Nutshell on increasing battery life

[galingula]

Not over it's lifetime, just useage.

1. Turn all data, wireless, etc, off except phone. Reactivate when needed
2. Install the "no push internet" cab
3. Install the SSK TP2 Dynamic Resource Proxy cab
4. Screen to 30% brightness off external power
5. Install and use clean RAM or some such tool to minimize programs running in the background
6. Use reg edit to find "facedownmutering", change it to "0"
7. Set phone to CDMA only
8. Use reg edit to change batter poll "pollinterval" to 20000 from 5000
9. Install the updated D3d drivers form last year

All of these things can be googled and found here or @ XDA.

Any one else see anything I missed?

[nrfitchett4]

so basically to get my smartphone to last, I have to make a dumbphone with an unreadable screen?

[galingula]

Originally Posted by nrfitchett4

so basically to get my smartphone to last, I have to make a dumbphone with an unreadable screen?

I don't understand the unreadable screen comment? You mean the 30%? That works OK for me unless I'm in the car, at which point I plug into the car charger which freaking charges the phone really fast.

Dumb phone? I guess I'm pretty useless when I'm sleeping, but my alarm wakes me up and I'm enormously more useful.

I think the biggest problem is the phone is hungry and they made it tiny. I got the extended battery and new cover and it becomes much more reasonable, just larger

[Q_Q]

Originally Posted by galingula

Not over it's lifetime, just useage.

1. Turn all data, wireless, etc, off except phone. Reactivate when needed
2. Install the "no push internet" cab
3. Install the SSK TP2 Dynamic Resource Proxy cab
4. Screen to 30% brightness off external power
5. Install and use clean RAM or some such tool to minimize programs running in the background
6. Use reg edit to find "facedownmutering", change it to "0"
7. Set phone to CDMA only
8. Use reg edit to change batter poll "pollinterval" to 20000 from 5000
9. Install the updated D3d drivers form last year

All of these things can be googled and found here or @ XDA.

Any one else see anything I missed?

basically the same list I have except I do polling @ 40k.
Gives me a full day worth of charge on above average usage- that's 8+ hrs (8am-6pm) before I plug in in the car on the way home.

Also I would beg to differ that we've somehow dumb this phone down with these tweaks.
Try getting this range of tweakability from any other smartphone if ppl were to have issues - no way.
I can still have access to any component of the TP2 I want - it's not like I have to reboot it or anything LOL!

If ppl didn't want to tweak, get an iPhone. Seriously.

[nrfitchett4]

i'm just saying that you are saying for the battery to last, I have to turn off data or wifi, turn off BT, dim the screen way down. seems like a real pain in the azz and makes the phone pretty worthless. instead, I just bought an extra battery to carry at work (the only time my battery doesn't make it, I work 12+hours) and keep a charger in all the usual places (car, work, home).

[dumpringz]

Wirelessly posted (HTC Touch Pro 2 (Sprint): Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 8.12; MSIEMobile6.0) Sprint T7380)

you guys must spend a large portion of your days indoors lol cuz 30% does not work in my world ... im gonna try above mentioned stuff minus that tho

[VW]

I just got a TP2 via assurion due to my TP finding a creek. First thing i did was install Sprint 6.5 rom, and compared to my TP running a 6.5.1 rom, the battery life is incredible. You guys are making me not want to install a custom ROM as I hate to lose battery life.I have autodim, weather animations on and have no problem with battery life. Of course its prob. just subjective because that TP stayed on a charger whether at work or home

[chevy454]

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It's not just the custom roms...my as delivered us cellular 6.5/2.1 tp2 has been a battery hog since day 1...by 4-5pm on my way home im getting the critical battery message, after idling most of the day with an occasional text/call. i literally have to have a charger with me at all times...

i wnet to see arkansas in the liberty bowl which started mid afternoon and the thing died before half time.

[phidong]

just buy a spare battery if you're going to be sacrificing that much stuff.. well worth the extra ~$50 imo

[dumpringz]

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yea man. tp battery life was crap compared to the tp2. i accumulated 5 spare batterys i think which i carried 2 spares no matter where i went. from what ppl say custom roms make the tp2 many times better as far as speed & battery. when i find time that will be my next thing to look into