yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Desire General] madmossy:
Partial Awake since last unplug for me just shows media at around 30-40% followed by Android at ~10% rest are all low <1%
[Desire General] gens6200:
I did a factory reset last night and it didn't change anything. I'm starting to think it's a hardware issue, since other users seem to have a normal ratio between awake time and up time (50% or less)
[Desire General] jonneymendoza:
I also see that my calender is causing huge issues with my baterry life. i may try disabling calender from task killer
[Desire General] madmossy:
Think mine was a faulty battery, replaced it lastnight with a brand new one, turned phone off, charged till full and left phone on with wifi enabled. Battery was at 88% when i got up this morning.

Normally having wifi enabled over night would of used 30-40% of the battery.
[Desire General] foner78:
Interesting find. I have the same results.

I use the calendar widget, I wonder if that's why it's so high? Do any of you use it?
[Desire General] bloke:
Ive found on mine that turning off the live wallpaper gives me at least a day and a half of useage. FYI, since turning my phone on this morning @ 7am, ive now got 84% left and ive been on a few calls, txt's activesync for email etc and a bit of browsing over wifi etc. so not too bad as good as my HD2 ever was.

Bloke
[Desire General] petzlux:
I have found today that my awake time was the same as uptime , even though my phone was left alone for over an hour ... Something is keeping the phone from going into sleep mode ??? For a start I have removed all widgets from my home screens, and rebooted, to see what effect that has on the awake time.

EDIT: even after rebooting without widgets and leaving the phone alone for 15min, the awake time is exactly the same as uptime. using the *#*#4363#*#* menu, calendar is the first app in partial awake time and the blue bar is about 75% (dont understand completely what this means).

Anyone having more advice for me?
[Desire General] Eggcake:
Re: Potential cause for excessive battery usage

Same here. Don't know what's causing it though.
[Desire General] zippyijk:
It seems calander app is also keeping mine awake.

I've pulled the widget off my home screen and have stopped it syncing so I'll check again in a day and see how its going.

As for removing the live wallpaper....no way its too nice :o
[Desire General] Phil750123:
My calender usage is really really low (around 5%), i only really use this big month view widget. strange
[Desire General] gens6200:
Thanks for replying!

Just a question: Is your 'Settings>About phone>Software version' similar to this?:

Firmware version:

2.1 –update1

Baseband version:

32.30.00.28U_4.05.00.11

Kernel version:

2.6.29.97da29ed

Htc-kernel@and18-2 #1

Build number:

1.15.405.4 CL155070 release keys

Software number:

1.15.405.4

Browser version:

Webkit 3.1
[Desire General] kinkade:
my calendar has been syncing non stop all morning, can't work out whats the matter with it.

i was using the android widget and it would sync past 10.10 am just removed widget and it's now updated to 11.58

also i use call log which i tried uninstalling and deleting calendar as it had synced the same phone calls over and over again, not sure if that was a cause or a victim of the stalled calendar sync as that was all happening around 11.17 which was after the calendar sync had already stalled.
[Desire General] gens6200:
I sent this to HTC support - Let's see what they say:
[Desire General] baronb:
Did you see any change with the inactive Flickr sync set up over time? I have not added this back yet and get much better battery life.
[Desire General] gens6200:
Same results here. Works great now - I get 2+ days out of the battery.
[Desire General] Jamsi:
Just registered here, and my first post on the way...

So, it seems that for most disabling Flickr-sync improves battery life. Well, the problem is that I don't have Flickr-account configured on Desire.

When I go *#*#4636#*#*, and check battery history for network usage, I see that the Calendar in using net quite a lot. Any idea why that's happening??
[Desire General] gens6200:
If you don't have Flickr Sync enabled, maybe the other solution in the first post will help you?
[Desire General] subharmonic:
Re: Partially solved: Potential cause for excessive battery usage

This morning I unplugged. Charge went from 100% to 90 just by plugging. I don't have Flickr synced and calendar doesn't. appear to be the problem. What's the sketch?

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[Desire General] gleepface:
That also happened to me, so i gave it another charge and it was fine the second time... really don't get that.
[Desire General] franklinvv:
Your problem is might be related to the problem that I described in this post: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=6301446&postcount=23

When connected to a charger, the Desire discharges itself quickly to 90% after irregular periods of time and then fills up again to 100%. If you disconnect the Desire when it's in the middle of this strange discharge, you often end up with a battery at about 90% without even using it for a single second!

I have reported this erratic behaviour to HTC but haven't received any response yet. :( :(
[Desire General] gens6200:
Just a little update:

After shutting off Flickr Sync, my phone is still holding up really well re battery - I now only charge it every second night.

I still haven't gotten any reply from HTC.. A bit disappointed really - Maybe the sales volume of Desire (and Legend) has caught them a bit by surprise - Desire's been no. 1 in Denmark for a few weeks now..

Has anyone else heard from HTC regarding Calendar/Flickr Sync and 100% awake time?
[Desire General] khaytsus:
It's very simple; you don't trickle charge LiIon.. Although honestly 10% seems a bit too much, typically you'll see this around the 95% mark before the charger comes back on.
[Desire General] assente:
Re: Partially solved: Potential cause for excessive battery usage

id like to.set the brightness to a lower minimum.. it is still too strong in complete darkness

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[Desire General] th3drow:
I checked and my calender wasn't acting abnormal and i don't have flickr. My battery is still pretty horrible, within like 5 minutes of taking off the charger it will be at like 94%, then it discharges at a normal rate.

i can probly only get like 14 hours of normal use.
[Desire General] dpk:
Re: Partially solved: Potential cause for excessive battery usage

Exactly same situation here!

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[Desire General] upD8R:
I've monitored the phone behaviour now for 2 two days and deleting the Flickr account removed the "calendar is always active" bug.

So I now get a much better and long-lasting Desire experience
[Desire General] w0mbat:
Wow, the brightness tip really helps my battery usage. Brightness was set to auto manage but the widget from "Weather and Toggle" told me it was always set to 67. Once I set this manually down to about 10 (which is perfectly acceptable) my battery seems to hold charge much better :)
[Desire General] antz88c:
@justanewuser, what's your map version? Just curios since didn't get any map update. Thanks and sorry for the OT.
[Desire General] justanewuser:
antz, it is 4.2.0
[Desire General] wihandw:
Okay after reading threw the whole post I also checked all my running apps and decided to test my battery. Even though I got the phone 2 days ago its been recharged 5 times. So in my opinnion thats too much. So last night i charged it to 100% and unplugged it + closing all running apps. This morning only lost 2% (in 6hours time). Now I though lucky me my bat is fine. Start using the phone a bit, sync all, watch a 5 youtube videos (all via wifi) and send one text. BAM drop to 89%. Now is this possible? A drop from 98 to 89 in 15min?
[Desire General] gens6200:
Well I agree that it isn't as simple as just killing Flickr Sync - If you look around, it actually seems to be the calendar app that's causing it, but strangely, killing Flickr Sync actually cures the problem, whereas restarting calendar only does so for a limited time (24 hrs or so).

So it must be some combination of all the apps syncing that's causing the issue. Or maybe it's a specific Flickr account.. Or maybe it's certain calendar entries... I only found out about Flickr Sync, after I tested all of the services individually after a hard reset - All other combinations work - But with Flickr Sync enabled, phone won't sleep.

Maybe one of the many Flickr apps from the market will hold you down for now?
[Desire General] justanewuser:
Well I have put flickr and twitter accounts back, but unticked the sync options in flickr, and so far it seems to be behavnig itself like this, so at least I can upload to flickr easily, which is the main reason I want it, not too bothered about the syncing, which I can always do manually as required.

But very strange that this problem did not manifest itself for me until 2 days ago, after several weeks of problem-free use. I still think it is possibly related to something that setting up twitter did - do you use twitter gens6200?
[Desire General] gens6200:
Re: Partially solved: Potential cause for excessive battery usage

I do use Twitter - And someone before you also mentioned that Flickr sync works as long as Sync stream is off.

Btw I got this reply from HTC yesterday:

Hi. Many Thanks fo the update, I have added the details to the investigation list we pass to the developers. Any information on this will be published through the support pages. Best Regards.

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[Desire General] hanserson1:
Hello Everybody,

I read the thread only partially since it is quite long. Everybody guesses which app is responsible to prevent the phone from sleeping. I do not know whether it was already mentioned before but I belive it is an issue with the radio rom. I had the same problem: awake time = 100% after rooting my device. This behaviour was solved, though, after flashing this radio rom:

http://android.modaco.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=307365&view=findpost&p=1254167

Cheers!
[Desire General] subharmonic:
Ok - so, my battery is currently at 98% - current voltage is just under 4.1 Volts.

Is this a normal figure for this percentage of capacity?

Just trying to ascertain whether I have a duff battery or not.

FWIW - I was noticing last night, that whilst browsing the internet, I was rattling through almost 1% of battery every couple of minutes - seems very quick. That was at night with very low screen brightness...
[Desire General] REwulf:
That voltage figure is perfectly normal.

By the way, juice plotter tells me that an hour of browsing takes away 20% of battery on average.

Apart from that,I don't think its too bad battery wise.

With time it does get better,also juice defender definitely helps in my experience.
[Desire General] ferus:
I know my phone was kept in PartialWake status (100% time) by the Playlist Alarm app. So don't install it unless they fixed it.

I was charging my Desire every day. Once I uninstalled PA the battery life improved a lot.
[Desire General] cosmicharade:
Playlist Alarm was killing my battery too. The #*#*4636*#*# code revealed this to me.

BTW what other groovy codes are there for the phone?
[Desire General] AkuraMadrid:
Re: Partially solved: Potential cause for excessive battery usage

FYI, *#*#4636#*#*
[Desire General] gleepface:
Got the Ocado app, which wouldn't let it sleep, so I got rid. They don't deliver in my area anyway so it's no big loss.
[Desire General] fboy:
Similar problem but NOT calendar. Seemingly Android OS is the issue

Hi,

I've got the same issue where my uptime = active time. Please see attached photos. They may not be 100% representative of my usage but they illustrate they issue. Any ideas of what else to try? I have tried most of the things in this thread to no avail.

Thanks,

fb
[Desire General] AaronBBrown:
Same exact problem here. I can reboot and it will be fine for 12 hours or so, then something goes wonky in the OS and my phone will never sleep again until I reboot. I used to have the calendar app problem, but that was solved with a factory reset.
[Desire General] kenkum:
exactly the same problem happened to me (using a hong kong version of desire). followed the instructions, just disabled "sync stream and contacts" of flickr (without removing the account) and now my desire sleeps tight very time!! thank you all for the solution!
[Desire General] lewis-brooks:
Well,

Luckly my HTC Desire does not seem to be affected. My battery running is normal and calendar does not seem to cause any drain :D
[Desire General] gens6200:
After the OTA upgrade to 1.21.405.2 I no longer have the issue - even with full Flickr Sync enabled. Good job HTC!
[Desire General] thecompany:
Maybe you should update your signature:)
[Desire General] sascha224:
On my device, the problem still exists with 1.21.405.2. Need to delete the flickr account to solve it.
[Desire General] upD8R:
Tried it with the latest Vodafone specific OTA update 1.19.161.5 and the problem also still exists (of course 1.19 is lower than 1.21 so this is what I expected anyway).
[Desire General] ferus:
I never had this problem until the 1.21.405.2 update.

My phone is kept awake by Android System and I can't figure out what exactly is causing the problem.

The strange thing is that my battery is only drained during night (even in Airplane mode).

Yesterday during the day it dropped about 10% with moderate usage.

During night the phone was in Airplane mode and the battery dropped more than 20%. I really don't know how this is possible.

I don't have the Flickr account at all, though I use the calendar app to synchronize my events with Google Calendar. However in the Running Services menu I am unable to stop the Calendar app. It doesn't give me the option.

Any ideas?
[Desire General] sutty86:
My t mobile UK desires still on 1.15 and has no updates is this ancient

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[Desire General] gens6200:
Well, If it's kept awake by android system, then it's a different issue from the calendar / flickr one. I would suggest a factory reset to start out - And then maybe turn on the different services one by one with a 15 min wait + check of partial wakelock in between.
[Desire General] gens6200:
Good point :-)
[Desire General] kinkade:
i can solve the android system partial wake problem by switching off wireless network location in settings, i can still have gps on but not the cell tower part.

it started a week ago for me after installing a maps widget for the homescreen but four hard resets later it is still happening without any apps installed apart from spare parts. i have no idea why
[Desire General] kinkade:
yes, i have asimilar problem i have found that i can solve the partial wake problem by switching of wireless network location, bizarrely it was even draining my battery when it was in airplane mode, so itsnot even data use related.

it started about a week ago, i think it might be when i installed a homescreen maps widget, however i have hard reset 4 times since then so i dont see how it can still be affecting my phone ( i have restored the data everytime though)

maybe i'll have to try hard resetting with out restoring data otherwise my phone will never know where it is and i should think that gps will be really slow without network assistance.

any thoughts?
[Desire General] jimbouk:
Ive had my desire a couple of months now and have been disappointed with battery life, its as bad as the diamond. I use the setting profiles app to turn on the airplane mode at night. The phone will then not sleep and it uses loads of battery (15-20%). Ive now just made it be silent and it sleeps and only uses about 5%. I wonder if its constantly trying to update its location and thats causing the problem.

Ive never really managed more than 24 hours with this phone but recently removed a couple of widgets and seem to be getting better battery life now. I had the full calendar and full friendstream widgets either side of the main screen. Now ive replaced them with links on the main page it is better.
[Desire General] atconc:
I left mine off the charger last night in airplane mode as an experiment, battery level was at 60 when I went to bed around midnight and at 58 when I looked again at around 8 this morning. Based on this I'm pretty happy that it's the various radios + syncing + actually using the phone that causes the battery to drain quickly for me now. I do get the partial wake issue back if I re-enable Flickr sync.

I can get a comfortable day out of the desire if I don't use it as a media player too (ie twitter, facebook, some browsing, a few sms and quick calls). If I need to head into the office and watch some videos and listen to music on the train there and back then I need a top up in the middle of the day.

My Config is

MCR 3.0 version - baked in the kitchen with some of the sense apps I didn't want removed (Stocks, Teeter)

Richard Trips V14 OCUV kernel

SetCPU Max 998mhhz, min245mhz (I get random reboots when overclocked)

SetCPU sleep profile 422max 245 min

Hopefully this will help someone
[Desire General] gleepface:
My software number is still 1.15.61.10, and everytime I check for updates it says there are none... I was sure there was supposed to be an Orange update so I am confused about that...
[Desire General] patela20:
Hello,

I am having the same problems with the Desire's battery.

I am not running Flickr though so am wondering what is running in the background.

I emailed HTC support and they replied with this.

Any ideas on what ROM they are talking about??

I am on software version: 1.15.405.4 and this is the latest one apparently according to O2.

Any ideas people?
[Desire General] kinkade:
the new rom is 1.21xxxxx can't remember the rest but its a collection of bugfixes
[Desire General] raynerape:
Just to let you know, 1.21.405.2 has not solved anything on my HTC Desire. I still have to force-close htc.BG process and I also have noticed strong CPU use of BG processes when syncing. My phone is also becoming hot very quickly.

Until now it was normal to survive 10:00-19:00 down to 40%. Now my phone dies around 18:00 at 3%.
[Desire General] patela20:
O2 have said that Froyo will be deployed on 23rd June 2010.
[Desire General] kinkade:
thats a big statement, where did you hear that?

obviously fingers crossed
[Desire General] patela20:
O2 customer service, apparently its being pushed out next week.

Unless they're talking about a new OTA update.

They did mention 2.2 though - fingers crossed ...
[Desire General] kinkade:
well if that happens there are going to be a lot of smiley people on this board
[Desire General] Nekromantik:
ha ha

even more rumors.

*rolls eyes"
[Desire General] cosmicharade:
I'll believe that when I see it.
[Desire General] upD8R:
It's very, very unlikely: Evene the official Froyo release for the Nexus One is NOT yet available.

And HTC needs to do the Sense customizations so I doubt they will release 2.2 quicker than Google for the N1 :cool:
[Desire General] Nitrius:
So this was still not fixed in the update? Just noticed that my awake time was the same as uptime, so i went and removed my flickr account, and that seems to have fixed the "problem".
[Desire General] julian.kueh:
Does anyone use Yahoo Messenger on their Desire and remail logged in 24/7?
[Desire General] Karl:
what battery app you using in the screen shot?
[Desire General] upD8R:
Quote: (punch in *#*#4636#*#* in the phone dialer)
[Desire General] max_carpenter:
Hi guys, I know this thread is a few weeks old now but I thought I would post here.

I have had my Desire for 5 days now and experiencing terrible battery problems with it. For instance today I pulled my phone off charge from an overnight charge at 7am and by 10am I got a low battery warning.

I did use it a bit more than normal this morning:

1 Hour of music playing getting ready for work

5 minutes of multiple calls

between 8am onwards MS ActiveSync checking emails every 30 minutes

Facebook signed in and told to sync every hour

Weather updates every three hours

Google Account syncing (I don't even use any of Google Services just set an account up to access the market)

News sycing every 3 hours - I think it was 3

2 x Texts

Now even that should use that much battery and I have been reading all the way through this thread and checked my Awake Time with Up Time and they were identical apart from 1 minute.

So reading through this post I do not use Flickr / Twitter, I decided to delete the Facebook account / Turned news syncing off / Turn MS ActiveSync to every hour and unticked the Calendar syncing in that and I also went into the google account (left the account their) but unticked the three options which I think where calendar/contacts/emails.

Since then it seems to be performing much better 15 minutes of charge has so far lasted almost 3 hours with the following stats:

UpTime: 1.48.00

Awake Time: 0.13.00

i have turned the phone off and on again since the 15 minutes charge due to the phone freezing (first time that happened to me) hence why the uptime is not almost 3 hours :-)

It is an unbranded device on T-Mobile. I have installed Official HTC Sense Froyo from OpenDesire.

On a standard day I would like the phone to last from when I wake up to when I go to bed and here is my average daily use:

2 x hours of music playback via headfones

5 x text messages

2 x mins of calls

I want my activeSync to sync mail/contacts/calendar and I don't need it to be instant (PUSH) but regular is needed

I also sometimes need to use WiFi Tethering for about 40-60 minutes however I don't mind if the phone dies an hour or two before 'bed time' on days I use this as long as it gets me through the day. Average day for me is 7am till 10pm

Am I being unrealistic? I mean the HTC HD (blackstone) I had before this one would do all that and actually last about 1.5 Days.

EDIT: Also I would like Facebook synced / FB Chat app signed in / Weather updates / news would be nice but not essential / Would also like to investigate MSN app and Skype app but again not essential.
[Desire General] upD8R:
I think this does not help you but I can survive a day from 7am till 10pm. But not more if I really use the phone. This includes FB and Twitter sync, Exchange sync, NewsRob and several other apps syncing, a few text messages and 2 hours of news reading/surfing plus some phone calls.

I wouldn't consider this an official FroYo ROM. It might be based on a leaked version but I'm not aware that HTC has released something officially.

My usage is based on the official 2.1 Android (not rooted, Vodafone device).
[Desire General] max_carpenter:
I only said Official because thats what OpenDesire called it in a post.

It would look like I have fixed it by doing what I did yesterday the phone is now 'sleeping' and the battery appears to be lasting much much longer.

Now I just need to get it sleeping while using the things I want....