Battery Results after charge/discharge cycle

[Jayd]

Originally Posted by Winfield

Well I did the test and cycle. My maximum battery life with a few text and calls was from 8th July 6 am to 10th July 8pm. 2 days and a half. Still poor. Phone in GSM mode, didn't use any smart aplications, sleep mode on, light sensor down by one notch, no open aplications, almost always with full network coverage, etc.
Just plain simply disappointing.

@Cash
Unlike you I "can't live" without the camera. I use(d) it all the time on my K750i, specially at night.

Regds

Your complaining at 2 and a half days? WOW what do you want?

[Cash]

Originally Posted by Jayd

Your complaining at 2 and a half days? WOW what do you want?

yea, If I can get up to 2.5 days I will be well happy ..

[dez_borders]

Originally Posted by Cash

Surely their massivly financed and highly skilled development team have a calculater that can work out average power consumption v power availability.

Maybe they just have an unlimited amount of monkeys messing around with electronics and this is what they came up with ...give the monkeys a calculater !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Somebody at Nokia probably got quietly demoted/sacked/blamed by the real culprit etc. I would not be totally surprised if they release an N80i in 3 months with a higher capacity battery, enhanced (de-bugged) firmware etc.

D

[Winfield]

@Jayd

But in real life I will never achieve that long again. It was only a test I did this weekend after the charge / discharge cycle. Only got 2.5 days without using the mobile (3 or 4 sms, 1 or 2 calls).
Regds

[mgoodson45]

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[mgoodson45]

I am amazed with people complaining with battery life etc... but overlook one single most important factor: Operator Signal.

1) If you are located in area with good coverage, the power drained during no-activity is very low, and vice versa. If you're keep getting anything lower than full bar of signal, it'll transmit more power.

2) If you're roaming in other countries, your phone most likely change from one operator to another. This requires higher power usage and thus consume the battery faster.

3) If you're driving a lot or moving from one place to one place, you may change Base station frequently, thus increasing power drain as it needs to update the operator where you have moved.

Wanna have a consistant test result? Use it in offline mode and play a single standard songs repeatedly, this you can compare apple to apple not apple to oranges.

I'm using latest version v4.0623.0.36 soon available in Nokia service center. Don't ask me where to get the firmware!!

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[nub4sh]

tell us more about that firmware..

i cant wait to get my hands on that.

[Cash]

Originally Posted by mgoodson45

I am amazed with people complaining with battery life etc... but overlook one single most important factor: Operator Signal.

1) If you are located in area with good coverage, the power drained during no-activity is very low, and vice versa. If you're keep getting anything lower than full bar of signal, it'll transmit more power.

2) If you're roaming in other countries, your phone most likely change from one operator to another. This requires higher power usage and thus consume the battery faster.

3) If you're driving a lot or moving from one place to one place, you may change Base station frequently, thus increasing power drain as it needs to update the operator where you have moved.

Wanna have a consistant test result? Use it in offline mode and play a single standard songs repeatedly, this you can compare apple to apple not apple to oranges.

I'm using latest version v4.0623.0.36 soon available in Nokia service center. Don't ask me where to get the firmware!!

Tried to attach screenshot, but can't
"The server is too busy at the moment. Please try again later."

Your points dont apply to my test, we live in the real world and product should be tested as such, not in optimal conditions as nokia tests and releases their data, I live in the center of a capital city wih an antenna not too far away, I have full battery strength, and when I made my test the phone was kept at home for the whole of the test near a window where the mast overlooks, and I still only got 18 hours battery life after only receiving a dozen text messages and 2 very short calls,

Thats why I am complaining about my battery strength !!!!!, and I assume the reason why everybody else with a poor battery life is also.

If it was just one or 2 people then fine I can see something may be wrong with the phone or the settings, but there are a great deal of people who are using their phones as they should be used, dont forget its a smart phone not just a phone or an MP3 player and they are getting way less than 24 hours, in my books this is not acceptable and as I have stated in other posts Nokia has released this phone with an inferior battery that is not up to the job which it is intended for .

Sorry to preach but its a very big problem when out and about and the phone dies.

[Cash]

Just an update on my battery life with phone in sleep mode and hardly any calls or text messages, and no other apps being used

I am on 50 hours now since the last recharge and the battery indicater has only dropped 2 bars.

Remember though I am only using the phone now as purely a phone and not using any other feature of the phone, and its in sleep mode.

[entwisi]

If you want Nokia to listen post it on their forums, why should they monitor here for problems with their phone?

[Jayd]

Originally Posted by mgoodson45

I am amazed with people complaining with battery life etc... but overlook one single most important factor: Operator Signal.

1) If you are located in area with good coverage, the power drained during no-activity is very low, and vice versa. If you're keep getting anything lower than full bar of signal, it'll transmit more power.

2) If you're roaming in other countries, your phone most likely change from one operator to another. This requires higher power usage and thus consume the battery faster.

3) If you're driving a lot or moving from one place to one place, you may change Base station frequently, thus increasing power drain as it needs to update the operator where you have moved.

Wanna have a consistant test result? Use it in offline mode and play a single standard songs repeatedly, this you can compare apple to apple not apple to oranges.

I'm using latest version v4.0623.0.36 soon available in Nokia service center. Don't ask me where to get the firmware!!

Tried to attach screenshot, but can't
"The server is too busy at the moment. Please try again later."

That screen grab looks photoshopped if you ask me. You have no launguge after Nokia N80 ie (08) and you have no network provider even though you have a 3G signal.

[Cash]

Originally Posted by entwisi

If you want Nokia to listen post it on their forums, why should they monitor here for problems with their phone?

Nokia dont let people with grievences post their views on the Nokia forum, they either censor edit or close the thread down.

Just go on there and have a look

[Winfield]

@Cash
50 hours and only 2 bars drop? How much do you want for your battery? Seems great. With that usage I only got 60 hours autonomy as I said in previous post.
Regds

[Cash]

Originally Posted by Winfield

@Cash
50 hours and only 2 bars drop? How much do you want for your battery? Seems great. With that usage I only got 60 hours autonomy as I said in previous post.
Regds

Hi winfield, you need to read my posts correctly.

I have 50 hours, thats not using the phone as a smart phone but just as a phone, without BT, wifi, gprs and without playing games, music, video, browsing the web, sending mms, using the notebook, office, connecting to my computer and installing programs and using these programs, taking pictures and video....well I think you get the idea.

If I just wanted a phone to use as a phone I wouldn't have paid £400 on the N80, I would have gotten one for free.

This latest test was to see the longest I could get out of my phone with the absoulutely minimum use, with everything switched off and the phone in sleep mode, I f I use the phone with normal use I get just 18 hours charge although I need to do another test with sleep mode activated as I mentioned in a previous post,I dont want minimum use I want normal use.

Hope you understand now.

[Winfield]

@Cash
I read your post correctly. That was the same test I did. Sleep mode activated, GSM mode. Wifi off. BT off. No camera, video, gallery, apps. Nothing. 2 or 3 calls, 5 or 6 sms and got only 60hrs off it.
Regds