Guest jez_teesside Posted February 3, 2005 Report Share Posted February 3, 2005 I seem to be getting very poor battery life from the C500 Battery, I've only had the phone 2 weeks and its been like this ever since I've had it, I charged the battery as per the instructions for the first charge. Full overnight charge, Phone has been used for: been on standby for about 12 hours about 20 mins of talktime about 5 mins of bluetooth about 60 mins of Mobipocket reader (which uses the screen backlight) and I currently have 53% of battery charge left, a couple of hours use of listening to MP3s will drain the battery completely. Is anyone else having the same problem? Is the battery life normal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jez_teesside Posted February 4, 2005 Report Share Posted February 4, 2005 Definately something wrong with this battery, fully charged it to 100%, 5 hours on standby nothing else running used 21% of the battery, by my reckoning that gives 24 hours standby, a lot less than the quoted 5 days standby! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest darren22 Posted February 4, 2005 Report Share Posted February 4, 2005 Definately something wrong. Having recently moved over form the SPV classic to the C500, the battery life difference is incredible. Before I would need to make sure that I charged it daily. Now I can leave it on standby over the weekend and still have 50% battery on the Monday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gadget woman Posted February 25, 2005 Report Share Posted February 25, 2005 Definately something wrong. Having recently moved over form the SPV classic to the C500, the battery life difference is incredible. Before I would need to make sure that I charged it daily. Now I can leave it on standby over the weekend and still have 50% battery on the Monday. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm on my 2nd c500 due to battery problems. I rang orange because battery life was crap only getting a day out of it! They sent me a new phone and I'm still only getting a day out of it. I charge it every night. During the day I might sent up to 6 txts and maybe 2 calls a bit of flicking around for callendar dates and thats it. Don't know what to do next!! :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stunno Posted February 25, 2005 Report Share Posted February 25, 2005 Ring Orange again? Sounds like you got another uf one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest xenophobe Posted February 25, 2005 Report Share Posted February 25, 2005 How long do you have your screen backlight and standby set for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest moosery Posted February 25, 2005 Report Share Posted February 25, 2005 stating the obvious maybe but do you have IR receive set to on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tsutton Posted February 25, 2005 Report Share Posted February 25, 2005 stating the obvious maybe but do you have IR receive set to on? Or Bluetooth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gadget woman Posted February 25, 2005 Report Share Posted February 25, 2005 Or Bluetooth. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hello thanks for suggestions no do not have bluetooth or infra red on. Backlight set for 30 secs, display timeout 1 min and time out screen 5 mins. Any more suggestions????????????? Gratefully received. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jporch316 Posted February 25, 2005 Report Share Posted February 25, 2005 Have you installed any applications Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dcdragon Posted February 25, 2005 Report Share Posted February 25, 2005 I was having the same trouble as you guys, maybe slightly worser. I would charge the phone overnight and It would last for about 10 hours before the battery would die, During this time If I used the phone in anyway It would be a lot less than that. I left it like this for about 4 weeks and was ready to throw the phone in the bin when I did a "Hard Reset" has soon as the phone restarted I placed it on charge and battery life now lasts for 4-5 days for me. I believe the problem may have been caused with something I installed then uninstalled, not too sure what it was. But If any of you are having battery life problems like mine I would recommend doing a "Hard Reset" the instructions are posted on this forum, And Hard reset the C500 NOT software reset, as that did not seem to make a difference. Now that battery life is back to normal, Im a Very VERY happy individual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest uzi_999 Posted February 26, 2005 Report Share Posted February 26, 2005 jporch316---> would installing apps make a major diiference. i say it could be a faulty battery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jporch316 Posted February 28, 2005 Report Share Posted February 28, 2005 Hello I am basing most of my posts here on my previous experience with the motorola mpx 200 (MS smartphone 2002), as I have only had the c500 about a month. There were all sorts of issues around battery life (see www.mpx200.org for lots of battery related posts) with the mpx200 but the main problems stemmed from certain applications (photo ID, games etc) which run continually and devour battery life. I installed one of the third party photo contacts software on my mpx200 within days of buying it and found my battery life fell from 2.5 days to 0.5 days. As suggested elsewhere a hard reset will solve the problem - but this does not identify the cause. It may not always be neccesary to hard reset a phone. On the other hand if my brand new phone from Orange straight from the box lasted one day on a brand new battery i would have no hesitation than to take it straight back to the orange shop, rather than perform a hard reset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gadget woman Posted February 28, 2005 Report Share Posted February 28, 2005 Hello I am basing most of my posts here on my previous experience with the motorola mpx 200 (MS smartphone 2002), as I have only had the c500 about a month. There were all sorts of issues around battery life (see www.mpx200.org for lots of battery related posts) with the mpx200 but the main problems stemmed from certain applications (photo ID, games etc) which run continually and devour battery life. I installed one of the third party photo contacts software on my mpx200 within days of buying it and found my battery life fell from 2.5 days to 0.5 days. As suggested elsewhere a hard reset will solve the problem - but this does not identify the cause. It may not always be neccesary to hard reset a phone. On the other hand if my brand new phone from Orange straight from the box lasted one day on a brand new battery i would have no hesitation than to take it straight back to the orange shop, rather than perform a hard reset. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> The only things i have installed on my phone are space invaders from this site which incidentally works great and a rally car racing game but it was like it before i installed them. I a bit wary of doing a hard reset as ive got my phone just how i want it but suppose it i downlos ad everything onto my pc i should be able to upload again????? I'll give it a go seems a bit of a fuss tho when phone should be ok straight out of box-yes???? Thanks to everyone who posted ideas i'll let u know how i go on! :shock: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest beersoft Posted February 28, 2005 Report Share Posted February 28, 2005 ok simple method of finding out how the battery is behaving is install my battery monitor app (its great) and tell us what your slow and fast times are (fast times between 2 and 11 are good, and slow should be 1 hour or more) from that we can work out how bad the battery is later Owen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gadget woman Posted February 28, 2005 Report Share Posted February 28, 2005 Hi! Thanks installed your battery metre prog and these are the readouts: slowest 0d:0h:2m average 0d:0h:14m last 0d:oh:2m current 0d:0h:3m Don't really understand but sure u do? Can you tell me please? Thanks :?: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gadget woman Posted March 1, 2005 Report Share Posted March 1, 2005 chargfed battery all night used this morn for 4 txts. Readout= battery 91% slowest 0d0h4m average 0d0h24m current 0d0h4m time left 2d14h56m time running 0d0h4m I'll let u know what readout is again l8r 2day. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest patp Posted March 1, 2005 Report Share Posted March 1, 2005 I have found the backlight is really heavy on the battery. Mobipocket Reader for an hour a day or so was enough to force me to recharge daily. If I just use it for calls and the odd game its much better. The backlight seems to have two modes - bright (phone in use) and dim (after a timeout). Then It times out again to off. I would like to just use the "dim" setting for some programs, anyone know if that's possible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gadget woman Posted March 1, 2005 Report Share Posted March 1, 2005 At 2 o clock these are the readings battery 67% slowest 0d0h3m average 0d0h23m current 0d0h3m time left 1d21h3m time running 0d0h4m Do these make sense??? Think I may be in danger of becoming everso slightly annally retentive here!!!! Just really bugs me! :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gadget woman Posted March 1, 2005 Report Share Posted March 1, 2005 readings now battery 55% fastest 0d0h2m slowest 0d0h45m average 0d1h13m last 0d0h2m current odoh2m time left 2d0h6m time running 0d4h6m ????????????????????????????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gadget woman Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 at 12 midnight last nigth reading were bat 19% slow 0d0h2m average 0d2h48m last 0d0h3m current 0d0h3m time left 0d16h9m time run. 0d10h21m Battery low alert warning came on. What does it all mean?? Have you all given up on it as a bad job??? :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest squall Posted March 3, 2005 Report Share Posted March 3, 2005 the battery warning comes on early to give you plenty of time to find a charger, i think it used to be 15%, but guess now it happens at 20% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gadget woman Posted March 5, 2005 Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 :D You've all gone and left me and my crap battery! ;) Please will sumone tell me what it all means??????? I suppose a hard reset is the next option. Then back to Orange! Has any more people had this prob? Awaiting but not with baited breath!! :?: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest beersoft Posted March 5, 2005 Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 okey dokey having a look at your numbers and stuff, there is either a hardware fault with the phone/battery or you have something thats killing the battery power the first thing i would try is backing everything up and doing a hard reset with the phone fully charged using the mains charger (hard reset by turning the phone on and holding down the 2 softkeys under the screen then press 0) and see if that fixes it if that doesn't improve things i would call orange and get a replacement sorted out (you may need orangecare for this) later Owen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MonkeyBum Posted March 5, 2005 Report Share Posted March 5, 2005 hey there, just a few questions. is this dust problem fix tried and tested now? because ive been holding back getting one before because of this problem? and if it is tested and works, will the handsets in the orange shop now been replaced with the 3rd gen lot? because im thinking of getting one soon. thanks adam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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