My Omnia experience (so far)

[steve austin]

Originally Posted by Adrynalyne

Yep. I can go a whole day, listen to 2 or so hours of music, take a few phone calls, a few SMS, and a bit of browsing, and have 75%+ left on battery the next day. In fact, it will charge to full within 20 minutes from that point on the wall charger.

Download of files DEFINATELY eats battery, and quickly. I've never downloaded anything quite so large though to really test it to an extreme.

There definitely is a problem. You say don't check e-mail regularly, j32driver says he does it every 5 minutes (like me) and he has no problems at all.

Something is rotten in Denmark - and with my phone battery.

[syrguy1969]

Steve...how long have you had the Omnia now? There is a 'conditioning' time with the battery (the first week or so I went through the battery pretty fast, but now I can go 2-3 days on a full charge), but there is a history of a batch of Omnias being released with faulty batteries...you may want to look into getting the battery swapped out with VZW and see what that does for you.

[steve austin]

Originally Posted by syrguy1969

Steve...how long have you had the Omnia now? There is a 'conditioning' time with the battery (the first week or so I went through the battery pretty fast, but now I can go 2-3 days on a full charge), but there is a history of a batch of Omnias being released with faulty batteries...you may want to look into getting the battery swapped out with VZW and see what that does for you.

I have had it for about 3 weeks now. It is getting worse by the day. Can VZN do a battery check to see if it is faulty?

[syrguy1969]

Not sure if they can check it, but they should be able to swap it out for you. From what I have heard it is a common issue. I have seen a lot of posts of people swapping out batteries like that.

[steve austin]

Originally Posted by syrguy1969

Not sure if they can check it, but they should be able to swap it out for you. From what I have heard it is a common issue. I have seen a lot of posts of people swapping out batteries like that.

I am going straight after work. thanks.

[syrguy1969]

Originally Posted by steve austin

I am going straight after work. thanks.

Really? That's a choice???? (not that there is anything wrong with that!!)

*Sorry....I couldn't resist that one!!!!!

Let us know how it goes...it may take a bit to condition the battery, but I am thinking you should get better results (unless you have a power-draining app we haven't seen yet)!!

[aleis]

good call

[steve austin]

Originally Posted by syrguy1969

Really? That's a choice???? (not that there is anything wrong with that!!)

*Sorry....I couldn't resist that one!!!!!

Let us know how it goes...it may take a bit to condition the battery, but I am thinking you should get better results (unless you have a power-draining app we haven't seen yet)!!

Yes it was an option and I took full advantage of it. No one in a 7 store area had the battery in stock so they are going to mail it out to me today. I hope this does the trick. I don't want to have to see a charger for a day and a half like the rest of you!

[syrguy1969]

Cool...glad they worked with ya!! Let us know how it works out for you in the end, I'm hoping it will do the trick though!

[j32driver]

Yeah... your battery does suck.

Today, I pulled mine off the charger... had a pair of 10 minute phone calls, surfed the web for 10-15 minutes, then listened to music for an hour and a half during a plane ride. When I turned the phone back on after landing, the battery still showed 100%!!!! I called voicemail, and after that 3 minute call, the level finally dropped to 80%.

Its been at 80% since then, and I've talked for an additional 20 minutes on it.

Yeah... a good battery ROCKS!!!