Battery life with varying coverage
 

My Sprint 6800 can eat its entire battery in under three hours if I am driving through an intensive coverage / no coverage / roaming area. This is very frustrating. If I simply forget my phone is on, I can find my battery is dead in a very short period of time. It's very shocking when you expect to be able to make calls, but find your battery is dead, just from you walking or driving for a few hours in the wrong place!

Are there any ways to combat this? Reduce the search rate? I feel like I have to babysit this phone as it stands.

By comparison, my GSM Palm Treo could take a solid 24 hours of constantly gaining and losing coverage before losing battery. I guess I was spoiled...

how long have you had your phone? these batteries are supposed to get better after a little while and mine has recently started lasting alot longer.

also can you try and set your phone to 'sprint only' and see if the battery lasts while u travel through this area?

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I recently drove through coverage no coverage area (3 hours each trip)and my battery life was actually better than with my usual spot with 0-2 bars. I have to charge my phone every day but when I came back after 15 hours out of town my battery was 50%. I guess the battery life is very unpredictable.

It's interesting... it seems that the more I use the batteries, the longer they last. So this phone is pretty new, and I'm seeing better and better battery life, as I cycle the power regularly.

I would say the battery life is fairly flaky, however, probably due to CDMA? And no matter what I do, the battery life when gaining / losing coverage regularly is still not very satisfactory.

Any ideas on adjusting the search rate?

im recently having problems with my battery life also, with it looking for service and my phone starts getting hot so then i check my battery life and its already at 70 percent and its only been about 2 hours since i took it off of charge

Weatherpanel was my battery problem...........their site has been down so Weatherpanel keeps trying to download data........there's a fix on this site that I installed and everything's fine.

Thanks for the info, gonna try this.

Maybe that is what is murdering my battery life lately.

it started happening to me yesterday morning.......you can go here:
http://www.sprintusers.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=140895

My battery life is insanely longer now, thanks.