Just acquired a new E50. Charged it overnight. Over the past 5 days I've used approximately 100 minutes of talk time and I have to recharge it twice. Is this normal? I expected 4-6 hours of talk time and 10+ days of standby. Anybody have any thoughts? (Usage is in the New Orleans area)
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E50 battery life
- Thread starter nanthini
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DrummaBOIIIII
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so you're not playing with the phone at all other than making those calls?
short of infinity
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do you have full signal strength in all the areas you're in?
10 days stanby? I mean honestly, is there *any* S60 phone that will really give you that much battery life?
I usually have to charge every other day or every third day; if I make heavy use of web apps (listening to Internet Radio, downloading 50meg podcasts, etc.) then it's a daily charge. Java games also destroy my E50's battery pretty well (Platinum Mahjongg rules!). My actual voice calling is light (compared to a lot of people around here), my friends and I usually use SMS and instant messenger to keep in touch most of the time.
My reception varies daily from great [work] to half-strength [home inside] to none [underground garage, underground metro] so it does waste a lot of battery keeping hold of the network or just trying to find signal. I definitely use Bloglines (web RSS) once or twice daily to keep up on the news.
I'd love to see 10 days. I'm still waiting for the infamous "BL-6C Battery Cover" to appear like they said they would make. I've emailed three different Nokia departments (and gotten responses!) and none of them know anything about the cover at all.
I usually have to charge every other day or every third day; if I make heavy use of web apps (listening to Internet Radio, downloading 50meg podcasts, etc.) then it's a daily charge. Java games also destroy my E50's battery pretty well (Platinum Mahjongg rules!). My actual voice calling is light (compared to a lot of people around here), my friends and I usually use SMS and instant messenger to keep in touch most of the time.
My reception varies daily from great [work] to half-strength [home inside] to none [underground garage, underground metro] so it does waste a lot of battery keeping hold of the network or just trying to find signal. I definitely use Bloglines (web RSS) once or twice daily to keep up on the news.
I'd love to see 10 days. I'm still waiting for the infamous "BL-6C Battery Cover" to appear like they said they would make. I've emailed three different Nokia departments (and gotten responses!) and none of them know anything about the cover at all.
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i charge mine every third day as well. i do alot of SMS, a few calls and messing around with apps like installing and uninstalling.
if i didn't mess around with the phone and just used it for calls and SMS i'm sure it may last 5 days......but not gonna happen anytime soon or not till i'm bored of it anyway.
the standby time of 10 hours is tested with switching on the phone in full reception area and not touching it for 10 days.
the 6 hour talk time is tested by turning on the phone and doing nothing else but talking on the phone in a full reception area using half rate.
hell they probably did this all with backlight terminate set to 1 second.
if i didn't mess around with the phone and just used it for calls and SMS i'm sure it may last 5 days......but not gonna happen anytime soon or not till i'm bored of it anyway.
the standby time of 10 hours is tested with switching on the phone in full reception area and not touching it for 10 days.
the 6 hour talk time is tested by turning on the phone and doing nothing else but talking on the phone in a full reception area using half rate.
hell they probably did this all with backlight terminate set to 1 second.
I recently bought an E50, with some hesitancy about battery life on a smartphon - but all the reviews I'd read said it was very good. (Wish I'd seen this thread first).
Anyway I'm primarily using it as a phone; mainly I was looking for a quad-band travel phone with a transflective display that could be read in the sun and the E50 fits that just fine.
I've been running battery rundown tests in standby, using the supplied genuine BL-5C battery, and am rather distressed.
In a strong signal area (full scale), with NO APPS LOADED (active standby disabled) it lasts just 2-3 days, just sitting there doing nothing.
Bluetooth is off, backlight off, nothing running at all. Geez ... wonder hoe bad it'd be if I actually DID something with the phone.
I tried a second, new, genuine BL-5C just for fun, and it's even worse.
Is this to be expected?
I'm considering ordering a BL-6C to squeeze in, but I've read that it still doesn't fit completely even with the battery cover bumped pad removed, and I'm loathe to start cutting away at the battery casing itself for fear of hitting metal (what EXACTLY do you have to trim?)
Thanks for any ideas ... right now, for my originla stated purpose for buying this phone, I'm quite disapppointed.
Anyway I'm primarily using it as a phone; mainly I was looking for a quad-band travel phone with a transflective display that could be read in the sun and the E50 fits that just fine.
I've been running battery rundown tests in standby, using the supplied genuine BL-5C battery, and am rather distressed.
In a strong signal area (full scale), with NO APPS LOADED (active standby disabled) it lasts just 2-3 days, just sitting there doing nothing.
Bluetooth is off, backlight off, nothing running at all. Geez ... wonder hoe bad it'd be if I actually DID something with the phone.
I tried a second, new, genuine BL-5C just for fun, and it's even worse.
Is this to be expected?
I'm considering ordering a BL-6C to squeeze in, but I've read that it still doesn't fit completely even with the battery cover bumped pad removed, and I'm loathe to start cutting away at the battery casing itself for fear of hitting metal (what EXACTLY do you have to trim?)
Thanks for any ideas ... right now, for my originla stated purpose for buying this phone, I'm quite disapppointed.
10 Days? Are you kidding. The longest lasting phone I have had in past 5 years was my trusty Nokia 6100 with a 128x128 screen . That one could give me 8-10 days on really low usage or about a week on moderate use - and it wasnt even a smartphone.
And you want this same performance from a smartphone today? What smartphone these days gives even 5 days, let alone 10?
Your performance is a bit low. Longest I have got from my E50 with the BL-6C was about 5 days. In that time I was in London, got ona plane to SPain, where I put in flight mode, turned it off upon landing and the same on the return flight. Otherwise it was on and I did use phone, SMS and internet lightly.
With the BL-5C I have got 3-4 days with active standby on (all six slots in use) and very light usage.
Yours sounds a bit on the low side. Seems to me.
On the BL-6C, you only need to trim the pastic on the four corners with a fingernail shaver or something. Of course you try not to hit metal, but I did and nobody died, battery is fine. Then you remove the large rectangular soft pad inside the back cover of phone - then you squeeze a bit to close it. It works fine.
That said, you must undertstand that the BL-6L at 11000mah is only 10% bigger than the BL-5C, so guess how much more battery life you get from doing this change?
Its fun to do this "mod", but it is of low value - unless say you have an extra BL-6C lying around and you want to be able to use it as a backup or ditch the charger for a 6-7 day trip.
And you want this same performance from a smartphone today? What smartphone these days gives even 5 days, let alone 10?
Your performance is a bit low. Longest I have got from my E50 with the BL-6C was about 5 days. In that time I was in London, got ona plane to SPain, where I put in flight mode, turned it off upon landing and the same on the return flight. Otherwise it was on and I did use phone, SMS and internet lightly.
With the BL-5C I have got 3-4 days with active standby on (all six slots in use) and very light usage.
Yours sounds a bit on the low side. Seems to me.
On the BL-6C, you only need to trim the pastic on the four corners with a fingernail shaver or something. Of course you try not to hit metal, but I did and nobody died, battery is fine. Then you remove the large rectangular soft pad inside the back cover of phone - then you squeeze a bit to close it. It works fine.
That said, you must undertstand that the BL-6L at 11000mah is only 10% bigger than the BL-5C, so guess how much more battery life you get from doing this change?
Its fun to do this "mod", but it is of low value - unless say you have an extra BL-6C lying around and you want to be able to use it as a backup or ditch the charger for a 6-7 day trip.
thomasg453
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since i got the N91.....i charged up the E50 and set it to offline mode to see how long the battery lasted.
it lasted 9.5 days without being touched.
now i need to find another sim card to see how long it will last in online mode.
seems like Nokia is advertising their battery life without a SIM card inserted.
it lasted 9.5 days without being touched.
now i need to find another sim card to see how long it will last in online mode.
seems like Nokia is advertising their battery life without a SIM card inserted.
neverusethis
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You have it wrong, it's not 4-6 hours of talk time and 10+ days stdby but 4-6 hours of talk time OR 10+ days stdby
Pondering Pam
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you're right there....its common sense but lots of people don't get that part.
they think its both and not either or.
they think its both and not either or.
But even assuming that you have the SIM in and the phone turned on to online status, the weird thing is that standby life is not really extended much if you dont use the phone.
If I use the phone moderately, I only get maybe a day more than if I barely touch it. So when it is on, it just burns up battery sitting their whether you use it or no.
This is common to other smartphones as well I find. Its only heavy usage that really changes the burn rate/.
If I use the phone moderately, I only get maybe a day more than if I barely touch it. So when it is on, it just burns up battery sitting their whether you use it or no.
This is common to other smartphones as well I find. Its only heavy usage that really changes the burn rate/.
The screensaver can be useful, but there should be an ability to turn it off. Most of the time I can't see it without turning on the backlight, but therein lies the problem: turning on the backlight makes the screensaver go away. It is burning power by having the screen on. Turning the whoel thing off would probably save a lot of juice.
Then there are all the background services that are always running.
Then there are all the background services that are always running.