Battery life with varying coverage

blueandwhiteg3 · #1 (**permalink**) 08-15-2007, 08:06 AM

My Sprint 6800 can eat its entire battery in under three hours if I am driving through an intensive coverage / no coverage / roaming area. This is very frustrating. If I simply forget my phone is on, I can find my battery is dead in a very short period of time. It's very shocking when you expect to be able to make calls, but find your battery is dead, just from you walking or driving for a few hours in the wrong place!

Are there any ways to combat this? Reduce the search rate? I feel like I have to babysit this phone as it stands.

By comparison, my GSM Palm Treo could take a solid 24 hours of constantly gaining and losing coverage before losing battery. I guess I was spoiled...

**dcd** · #2 (**permalink**) 08-15-2007, 09:51 PM

how long have you had your phone? these batteries are supposed to get better after a little while and mine has recently started lasting alot longer.

also can you try and set your phone to 'sprint only' and see if the battery lasts while u travel through this area?

pavouk · #3 (**permalink**) 08-16-2007, 09:48 AM

Please delete

pavouk · #4 (**permalink**) 08-16-2007, 09:54 AM

I recently drove through coverage no coverage area (3 hours each trip)and my battery life was actually better than with my usual spot with 0-2 bars. I have to charge my phone every day but when I came back after 15 hours out of town my battery was 50%. I guess the battery life is very unpredictable.

blueandwhiteg3 · #5 (**permalink**) 08-16-2007, 11:36 PM

It's interesting... it seems that the more I use the batteries, the longer they last. So this phone is pretty new, and I'm seeing better and better battery life, as I cycle the power regularly.

I would say the battery life is fairly flaky, however, probably due to CDMA? And no matter what I do, the battery life when gaining / losing coverage regularly is still not very satisfactory.

Any ideas on adjusting the search rate?

infam0uskills · #6 (**permalink**) 08-17-2007, 09:42 AM

im recently having problems with my battery life also, with it looking for service and my phone starts getting hot so then i check my battery life and its already at 70 percent and its only been about 2 hours since i took it off of charge

**ycats** · #7 (**permalink**) 08-17-2007, 01:09 PM

Weatherpanel was my battery problem...........their site has been down so Weatherpanel keeps trying to download data........there's a fix on this site that I installed and everything's fine.

papped · #8 (**permalink**) 08-17-2007, 01:12 PM

Thanks for the info, gonna try this.

Maybe that is what is murdering my battery life lately.

**ycats** · #9 (**permalink**) 08-17-2007, 01:15 PM

it started happening to me yesterday morning.......you can go here:
http://www.sprintusers.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=140895

papped · #10 (**permalink**) 08-20-2007, 03:56 PM

My battery life is insanely longer now, thanks.