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Originally Posted by Maduma99
I had problems with my Bold draining in about four hours and also getting very hot at the same time. I bought a new battery and had exactly the same thing happen to it. I have now solved the problem and have two perfectly good batteries! For some reason my Bold was storing e-mails since I first got it in February this year, so I had about 5,000 e-mails that were being stored. I deleted all these and only keep the last couple of days and rest on PC and now that batteries last a couple of days. Problem solved!!
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I wish you luck with you solution, but I'm skeptical you've actually solved the problem.
My Bold, and those of my co-workers, definitely didn't have thousands (or even dozens) of mysteriously saved email messages. Yet ours exhibited the problem of going in to a cycle where the handheld would run very hot and run the battery down.
I hope I'm wrong, but I expect that in another week or two you'll see the same running hot / battery dying issue again.
I think a percentage of the Bolds that were produced had a defect, and that RIM and at&t aren't fessing up to avoid a flood of warranty replacements. My suggestion is that if you're having the overheating problem and your unit is still under warranty, get it replaced.
I recently left the job which issued me the Bold. I'm Bold-less so my problem is definitely solved, but I'll be watching this thread, out of technical curiosity, to see further developments.