Something keeps my phone perpetually online

[miamicanes]

For the past few months, I've had an increasingly annoying problem... something keeps endlessly waking my phone up and causing it to go online. It's completely destroying my battery life and driving me crazy. Is there any way to find out what program(s) are responsible for the most recent requests that caused the phone to go online? A log, perhaps? A firewall-type program like Zonealarm, maybe, that I can launch and just wait a few seconds until whatever's taking the phone online tries again, gets intercepted, and pops up an alert like, "${program} just made a http request. Allow?"

According to task manager, nothing is overtly running. As far as I can tell, I've disabled all the weather apps, set Funambol to connect only once per day, and haven't launched Google Maps or Opera Mobile since my last reboot. Yet every single time I walk away from the phone for a few minutes and turn the display back on, I see the EVDO data transfer icon showing that it's actively connected.

At this point, I'm pretty sure that the persistent internet activity is what's killing my battery. If I unplug the phone from the power supply in the morning and leave it passively sitting on a table untouched, the battery will be dead by mid-afternoon. If I explicitly disable its internet connectivity in communication manager so it can't go online, the battery will easily survive the day, and might even keep the phone alive until noon the next day.

Thanks!

[regression]

Recently I have been looking for a program like Zonealarm for Windows Mobile but haven't found anything yet. I'll be interested to see if anyone has a program out there....

[bob0builder]

Could it be your weather constantly checking for latest updates?

I set my weather appplet for manual updates.

Bob

[miamicanes]

Does WM6 have any equivalent to Task Manager -> view threads/processes? I DO kind of suspect that a weather-type app might be responsible. Perhaps one that I enabled at some point in the past, then (thought I) disabled... but is still religiously going online to grab weather info that nothing is actually looking at anymore. Or, alternatively, where does WM6 keep track of processes that it's supposed to spawn automatically at startup? I've definitely noticed that after a reset, there's a 2-3 minute period of time between the home screen's first appearance and the point when I can actually DO anything without the phone being sluggish to the point of unusability.

[regression]

I found this. I wonder if anyone here has any experience with it. I'll try and install it tomorrow (if I have time) and see what it does.

http://www.airscanner.com/products/firewall/

[shadowfender42]

Well if it is a weather app you could do the easiest thing: backup data and hard reset. Of course if theres something easier do an alternative solution instead.

[guitardoc64]

MemMaid has that function. It might be able to pin down what is causing it. Plus it's a must-have program.

[miamicanes]

> MemMaid has that function. It might be able to pin down what is causing it. Plus it's a must-have program.

Cool... downloading now

[miamicanes]

Well, here are my startup items:

iLock2 (ok... s2u2)
poutlook (ok, I guess... pocket Outlook?)
Winterface (ok)
sddaemon (ok, I guess... used to read the SD card?)
WLMUpdate (ok, but probably useless... in the entire history of my phone, I don't think I've *ever* seen Windows Update actually report an available update for it)
Sipchange (ok, its purpose is to restore block input to the main input method after resets)
TPStartup (no idea what this is)
SpbMSSkins -- WTF?!? I deleted SPB shell way back in NOVEMBER.
SMSLauncher (ok, I guess)

startup services:
Power = Power_Service.dll
SMSretry = SMSRetry_Service.dll
PhoneExt = PhoneExt_Service.dll
(Windows Live = WLMService.dll -- unselected)
TaskManager = taskservice.DLL
EnlargeStartMenu = htcStartMenuService.dll
(LargeTitleBar = LargeTitleBar.dll -- unselected)
GPSDaemonService = GpsDaemonService.dll
App = App_Service.dll -- god only knows what THIS is
Stk_service = STK_Service.dll -- could this be going online to fetch stock info?
BTAGSVC = BTAGSVC.Dll -- bluetooth?
SoftwareDisable = softwaredisable.dll -- no idea what this is.
BthAsPlugin = BthASPlugin.dll -- no idea
SWMGMTSERVICE = swmgmtservice.dll -- no idea
CERTENROLL = enrollsvc.dll -- no idea
SNApi = regextdev.dll -- no idea
DTPT = dtpt_sev.dll -- no idea
LASSD = lassd.dll -- no idea
credsvc = credsvc.dll -- a credential service of some kind?
NOTIFY = NOTIFY.Dll -- ???
OBEX = OBEXSrVr.dll -- object exchange?
BTHIDSVC = bthidsvc.dll -- bluetooth ID service?
SqmUpload = sqmsvc.dll -- ???


Today Plugins:
("Date")
(Skyfire)
* HTC Home
(Getting Started)
("Internet Calling")
("Owner Info")
(HTC Home Sprint)
("Voicemail")
(Mobile Email)
("Device Lock")
("Tasks")
(Windows Live)
(Windows Live Search)
* Winterface
(Sprint store)
(MusicPlugin)
(OperatorLauncherPlugin)
* Messaging
(Calendar)

[miamicanes]

Update... I think I might have found the culprit: Winterface. I found an overlooked weather tile on my second page & removed it. Crossing my fingers and waiting to see whether or not it worked...