Originally Posted by
Jeovex Ok so I'm experiencing some battery drain issues on my torch 9810.
First off, I always attempt to do what I can to save power: different sound profiles, wifi on only when I need it, bluetooth off, brightness at lowest setting, closing all apps ( only home, phone, browser,bbm and messages are left open as they are system apps). I'm not new to this but I can't seem to be sure of my battery draining.
When I first got this phone, it was great, the battery life was amazing, I would take it off the charger in the morning one day and even forget to charge again and it would last till midday the next day.
But as of late the battery's efficiency has been terrible: it falls by about 10% per hour. That's less than 12 hours!!!! (In perfect 5 bar reception downtown)
I am not sure what is causing. There are many possible culprits.
A month ago my microSD card was giving me problems and was eating up my CPU and the phone would die quite rapidly ( the media application was actively trying to read the card, it showed in application management). I fixed this by reformation the microSD card and then it was fine.
A little while ago I installed the leaked 7.1 OS on my phone but after a few days I wanted to go back as quite a few features were not working properly so I tried many ways to restore to 7.0 and eventually found a way to. So now I am on 7.0 and the battery life is horrible (while it wasn't before).
Also I had the habit of using the PlayBook rapid charger as the amperes are higher and I had read here on Crackberry that it was safe for my phone to do so.
So now I have a few possible problems:
-A faulty battery (maybe I ruined it???)
-Maybe my microSD card is at it again ( but it doesn't show up on application manager as the media app using it)
Or
-A corrupted system that after restoring and backing up so many times has now become messed.
So what I will do is reformat my microSD card for starters.
But I would like to "wipe" my device, not a security wipe but an actual reset where I can reinstall the blackberry OS so I get no bugs.
And finally I have been looking at battery optimizing apps in appworld but they don't do much accept turn on and off different radio systems (which I already have off but the cell network) so they aren't working for me, are there any real good ones that don't steal memory and actually kill the battery faster? An app to test if my battery is damaged/faulty or how to know?
Thanks for any and all help.