Juicy vs MSR and Battery Life - Major Differences??
 

I had been using Juicy rom, but was having issues with my battery going down about 10% an hour. I was using the SDConfig to install things, and have a CAB defined that automatically creates my email accounts. I have 4 IMAP accounts that are polled at 30 minute intervals.

I didn't make any other changes other than setting ringtones, font size, and things like that.

If I install MSR, my battery life is like 2-4 times better, sometimes ending a full day (12hrs) at 60-70%.

I tried two days on Juicy and two days on MSR and the results were consistent. Juicy was going down 10% even when I did nothing else on the phone other than have it check email in the background. No web browsing, no phone calls.

I wasn't doing anything different configuration-wise between the two. Both ROM's use the SDConfig, so the same set of apps were being installed. The comparisons were between Juicy 3.2/3.3 and MSR 2.4. I wouldn't have thought there would have been that big of a change in battery life.

Not sure it matters, but I am on Sprint. I am also using the Verizon radio rom.

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Would you mind explaining in more detail how you did the following - I am getting tired of setting up all my email accounts.

Thanks

BTW - I have two IMAP, one Exchange and PicMail. A few phone calls and txts yesterday and I am now charging my battery. OH yeah without enabling TouchFlo


"I was using the SDConfig to install things, and have a CAB defined that automatically creates my email accounts. I have 4 IMAP accounts that are polled at 30 minute intervals."

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Me too!! Please!

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See this thread:

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=39470

It is great and very easy to set up. I have also set up my Wifi entries and my speed dial links using the same mechanism (you need to look on Microsoft's site for the XML schema).

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See my edit above.

And thanks for the info.

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Here is the Microsoft page with the info on other things you can do with the device configuration files:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb737579.aspx

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Ok, back on track guys to the OP's question... Battery life for me on Juicy 3.3 has been good so far. I can't see a noticeable difference in the life between prior versions of the Juicy ROMs.

I have 2 IMAP accounts set to sync every 2 hours. The only thing I really turn off id Beam and Bluetooth. Only use Bluetooth when I'm on the phone for more than 5 minutes.

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I have beam on and bluetooth off. How is your phone at the end of say 12 hours?

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~40%. That includes some fair roaming time (coverage sucks at work), random internet checking, and ~1 hour of calls. I always have to check some phone number, or look up some thing in my excel sheets, so the phone sees a fair amount of screen time.

Bluetooth headset and phone calls just suck the life right out of the poor thing. Good thing most of that time is on a car charger.

Why do you have beam on? There's no usage that I know of...

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I was turning the beam off, but then I started leaving alone when I was trying to fix the battery life (just to try different things).

I tried building my own ROM with the Kitchen (20931) and will see how that goes today. I just need the darn phone to last comfortably throughout the day. Doesn't seem like it should be too much to ask. Earlier Juicy rom's I didn't have this issue. It seemed like the one that added the SDConfig support was where I started having bad battery life.

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Just so you know, we've all been having issues with 20931 and Bluetooth......

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I never use bluetooth, so not a big deal for me. Today seemed to go quite well, about the same as MSR. I have updated my MySettings.cab file to include a number of registry settings as well (ringer, notification selections, etc) so when the phone comes up I am pretty much set.

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So why dont you just stay on MSR? is there any reason for u not to keep the rom and enjoy the long battery life?

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That is an option as well - I am an engineer by training, so when I have two things like this with the different behaviors I like to know why.

Both Juicy and MSR are built on the same basic version of the OS (I think) so it just surprised me to see the big difference in battery life. I am actually on vacation right now (Disney World) and was having issues with the battery dying before I left the park, and I wasn't even using the phone for anything other than email.

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I don't blame you for wanting to know the differences. I am not too sure what differences myself and juicy have in regards to registry edits, although I'm sure they may be very similar, but it may also seem that they are not.

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Doubt there is a single difference in registry.

Think back to your usage on each day. Where you inside a large building or any other areas with spotty coverage for extended periods of time, on the day of poor battery life? This is likely the cause.

As an engineer I'm sure you can appreciate how poor coverage can result in poor battery life, as the handset boosts the signal to achieve an acceptable connection with the nearest tower(s)

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While there may have been times I was in a building with lower signal strength, most of the time we were just walking around. One day we were at Epcot and the only time I ever turned on my phone was when I felt it buzz telling me I had an email. Perhaps it was bad luck. I just know I had two days in a row where the battery progress bar (the large one with 10 segments) was going down 1 bar an hour approximately. I am pretty sure this was with Juicy 3.2.

I was just trying to see if anyone else was having similar experiences. Yesterday my run with a self-cooked 20931 went fairly well, about the same as with MSR.

This post was not to knock Juicy ROM - I know a lot of people are having great battery life from it. It just seemed that I for some reason I wasn't but with MSR I was. Seemed odd.

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I don't know...I'm trying MSR right now since you posted the comment and 3 hours in I am at 70% and I have only used it to set up e-mail, change some settings, and check the weather. I have the same settings as you do with 2 hour email thing. I was using juicy 3.4 before and I can't really see a difference yet. I'll try it for a couple days more and see if I sense anything.