Battery Results after charge/discharge cycle

[Cash]

Ok Guys,

I have now finished the third charge/discharge cycle with the phone switched off when charging, and charging for 16 hours each time.

I will document the results here and also keep a log of all calls and texts sent received and any other use I have from the phone so I can get a good account of phone use.

Lets hope I get at least 48 hours use this time ..


11.00 am - Turned phone on after final 16 hour charge - no application running, bluetooth off, wifi off

[nj7]

Brave attempt! But a small battery, will be always small, for well-taken care of than if it has. Is the same battery of Nokia 3230 and in this is not great thing. But the 3230 do not have the same amount of colors of the N80, have 4 times less pixels, do not have Wi-Fi nor are 3G. For much good management that is made of the same one, have-of being always short.

[Cash]

Originally Posted by nj7

Brave attempt! But a small battery, will be always small, for well-taken care of than if it has. Is the same battery of Nokia 3230 and in this is not great thing. But the 3230 do not have the same amount of colors of the N80, have 4 times less pixels, do not have Wi-Fi nor are 3G. For much good management that is made of the same one, have-of being always short.

Believe me I understand all what you are saying, my battery lsts about 18 hours after charging overnight and with probably less than usual use, I know that conditioning and reconditioning batteries is very important (not sure if its too important with the battery in the N80), so I will give it a go and if I get a few more hours then I will be happy..as I said I will keep everybody here informed as to how this works.

[icemanjimbo04]

I know it has been mentioned here before but ive tried it over the last few days and seems to help a lot.

If you set the phone to GSM only i think i get about 6 hours extra from the batery, i never use the 3g anyway so it doesnt affect me.

[Cash]

well I am 7 hours in now, made a few calls and sent a couple of sms, using as normal and I still have a full battery (usually I would have dropped at least 1 bar by now) so fingers crossed..looking good so far

[Ungjaevel]

If you set the phone to GSM only i think i get about 6 hours extra from the batery, i never use the 3g anyway so it doesnt affect me.

How do I set it to GSM only?

I'm interested in the results from Cash's test...

[Jaffa-cake]

tools>settings>network>network mode>GSM

[galinha]

The wifi is on always ? If so how do i disconect ?

[Cash]

Ok 12 hour report.

Phone has been switched on for 12 hours after final 16 hour charge with phone switched off : BT-off, wifi-off, GSM mode only, no other apps running at all.

Phone use

11.55am 1 text sent
12.22pm 1 call made 22 seconds
15.10pm 1 call made 47 seconds
17.05pm 1 text sent
17.15pm 1 text received
17.17pm 1 text sent
22.45pm 1 text received
22.46pm 1 text sent
22.52pm 1 text received
22.52pm 1 text sent
22.57pm 1 text received

Battery is now down by 3 bars.....Not looking good.

[entwisi]

Been on hols with my phone so switched it to GSM only(Mallorca) charged it Sunday night(3rd charge from new) used to play cards and make a couple of calls/texts, took about 15-20 pics with flash. Was down to 1 bar by Thursday night.

PS this was a replacement phone from Orange which came with a Orange modified version of the 017 firmware(will be replaced with the vanilla version when I get a minute as it still has that crappy photo app)

[Cash]

Originally Posted by entwisi

Been on hols with my phone so switched it to GSM only(Mallorca) charged it Sunday night(3rd charge from new) used to play cards and make a couple of calls/texts, took about 15-20 pics with flash. Was down to 1 bar by Thursday night.

PS this was a replacement phone from Orange which came with a Orange modified version of the 017 firmware(will be replaced with the vanilla version when I get a minute as it still has that crappy photo app)

wow looks like you got a good battery, maybe my battery is just sh*t

[_Dx_]

lol all of our batteries are a shit hahaha, nokia always had this problem, in all my smarthphones been the same problem

my smartphones
3650, N-Gage, 6600, 9500, N-Gage-QD , N80

all of the above the battery was a sh*t

[Cash]

Last update before I go to bed

Ok its been 16 hours now since the phone was switched back on, I havn't touched the phone or had any new text or calls since my last post and the battery level is now down to 1 bar, I am guessing that it will be flat in the usual 18 hours that I seem to get out of a charge.

Extremely dissapointed and anoyed because I only made 2 very short calls and sent/received 9 texts, very very poor

So much for the charge dischrge for 16 hours while phone is off

Doesnt improve battery life and is a waste of time in my test.

Back to the drawing board, I think I may go back to the shop to get a replacement battery and see if that helps.

will also try the charger from my old nokia tonight just in case there is a problem with the charger.

Goodnight all

[Jayd]

Originally Posted by Cash

Last update before I go to bed

Ok its been 16 hours now since the phone was switched back on, I havn't touched the phone or had any new text or calls since my last post and the battery level is now down to 1 bar, I am guessing that it will be flat in the usual 18 hours that I seem to get out of a charge.

Extremely dissapointed and anoyed because I only made 2 very short calls and sent/received 9 texts, very very poor

So much for the charge dischrge for 16 hours while phone is off

Doesnt improve battery life and is a waste of time in my test.

Back to the drawing board, I think I may go back to the shop to get a replacement battery and see if that helps.

will also try the charger from my old nokia tonight just in case there is a problem with the charger.

Goodnight all

Sorry to hear that. Maybe it's because it needs to be done with a new battery? But I'm still getting 2-3 days with a lot heavier usage than that. Do you have a network specific or generic firmware? What theme are you using?

[Cash]

Originally Posted by Jayd

Sorry to hear that. Maybe it's because it needs to be done with a new battery? But I'm still getting 2-3 days with a lot heavier usage than that. Do you have a network specific or generic firmware? What theme are you using?

I dont use themes, and the firmware is generic.