First I want to thank all those before me for all the wonderful information and hacks. Been great applying many of them. Also, my wife thinks she has been replaced by my xv6700. I told her that she was okay until I figure out how to keep astroglide from mucking up the electronics. LOL

Anyway, when I first began using the pda, I found that EVDO or 1xRTT connects were never (either never or rarely) initiated without me forcing a sync or IE or something similar. After a few proggie installs it began connecting almost immediately. I force a disconnect and within 30 seconds it was connecting again with no input from me. I hard reset and back to the previous behavior. Now, with proggies re-installed, back to the constant connect behavior.

1. Does this diminish my battery life significantly (assuming litttle or no data is being passed)?

2. Is there a way I can determine what program or process has requested a data connect at any particular time??

Thanks!
Bill

1. Yes, but not significantly if little data is being passed. Just like anything else, the more work done the more energy used. If you're auto-updating your nudie pic screensaver library every ten minutes, I would say your battery should last about 1.5 hours.

2. Not that I know of, but my first suspects would be whether you have email accounts being checked, or if you have a program like some sort of weather app for your today screen installed. Or, do you have PIE open (but minimized) to a page that auto-refreshes? Maybe if you listed what apps you installed, some of us could help identify which updates themselves automatically.

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Not that we're liable to get an answer to this, but I've got the exact same question.

My reason is that my phone seems to spend an inordinate quantity of time with 'white arrows' in the 1x display, and as a result constantly dumping calls into voicemail. With no applications open, nothing scheduled except a once every 3 min check on email, my wife complains she could spend an hour with an auto-re dialer and gets nothing but voicemail.

If I disconnect the service, within 10 seconds it dials back out in the background. Telus tells me it's working as it should. Coupled with the outrageously expensive data rates Telus charges, i'm eager to find some easy way to easily disable the constant dial outs.

Paul

Okay, I have disabled auto time sync with the network. I also have the Verizon Wireless Sync set to manual. I do have PUSH email enabled. Although I thought PUSH worked by the network sending me a signal to connect and then download. So, if I am right, this is likely not the cause.

Programs installed (other than factory with ROM update);
Dynamo Task Switcher
Resco Photo
Resco Explorer
Resco Regedit
Pocket Informant - contacts, calander front end
Flex Wallet
Sprite Backup
Spybot Search and Destroy
Virtual Earth - Just installed likely not the culprit

Fingers firmly crossed! THANKS!!!!!!!

you can use Netbox to display current connections & their associated port numbers. From there you should be able to determine which programs are utilizing the connection.

http://www.codengine.com/netbox.htm

Okay, great advice and a nice little program. I have used it and identified the source... Verizon Wireless Sync. The phone automatically connects and the remote address is 66.184.206.205:3102 ... A trace reveals this to be www14.wirelesssync.vzw.com...

I have checked and double checked all the settings and do not see anything that indicates a sync all the damn time button (that would be far too obvious). Also of note, I am tethered to the phone now with a USB cable and using a laptop to post here. A few times while connected I will get a notification on the phone that states Data Call Failure code 1010 "... not available when device is in tethered mode..." So it appears that Wireless Sync is trying even after I have started Wmodem...

Any ideas???

Thanks all!!

Here's a free task manager program which looks good. Perhaps this can help. I spoke to VZ tech support some time ago about this issue and those that I spoke to were clueless.

http://buzzdev.net/component/option,.../limitstart,0/

Thanks for the links guys, that's a major step forward for me to try and track down the offending app

Cheers!

Paul

Well, using the tips here I discovered that Verizon Active Sync was the source of all my connect requests. I have found that once active sync is run, if left running in the backround, it will force constant data connects on my phone, which kills the battery VERY quickly. Now, after a sync, I use the normal process terminator under Settings-Memory-Running Programs, and once active sync is killed, the constant connects quit.

This is a bit iratating and I hope that I never forget to kill the process, but at least I know what it is now. Thanks for all the help!!!