Battery & Performance hacks - all cabed up for my friends

[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

[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

[DexterDawg]

Seriously, does anyone have ANY idea at all if this works? I bet there are 7 threads all with people saying I'll report back.. Is it snake oil or what on the TP?

[bruceo]

I have done everything online with battery hacks and even with data/bluetooth/Wifi off I still get erratic battery life often as little as 2 hours and often when I am on low battery warning and I plug into even a wall charger the phone will just die. I really think the first batch of Sprint & Alltel TP are lemons. My frind was over here today and he says he gets tons of battery liefe out of his regular touch and always keeps data on and does over 3,000 voice minutes a month. My niece has an instict and after 2 hours of doing almost nothing the TP was down to 10 % the instict with a smaller 1000ma battery was down to 90% WTF HTC?

[lexluthor]

It really mostly comes down to signal strength. I'm convinced that someone who's in an area with 4 bars all day will get double the battery life of someone who's in an area with 1 bar all day.

[bruceo]

Yeah that might be true, but in the same room with crappy signal and an uncrippled instinct with 350 less MA and a user that is a total non techie has 90% battery left, while a techie with tons of tweaking and crippling of the TP features to save battery has 10%, that's terrible and embarassing to say the least.

[Q_Q]

Originally Posted by lexluthor

It really mostly comes down to signal strength. I'm convinced that someone who's in an area with 4 bars all day will get double the battery life of someone who's in an area with 1 bar all day.

This is my experience for sure.

[WarChild]

Originally Posted by Baffles

Pro doesn't have IR, so that makes perfect sense.

If TP dont have IR how come I can beam stuff from my treo to my TP?

[ScrapMaker]

Originally Posted by ClevelandWheeler

If TP dont have IR how come I can beam stuff from my treo to my TP?

Bluetooth?