[temoore]

A few days ago my batteries (one standard, one Seido) began only lasting 4 to 5 hours. I had reloaded operating system prior to that, and thought that might have caused something to a problem.
After trying reloading, etc., I realized I had recently used one of my photos as the home screen. I was seeing a lot of hour glasses, and the phone felt warmer. It turns out that at least on my phone, if you use a photo for home screen that is stored on the memory card, it really uses up the battery. I saved the image to internal memory and it has been fine since then. Many of you might already know that this can cause a battery life issue, but I didn't. Glad I figured it out before sending phone back for exchange.

[JSanders]

Good troubleshooting, and it does make logical sense as well that such a setup would cause some quicker battery drain.

[BeefyBeefo]

Wirelessly posted (VZW 8330)

I have a photo that's stored on my memory card as my background and I haven't had any issues. I can see how that could be an issue though. As noted above, good troubleshooting.

[saitoh]

Wirelessly posted

Wow never thought of this... Trying it out now and I'll monitor my battery.

[Noctem]

would this also include saving custom rings to your device too?

(im assuming the answer is yes, but wanted other opinions)

[MidnightDraven]

I have an SD card pic as my home screen, and also dont have any problems.
My thinking would be it all depends on the size of that picture.
2 picturs with the right pixel aspect ratio for the Bold, but 1 is 3kb and the other 300kb, the latter is going have more problems.

[temoore]

Thanks for the comments. I will have to try it again and see if it still is a problem.

[trigg]

I'm going try this on .237.. will report back with result.