Guest illi Posted April 28, 2004 Report Posted April 28, 2004 I am not sure if this is the reason for battery draining... However, try this: While pressing on the Start button listen to the phone. You'll heard something like the radio is being switched on. Click on any key and you'll hear the same sound. COULD THIS BE THE BATTERY GUZZLER!!?? :roll:
Guest Rob.P Posted April 28, 2004 Report Posted April 28, 2004 Mine doesn't make any sound when I press the Start button, sure you haven't got a null sound file attached to keypresses or something like that.
Guest malcolmgirling Posted April 28, 2004 Report Posted April 28, 2004 I think the 'battery guzzler' is the memory card that you probably have inserted in the SD/MMC slot! With the SD card removed, I find that the battery lasts about 3x as long! I am also told that leaving the blanking card (i.e plastic card with no memory) also drains the battery but I have not tested that.
Guest londonlad Posted April 28, 2004 Report Posted April 28, 2004 @ illi, i know the sound your talking about, it sounds the the speaker is switched on, ready to produce a click for a button press. even if the button press click sound has been disabled, the speaker still gets ready to make the sound. personally, i dont think it would drain much battery power, its the light thats killing it.
Guest ferret Posted April 28, 2004 Report Posted April 28, 2004 Same here, after playing certain games (Eclipse is one :wink: ), listening to music via speakerphone, the phone clicks and pops when pressing keys. If you put the phone to your ear in a quite room there's also a constant hiss. The only way I've found to get rid of this is to go to SMS inbox, mark one as unread, wait for the SMS notification sound then read the message.
Guest illi Posted April 29, 2004 Report Posted April 29, 2004 Thanks guys for the responses. I dont know what to do next to sustain battery power. I have upgraded twice with the local tech support's help. Will be going to see them again soon. But the problem is they want me to leave my fone overnite for their tests. The first time I went there they pierce open leaving unpleasant marks at the side of the fone. Will post more info should I manage to get improve battery performance. Again, THANKS!!
Guest Toyota-F1.com Posted April 29, 2004 Report Posted April 29, 2004 The light drains a lot of battery power I believe.
Guest pacey2g Posted April 29, 2004 Report Posted April 29, 2004 hmmmm.. well this probably isnt related, but last nite, i didnt have alot of battery and i wanted to make sure the alarm went off, so i guessed that maybe if i turned radio off it would help, and guess what? usually in a 10 hour period i guess id lose about 20% of battery at least, but in the 10 hours i had radio off last night (i.e. airplane mode) i lost a mere 6% :? does anyone elses findings tie in with this? it could just be a poor implementation of gsm compared to other manufacturers, after all HTC are a relatively young company re: phones... ? :/
Guest lowbug Posted April 29, 2004 Report Posted April 29, 2004 I have noticed this as well. It does it when activesyncing.. I can't confirm if it does it for every GPRS connection, but as ever it's a bug and i seems to power up the audio circuit for no reason thus wasting power... :D
Guest Toyota-F1.com Posted April 29, 2004 Report Posted April 29, 2004 hmmmm.. well this probably isnt related, but last nite, i didnt have alot of battery and i wanted to make sure the alarm went off, so i guessed that maybe if i turned radio off it would help, and guess what? usually in a 10 hour period i guess id lose about 20% of battery at least, but in the 10 hours i had radio off last night (i.e. airplane mode) i lost a mere 6% :? does anyone elses findings tie in with this? it could just be a poor implementation of gsm compared to other manufacturers, after all HTC are a relatively young company re: phones... ? :/ You may find my report interesting - search for my username and words "battery report".
Guest malcolmgirling Posted May 16, 2004 Report Posted May 16, 2004 Have now verified that even inseting the plastic blanking card into the SD/MMC card slot drains the battery almost 3x quicker than leaving nothing in the SD/MMC card slot. Surely a ROM upgrade could be made that ensures that when the SD/MMC card slot has not been accessed for a few minutes that it is 'powered-down'? On PC destops and PC laptops the disk drive can be configured to power off if it is left idle for a user-predetermined length of time. This is under software control. The same must be possible on a windows-based smartphone!
Guest Toyota-F1.com Posted May 17, 2004 Report Posted May 17, 2004 Have now verified that even inseting the plastic blanking card into the SD/MMC card slot drains the battery almost 3x quicker than leaving nothing in the SD/MMC card slot. Surely a ROM upgrade could be made that ensures that when the SD/MMC card slot has not been accessed for a few minutes that it is 'powered-down'? On PC destops and PC laptops the disk drive can be configured to power off if it is left idle for a user-predetermined length of time. This is under software control. The same must be possible on a windows-based smartphone! You may find my report interesting - Search for my username and words "battery report".
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