[zmenchhofer]

what is you average battery life on a normal use of you blackberry?

mine is 12-18hrs (depending on the day)

[Mycko809]

i can use it for about 1 or 2 days, if i dont use it for long .

[LrdAnkh]

2.5 to 3 days depending on texting and calls.

[dasDestruktion]

About a day and a half. Pretty heavy use.
Running 5.0.0.484 Sprint build on VZW.

[dabrownklown]

About a day and a half depending on how much use/abuse I put it through on a day..

[chetman7]

1.5 days with heavy use with GPS on all the time ..running .530. I was getting like 12 hours with 4.7. So im mucho satisfied

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[zmenchhofer]

damn, I am running 5.0.0.419...guess I should upgrade to .530

anyone else see problems with .419 battery life?

[pcaron1]

I guess the majority of you are lucking out. I can get about 1 day on this pup...running 5.0.0.530 (leak).

[Bioamerican]

When i Lived in South Florida I Got 2 Full Days With Extreme Heavy Txting and FaceBooking. Now that I'm in Middle of No Where SC (Still 3G) I get about 1 day most of the time Less with about 1/2 the use I was doing in SF.

Running Official 4.7 VWZ

[hondateg91]

I can go 1-2 days on heavy use and running 5.0.0.230.

[mojo pin]

I can go 1-2 days on heavy use and running 5.0.0.230.

Running the same and I only get about 12-14 hours with just moderate use. I'm used to the day and a half with heavy use on my 8330! I know others have better luck with their batteries though. I bought mine on ebay and will be selling this one and probably using my upgrade for a brand new Tour.

[MrObvious]

It depends on how I use mine, but it can be like 12-18 hours usually depending on if I use Slacker Radio or not pretty much.

[Since9600]

I charge every day with heavy texting/email and phone lasts all day.. Over the weekend I charge on Friday and don't charge again till early Monday morning..

[coolguy78240]

If i push it which i dont, about a day and a half always charge it overnight.

[jabo052]

About 10-12 hours, then I switch batteries.

[dannyp69]

I can go a whole day with txting calls and bbm and the odd fb and have about 50% left but its weird a five minute call would deplete my battery like 4-8% and to me that's not normal.

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[Verdes8891]

I can get about a days use out of my tour before I have to put it on the charger. But I use it heavily through out the day between calls, text, bbm, applications, web browsing and media. So about average for it

And I'm running 4.7

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[kostnkost]

I'm going with the 2600 Mah battery which I just purchased. I hear you can get 3-4 days with this battery, and it only extends the phone out 3mm.

Listening to Pandora drains my battery pretty fast, so I need this battery.

[yenyob]

What's weird for me is that on a normal day of texting, listening to music for about 30 minutes and a few short phone calls, I'd still come home with about 60% battery. I sit here now with 20% and falling fast. The only difference is I now use BBM instead of texting one of my friends. Just ONE person. Could this be causing my drain? That would be my conclusion but who knows...

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[SevereDeceit]

I'm running the official Sprint OS 5.0 on my Verizon Tour and it's much better than 4.7, the memory management is night and day. I have the Sedio 1600 mAh battery that works with the factory Tour door, but the life is definitley better than when I was on 4.7, for me at least. The day after I installed I had a pretty good battery drain going, the day after it was great. It definitley works for me until Verizon officially releases OS 5.0 for the Tour...

[smoke_armada]

My battery lasts about 24 hours with light use, 12 hours with medium use, and 6-8 hours with heavy use. Mostly medium and heavy use days lately. Running .484 and very few apps. Tour is about 7 mos old. Maybe I should look into the beefier battery.

[SevereDeceit]

Smoke, just keep on hanging out here like you are and soon enough your BB will be a running machine...

[smoke_armada]

Smoke, just keep on hanging out here like you are and soon enough your BB will be a running machine...

Hang out on CB a lot? Check.

[SevereDeceit]

You will learn much very quickly here, this place moves, man...

[RLJett]

Maybe many of you have figured this out already, but in the interests of sharing...

I picked up a Tour the other day as a replacement for an old 8830WE. The battery would only last about 12 hours before needing to be charged. This was much different from my 8830WE where I could go a few days.

I came across two threads yesterday identifying possible culprits. I made both changes and am happy to say I am now halfway through my second day w/o charging and still at half a charge. Unfortunately, I'm not sure which change made the biggest impact.

1. Set GPS to 911 only.

2. BBM 4.7 was rumored to have a memory leaking causing battery drain. I upgraded to the latest BBM 5.0.x over app world.

I previously changed my network from Global to 1XEV but only noticed about a 2 hour extension in battery life. But after the two changes above, I'm rocking.

I will change my GPS setting back tomorrow and see if battery life goes back to crap, but I'm hoping it was the BBM.