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catwoman66 · 02-14-2009, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by TheBigNewt

Only one thing will deplete a battery that fast: a constantly searching radio (GPS, RSS feed from a website, carrier signal, whatever). Forget about the OS, it can't help much at all. Pulling the battery probably shut off the searching radio.

well how come with my flip I get 2 days battery life using all the same apps etc.,?

SilvioD · 02-14-2009, 01:30 PM

Catwoman I don't quite now what cycle charges are but I have been charging my phone with the same battery in it the whole time at night when I go to sleep in standby mode with no pouch. Also, with todays all day usage of wifi, my battery has left me at 75%. So that is a quarter of my battery in about 3 hours of use. At this rate it will last me up until 1 am which is pretty decent if your not going out on a saturday lol.

catwoman66 · 02-14-2009, 01:40 PM

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Originally Posted by SilvioD

Catwoman I don't quite now what cycle charges are but I have been charging my phone with the same battery in it the whole time at night when I go to sleep in standby mode with no pouch. Also, with todays all day usage of wifi, my battery has left me at 75%. So that is a quarter of my battery in about 3 hours of use. At this rate it will last me up until 1 am which is pretty decent if your not going out on a saturday lol.

Well the first 3 charges should be charged then completely discharged and then keep them topped up the whole time..But as I mentioned a couple of posts ago my battery is behaving better all of a sudden and in 5 hours I have 90% battery power left...

TheBigNewt · 02-14-2009, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by catwoman66

Well the first 3 charges should be charged then completely discharged and then keep them topped up the whole time..But as I mentioned a couple of posts ago my battery is behaving better all of a sudden and in 5 hours I have 90% battery power left...

Like I said, some radio was running. That's the one and only way it drains really fast. Hold Alt and press Back to see what's running on the phone. Just like the pearl. I don't think GPS will search unless there's an app running that uses it. That was one big question I had with this phone (do you have to manually turn it off or not).

TheBigNewt · 02-14-2009, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by catwoman66

well how come with my flip I get 2 days battery life using all the same apps etc.,?

The flip doesn't have GPS does it? If you turned on a RSS feed the battery would drain on it fast too (try it and see).

catwoman66 · 02-14-2009, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by TheBigNewt

The flip doesn't have GPS does it? If you turned on a RSS feed the battery would drain on it fast too (try it and see).

Got you now, of course no the flip doesn't, but at the moment I am having a long run of 8 hours and still with 90% of battery so perhaps I'm on to a good thing here

thx for your advice, I'll keep tabs on it..

v.mira · 02-15-2009, 01:06 AM

There is no problem with the pouch. Curve 8900 is the problem. I'm having the same problem as you. Before turning off my phone, I had 3 bars remaining. The next day, my phone is already dead. I never used the pouch since I got this phone. I'm going to return this phone and exchange it for a new one, or just get another model.

catwoman66 · 02-15-2009, 04:49 AM

Latest update...finally I have a decent battery, the battery pull seemed to get the ball rolling..as of going to bed 85% woke up to 80% I am definitely a happier person now

rifleman · 02-15-2009, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by catwoman66

Latest update...finally I have a decent battery, the battery pull seemed to get the ball rolling..as of going to bed 85% woke up to 80% I am definitely a happier person now

Let me get this straight, you just did a battery pull recently and the life increased? So, you have not done a pull since the OS upgrade? Am I correct?

BTW, I am downloading .152 right now to try it.

TheBigNewt · 02-15-2009, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by catwoman66

Latest update...finally I have a decent battery, the battery pull seemed to get the ball rolling..as of going to bed 85% woke up to 80% I am definitely a happier person now

Yeah, the battery pull definitely shut off whatever radio was draining your battery. OS updates by themselves shouldn't make any difference but they may reset the phone and shut something off. Mine's lasting 2 full days of (my) average use to get to 10-20% so far. I think that's fine personally. Open 30-40 emails, talk 30-40 min, 20-40 txt, not much browse, just played with GPS, a few songs/music videos over the 2 days.

akc786 · 02-15-2009, 03:33 PM

with .152 I'm getting 2+ days of battery life.

Before it was less than 24 hours.

.152 improved the battery a lot, beside other things.

rifleman · 02-16-2009, 11:28 AM

I updated to .152 yesterady and it seems better. More testing today. I also did the battery pull to see if that helped. Fingers crossed...

vinmontRD · 02-16-2009, 05:47 PM

I've been using .152 for a couple of days (fine so far, except that I haven't tried youtube, which is reported to be non-functioning with .152). Battery life has been fine. I plug the 8900 in to charge at night. Today, I took it off the charger around 7am. While in my house and office, it automatically switches to UMA (I leave wifi on all day). I was in two different Best Buy's today (needed something that was out of stock in the first store), and my prior setting to use a "Best Buy" UMA connection happily connected to their wifi router as I walked in each store. I was in each store about an hour, made several phone calls, web searches, text msgs and emails (3 active email accounts on this device right now). Also have Facebook running around the clock on the 8900, along with Viigo (and last I looked Google Maps was also still running - probably tapping into the GPS).

After a busy 11 hour day, the battery is reading at 80%. I'm getting SO much more productivity and power out of this than with my old 8300, and the battery seems to be doing better -- considering all that I'm asking of the phone.

So far, so good.

rifleman · 02-19-2009, 10:42 AM

The .152 OS has significantly improved the battery life. This upgrade is a must.

crisambo · 02-19-2009, 11:15 AM

upgraded to OS .152 last night and topped-off battery to 100%. Started today disconnected from charger at 8AM ET. Had Wi-Fi and BT radios On. made several short phone calls and about 2 dozen email/txt messages. Right now, 11AM ET, battery is at 90%. Yesterday, while running on OS .133, started day at 7AM, performed comparable tasks as today, battery was at 95% at 2PM... OS .133 was a big difference from .114 . . . have yet to get conclusive data with OS .152.

8900 definitely runs out of juice faster than my 8820 with both Wi-Fi & BT radios On. . . .

TXLady · 02-19-2009, 11:48 AM

I upgraded my OS on Sunday to .152. I last fully charged the 8900 Monday. I have not charged it since and right now, it is at about half strength according to the battery icon.

Note that I have not put it in the pouch; I've only turned blue tooth on when I need to use it; and I don't have WiFi on.

On my 8310, I never used a holster, it didn't have WiFi, and I only turned blue tooth on when I needed to use it. I'd say that at this point, the 8900 is performing about the same as the 8310 did in terms of battery so I'm happy.

(And for the naysayers, I haven't done a battery pull in quite some time so that didn't reset anything.)

vinmontRD · 02-19-2009, 10:51 PM

Battery life with .152 is fine -- and seems to be improving in the week or so since I've had this. I've had Viigo, Google Maps, BeeJiveIM and Facebook running around the clock, and UMA and Bluetooth are on 24 hours a day. I get and send emails and SMS/MMS throughout the day, made about a dozen calls, browsed the web, check the weather, etc. I started out at around 6am today, it's 11pm as I post this -- so after 17 hours of pretty heavy use the battery is at 80%. That works for me.

dhammika · 03-07-2009, 06:46 PM

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Originally Posted by rifleman

The .152 OS has significantly improved the battery life. This upgrade is a must.

I am new to BlackBerry and to the forum.

Just like many others I like the BB 8900 but the Battery life, simply shocking. I cannot use it at least a full day.

My OS was 4.6.1.76 and have upgraded to 4.6.1.133 just now.

My BB Desktop Manager could not find any newer version of the OS. Where can I find & upgrade to the OS v 4.6.1.152 and is it via the Desktop Manager?

Also, how to change the Push email settings to check emails once only an hour, etc?

Thanks for your valuable comments in the forum !

vinmontRD · 03-07-2009, 11:11 PM

Oddly enough, although battery life HAD been great for me with the 8900, in the last 2 days something has changed -- wish I knew what it was... I noticed the battery dropping quickly a couple of days ago, very uncharacteristically. It ran all the way down to 40% by evening. I made sure I had no unusual apps running, and could see no reason for the battery to drain so fast. Yesterday when I woke the phone up and unplugged it from the charger, it was only showing 95% battery, rather than the 100% I had been used to seeing first thing in the morning. Once again, the battery drained quickly.

I'm totally bewildered now - can't imagine what's changed to make this happen.

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