Windows Phone 7.8 start screen appears to have a battery draining, data hogging bug

Heathcliff74 from WP7 Root Tools fame has detected a somewhat serious bug in the new Windows Phone 7.8 start screen.

He noticed that his phone, which has been upgraded to Windows Phone 7.8, used 600 MB in less than a day, at around 1 MB/ minute, and was rapidly draining its battery.

Most of would have been flummoxed, but Heathcliff of course had the tools at hand to investigate the issue.  He discovered that an app with a live tile was querying an erroneous, non-existent URL, and was being returned an error page.



 

Heathcliff was able to confirm the issue was newly introduced with WP 7.8, and suggest all WP 7.8 users should watch their 3G usage – if it is higher than normal a rogue live tile may be to blame –unpinning it will solve the problem.

But , Microsoft needs to fix this new bug ASAP. :(

Source: wp7roottools ,Via: wmpoweruse