Power Leak

Okay I don't know if it's just my phone or something that I installed but this thing is eating power like crazy.  I haven't used it at all (no texts, phone calls, no internet connection) and in 3 hours the battery has went from 100% to 72% and dropping fast.  Anyone else experience this insane power drain?  I remember on my HTC tilt there was a crazy power drain that was caused by something.  Anyone know of an app that can monitor power usage? 

Well I've sent a total of 5 messages today, haven't made any calls or used the net at all at it's currently at 21% left after 10 hours.  I've played with it for a total of about 10 minutes...  Something is definitely up.  Trying to think of what I installed in the last 2 days.  I may have to do another hard reset and install things one at a time monitoring power usage after each install to figure out what it is.  Major bummer.

edit:  fell another 4% in 6 minutes lol    17% FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

I was thinking did any of you charge the phone for the full 3 hours according to the guide when you first got the phone, or did you started to play with it at once. Either way when att(for me) shipped the phone it was activated. When I opened the box a stop label told me that the phone needs to be charge before first use.

it took about 4 cycles before it started to get better for me.  hopefully you'll see a big difference once its done.

Are you using the fingerprint lock?

I have had the same issue twice in the three weeks I've had my phone, both times were overnight while everything except the phone radio was off (and the apps were killed, I'm suspicious of this phone already so I'm being fairly diligent in watching stuff). The only other thing running in userspace would be the lock.

My phone gets reasonably well used and I typically charge every other day which almost exhausts the battery, except when this has happened. In both cases it'd gotten a recharge to full within the last 6 hours, some light usage, and then lost 70%+ in the next 6 hours while I slept.

I have the same problem, very little usage and almost 5% per hour loss. What helped a little was making windows live a manual startup instead of automatic. This can be done with a program like memaid or SK tools. It will effect your hotmail account as well.
I also have a memory leak that brings my program memory from 74mb to about 48mb in about 6hrs. The only cure for this has been soft resets.

I don't have any incoming emails coming into my phone or any media net (at&t's internet) usage.  The fingerprint lock is set to come on after 1.5 hours of non-use.  I didn't start having power problems til over a week after I got the phone then on Monday it just went crazy.  I woke up this morning and turned the alarms and everything off still plugged in, I put it in my pocket and headed to work, when I checked my phone 45 mins later after not touching the thing it was at 90%.  I've barely used it today (played dragon ball for about 20 mins) and after 7 hours being off the charger it's at 30%.  

I notice the phone gets really hot in my pocket and battery drain gets crazy, if I put it in my desk drawer it will cool off and battery consumption gets better.  I figure it has to be something I installed this weekend has a memory leak or is causing the power consumption.  Outside of a few skins (WMP, Coreplayer) I don't think I really installed anything else.  What really sucks is every power monitor I've found and installed won't give me a power usage amount on this phone (they all just read 0 mAH), so there is no way I could install one item at a time and check battery usage.  Using DotFred's Taskmanager everything open seems to using about the right amount of memory though so I'm lost on where it could be coming from.

edit:  I never use Voice Command so I just disabled it and removed from StartUp which free'd up a decent chunk of ram.  Also I had the phone optimized for performance with SKTools but it's probably unnecessary with the amount of processing power this thing has so I just optimized it for maximum free ram and I'll see if that makes any difference.

Well guys, I am trying here


That sure sounds like its losing signal near your body while on your person to me..



 Another way to alleviate heat build up when charging, is like you said, turning screen off, can also slide keyboard open an shut it off in a open state to let air circulate thro two halves. (totally not needed, though one can do this.)

In your case too, i still suspect signal lol, i know it sounds like a usuall suspect, but i think it is in this case the same thing, maybe not as bad as Ghostface's though.

Earlier in thread...M240-A1 suggests..

Give this a shot guys, shut down an restart your phones in the troublespots, example, where you fella's suspect your battery drain is highest, like your desk Ghostface an Mrpants where ever you put yours at night.

The phone i can say, has a great battery life on mine now, it was once so bad, i thought i would have to keep charging it every 6 hours, it did improve an greatly, so all i can add here is, It should, be better in your fella's cases, and or improve from where its known to be at now one way or another.



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