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Originally Posted by gilbenl

To calibrate the battery, there are two schools of thought: Historically, you drain the battery all the way to the point where the phone dies, charge it fully with the device off, then repeat a couple of times. With this device having a more modern battery, some folks would argue that you should only discharge to about 15-20%, turn the device off and allow to charge fully, then repeat. Personally, I allowed it to die twice and I'm getting fantastic battery life. If it hasn't been said enough though, the Imagio is a high-powered smart phone, so don't expect to get the same 3-day active use battery life as you would get on a dumb phone. That being said though, as it stands right now, I can get a full day of average or moderate use (3 hrs voice, 30-35 e-mails/sms, web, occasional wifi/bluetooth. This is what I define as moderate) or about 2 full days of very light usage with direct push off.

In any case, should you do all of the steps outlined in this thread (there are more things than just calibrating the battery. All ya gotta due is peruse the posts in this thread) and you're still getting bad battery life (IE less than 8 hours with moderate usage) you may have gotten a bad/old battery and you should take it to the vzw store for a free replacement. Keep in mind that this battery is relatively unique in that it has a fixed life of about 2-3 years. Repeated charging/discharging will shorten it, but even if left untouched on a shelf, it will only last that long. It appears that in the case of some early devices, batteries were use that had been in storage for quite some time. Nevertheless, this would only be relevant to you if you bought your phone in the first few weeks of it's release.

Good luck!

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Gilbenl. There's something else going on here. Like i stated in my post, I never had battery issues, and i'd already done all of the other suggestions on day 1 of owning the phone. Somethings causing these phones to have battery issues. I don't buy the whole "bad battery" bit in my case because i've had the phone for release day and it's only recently started showing battery issues.