Froyo mobile data usage battering battery

[Guest Emperork]

Since updating to stock Froyo, I noticed my mobile data usage (the 2 arrows) are almost constantly transferring data. This is really hammering the battery. Turning off mobile data conserves the battery life however... but I don't know what it is about Froyo that has caused the mobile data to go so crazy!

Anyone else notice this?

[Guest Emperork]

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[Guest Scutworker]

It's not doing it on mine.

I'm running a rooted stock firmware ([ROM] Rooted Official HTC Android 2.2 (FroYo) ROM [Market issue fixed] ) and this is not happening on my Desire.

Have you upgraded the radio to the latest version?

As for battery life, it seems to be about the same except when I use the phone when it is appears to be using more power than before.

Edited August 4, 2010 by Scutworker

[Guest spammyspam]

Using JuicePlotter, I see that my phone seems well behaved at night (it activates for a few seconds each hour), but during the day it's almost constant usage. I too have no idea why this is. I'm considering using Droidwall to as a hammer to crack this nut, but ideally some kind of application-based data usage log would be awesome.

[Guest Emperork]

Using JuicePlotter, I see that my phone seems well behaved at night (it activates for a few seconds each hour), but during the day it's almost constant usage. I too have no idea why this is. I'm considering using Droidwall to as a hammer to crack this nut, but ideally some kind of application-based data usage log would be awesome.

ahhh so it's not just me then!

yea i wish i knew what exactly it is that is using near constant data... anyone know of an app that does this? but then saying that, it might not be a direct parallel between actual data transferred and battery. what i mean is, something might be using data once every 10 seconds but only trasnferring 1 byte a time.... which is nothing really, but the battery usage involved in just doing this may be heavy.

my desire is up to date froyo stock. i unrooted from 2.1.

[Guest bigthunderkid]

It's not doing it on mine.

I'm running a rooted stock firmware ([ROM] Rooted Official HTC Android 2.2 (FroYo) ROM [Market issue fixed] ) and this is not happening on my Desire.

Have you upgraded the radio to the latest version?

As for battery life, it seems to be about the same except when I use the phone when it is appears to be using more power than before.

I have the latest rooted Froyo with A2SD added, and also updated radio to latest version.

My standby/idle battery drain has remained about the same (approx 1%/hr) but I've also found that the power usage has increased significantly when using the phone (approx 10-12%/hr).

Assuming that it's a data upload/download issue I've turned off auto sync on all my apps - not ideal situation, but it will hopefully help me determine where the problem lies by a process of elimination.