TP worked fine for 1 week, then OVERHEATED and drained the battery in 2 hours?? Help!

Justin311 · #1 (**permalink**) 11-07-2008, 04:26 PM

So I've had the TP for a little over a week and absolutely love it. I haven't talked on it for EXTREMELY long periods of time, but it never got anywhere near as warm as my diamond. Until today.

I took it off the charger this morning at about 9am and it had a full battery. The first time I used it today was when I took my phone out of the holster at 1pm to make a call, and noticed it was extremely warm, even though I hadn't been using it. I figured I must have hit a button while I was sitting in a chair, causing something (radio?) to turn on and heat it up. I made my phone call (5 min) and put it back in its holster.

Now at 3:15pm (2 hours later) the phone beeped low battery warning at me. I took it out of the holster again and it was still just has hot (never noticed the heat since it was in the holster on my belt). I turned it off and plugged it in to charge for a bit.

The only things I've loaded are "diamond hacks.cab" and a couple other small odds and ends. I have TF3D disabled and am running iLauncher. Bluetooth is turned off and Data is set to turn off after idle for like a minute or so. The only thing I touched last night before putting it on the charger was I used diamond hacks to adjust the scroll wheel to work in all applications.

Did I set something wrong or did my TP just up and crap out on me? Is there anything I can check to see what radios are on or what could be running? Help!

wrecks · #2 (**permalink**) 11-07-2008, 04:38 PM

Comms manager not good enough to see what radios is on? Also did you close you application correctly. If you use Google map or something and do not close it down, it will leave your gps running, hence why you got about 8 hours. You need to close your GPS apps down or else the GPS service will be on all the time.

Justin311 · #3 (**permalink**) 11-07-2008, 04:50 PM

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Originally Posted by wrecks

Comms manager not good enough to see what radios is on? Also did you close you application correctly. If you use Google map or something and do not close it down, it will leave your gps running, hence why you got about 8 hours. You need to close your GPS apps down or else the GPS service will be on all the time.

Now that you say that I was using SprintNav yesterday for the first time, and I didn't double check to make sure it was all the way closed down! After a soft-reset its not on, but that doesn't mean it wasn't on until I soft reset just now.

Comms manager is great, however I don't know if I can trust it, hence my question. Comm manager currently shows my Data connection is set to "off". Shouldn't that override a GPS app like Sprint Nav, or is GPS seperate from Data? Does GPS have a "radio" that is not shown in Comm Mgr?

wrecks · #4 (**permalink**) 11-07-2008, 05:15 PM

They are serarate kind of. You can use this tool to enable and disable your GPS service or at least know the status of it.

Unzip on your computer, copy cab to your device and install it. It's call GPSTools.

**ScrapMaker** · #5 (**permalink**) 11-07-2008, 05:45 PM

The heat problem is becoming an increasing concern with many of us. It COULD have been GPS, but keep an eye on it...

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=43468

**stroths** · #6 (**permalink**) 11-07-2008, 06:56 PM

Another culprit could be your signal. If you get a bad signal, the phone will boost its power to get a better signal and keep trying to acquire one. This can heat up your phone and drain your battery fast

Justin311 · #7 (**permalink**) 11-08-2008, 03:17 AM

Thanks for the GPS tool. I hope that was it, but I have a sneaking suspicion, after reading the other thread above, that this is an issue with the phone itself

Time will tell I suppose....

**ScrapMaker** · #8 (**permalink**) 11-08-2008, 04:36 PM

heading to BB to return my TP. Hopefully someone will offer a similar phone that actually works.