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Re: Imagio Battery Life Issues = Solved
Changing the phone to CDMA only was one of the first things I did. It only made sense. I've been pretty happy with the battery life so far, only charged it once over the past weekend (Light WiFi use, some G3 and lots of texts).
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Re: Imagio Battery Life Issues = Solved
I agree with your suggestions and observations. I've had the same experience. I'm now perfectly happy with my battery life. Anyone who has ever had a smartphone or PDA knows that battery life will never equal that of a dumb cellphone, so for people just coming to a smartphone for the first time, a little adjustment of expectations is in order.
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Re: Imagio Battery Life Issues = Solved
Exactly. Smartphones are not something that the average user is going to be able to use for several days without charging like most dumb phones, or two days with whatever they call the semi smart phone wannabe's now.
HOWEVER, I find no excuse for shipping a phone in a state that without far more than basic phone knowledge can not be left in stand-by mode for 6 hours, let alone struggle through a basic 10 hour day without seeing a charger! Rarely do I have a day that involves more than 20 min of talk time, 10-30 regular txt messages, sometimes 5-10 pic/vid messages. No excuse for a phone not being able to make it through that kind of lightweight daily work... Obviously changing network mode to anyone on the internet is trivial, but ask yourself how many people know wtf gms or cdma is that will buy this phone! |
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Re: Imagio Battery Life Issues = Solved
Charging time is definately decreased as its drawing less power away from the onboard charger. Im charging around 5-10% every 1/2 hour while using the phone.
It would be nice if the wall-wart charger could deliver a 1500mah charging current. This would be the maximum "fast but retaining longevity" spec of the stock battery and you could completely fill the phone in 1 hour with the phone powered off to possibly 2-3 hours of light phone use. Honestly aslong as the phone was powered on you could probably give it 2000mah and itd work off the extra. (NOT while using a usb port which could not spec wise support that current draw.) FYI In the shipped state under heavy use the phone actually draws more power than the chargers can provide & you LOOSE battery capacity even on the charger! (haha talk about sucking!) |
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Re: Imagio Battery Life Issues = Solved
Are there any disadvantages to putting the device in CDMA only mode?
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Re: Imagio Battery Life Issues = Solved
didn't call CS. dropped by a VZ store yesterday and the girl said they STILL havn't seen the first imagio, but they had some batteries in. highly likely HTC uses the same battery across the majority of their phones. never seen a TP2, but its likely one from it.
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