Man, you guys with push email and bluetooth turned on. Seriously - you'd need a car battery to get through a full day.

The Omnia has a great battery. Don't blame the phone because you're using it to land space shuttles for 18 straight hours a day.

Ha - I agree the 910 battery performance is average when compared to the other phones I have on the desk. I don't blaim the 910 for its battery life - it's probably good enough for many/possibly most users.

I'd be a happy enough camper with an extended battery or (2) - but the current standard battery won't cut it for my use (business profile).

Other than the battery - I'm really trying to LIKE this phone... I did a few reg edits following tip/tricks in other threads and all seemed to go fine but overall the phone experience is driving me nuts! I expected BT to be a nice improvement - instead my 855 is having all sorts of connect/reconnect issues with the 910. I'm also having some lock up issues (screen will tilt but that's about it - pull the battery and back in busienss).

I think I'll do a hard-reset and start over - although I hate the thought of having to type in my exchange info again on the touch screen!

When using my sling box with car charger it stops charging after 10 minutes then runs it down to low battery in about a half hour.

Called htc and they said the car charger wont deliver enough amps and its designed to stop charging.

So what car charger will deliver enough amps to charge it?

My phone will randomly push connect to the internet. I might be connected for 6 hours before it randomly disconnects. (thank god for unlimited broadband) That tends to drain my battery after a day. I recharge every night, but the recharge is quick.

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Hi, Kristin

Have you tried the registry edit suggested by Ninja4Hire (read following his post): http://pdaphonehome.com/forums/samsu...tml#post768824

Including: http://pdaphonehome.com/forums/samsu...tml#post768862

Also, if you have anything like weather programs that do push updates you might want to hunt those down and get them under control. See battery tips in the link in this post: http://pdaphonehome.com/forums/samsu...tml#post774101

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classic!!
so true!
i get 1.5 days!
but i charge at 60% every night anyway.

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Normally I have bluetooth turned off. At work, I get a weak signal and my battery drops 10% to 20% with the phone just sitting around during the day. Today I've had bluetooth turned on most of the day. Still getting 1 bar or less but I'm EVDO. Yet the battery doesn't seem to be dropping as fast (it's still 95% to 100% after 6 hours!). Wonder (on the basis of ~zero evidence) whether the phone does a better job of minding the store on energy conservation with bluetooth turned on? That would be truly weird.

P.S. Bluetooth is just "on" - not in use with headset or any other BT device right now.

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Battery is still bouncing between 95% and 100% at 5 pm CDT after a full-day at low EVDO signal, bluetooth on, but no BT use, except for a short attempt to sync via BT to laptop. So at least this little experiment shows having BT on does not tremendously drain the battery if nothing is paired/trying to pair with your phone.

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Refresh my memory again on what battery meter you are using to read 95%, etc. My MobileShell indicator I think just relays the Samsung native readings which give only 100%--80-60-40-20 and "Oh my gosh the phone wont work any more!"

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Hi, wtherrell

I'm using the Power applet. Start->Settings->System->Power (I get it by hitting the Spb PP Battery icon). Perhaps I'm just so enthused with Win7 that I wasn't looking at my phone as much as I normally do. But whatever, at least it seems I can leave BT on all day without taking a major hit in battery charge. The Power applet scale seems to be a reasonably continuous (maybe 5% increments) scale of battery charge.

I never go by the Spb Mobile Shell NOW screen battery icon or the Spb PP icon for battery charge.

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Hopefully they don't cell car chargers anymore without battery overcharge protection built-in. The Samsung charger sold by Verizon has that protection. But here's an old (2006) blog article by someone who was always topping off his cell phone in his car using a charger without that protection:

Burned by lithium ion - Computerworld Blogs

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In an area with reasonable signal strength, on a full charge using the wall charger that came with the phone, my phone will last 3 or 4 days with moderate use if I'm lucky, but at least 2 or 3 days no problem.

Poor signal tower signal strength is a battery killer even in the best phones. The car charger doesn't put a charge on the phone that lasts very long, but will keep your conversation alive if you're on a long trip and plugged in. Ditto with charging via USB.

My wall charger takes about 3 1/2 hours, give or take, to fully charge a nearly dead battery. It'll "wake up" to notify you that it's fully charged and the red light on the power button on the top will turn green. This isn't the case with the USB charger. I've never had it on the car charger, while paying attention to the red/green light, long enough to know if it turns green.

I've had my Omnia for about a month and don't have to recharge it for 3 days sometimes, but that's with little internet usage, mostly txting and talking...wi-fi kills the battery very fast and so does VZ Nav...still its alot better than my old Nextel phones

I use my as my MP3 player at work with Bluetooth headphones and leaving the phone on. Good signal here so it is not switching between connection types. I usually leave work at about 20% power so it definitely needs charging if I am going out afterwords.

Usually not much texting or talking during the day, just listening to music which is fantastic.

That's great to know, I was hoping to use this to replace my mp3 player. If about 10% of the battery is used every hour that's perfect. I can use it in the car and not have any wires connected and have all the music voice activated on the phone!

In terms of the signal switching eating up battery, is there a setting to force evdo or 1x or another fix to squeeze more battery life?

Also, I just have to rant...

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I cannot believe that the USB and car chargers were not designed to adequately charge this phone. This is the first device I have ever owned with this issue - and I've owned a lot. With the i730, battery life was never an issue and I used it a lot, including wifi, broadband to watch movies over orb, etc. Even when I'd get low, I could at least plug it into a USB port and it would ADD charge, not continue leaking it away. Very lame! I'm not happy with this issue at all! Samsung should provide a second AC adapter to make up for poor design engineering. A failure in my not so humble opinion...
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Hmmm, do I feel any better..... nope... Off to spend another $20 for an AC adapter... Grrrrrr

Have you read through this thread? http://pdaphonehome.com/forums/samsu...tml#post768674

Basically, to charge in a car, you do need a special adapter but otherwise, with the Samsung USB connector, you can charge on almost any computer. I haven't tried to charge while using WiFi but otherwise, I do find the USB connector supplied with the phone does recharge my phone.

I have the official Vzw car charger and I'm able to tool down the highway with the screen on its very brightest setting using Garmin XT and seem to be able to maintain a full charge.

You might not want a cooked ROM on your phone but I also find Adrynalyne's v1.7 ROM makes a marked difference in battery life.

I actually carry a spare battery or two when I need it and prefer to charge my batteries via the Vzw AC adapter as I think the car charger and a USB connection tend to charge the battery too fast - also the phone gets hot sitting around on a USB connection-not good for long-term battery life, probably because the Processor is cooking away.

So maybe it's one of those YMMV things. With Adrynalyne's ROM, I didn't bother doing the regedits Ninja4Hire described in Tips & Tricks but this link summarizes some of the standard tricks for saving juice before the new ROM's appeared:

http://pdaphonehome.com/forums/samsu...tml#post790628

Think there was a lot of good discussion in a thread entitled "how long does your battery last" but I've written way too much already. EDIT: Duh! That's the thread I'm in! Amazing.

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I've been fighting battery issues also. It seems I've tried every trick in the book. Each sounds like it is going to be the ONE thing that will make my battery live twice as long but no. I'm still on the 1.6 ROM. Jim, you think there was a big difference going to 1.7? Any chance it was because you finally reinstalled all the apps when you went to 1.7 rather than restoring a backup? Or was it the ROM itself?

I've been thinking about getting a second battery also for when I need juice and can't take the time to charge. Jim, I recall you buying one of those AC adapters with a side charge for a spare battery. Did that work out for and you are still using it?

Hi, Jon

Yes, I use the Boxwave cradle with spare battery charger weekly - but only as a spare battery charger while I'm still using the phone. If I go on a trip, I may charge both the phone and a spare battery together overnight but paradoxically I never have used it as a synching cradle!

My statements on Adrynalyne's v1.7 ROM are very subjective. With the original ROM, my phone would discharge quite a bit during the day just sitting around in my office. So who knows. School's out for the summer mostly. Maybe it's easier to get a signal from the nearest tower or Vzw's cranked up the signal strength a bit. But for whatever reason, my phone is not discharging much just sitting around during the day now. I also thought v1.4 was an improvement. Didn't stick with 1.5 or 1.6 long enough to notice much. Does seem like v1.7 terminates an EVDO data connection very quickly when it's no longer needed.

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I haven't really been paying much attention to this thread, but i will say this: If my phone is USB connect to my XP machine at work it will always charge the phone. If I connect it to my Vista Machine, maybe it will charge the phone and (more often then not) it will Discharge the phone.

I also have a Car Charge (VZW one) it charges without a problem.
I'm running ADRrynalane 6.5 v3.8.1 i think, plus cooking my own occaisonally.