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LG Chocolate Battery Life
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Posted by: tonto1

I have owned this phone for a couple of weeks. Battery life on this phone is terrible. Lately I am charging it almost every night when talking only 5-10 minutes per day.

Observations :

- I spent 15 minutes a day over a few days entering contacts from an old phone and even that wastes the battery (went down 1 bar each time).

- During the day, the phone is located where there is poor reception and I don't make calls from there (except for forward on/off). The phone will go in/out of service. I have read on a Verizon forum that their version will waste power trying to get service. Anyone else notice this ?

- Posters in a Verizon forum talked about setting the phone to 1X-only and that seems to greatly improve battery life - Is this applicable to Bell ? The method would be different since Bell uses different firmware

- Turning the GPS off (yes OFF) seems to make the phone use more power

- Taking the odd picture/video does not appear to drain the battery much (??).

Any other observations or suggestions are welcome.

Posted by: urs_envy

if its been less than a month. take it to the bell store...
they might be able to replace the battery for you as long as its under 30 days..

Posted by: Abom

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Originally Posted by tonto1

- During the day, the phone is located where there is poor reception and I don't make calls from there (except for forward on/off). The phone will go in/out of service. I have read on a Verizon forum that their version will waste power trying to get service. Anyone else notice this ?

- Turning the GPS off (yes OFF) seems to make the phone use more power

Yes, yes and yes. Poor RF will cause short battery life. The phone adjusts it's output power levels based on it's RF that it gets from the BTS (cell site). If the cell site is very close to you, the phone won't need as much power to communicate with it, and likewise, if the cell site is far away or it's RF is being blocked by something, the phone will put out more power to communicate with it. I've had good phones with good batteries that last well over a week in standby die within 2 hours when leaving the cellular service footprint.

The GPS does nothing in idle mode. All it is for is location based services, where you phone can be located using triangulation (3 cell sites, each site gauges the distance between itself and the phone). It's probably something else that's just happing coincidentally at the same time as someone's GPS tests.

Posted by: Brettriehl101

i had a battery like that in my first chocolate. took it back and they replaced it no problem. now it lasts about 3 days with heavy texting and about an hour of calling.

Posted by: tonto1

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Originally Posted by Abom

It's looks like poor RF was the culprit. While in the office, I moved the phone to the other side of my desk and now it maintains one bar of 1x/Ev signal (no searching for service). It is now still on full battery since yesterday morning and I did make a few calls. I am even leaving it on at night. So this phone definitely boosts power consumption when signal is poor or out of the service area.

BTW...Something's up with the GPS setting because I now get a few more bars of signal with that turned on (tested on the GO train). I will try to check again next week.