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Old 07-22-2007, 02:02 AM
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Re: 100% battery in the morning 10% by 5pm

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Originally Posted by stroths
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I charged my Mugol and it was 100% when I started this morning. There is non running on the task except the usual start up programs. I used the EVDO for about 15mins and by 5pm the battery is on 10%. the phone is warm. I keep the backlight on auto off after 30 secs and always presses on the phone off button once to just suspend it. I checked the ##786# to see if the phone is refurb but its not. Kinda disappointed in there. I had this phone since 7.13.07 so its only few days old with me. You guys think there's a reason for the battery to be like that?
You may be in an area with low signal strength. Low signal strength drains the batter a lot faster. From your phone screen type ##33284# (##DEBUG#). You will see an entry called "RX Power" which measures your signal strength. It ranges from around -50 to roughly -110. A -50 is a perfect signal like if you were next to a tower. -110 is horrible and would drop calls if you could even make them.

If you are -95 to -110 you are going to have some battery drain issues as the phone's radio has to output more power to compensate for the weaker signal. At home, I generally get around -87 which isn't great but doesn't kill my battery too fast.

I called sprint right away because my signal is -105. They called me back they did a test and guess what static then drop call. They called my home phone and a techy guy tried to figure out what happened. I told them that never happened before. Thanks!!! thats a relief now the signal is on -60. I just don't know what happened on Sprint's side of mess but Im good now. lol
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