SMS alerts and Battery Life

RogueWatchmen · #1 (**permalink**) 04-17-2009, 11:50 PM

I've had my Omnia for some time now and have noticed that in an 8 hr day of work w/ mostly texting and internet talking is at a minimal. Not really played with the setting to conserve power, I know adjusting the backlight is a viable option for most phones like these, and Wi-Fi is off since I have Rev A. in the area.

Now the real annoyance is over the last few days I've noticed my text alerts are not working 100% of the time, If I power cycle it will for for awhile then drop to working iffy or not at all. I've tried diffrent alert tones and the same result on them. These are MP3 tones I d/led because I didn't really care for the defult ones

Has anyone experianced this problem?

Hoss · #2 (**permalink**) 04-20-2009, 08:54 AM

Curious, I can't say I have had the same issue yet. Do you have any third party message s/w set up on your device?

RogueWatchmen · #3 (**permalink**) 04-20-2009, 09:30 AM

None, completely stock. I set a tone that came w/ it and no issues. Seems like it's something w/ the ones I d/led

Hoss · #4 (**permalink**) 04-20-2009, 10:01 AM

It may have something to do with where you put your downloaded ring tones, are they in the main memory and if so, where? I edit my mp3 ring tones to about 10 seconds then put them in My Device/My Documents/My Ringtones.

RogueWatchmen · #5 (**permalink**) 04-20-2009, 07:24 PM

It's something that just kinda started happening after about a week, I will move them to the main memory, but it's so limited I try to have it on the built in card. Great phone, memory was a bad design on thier part though.

Hoss · #6 (**permalink**) 04-21-2009, 08:17 AM

Rogue: agree more memory is something all WM devices could use more of, in my opinion there is never enough. I did see another post elsewhere that mentioned putting ringtones on the memory card will work but they can not be in a folder and need to be in the root of the card, try that first...save on-board memory. I didn't get a chance to try this method but will tonight when I get back home, let us know if you try it out.

RogueWatchmen · #7 (**permalink**) 04-22-2009, 11:56 PM

I've tried both and neither worked. Lasted about an hour then hit an miss. Tried removing varous programs and freeing up memory w/ no luck, but the default tones work 100%. They all come from www.m.zedge.com and are in MP3 format. Dunno what the problem would be as other people use them fine.

Hoss · #8 (**permalink**) 04-24-2009, 09:04 AM

I can't imagine why this would make any difference but looking for a common link, have you tried an MP3 file not from zedge.com?

RogueWatchmen · #9 (**permalink**) 04-24-2009, 09:14 AM

I'm going to look today on a site like Tune us in or something.