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Originally Posted by mrgeoff
A lot of things could be to blame. I usually find it to be coverage. If you are in an area that has low coverage, or you start to roam a lot.... it is going to suck the battery.
I get great battery life while I am at work. I have about half of the signal bars, average 75+ emails from work (push email), get and reply to texts, and get the occasional phone call. After all that, I leave work w/ ~80% of my battery. Once I get home, the battery starts to drain. I moved to an area that is really weak. Zero bars (still have coverage) to two bars tops. I'm lucky to go to bed w/ 40% lol
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I'll second this response. There is one room in my house that gets absolutely horrid cellular coverage, both on my XV6900 and my T-Mobile Blackberry 8800. A test that I did in all rooms of the house - I charged the phone immediately upon getting home, then unplugged before bed and placed the phones in each room.
Come morning, I checked and documented each phone's battery.
Blackberry has no percentage indicator, just 6 bars, 6 being a fully charged battery.
Blackberry does push email - I average 18-20 emails a night. These nights were no different.
XV6900 checks Gmail every hour - I average 3-4 emails a night. Again, these nights were no different.
No calls came in any of the nights I tested. No outgoing calls were made.
Master bedroom:
XV6900 - 90%
BB - 6 bars
2nd bedroom:
XV6900 - 100%
BB - 6 bars
3rd bedroom:
XV6900 - 90%
BB - 5 bars
Master Bath:
XV6900 - 90%
BB - 6 bars
2nd bath:
XV6900 - 90%
BB - 5 bars
Dining room:
XV6900 - 60%
BB - 3 bars
Computer room:
XV6900 - 90%
BB - 5 bars
Kitchen:
XV6900 - 80%
BB - 4 bars
Garage:
XV6900 - 80%
BB - 5 bars
As you can see - in the dining room, the battery life was significantly less than in the other rooms.
I can't walk through the dining room without the signal degrading horribly, in about 50% of the cases the call was dropped. This has been the case with Sprint, Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Nextel, Boost, Metro PCS, and an Alltel phone from out of town.
Feel free to do a similar test in your house - may be interesting to see what differences you'll see from room to room! Of course, your milage may vary!