I'm seeing greater than expected battery drain as well lately for my unlocked treo 680.
Haven't added any new software either. Could my battery just be dying? Thanks, Sam -----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, Jul 30, 2007 7:02 pm Subject: [Treo] Uh oh... battery issues again To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [email protected] At the necessary risk opening that can of worms again, I'm having battery drain problems with my Treo 680. The past week or so, I've noticed that the battery charge as reported by the Treo has been dropping faster than I think it should for the use it's been getting. This is usually accompanied by the battery compartment being warmer than normal. I top it off to full charge at least once per day, sometimes the battery compartment gets warm while on the charger. I've been wracking my brain trying to think of anything that I may have done to cause this, but I cannot. I thought that a new beta program from Rob at Hobbyist may have been the cause, but the problem persists even after uninstalling it and rebooting the Treo. Then, up until about 10 minutes ago I thought it was cellular service related as my signal strength meter has been fluctuating widely, from almost nothing to a strong reading. I know that when the signal strength drops below a certain point, the radio will ramp up its power usage in an attempt to compensate. But 10 minutes ago, I had a full charge, on the charger and I removed it from the charger. Immediately the battery meter went from 100% to 97% instead of the normal 99%. Even if the signal strength has chosen that very nano-instant to drop (which it didn't), there is no way ramping up the radio power would cause a 3% drop in the nano-instant it took to pull the Treo off the charger. I've tried a full discharge/recharge cycle a couple of times, no effect. I've done manual soft resets, no effect. Other than the software I've already mentioned and removed, I cannot think of any other new or updated applications that were installed coincidentally to this problem starting. I've got Seidio's newest battery on order, but it's not quite available yet, it should be shipping sometime this week. -- Jeffrey Kaplan www.gordol.org The from userid is killfiled Send personal mail to gordol "I have known war as few men now living know it. Its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes." - General Douglas MacArthur Yahoo! Groups Links
