It appears that every time I do a reboot on my 9900, whether a soft reset or a battery pull, I loose a significant amount of battery life. Just today, I did a soft reset while I had 100% battery life (it was just off the charger) and once it completed booting, it was down to 84%. Is this normal? I've had blackberries before the 9900 (the 8830 and 9700) and don't recall ever experiencing something like this.
I am running the latest leaked 7.1 but I remember experiencing this with the 7.0 officials too.
I didn't look at the figures, just stated the obvious that it's perfectly normal for battery life to decrease after a reboot. 16% is however a tad steep.
Yes, so I've heard. But never had the battery meter act weird but have tried this and there's no harm.
Remove battery, plug in to charger and reinsert battery.