-
This is addressed to both you and E3M5
--Who said anything about it being hard to put on a charger??????? Is this a help forum or not? I asked a simple question about battery life and how to determine what apps are running which you and another esteemed colleague (e3m5) decided to be all snippy about. Do you really think that it helps a forum's reputation to be a **** to people asking questions??
NO it is NOT difficult to put it on the charger every night. I do it every night and have had no adverse reactions, no sprained ligaments or tendons in my hand from plugging it in...nothing at all. In fact the only adverse reaction I've had at all was making the mistake of using the forum for what it was intended and instead getting a bunch of smart mouth replies from you people who have nothing better to do than flame newbies asking questions.
I was merely asking for tips which I thought this forum was for. But thanks very much for making me feel not only angered but very hesitant to ever ask a question again.
Congrats to you and e3m5 for running a newbie out of the forum thanks to your unfriendly nature.
That being said, I was only asking about battery life for anyone who gives a flip, because I came from a lil "phone" phone that only had to be charged every fourth day despite talking often and txting constantly and I'm not accustomed to having to charge nightly. So I was merely asking, since I have used it so infrequently so far and STILL had to charge nightly, if it was going to be such a batt hog because I work far from my home and I wanted to know if I need to purchase a car charger and carry the one from my bedside for my job.
Thanks to the people who actually answered my question. I appreciate your willingness to help a newb instead of just flame them.12-09-08 03:26 AM - This is addressed to both you and E3M5
--Who said anything about it being hard to put on a charger??????? Is this a help forum or not? I asked a simple question about battery life and how to determine what apps are running which you and another esteemed colleague (e3m5) decided to be all snippy about. Do you really think that it helps a forum's reputation to be a **** to people asking questions??
NO it is NOT difficult to put it on the charger every night. I do it every night and have had no adverse reactions, no sprained ligaments or tendons in my hand from plugging it in...nothing at all. In fact the only adverse reaction I've had at all was making the mistake of using the forum for what it was intended and instead getting a bunch of smart mouth replies from you people who have nothing better to do than flame newbies asking questions.
I was merely asking for tips which I thought this forum was for. But thanks very much for making me feel not only angered but very hesitant to ever ask a question again.
Congrats to you and e3m5 for running a newbie out of the forum thanks to your unfriendly nature.
That being said, I was only asking about battery life for anyone who gives a flip, because I came from a lil "phone" phone that only had to be charged every fourth day despite talking often and txting constantly and I'm not accustomed to having to charge nightly. So I was merely asking, since I have used it so infrequently so far and STILL had to charge nightly, if it was going to be such a batt hog because I work far from my home and I wanted to know if I need to purchase a car charger and carry the one from my bedside for my job.
Thanks to the people who actually answered my question. I appreciate your willingness to help a newb instead of just flame them.
well said ^^ maybe this will help people being a little bit to jumpy to people asking questions..
the problem is that these people joined a support forum helped support for a while and now believe this is a chat room instead of a support forum =) and some of them recently joined and think that they rule the roost ahaha. There is a ton of people on this board that stay in a good community type setting while others make everyone look bad.
anyway to answer your question.
Coming from a regular everyday phone the biggest thing you will notice first and for most is that the dang battery life is a quarter of what those things get. However you get like 100 billion times more functions. So its kind of a good trade off. Typically speaking if you get a full day out of a battery on a smartphone your sitting pretty good.
you can try disabling the gps radio and such to e911. I didn't really notice a difference in doing this. With everyday use of surfing the internet texting and sending emails.. I grab a nice 12-13 hours of battery life so I charge every night. This is farely normal of a smartphone. Down the road there will probably be a couple extended battery options which may help you out if your interested in spending a little cash on a bigger battery.
The best way to see whats running on the device is by holding the BB button in for about 3-4 seconds. This brings up the app switcher. There is a few apps that will never close down and will always stay running. After a fresh battery pull/reboot you can see what applications have started on your phone and compare them as you go along to see what apps you leave open most commonly.
Its good practice that when switching out of a app that your not going to use that you hit the menu key and hit close or exit.
This can help.
Hope this helps
12-09-08 04:19 AM - A couple of items to add-
it seems that there might be two different OEM batteries being used by blackberry from what i have seen - there could be a difference. It seems to me to be a pretty small sized battery for such a large phone. lets see if some more powerful batteries come out.
Overall the battery does not cut my daily usage when i am traveling and going in and out of meetings. that is why i carry a spare battery with me to fill in when i cant charge.
applications runnig in the background probably cause some drain but i dont think its the biggie especially when they are mostly idle.
The big items are: Transmitter (cellular radio), Bluetooth, GPS , screen and also items that require constant data transfer (radio active)- such as ESPN summary page set to update every 30 seconds
.12-10-08 08:32 AM
