Battery Life Poll!!! Lets get to the bottom of this!

Battery Life Poll!!! Lets get to the bottom of this!

Ok... So I decided to make a poll to have a quick referrence to what can cause the battery life of the pre to fail soo darn rapidly. Click on the poll question that best fits your category for your batterly life.

Battery Fixed!!! Updated 6/11/2009!!!! This is how the battery life went the day I was pissed off and ready to turn this b!#c# back in.

Woke up and took the phone off the charger at 7am. Looked on the computer and checked my battery at 7:06am and was at 96%.... What the f^(k.

Hopped on the Motorcycle and rode to school with Music Player on which took 20 mins and at 8:08am. Battery was at 83%.

Got out of class at 11:20am and battery was at 28% so I decided to go to the sprint store. At this point Im pissed. I got there at 11:58am and battery was at 4%. Handed the guy my phone and was like I need you to check this for me and he was like its gonna take an hour so I went to my lab at school and picked it back up. When I picked it up the phone was completely dead. So I took it home and plugged it into the charger. I called Palm and was pissed and was like yall need to send me a battery. They told me to keep it on the charger and do the reset, hold down power and toggle the phone silence switch a few times. It reset the phone. I left the phone on the charger for like 10hrs after that and I was like this crap aint gonna work and took it off the charger later that night and waited like 2 hours and the battery barely moved. So I was like ok this may be a fluke. I left it off the charger all night and lost like 4%. I charged it up early this morning to 100%. Played MP3 Player for 25mins and it went to 93%. At 10am it was at74% and that was with me playing with it all day and on wifi and searching the net in class. Turned the wifi off at 10am. Was at school in the library so I decided to charge it up a little. Started Playing Pandora with 97% at 5:45pm and still playing it on the phone 3.5 hrs later and have 30% left. I have also sent like 50 texts and checked my email and still have 30% left. I think its doing pretty well.

So to fix the problem...

1. Let phone die
2. Plug it into the charger
3. reset it with the hold down power switch and toggle silent switch
4. Leave it on the charger for at least 10hrs
5. Set your email sync to every 6hrs.

Where is the poll???

Its up now... Also if you have a story about how your phone battery used to suck and now it doesnt then tell us what you did....

Ok, see it now

My battery sucked until I got rid of hotmail

Quick example I wa watching a video on you tube with the battery being at 100% by the time i finished watching it it was down to about 92%:angry:. I'll most likely pick up the Seido extended battery...:laugh3:

The phones came with a charge, so technically their very 1st charge would have been from the manufacturer. Not sure what exactly you're trying to find here.

Lithium Ion batteries are not that susceptible to memory effect, nor do they need the initial primer charge like in the days of Ni-Cd. The first time you charge them is just the same as any other time, though fully depleting and recharging can sometimes give the device a better gauge of the battery life.

So I don't think you're going to find a correlation between the "initial" charge and the battery life.

Can I vote twice?

With Hotmail account I got 3-4 hours, at best, and you could fry an egg on the back of it.

Without Hotmail account I'm at 68% charge at 7 and 1/2 hours and counting and it is cool as a cucumber.

Really!!!!! I think I am gpong to bookmark msn to check email and erease the hotmail from the phone.

That is what I'm doing while waiting for a Palm software fix. In the meantime you can get Hotmail to send you SMS text messages when you receive emails from your contact list. It isn't push but it is an alert of sorts.

Did not and do not use hotmail and it still sucked. hot as hell and drained to zero in 2.5 hrs of standby. Palm technical support was convinced I had a faulty device (so why did they ship it?) and so i returned it. I won't be back for a good long while until this is much much better.

I heard that also but I was on another site that also said that batteries take a few charges to fully get to their maximum potential. So even though its not succeptible to the memory theory but there is still something that happens to peoples batteries that makes them start working better. I have heard from a few people that say that once they left their phone on the charger all night long for a few nights after it was almost dead it held a charge better...

Trying a new full charge without AIM

I need this to at least be an email device, so I've tried turning off AIM messaging for now, will unscientifically watch how fast it drains now.

I wonder if pidgin would be a lighter-scale IM client for this device? I used that on my Nokia N810 and got pretty reliable battery life on that archetecture, and it handles all the major IM protocols.

Also, off the car charger, I can confirm that it actually seems to lose charge even while on the car charger with the icon showing that it's charging. Consumption due to gps polling satellites/positions?

Will post my impression here, after a day or so.

my battery life has been fine the entire time, before and after the update. Before the update it ran somewhat hot, and after it stays cool. I never had an issue with heat since. I really dont know why everyone is having battery issues and im not....i push the hell outta this phone. i send txts, browse the web, and run pandora all at the same time and the charge only trickles down slowly. i can even throw in the Speed Brain app without issues lol


btw i only sync'd gmail. Left out Facebook and aim. i'm waiting to sync those when an update comes out that lets you delete facebook contacts from your address book without deleted them as friends on my page.


hope that helps

Thanks for sharing this. Yes I updated to 1.02 just after activation, I don't have the heat issue, tho I did notice it when I first got home, before the update, and cooler since.

It's good to hear there are ppl WITHOUT this issue, perhaps it will be the particular manufacturing lot of batteries that shipped with these, and they can be tested or swapped out, if that's the root cause.


We can hope

I just read this in the official user guide.. "Charge your phone whenever you can. Charge it overnight. The battery has a much longer useful life when it is topped off frequently than when it is charged after it is fully drained."

Is this true? I've always heard to opposite.. better to charge fully when close to completely drained (not necessarily dead). I've done this for most of my other chargeable products and have had great success with battery life. Curious if this is something new?

i like mine.. im about to get another pre soon and im going to ask if i can keep my battery, i dont want one like any that you guys have!! lol.

its not great or even "good" but its very acceptable to me.

took it off charger at 6:30 AM.. from 8:30 - 1:00 i listened to pandra via external speakers plugged into the phone, for about 3 hours or more. during that i was doing almost constant texting, and a little bit of web browsing, and just general playing around with it becauase i cant keep my hands off the thing when its sitting there!

i have gps on, yahoo mail automatically receiving, brightness probably 30%.. ringer off. wifi / blue tooth off.

This is definitely true for Li-ion batteries, which is what this phone has. As I've stated in several other threads of the same topic, it's best to top of the charge than drain completely until it shuts off. Periodically (every 30 charge cycles or so) you can drain it to calibrate the battery gauge.

so if i run Hotmail, my battery will be hot while im reading my mail??

sounds like you get what you ask for :tounge:

My wife surprised me w/ mine for an early Fathers Day present Saturday night around 8pm.........yes she rocks! By the time I got it, it was dead, would not turn on. She got it from BB in the afternoon. The store turned it on and activated it and I guess left it on and she put it back in the box until I got it. So I plugged in into the wall and let it charge for a couple of hours and I left in plugged in, but I had to turn it on! Played w/ it for a few minutes and left it alone until morning. Sunday I played around w/ it for most of the day installed a couple of apps, a few phone calls, exploring, ect. and left it on all night. Monday I used it little, streamed Pandora for a little while (I really like that app) and I turned it off that night. Turned it back on this morning and made a few phone calls, Pandora, ect.....and around 2pm I was down to 10% battery. So I decided to plug it into my PC for the first time and that is where I am now. I would say initial battery life was excellent, but then again I didn't use it too much. We will see when I have a heavy usage day!

wi/fi = off
bluetooth = off
screen brightness = 30%
gmail = as items arrive, get mail; 1 account
gps = always on
voice network = automatic
data roaming = enabled
TTY/TDD = off
Vibrate = on
Ringtone Vol = highest
System Sounds = on, highest
screen off = 30sec

I just disconnected off usb/pc charge after 3hrs and shows full battery. We will see how long it lasts this time............