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.

HTCotta · #6 (**permalink**) 02-15-2010, 05:53 PM

Treos don't have a 3.6 inch LCD! All that screen=lots of battery usage. Then add in manila running on top, and all the updates and stuff happening in the background. I'm a college student, I text a lottt mostly (lots of time with the screen on and flipping 1x to Ev etc etc) and usually my phone shows around 50% when I go to bed, unless it's midterms or finals, in which case it reads about 65-70%. I also have a Sprint TP2. I've been trying to figure out lately if taking my phone out of global mode and putting it in CDMA only has a positive effect on battery, but I don't think it does anything.

bobturismo · #7 (**permalink**) 02-15-2010, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by galingula

I moved from a Treo 650 that did a lot, just not as much as this guy. Battery life was better by 2, so I was just curious.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/geeksonthego/8928/

I'm really happy I was able to get that to work on the TP2. I would have missed it a great deal

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Originally Posted by HTCotta

Treos don't have a 3.6 inch LCD! All that screen=lots of battery usage. Then add in manila running on top, and all the updates and stuff happening in the background. I'm a college student, I text a lottt mostly (lots of time with the screen on and flipping 1x to Ev etc etc) and usually my phone shows around 50% when I go to bed, unless it's midterms or finals, in which case it reads about 65-70%. I also have a Sprint TP2. I've been trying to figure out lately if taking my phone out of global mode and putting it in CDMA only has a positive effect on battery, but I don't think it does anything.

The screen is probably one of the biggest things and manilla definitely doesn't help either.

disabling manilla would considerably increase battery life.

disabling global mode on my sprint tp2 seemed to make a huge difference, I think the biggest thing is where you live.

You might as well disable global mode anyways until you travel out of the country as there is no reason to use it in counry as far as I know(unless something as changed since th phone came out)