Potentially Dodgy Battery in my w705

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jbucky

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#35425 9-Jun-2009 22:54

Had my shiny new w705 for about a week now, but I've found that I'm charging it every 2 days. The approximate stand-by time on the battery is meant to be 9 days. Each day I probably use the music player for about an hour, surf the web and check emails for about 10mins, and send at most like 40-50 txts.

Is this a legitimate amount of time I should be expected to have to charge my phone, or should I take and back and try for a replacement battery?

BrentR

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#223418 9-Jun-2009 23:33

It takes a few charge/discharge cycles for the battery to get up to full capacity. I'd give it a couple of weeks and you'll find you should get more..

Remeber those time given are maximum times set in perfect conditions etc.

jbucky

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#223423 9-Jun-2009 23:53

Makes sense, i'll see how it goes and report back if I don't see an improvement

NonprayingMantis

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#223499 10-Jun-2009 10:08

sounds about right to my non-expert eyes.

standby time usually indicates the optimum length of time the phone will stay on for if you are doing aboslutely nothing with it.

Usign the music player, sending txts, and using data will all use up considerably more battery than standby. Using the music player for an hour is probably the biggest culprit there.

I used to have a Sanyo 9000 (few years ago) and if I didn't use it at all the charge would last for over a week, hereas once I started listening to music every day on the bus for an hour I found I had to charge it every couple of days.

dawnraid

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#223518 10-Jun-2009 10:43

I have found on my phone that if you keep blue tooth, and the 3G (HSPDA) switched off it will last for about a week as opposed to a couple of days.

akia

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#223546 10-Jun-2009 11:46

Usually with 3G phones there is a 2G talk time & 3G talk time battery length. With standby it's worth noting that if you leave applications running (and don't close them properly) they will still run in the background and use your battery (and your data cap if they require data).

I'm not sure how Sony Ericsson's sure you what Applications are still open but I know on Nokia they have a little circle beside the menu icon in which the application is still open.

boosskat

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#223567 10-Jun-2009 13:11

A couple of tips:
1. I've found Wifi to be one of the biggest drainers of batteries. You might want to make sure this is disabled. Also, the max battery life will be while the phone is stationary.
2. While moving around and connecting to different towers etc the amount of battery used will differ.
3. Powering a phone off while not in use may end up using more battery than just leaving it on standby continuously. The reason being, when it powers on it has to load all the startup protocol rubbish etc. I personally tested it out. I had two identical phones and left one on continuously and the other I switched on and off 6 times. Which one lasted longer? The one that stayed on continuously. (Yes, it was a boring day).

tonyhughes

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#223597 10-Jun-2009 14:13

dawnraid: I have found on my phone that if you keep blue tooth, and the 3G (HSPDA) switched off it will last for about a week as opposed to a couple of days.

Keeping 3G switched off on a phone connected to the XT network (which is 3G only) is probably not the best idea I have seen floated around here recently