[ItsAllVerbatim]

Battery Remaining: 78% (according to "Status")
After how long? Since the 29th at ~5AM
How much Talking/Browsing/Messaging/Fiddling? ~30 minutes of Bluetoothin', heavy email (40-50 an hour), moderate text messaging and PIN'ing, and, I'd say, 40 minutes of voice calls all together.

[wirelessandy]

Originally Posted by ItsAllVerbatim

How much Talking/Browsing/Messaging/Fiddling? ~30 minutes of Bluetoothin'

By that I assume you mean the bluetooth was off the rest of the time? Or it was on, but not actively in use with a headset?

[mcoorah]

I just bought the 7130c. In addition to a number of annoying qwerks (after getting used to my Nokia 9300 which broke and Cingular refused to replace) I have experienced horrible battery life. BAD. As in unacceptable.

Specific example:

Had it on the charger all last night. Took it off the charger this morning around 9am. I have the device sitting on my desk (not in the holster) with the "Radio" on, Bluetooth off, and all it is doing is recieving email from my Blackberry Enterprise Server.

I have been checking email regularly, and responding (very arduously with this kludgy keyboard) and have taken one phone call for approximately 5 minutes.

As of now, at 4pm, my device is giving me an alarm stating "Battery Low".

Again, I have take ONE phone call for about 5 minutes all day. The only other use has been reading and viewing email occasionally (maybe a total of 30 minutes all day).

If this is what I have to expect, it goes back to Cingular next week. I'll give it the weekend to test.

FYI, on my Nokia 9300 (no offense to loyal BB users) I could type a whole email message two pages long in 5 minutes, talk for 3 or 4 hours, check email all day long, forget to plug the thing in that night, and do it all over again the next day and the battery would still be at 50%.

I took it to Hawaii with me and forgot the charger (and was too cheap to pay $30 for another one). I had it and through some basic battery management was able to use the thing for phone calls and email for 13 days without charging it. The only thing I didnt like about that phone was its thickness, and the fact that they offer no insurance on it. I could not afford to buy another one at full MSRP ($399 + Tax) when I broke the front screen by sitting on it...

[amishjs]

My battery life is great. I have never used the holster (its still wrapped in plastic and sitting in the box).

I use it more as a phone than for email. I spend a good amount of time reading emails, but generally don't send emails unless extremely urgent (most of the time I can wait till I get back to my desk). I also do a fair amount of text messaging.

Definitely put it through a decent amount of usage throughout the day and get 1.5-2 days on a single charge. Sometimes less if I play a lot of games.

[Postalrecon]

Originally Posted by mcoorah

I just bought the 7130c. In addition to a number of annoying qwerks (after getting used to my Nokia 9300 which broke and Cingular refused to replace) I have experienced horrible battery life. BAD. As in unacceptable.

Specific example:

Had it on the charger all last night. Took it off the charger this morning around 9am. I have the device sitting on my desk (not in the holster) with the "Radio" on, Bluetooth off, and all it is doing is recieving email from my Blackberry Enterprise Server.

I have been checking email regularly, and responding (very arduously with this kludgy keyboard) and have taken one phone call for approximately 5 minutes.

As of now, at 4pm, my device is giving me an alarm stating "Battery Low".

Again, I have take ONE phone call for about 5 minutes all day. The only other use has been reading and viewing email occasionally (maybe a total of 30 minutes all day).

If this is what I have to expect, it goes back to Cingular next week. I'll give it the weekend to test.

FYI, on my Nokia 9300 (no offense to loyal BB users) I could type a whole email message two pages long in 5 minutes, talk for 3 or 4 hours, check email all day long, forget to plug the thing in that night, and do it all over again the next day and the battery would still be at 50%.

I took it to Hawaii with me and forgot the charger (and was too cheap to pay $30 for another one). I had it and through some basic battery management was able to use the thing for phone calls and email for 13 days without charging it. The only thing I didnt like about that phone was its thickness, and the fact that they offer no insurance on it. I could not afford to buy another one at full MSRP ($399 + Tax) when I broke the front screen by sitting on it...

im not too familiar with a BES, but isint that a battery killer seeing as how its constantly doing a sync or what not.

maybe whats killing your batteries is you gius that constantly light up your screen to see how much battery you got left

[d_fisher]

Originally Posted by Postalrecon

im not too familiar with a BES, but isint that a battery killer seeing as how its constantly doing a sync or what not.

Actually no. The beauty of the push email system is that the device never requests updates, like Windows Mobile devices do. With the push system the messages are pushed to the device when they are received at the server. This way the device never has to waste any power checking if there are any messages it needs to pick up.

[Postalrecon]

Originally Posted by d_fisher

Actually no. The beauty of the push email system is that the device never requests updates, like Windows Mobile devices do. With the push system the messages are pushed to the device when they are received at the server. This way the device never has to waste any power checking if there are any messages it needs to pick up.

isint it constantly looking for changes or what not? or does it only send out the updates to contacts/cal/email as needed?

[FgCrump]

I've found that the biggest drain seems to be the quality of the signal. My 7130 can go 2+ days without a charge when I'm in the city/urban area, but when I go to the lake where naturally towers are sparse, I only get about 8 hours of battery. It seems the constant switching from tower to tower, losing the signal and reconnecting is burning up power.

[therev5275]

I just purchased one (7130c) on 9/2/2006 from Cingular and feel that the battery life is pretty adequate. Definitely not as long lasting as my cell phone, but considering the usuage its not too terribly bad.

Pulling the 7130c off the charger at 6:30am on Monday by the end of my work day at 6:45pm I had about 85% charge left. Now this constitutes about an hour and a half of total talk time, 50+ emails, showing friends a bunch of porn pictures that I sent myself, some other questionable pics of the girl I'm sort of seeing now and then down loading 3 new ringtones.

Then the next morning, having forgotten to charge that bad boy up I was down to about 58% on battery level. Made it through the entire day with about the same usage and when I got home at 7:00pm I was down to 35% battery.

So, not bad at all in my opinion. Hope it helps.

[therev5275]

I just purchased one (7130c) on 9/2/2006 from Cingular and feel that the battery life is pretty adequate. Definitely not as long lasting as my cell phone, but considering the usuage its not too terribly bad.

Pulling the 7130c off the charger at 6:30am on Monday by the end of my work day at 6:45pm I had about 85% charge left. Now this constitutes about an hour and a half of total talk time, 50+ emails, showing friends a bunch of porn pictures that I sent myself, some other questionable pics of the girl I'm sort of seeing now and then downloading 3 new ringtones.

Then the next morning, having forgotten to charge that bad boy up I was down to about 58% on battery level. Made it through the entire day with about the same usage and when I got home at 7:00pm I was down to 35% battery.

So, not bad at all in my opinion. Hope it helps.

[flash24]

i hav the 8700g and I'm having battery problems.. i have to charge mine once sometimes even twice a day. I use Yak-On, and I also did the tip from the forum (letting it discharge 3x and charge it overnight). Hmm.. what chould be the problem. Did I get a faulty battery or what?

Battery Life : 20%