The battery drain on .148 & zero 3rd party apps installed thread

[howarmat]

Originally Posted by gtstang462002

If you don't mind doing a little bit of work to open up your engineering screen you can look at how much power your phone is consuming while it is running. Here is a description on how to get to your engineering screen. Once you are viewing your engineering screen go to OS engineering screen>Battery>Battery monitoring screen with the normal apps idling in the background your should be around 50-75mA at 7-11mV of voltage draw.

In case your didn't know how to access the help menu on the Storm it is:
press and hold the ESC/back button down and touch the top left of the screen then the top right then the top left and then the top right again. This will bring the Help Me! menu up on the storm. They don't explain this on that website.

Once you are able to find your battery draw number then you can start eliminating programs one at a time to see if the draw goes away. Once it has gone away you will have found which program was your problem. I would start with facebook and then move up to AIM. Though I believe that both of these apps were written by RIM they are still considered 3rd party apps and can still cause problems. Sometime the problem app just needs to be uninstalled and then reinstalled. Good Luck.

holy cow that is a gold mine

[AgTitan06]

My battery life sucks on .148 also. I can barely get 5 hours out of it with minimal use before i go into the yellow and red.

[AgTitan06]

Originally Posted by gtstang462002

If you don't mind doing a little bit of work to open up your engineering screen you can look at how much power your phone is consuming while it is running. Here is a description on how to get to your engineering screen. Once you are viewing your engineering screen go to OS engineering screen>Battery>Battery monitoring screen with the normal apps idling in the background your should be around 50-75mA at 7-11mV of voltage draw.

In case your didn't know how to access the help menu on the Storm it is:
press and hold the ESC/back button down and touch the top left of the screen then the top right then the top left and then the top right again. This will bring the Help Me! menu up on the storm. They don't explain this on that website.

Once you are able to find your battery draw number then you can start eliminating programs one at a time to see if the draw goes away. Once it has gone away you will have found which program was your problem. I would start with facebook and then move up to AIM. Though I believe that both of these apps were written by RIM they are still considered 3rd party apps and can still cause problems. Sometime the problem app just needs to be uninstalled and then reinstalled. Good Luck.

WTH does 'throttling is enabled' mean...i got to the engineering screen and was checking a few settings and it says 'throttling is enabled'...they better not be throttling my internet. This setting is under EVDO Internet

[AgTitan06]

oooh, i found out how to find a listing of all open processes, and you can go in and kill the processes.

[gtstang462002]

Originally Posted by AgTitan06

WTH does 'throttling is enabled' mean...i got to the engineering screen and was checking a few settings and it says 'throttling is enabled'...they better not be throttling my internet. This setting is under EVDO Internet

The testing that I have done it has no affect on your data throughput.

[gtstang462002]

Originally Posted by howarmat

holy cow that is a gold mine

SHHHHHH don't tell anyone

[Korben Dallas]

Originally Posted by gtstang462002

If you don't mind doing a little bit of work to open up your engineering screen you can look at how much power your phone is consuming while it is running. Here is a description on how to get to your engineering screen. Once you are viewing your engineering screen go to OS engineering screen>Battery>Battery monitoring screen with the normal apps idling in the background your should be around 50-75mA at 7-11mV of voltage draw.

In case your didn't know how to access the help menu on the Storm it is:
press and hold the ESC/back button down and touch the top left of the screen then the top right then the top left and then the top right again. This will bring the Help Me! menu up on the storm. They don't explain this on that website.

Once you are able to find your battery draw number then you can start eliminating programs one at a time to see if the draw goes away. Once it has gone away you will have found which program was your problem. I would start with facebook and then move up to AIM. Though I believe that both of these apps were written by RIM they are still considered 3rd party apps and can still cause problems. Sometime the problem app just needs to be uninstalled and then reinstalled. Good Luck.

i checked my battery draw and this is what it says current 125mA vesr 18mV
and yes i have battery problems

[jep0617]

Originally Posted by gtstang462002

If you don't mind doing a little bit of work to open up your engineering screen you can look at how much power your phone is consuming while it is running. Here is a description on how to get to your engineering screen. Once you are viewing your engineering screen go to OS engineering screen>Battery>Battery monitoring screen with the normal apps idling in the background your should be around 50-75mA at 7-11mV of voltage draw.

In case your didn't know how to access the help menu on the Storm it is:
press and hold the ESC/back button down and touch the top left of the screen then the top right then the top left and then the top right again. This will bring the Help Me! menu up on the storm. They don't explain this on that website.

Once you are able to find your battery draw number then you can start eliminating programs one at a time to see if the draw goes away. Once it has gone away you will have found which program was your problem. I would start with facebook and then move up to AIM. Though I believe that both of these apps were written by RIM they are still considered 3rd party apps and can still cause problems. Sometime the problem app just needs to be uninstalled and then reinstalled. Good Luck.

I am able to get to the help me screen, and went to the website to generateh the unlock code, but when I enter it nothing happens.

[Korben Dallas]

its supposed to change as soon as you punch in the last digit. must have done something wrong

[jep0617]

Originally Posted by Korben Dallas

its supposed to change as soon as you punch in the last digit. must have done something wrong

I was putting 60 seconds in the 'uptime' field. I assumed that was how long I wanted the screen to be up, and 1 day for duration. Does that sound right?

[pounder001]

Originally Posted by gtstang462002

If you don't mind doing a little bit of work to open up your engineering screen you can look at how much power your phone is consuming while it is running. Here is a description on how to get to your engineering screen. Once you are viewing your engineering screen go to OS engineering screen>Battery>Battery monitoring screen with the normal apps idling in the background your should be around 50-75mA at 7-11mV of voltage draw.
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Lots of information but for a non technical guy like me, I'm not sure what it all means but I did check my battery as stated above and mine at 100mA 14mV

[AgTitan06]

Originally Posted by jep0617

I was putting 60 seconds in the 'uptime' field. I assumed that was how long I wanted the screen to be up, and 1 day for duration. Does that sound right?

No. You must enter uptime exactly as it appears on your help me screen for it to generate the correct password

Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com

[jep0617]

Ok, I got to the battery monitoring screen and it was at 150mA Vesr: 25mV and now it is up to 175mA. According to the post with the directions on how to get to this screen, that is REALLY high. I have deleted facebook, and I believe the ONLY 3rd party app remaining is AIM which I will delete next.

update: after deleting AIM and rebooting, it is at 75mA and 11mV which I guess is better, so I suppose AIM was the culprit. Very odd since it was not actively running.

another update: just reinstalled facebook and it was up to 175mA and 18mV, just dropped to 125mA still 18mV. I am going to continue to experiment with different apps and see what effect they have.

another update: I know have absolutely zero 3rd party apps installed, rebooted, and it varies between 125-150 mA and 18-22mV. This is higher than was suggested, with zero apps installed. What am I supposed to do now?

more: let it sit for a while, and now it shows 100 mA and 14 mV... when i first turned it on it said 50mA and i missed the mV

ubertwitter jumped it up to 250 and 36! and then after sitting for a while it was all the way down to 25 and 3?! this isn't making a lot of sense

[richbyrne]

Did you try a battery pull after removing or reinstalling apps? It also seems that apps settle in after installing. Apps may be connecting to the web, satellites, and towers for updates, messages, etc and GPS coordinates.

[jep0617]

Originally Posted by richbyrne

Did you try a battery pull after removing or reinstalling apps? It also seems that apps settle in after installing. Apps may be connecting to the web, satellites, and towers for updates, messages, etc and GPS coordinates.

Yeah, i am removing and reinstalling and seeing what changes. Most apps require a reboot when deleting, and some when installing, but I am rebooting now with just ubertwitter still installed. Will see what happens. Can anybody tell me what there battery readings are? especially interested in people's numbers who DO NOT have battery problems. Thanks.