Generally Speaking, WinMo 6.5 Drains More Battery Than 6.1?

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Originally Posted by El Ha$oN

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i have been running custom ROM's by Juicy since i first recieved this phone. At first battery life was great easily lasting me the day without having to charge it. So i never really paid attention to discharge current or anything.
But lately i have realized the battery life sucks i cant even make it to 3PM anymore when i have disconnected the phone from the charger at 8AM.
Most of my time is at school and i dont get good service there, so i thought it must be the radio thats working extra hard to find a signal and thats killing the battery, so ive decided to turn it to airplane mode thinking it would save battery...well not really. for the past week ive been testing and i will put it in airplane mode at 830AM(only a half hr after disconnect from charger) and by 11AM i am already down to 60-70% battery. I DO NOT use during this time and like i mentioned the phone is in Airplane mode. I also checked the discharge current during airplane mode and it NEVER goes less than 147mA...is this normal?
I have the sprint touch pro 2 and called sprint and they told me i have to take it in for them to run some diagnostic test to have phone checked but i obviously need to load stock ROM and relock bla bla bla.
So I would like to avoid that method so i dont have to unlock it after i take it to sprint.

Does anyone have any suggestions....or is it that the phone has a defect? Any help would be appreciated...Thanks in advance!

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say it's prob the battery itself, everything being equal and nothing having changed and suddenly your battery life goes in the dumper? I say flash stock, relock and take it back, worse case scenario they tell you nothings wrong and you have to unlock again and reflash (learn sashimi or xda and load your cabs up quick that way). Best case: new battery or you get the phone replaced.

IMO custom ROM's whether 6.1 or 6.5 or 6.5.x are the way to go as the chefs are able to pull of the bloatware and install battery tweaks for better batt life.

[Q_Q]

Noticed that when I went to click the battery icon in the taskbar, it brings me to a page where there is timer that keeps running going up even though the arrows say that my data is not active.

What is this timer recording?? Data connection of some sort?

I have my emails set to 1 hr checks so it can't be that.
On 6.1 after the disable #777 hack it appears this type of timer went away.

UPDATE: well the strra's Data Disconnect after 60 secs cab still worked perfectly on 6.5. Timer is off. Battery drain is stopped.