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- 10-20-2010, 11:10 PM
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Battery dying after full charge!
I have been having a problem with my Curve 8530 recently. I have plugged it in to the wall charger, it appears to be fully charged, I turn the BB off and drop it in my purse. The next morning the battery is COMPLETELY dead! Not even enough to turn the phone on. When I plug it in after that it re-boots. Seems to charge better and hold charge better from the car charger than the wall charger. Have tried different wall charger and different outlets, still having the full charge then dead in the morning issue. I have already had the battery replaced, did not solve the problem. Verizon is sending me a replacement BB, and I guess I hope this will fix the problem... Anyone have any clue what is happening overnight?
- 10-20-2010, 11:41 PM #2
What OS version do you have? Do you have apps, esp. FB, twitter or some heavy update refresh running? Do you have a hard time getting signal at home? Is 3g always on? What is your GPS set to? Have you tried resyncing your towers? Do you close out of everything when done or just use the red or back button? Do you utilize wifi? When is the last time you did a battery pull?
How are you turning it off? There are different levels of "off".
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com - 10-21-2010, 11:06 PMThread Author #3
Thanks for the reply. I have the newest OS loaded on my BB. I believe it is 5.0.0.886? sorry, I still blunder around on my BB a bit.
When I said I turned it off after receiving a full charge, I mean I pressed the power button and waiting for the screen to turn completely black, then holstered it before putting in my purse.
I am not a facebook user... I don't IM... I use my BB mostly for surfing the web, reading news, checking weather, reading on Kindle, and the occasional text msg or phone call. I would say I am a pretty minimal user
and I do try to back out and close out of apps most of the time.
It is a real mystery to me why my phone would show a full charge and then be COMPLETELY dead in the morning after spending the night turned off.
Another twist is that it seems to charge fine on the car charger and hold the charge from that. I am just not always in the car enough to keep it charged! We have tried 2 different wall chargers at home and differnt outlets and it is still doing the "play dead" thing when charged on a wall charger. - 10-21-2010, 11:10 PMThread Author #4
Sorry, I should have "quoted" before making my first reply.
Originally Posted by RWWackoStu 
We do have a hard time getting signal at home, but most of the time when I am at home it is completely off.
3G is usually on - wifi is kept turned off
I do keep the GPS on, but not for real use as a GPS, just for use with my weather, yellow pages, movies, etc apps...
Pulled the battery (hard reset?) a week or so ago... have also had the battery replaced twice within the last year.
I think I have answered most of your queries now
- 10-21-2010, 11:59 PM #5
When you replaced the battery, did you do it at a company store?
You are managing your battery fine, for the most part. I would take it back for a third time, and ask nicely for a different handset. Different batteries, same issues equals device defect in my mind.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com - 10-24-2010, 05:01 PM #7
I think you need to goto connection settings and go to manage settings or whatever and goto a box that will scroll to home only or automatic but just keep it on home only and turn of wifi and bluetooth. Their major culprits of battery drainage.
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