Lousy battery life since upgrade to new Rom

[Guest ddieter]

Until I upgraded to the new Rom I was quite happy with the battery life of my C500. Now for some reason my battery life is hideous. The battery dropped two bars overnight last night just sitting idle.

I think I've properly set my power management settings to the way I originally had them set on the old Rom.

Has anyone else experienced the same thing or has any explanation?

[Guest Paraklas]

Make sure Infrared, Bluetooth are OFF, they draw quite a lot of battery juice.

[Guest Pondrew]

Did you have the battery fully charged before upgrading? Tests have shown it makes a difference to post upgrade battery life...

[Guest Disco Stu]

The battery should be fully charged when you do the ROM update then, immediately afterwards, do a hard reset.

I've no idea why but it was recommended with previous updates and my battery life is still good with my C500.

[Guest ronny]

Until I upgraded to the new Rom I was quite happy with the battery life of my C500.  Now for some reason my battery life is hideous.  The battery dropped two bars overnight last night just sitting idle.

I think I've properly set my power management settings to the way I originally had them set on the old Rom.

Has anyone else experienced the same thing or has any explanation?

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are you using the wall charger or the sync charger? coz in my experience the battery drains out faster when i use the sync charger and longer battery life when i use the wall charger. :)

[Guest ddieter]

I was almost out of battery life when I downloaded the upgrade from the net. Since the instructions said I should have a battery life of at least 50%, I charged it up using the USB cable until it was just over 50%.

If I had known it would affect battery life, I would have been patient enough to wait for a full battery. :)

Any ideas on how to fix this? Because obviously its not something wrong with the battery itself, surely it must be the charge cycle? [guessing]