Well, I've read almost all the postings on this forum about battery life, and haven't found many people experiencing what I am. I'll explain:
I've had my i300 for about 2 months now, and I've been really happy with the batter life up until yesterday. Until then, I've been able to get a whole day of usage from each charge. I charged the battery on the phone, and very rarely had to use the second battery. I only use the second battery for days when I come home and then go out for the night. Basically, I've had no problems with the battery life at all.
Yesterday, though, it all changed. For some reason, at about noon (I hadn't used the phone that morning for more than ten minutes of talk time), I used the wireless web for 7 or 8 minutes, and right after that, the battery showed one block. Later in the afternoon, the low battery warning came on, and soon after that, the phone turned off. I didn't have the second battery with me, so I was without my phone until I made it back to the house. That was the first time I've had to use the car charger, as well.
Today, I brought the extra battery with me (which was the one that died yesterday), and sure enough, the battery on the phone died again by about 3pm with light usage. Remember, this has never happened to me until yesterday. My usage hasn't changed much, if at all.
So I'm wondering if both of my batteries suddenly went bad, or perhaps if the couple of times I've dropped my phone while in its leather case have harmed it to the point that it's draining batteries faster than normal.
Has anyone else experienced similar behavior from their i300? Any ideas here? I have the SPCS equipment replacement plan -- is it worth taking it back for a replacement?
have you taken note of the signal the phone was receiving? if you were in fringe areas you will use more juice. also, if you had the screen on for extended periods of time that could drain the unit down..
i could not tell from your post, but are both batteries suffering from this? if so, and you were not in fringe areas, you could have a defective charger. i doubt the phone would do anything to suck more juice than normal.
I dont think it is your battery... Or your phone... same thing happened to me... and my other 2 friends with i-300.. and another has the sanyo 5150.. Well SPrint says that it could be the network.. I have noticed a little hcnage in the Sprint Digital signal... With all this upgrading that SPrint is doing.. I have been getting many dropped calls... network busy... etc.. and also lower battery life.. I go through 2 and a half a day.. But i am a heavy talker.. but before about a month ago... just one would last around 12 hours... sure it would go to one bar at around 6pm.. but I could use it for like another hour before it died(talking) it would last all night if i didnt talk on it.. but recently I would charge the batts. and then keep the phone next to me while i am sleeping and my phone would be on all night... well now i wake up and it is dead... SO it has to be the network.. I ve also noticed that every night at around 1:00 am the towers on my phone would shoot straight up to 5 from 2.. they would stay at 5 for ever... and when i wake up it is back to 2...3...1...2. etc.. never 4 orr 5 bars... SO it is wierd.. sorry for the long post .. just trying to explain my expierence
I have also noticed a similar behavior. 1 battery almost always last 1 day for me. Recharge at home nighltly. 2 or 3 times since having the phone (with the same usage pattern), I noticed my battery dying in 1/2 day. I was shocked. Battery just drained quickly, no real explanation
I think our batteries are working extra hard to get the signal that we once got before.. so no we wont notice a big change in the signal just the battery life... A tech told me that in my area they are upgrading to 3G.. and when they do one tower your phone looks for other closer towers bc it cannot acces the one they are working on or somthing.... It makes sense... I guess
You also need to consider that the phone batteries DO develop a memory. Yes, Li-ion are advertised to have overcome this problem, but it is not quite true. If you take you battery into a Sprint store and have them test the battery, they can tell you the capacity your battery. If you are at a store with an experianced tech, they can even condition your battery. This will take some time, but should remove the limited memory capacity and bring it back to 100%. I have even seen batteries leave with more than 100% capacity. Don't ask me how this is possible. More than 100% should be physically impossible, and I don't give any phone tech that mich credit. They only thing I can think of this that they ship from the manufacturers with less than the absolute max potential of battery capacity. Just a thought.
But if you are experiancing problems with your batteries, you can take them the stores and they can recondition them for you.
Li-Ion batteries life is dependent upon the number of charge cycles that it experiences, so short cycle charges will reduce the overall life of the battery. not really "battery memory" per se, but overall life is just reduced.
thats why its imperative you use chargers designed for the phone so they will know when to reduce the charging to trickle , so as to not cause some of the molecules in the battery to "crystallize"..
Hey just last week I was in Vegas on vacation, and I stepped out of the hotel and glanced at my phone which was JUST freshly charged only 2 hours ago. I turned it on, and the battery reported full, and suddenly, within a minute, the battery indicator went to empty, flashed red, and produced the audible "low-battery" indicator. I was completely perplexed, put the phone away, and pulled it back out 10 minutes later only to find that the visible battery indicator had returned to 3/4 charge and remained normal for the rest of the day up to today. Strange...
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