Verizon wireless - Motorola Q Smartphone Battery Charge

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Motorola Q Smartphone Battery Charge

ohiocityjunk@gmail.com

2006-11-02, 10:33 am

I just bought a Motorola Q smartphone with an "extended" battery last
week. I am having two battery related problems with it.

First, the charge (on the extended battery) only lasts 10 hours with 5
short calls and maybe 25 minutes on the web. If I just make a few
calls that day it will last 15. Is this normal for a brand new
extended battery?

Second, when I plug it in to charge at night the plug icon appears in
the upper right. But, when I wake up I have a low battery message and
the battery hasn't charged. This has happened twice in 6 days.

Is this normal for the Q or did I get a bad battery?

Is there a way to concerve battery power on these phones?

Are applications still running when I am not using the phone? Can
these programs be turned off?

SmokeDiver

2006-11-19, 10:33 am

I'm guessing that you probably have a bad battery.

I have the 1640 mAh battery in my Q. I wanted to see how long it would
last so I unplugged it at 0545 one morning and used it like I normally
do, checking email every 15 minutes, checking out websites, playing
mp3's, streaming audio, taking a few pictures, some video, etc.., and
used a bluetooth headset when making phone calls. I left the bluetooth
turned on (on the phone) when I went to bed around midnight. The next
morning I found that the phone had turned itself off due to low
battery. I imagine that if I had killed all the running apps and
turned off the bluetooth, it would have still been powered up the
following morning. Having said all that, I'm getting at least 18 hours
use out of the battery. The one thing I did when I first got the
extended battery was to put it in the phone and run it dry, then charge
it up for a full 24 hours to give it a good solid charge and run it dry
again. I do this with all my NiMH, LIon, and Ni-Cad batteries. People
say that the NiMH and LIon batteries do not develop any memory like the
Ni-Cad's, but I always like to "condition" them to accept good solid
charges.

Sorry for being long winded. I'd take the battery back to the store
and exchange it for a new one. And to answer your other question, yes,
applications do run in the background. To turn them off completely, go
to START > SYSTEM TOOLS > TASK MANAGER.... Select which application
you want to turn off and select MENU, then KILL. Or if you want to
turn them all off, select KILL ALL.

Chris

ohiocityjunk@gmail.com wrote:
> I just bought a Motorola Q smartphone with an "extended" battery last
> week. I am having two battery related problems with it.
>
> First, the charge (on the extended battery) only lasts 10 hours with 5
> short calls and maybe 25 minutes on the web. If I just make a few
> calls that day it will last 15. Is this normal for a brand new
> extended battery?
>
> Second, when I plug it in to charge at night the plug icon appears in
> the upper right. But, when I wake up I have a low battery message and
> the battery hasn't charged. This has happened twice in 6 days.
>
> Is this normal for the Q or did I get a bad battery?
>
> Is there a way to concerve battery power on these phones?
>
> Are applications still running when I am not using the phone? Can
> these programs be turned off?

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