[Touch Pro, Fuze General] cinbody:
Long time listener, first time caller.

This relates to the AT&T Fuze and a battery drain problem.

This is posted here in the hopes that it helps

someone else avoid the long trouble shooting

process I have undergone.

Note that this is not a slam on any software

author or hardware vendor,.. I am grateful that

so many people contribute their work here in

various forms. This is more a chronicle than

any thing else.

That disclaimer out of the way, you know what

they say,... "It's always in the last place you look."

Some time between 2/4/09 and 3/4/09 I began

having battery drain problems. Not so much during

use but more so in standby, or so I thought.

I had owned the phone for about 1 month.

The symptoms were as follows:

I put the phone in standby using the

power button, left it for some period

of time, took it out of standby and the

battery would be excessively depleted.

The time in stby was on the order of

2 to 12 hours and the battery loss was

on the order of 30 to 70 percent. While

I did not make accurate records of the

phenomena, the worst rate of discharge

I can remember was 2 hours in standby

and a 30% loss.

Over the course of the next month

I tried the following to solve the problem in these ways:

Flashing to PROven ROM 2.4 WWE Manila HD

Flashing to Radio_Raphael_52.58.25.30_1.11.25.01_Ship

Deactivated activesync with Dotfred's taskmanger

by disabling replog.exe notifications

Disabled 3G

Disabled auto updates for weather progs

Disabled quick gps updates

Cleaned up the startup folder.

Advanced Config Tool and activated all energysaving settings

Used PowerGuardian and BattLog to attempt to isolate condition

Flashed NATF 4.4 with radio 1.12.25.19

Flashed NATF-4.5

Disabled HSDPA

New battery.

None of which had a permanent effect. Sometimes it seemed

to go away but always came back within 24 hours.

As a side note the battery monitoring programs do not appear

to work well/at all in standby and were for me not very useful

in solving this. I don't think its the software, it probably

more an API thing.

Coincidental with this and until 4 days ago assumed

to be unrelated I bought this spring clip holster for the

phone:

Seidio Product Code: HLHTFEAS

http://www.seidioonline.com/product-p/hlhtfeas.htm

Upon getting it, I decided to store the phone in it

inverted. By this I mean the screen still facing

the backplate of the holder (and the belt clip)

but with the camera at the bottom vs the top as

seen in the photo at the above URL. I did this

because the phone comes out of the holster in a

ready to use orientation, whereas camera up means

you have to spin the phone to use it.

This subtle and seemingly insignificant choice

seems to have been the root of the problem. When

the phone is stored in the holster camera down,

the side of the holster presses against the

volume and PTT buttons. But, you say, this would

cause the phone to come out of stby and you would

see light from the screen. Believe me I checked

this early and several times during the course

of troubleshooting and the screen was off.

While I can not be 100% certain I found the culprit,

today is my 4th day storing the phone in the holster

as oriented in the photo and I have only lost 30%.

If the story does not end here, I will add more later.