Phone getting hot?

[BustedNuts1]

Yeah, I was in a low signal area: my apartment. I have full service everywhere except for my apartment, awesome. So the lower the signal, the hotter the battery?

[stroths]

The lower the signal, the more power the radio has to output to compensate. That's why your battery will drain faster in a low signal area.

[wiinex]

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?

[stroths]

Originally Posted by wiinex

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.

[PerfectHybrid]

haha i have -103...i think its safe to say i have MAJOR battery drainage issues due to no service haha...

PH

[jtrag]

Mine only seems to get WARM (not hot) when charging it, or if I stay on the phone for a long period of time it starts to get warm.

[wiinex]

Originally Posted by stroths

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

[BustedNuts1]

So, did the test from sprint improve your service from -105 to -60? Mine when I checked is at -103. Is there any way to improve this?

[stroths]

A -103 is pretty bad. If there is just a weak signal in your area, there is not much you can do. If its the phone itself, Sprint may be able to do something.

Another option is to ensure you have the latest PRL update on your phone. It should be 60608.

[BustedNuts1]

How do I get or check to see if I have the latest PRL update on my phone?