On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 12:21:19 +1000, "Rod Speed"
wrote:

If the battery would last all day, that would be a different
story, but it won't last more than a few hours.

Which phone is that ? That's obscene.

It might not be the phone. If the signal from the towers are weak,
the phone will loose the connection and go hunting for a better tower.
It does this by transmitting it's ID until a tower answers. In strong
signal areas, my ancient LG VX8300 phone will last about 4 days. When
all the local towers went off the air after some idiot cut the
backhaul fiber in 2009, my cell phone battery was dead 6 hours after a
full charge.

Drivel: I recently noticed that my Motorola Droid X2 phone battery
was barely making it through the day. I replaced the battery, and no
change. Looking at the settings, I found that most of the power was
being consumed by the backlighting. That's odd, because I only use
this phone as a PDA and only to lookup phone numbers and appointments.
Hardly any real use that would account for hours of backlighting.
Then, I remembered that I had changed the backlighting delay from 1
minute to 2 minutes. The phone was activating in my picket, causing
the backlighting to activate in my pocket. With the backlight turn
off delay doubled, so was my overall daily current drain. I set it
back to 1 minute and the battery life dramatically improved. I later
discovered that there was no way to prevent an accidental button press
from turning on the backlighting. (Bad design).

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