Battery Life?

svtyler11 · #1 (**permalink**) 09-25-2008, 10:37 PM

I have a sprint diamond, I talk on it for about 20 minutes and text a little and a use the web browsing occasionally. The battery goes dead in 5 hours.

It has been cycled about 15 times total.
I let it charge all night, I don't have any apps running or WIFI or bluetooth so I can't imagine why it dies so fast, my mogul lasted 2 days.

Is there something I am missing?

fobx530 · #2 (**permalink**) 09-25-2008, 10:42 PM

A friend told me that you aren't suppose to turn on the phone until you fully charge it before turning it on EVER, then you can turn it on which can lengthen the battery life.

Though he told me AFTER, I already turned it on used it, etc.

But I get similar but not as worst as you. I do bring my charger everywhere I go because I tend to use the internet/youtube on it.

This is also why I got insurance on it, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but incase the battery does suck that bad...I can bring it in to the sprint store.

iwillfearnoevil · #3 (**permalink**) 09-26-2008, 08:58 AM

unfortunately there is tons of conflicting advice regarding battery conditioning that no one really knows who to believe. but 5 hours is about right for me. i do notice that the phone charges VERY slow via usb (as did my mogul) so i think i sometimes assumed i was at 100% but in reality was at 50% starting off.

opuscroakus · #4 (**permalink**) 09-26-2008, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by svtyler11

I have a sprint diamond, I talk on it for about 20 minutes and text a little and a use the web browsing occasionally. The battery goes dead in 5 hours.

It has been cycled about 15 times total.
I let it charge all night, I don't have any apps running or WIFI or bluetooth so I can't imagine why it dies so fast, my mogul lasted 2 days.

Is there something I am missing?

If you are in an area with low signal strength it can bounce into roaming and eat much more battery. It would seem the radio in the Diamond is weaker than the Mogul and that would cause the problem.

holo · #5 (**permalink**) 09-26-2008, 12:31 PM

battery conditioning rumors are left over from nicad days - lithium ion doesn't need this....

http://www.batteryuniversity.com

**nxtech3** · #6 (**permalink**) 09-26-2008, 03:55 PM

...and so are the rumors that you dont have to condition li-ION lol. I "conditioned" my battery the first day i got the phone. I let it fully charge before turning it on, and i let it fully deplete to the point the phone died. I am on the web and playing music through BT using Triangle BT for roughly seven hours out of the day. and my battery lasts 22 hours from fully charged to fully discharged.

**Mr. X** · #7 (**permalink**) 09-26-2008, 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by nxtech3

...and so are the rumors that you dont have to condition li-ION. I "conditioned" my battery the first day i got the phone. I let it fully charge before turning it on, and i let it fully deplete to the point the phone died. I am on the web and playing music through BT using Triangle BT and my battery lasts 22 hours from fully charged to fully shut off.

its in your head man, ni-cad are the only ones that need to be conditioned like this.

li-on do not they have no "memory"

svtyler11 · #8 (**permalink**) 09-26-2008, 04:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fobx530

A friend told me that you aren't suppose to turn on the phone until you fully charge it before turning it on EVER, then you can turn it on which can lengthen the battery life.

Though he told me AFTER, I already turned it on used it, etc.

But I get similar but not as worst as you. I do bring my charger everywhere I go because I tend to use the internet/youtube on it.

This is also why I got insurance on it, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but incase the battery does suck that bad...I can bring it in to the sprint store.

I tried this, not a minute after I took if the charger (done) it was telling me that the battery was low!

**mswlogo** · #9 (**permalink**) 09-26-2008, 05:06 PM

My first couple days were not so good and I had partially topped it off at work setting things up.

I finally had it with the stupid TF3D and since I shut that off it seems much better.

But it does bother me how it gets so warm with use and seems to be burning through battery at a much higher rate.

I even swithed to Push Mail (Exchange) which keeps the Network up 24/7 and yesterday and today have been pretty good. But I'm not fully into me routine with it yet so I'm not 100% sure.

staticent116 · #10 (**permalink**) 09-26-2008, 05:38 PM

Is there any hack or tip for the battery to not end up so flippin hot?