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[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Babydollll:
I finally figured out what was causing the problem. The CNet Audio by Mediafly app when stored on the SDCard was somehow causing the phone to freeze. It sounds ridiculous but after exhaustive troubleshooting with every variable that seems to be it. If this info helps anyone...If not and a mod would like to trash this post. Please do what you would like. Thank you.
[General Topics] stinkster:
I am trying to take apart my htc pure. I cannot get the part down by the stylis to release. there is a small body part still in place after removing the battery cover and the torx screws. has anyone taken one of these apart willing to give me a hint?

thanks in advance for any clues
[General Topics] stinkster:
got it apart. turns out there is a little plate just under the front nav buttons (will post pics later if possible) that needed pried off to reveal 2 other screws. I got the speaker to work, kind of. it has a lot of crackle to it. now I have a few questions I am not sure on.

how can I tell if the unit has previously been modded, should I search the rom revision on the forum?

if it has been modded, possibly just a bad radio file has been loaded, I kinda doubt that but could that be possible?

lastly, does anyone have any idea where to purchase a replacement ear speaker? I have searched high and low. only found one new they wanted $85.00 for just the speaker. Gee, little high.

I have seen dead units on ebay for $40.00, thinking that may be my only option now.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jstdontgiva:
Hey newbie here when it comes to android phones. I set up the APN settings to At&t however I am only getting the Edge network and not the 3G, can any1 help me. Thank you
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samven582:
how did you set up the apn settings to at&t?
[Streak 5 General] Arkalos13:
My battery on my dell streak drains very fast. For example i had it plugged in until 100% in the morning. Then about an 1 hour and a half laater without using it that much it draimed to 67 %. The battery usage says cell standby 49% and the screen was 17% and those were the highest. From my nexus one i kno that cell standhy should not be that high. What is causing this to be so high? And why is my battery draining so fast?
[Streak 5 General] Fazziebear:
Are you on1.6 or 2.1? mind was the same on1.6. Loads better on2.1. But I have also noticed that if you are in an area where 3g is poor it spend slot of energy trying to connect. I turn of data quite allot and it doubles battery life. BeforeI was getting less than a day now I get a day easily...... UnlessI have a load of widgets
[Streak 5 General] Arkalos13:
Im using 1.6, then 3g then probably is the problem. Did u do anything to fix this problem?
[Streak 5 General] checkbox111:
I had similar problem and deleted my task manager, as amazingly it was using more battery than running applications :eek:

It also stopped 'fancy 'widget from updating, even when told to ignore it :mad:

'Appbrain' market was also another major problem, i also think that 'smooth calendar' doesn't help; but i'm still experimenting.
[Streak 5 General] Arkalos13:
thanks for reply, im using advanced task killer, maybe i ll try taking it off to see if it affects the battery in anyway
[Streak 5 General] Radimus:
If you look in the battery tab you should see where your biggest power hogs are.

Mine happened to be media.

I had removed all the media from my SD card, forced redection etc and it still drained the battery.

Eventually, I removed all ringtones and music from the SD card and did a hard reset, ran it for a full day monitoring the battery usage. Now I'm adding a bit of music back to see if it was a bad media file that caused the indexer to draw power.
[Streak 5 General] Arkalos13:
For me the battery usage is almost 60% cell standby...then every other small thing piles in. Why is the cell standby so high. I would think that the display would be the highest
[Streak 5 General] [SMAN]:
I'm having the same problem on my streak that is running 2.1 in the USA.
[Streak 5 General] Arkalos13:
so is there a solution for this problem??
[Streak 5 General] checkbox111:
Delete ALL your apps :D

Weatherbug also drinks batteries, but it's so good this time the good outways the bad :)
[Streak 5 General] strboy:
I havent purchased my streak yet, does anyone know if 2.1/2.2 will have better battery consumption on this device?

you guys are scaring me..lol
[Streak 5 General] Troute:
Nobody can say for sure what the upgrade with have until it's released.
[Streak 5 General] Fazziebear:
My experience is thus......

Widgets drain battery

T ask managers drain the battery, I now use watch dog

The biggest one by far.... The data connection drains battery. Especially if its a poor connection.

So first thing is to turn of 3g etc when not required. I get a day easily. If I add widgets I get a day just. This is with location gps and sync turned on all the time
[Streak 5 General] Houndx:
I was haviing normal smartphone battery life, about a day, then started having some trouble so I uninstalled some apps. But, I also let the battery die completely overnight then charged it full and am now on day three at 55%
[Streak 5 General] uberamd:
Day 3 at 55%? Do you have a SIM card in your phone? Data enabled? 3 days and only 45% battery life drain is unreal. I have a fresh restore and my Streak barely makes it through the day still, no widgets installed, no network-activity causing apps running in the back, no task managers. The battery life on this phone sucks.
[Streak 5 General] Houndx:
3G has been on the whole time as well as wireless networking and gps. Bluetooth was turned off until about noon today. For widgets I've got Weatherbug Elite, Jorte Calendar, 3G Watchdog, System Info and Latitude. The phone has had pretty light use for the last few days because I was doing some work around the house, but I did use it for the occassional game of solitaire and as my ebook reader at night as well as a few short calls.

Today, on the other hand, I've made several phone calls (more than a dozen, some longer some short), have had bluetooth on half the day, wireless enabled and a small amount of surfing. I went from 55% at 8AM to 19% at 9PM.

I think the battery meter was in need of proper calibration and that's why I did a full discharge and recharge. I'm as shocked by what's happened as anyone else.

Oh, I've also had Juice Defender installed both before and after the full discharge/recharge. Before I did that I wasn't even getting 12 hours out of the battery and that's why I tried it.
[Streak 5 General] checkbox111:
Dolphin browser HD, no sh%t, my battery went from approx 95% to 3% overnight. 9 hours
[Streak 5 General] Keethos:
My battery life has been pretty good for me, when I go to bed it's at 100%, come morning after 2 alarms it's usually at 97%. I usually have 3G & Bluetooth on. Then throught the day I don't use the phone much besides the odd text and odd e-mail, with a couple games of Robo Defence, and come 9 in the evening I'm usually around 40% which is pretty good considering that I get crap signal at work (very weak signal with the occasional signal drop) and I know that usually uses a lot of battery.

However, the other night, I went to bed with 100% on the phone and some time between then and 6 hours of sleep, the phone had died completely. Couldn't turn it back cos there was absolutely no charge in it...need to charge it a bit before turning it on. Quite worrying as I use the phone as an alarm during work days (luckly it was the weekend) and I don't acutally know what caused the massive drain :(
[Streak 5 General] Bizzach:
Thought I'd share my experiences here with you guys....

I've had my Streak about 4 weeks now, it's a US Beta version, on TMO US so no 3G, only EDGE. The only widget that uses data is Weather & Toggle. I have had sync and Facebook sync turned off, and only use GPS sparingly.

I tried everything - I started turning off the data connection (3G/EDGE in the top right menu) and basically uninstalled every program I thought could be using battery. Still, it would go from 100% at bedtime to around 60% in the morning. I then tried Airplane mode. Still was draining! I then installed Juice Defender, and it actually went from 100% to 0 - it died that night! D'OH! The whole time is was a 50/50 mix between "cell standby" and "phone idle". It doesn't show any programs using battery. I also tried Drain-o-meter, but it didn't show anything else either.

Well here's what finally fixed it for me -- turn back ON the EDGE/3G data connection and leave it on!!!

I'm guessing there are things running in the background (my guess is Weather Toggle widgets but the drain was still there even after I uninstalled it), possibly system processes, that require a data connection. In my case, that fixed it... now it goes down from 100% to about 92-95% overnight. Now I just leave the data connection on and it's all good!

I'm not saying this will work for everyone else, but hopefully maybe there's at least 1 other Streak user who has the same problem.
[Streak 5 General] Godo_PPL:
I was not happy with my streak's batteryperformance either (stock ROM), until a recent discovery.. It seems the Mail client (not gmail or touchdown) caused a partial wakelock if I had set it to 15min intervals (have 2 accounts) Draining approx 10% every hour.

After I set it to sync every hour, I dramatically increased the battery time.

Today when I checked it I had only used 3% in 5 hours (normally it would be minimum 30% in the same time)

I suggest you check your settings if you have the Mail client set up with accounts.

This changed my perspective on batteryperformance TOTALLY! :)
[Streak 5 General] Charles::
100% this morning at 8am. Down to 18% at 2:30pm. Played Angry Birds for no longer than 5 min, down to 14%.

I don't get it. This shoudn't be happening unless I have every thing updating ever 5 minutes...which I don't.
[Streak 5 General] Amdathlonuk:
I find the battery fluctuating quite a lot.

Some nights it can go from 100% to 50% whilst I sleep for 6 hours.

Today I left work at 4:30pm and at 8pm it's at 96% on both occassions I haven't really used my phone so it should be the same.

Something is playing havoc now and again but I'm not sure what.

I have 200 apps installed but only weather, facebook and twitter widgets.
[Streak 5 General] Keethos:
Mine died again over night from 100% to absolutley nothing :(

Need to figure out what is causing this random drain.
[Streak 5 General] Bizzach:
Have you guys tried leaving your data connection ON? That fixed the problem for me.

I never like to let my phone get below 50% (I'm weird, lol always wanna have power there "just in case"). After figuring out that leaving the data connection on fixed it, I let it drain. It went from 70% down to 1%, with average usage (some calls, web with WIFI, maps with GPS, email, games), and I got exactly 20 hours. That works for me. And I thought I had a defective phone or battery!
[Streak 5 General] Godo_PPL:
Yes, tried one night with airplanemode myself, does not have any positive effect on battery drainage, if anything it drains more battery..
[Streak 5 General] checkbox111:
Have a seriously critical look at your apps, before you go to bed go to settings > applications > running services and see what's on.

Dolphin HD

S2 Calendar

Live wallpapers

Sky news

all ate my battery, Sky is the only one still installed.

Laughingly, my task manager also used sh!t loads of battery power. Uninstalled.

If you want a second opinion reads 'eves' feedback about 'task manager' from rhythm softwware, she had to install another task manager to stop her task manager running in the backround!
[Streak 5 General] fards:
watchdog lite is very useful.

I set it to 5 min and 60%

it will warn you of any apps running in the background that are locking cpu cycles.

60% seems like a good level to me, it comes at 80% with 3 mins poll.
[Streak 5 General] Charles::
I found yesterday's battery drain seemed to be caused by MixIn, a plugin for AddressBook that updates FB info. It was responsible for 48% of my battery drain. I checked and it was updating every 5 minutes. So I changed that to 15 minutes to see if it had any effect. It does seem to help.

Now my top 3 are:

Cell Stand by - 42%

Phone Idle - 40%

Wifi - 8%

Does that look right?
[Streak 5 General] checkbox111:
If you're only worried about battery drain at night, turn of data/gps/gprs.
[Streak 5 General] Radimus:
Mi initial issue was due to some bad media files. I deleted them and then a hard reset and now all is well

Cell standby 45%, phone idle 40%, display 7%, voice calls 4% are now my biggest drains.
[Streak 5 General] mmp7:
The main issue with me is the running services, I killed the apps, but the services are still running in the background. The especially annoying ones are Dell RSS and Dell album label fetch. They are really annoying. Every time I forgot to terminate them manually, my battery drains about 50% overnight.

The other problem is the auto start apps. I killed all the apps, put the streak into sleep, wake it up half an hour later, boom, there are about 5 apps running again. There are normally apps like Amazon MP3, touchdown sync, Dell Rss which I never use.

I am wondering is there any apps that can kill the app and terminate the service at the same time and something can manage the auto-start apps.
[Streak 5 General] londoneye:
Cannot give you much advice as I am suffering the same problem, it's painful. My solution is to turn off WiFi when going out but turn off mobile data connection at home. Besides, you should install systempanel app to monitor memory usage and kill apps when necessary.
[Streak 5 General] bbmalver:
Funnily the converse is true, in that, the longer you run your apps, the less the phone is idle and the less it drains your battery?! :) :confused:
[Streak 5 General] bimori:
You guys must have something wrong. My last battery charge just lasted me 44 hours with moderate to slightly heavy usage.
[Streak 5 General] Tarquin76:
I also get pretty much 2 days decent use from each charge. Wifi is usually always on, with sleep turned off, data on most of the time and i play with it whenever i get spare time at work. Only thing i have is System Panel Lite to kill the background apps occasionally.

Possible dodgy batteries?
[Streak 5 General] lufc:
In the lat 23 Hours i have used 9% with about 30 Min's of browsing and a few texts, i found the biggest eater of my battery was a program called BATTERY PRO IT CHEWED the hell out of the battery flattened it in 7 hrs now thats gone i an getting 2.5 to 3.5 hours out of it and on light use i get 4 days easy :)
[Streak 5 General] mrwl:
My best tip so far: use SystemPanel!

I have had wildly fluctuating battery drain and I could sometimes feel the streak getting hotter in my pants pocket (yeah, it's a great pocket warmer).

After having a look at my CPU usage history in SystemPanel I found the built-in browser to be the culprit: when I leave tabs with certain pages open in the background the CPU usage never drops much below 100% and the clock speed stays at 998 MHz. Just close the browser and CPU usage and battery drain drop dramatically.

Another sore spot is phone standby in areas of weak reception. When you are in an underground concrete "bunker" without cellphone reception you better switch to flight mode or your battery can drain at a rate of over 20% per hour.

I have experienced this on a stock 1.6 German ROM.
[Streak 5 General] W0nk0:
I seem to be losing about 6% of battery per hour doing nothing. I tried SystemPanel (thanks @mrwl for the hint!) and the only CPU load that seems significant is the Android System process at a constant load of about 10%. This is with the CPU clocked at 245 or 488 Mhz while laying on my desk with just SystemPanel running.

Do others have similar amounts of CPU usage by the System process? I'm running a 6941 ROM (bought it that way) on a UK O2 streak with a RebelSIM II unlocking it. Could the Rebel be a part of this problem?

I really want to like the Streak, but if I can't even make it through a full day with light usage, this won't work for me. :(

Thanks for any help,

W0nk0
[Streak 5 General] mrwl:
@W0nk0

With 24 hours of very very light usage I see System and System Processes at the top of the list at a combined 7.6%. CPU load never drops below 10% (though I suppose this isn't converted to % at full CPU speed but rather % at current clock). BUT this means that all the other processes (background syncing of mails, Facebook, Twitter, Netradio etc.) use a combined 92.4% of CPU time. Deactivate that and you have great battery life. Use everything and be prepared to top off the charge during lunch break.

Only disappointment so far with Android: Symbian seems to be far more energy efficient when using the device's radios - never had a Communicator drain 30% battery in just over an hour because I had no cell signal.
[Streak 5 General] W0nk0:
I looked at the Battery usage stats again. It turns out that Cell Standby was using most of my battery when i had the phone just sit around!

Actually, I took my SIM card out, as I suspected maybe the Rebel II would be the cause of that - with WiFi on and NO Sim card, I get 77% Cell standby, 11% Wi-Fi and 9% Phone Idle.

Is that how it's supposed to be? I'll check again with the SIM card in soon, but this just seems way weird to me..

W0nk0
[Streak 5 General] checkbox111:
Been messing with varioud things this week, turning things off etc (gps/gprs/3g) overnight 9 hrs still had 99% left.

Not as though that would mean much as you all have different apps to me, and each other :D But shows how far you can go buy 'tweaking'
[Streak 5 General] jkim5708:
...very disappointed in battery drain as well

I thought this device was suppose to be portable...with the battery drain issue, seems as if i constantly need to be plugged in somewhere...whats the point. I am a very heavy power user and commute more than 3hrs a day and not always the same place. I constantly need GPS and use 3 email accounts and surf the web...I can get maybe 3-4 hours of use before battery drain to 30%...Also had this same issue with Dell Axim which i used for over 5years...but needed the extended battery. Uninstalling apps and widgets takes the fun out of the streak I shouldnt have to jump through hoops and disable data/widgets/etc.. to get better life, love the streak sceen but seriously thinking of switching to maybe the new samsungs galaxy series....Just frustrated I need to constantly monitor battery issue :-(
[Streak 5 General] W0nk0:
@checkbox

With which settings did you get that low standby drain? I seem to have a lot more battery life with GSM mode despite living in a very well covered 3g area.

My main battery hog is cell standby, which on my Motorola Milestone/Droid never was a problem :-(. I keep having the Android System process constantly use over ten percent CPU which seems too high to me.

I also noticed that in the battery usage info dialog I get way fewer entries than I did on my Milestone. Applications that are definitely using some battery aren't even listed! That can't be correct.
[Streak 5 General] popsi:
I have the same problem, but actually find battery usage better if I keep wifi on. Seems my phone switches between 3G and HSDPA constantly otherwise and that is the main source of the drain.
[Streak 5 General] W0nk0:
This is my battery usage when I turn airplane mode on but have WiFi on to access the 'net. I had the display on with xscope during the entire time - it's clearly related to actually having the cell radio on. Without airplane mode, cell standby uses as much battery as the display. :(

http://i.imgur.com/fX9tV.jpg
[Streak 5 General] checkbox111:
Cell standby would depend entirely on what apps you have installed.

My cell standby was 46% phone idle 45% wifi 9%

Suggest you go to Settings > Applications > Running Services and see what's running, all i have ruuning is:

GTalkService

Android Keyboard

ExchangeListenerSvc

DellMediaPlaybackService

SkyNewsService

BatteryWidget

YahooPushMessenger

DigiClock Widget

SimpleClock UpdateService

I don't have a task manager installed, as i found that they used more battery power than the apps that they stop!!!!

Yesterday i installed weather widget, the weather doesn't change that much round here so set it to update every 6 hrs, this morning had 97%.

If i leave gps/3g on overnight, i would have around 65% left after 8 hrs.
[Streak 5 General] checkbox111:
If you're a 'very heavy power user' then you must expect very heavy battery use right! as far as i know the 3.5' screened axim didn't have GPS? turn on an iphone gps and start moving about you can visually watch the battery meter going down whilst you move!

How did you expect to be a heavy power user and not use any battery? It won't matter what phone you have.
[Streak 5 General] W0nk0:
@checkbox Thanks for your thoughts!

I have no suspicious services running: Gtalk, NoLock (to skip the lock screen), Swype, a live wallpaper and K9. Those don't change much - yet, my battery drain is above 8% per hour with 3g on and about 2-3% without it. With my Motorola Milestone (DRoid), there was no such difference. Also, just using 3g _standby_ 8% per hour means standby battery life of about 12 hours. That just can't be right!

I think I'll conduct some more tests and document them to shed more light on the issue. If there was a fully working nandroid solution (or did I overlook it?), I would love to simply go back to 1.6 stock and test that. Also, are there radio ROM upgrades separately like for the g1? Maybe the previous owner messed that up somehow?!

I'm not giving up on this - I want a fully functional Streak!

W0nk0
[Streak 5 General] W0nk0:
Okay - I have run more tests over the last couple days. I have actually downgraded to 1.6 stock (UK) to see if/what difference it makes.

I got about 2% battery drain per hour with my standard night setting of Wifi Off, GPS off, background sync off, Cell mode GSM.

I then upgraded to the official (6941) 2.1 stock. Didn't install many apps; none that would use the net, no widgets, no nothing. Background sync off keeps Gmail from checking emails.

I got 5% battery drain per hour overnight with the exact same settings. That's the same ****ty battery life I had with the 2.1 that was on the device when I got it. Wtf?

Did they change the radio drivers in the kernel for 2.1? Does something prevent the phone from actually going into "sleep mode"? Could I maybe find out with logcat or dmesg? What would I look for?

Also, @checkbox - can you post what build and baseband you are on? I'm not running any background services that would use more power than the ones you are using. RebelSIM can now be safely excluded from the causes as my 1.6 battery life was a lot better (even though by far worse than yours)..

Thanks for any input,

W0nk0
[Streak 5 General] charactervsself:
I have some curious issues with battery drain as well. In these two screenshots from Battery Snap the battery seems to be depleting 3-4% per hour. The only problem is that for these past two days there has been no SIM card in the phone, and the phone has been in airplane mode with WiFi off, just to ensure that no drain is coming from the radios. Apart from the steeper curves in the first screenshot the phone has essentially not been used at all during these periods, just sitting idle with the screen off.

It seems that 'Phone Idle' has been the major culprit of drain, whatever it may entail being in Airplane mode with no SIM. I'm running Steve's 1.5.1 with the Dell Stage UI. After about 18:00 in the second screenshot I also used the advanced task killer and only opened Battery Snap after that to track the battery. I've downloaded a lot of applications but nothing I can think that would account for drain while not in use, and nothing that Android's Battery Use is picking up on.
[Streak 5 General] charactervsself:
Shameless bump

Has anyone resolved issues they've had with huge battery drain?
[HTC Aria Accessories] Frrrrrrunkis:
Has anyone heard of someone making an improved antenna back cover? Possibly one that can hold an extended life battery?