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SMT5600 Battery life
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Posted by: chuckknight

What is the battery life of everyone's SMT phone?

I took it with me yesterday, and started the day at 59%. (I have the XP2003 home screen installed, so I have a convenient numerical display of my battery life, in percentage.)

The problem is, by the end of the day I had less than 5% left...and I didn't use it much. In fact, the phone did an auto-shutdown. Only about 30 minutes on the phone, yesterday, and I was in Dallas so I assume I didn't have to transmit at high power, or something, to reach a tower.

So, how accurate is the gauge in that homescreen...it seems like the lower "half" of the battery capacity disappeared awfully quickly.

I'm trying to decide if I have a problem with the battery. I usually get 3 days, or so, and use the phone minimally. Yesterday was a "heavy use" day for me.

-- Chuck Knight

Posted by: floepie

I think for a smartphone the 5600 is quite good. My Nokia 6600 lasted about 2/3 as long as my 5600, so I'm quite pleased. I'd say with minimal usage, you should have at least 4 full days of charge.

Posted by: chuckknight

My concern is that, even with minimal use, it dropped nearly 60% in one day. I haven't charted out the discharge rate, but that seems like an exceptionally large drop in a relatively short period of time.

Bottom line, is this type of drop common, or unusual? It went from 59% to under 5%, with only about 30 minutes use, in a single day.

-- Chuck Knight

Posted by: rosullivan04

If you have bluetooth on, that's why right there. My MPx220 can go 3 days with B/T off; however, even with minimal usage with my headset, my battery is kaput in less than a day

Posted by: sracer

The SMT5600 has an excellent battery. See my review on the SMT5600 for my firsthand experience with battery life. A full day of heavy use... music playback, video playback, notetaking, a good 8 hrs of use and still plenty of life left.

Posted by: chuckknight

Nope, no bluetooth. I don't have a BT headset, or any other BT devices, and I checked...it's turned off.

So, I can conclude that I have a bad battery.

Do I call Cingular, or just take it into a Cingular store?

-- Chuck Knight

Posted by: joninator

I charge mine everyday since I'm on MSN 27/7.

Posted by: gps

Here's my experiences when comparing the SMT and the MPx. I keep BlueTooth on ALL the time on both phones. The SMT will last twice as long as the MPx. Personaly, I think the MPx's battery life is sub-par. I can get about a day and a half with the SMT and barely a full day with the MPx. Now, I use about 3500 minutes a month, so I do use my phone quite a bit.

Posted by: tonecapone

my battery life is excellent, specially after i let it drain completely. i've found that the more i've used my phone the better the life of the battery is. this is a very good phone, i would recommend it to anyone.

Posted by: djpfine

I bought my 5600 used and had a similar problem for the fist week or two of use. I power cycled the battery a few times, and these days it runs a whole lot better. I still charge it everyday, since I use it for movies/music for about an hour on the subway which eats up juice fast, but it has excellent longevity on standby.

Posted by: ngr2001

The SMT5600 has the best battery ive seen. 1050mah stock battery wich gives me over 2 full days of heavy heavy crackhead like use.

Posted by: chuckknight

I'm letting my battery run ALL the way down, before recharging...figure this should increase my battery life.

It takes a while, though...I don't use the phone very often (100 minutes total, this month) so it takes a while to run down. When I do use it, though, it seems to run down very quickly.

Ought to be interesting to see if the battery's condition improves or deteriorates.

-- Chuck Knight

Posted by: koifish

is it possible to get a longer lasting batterie for the SMT5600, it comes out of the factory with a 1050Mah. Ebay'ed the question and only found 850Mah. Are there bigger/better ones availlable to the SMT5600 form factor ?

Posted by: sracer

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Originally Posted by koifish

is it possible to get a longer lasting batterie for the SMT5600, it comes out of the factory with a 1050Mah. Ebay'ed the question and only found 850Mah. Are there bigger/better ones availlable to the SMT5600 form factor ?

None that I've found. To make it worse, because of the SMT5600's quirkly connector, USB external battery extenders don't work with it.

The 850 batteries work fine... I paid $8 for mine (from a reputable eBay seller) and it is a good emergency "back up" battery.

Posted by: ngr2001

Wirelessly posted (AUDIOVOX-SMT5600/Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows CE; Smartphone; 176x220))

i would get a brand new factory battery. cheap no name batteries just dont last as long. 1050 mah is the lowest grade you should settle for.

Posted by: Buck Paxton

I had some crazy battery issues once I switched from the ATT ROM to the Cingular ROM. Went from 2 days normal usage to less than 16hrs light usage. I noticed a few postings both here and over at MoDaCo to that effect, so I tried the only recommendation I could find; full charge followed by a hard reset. Now my battery life is better than what I had originally. Up to three days now normal usage. A hard reset after a full charge may be worth a shot for all of you having problems

Posted by: Hackworth

I've found that the programs I'm running matter too. I installed an alarm clock program and found that my battery drained from full to 20% in about 12 hours. Without it, my battery life is more like full to 80% in 12 hours. This is with bluetooth off but GPRS on (AgileMessenger).

Posted by: gsmm0n

Check for applications that might run in memory. For example, I had Newsbreak downloading news all the time (every few hours) from many sources which would eat up a ton of battery from consistent GPRS usage. Removing it fixed my battery scare (but not my news craving). If a hard reset doesn't help you with your current ROM, then I'd get a new battery direct from Audiovox or a company like Original Wireless.