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Originally Posted by charleskincade
Man this friggin' ridiculous! I took my phone off the charger and it said 100%, I made one 5 minute phone call and now it says 88%. I've done the battery recondition thing which you told me about, I installed elias activesync killer cab, set scheduling to manually, installed nue dynamic clock, made sure beams were off, data connections was off, backlight was dimmed and off, and I STILL get activesync running and poor battery life. Someone help, I mean WTF...I can't take it anymore...I love this rom but could someone give me a cure-all for this crap for once and for all before I pull my hair out!!!
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I'm running the same RAM (full version - but the SYS is identical) have had the phone off the charger for 4.5 hours now, light/moderate use, activesync on the entire time, data connection at normal (only active on request, suspended otherwise), and am at 81%.
1) Phone calls will eat battery life, especially if you've got a radio that doesn't work well in your area. Have you tried flashing a different radio? I find the Sprint radios work best for me in LA. Radios have nothing to do with what carrier you're on, they'll work regardless. Radio transmission and backlight are the two biggest power drains I'm aware of on these devices.
2) Active sync running doesn't mean it's actually connecting to anything, just that it normally stays active after a sync to exchange or pc. So whenever you use something that calls on Active sync, it'll just stay on. That should not significantly affect battery life, unless you are 'as received' for download scheduling.
How old is your battery? Li-ion only last so many hours / charge cycles, and a charge cycle is any time you plug the phone in and then discharge it, doesn't matter if the battery drained a lot or almost not at all. So after a while battery performance really will drop off severely. But if other roms give significantly better battery life (all else being equal - they need to have Sense because rendering all that 3d takes more power) then it's obviously not the hardware.
I do suggest you try flashing a totally stock ROM (preferably the .exe kind that re-locks your phone) to make sure that any buggy memory registers are overwritten. Flashing custom roms can, occasionally, cause this to happen, and flashing to stock prior to custom will ensure that all memory 'housekeeping' is up to snuff.
Hope this helps...