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

[schettj]

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:

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.