Battery life on an XDAIIi

[SteveP]

Hi All - I'm experiencing poor battery life on my new XDA IIi. This is my second machine (o2 replaced the forst one due to poor battery lifery life and dead pixels on screen)

I just wondered what others are experiencing...I tend to have the phone switched from 8am til 6pm. The signal strength is good and I have wifi and bluetooth turned off.

Here is a typical set of figures for the battery through the course of my typical day

8am 100%
9am 84%
10am 75%
11am 61%
12am 50%
1pm 41%
2pm 32%
3pm 19%
4pm 11%
5pm 6%
6pm 3%

O2 say that the battery is at fault...but they've changed the battery twice and the unit once, and it's much the same. My guess is that something is draining the battery, but there's nothing special about my set up as far as I know. it's running a 1 gig SD card...but I took that out to see if it made a difference - it doesn't

Even with the phone switched OFF for extended periods of time, the battery doesn't seem to survive the day - I certainly cannot get to 8pm in the evening without having to charge it up.

I just wonder if the behaviour is fairly normal! If someone else out there is able to offer me some advice, or better still, some comparable figures, that would be helpful - just so I know it's not just me!!! ))

Alternatively has any one got any suggestiosn as to what might be draining the battery? (I'm always in a strong signal area for the phone)

Thanks

[Trigger]

Have you got the beam un ticked that takes a lot of power

[SteveP]

Hi Trigger

Good point

How do I check this?

[Charlie]

Start --> Settings --> Connection --> Beam

[SteveP]

Thanks Charlie! (it was laready switched off...so something else is sucking the power out I think

[Trigger]

Do you leave your Bluetooth or any thing else on all the time

[Tauira]

I to have an XDA IIi and having charged it from midnight to 7am, I use the phone for around 30mins a day and the battery will be down to only 30-50% at midnight, so there is definately something wrong. There must be something running,

When you stop using it, do you blip the power button or press and hold it for a second or two. The later just turns the backlight off but leaves the PDA running.

Also whislt I'm here, how oftern does you PDA crash, mine is infuriating, it crashes regularly after using the phone, and also quite often when Tom Tom is running, often making miss the run I wondered whether there was an ROM/BIOS/WM OS update available.

[SteveP]

Hi Tauria!

Mine is set to auto switch off after 2 minutes or so


No actually mines quite stable...hardly ever crashes, although is sometimes a bit sluggish to respond (scren takes a while to respond)

[Trigger]

You will find there is a problum with Tom Tom and the phone on the XDA2i 02 know about it they have stop selling/supporting Tom Tom at present untill they find out why it is happening.

It happens when the phone is looking for cells.

You can turn of the phone in flight mode and The system will not crash if you have a wired GPS bit hard in bluetooth.I done this and have done over 1000 miles no crash the disavanatage is no phone.

02 keep saying that Navigator 5 will cure this I wait and see ordered Navigator 5 the other day will try when I get it and see if it works.

Mt son in Law has the orange version of of the XDA2i and has no problums make you wonder what 02 are up to.

[Simon2006]

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