[mrjohndo]

hey guys i need help

I have done a hard reset on my phone, formatted my memory card, deleted to cardrunner.dll file, and terminated to trsautostart process

however, we i run energy profiler my av usage is 0.24W... one thing i did notice was that it spiked up to 1W every 30secs without fail

i only have garmin, jbak and energy profiler installed

btw i have also tried running the profiler without the memory card but same result.

would anyone know wat the cause may be?

Cheers

[no1livz4ever]

Garmin XT drains the battery because there is one process tsautostart.exe runnig in the background. You could delete those .dll files from memory card (see previous posts) and kill the .exe process, but you would have to kill it every time you turn the Garmin XT on (offcorse, after you finished navigating).
I currently formated my memory card, I have only installed Fring, no 3g, no e-mail auto retrieval, no BT, and my average power consumption is 0,03W, but with Garmin XT 5.10 it was around 0.15-0.18.

[gixxerk6]

Just to add that tsrautostart comes up again nevertheless you killed process and runs out the battery again.
You dont have to start Garmin, process comes up
So you have to monitor this and kill the process at once or to use Garmin 4.20 for example.
I was totaly disapointed with E71 battery but with Garmin 4.20 battery is double better

[alexx24]

Hi. On my E66 i have on idle 0.05-0.07w ~30min-1 hour. With the screen on ( second level brightness) and energy profiler running i have 0.25-0.30w.Is that ok? What is weird is that each 30/40 seconds it`s climbing steep and fast for 1 sec then it `s back to normal. What`s all about?

[phelicks]

It seems that only the latest Garmin XT 5.20 drains battery rapidly. More earlier versions are more or less OK.

[freebird123]

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23-Dec-2008 01:30 PM
phelicks wrote:
It seems that only the latest Garmin XT 5.20 drains battery rapidly. More earlier versions are more or less OK.

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Garmin XT versions 5.00.10 and 5.00.20 have the same battery drain.

Garmin XT version 5.00.00 and older versions (4.x) are OK.

FreeBird

[phelicks]

This information would be helpful if you want to continue to use 5.00.20 version of Garmin.
Delete the following files from memory card:
\resource\plugins\CardRunner.rsc
\sys\bin\CardRunner.dll
Reboot device.

[tidesto]

Battery takes 4 or 5 days for me before asking to be recharged.

I use WiFi, Fring, Nokia push mail and many other features (not all time but frequently). My practice is to let the battery go on a full charge before use, and wait till the phone says "low level battery" to charge it full again.

Other settings which I believe guys will help you save on Battery:

1. I use Network mode to GSM only. When I need to connect faster then I switch to UMTS and back to GSM afterwards
2. My light sensor is set to medium, power saver time out 30 seconds and light time out to 35 secs
3. I only activate the tone on voice calls..
-> Message alert, Email alert to "Beep twice"
-> Breathing light off.
-> Key pad and warning tones to "Off"
-> Vibrate to off

On a very heavy call, 2 to three days with the options of vibrate, bluetooth also partially used.

My reason for not activating the tones for the other options is that it distracts me during office hours. Any urgent message or matters has to be relayed via phone call -- ringing with vibrate and set to max volume.

I do my charging mostly during before going to bed and I use a timer where I plugged my charger - set it to 2 1/2 to 3 hrs "on time" only. So there will be no overcharging of the battery which reduces the battery life.


Hope this helps

[magos]

Hi,

I did the same recharge with all my phones, and with an E71 from the store i'm working in - the first charge full - 12 h (from 22:00 to 10:00 sharp), and then i was charging it only when he asked.

The battery lasts way over a week in standby - that means I present the phone to the buyers, show them the functions, the player, the gps, etc etc, (it means it's not realy in "standby" )..

I forgot to tell that the phone it's used in offline mode.

Afterall, I'm pretty impress of the battery life...

[erevoz]

hey i want to ask i have 5800 and my consumption 0.35w it is normal?

i don't run any apllication since phone i try to restart..thx

[kambod]

You may install Nokia Energy Profiler (http://www.forum.nokia.com/info/sw.nokia.com/id/324866e9-0460-4fa4-ac53-01f0c392d40f/Nokia_Energy_Pr...) and see howmuch power is drawn from your battery. If it's above 0.18W in idle mode, perhaps an application is draining power more-than-usual from your battery. Use Killme application to kill hidden/unnecessary apps from the memory.
Good luck.

[shaunyboy]

there is a battery that you can get for the E71 from mugen.

google mugen power battery and you'll find a 3600mah for the E71 it also comes with a new back plate.

i'm thinking of buying one as my e71 lasts a day if i'm lucky and that's with very light usage it has been in for repair twice and awaiting it's return i've done all the usual with bluetooth off etc but doesn't seem to make any diffrence so i'm compelled to think either there's a bad batch of batterys or handsets themselves i shall see when it returns to see if it has made any diffrence one thing i noticed as well that the handset gets extremley warm when just in standby mode

[ussell]

Same problem with my phone. Got the phone December 08 and sent it in 3 times already and everytime the problem remains. In fact i got the phone back yesterday and fully charged the battery and this morning the phone was dead.

[zeus_thunderer]

My battery used to last me 36-42  per charge, I took the advice posted above about renaming Garmin's dlls, and killing the related process. My phone has been on since 44 hrs, normal phone calls, GPS, finished GT Racing championship (I am not that good a gamer), I have not ran Garmin since i killed the process, AND my battery has only went down two bars...

only 2 bars i say... hehehehehehe

Garmin is a fat battery HOG

Joe

[mayurh]

are garmin ever going to try to fix the battery drain problem for v5 garmin mobile xt?

[schanth]

Garmin Mobile XT Ver:5.00.30 or later has option to enable/disable background service which essentially overcome the battery drain problem:

Changes made from version 5.00.20 to 5.00.30:

• Provide support for Nokia 5800 (S60 touch screen).
• Provide a background service that monitors incoming messages which may contain information used by Garmin Mobile XT. A new setting will allow the user to turn this option off (Tools -> Settings -> System -> Launch Background Service).
• Improve map drawing performance.

Here is the link to download the update:

http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=3939

[coucou143]

Hi,

Thanks for all the post so far. I followed it thourgly and have achived the idle battery wattage to 0.04 , Thanks guys

 Usually i use to get 2-2.5 days with heavy to normal usage (no 3G but lots of work on wifi)

I dont know how long my battery will last after tunning my E71 with your advices but definately the energy graph fall down

from 0.25 to 0.04 so offcourse it gonna prove me that how fantastic is the battery of E71.

I found it helpfull if u do restart your phone regularly like once in a day.

So many issue can be resolved automatically and you can see the difference in graph by energy profile.

my settings

GSM only

WLAN search off

no breathing light

no notification light

screen timeout 15

screen saver  20 installed cclock which prevent the default power consumming clock

Offcourse Garmin was a battery drainer, I have upgraded my Garmin to 5.00.40 

yap it got a parameter to diable any background service. 

to check the after effects of this latest Garmin version here are my observations.

if I remove my memory card (Garmin Installed) and no other application is running in background

I get my idle standy = 0.04 ( 10 min test)  without memory card

If I put my memory card and run the test without running the Garmin

I get my idle = 0.05  ( 6 min test) with memory card

now  I run the Garmin application and close it and did my test to check what it leaves behind it.

I get my idle = 0.04 ( 9 min test) that means Garmin giving no more burden battery if  "background service= disable"

I will update with my battery up time.

[thebuttman]

Garmin users rejoyces. Finally Garmin have done something about the process TSRAutoStart preventing it from being run in the background unnessarily.

For those who would like more info on where to get this fix, you could check out this website

http://www.dotdoh.com/?p=394

[rai33]

Finally!  Thanks - confirmed it works too  - was a PITA having to kill TRSautostartafter garmin was used

[icersman]

I have now owned an E71X for less than a week (my first smartphone) --and I am concerned about the battery life, or rather the lack of battery life.

In less than a week of average use I have charged the battery 4 times.  On Saturday night, I turned it off and charged it overnight (for 10 hours). 

I turned it on at 10am on Sunday.  By 4pm the power was down to 3 bars and 1 bar at 10pm.  During the day I received 2 or 3 push emails, used the music player for about 1/2 hour, and made and received 3 phone calls.  BT and WLAN were active during the day.

I installed Google maps and Opera -- everything else is how it came out of the box.

I have now installed Energy Profiler.This morning, the charged battery shows 4.13V, and consumption appears to run aroun 4.0W.  I attempted to take a screen shot, but there's no setting for that in the options menu.

Is it likely that I might have a bad battery, or is this phone going back to AT&T?