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- 01-30-2010, 09:15 AM
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Battery Suddenly Depleting
Out of nowhere today, my phones battery is dying faster than normal. I read the old posts about what to do, I close everything out by hitting menu..close, i erased all apps i never used, games i never used awhile ago and i never had a problem. I woke up this morning after charging it all night and had a full battery, i have only sent maybe 6 texts and had one BBM convo for 5 mins and closed it out after....i am doing a battery pull right now...any other suggestions? Maybe time for a new battery? Although I feel like this is still new. Thanks everyone!
- 01-30-2010, 11:56 AM #2
Do you ever let your battery completely die out? Letting your battery die completely or getting really really low may cause your battery to deplete faster over time.
@MostAverageMan
I plan my dreams. Three months in advance. - 01-30-2010, 01:39 PMThread Author #3
every now and then it will die down all the way and i charge it, but 99% of the time, I charge it every night while sleeping????
- 01-31-2010, 12:53 AM #4
Check GPS location settings. Turn it off.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com - 01-31-2010, 04:57 AM #5
Just make sure wifi and Bluetooth are off, unless you are using them. Most blackberry batteries are good for everyday charges for a year or so. After that I have noticed that it just depended on what device I was using. Once the battery starts going it is about done. May want totey amazon, eBay or here at crackberry for areplacement.
Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com - 01-31-2010, 10:14 AM #7 Just having the GPS on won't drain that much battery. It drains your battery when you're actually using it. Or at least that's what I would assume.
Originally Posted by lazerus 
@MostAverageMan
I plan my dreams. Three months in advance. - 01-31-2010, 12:12 PM #9
Yeah, I think its a battery as well
The Li-Ion batteries that come in modern devices have a good life, and only have a limited number of lifecycles. A lifecyle is a complete dead-to-full charge, so the fewer of these the better. However I have read that it is actually healthy to completely kill the battery and re-charge it to "condition" it (I'm thinking once every month or 2). Once a battery is nearing the end of its life, it will just not hold a charge very long, and the transition from "good" to "buy a new battery" is very short - unlike the older ni-cad rechargables that would slowly taper off throughout their whole life.
However, try afew things before rushing out to buy a new battery.
1) with the phone turned off, give it a good 12 hrs on the charger.
2) try different charging options - use a different charger, charge on your PC instead of the charger (even try a different USB port)
3) try different cables (could have a bad connection)
4) lastly, if you can try a different battery (from a buddy, family member, co-worker, etc) to narrow things down
you don't have go in the order I put them in... they're just different things to try - 01-31-2010, 01:37 PM #11 Li-Ion batteries do not need to be discharged like that. Allowing them to die is actually worse for them. "There is no memory and no scheduled cycling is required to prolong the battery's life." Is lithium-ion the ideal battery? Originally Posted by dancing-bass
The reason why you had to discharge the old nickel-cadmium batteries because they did have memory cycles.@MostAverageMan
I plan my dreams. Three months in advance. - 02-01-2010, 06:22 PM #12
Heh, I had the same problem.. battery dying very quickly.. found out later that I had muted the music player, but left it running.. lol.. was looping through my songs over and over again! D'oh!
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