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Posted by: over2land

So, I've finally got my SD card formatted correctly, and I've come to accept making new playlists in Win media player 9.

The whole point of putting the songs on the card was so that I can use the phone as a replacement for my mp3 player and cd's while travelling. I travel for work about once a month, and would like to cut down on batteries, and accoutrement that I'm carrying.

However, I listened to 10 songs yesterday, at half volume, and my battery went from 99% to 82%. It was about 45 minutes of listening.

So, if I'm going on a trip, and it involves a 5 hour plane ride, plus two hours in the terminal before, and an hour after, I figure I'll need to get 2 more batteries for the phone. I'm estimating 8 hours of listening, with a battery lasting 4 hours. Is that right?

Any of you use your phone to listen to music like this? What's time to dead on a full charge for you?

Thanks.

Posted by: sracer

I'd say that it is partly due to your phone (Moto MPX220) and a tired battery... though even with a new battery, don't expect stellar battery life with the Moto.

My Audiovox SMT-5600 has insanely long battery life. On my last trip, I used it for 6-8 hours (playing music, video, word processing, etc.) and still had about 80% left.

Here's a link to my review:
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=650059

Posted by: nausea

I dont think the MPX220 reports battery status acurrately.

If I charge it completely and listen to an hour of music it will go down to 72% battery life. If I then reboot the phone it will report 82% of life. Then if I listen for another hour it will only drop to 74% life. Its inconsistent and inaccurate. Maybe my battery is getting old.... or I need to completely discharge/recharge it.

Posted by: over2land

Intersting take on it.

I haven't noticed when starting and shutting down. But I do seem to recall thinking I saw one battery level, and then opening it to see another one.

I ordered a new battery anyway. I got mine from ebay used, and now I'll know.

But, when the phone decides the battery is charged, and gives you the full sign (you know what I mean) doesn't that mean that it's stopped charging? If thats the case, then how am I supposed to let it charge for 24hrs?

Posted by: nausea

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Originally Posted by over2land

But, when the phone decides the battery is charged, and gives you the full sign (you know what I mean) doesn't that mean that it's stopped charging? If thats the case, then how am I supposed to let it charge for 24hrs?

Yea I dont understand that either, it will totally charge in like 4 hours and show the Battery Full picture.

Posted by: da_mayhem

Ways to keep/get battery last longer..

- Exit unused apps when not used, specially apps residing on the Storage Card..so quit all apps when listening to music using Task Manager.

- Avoid as much as possible Apps that are monitoring/running on background while the phone is Powered On. ( Autoflight, Smartfilter, SUnnysoft BackupMgr ) It keeps running while the phone is on so it consumes power of the battery as it is running on the background.

- As much as possbile, install apps that is frequently used on the Phone Memory. using the Storage Card more often makes the battery quite fast to get drained.

Posted by: tendomentis

Best suggestion:

Buy a BRAND NEW OEM battery for your phone

Upgrade your firmware to 3.46 or above

If you're on a plane or don't need the communication function of your phone while listening to music, put it in flight mode (this almost doubles your battery life)

I use my phone all day to listen to music, and it holds me through the entire work day.

Posted by: dominick

In my experience with my A-vox 5600, I have found the screen to be the biggest battery hog, and then open apps, and then the radio (antenna/reception). To prolong music listening, here's what I do:

1) close other apps, as mentioned by other posters,
2) go into Flight Mode when I don't need communications (on an airplane, or when I don't want to be bothered...)
3) don't play games. Games require the screen to be lit constantly, and this is where the battery life just gets pounded. OK, you like playing games while listening to tunes (me too!), just don't expect your battery to take the activity very well.

Like other 5600 owners, the battery life of my phone has FAR exceeded my expectations. Not to slag other smartphones out there, I just really love mine.

Hope this helps - enjoy your tunes!

Posted by: over2land

Yeah, I use the app manager to kill whatever I don't want running. Stupid phone will let stuff run either until I kill it manually through the manager, or shutdown/reboot. I am constantly after background apps, and shut the phone down about once a day.

I ordered a new battery, direct from motorola. I'll have it today.

I intended to use flight mode while on my 5 or 6 hour plane ride. It makes sense that it'd increase battery life. I didn't think of it, and sure wouldn't have thought it'd double it.

I don't have any apps on the SD card. My 1gb SD card is solely for storage of songs.

Why upgrade to the aisian ROM? I'm on 1.43, and honestly don't feel comfortable with messing with all the things needed for the Aisian ROMS. In researching it, (searching through here and other cell phone sites) I didn't see any signifigant mention of the Aisian ROM's increasing battery life.

Thanks all.

Posted by: tendomentis

The newer ROM's are simply "enhanced" firmware replacements that CAN add features like enhanced power management (the newer Asian ROM's for example close idle programs after like two minutes, thereby reducing battery drain).

Also, WMP 10 (which is on the newer Asian ROM's) has a toggle to completely deactivate the screen (which saves a LOT of power). I don't think WMP 9 has that feature.

Posted by: over2land

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Originally Posted by tendomentis

The newer ROM's are simply "enhanced" firmware replacements that CAN add features like enhanced power management (the newer Asian ROM's for example close idle programs after like two minutes, thereby reducing battery drain).

Also, WMP 10 (which is on the newer Asian ROM's) has a toggle to completely deactivate the screen (which saves a LOT of power). I don't think WMP 9 has that feature.

Dammit.

Two good reasons right there.

Posted by: over2land

Well, it didn't last.

And, I didn't have "flight mode" in my profile list.