Battery Killer

[stevedog1]

Originally Posted by Cha0sc0ntroll

What's the point of the phone if you don't even use touchflo xD.

The point of the phone is not TF3D.

[Drybonz]

Originally Posted by iflog

Change the radio, change the ROM, change the poll interval. I could change things all day and hope to get the battery to last at most a day with normal use. Do you think its acceptable to have a stock out of the box setup phone to last less than 6 hours?

Not acceptable at all. Complain to your carrier. Complain to the manufacturer. Good luck with that.

Your best option... if you want results... is, yes, upgrade some stuff.

[Bird11]

Originally Posted by Cha0sc0ntroll

What's the point of the phone if you don't even use touchflo xD.

Its a phone, I make calls on it and use the Internet. Touchflo doesn't enable me to do these things, in fact it only slows me down.
So I see absolutely no need to use it. It makes my phone slow, less responsive and further prone to failure. I instead strip my stock rom and make it fast and reliable. I get better battery life also.

[tomemail]

Hello All,

First of all, I am not here to bash...just to wish.

I have had many Windows Mobile Devices before going to a BB 8130 Pearl. Had that for 1.5 yrs. Went back to HTC's Pro and Diamond (2x). It amazes me how much of a "battery hog" Windows Mobile Devices are.

I have recently switched back to a BB 8330 with US Cellular. For an example, I was on an Amtrak train for 7 hrs on a slow weather delayed train from Chicago to Stl. I literally surfed the web, instant messaged, talked on the phone and emailed for the entire time except two short snack stints of about 15 minutes each.

I also used it on the 1 hr ride to my house, quite extensively. When I arrived at home, it was @ 45%!

I am not embellishing even a little bit! I really wanted to stay with my WM device as I liked the threaded texting and the larger amount of software readily available.

My problem was also was that to send and receive email, there was no filtering with having an exchange server. BlackBerry filters!

Also, for whatever reason, BB devices makes much less of a task of internet, text, email and phone use from a battery standpoint.

THIS IS NOT A NOTE TO PUSH FOR BLACKBERRY DEVICES USE....MORE OF A PLEA FOR OTHER COMPANY'S TO LEARN SO THAT THEY CAN COMPETE!

That said, I would suggest "might rom" 3.9 or higher. It helped the battery issues emmensly.

Hopefully someday soon, I'll be back as an active member of this very helpful forum.

[Drybonz]

Originally Posted by tomemail

THIS IS NOT A NOTE TO PUSH FOR BLACKBERRY DEVICES USE....MORE OF A PLEA FOR OTHER COMPANY'S TO LEARN SO THAT THEY CAN COMPETE!

Unfortunately, none of those companies you are addressing are going to be your audience if you are posting on this forum. Maybe you can go to their websites and post suggestions.

This is probably not the right venue for your comments.

[tomemail]

This is my final post and I can appreciate your comment.

Just wishing to help someone as frustrated as I was even with all the great help on this board.

[iflog]

Guess I'll just stick with carrying a couple extra batteries with me at all times. At least they didn't charge me for them.

[stevedog1]

Several users including myself have already told you what to do to your Diamond to get good battery life.

There is no need to carry several batteries. My Sprint Diamond last a couple days without charging.

[Garrett67]

I'm new here and new to the HTC Diamond (Alltel).

I can already see issues with the battery as I'm constantly killing apps because they just go to the background when you close them.

Is flashing the ROM a big deal? Can I do that on a CDMA phone? (I assume Alltel uses that).

Is there an easy to follow tutorial/guide and which ROM?

I just found this site, I will dig around for answers after work tomorrow when I have more time.

I am interested in doing something though.

[albertats]

Really and truely, my phone went 2 days without needing a charge (at the end of the second day, threw it on there because didn't know what tomorrow would bring.)

My "secret" is making the Long Press of the End Key shortcaut to termintate the data connection every time I am not using it and I saved battery BIG TIME! Also, I keep the apps closed and my running programs down to nothing but ActiveSync. (It keeps popping up).

I am going to use the interval hack and see what that does.