Storm (9530) Battery Drainage?

[lx158ty]

Started a new job recently and my Storm has been acting very oddly in my office. I've always charged it every night, but now when I'm at work the battery drains within a couple of hours. I also have to pull the battery a couple of times a day while at the office. I'm in a small- to medium sized urban area and in which I've never had a problem with the phone. Any thoughts? Is it roaming and killing off my battery or could there be some signal or other electrical issue with the building? Thanks.

[DJM1947]

It could be several things, but try updating your roaming capabilities by dialing *228 then choose option #2.

Depending on the age of your phone and battery, it may also be the battery starting to go. There have been a lot of posts for 18 to 24 month old phones having the battery go, especially when they have had a lot of charges.

[blaisedinsd]

I have 2 storms and 3 batteries....

Somehow all 3 batteries have become failures. 2 are originals that came with phones in February 09 and were in regular use till November/December 2010...a third was from Asurion replacement.

These batteries have a certain life...only so many charge cycles until they die.

Miner were working decent until we stopped using them regularly when we got Android phones...but I keep wanting to go back to my blackberry at certain times.

2 of my batteries won't even boot up the storm anymore.....I measured them on a volt meter and they are dead. My third one works but usually when the phone draws some current suddenly, like when downloading an app or even making a call, the battery suddenly drops from a full charge and the phone crashes......when I reboot it shows that it's basically dead. This battery actually appears mis shaped right now....not sure what caused these batteries to die....perhaps using the wrong charger or just a crappy assurion replacement....I thought maybe it was one of the Chinese leaked OS but I doubt that.

I found on Amazon new storm batteries for $2.99 with free shipping....I ordered one.

Amazon.com: BlackBerry DX-1 Original Li-Ion Battery for BlackBerry Curve 8900, Tour 9630, Storm 9500 9530 and Storm2 9550: Cell Phones & Accessories I am curious if they are any good though....they are supposed to be brand new OEM batteries but I see some complaints in the reviews.....

Verizon sell them for $39.99 Set Your Location

[blaisedinsd]

So far so good on the new $2.99 battery. The one I got was from the sell the OEM shop.

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