[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] Nvious:
Battery Drain Tips

Battery Drain Tips

I've been pushing emails since 9am this morning over Edge with my bluetooth on and about 30 minutes on the phone on my headset. I currently have 95% left and its 11:36am.

My schedule -

Push emails from 9am -6pm

Bluetooth connection to my jawbone for about 4-6 hours each day.

I'm on the phone for about an hour and a half during the day.

By the time my day is finished, i have around 65-75% left which i think is fine.

Use the COMM MANAGER

3G on/off-

Having your 3G on all day is pointless. So you've got a great connection when its idle. Having it push emails over 3G doesn't make it faster in any way shape or form. Usually my emails make it to my phone before my computer here at work! Its that way over 3G and over EDGE. I just turn on the 3G when i'm on youtube or downloading heavy attachments (giant PDF's and media files).

We think that having an active 3G connection somehow speeds things up and in the case of pushing emails, it does not. Ok, so it takes you an extra 4 seconds (literally) to download all your emails, big deal. Its better than watching your battery last you 5 hours instead of 12.

My email settings

9am-6pm - As items arrive (peak)

Manually check emails after peak hours

Download size - 5 kbs

If you leave your 3G "on" in the comm manager, your phone will automatically search for the 3G signal if you lose the signal. If you're where the phone can't find the signal, you're draining your battery cause the phone keeps looking for the 3G Signal. Its always searching for it. When you turn the 3G off, it won't do that anymore; consuming less of a charge.

Backlight - The ROM comes with the brightness all the way up! I used to select "AUTO ADJUST BACKLIGHT" in the power settings but it still drained my battery. Here are my settings

SETTINGS<POWER SETTINGS < BACKLIGHT TAB

UNCHECK "Auto Adjust Backlight"

On Battery Power - One click left of the middle

ON External Power - One click right of the middle (why would you need it so bright when you're charging it? It charges faster if you are using less power to keep the screen bright).

Now, onto the "ADVANCED TAB"

On Battery power

10 SEC

1 MIN

On External Power

1 Min

10 Min (in case its plugged in and i'm flashing the phone, it won't turn off on me)

Terminate Data Connection

SETTINGS<SYSTEM TAB< LONG PRESS END KEY

Select "Automatically execute the selected action:"

then select "Terminate Data Connection"

Now,everytime you use your data connection to update weather/stocks/email/whatever, you can manually terminate the connection by holding down the "End Key". Everytime it connects, it STAYS connected which is a pain the ass. You can set it to automatically disconnect but i don't because i'm pushing emails and i don't want it to disconnect during my "peak hours" since its "idle".

I hope this helps everyone enjoy and fully utilize an awesome ROM.

NRG put a lot of effort into this ROM and i can assure you that most of the things that he has changed has helped optimize the phone! There may be a few things here and there that might have sacraficed a little more power useage but thats the price we pay for having an awesome ROM. These settings have worked out for me and i have no issues with the battery useage. I hope it helps you out.

If any of you have any more tips, please PM me so i can add your tips to this thread and that we don't have to have 45 posts in between these tips.

NRG, can you ammend your first post with a link to this post so people can find this post without going through 250 posts to find this one?