O2XPhone Battery Life Report

[Guest marauderz]

OK. here's my non scientific observation of my O2XPhone's battery life.

First of all, I'm not a heavy phone user. Mostly my phone is on standby, and normal usage for me is that in the morning I use GPRS to check up some news feeds for about 15 minutes.

First few days of getting the phone I was seeing that battery life dropped to about 60% when I got back from the office after a typical 9-6 day. I was disappointed yes, but I was used to short battery life on smartphones and carry a USB charge and sync cable for my notebook, and cigrette USB socket for my car.

THEN I put a SanDisk SD card in it.... OUCH battery drained EXTREMELY fast as reported by other users of the HTC Voyager. THIS was worrying.

Then I happened along this thread here

http://www.modaco.com/viewtopic.php?t=101420

Look for the post by UltimaSnake, he mentions REMOVING the IA_CID_Startup.exe from the startup folder which deactivates the IA Photo ID app, he mentions that it increases battery life.

What he should have done is to mention that it increase battery life A LOT For the first time in my whole smartphone history (Tanager then this) I used my phone as an alarm clock. I removed the phone from the charger at 1AM and when I checked it a 1PM.. battery power was at 85%.

So I'd guess the battery drainer isn't the SD slot but rather the CallerID program. But like I said this was not done on a perfectly scientific basis, I don't have a battery monitor program (anyone can suggest one?) I was just judging the values but staring at the bar in Setting->Power Managerment.

But I'd suggest others also try it, remove the caller id from your startup folder and see what it does with your battery life. If indeed it increases your battery life by a LOT... someone needs to get in touch with IA...

[Guest rawfish]

Try using Resco System Toys - it includes a Battery & Memory program. Not as detailed but so far it works for me. Homescreen shows 1 bar left, while Resco B&M shows 40% juice remaining.... weird.

[Guest b0x]

1 bar does equal around 40%. You can use the task manager in start > 9 > 9 > 1 > 5 to confirm this.

[Guest lutzh]

hi marauderz,

please use the batterymon from mrmagoo (get it here) and let me know about the average mAh consumption. i can then compare it to the roms i've checked already. here's my testing setup:

phone on and logged into your network, sd card in, bluetooth off, no screensaver (which means the display is always on) no return to homescreen (enable in your homescreen setting), gprs is enabled but not active backlight set to 15 sec.. simply install batterymon and run it for 5.000 measurements (every 2 seconds) you can watch the average coming down and some pumping between 15 and 115 mAh in the actual measurement. dont use the phone, dont touch anything that makes the backlight come up since that will make a difference to my measurement.

let me know what the data says after the 5.000 pulses and post it here. i'll let you know my averages then with o2, qtek, i-mate and a future orange rom...

i invite you all to join this test....

cheers, lutz

[Guest jimbou]

What if we use another caller id application and erase the existing one?

Will the battery problem remain?