Something is draining my battery and i cant figure out what it is...

djstone86 · #1 (**permalink**) 03-06-2009, 02:00 PM

Last night my phone was at 85% and when i woke up it was at 17%.
I made sure that opera was closed- beam, bluetooth off, i applied pretty all the tweaks (polling, the tweak from the mogul, backlight off)
What could it possibly be because this is ridiculous.

**kyle4269** · #2 (**permalink**) 03-06-2009, 02:01 PM

Check and see whats running in the background.

Chuck_IV · #3 (**permalink**) 03-06-2009, 02:12 PM

Also, what type of signal are you getting during the night? It could be searching for a signal at times, which will kill you battery FAST.

djstone86 · #4 (**permalink**) 03-06-2009, 02:15 PM

nothing was running in that background... except activesync which was usually never a problem. i get EV reception.

Chuck_IV · #5 (**permalink**) 03-06-2009, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by djstone86

nothing was running in that background... except activesync which was usually never a problem. i get EV reception.

How many bars tho? A BIG battery drainer is when the phone has no signal and is searching for something. It could be losing signal on and off during the night and thus killing your battery.

djstone86 · #6 (**permalink**) 03-06-2009, 02:52 PM

like three bars. my service area does switch from 3v to 1x from time to time.

biglee · #7 (**permalink**) 03-06-2009, 03:19 PM

If it switches to 1X, that may be it. I travelled to Northern Wisconsin a few weeks back and it was only 1X everywhere. i had to keep my phone on the car charger the whole time otherwise the battery would drain super fast.

Chuck_IV · #8 (**permalink**) 03-06-2009, 04:06 PM

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Originally Posted by djstone86

like three bars. my service area does switch from 3v to 1x from time to time.

That is it. My guess is you are losing your Sprint signal and the phone goes off searching and finds a roaming(don't think there is an obvious way to tell you are roaming on the TP) 1X signal from someone else. Now since it is roaming, it begins constantly looking for a Sprint tower again, to get back onto the network. That constant/added searching for the Sprint tower and changeover searching, is what's killing your battery.

**kyle4269** · #9 (**permalink**) 03-06-2009, 02:24 PM

Does that polling tweak poll the towers more?

djstone86 · #10 (**permalink**) 03-06-2009, 02:34 PM

nah i didn't mess with that i just did the one to check my battery level less.