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mishycupcakes
04-23-2007, 10:05 PM
I charge my phone almost every night, except on days when I haven't used my phone very much.

Is this normal? With my old phone, a SLVR, I was able to charge it every other night, and sometimes, every three nights.

JSanders
04-23-2007, 10:07 PM
Every evening, and often a top off charge while driving during the day, as well. This is common.

Perfect Storm
04-23-2007, 10:22 PM
I get about 4-5 days of mild-moderate usage off a charge. I find it's much better with 4.2.1

JSanders
04-23-2007, 10:29 PM
I get about 4-5 days of mild-moderate usage off a charge. I find it's much better with 4.2.1

Very nice. Good to know, thanks.

I've got to do my OS 4.2.1 update this week... I was traveling most all of last week and did not want to chance a glitch and not have the BB at ready. my usage is more moderate to heavy, so I probably still won't see 4-5 days.

itladyee
04-23-2007, 10:36 PM
I charge nightly. I could get away with everyother night but it's just easier to make it a nightly routine.

Perfect Storm
04-23-2007, 10:53 PM
Very nice. Good to know, thanks.

I've got to do my OS 4.2.1 update this week... I was traveling most all of last week and did not want to chance a glitch and not have the BB at ready. my usage is more moderate to heavy, so I probably still won't see 4-5 days.
I went away Friday around noon, got back Monday early afternoon. By that time I was at about 48% remaining.
When I was using 4.1.0 it was about 2 days before it'd run dry.

003402
04-23-2007, 11:10 PM
I have a 7130e that I charge about every 3 days...a bit more when I travel (tend to use it more).

kmccarthy
04-24-2007, 01:00 AM
Every night...

jimispier
04-24-2007, 01:05 AM
Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry8700/4.2.1 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/100)

Mine must be having issues cause I have 4.2.1 and was at about 30% at bedtime. Course I was constantly messaging or checking/writing email.

Could this be the cause of the diminished battery?

flash24
04-24-2007, 01:31 AM
I charge mine overnight.. or sometimes during the afternoon when I take my nap so that when I wake up my battery if full again lol

jgb@etree
04-24-2007, 06:14 AM
Nightly during the week, but then I leave it on Friday AM > Sunday PM to drain the battery a bit.

bigjay8510
04-24-2007, 07:44 AM
Wirelessly posted (blackberry 8700c: BlackBerry8700/4.2.1 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/102)

By the time I'm ready for bed my battery is about at 30%. So I charge everynight. I rarely have my phone die during the day, this has problem happened 3 time on me since I got it in the summer.

timshwak
04-24-2007, 07:46 AM
Nightly during the week, but then I leave it on Friday AM > Sunday PM to drain the battery a bit.


Ditto (y)

zero7404
04-24-2007, 07:57 AM
me too every night i jack it in....but once a month it's good to let the battery completely discharge and recharge it. something to do with battery memory....

bbckm
04-24-2007, 08:13 AM
I charge every night. I'm always on-call, so I just plug it in next to the bed. On weekends I tend to read books on it, which drains the battery pretty quickly, so it has to be charged on weekends as well.

takeshi
04-24-2007, 12:13 PM
Nightly. It will run for much more than a day but why not top it off at night while it's sitting around and not doing anything anyway?

li2327
04-24-2007, 01:51 PM
I charge mine nighty as well. If I'm in the room not using it i'll plug it in the charger on my night stand just in case.

aweg76
04-24-2007, 02:37 PM
I charge my blackberry every 3days or so.

dwp1975
04-24-2007, 03:33 PM
I charge my blackberry every 3days or so.


Same here, I just charge it out of habit from being a Windows Mobile user....lol

camaxtli
04-24-2007, 09:46 PM
The 8700c that my cousin has is charged daily and I charge my 7290 every 2 days with an extended battery. I had to buy him an altoids charger to keep up when we go off-site as we cant charge in company vehicle(no lighter). But i think his would last longer if he didnt have yak-on and newsclip, so forth....

camaxtli
04-26-2007, 11:44 AM
uhhh, I just got spammed from a reply to this post??? from "himm66" but I dont see his reply on here,hmm I guess why its called spam.
edit:17:37
Taken care of :)

jwerges
04-26-2007, 09:11 PM
I charge mine every night. I tend to use between 60-70% of a full charge everyday. I am on BlackBerry Messenger all day, with voice and e-mail in between. Its funny that I found this thread because my bb battery died on the way home tonight.

DuckWingDuck
04-27-2007, 05:36 PM
When I'm here in the States with medium to heavy usage I can usually get away with every other day with occasional plugins at the office but when I'm overseas in Asia, I find that the batteries goes a lot faster.

bbckm
04-29-2007, 08:17 AM
The only time my battery has ever beeped it's "I'm Almost Dead" warning at me was when I spent the entire daying reading a book on it (which meant I had to have the backlight on the entire time as well).

I charge every night because the user manual recommended it, and because if I don't, then I forget and lose charge. During weekdays I have moderate-to-heavy txt usage and light-to-moderate phone usage.

ericshmerick
04-29-2007, 11:26 AM
I have Sprint (CDMA) so I basically have to charge every night. You GSM users are lucky because your battery life can last several days. Not a big deal to charge every night, but it would be nice to go 5 or so days between charges (with light usage, of course). CDMA just uses more power in standby, no way around that. :(

mymitsu3kgt
04-29-2007, 03:01 PM
I have to charge every two days. It'll stretch to three sometimes if I don't use it so hard.

DaBlackberryBoy
04-29-2007, 03:17 PM
I am on TMo/8700g w/extended battery. Before purchasing the ext battery, I would find myself needing to charge daily. With ext, and heavy use (web/email/todoMatrix-ideaMatrix use), I can get away with charging every 3 days or so. I would invest in an ext battery if you need more power. Lowest I got in a day was 85%...

brittonx
04-29-2007, 03:44 PM
Usually every night. I can make it through two days with moderate usage but I dont want to end up running short at the end of the second day.

thefonedoc
04-29-2007, 04:45 PM
Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry8700/4.2.1 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/120)

Seems very frequent. I use mine a lot and generally charge it every 2nd night

dennischang
05-07-2007, 11:10 AM
I may be wrong but I think leaving your browser on drains the battery faster. If you "close" the browser the battery may last longer.

OVERKILL
05-07-2007, 11:22 AM
My 6280 would last almost two weeks, my 8700 lasts about three days with 4.1 on it, we'll see how it is with 4.2.1, as I just upgraded.

Perfect Storm
05-07-2007, 11:54 AM
I may be wrong but I think leaving your browser on drains the battery faster. If you "close" the browser the battery may last longer.
The browser is always open, but you're right; leaving some items open can drastically rain battery. The most noticable is SVG graphics. These are usually used in games (metorcrusher and circlepopper are 2 I know of which use SVG), but some web developers (such as myself) use it to make nicer pages specifically for BlackBerry.
It's always a good practice to close what you can to save a little juice.

FroogleThis
05-07-2007, 04:55 PM
Mondays usually kill my battery in 10 hours or so. Rest of the week it's just charging every night to keep it full. Looking into getting and ext. battery this week though. Running outta battery mid-work-day is hella annoying.

plchan
05-07-2007, 06:23 PM
I charge my phone almost every night, except on days when I haven't used my phone very much.

Is this normal? With my old phone, a SLVR, I was able to charge it every other night, and sometimes, every three nights.

I charge my BB every night regardless if I have used it during the day time or not.