[ericidle]

Swirlymms never seemed to affect battery life this dramtically so perhaps thats a way out for some, althought I know some of you guys have problems getting the settings maybe its easier now that the carriers allow mms from iphones

[Niner1000RR]

My battery life was garbage, and for some strange reason since I turn off the battery % indicator my battery is now back to normal. but no MMS here...

[bran1093]

my battery life on my 3g 3.0 jailbroke and unlocked on tmobile with MMS is EXCELLENT. no problems here!

[ksiphone]

Originally Posted by bran1093

my battery life on my 3g 3.0 jailbroke and unlocked on tmobile with MMS is EXCELLENT. no problems here!

are yuo using the activatemms2g patch? have you changed your ipcc? if so, did you use iTunes or cydia?

[Oliver350Z]

Originally Posted by ksiphone

are yuo using the activatemms2g patch? have you changed your ipcc? if so, did you use iTunes or cydia?

He has an iPhone 3G, the battery drain issue is with 2G's using ActivateMMS2G.

[ksiphone]

Originally Posted by Oliver350Z

He has an iPhone 3G, the battery drain issue is with 2G's using ActivateMMS2G.

guess i should have read the entire post! oops.

[m600i]

I'm not having a battery drain issue on my 2G with the ActivateMMS2G installed.

[smassie]

Originally Posted by Niner1000RR

My battery life was garbage, and for some strange reason since I turn off the battery % indicator my battery is now back to normal. but no MMS here...

I'll second this. I turned off the battery % and it seems to be back to normal. I'll see after a day of normal usage.

[ksiphone]

Originally Posted by m600i

I'm not having a battery drain issue on my 2G with the ActivateMMS2G installed.

did you make changes to your ipcc? is your push on or off? how about the numeric battery indicator? could you provide a few more specifics about which apn you are using for data/mms and what other settings yuo are using?

i really liked having mms in the native app, but not at the expense of terrible battery life.

[smassie]

Originally Posted by ksiphone

did you make changes to your ipcc? is your push on or off? how about the numeric battery indicator? could you provide a few more specifics about which apn you are using for data/mms and what other settings yuo are using?

i really liked having mms in the native app, but not at the expense of terrible battery life.

I'm still running MMS, the only thing I changed was setting push to off for mail and turning off the % indicator for the battery.

I'm not sure which ipcc I used, I tried lots of them before I got one that worked for me. But MMS doesn't seem to be the cuplrit in my case. Sounds like it wast the battery indicator. I'll turn push back on tomorrow but I'm away from a charger today and don't want to risk it running dead on me.

[Oliver350Z]

I am doing really good without MMS...

Tonight I will try removing the Battery Indicator
(even though I don't think it will help much)

[ashidar]

I concur. I have an iphone 2g 16gb and after i installed the MMS patch through cycdia, my battery would drain by the end of the day (something that never happened) i'm unistalling now to see if it helps

[nouse41]

What happens if you simply turn of MMS in settings, but leave ActivateMMS2G installed?

[gabesir]

dont wanna do a full wipe again.... so i uninstalled the ActiveMMS2g , turned push off , had the battery % using sbsettings but is off now .
will test this and see what happends

[ksiphone]

i restored and only installed irealsms, activatemms2g, ipcc tweak and sbsettings. i have push off, numeric battery indicator off, auto brightness off, brightness set to about 25%. This seems to help, but it may be because i can't see the numeric indicator count down every time i touch the phone.

i tried a restore and only installed ireal and swirlymms yesterday. battery life was as good as it was with 2.2.

could the way the native app handles mms be causing the shortened battery life? it automatically downloads the attachment so it will show in the new mms window and in the conversation. swirly doesn't access the data network until you open the program and it doesn't download the attachment until you open the message.

is the native messaging app constantly checking the data network for mms? i could definitely deal without having mms show up in a preview and only download after opening the message. maybe this would help.

**update** - after restore/jb and installing ireal, activatemms2g with mms set on, ipcc tweak, sbsettings, winterboard then setting push off, brightness~ 25%, auto dim off, numeric battery off i left iphone on dock with 100% charge overnight (7 hours). iphone has been off dock now for 3 hours in standby mode untouched. i received one unanswered phone call and voicemail. phone is still currently at 100% full charge.

**update 2** - after 4 hours of standby, battery still 100%. Checked vm, sent three SMS, received 2 SMS, loaded this page and battery has dropped to 92%.