Battery & Performance hacks - all cabed up for my friends

[flyingmusician]

On my Touch Pro...I put in the changes for power management and battery indicator time. 1.5 hours of talking and I'm down to 2 bars.

4.5 hours of talk time my a$$.
This really, really sucks. It's like putting a 5 gallon tank in the latest model Corvette.

[ScrapMaker]

Originally Posted by flyingmusician

On my Touch Pro...I put in the changes for power management and battery indicator time. 1.5 hours of talking and I'm down to 2 bars.

4.5 hours of talk time my a$$.
This really, really sucks. It's like putting a 5 gallon tank in the latest model Corvette.

Interestingly-enough, the latest corvette, with the LS7 engine, gets 27MPG on the highway.

Not bad at all for a near-supercar.

[ACHlLLES]

Does this include Juicys battery fix?

[JasonOT]

I just searched the registry using Resco for "DisablePowerManagement" and there were actually 3 or 4 other locations not mentioned in this thread with that key, so I changed them all to 0. I'll report back after a couple days of use to see how it compares.

[flyingmusician]

Originally Posted by JasonOT

I just searched the registry using Resco for "DisablePowerManagement" and there were actually 3 or 4 other locations not mentioned in this thread with that key, so I changed them all to 0. I'll report back after a couple days of use to see how it compares.

Good thinking, I did the same thing and set them all to "0". If I keep my talking on the phoneto less than 2 hours, I make it through the day. I talked about an hour today and the phone is still at 50%. Off charge at 8:00am and it's now almost 7:00pm. I think the extra power management changes helped. As long as I don' talk, the battery doesn't really go down noticably. It did before.

So, if we can get a bigger battery, I think I'll keep this. I actually like being able to tell the phone to do things by voice and having the success rate be even better than when I ask my children to do something...
Dave

[Edwood]

Until HTC releases a firmware update that has a more efficient radio ROM, I found a better solution for improving battery life. It's a annoying to have to use it, but oh well.

For those that live on the fringes of EVDO reception or have poor / intermittent EVDO reception otherwise, it's best to disable EVDO altogether and go with 1xRTT only.

Here is the Registry edit for enabling Hidden Phone Settings "Mode of Operation" option to pick 1X mode only.

HKLM\SOFTWARE\OEM\PhoneSetting

Change the option HiddenModeOperationPage from 1 to 0

Then go to Phone/menu/option/service/and check in the list, "Mode of Operation" should be at the bottom. You have 3 choices, Hybrid, EVDO, and 1X.
Once you have checked the box and hit ok, you will need to soft reset, and then the phone should switch to 1x only. (Not sure if a soft reset is necessary, but it does survive a soft reset).

It's a bit of a hassle, but at least it's a Settings Menu option you can toggle back and forth between.

Until Sprint puts EVDO back on the tower nearest to me or puts out an Airave that supports EVDO, this 1X only setting is the best solution right now.

-Ed

[tsperez]

Originally Posted by Edwood

Until HTC releases a firmware update that has a more efficient radio ROM, I found a better solution for improving battery life. It's a annoying to have to use it, but oh well.

For those that live on the fringes of EVDO reception or have poor / intermittent EVDO reception otherwise, it's best to disable EVDO altogether and go with 1xRTT only.

Here is the Registry edit for enabling Hidden Phone Settings "Mode of Operation" option to pick 1X mode only.

HKLM\SOFTWARE\OEM\PhoneSetting

Change the option HiddenModeOperationPage from 1 to 0

Then go to Phone/menu/option/service/and check in the list, "Mode of Operation" should be at the bottom. You have 3 choices, Hybrid, EVDO, and 1X.
Once you have checked the box and hit ok, you will need to soft reset, and then the phone should switch to 1x only. (Not sure if a soft reset is necessary, but it does survive a soft reset).

It's a bit of a hassle, but at least it's a Settings Menu option you can toggle back and forth between.

Until Sprint puts EVDO back on the tower nearest to me or puts out an Airave that supports EVDO, this 1X only setting is the best solution right now.

-Ed

Ouch! This is like taking that Vette w/ the 5 gallon tank and removing 4 spark plugs to improve the range.

My battery almost never makes it through a day without having to recharge. Pretty weak imho (pun intended).

tsp

[l2yangop]

havent noticed any gains in performance since these hack. its been about a week

[cbunting]

Seriously, wtf is up with the battery... took it off charge at 3pm, by 7pm it was down to 10%, made a couple 1-2 minute phone calls... have push email set up... how can they release something so fkn poor??? I thought my mogul was bad, but this thing blows...

[ACHlLLES]

Have you guys tried this?

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread...hlight=battery