatteryStatus is leaving tracks behind, but I'm not entirely sure. I'm going to give it another 24hrs and then do a hard reset if needed.

-J
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] totalcmdext:
hi

I have already used the Orwell Rom and mUn_aRTM without any problem in battery status but without using BatteryStatus

Now i am using Chocolate-Vanilla rom with BatteryStatus (reg tweak also inputed) and i have big big problem with battery drain.

Maybe the problem is batteryStatus beta3!!!!

Please verify it?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] bartje100:
I uninstalled batterystus yesterday, but the drain is even worse today...

After 5 hours already at 53%......never had that before.

I starting to believe its the radio....like mentioned by others!

Can't understand why there is no-one with the solution yet....so many intelligent programmers here....

I consider to go back to WM5....
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] datawrhsdoc:
My experience suggests that batterystatus is leaving behind tracks during uninstall, so it doesn't help to remove it (I have no direct evidence, though). I think you'll have to start with a ROM that doesn't have it, and then don't install it. WM6 or WM5.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] bartje100:
I'm now flashing to X-Plore! I'll let you know if there is a powerdrain or not....
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] calouro:
I am using this ROM with 2.19 radio and BS beta 3.

I found that when I installed the power management cab it had the reverse affect, it increased my consumption from 30 mA to 60 or so. After I uninstalled the cab the consumption went back to normal. This happen with every ROM I’ve tried.

In addition, the power management tweak for the SD Card is a killer; it drains my battery with it on. I guess my card does not have this function.

I also found this tweak to the Battery Status registry; it dropped my consumption to 24mA. My battery lasts a few days with low to moderate use.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=299470&page=40

Post #395

Just my experience, hope this helps,
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] monkey_knight:
initially, i had power drain issues in the beginning, but after letting the battery drain down and recharging twice, I seem to be doing fine. one full charge lasts me about 2 and half days or so, before I go back to plugging in to my computer for recharge and syncing.

i flashed to the wm6 after flashing back to t-mobile's official 2.26 rom. i've been using battery status (default) on the rom and haven't had any issues with drainage issues. my phone is only about a 6 months old, so perhaps I have a newer phone that isn't have these battery drain issues.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] yozh:
Well after having faria ROM for over a week I noticed other problems, alot of lock ups and such, this is besides the power issue. So I`m switching to X-plore ROM to see how the draining is going to go there :)

So far from 2pm to now I have 79% it was on 100% supposedly at 2pm

I`m not sure about the 100%, cuz before I flashed it said 79% or so, but I after flashed the ROM came up and said 100% so.....
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] j007w:
not again

OK, my phone is restarting even though it says it has over 80% battery. Upon restarting it shows 2-4% left. If I restart again it'll show over 60%. This is just crazy. Guess I'll switch back to WM5 to see if it's WM6 causing problems or my battery just happens to go bad coincidentally.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] scotch whisky:
I have never used batterystatus until I switched to Faria WM6. I have never had a battery issue either but I certainly have now. I like others strongly suspect that it has something to do with the cpuscaler or batterystatus itself. I have now done a hard reset, deleted batterystatus and loaded omapclock and batti instead. It's early days yet but battery drain appears to be much less. I unplugged my wizard before I went to bed and it was still showing 99% the following morning. I then downloaded my emails using GPRS and batti was still showing 99% charge. It's now 12 hours later and batti is still showing 98% charge although I haven't used it much other than to make one quick call. I should also add that omapclock has been set at 240MHz.

I was never very happy with batterystatus. The"power drain" indicator never seemed to change as I would expect when increasing the cpu speed or turning off the backlight. Maybe it is just not suitable for the wizard as I understand it was developed for another machine.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] bartje100:
Went to X-plore-rom, and it seems a little better. But my wizard still only lasts one day.....

Serious considering to go back to WM5. Some suggesting the best WM5?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] yozh:
YEah I think you are right. Im on X-Plorer ROM now..... It also has the battery status and it seems the battery is draining pretty fast. I`m removing the bs right now !!!!! I`ll try with out it :)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] akulp:
Another Faria user here....

Also noticed batt drain...i've done all "suggestion" from this post, and my batt. now last abaout 48 h.

just one thing...how can I remove Battery Status...If i wanna Uninstal it from Remove Programs, i can't..i just stays there...Where is exe and aal other files of it?

Thanks, Luka
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] scotch whisky:
Well another 24 hours and still showing 88% charged. Of course it has been the weekend and the wizard has had little use but this is far better performance than when I was using battery status.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] totalcmdext:
CPU usage

Hi,

After uninstall the betterystatus Omapscaler and XCPUScaler always show that CPU usage is 100% in standby.

Also i reflash the ROM and again always show 100% CPU usage.

Any idea?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] bartje100:
My Wizard is draining rapidly with X-Plore-rom (over 500mA).

Guess that's the end for WM6-roms for me....... i'll wait for a more steady and less draining Rom!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] sids911:
This all makes me want to uninstall BatteryStatus. Is there any other software which i could use for CPUScaling with OMAPclock (and display the current speed on today screen)?

WM6 already comes with a battery meter in the tray. Any more battery indicators are bound to drain battery faster because of constant polling. It probably would be the same case with Batti.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] QBANIN:
Downgrade to beta2 version of BatteryStatus solved my problem with battery drain.

UPDATE: After 6,5h still 91% of battery left :)