I've had this phone for about a week so far and the battery life is the worst by far that I had with any other BB I've owned. I'm getting 14 hr's tops on a full charge with below average use. I love the phone and everything about it besides this battery issue. I really hope they do something to fix the issue because I notice that I'm not the only one with this problem. I've upgraded to the latest software but nothing.
-Social Feeds Uninstalled
-Facebook Uninstalled
-BB Maps Uninstalled
-GPS is off
-Blue tooth is off
Man hopefully the 9790 is better because I just can't go for a weak battery.
Realistically you are shocked by this?
The 99xx has a smaller capacity battery with faster processor and higher screen resolution than other BBs. It only makes sense that battery life would be shorter.
Definitely I always run all my phone on the lowest brightness. If I'm going into a basement at my job, I turn off all conections since they is no coverage there.
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Does setting vibration cause a huge decline? I usually had my calls to set to vibrate on my 9700, I am debating if I should change that.
On light use I can get roughly two days out of my BB (over 24hrs)... heavy use definitely less than a day... I'll try upgrading to .474 and adjusting my screen brightness, i'll report back.
All in all, i'm not terribly surprised at the battery life on this thing... my iPhone 4 would get the same amount of battery life during heavy use...