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#1 MarjorieHoosier

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Posted 28 March 2012 - 06:17 AM

The battery on my Palm pre smart phone will not last 24 hours,I do have face book messaging. I hardly ever talk on the phone.Is my battery bad or do I need to make some adjustments.

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Posted 28 March 2012 - 07:53 AM

MarjorieHoosier, on 28 March 2012 - 06:17 AM, said:

The battery on my Palm pre smart phone will not last 24 hours,I do have face book messaging. I hardly ever talk on the phone.Is my battery bad or do I need to make some adjustments.

Hi and welcome to the forums. I can't speak specifically to the smart phone, but I just bought a back up battery for a laptop I bought in Dec. The back up battery actually seems to do better than the battery that came installed for some reason, although they are both 6 cell.

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Posted 28 March 2012 - 08:13 AM

MarjorieHoosier, on 28 March 2012 - 06:17 AM, said:

The battery on my Palm pre smart phone will not last 24 hours,I do have face book messaging. I hardly ever talk on the phone.Is my battery bad or do I need to make some adjustments.

Few phone batteries will last 24 hours. But they should last the 16-17 hours from when you wake up until you go to bed.

If your battery doesn't last that long, there are workarounds. Turning off Wi-Fi helps. So does turning off automatic syncing of certain apps.

Another workaround is to get in the habit of charging it when it's convenient during the day. You can do it when you drive your car, sitting at your desk, and so forth.

And, as Coastie suggests, there are backup batteries for many models.

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Posted 14 April 2012 - 01:26 AM

Hi Marjorie,

Well, this battery may be faulty. And when did you buy your phone, some years ago? Batteries shouldn't be flat THAT fast. You should be able to use the phone couple of DAYS after charging. Still, you mentioned Facebook and if you watch videos on it, too, this may use up the battery in almost no time. So, before you buy a new one, try to turn energy saving mode on or get some app for that.

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#5 yankeesalu

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Posted 02 May 2012 - 06:12 PM

this is a normal phenomenon, smart phone always need more power to support itself system

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Posted 04 May 2012 - 12:06 AM

I agree with yankeesalu. Normally blackberries have the best battery life but yet it can vary per model. I have HTC desire and the battery dies in the end of the second day.

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Posted 06 July 2012 - 08:20 PM

I would not tell you guys that I can use my smart phone for 3 days recently.
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OK. If I read books with it, 1 day.
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Posted 11 July 2012 - 12:16 AM

The battery of most of the smart phones doesn't last too long. If it stands for a day, its good.
Mostly it lasts from morning to evening as per your usage.
Since you use to regularly chat from you device, your battery is good if it lasts for the day.
Charge your cell when ever you are free, that is the only solution.

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Posted 15 July 2012 - 11:31 AM

@MarjorieHoosier Dear, it might happens to you, because any smart phone or multimedia phone is designed to use all multimedia functions. That leads to reduce the battery and internet are bound to run all the time. so these are the obvious reason, why your battery is running short of time!!!

#10 danieloliverowenn

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Posted 27 July 2012 - 11:10 PM

the battery is bad that's why you'll need to make adjustment,reduce screen brightness and close unwanetd apps

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Posted 29 August 2012 - 02:20 AM

Recently i bought second hand Iphone 4 .When i bought this smartphone i was little bit upset to show the battery condition of this smartphone.Now the condition of battery is bad cause it doesn't show proper charge though i charge it regularly.I can't specify what's the problem?

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Posted 18 October 2012 - 01:11 AM

MarjorieHoosier, on 28 March 2012 - 06:17 AM, said:

The battery on my Palm pre smart phone will not last 24 hours,I do have face book messaging. I hardly ever talk on the phone.Is my battery bad or do I need to make some adjustments.

You should change a brand new original battery for your phone, you can try ebay or Amazon to find your wanted battery.

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Posted 21 October 2012 - 01:02 PM

I will add something here. I have an LG Spectrum and that was an issue with that phone until they did a firmware upgrade, which helped. Second, if it is 4G, it will eat up the battery quite fast. Mine was at full charge yesterday morning and is at least at 2/3 now. Haven't haven't really used it all that much though.

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Posted 21 October 2012 - 02:47 PM

In terms of 4G, I think LTE is worse than HSPA+. That said, I wasn't happy to find my phone battery at only 25% this morning because I forgot to turn on the power strip when plugging it in (I had about 40-50% last night). Oops...

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Posted 22 October 2012 - 07:15 AM

LiveBrianD, on 21 October 2012 - 02:47 PM, said:

That is the "downside" of "multitasking" (i.e. processes in the background that continue to run unless you explicitly kill them).

I am not say that multitasking is a bad thing, but rather that most things have downsides to them as well as the upsides.

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Posted 22 October 2012 - 08:27 AM

In that case, it said the Android system and phone idle were taking up a good chunk of the battery. The Hotmail app also tends to eat battery like a hungry squirrel raiding my bird feeder if I put the phone in airplane mode (constantly trying and failing to connect), so I "pause" it. (That's in the app itself, and tells it to stop syncing.)

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#17 w1314

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Posted 22 November 2012 - 12:21 AM

I have the same problem and i just buy two more high capacity battery for spare.And there is battery backup i-power and all this kind of things on sale.So I thing this is not a big problem to me :lol:

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Posted 22 November 2012 - 12:26 AM

Like your problem,I always change one.Those High capcaity spare battery is also good.

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Posted 22 November 2012 - 02:09 AM

My battery only use 1 day too!

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Posted 13 December 2012 - 12:32 AM

There has always been a issue with the battery life of smartphones, they don't last that long after being used for a year or so, this results in eventually replacing them and get a new battery.
The same case is with you as well so think you batteries have gone dead and you may need to replace the batteries of our smartphones.