WMLongLife, created by Chainfire, is an automatic 2G/3G band-switching solution. It will keep your device in 2G when you do not need to use 3G, and will switch to 3G automatically when you do need it. For most users, having your device in 2G uses much less battery, and thus your phone lasts longer on a single charge. 2G also usually generates less radiation than 3G. This utility is still in beta, so you may encounter some issues. Refer to developer’s thread for any problems or questions.

Main features:

* 2G/3G (auto)/3G (only) automatic band switching based on:
– Running programs and their needs
– Availability of Wi-Fi
– Availability of USB
– Roaming
* Idle data connections disconnect based on running programs (note that unlike the registry tweak this does not break simultaneous voice/data)
* Manual band switching
* Automatically disable data when roaming (including AGPS)
* Pauses applications while switching bands (so you don’t get networking errors)
* Several predefined applications supported
* Support for HTC/MSM72xx GSM devices (GSM/EDGE vs UMTS/HSDPA)
* Support for HTC/MSM75xx CDMA devices (1xRTT vs EV-DO)
* Support for various Samsung GSM devices (GSM/EDGE vs UMTS/HSDPA)

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Battery Guard is an finger-friendly application that manage powering for each subdevices on PocketPC machine.This application should be usefull for someone who want to track what eating battery and make it under control.

Features:
set powering template for each power state of WinMo Professional device
set current power mode for each subdevice
backup/restore powering template
support user-defined friendly names of subdevices
multilanguage support (English, Polish)
skin support
AppToDate support

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Mobadi is a little application to discharge and monitor your internal battery. It will support only different HTC Devices and the Sony Ericsson X1i (Xperia), but Versions for non-HTC Devices are comming up soon. The downloadable Version will run on VGA and non-VGA Devices. On older devices like the Trinity, the Bettery-Percentage are 5% or 10%-Steps. So the Diagram are not so detailed like on the Touch-Versions.

Caution:
At the Update from 1.9.518 to 1.9.519 you must uninstall the older Version first. Because of an wrong Name in the old Version, it will not update automatically. For the next Updates you dont have to do this.

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PC Authority.com.au did a through battery test with some of the hottest mobile phones around in their quest to find the device with the longest lasting battery under similar conditions. The test conditions were as follows :

• Ensure a strong HSDPA signal is selected
• Make a half-hour phone call
• Download a 50MB email attachment
• Turn push email off (where possible)
• The phone is left in standby
• Check a POP3 account every 30 minutes until the battery runs flat.

And the winner was Touch HD, which has been getting positive reviews from everyone.

[ via Mobile Spoon ]

WMMiniBattery is a Windows Mobile freeware software which shows the battery status at the top of the screen with a tiny (3 pixels) bar. Its quite handy as it can be see on the top of the taskbar when you launch other applications, this enables you to keep tab on the amount of battery left on the device.

Updates in 1.1

• Customizable bar
• More information about battery
• Some bug fixes

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PowerGaurd is a windows mobile application which provides a real time read-out of your current battery current draw. It monitors several attributes, such as battery current, voltage, and temperature. PowerGuard represents these attributes textually as well as graphically and also can export the measurements to a comma-separated file. Next to monitoring battery current, PowerGuard can also give a notification when a user-configurable current threshold is exceeded. This is especially useful when you want to know what processes are eating up your battery.

The main application has six tabs:
1. Text : A textual representation of actual battery properties.
2. Graphs : A graphical representation of actual and past battery properties.
3. Life : A textual and graphical representation of remaining battery life (registered version only).
4. Control : Via this tab, the user can configure the behaviour of PowerGuard, such as update frequency.
5. Log : Via this tab, the user can configure the logging behaviour of PowerGuard (registered version only).
6. About : Information about PowerGuard, such as version number, and link to the PowerGuard website.

If you are satisfied with the basic features the application is free. As of version 1.3, new features require registration.

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BattLog 0.2.1.105 beta is a windows mobile freeware that lets you monitor the battery status on your pocket pc and outputs the result in to a .csv file so you can view the results in excel.

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WMMiniBattery is a Windows Mobile 2003/5/6 software which shows the battery status at the top of the screen with a tiny (3 pixels) bar.

Supported OS :
WM6
WM5
WM2003

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Ariel Battery Monitor

Release date : 31 Jan 2008
Developer : sunny127
Source : xda-developers.com

Short description:
-Ariel taskbar battery charge monitor/indicator/gauge replaces the “Start” button Icon at the taskbar with battery info icon.
It is a freeware and will remain so.

Main features:
-Makes good use of the unused space of the “Start” button icon.
-Battery power is always visible, because it is on the taskbar.
-Very low CPU consumption (Only about 0.001% !!! Much less than any other battery monitoring program !!!)
-Tiny memory usage, Much smaller than kBattery, pBar, magicbutton, batmon or xbutton.
-Just put it on StartUp folder or link to it, and it will do the job!
-WM2003, WM2005 (WM5) , WM6 compatible.

New version will be released very soon!
-Will include manual color shoosing for devices with special themes and more WM6 color compatibilities.

What’s new in version 1.6.2 :
-color bug fixed

What’s new in version 1.6 :
-VGA screens are now supported !

What’s new in version 1.5 :
-Landscape mode is now supported !

What’s new in version 1.4 :
-The battery icon can be moved to replace other icons on taskbar

The Ariel Battery meter is dedicated to the developers newborn son, Ariel.

Ariel Battery Monitor v1.6.2