Help in understanding - Battery Life

Wizard Keyaz

Wizard Keyaz

Wizard Keyaz

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I want to know if it states 4hrs talk time and 350 standby, how many hours can you actually play with the phone without talking?

What I mean is when you play a game for example on the phone does that mean it will only play for 4hrs?
 
It would be more than 4 hours. Talk time means using the RF circuits constantly, which uses a lot of power.

But then it also wouldn't be anywhere near 350 hours, just somewhere in the middle. I guess the only way to accurately tell is to try it.

Jon
 
GeForce said:
It would be more than 4 hours. Talk time means using the RF circuits constantly, which uses a lot of power.

But then it also wouldn't be anywhere near 350 hours, just somewhere in the middle. I guess the only way to accurately tell is to try it.

Jon
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How about web accessing does that use RF Circuits?
 
Wizard Keyaz said:
How about web accessing does that use RF Circuits?
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Yes it does.

One thing to bear in mind is that the better the signal in your area, the less power it will consume. Low signal will drain the battery faster :)
 
Yup, quite a lot actually.

Although some phones (ie. Sony Ericssons) have a power save mode for Bluetooth that reduces the power consumption of the BT chip to almost nothing.

I've got a K810i and tend to leave BT on all the time in power-save mode.

Jon
 
I use to have the K800i but I prefer my N73 to that one, anyways I am a constant phone user, I am making more than 4 - 4 hours per day so I need to charge my phone all the time but my secondry phone which is Nokia 6300 is the one I am enquiring about.

I use to have the 8800 and I could only speak for 2hrs and the battery is flat out, so any tips for the 6300?

Sy
 
"Playing" with the phone will eat up battery faster than talking over the phone because color screen is the biggest battery drain in modern phones. Reduce contrast and brightness to minimum, switch off blue tooth and wifi, avoid badly written, never optimized, power hungry java applications.
 
Cheers mate, I wonder when they will ever get a phone that has a stable battery life that can last for people like me, messing with the phone and also talking for hours on the phone.
 
It's a known fact battery technology is way behind everything else in the evolution curve at present. It should catch up one day soon hopefully, there are a few good things on the horizon but they wont be around for consumers for years.
 
LeperousDust said:
It's a known fact battery technology is way behind everything else in the evolution curve at present. It should catch up one day soon hopefully, there are a few good things on the horizon but they wont be around for consumers for years.
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Apparently they're not in a rush too. I remember a story about NASA approaching a battery company saying we need a battery like this one but 1/8th the size with ten times as much power. It wasn't much of a problem, at all. Took them hardly any effort. Makes you think.
 
In my opinion, they can easily make a better battery, but why would they? They sell more if they run out quicker etc, if they made a perfect battery, they'd lose money.

I don't worry about it on a phone now, just charge it every night, even if it is half full etc, if the battery breaks after half a year due to too much charging, just buy another, they are only a few quid now :)
 
In that respect I can't say much but what I can say is that it does your head in when you need battery life when you sometimes forget to charge it.
 
a lot of people comment on how poor there handsets are for battery life , and yes lets be fair battery technology aint moved any faster commpaired to the technology to handsets ,
But what i will say is that i aint had much of a problem with this sort of thing , i kinda picked up so way of thinking as with radio controlled car racing that i do and have done for sometime .
I think the key to this in most cases is
1. once you get you phone make sure that you give it a good charge before using , now this is hard i know as you want to have a play with it in all its new shinyness , but the manufacture's do state this helps , so there has to be some truth in it .

2. For the first couple of time you use the handset make sure that you drain the life out of it everytime , as batteries do carry a memorey and if you charge several times with out draining that battey thinks that 1/4 of the way its at its lowest.

3. once a month from then onwards do a load of mutitasks on it to soak any memorey out of it .

4. dont leave it on charge overnight , this a lot of people think is fine . it aint essentially your overcharging with has the same effect as underchraging which again does not help memorey.

5. if you can buy a desk charger for batteries , batteries respond better once there out of equipment and you zapping it with full charge , instead of the rest of the phone and then the battery.

6. if your going to buy a spare , dont be fooled to buy cheap winning bids on flea bay or other sort of bidding websites or dodgey market dealers, most of the time these are fake made copies mass produced in some under paid factory , if you want a nokia battery seek a nokia specailist or a nokia sevice centre , same applyies for and brand , if they sell the products with the branding advetised they got to follow rules set down buy the manufactures.

7. Once using ya phone try not to leave apps open or leave Wifi or Bluetooth on , these decease battery time buy a lot , eg like on Nokia N Series , press and hold the menu key , this will tell you whats running in the background and use the "C" button to close anything you aint using .

Hope this May Help some
Alex Slane :)
 
jdickerson said:
Apparently they're not in a rush too. I remember a story about NASA approaching a battery company saying we need a battery like this one but 1/8th the size with ten times as much power. It wasn't much of a problem, at all. Took them hardly any effort. Makes you think.
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Cost a lot of money though, it's doable but the fact is most consumers aren't willing to pay extra money for extra battery life.
 
pitchfork said:
Cost a lot of money though, it's doable but the fact is most consumers aren't willing to pay extra money for extra battery life.
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I don't believe it personally. They make more money by giving disposable poor life as you need to buy more.. etc.. and rechargeable batteries so you need to use more electricity recharging them...! GLOBAL CONSPIRACY! :D
 
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