Sprint battery killing me

galingula · #1 (**permalink**) 02-15-2010, 10:43 AM

I have all comms shut down but the phone. I talked on the phone for maybe 45 minutes this weekend. Had a full charge leaving the office friday, but phone was dead when i got in. I've had the phone for two weekends and I can't seem to keep it charged.

Any tips? This seems wrong

**fishingmedic** · #2 (**permalink**) 02-15-2010, 10:52 AM

If you've only had it for 2 weeks, take it back to the store and get a replacement battery. Are you on the stock ROM? How's the signal where the phone was, if you left it in an area that has a soso signal, the battery gets drained by the phone searching for a better signal. We're there any apps left running in the background, i.e. weather update, e-mail, etc?

**shaggylive** · #3 (**permalink**) 02-15-2010, 11:28 AM

so you got a full 2+ days out of it? sounds about right to me. obviously there was also some data traffic, sms, or poor signal involved too, but overall that's about right.

galingula · #4 (**permalink**) 02-15-2010, 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by shaggylive

so you got a full 2+ days out of it? sounds about right to me. obviously there was also some data traffic, sms, or poor signal involved too, but overall that's about right.

That's what I was afraid of.

I ordered this combo for it...

http://www.wirelessground.com/stp2superext.html

src666 · #5 (**permalink**) 02-15-2010, 11:43 AM

The simple fact is that all modern smartphones have battery life issues, and pretty much want to be charged daily. Friday night to Monday morning is 2 1/2 days, on the FAR outer bounds of what they will sustain in even the lowest power use scenarios.

fr0st · #6 (**permalink**) 02-15-2010, 11:46 AM

Wirelessly posted (TP2 Biznitch: Opera/9.80 (Windows Mobile; WCE; Opera Mobi/WMD-50369; U; en) Presto/2.4.13 Version/10.00)

What do you expect out of a smartphone? 7 days? lol. I charge mine everynight. I use my phone alot and it makes it through the day. 2 days is actually pretty good.

dumpringz · #7 (**permalink**) 02-15-2010, 01:10 PM

Wirelessly posted (HTC Touch Pro 2 (Sprint): Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 8.12; MSIEMobile6.0) Sprint T7380)

im a happy fella if by the time i get home from work everyday im above 40% .. & thats if i dont get a chance 2 charge it. with my tp1 i was at 40% at like 10am lol

**jmorton10** · #8 (**permalink**) 02-15-2010, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by dumpringz

with my tp1 i was at 40% at like 10am lol

LOL, no kidding.

I had something like 4 spare batteries for my original TP & I needed every one of them....

I am absolutely ecstatic that my Verizon TP2 can make it through a normal days use on one battery (I carry a spare battery for it, but I have never used it once & I've had the phone since the day they became available)

~John

**HBOOT** · #9 (**permalink**) 02-15-2010, 01:36 PM

No Bs, actually Sprint TP got better with the ROM update, it got like 35% boost in my case. Still like Jmo, I had a series of batties readyto be deployed

bobturismo · #10 (**permalink**) 02-15-2010, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by fr0st

Wirelessly posted (TP2 Biznitch: Opera/9.80 (Windows Mobile; WCE; Opera Mobi/WMD-50369; U; en) Presto/2.4.13 Version/10.00)

What do you expect out of a smartphone? 7 days? lol. I charge mine everynight. I use my phone alot and it makes it through the day. 2 days is actually pretty good.

Seriously, you want a phone that lasts 7 days, get one of those crappy phones that doesn't do anything.