I charged my phone on Saturday at 2am. (after we got back from the concert) Now, it's dead. Completely dead. In fact, it turned itself off because it is so dead. WTF?!??! It can't even last 4 whole days without being charged?? I will say that I've talked more the past 4 days what with traveling and Karin being in the hospital, but am I the only one that thinks this is extremely unreasonable?
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I've personally never tried to make it last four days, I charge every night. So I'm coming from an inexperienced perspective, but I'm not surprised. I would expect 2/2.5 at best.
Falcon Ridge, I only lost 2 of the 4 dots on the whole battery over 3 days. (Good signal reception.) Here, butkus.
"My old phone used to work fine in my house/apartment/etc, this one doesn't, it must be broken."
Unfortunately, it's even written in the contracts that there is no guarantee of service inside any building.
Any phone call made or received, text messages... anything involving data transmission (getting a call that you don't even answer, and the following notification that you have a voicemail)... all of those will use battery life.
If you had an extended battery, perhaps I'd understand some concern. But under normal usage with a new battery, you're probably only looking at 2-3 days before it'll start puttering out. Extended length phone calls, or frequent calls.. emergency situations wherein you use it beyond "normal" would drain the battery faster. Also keep in mind that battery's have a life-span; they're only guaranteed to last (again, normal use) for a year. Normal use according to Verizon's old specs I believe was 1000 minutes/month.
If you charge the battery every day, you're life span will reduce. If you talk 2000+ minutes in a month, expect the battery to start lasting shorter after approx. 6 months, if that.
Even if you don't have Verizon, all manufacturers will end up with similar specs for their batteries... and never pay attention to the "talk time/standby time" ratings on your model phone, those are done under optimal conditions. My phone's claimed talk/standby is 4.16 hours/8.3 days, respectively. Experience has put me closer to about 70-80% of their claim.. so do the same for your own use.
Yeah... wow I totally went babble on you. lol.
The newer phones support the 1X data/EV-DO. This is actually a separate way in which they transfer file information and whatnot, and thus service availability is separate in various regions. The problem therein is that you could have flawless signal for voice communication, but if your EV-DO reception is horrible, the phone will drain the battery attempting to search for an EV-DO network to connect to.
I believe GSM networks work similarly, but since I've little experience in the technical side of things... I'm not really promising much. ;-)
Many of the LG phones we carried used the same battery, even though the phones themselves had an entirely different set of features. It's amusing to think that simple non camera, non music, etc. type phones only "required" the same amount of power as phones like the VX8100/VX8300, which were V-Cast music phones. You'd think they'd at least up the milliamps on the batteries knowing that people'd be playing music or whatever. *shrug*
I'm curious now though... what provider do you have? And do you know the model of your old phone vs. your new phone?