Very poor battery life - someone tell me this one's faulty!

[Guest I. C. Monsters]

I picked up my C500 on Wednesday evening. It seemed to have a fully charged battery when I got it, but I put it on charge overnight anyway, to be certain. In the first day (taken off charge at about 8:30am) I used the phone a lot, mostly fiddling with settings, playing the odd music video and some GPRS usage. By 4pm, the battery was flat. That evening I gave the phone a full charge. Experimented with bluetooth a bit (that's another post entirely :roll: ), then went to bed at approx 1am, with three bars remaining. This morning, only one bar of battery left! :shock:

This can't be right. This C500 has worse battery performance than my first SPV. Can anyone recommend what I do about this? I ported my number from pay as you go, so I am not entitled to the 14 day returns. But, this seems like a fault to me. Any suggestions? :?

I. C. Monsters

[Guest Phil Lee]

I got my phone yesterday and charged it for 3 hours as the manual says. After that I have been fiddling with the phone to find out all the new features and have made 49:28 of calls. My battery is now reported as having 72% charge in SP Task Manager which seems pretty good to me. Note that I haven't used Bluetooth at all.

[Guest chucky.egg]

Mine came fully charged, and hasn't been charged for more than 3 hours tops since Tuesday lunchtime, and it hasn't gone below 80%

I'm on a course, so not using it as much as I would normally, but I was starting to think the battery meter was just a gif!

[Guest bosshogg]

sounds like you've got a dud battery, I last charged mine on Tuesday night and I've still got 3 bars left!!! :)

[Guest Xenzo1990]

At the end of the day, a battery can be changed, but, heres my status.

Ive been on GPRS, bluetooth lots, playing lots of games & music since 3Pm yesterday, left on all night, its on 40%. I expect the battery levels will even out on my second charge.

[Guest I. C. Monsters]

Do you think it would be worth getting the handset replaced also? Just in case there's a fault with that which is causing a power drain.

Just an idea.

I. C. Monsters

[Guest Xenzo1990]

Well, when its on standby the c500 is great, when using gprs/games etc it goes down how you expect it to. I left mine on all night last night and it was the same percentage when I woke up. Its on 33% now. Im gonna do my second charge then test it fully and if it goes down asooner than it should, im gonna order a new battery.