Guest mikeyg1980 Posted January 12, 2009 Report Posted January 12, 2009 Hi, I've had my Omnia for about 6 months and initially had "great" battery life of 3-4 days between charges. Over Christmas I installed Winterface, SMS-Chat and FunContacts, which have been great except for the end result of battery life! For the first week or so I didn't see any issues, then bam, suddenly my battery life became terrible. For example, I left the phone on charge last night, and by 10am its down to 40% left. More worryingly the phone is really warm. The temperature is showing as 47 degrees, according to the debug mode. I've checked all running apps and have only Winterface running. My next step is to disable or uninstall winterface, but I really don't want to do that if I can avoid it. My ROM is i900DXHH£/DZHH3 which was the standard one already on the phone when I bought it. It came from Ebay and I'm sure its not the standard UK ROM. Any ideas on what I can do to identify exactly what is causing the battery drain? Thanks a lot, Mike
Guest mobilehappy Posted January 12, 2009 Report Posted January 12, 2009 If you are using the weather app from Vito , then try to uninstall it.
Guest mikeyg1980 Posted January 12, 2009 Report Posted January 12, 2009 If you are using the weather app from Vito , then try to uninstall it. Nope - not got that installed yet....
Guest pumpkinheed Posted January 12, 2009 Report Posted January 12, 2009 I read somewhere that including the bluetooth icon in winterface can affect battery life
Guest mikeyg1980 Posted January 14, 2009 Report Posted January 14, 2009 The other thing I noticed today, no matter how long the phone charges, it doesn't seem to be getting full. The light never turns green and I don't see / hear the alarm... anyone else seen that?
Guest lrlfc Posted January 15, 2009 Report Posted January 15, 2009 The other thing I noticed today, no matter how long the phone charges, it doesn't seem to be getting full. The light never turns green and I don't see / hear the alarm... anyone else seen that? I had that problem with my 1st Omnia, never went green and battery life only lasted 6 hours. I swapped it for another Omnia and this battery lasts upto 2 days
Guest mikeyg1980 Posted January 21, 2009 Report Posted January 21, 2009 I had that problem with my 1st Omnia, never went green and battery life only lasted 6 hours. I swapped it for another Omnia and this battery lasts upto 2 days Thanks guys - I have a solution. Having bought the phone on ebay, the charger I received was not a UK one and the supplier included a 3rd party mains charger. My wife has an Omnia too, with a Samsung charger and this works... So, it seems the 3rd party charger wasn't working and I'm now back up to 2 - 3 days charge or longer with light usage. Cheers for the help.
Guest Natsirt Posted January 21, 2009 Report Posted January 21, 2009 u can try upgrading the ROM... you will get ALOT more battery life.. perhaps over a week with light usage.. (with the DXHK# series)
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