How is your Tornado (ie SDA) battery life?

[Guest yoos]

I'm not sure why my battery sucks so much, but if I have a fully charged battery in the morning, keep Wifi and Bluetooth off, my battery still needs to be charged before the end of the day. I can't go a full day without charging it. It goes down to 20-30%.

Can anything be done to improve the battery life?

Edited July 4, 2006 by yoos

[Guest jm012a9749]

I'm not sure why my battery sucks so much, but if I have a fully charged battery in the morning, keep Wifi and Bluetooth off, my battery still needs to be charged before the end of the day. I can't go a full day without charging it. It goes down to 20-30%.

Can anything be done to improve the battery life?

stuff in power management in settings can help.... ie switching the backlight off sooner etc.

my battery is good when used as a phone.... switch wifi on and it rapidly disappears :)

whats the capacity of your battery? ie how many mAh ? should say on the battery

phil

[Guest yoos]

It says:

Model: BTR5600

Rating: 3.7 VDC, 1050 mAh

I think I have my power settings set low (good)?

Backlight time out on battery: 10 seconds

Backlight time out on AC: 5 minutes

Display time out: 1 minute

Light Sensor Enabe: ON

I just turned the Light sensor off, we'll see what that does...

[Guest jm012a9749]

It says:

Model: BTR5600

Rating: 3.7 VDC, 1050 mAh

I think I have my power settings set low (good)?

Backlight time out on battery: 10 seconds

Backlight time out on AC: 5 minutes

Display time out: 1 minute

Light Sensor Enabe: ON

I just turned the Light sensor off, we'll see what that does...

light sensor stops the keypad led coming on when its light... so turn it back on :) ah.... my battery is 3.7V and 1150mAh not much different but mine will theoretically last about 10% longer. power settings are good. did you buy it second hand or new. Li ion batterys have a limited number of charge cycles which causes them to lose the ability to hold charge as well...

phil

[Guest rogueqd]

Check what programs you have running. "real time" programs, such as clocks, music players, games, timers, or anything that updates the screen once a second or more, will use up a lot of battery if left running in the background.

[Guest merwin]

You can use Tornado PowerControl and Underclock your phone a bit. If you're not using it for GPS or any cpu intensive application, you can save a lot of battery by underclocking it. This, of course, will only save you battery when you're using it. When the phone goes into power saving mode it will not help to have it underclocked.

Tornado PowerControl has the ability now to instantly overclock/underclock the phone through a menu option.

http://www.modaco.com/Tornado-PowerControl-t237427.html

[Guest yoos]

I am using the smart monitor and facade plugins on the homescreen, both which update every X seconds or minutes (I don't know??). I'm trying to see if I can change the frequency in which these update to longer... I also have Xbar running in the background.

I just installed and configured Tornado PowerControl so we'll see how that works too. Thanks!

[Guest youataknow]

Make sure to turn your wifi and bluetooth off when your not using them. I've noticed that with the wifi on my battery is lucky to last 4-6 hours.

[Guest bowdowntozoltan]

I am using the smart monitor and facade plugins on the homescreen, both which update every X seconds or minutes (I don't know??). I'm trying to see if I can change the frequency in which these update to longer... I also have Xbar running in the background.

I just installed and configured Tornado PowerControl so we'll see how that works too. Thanks!

Definately. During Idle this can save lots of power. Especially if you set the lowest clock the 116MHz.

If you guys want I know how to mod the registry for this so the max isnt 228MHz. If anyone is curious shoot me a PM.