Gosh darnit!

You may recall that my TyTN exhibited power-sucking tendencies once upon a time. After some consternation I successfully tracked that issue down to some misbehaving virus-infected PC’s on my carrier’s 3G network, coupled – IIRC – custom power-state changed that I had made.

Well the TyTN was retired some time last yea in favour of a used HTC Touch Pro, and wouldn’t you know it, the power vampire decided to awaken a few days ago.

I figured that perhaps I had cooked this battery, but the theory wasn’t holding up. Next, I thought that perhaps the latest Google Maps update had a power-drain issue. But after some trial and error I was also able to dismiss that theory.

As it turns out, some dasterdly application (also known as HTC’s WiFi tethering app) had set my WiFi module in max performance mode, vs. max battery. The result, in my estimation, was that the phone was never hitting suspend mode – the same sort of problem that had befallen the TyTN.

So all is once again (mostly) well in my mobile world.