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BlackBerry Outage and Battery Usage?
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Posted by: abcomputin

Has anyone else thought their battery went down faster during this outage? It might just be coincidence, but seems like my battery drain almost doubled. It's not like the drain was from getting too many emails

During the outage my display was on "edge", not "EDGE".

Posted by: MegaMan X

its been all over the RIM forum here on hofo, and on blackberryforums...

there's been a blackberry outage

http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/18/...wal-setting-in/

http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/...y-network-down/

Posted by: abcomputin

Please read my question before making a reply. I was asking if there is any correlation between the outage and accelerated battery drain!

Posted by: DCookSta

Sure, the phone grabbing out for a signal will drain battery faster.

Posted by: abcomputin

Thanks dcooksta. That makes sense.

Posted by: jase88

Its not so much the hunt for signal in this situation, but rather the device will continuously attempt to make contact with the RIM infrastructure. And its this "chatty" stuff that will kill your battery faster....

Posted by: DCookSta

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Originally Posted by jase88

Its not so much the hunt for signal in this situation, but rather the device will continuously attempt to make contact with the RIM infrastructure. And its this "chatty" stuff that will kill your battery faster....

Yes, this does make more sense for this situation.