or...you could simply complain and get a new battery sent under your warranty.
or you could turn off the beam and disconnect internet when your not using it.
dude this battery is PERFECT!
its the best battery actually at 1400mh!
its your usage (bad settings, setup) thats making it go down.
i surf the net ALOT, i stream music!
i record movies and play music through pandora!
and im rarely down 60% in a day and a half!
and no i dont have any today plugins but ilauncher. however my battery indicator is the one that came with the phone (except i added the facelift from modaco )
im sorry but to those who have issues with this phone...i personally believe they are unfounded. except of course those that have defective units. i will have had this unit for 2 months on 1/28/09 and its flawless!
I'd bet Exchange Active Sync is one of the major drains. I will have a 910 to test tomorrow and will be using with corporate exchange server. Look forward to seeing how the battery fares compared to my I760. Had to go with extended battery on the I760 to make it through the day.
I'd bet Exchange Active Sync is one of the major drains. I will have a 910 to test tomorrow and will be using with corporate exchange server. Look forward to seeing how the battery fares compared to my I760. Had to go with extended battery on the I760 to make it through the day.
Most books on organization recommend not getting distracted/interrupted by e-mail throughout the day. So unless you have a boss/colleagues/sales contacts who are going to go bonkers if you don't reply within the next 10 minutes, turn off the push feature or at least slow it down to once every 1/2 hour or once every hour. You will be less distracted during the day and your battery will love you for it. If you sync in an area with low bars, your phone will expend extra energy connecting to the detriment of your battery. If you manually sync when you are in a decent signal area, your charge will go farther. I sync when I am outside some of our massive buildings not riding up in a steel-enclosed elevator.
I guess it depends on the type of job you have and the expecatations you have of your employees. My folks have BB's because I expect they will be availabe to answer email at a moments notice. I would not roll this phone to my engineers because it lacks a dedicated keyboard - in fact in the majority of cases the BB is still the only way to go if you need to really email. In any event it appears that exchange active sync on this phone will need the extended battery at the very least (possibly 2).
I'm going in to get it tested tomorrow. I'm thinking it has mostly to do with the weaker reception the phone gets. I've been watching it and I'm spending a lot of time in 1x while at my office and on the job site (the job site will be my new office in 3 months).
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I'm hoping that the 'poor signal' threads are isolated and not the norm. I'm already in a POOR signal area and if this phone is worse than average I'm going to have problems. Reminds me of being on an airplane - I760searching for a signal all the way from LA to DC - land in DC and I760 dead.
My plan is to run the 910 on a test account for the first week and run it next to an 8830 and I760 to see what if any signal differences exist.
I will add that my Treo 700P never got reception while visiting my folks. There basement was a "Dead Zone". No Text, email, or Phone. With my Omnia, it shows only 1 bar but everything works. I was pleased with my reception so far.
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Does anyone remember the hacks to cahnge your priority in talking to the cell towers... that was one of the hacks we used on the i730's & the i760's ... I'm sure I can find that hack if anyone is interested ... It bumped up your priority on the cell towers and meant less time trying to contact and establish a connection.
BTW my battery life is HORRIBLE... I was looking forward to a phone with a new battery, figuring that might help. I'll be swinging by a local store tonight to see if I can pick up a new battery ... I'm doing everything I can to extend the life of the battery ... I have all but the active sync email acount on a 1 hour refresh. I have dropped the brightness to its lowest ... turned off the backlight ... added the requests to disconnect after 2 minutes ... turned off Weather Panel to make sure its not trying to communicate to the world...
Does anyone remember the hacks to cahnge your priority in talking to the cell towers... that was one of the hacks we used on the i730's & the i760's ... I'm sure I can find that hack if anyone is interested ... It bumped up your priority on the cell towers and meant less time trying to contact and establish a connection.
BTW my battery life is HORRIBLE... I was looking forward to a phone with a new battery, figuring that might help. I'll be swinging by a local store tonight to see if I can pick up a new battery ... I'm doing everything I can to extend the life of the battery ... I have all but the active sync email acount on a 1 hour refresh. I have dropped the brightness to its lowest ... turned off the backlight ... added the requests to disconnect after 2 minutes ... turned off Weather Panel to make sure its not trying to communicate to the world...
Digging in and digging deeper ...
dont forget to turn off incoming beam
also, i do remember those days!
i had an i730, on my omnia, i dialed **772 and got a screen asking for a password...
but this guy got waaaayyy more!!
Isn't that just a security feature and the only real power consumption will be if Bluetooth is on - then the device will be looking for "incoming beams" - but if we turn bluetooth off to save power, then it shouldn't make a difference, right?
Crazy that you have to both make your device discoverable and accept incoming beams. I guess a "beam" deposits some text info that you can read to decide whether to file it, e.g. a contact, whereas the discoverable route you get the device notification and maybe a passcode request instead of the text transferred.
i thought the beam was infrared...
i got it from the link you posted about tips on better battery life
but i have to say...after doing that my battery last EVEN longer!
i mean i was already pushing a day and a half...now its more like 2 days with intense usage!
i find myself after a day and a half trying to kill it!
in an attempt to "cycle it". though i did hear that isnt necessary
i feel sorry for those with battery problems, i simply do not have that issue.
The battery that came with my Omnia exhibited the same weakness until I conditioned it by letting it almost fully discharge and then giving it full charge a couple of times. Worked wonders for the life. I confirmed the same behavior with two spare batteries I bought. I first charged them up and put in the phone. Battery life was much, much shorter than the original battery now has.
After conditioning them the same way, they are now on a par with the longer battery life. Try this, it really makes a difference.
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I also have noticed this as well. SPB Mobile shell and the SPB Pocket Plus Battery meter have shown that I have more battery than windows mobile states.
I know this is slightly (okay, quite a bit...) off topic, but could anyone give me a quick run down on the difference between PocketPlus and MobileShell?
I was a PocketPlus user for a long time, but suspected it of causing some problems on my XV6800, so took it off--also because of the memory constraints on that device. I've never used MobileShell. Could one use both? It seems like MobileShell is almost a replacement program and PP hasn't been updated in ages.
Just wondering... Getting my new Omnia today or tomorrow!
I know this is slightly (okay, quite a bit...) off topic, but could anyone give me a quick run down on the difference between PocketPlus and MobileShell?
I was a PocketPlus user for a long time, but suspected it of causing some problems on my XV6800, so took it off--also because of the memory constraints on that device. I've never used MobileShell. Could one use both? It seems like MobileShell is almost a replacement program and PP hasn't been updated in ages.
Just wondering... Getting my new Omnia today or tomorrow!
Never mind. I found another thread. Sorry for not searching first. (But you know how excited one gets when a new device is on its way!)
Ok - time to chime in on this thread with a one day usage profile for my I910. It's pretty much as I expected that w/out an extended battery this phone will pretty much be a non starter for me based on usage. I find the stock battery life a bit worse than on a stock I760 but its close. I was not able to get a full day on the I760 with push on until I got the extended battery.
I910 - On at 7:30AM - by 10 I was down to 60 percent - at which time I turned off "as items arrive" - changed to 2 hours. Usual phone calls - etc... 40 percent by 1:00 and at 1:30 - hit 20 percent and BT was turned off... at this point the phone is not usable so I plugged it in. I have another standard battery to be delivered tomorrow and once I decide if the I910 is a keeper I'll need to pick up a desktop charger.
So far I like the phone - not Love. Best feature is Form Factor but if I need the extended battery the form gets a bit "Factor". I was expecting to see a big difference in BT coming from the I760 - but no so much yet...
Have a BB Storm coming tomorrow and will see if it has a chance to last a day with my usage profile. Would really like to have one device but up to this point it has not been a reality.
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Obviously everyone's usage and demands are different and I hope you find a device that works for you. Compared to me and my usage, it seems you are retrieving data that is heavier and probably more frequently. I just got home a little bit ago and after a full days use ( for me) I have right at 50% battery left. Started my day at 5 am. I dont use exchange push email to get immediate email but rather have it set to every 2 hours. If I'm waiting for something important I'll make it more frequent but most of the time it suffices for me to be at 2 hrs. I used probably 45-60 minutes of talk time, guessing 30 text messages, wifi internet for maybe an hour total, viewed pictures for about 20 minutes, took 4 or 5 photo's ( macro setting and photo'ed a couple documents ), played about 30 minutes of a game, fooled around with it for maybe another hour. That's a typical day for me and like I said I'm at 50%, so it's fine for me. What I will say and has been mentioned elsewhere is that once it gets below maybe 50% it tends to drop much faster than it took to get to that 50%.
to be honest...
i wish mine would be at at least 40% after 14hours!
that way i can develop a pattern for putting on the charger every day.
right now after 14hours...somestime im still at 100%!
of course thats light use...but i play with it at least twice an hour!
im just charging at 60% daily...hopefully that doesnt adversely effect my battery
Yep - really based on user profiles. I never expected too much in terms of battery life with the standard battery - when they come out with a good extended it would probably get me 2/3's of the day - possibly all day on a light day. It could also have some to do with signal strength since my bars are quite low where I have been using/testing the I910.
Should have another standard battery Today - and that will get me much further into the DAY!
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