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Originally Posted by kevm14
I think Li-Ion DOES require a break-in. I am aware of the calibration and I think the break-in is doing more than that, based on my experience with Li-Ion-powered devices without intelligent battery life reporting.
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I've never heard of Li-Ion even having a memory. That was supposed to be the whole point of these batteries... I've never read a manual or anything that says to "condition" a Li-Ion battery..
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Originally Posted by dew.man
Most of us? Mine works fine as well!
abcPowerMeter is a good start. I used it to measure current draw and tweak my phone config for optimum performance based on the apps/update frequency/etc.
You need to remember that in threads like these, you will generally not hear from the people who are not having the problems. So if you don't take that in to consideration, you may come to the conclusion that the majority of users are having a problem whereas they are not.
I bought my phone from Best Buy the Friday before they came out. It was a first batch phone, and while my battery life could be better, I am very satisfied. I can, and often do, drive with the iGo8/gps running and my battery level does not drop.
On one occassion, after going to my vacation property in the country and having the phone on all weekend with little to no signal half of the time, I found that the phone heated up quickly and the battery drained unusually quickly. After the soft-reset, all is good again.
With that said, I would like to remind you that we all already know that the phone is very sensitive to cell towers/coverage in terms of battery drain...
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Looking at the polls, most people seem to have battery/heat issues... That's what I was going by. Plus all 4 that I have owned have had this problem
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Originally Posted by Palladium
I have not done a hard reset but still experience the heat issue, and have from day one (it's something I've learned to live with while I reasearch WHY it gets hot)
What kind of calculations do you want it to run? My battery log prog will keep a complete log of power draw, voltage, and battery temperature. and system events. I modified it to let the unit go to sleep, but my original version keept it in full power mode with the screen off. I could dump in a routine to do some heavy calculations the entire time and put in the option to enable or disable that feature. I have run some of my calculation intensive software while logging, and never see over 230mA of battery draw, (i.e. the application processor/WinMo side seems quite efficent) Where I have seen the heavy battery draw is with the transmitter. Which is why I am conviced that the issue lies in the radio ROM. (Since LG uses the RFT61xx series transmitters on many of their handsets (eg vx8300/8350) without major reported issues)
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It would be nice if it was just a more standardized test. Like it asks you to dial your voicemail or something, and then it does stuff like keep the screen on, or something. Just to keep everyone's test more comparable.
Just food for thought--is all