What's your battery drain in standby?

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Instead of the "bars"..uggh...hate that. Brings back stories of people comparing bars on their different brand phones. Some of us have different sized signal meters. Let's report on the actual signal strength from the ##DEBUG screen. Report for 1X and HDR side. If you're not in EV, then report just 1X.

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Originally Posted by AngeloUCF

ROM Version: V1.1b Malrom 11/9/09
OS version: 6.5.3
OS Build: 28014
Sense UI: 2.1.1920
Bluetooth: On
Data: On and Idle
Battery Tool: "BatteryMonitor.exe" from Calkulin Kitchen
Signal Strength: 5 Bars EVDO
Battery Draw: 400-600mA!

Anyone know how to check what could be draining my battery so fast? I didn't see anything that jumped out at me using advanced task manager. I sync with exchange and hotmail and a few other accounts not as often but this seems a bit high.

Make sure data arrows are "grey" (i.e. not active) when you measure and let the phone go to sleep. You want to check it just as you wake it.

Lot's of things will make it spike, like even moving the phone may trigger gsensor events.

Set your screen fixed brightness and as low as can be, but comfortable. I find 30% pretty good after you get used to it. At first it seems dim.

Try shutting off bluetooth and see if it drops.

With the phone "awake" I get aorund 50ma.

If none of the above works, you can try start killing porcesses and services to locate the culprit.

I've had 28014 based builds run good on battery too.

[ac0x]

Originally Posted by ac0x

If I LEAVE it in standby (which is tough because I'm always waking it up), I get just about 10% drain an hour. So about 10 hours on a full charge. I have the phone checking email every 5 minutes

Actually forget this response. I was actually keeping track of how often I pick up the phone and check messages or play with menus or look up an app and it's quite a lot. No way I'd let the phone sit untouched for any length of time to get a real reading on this It's just too much fun, But even with my usage, I can go from full charge to about 10% in just about 10 hours