Wife's Diamond Battery Life Horrible

[parkjam]

Just curious, and I wonder why no one has asked this, what is signal strength like in the location she is with the phone all day? Low signal strength, and being in fringe coverage areas, is a death sentence for battery life.

For example, if I am around where I live, I get great coverage, my battery can last through two days. I unplug in the morning, I am not forced to plug back in until the following evening, and that is with light usage and push email.

If I go to my mother-in-laws house, where the coverage is spotty at best, the phone is constantly switching between 1 bar EV Sprint, roaming, and no signal (she literally lives in a dead-zone for CDMA, IDEN, and GSM networks). In that area, my phone lasts about 12 hours on the same charge! It is crazy!

[MrObvious]

Things to try: Flash MightyROM 4.8, turn off beam, drain the battery a few times, stick it in 1x only if you text a lot.

[copper rs]

I bet its the GPS, if I leave mine on I'll get 7-8 hours before I get low battery warnings, even with Mighty Rom 4.8.

[rawdog805]

Originally Posted by jtcrusader

GPS? That should be turned off, unless she left it on playing around with google maps.

GPS was always on in my phone.. If you go to location settings you can see that it is always set to ON.. So I always turn my GPS OFF on all my HTC phones...

[caleb02]

Originally Posted by rawdog805

Turn off Beam, and also turn off the GPS if she doesnt use it...

the phone does not have a beam on it or infered. i would stop using it for anything expect as a phone, the music player and stereo bluetooth cause battery drain. i have read of a european 3000mha battery from mugen power i think. It might be for the gsm version though.

[MrObvious]

Originally Posted by copper rs

I bet its the GPS, if I leave mine on I'll get 7-8 hours before I get low battery warnings, even with Mighty Rom 4.8.

Odd. Do you text a lot? If so then you might try forcing it to 1x all the time. It does that for me and it works.

[rawdog805]

Originally Posted by caleb02

the phone does not have a beam on it or infered. i would stop using it for anything expect as a phone, the music player and stereo bluetooth cause battery drain. i have read of a european 3000mha battery from mugen power i think. It might be for the gsm version though.

It may not have a beam but it darn sure has the option for beam in connections and it is set to receive all incoming beams, so I would turn it off as others have suggested...

[jtcrusader]

Originally Posted by rawdog805

GPS was always on in my phone.. If you go to location settings you can see that it is always set to ON.. So I always turn my GPS OFF on all my HTC phones...

Thanks. I will go into locations and check it tonight when we get home.

[Konfuzion]

Originally Posted by Primenall

Well I had tried all of the other radios from the Radio Thread except the v1.03.03 in your sig and am currently using the Telus, with good results, just wondering which you were having your good battery results with?

P.S. In the time since that other post I made, I flashed the 1.03.03 since it was the only one I hadn't tried yet, so which are you running now?

Radio 1.03.03

[mike171562]

My wife had the same problem, i tried different ROM's to no avail, then i found out she was 1.) Leaving her BT on all day, and 2.) She was using O2 Instant Messenger which autostarts and was staying on all day.