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AKU2.2 beta, much better battery life, simple reg change

Ok, your milage may vary here, but for some reason my 6700 with the 2.2 rom (which otherwise was working great) started to really have battery performance issues. I chalked it up to maybe using more network or talk, but even when I was sure I wasn't doing any of it the battery seemed to be draining way too fast.

I don't use pocket MSN, and if you do this will not help you, but I started checking the processes running when the phone was in death drain mode and sure enough, that dreaded pmsnserver.exe is running...

Googled around, as the old solution that I read a while back was to kill any reference to that exe in the registry, and found this:

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I just changed the registry entry for pMSNShared.dll this was the first entry that came up after searching for "msn", in a folder called "InprocServer32" there is a string "Default" change string to "pMSNShared.dl" instead of a .dll extension. Program can't run without a dll. Easy to change back if you have a problem just search for the first entry of "msn" go into folder "InprocServer32" and rename the "pMSNShared.dl" back to original "pMSNShared.dll"

Haven't seen that little pMSNServer.exe running yet for a few days..
I did the same edit (changed .dll to .dl) rebooted, and hey presto no more pmsnserver.exe, and my battery life is much better again - for example a whole day of no voice calls, 1 hour MP3 play on headphones screen off, and auto email checking 2 IMAP accounts every hour, end of day (14 hours off charger) standard OEM battery at 70% - that's more like it!

Something to check into if you don't use pocket MSN. If you do use it, this will kill it, which you probably don't want.
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