Guest spartanrob Posted January 9, 2004 Report Posted January 9, 2004 I had to do a Hard Reset of my phone due to an "issue", i reloaded most of the software i had added before but nothing off the disk that came with the phone and my battery life has improved. I fully charged at work, left it on over-night, it's been about 22 hours and at least 10 phone calls and i am only down 1 bar on the battery meter. SD card has been in the whole time (256 MB SanDisk)
Guest boyo69 Posted January 9, 2004 Report Posted January 9, 2004 I totally agree.... I have not added any of the software that came with the Orange MPX200 and I am getting upto 2 days after really hammering with phone calls and email checking every 30mins.....and even then it's only down to 50-60% 8) I had an SPV and an SPV E100 and both were far worse on battery..... :evil: I haven't had to use that hard sought after MPX200 car charger yet.... :shock:
Guest phonesmarts Posted January 10, 2004 Report Posted January 10, 2004 hard sought after? is it the real moto car charger, or a generic one?
Guest paulie-mafia Posted January 13, 2004 Report Posted January 13, 2004 Spoke to Orange this morning - the guy mentioned that, unlike previous generations of handset that need 14 hours, the Moto only needs a 4.5 hour initial charge. After this, never charge the handset for longer than necessary. Turns out, sitting your mpx200 in a cradle attached to your PC all day actually burns the battery out....!
Guest mcwarre Posted January 13, 2004 Report Posted January 13, 2004 Spoke to Orange this morning - the guy mentioned that, unlike previous generations of handset that need 14 hours, the Moto only needs a 4.5 hour initial charge. After this, never charge the handset for longer than necessary.I am afraid that he is talking out of his you know what! It isn't a problem charging for long periods (indeed first charge must be ~16 hrs). The only problem comes when you keep putting it on and off charge (the initial charging shock does nought for battery life). Turns out, sitting your mpx200 in a cradle attached to your PC all day actually burns the battery out....! No it doesn't! A battery charges exponentially to its full charge. It is also asymptopic (never quite reaches it). Therefore full discharge followed by long recharge increases battery life. :)
Guest Belgarath Krall Posted January 13, 2004 Report Posted January 13, 2004 Spoke to Orange this morning - the guy mentioned that, unlike previous generations of handset that need 14 hours, the Moto only needs a 4.5 hour initial charge. After this, never charge the handset for longer than necessary. Turns out, sitting your mpx200 in a cradle attached to your PC all day actually burns the battery out....! ah...that's a bad thing what with my moto sat on it's stand all day at work...and i cant take the batt out and use it cos i cant get at the power button without taking it out the cradle... ...exactly how bad would leaving it on the stand all day be?
Guest Belgarath Krall Posted January 13, 2004 Report Posted January 13, 2004 and now what i was actually gonna say, i didnt realise that the called id program wasn't installed when i got my replacement phone...now i know why the battery life was so pants before... ---------------------------------------------------------------- "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."
Guest MECX Posted January 13, 2004 Report Posted January 13, 2004 ia"]Turns out, sitting your mpx200 in a cradle attached to your PC all day actually burns the battery out....! No it doesn't! A battery charges exponentially to its full charge. It is also asymptopic (never quite reaches it). Therefore full discharge followed by long recharge increases battery life. :) Not quite true---the MPX has a lithium ION battery (same as the E100 etc) these types of batterys can be damaged if you absolutly discharge them and like to be kept trickle charged if possible. (mean if your battery dies its ok but if you keep switching your phone back on to kill the battery it will harm it) SO keeping your phone charging in the Cradle is a GOOD thing (oh but you were right about the plugging/unplugging the charger damageing the battery)
Guest boyo69 Posted January 18, 2004 Report Posted January 18, 2004 hard sought after? is it the real moto car charger, or a generic one? I do have a real Motorola (which came from EbaY on the trio pack......) also, I have a belking kit and bought a simple 5 pin mini USB which works just perfectly.....plus the belkin kit means I can put in a USB lead for each of my other devices and only need the one 240v or car charger unit....
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