Dialer and battery

Normally, my HTC Thunderbolt with an extended battery gives me about 10-12 hours of talk and internet use and about 24 hours of standby time. On Friday 9/14 I got just four hours of use. In looking at battery use, I see the dialer went nuts chewing up 25% of the battery on a continuous basis. I had not made any calls since Thursday evening.
Force stopping the dialer and a cold reboot did not solve the problem.
However, after leaving the device turned off and on charge over night I see the dialer has throttled back to 2% of use or zero. This is standby mode as I understand it.
A review of various Android forums on the Internet shows many reports of similar problems with Android phones. A call to Verizon Technical Support revealed the carrier has no record of this type of problem!
There is no single cause of the dialer going berserk, but some reports suggest is it associated with the following sound settings being checked "on":
- Quiet ring on pickup
- Pocket mode
- Flip for speaker
All three settings are associated with the motion sensor. My suspicion is that a bug in the motion sensor code keeps the dialer from shutting down after a call and after one or more of these functions are triggered by the user.
The older version of the dialer had a setting that forced it to shut down after a call. You could set it to return to the contacts screen on hang up. That option is gone in Android 2.3.4, SW # 2.11.605.19 71ORD
It is not useful to turn off the motion sensor, though there are NON-root tools do so, since it is also used for screen orientation, e.g. landscape v. portrait, for other functions.
It seems to me that HTC and Verizon have some explaining to do because hundreds of reports on the Internet clearly means some of them must have been brought to the carrier's attention over time.
BTW: Verizon's technical support blamed the battery and sold me a new extended unit for $50 since the original was out of warranty. That was before I did the research I am reporting here.

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Hey this is Brian, bjmcmurry, under a different user ID. If I logged in as bmcmurry, original post, I was just getting a server error and couldn't get to this discussion nor post a comment anywhere.
Anyway, let me be as brief as I can. After an extensive analysis of replicating the problem on another phone to eliminate it being a hardware specific issue and that the test phone has an unlimited data plan, I was able to stop the excessive data usage and consequential battery drain. I believe I have a reasonable explanation of the problem, an iOS logic bug.
I had everything under my control clamped down on the test phone to minimize data usage. Also, I was forcing all data usage to use the cell towers. I determined that I was burning at least 11 to 13 Mb per hour doing nothing important. I literally had everything turned off except 'Settings' was allowed to use Cell data providing a avenue to log into the Apple ID.
The two phones had 2 things in common, they were using the same Apple ID and the same version of the OS. One was a iPhone 5 and the other was a 5s.
Here is a synopsis of my experience via my written evaluation of the Apple support system (Apple Rep name's have been removed):
After a couple of hours on the phone with an Apple Care Senior support Analyst, it was suggested that I go to the Apple Store to 1) get my battery replace in the iPhone 5 since it qualified for the replacement program and 2) see if the Genius could provide me with any insight in the data usage issue and battery drain.
I'm certainly glad I had multiple reasons to visit the closest Apple store, a 45 min drive. I got the battery replaced, thanks for that.
Regarding the important issue to me that brought me to the Genius Bar, excessive Cell data usage, I thought the Genius did a wonderful job listening and documenting the problem we were experiencing. Unfortunately, educating us on the use of the product or replacing our phone was not going to solve the problem. He eventually figured it out, this was not a user error or broken hardware. We surmised that the reason I was sent to him was to verify and document that there was a problem. I clearly had a problem. After writing copious notes on the issue, The Genius smartly referred me back the the AppleCare Senior Advisor. So, back to AppleCare Senior Analyst I went. She, knowing this was not a simple problem to solve i.e. beyond her level of expertise, got an Apple Software engineer involved.
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Having been an previous owner of a software development company that I started in 1980 and retired in 2001, I can tell you that using the 'Black Box' method of debugging is extremely inefficient. Instead, having access to an ‘Activity Manager’ type app to identify in real time what process was blowing up the data flow would have saved me a lost afternoon at the Apple store and hours on the phone with tech support.
Ironically, I may have stumbled onto a "work around" solution short of turning off Cell Data that stopped the excessive Cell Data usage and consequential battery drain. Just prior to leaving the Apple Store, I used one of their Macs to log in my Apple ID on the id.apple.com website to ‘Manage my Apple ID’, I was forced to upgrade the security level of my password. Afterward, my cell data usage seemed to drop dramatically.
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Memory upgrades and battery scratches

Good afternoon all!
I couldn't find where to email Lenovo directly so unfortunately I'm going to have to post here.
I'm probably going to catch some flak for this but hey ho, so heres the thing, I bought two brand new Lenovo 3000 N100's 5 years ago, all good, they both came with a 512MB SO-DIMM and since I wanted more memory I bought 2x1GB SO-DIMM's which I put in mine and put the other 512MB in the other one giving mine 2GB of RAM and my mum's 1GB of RAM.
Doing this was easy peasy, unscrew *ONE* screw and the flap just slides out of the two slots on the opposite side of the flap to the screw. Job done.
Scroll forwards 5 years and times have moved on... a lot and it seems like we apparently need to MASSIVELY over engineer things now.
So I bought three Lenovo 3000 G570's, all good stuff and all came with 1x2GB and 1x4GB for a total of 6GB, all good but me being me and a Firefox tab whore, what with RAM being so awesomely cheap I decided what I was going to do was get 8GB (2x4GB) SO-DIMMS (Corsair), take out ALL my existing memory, put in the new Corsair 2x4GB SO-DIMMS, take out the 2GB SO-DIMM from the one I got my sister and put in my now spare 4GB SO-DIMM giving me 8GB of RAM, my sister 8GB of RAM, my mum sticks with 6GB of RAM and I have 2x2GB SO-DIMM's left over spare.
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So I undo said four screws and I should just be able to slide the panel out now right? Wrong, obviously four screws were deemed not nearly enough to keep it in place, so there are now tabs which are actually clipped in around pretty much all sides of this panel.
Well okay this can't be difficult right? Wrong. Now I'm a firm believer in the notion that if it won't budge don't just keep applying more and more force until something breaks. So I'm looking all over this thing, testing it gently from different sides to see if I can prise it open but it's becoming quickly apparent that I'm expected to BEND the panel so I can get the tabs out around the sides!
MASSIVELY over engineered and COMPLETELY unnecessary, were the FOUR screws not already holding it in place okay? It certainly seemed that they were? Okay so I need to bend the panel to get the tabs out but I'm guessing it's a reasonably easy thing to do not requiring much force right? Wrong. So it became quickly apparent then I'm going to need quite a bit of force, the problem is it's the kind of force that requires a flat head screwdriver and despite my best efforts it was impossible not to mark the bottom of my nice shiny brand new laptop! But that's not the end of it.....
So I've undone the four screws and I've managed to bend the panel and prize out all that tabs as gently as possible all whilst doing my best to try not slip the screwdriver underneath the panel taking a nice stab at the motherboard/memory/CPU/wifi/etc underneath because that would just *really* make my day, so the four screws and numerous tabs would be it right? Wrong. It appears that there is something underneath the panel STILL holding on, "more tabs?!" I cry in despair as my engineering family background cries out "WHY LENOVO GODS? WHY?!!! Does this panel need to survive a thermonuclear explosion?! Does it need to stay on whilst being driven over by a tank?! WHY?!".
So I'm trying everything, gently wriggling it this way, wriggling it that way, lifting it this side, lifting it that side, EVERY conceivable way of removing the final tab underneath I tried.... and failed. I pour through all the manuals again, maybe I've missed something? Maybe I'm just being completely thick (it's not unknown to happen)? But no, the manual makes it sound as easy as breathing so I give it one last try, I lift the panel putting more and more force through it until eventually BANG it comes off.... and I sit there staring.... laptop on the table.... the panel in my hands.... and the now broken tab.....
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....wonderful.
With sigh I proceeded to install the new memory and replace the panel which now ironically goes on and comes off again SIGNIFICANTLY easier now the tab underneath has broken off and do you know what? The panel doesn't seem to have lost any of it's ability to stay in place? Funny that.
The other funny thing is that when I go to 'upgrade' my sisters laptop, the panel comes off EASILY! Maybe during assemble mine was done differently? Maybe the tolerances on mine just made it too tight to come off easily but with another sigh I go to put the battery in my new laptop so I can check all is well and what do I find?
The battery has scratches all over it:
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All three brand new laptop boxes had the Lenovo seal on them so the retail store couldn't have opened it and my sister's and mum's laptop's were all fine?
So dear Lenovo, I love buying your laptops, I've bought five already, I'd buy again but would you be so generous as to send me a new panel and battery? I'd really appreciate your help.
Regards,
Benji
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awesome post that looks like a TARDIS... "Bigger on the inside". Anyway, sorry to hear on what had happened, I suggest giving our support team a call via
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