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Old 07-31-2007, 03:42 PM
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Anyone notice a large reduction in battery life and overall slowness with this ROM and the 1.41 radio update?

By large reduction in battery life, I'm talking about at least a 3 hour reduction in life. I have ActiveSync set to sync on item arrival with our Exchange server, but I did before as well.

The only application other than ActiveSync which should be making a data connection is the weather plugin which I changed to update every hour and I saw no better battery life.

On a typical day, I pull my phone off the charger at 8am, I might make 5-15 minutes of phone calls all day, about 20 or so txt's, the ActiveSync and bluetooth enabled...that's the extent of my usage. With the old ROM, I was able to get about 12-13 hours of life out of the battery. With this ROM, I'm averaging about 8-9 hours.

Everything else is default in the ROM, no other apps installed. Were there any changes to the BlueTooth stack? Maybe it's killing battery life?

I also notice that overall the phone feels pretty slow and typing a txt or email is horrible. I have to be very deliberate with each letter I type in, pausing between letters to make sure that the input is accepted. With Sar's PR6 ROM that I had on before, it took input almost as fast as I could enter it with only an occasional missed letter. Now I'm getting whole words missing if I type my normal speed.

Any ideas on what could be going on?
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