[1911luver]

I just got a classic and my battery life is terrible. Otherwise I love the phone. I've enabled battery saver mode,adjusted the screen brightness and timeout settings. - also turned off anything I'm not using like bluetooth and such.

It said I'm also running the latest software. Is there anything I'm missing here that I can do to extend my battery life? Thanks for any help guys.

[wilber1]

Wow when I first got mine I could not believe how good the battery life was make sure you have Bluetooth/WiFi turned off and check all your settings .

[s_kren]

I know this isnt an answer but my experience so far is that my battery is usually only about a day and a half if I use it a lot. And I always close everything, try not to leave stuff running in the background, dont have wifi or bluetooth on if I dont need it.
I have noticed the low battery lifetime is pretty good and you can set it up to go into battery saving mode at a certain percentage

[jsing2010]

I'm sorry to hear that. I get at least a day and a half on my classic. I mainly text, email and browse the forums with the occasional phone call

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[1911luver]

How do I check to see if anything is still running in the background?

[tenacious_dog]

Yesterday I got the best battery performance to date on my Classic. Home Wi-Fi for an hour at home, on Verizon for an hour and a half, switched to wi-fi only when I got to the office, Verizon going home wrapping up on home wi-fi. 19 hour day before I put it back on the charger and had over 60% battery life left. Did emails, texts, some internet browsing all through the day. With my android on the same usage, I normally had to hit the charger before noon.

I'm impressed!

[Tetragrammaton]

Compared to my Passport, the battery life is really short.

I have 7 private email accounts and my company email account. WiFi is always on, when I am at work or at home with the Classic. If I do not charge it during the day, I will have a critical battery status (30%) at around 17 or 18 hours.

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[Naeg1995]

Perfection
Very little usage of course



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[flightmech]

Yesterday I got the best battery performance to date on my Classic. Home Wi-Fi for an hour at home, on Verizon for an hour and a half, switched to wi-fi only when I got to the office, Verizon going home wrapping up on home wi-fi. 19 hour day before I put it back on the charger and had over 60% battery life left. Did emails, texts, some internet browsing all through the day. With my android on the same usage, I normally had to hit the charger before noon.



I'm impressed!

I am right about the same, phone is off the charger at 5am and back on around 10pm with sometimes close to 70% remaining, when i get a weekend when i am NOT working going to let the battery get down to close to 10% to see how long it takes. Give it some time to settle in.

[BlackberryCodeSource]

mine was running a day to a day and a half with heavy usage , but just switched back to passport for now

[domzh]

Hmm I usually get around 2 days with medium (partial usage). Today for example I am constantly using my bbc for surfing, youtube, browsing app stores, sending some mails SINCE SEVEN HOURS IN A ROW on wlan and I still have 75% left (or 20 hours), it's a monster a true beast!

However I am not using LTE (switched it off to 3G) and my screen is set to around 33% (which is enough for me!) and have activated the battery saving feature when I turn it face down on a surface. (1 corporate email account running with active sync push, 3 private Gmail accounts). Plus I disabled all facebook notifications.

What is your user profile and settings?

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[moyah8]

I'm also on a 20 hour average battery life.

Question OP, have you any apps that run in the background?

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[joewoo]

post your stats... what does the OS say is taking up the battery....

[tenacious_dog]

I am right about the same, phone is off the charger at 5am and back on around 10pm with sometimes close to 70% remaining, when i get a weekend when i am NOT working going to let the battery get down to close to 10% to see how long it takes. Give it some time to settle in.

My actual remaining was 68%. Maybe I should have posted that but didn't want to brag.

So now I'm bragging on my Classic.

And I'm starting to use voice recognition. Didn't realize I had to access and activate Assistant. Still getting the hang of it but seems to work pretty well.

[tenacious_dog]

I am right about the same, phone is off the charger at 5am and back on around 10pm with sometimes close to 70% remaining, when i get a weekend when i am NOT working going to let the battery get down to close to 10% to see how long it takes. Give it some time to settle in.

My actual remaining was 68%. Maybe I should have posted that but didn't want to brag.

So now I'm bragging on my Classic.

And I'm starting to use voice recognition. Didn't realize I had to access and activate Assistant. Still getting the hang of it but seems to work pretty well.

[1911luver]

Hi guys thanks for the info so far I went in to my device manager and shut down a couple of apps. Maybe this will help i'll keep you all posted.

[schelle15]

Hi guys thanks for the info so far I went in to my device manager and shut down a couple of apps. Maybe this will help i'll keep you all posted.

Hi,

I am so new to the Classic, I am not sure how to turn off apps, I can find the App Manager/device monitor, and it says the system is taking 22%, standby 10%, Android Player 9.2% PIM Services 5.1% of power, what is the Android Player and can I turn that off, ditto for the PIM Services, what is this?

How can I turn things off? :-)

[1911luver]

Well I went in to my device monitor and turned off the at&t sync feature,and I also turned off the blackberry blend. My battery life has improved substantially I have 76% battery life after a day of good usage. think this is what was draining my battery. Thanks for all the help.

[nycspaces.]

During an OS upgrade or adding new accounts BlackBerry s still need to settle in while building indexes and such. After a day or so it should settle in.

On lite days I am seeing 60% left after a full day of use. Heavy work days I might get down the 30% or so from early morning to late night before sleeping.

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[stlscott18]

Used my Classic for 5 hours straight and I was down to 20%. I was using as a hotspot though too..

[stlscott18]

Just got the phone yesterday. WTF?

[Plazmic Flame]

Used my Classic for 5 hours straight and I was down to 20%. I was using as a hotspot though too..

Using any phone for 5 hrs straight will pretty much kill it... especially as a hotspot.

[kvpiet2011]

such a varied sample of good and bad battery life :-(

[Plazmic Flame]

such a varied sample of good and bad battery life :-(

On post #18, the OP pretty much solved the issue... which should give you hope. 9/10 if there's an issue with the battery life, it's solvable.

[TheJJWilliams]

Mine doesn't seem to have a good battery either, after a full charge if I check the device manager it say 10 Hours Remaining. This is with brightness at almost any level, Display, System, and Stand By being the largest % hogs thus far. I've been also noticing the first 50% go by very fast through the day, almost 15% an hour. This is with being on wifi, for e-mail, text, web and rarely phone calls.

Any suggestions or is this just the expected battery for this model?