The firmware upgrade also fixes multi account mail checking in pocket outlook. With the prior release only the “active” email account would check every X minutes. Now all accounts configured to check will do so. This was a biggie for me but that’s about it.

3 to 4 hours? Wow. That would make sense if you were swamped with incoming e-mail and other data, but not otherwise.

I’ve had push e-mail enabled and noticed no major changes to battery life.

I have the verison version and when i had the microsoft directpush my battery only lasted only 3 max 4 hours. i then noticed it and shut it off. the battery lasted all day then. why is this such a battery hog?

The CDMA radio should use less power than a UMTS radio, and more information on http://www.geekzone.co.nz/Jama/28 (the author is resposible for mobile devices certification at Telecom New Zealand).

For a list of other things on this update check this article http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=5915 (the author was responsible for all O2 Xda products until moving back to New Zealand).

whats the great thing about this firmware? just microsoft pushmail? is that it? just wondering if its really worth it. dont really need pushmail myself.

Frank, I only have two days of the new ROM under my belt, but from what I’ve seen so far, I’d tend to agree with you. The battery doesn’t seem to be draining as much as I had feared because the EV-DO radio is in a dormant state the majority of the time. Yes, the off-peak and peak scheduling times are still there.

Regarding ActiveSync scheduling, with MSFP installed, does of peak and and off-peak times remain?

While I understand the concern about the radio being on, are you sure it’s as much of a drain on the battery as you fear? My understanding for GPRS radios (and I am assuming EVDO is similar) is that most of the battery consumption occurs when data is being transmitted and that being connected is little different than having the GSM radio connected for egular phone operations.

Kevin, thanks for the tip. For some reason it didn’t occur to me to try this and I think this is an easier option than constantly changing the sync option within Activesync. Having had the Push feature active over EVDO since last Friday evening, I can confirm it’s battery sucking prowess. Today however, I’m in a 1RXTT area and the Push related drain is significantly less drastic. More so than I expected really. I own the Sprint 6700 and installed their AKU2 ROM offering dated 2/22/2006. I’ll speculate then that UTStarcom (an official partner of HTC probably due to their expertise with CDMA radios?) literally finished the basic Apache ROM for the Sprint device and then 2 days later completed the bluetooth/wifi crippled Verizon version?

I’ve heard reports here in the States that changing it to “Manual” has no effect for some reason, but I’ll have to try it myself. The U.S. ROM version I show is 2.07.20….interesting….

Ah… The ROM released here in New Zealand is dated 04/04/06 version 2.11.20, build 14928.2.2.0 (2.2.0 means AKU 2.2).

Or you can change the ActiveSync Schedule from “As items arrive” to “Manual” or an interval. Same results, woth more flexibility.