Sprint Diamond (battery): How many hours of talk time do you get?

[mulhiny]

Have you tried any other radios? Which one are you using? I will try the same call test you did by calling my land line. I'll do this Thursday night. I'm running a custom ROM so hopefully we can get a solid answer. I'll prob do it late night and post my results on Friday.

[aanast2]

Yes, I flashed from the Sprint 1.00 to the newer Sprint radio 1.11.

Doing the ##debug# check I don't seem to have that much of a better signal.

Under 1x, I had rx power -102 dbm rx ec/io 22db on the stock 1.00 radio.

Now with the 1.11 radio, I have rx power: ranging from -97 dbm to -105 dbm and rx ec/io 12 db to 38db.
(closer to zero is better)

Perhaps the battery life is a bit better but not much in talk time.

[Brighteyes72]

I think a lot has to do with the coverage in your area. Sprint has got so bad that I just got the diamond hoping to even make a call that I could hear all the words. But since I got my diamond my old palm has only been charged ones and wile I was using it as a phone I would need to charge everyday or in the morning it be dead. Also since I flashed, I can now force it into roaming wile in my house and I would almost say in standy it be a few days before it would need to be charged and if my battery gets low I switch it to roam only and it is good till I go to bed also change it to 1x only. So try 1x and roaming and see if that helps any. I can talk more and use the web and other stuff just as well and I don’t need to plug it in till I go to bed.

[aanast2]

As I mentioned on the first post of this thread, I've tried forced roaming and 1x. Thanks for the suggestion though. I've come to just accept that the Diamond cannot really get more than 3 hours talk time even if flashed to a custom rom due to what about 70% of responses to this poll report.

[mulhiny]

I tried running my own call test, but my portable phone kept dying around 2 hrs, lol..

[aanast2]

hey thanks for trying. so you get at least 2 hours of talk time and probably more.

[aanast2]

Another trick I've been doing to get more battery time is when it starts dying and goes to airplane mode, I shut the phone off for a few minutes. When I turn it on, I get 2 more bars of battery life. I repeat this process a few times and the phone lasts longer.

[aanast2]

Any other suggestions from anyone to increase talk time battery life?

[xxdamm]

I bought a extended lif battery and back case cover was like 10$