Help Won't sleep

[crazyg0od33]

It's funny I remember seeing this post a while back and thinking I'm glad I don't have that issue. Then a few days ago my battery started draining like crazy. It was driving me nuts for several days. I had to keep it plugged at home, at work, and in the car. I tried turning everything off (which basically defeats the purpose of having this phone) and nothing helped. Then I noticed it wouldn't sleep, and figured that was the problem and went to work to get it fixed.

I finally got it fixed and now it works fine again, thankfully. Now I can leave on GPS, wifi, gmail sync, tons of widgets, live wallpapers, and just about what ever I want and the battery will barely drain at all when it's sleeping (which is the way it's supposed to be IMHO). Also, I'm not using any task manager/killer. It's nearly 5pm and my phone has been unplugged since this morning and I'm still at 76% with moderate use and that's fine with me. But I find myself constantly checking the awake time to make sure the phone is sleeping.

As to the OP. Have you tried doing a reboot on a clean fairly simple scene (not a lot of widgets, no live wallpaper, etc) and NOT using any task killers/managers? I can't be 100% certain but I think my issue might have been related to a widget that was depending on another process that was force closed, or was somehow interrupted by another process and just got stuck trying to update. Just turning everything off didn't work for me. Removing apps didn't work. Killing running tasks didn't work. Eventually, I cleaned out all my widgets from all seven screens leaving only links and folders, rebooted the device and found my issue was gone. I reloaded all the same widgets I had and the issue still didn't return, so I'm thinking it wasn't the widgets by themselves but something that made the widgets wig out.

As I said I don't run any task managers or killers. Though, I think I can trace the problem back to when I was playing in the system application manager cleaning out cache and stopping random applications that seemed to be hogging resources (won't do that again).

When you say "reboot" do you mean a factory reset or just turning off the phone then back on?
Im looking into getting this phone but am worried about the battery life issues

 

[CKLewis]

I have had my DINC for almost a month now and never realized that my phone was never going to sleep... With moderate/heavy usage I'd get almost the same battery life as I would with no usage. Thanks to this forum I think I have it figured out (calendar and possible batteryleft widget), hopefully I can now get more than 24hrs from my "1750" Seidio battery.

It would be nice if the new update fixes this problem without the user having to troubleshoot on their own. I'd bet less than 10% of DINC users actually visit forums and will never solve their problems because they can't get help. These people probably think the phone is a POS because of problems that could be fixed in a couple minutes of research. Hell, the only reason I searched out a DINC forum is because I'm a huge car nut and realize how helpful they can be for troubleshooting/researching....Thank god for the internets! lol