[TG01 General] drupad2drupad:
Update on 24.12.10 - My phone hasn't frozen or switched off on it's own since I made these changes! The battery life constantly stays real good. I have only charged my battery up to 100% TWICE in 4 days!! I think this trick works! I will really appreciate if more testers come forward and help us test this

What will this mean?

This will mean that we can make TG01 battery stay minimum of 24 hours and maximum upto 38-40 hours with good amount of browsing, calls, texts, games, ALSO keep exchange sync on forever!!

In total before my battery completely died, I was able to do the following:

2357 minutes of stand-by (includes the activities as well)

137 minutes of browsing

3 Downloads (total less than 10MB)

180 minutes of calls

36 text messages

21 email downloads using Exchange sync - that was ON all the time

60 minutes of gaming

18 pictures taken using camera

12 minute video recorded using camera

1 round of back up and virus scan

This is what I've done:

Installed SPB Shell here

Removed Taskbar (was a cab file in miROM4 that I am using)

Removed Start Menu (I have attached cab that I used to remove start menu)

Before you remove start menu or taskbar - PLEASE make sure you have full functioning SPB Shell installed. You will loose WinMo start menu and notifications (see attached pic) so you will rely solely on SPB Shell ONLY

On miROM4 by removing start menu and taskbar the original free RAM (96MB) increases upto 105+MB - I don't know how, I don't know why. This is my observation and testing!When you install SPB Shell, you will notice the RAM going down to 78-80MB on boot. - I don't think it's bad either.

Now you might wonder what's so different.

Someone did an experiment showing that by running apps the battery drain was 20% compared to stock ROM

Another experiment also led to show that battery drain mostly is not a ROM issue

I am no tech, I am no expert. This is my pure observation and my experimentation with TG01. I know the links I've quoted are for HTC mainly, but I suppose theory still stays. If any one is willing to replicate those experiments on their TG01 please feel free to collaborate with me.

I have updated all my uses on TG01 between 100% battery and 0% battery.

After 100% charging the battery,

Just to re-fresh what I have done with it apart from leaving it on 'stand-by'

I am running SPB Shell with it.

Using Opera 10 browser for facebook, bing, google (approx browsing 97 minutes till now)

I have read news on Evening standard and BBC (approx time 35 minutes till now)

I have downloaded recipe for 2 cocktails

I have made 6 (appox. 147 minutes in total) phone calls

I have sent 31 text messages

My active sync is on since 10pm as I have set my exchange email retrieval 'as item arrives' - so it has downloaded 14 email items at different times. Experiments have shown that results are quite bad when it comes to using Exchange Active Sync schedule 'as item arrives'

I have played Sudoku (about an hour)

I have left my backlight at 70% (on SPB you have an option)

My battery life after 18 hours 30 minutes is 80% with free ram of 78-80% without any processes running i.e. on stand-by!!

1 call (33 minutes long)

5 text messages

2 games (56 minutes total) of puzzle

Facebook using Opera 10 (updated status, replied few messages, browsed mainly)

Downloaded tube map from a website using Opera 10

Took about 18 pictures using TG01

Cleaned RAM, Virus scanned and did an online back up.

After 27 hours 22 minutes - my battery life remaining is 50%

Made 0 phone calls, 0 texts

My active sync downloaded 7 emails

I checked XDA website for about 20 odd minutes using Opera 10

I used facebook for 10 minutes using Opera 10

I recorded a video of length 12 minutes

All this time my wifi and data connections were switched 'ON'

39 hours 17 minutes - my battery is 0% and my TG01 switched off!!

Putting all these links together, I think if ROMs don't affect the battery drain, but by removing these two elements if my phone survives in adverse conditions i.e. exchange email (shown above link) and running apps/games (shown above link) - then it had to be either of these two elements or settings behind them that drain our TG01's battery!

EDIT: Yes, Oly after removing taskbar, when we press on 'Start button' it freezes the mobile. We don't need to remove battery to get rid of the freeze. Just few seconds and it comes back to normal. But to avoid that occuring, I used the attached cab. That cab removes start menu from the face of my WinMo. PS: This cab is NOT my creation. I have found it on XDA. ALL the credit for this cab goes to NRGZ28 - this cab will prevent making RegEdits:rolleyes:

THUMBNAILS' LEGENDS:

1) How the 'Today' screen looks without taskbar and Start Menu Icon

2) How the SPB Menu replaces my WinMo start menu

3) How the SPB Menu replaces my WinMo start menu

4) How the SPB Menu replaces my WinMo start menu

5) How the SPB Menu replaces my WinMo start menu

6) How the SPB home screen looks without taskbar