DTEK60 Battery Drain SOLVED
Hello everyone, it seems as though I have accidentally discovered the bad battery or battery drain ROOT cause during a battery swap I performed myself on the Dtek60.
Those of you that are having the battery issues, did you ever notice the phone being unusually warm while web browsing or youtube or streaming radio? Mine has always been very warm - I always thought it was some app running in the background in some kinda loop...
So there is a DIY youtube video which I followed ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...&v=DQVGykagSkg
So I changed the battery via the instructions on the video ...
NOTE - the battery can be the first component to come out after back cover has been removed.
It went well and the new battery was working great... how ever in the next day or 2 I found I was getting really crappy cell service... definitely worse than normal...I never found this phone to have stellar reception...
I thought oh oh I must have dinged some thing while taking the phone apart...
So I watch the video again and right around the 5 minute mark there is mention of a communication cable. I assumed this must have been the "antenna" wire.
So I take the phone apart AGAIN and to my surprise the communication or coaxial cable with a 90 degree connector is in fact in its place.
However upon closer examination with dental tools I see that its loose or flopping around on the pin that it should be tight on. I thought I must have somehow damaged it while taking the phone apart ...
Anyway quick fix I cut some plastic shims out of clear hard plastic used in packaging and set them on top of the connector and put the back cover on the phone so that it would keep downward pressure on the shimms on the connector.
Problem solved .. in fact i've never had such good reception on that phone before.. it can now be used in parts of the house where I couldn't have had a conversation before due to the cutting in and out.....
Later that night I'm now web browsing - I'm a heavy surfer usually opening multiple pages a switching back and for between them while researching products or going through forums....etc etc....
I noticed something very unusual .. the phone is not hot like it usually is...
It dawned on me... that antenna wire has been loose for a really long time.. Im not an electrical engineer but common sense tells me..
the transmitter is trying to send a signal through the coaxial cable down to the antenna.. connection is not optimum .. the transmitter has no where to dissipate the signal so it starts heating up... in fact it might even increase the juice thinking reception is poor causing more heat and battery drain....this vicious cycle perhaps a thousand or more times in the year I've owned the phone is ultimately what wiped out the original battery..
The new battery was to see the exact same fate of the old battery had I not accidentally discovered what's going on.
The phone doesn't heat up anymore and the new battery is lasting really long now...
I have not dropped this phone even once so I am assuming that 90 degree cable connector must have been bunged up some how during the original assembly of the phone...
It just took a while to wear out the battery and wear it out it did... I had to plug that phone 5 times a day...
All good now... hope this can help others.
This is my post on changing the battery,
https://forums.crackberry.com/blackb.../#post13085449