[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] drunkbastard:
Battery Revisited

After posting my little ditty on some things battery yesterday I went to work. The phone was plugged in to the car charger, and was at 100% when I got there at 5:30 p.m. I only used it for a few text messages (no time to play with the phone when you're bartending), and at 3:30 a.m., the battery was at 89%. I plugged it into the wall charger when I got home, did a little unwind in front of the TV (with the aid of about 5 Tylenol PM), and took the phone back off the charger (100%) when I went to bed at 4:30 a.m. Woke up at 12:15 p.m., and the battery was at 93%.

I am running the 1.12.25.19 radio, copied the appropriate rilphone (renamed rilphone2) to the \Windows folder, and changed the reg key to rilphone2.dll. As for running processes, I have none outside of the necessary functions (no IM programs, e-mail push, etc. etc.)

However, as I said before, I did notice an abnormal battery drain - even on standy - when I had used BT, even though it had been turned back off. A SR solved that issue, and it's not like doing a SR is such a huge inconvenience (minor, yes... huge, no).

Also, keep in mind: the Fuze has been notorious for horrendous battery performance since the day it came out (as for the unbranded Touch Pro I can not attest). I was running down to the 20's and 30's for battery by the end of the day every day for a while, using the AT&T stock ROM (bloatware halted) and NATF ROMs. The radio switch did seem to help greatly, but there are some things that are just gonna such the life out of your battery. For instance, I use Yomomedia for RSS, I set it to update at 12:30 (battery 93%). At 1:00 I glanced at the phone and noticed (a) the connection was still alive, (b) Yomomedia was asking for permission to download a new update, and (c) I had no connection, and (d) my battery was toasty-warm. My battery was at 76%. The no connection issue is probably a service-related issue, I have had that happen around my house a couple of times - overloaded cell tower, who knows. And since I don't know when the connection dropped, it could have been searching for a signal for a half hour, which will eat battery like a fat kid in a cake shop.

The battery heat is a result of working the phone overtime. I sometimes listen to 92.3 (WXRK, New York) via Skyfire while driving, so I have an open 3G connection, BT connection, and the screen on while plugged into the charger. Uses a lot of power, produces a lot of heat. Same thing happens if you turn on everything in your house that's plugged in - the main power line will heat up like a frying pan.

I can only attest to my own observations with my phone. I don't know what you guys have done to yours - those of you that are having serious drainage issues. As much as I hate to say it - and you don't wanna believe it - it could be your fault. No offense, but a lot of you do things that you don't realize are causing the problems, and there is a segment of you that, honestly, have no business flashing ROMs to your phones (case in point: "I flashed this to my Sprint Touch Pro and it keeps rebooting, plz help!" when, if you tried doing any kind of search, you would see that this is a GSM ROM, not a CDMA, yet I don't even want to count how many times people have done this. Or, "Please don't report Manila bugs" is usually followed by "The stock tab displays off-screen" or "The Manila SMS doesn't work right" or "The different buttons on the people page all dial the same number for the person.") You get an A for effort, but a big, chubby F for researching what you're doing.

All things being equal, we all should be experiencing the same issues, and we're not. So, before you all start blaming the ROM for your battery issues, look not to the stars (or NRG) but yourselves.

And NO, IT DOESN'T MELT YOUR BATTERY - sounds like when I posted that after I flashed the ROM I dropped it off a freeway overpass and it smashed into a zillion pieces, I think it's a bug in the ROM... except I was kidding...