Cell Phones in Great Britain - XDA Orbit - Turn Off the GPRS Icon & Battery useage

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XDA Orbit - Turn Off the GPRS Icon & Battery useage

hunkylad99@yahoo.com

2007-12-20, 7:33 am

Hi All,

I have an XDA Orbit which appears to be quite hungry on the battery
power, even though I dont really use the phone much.

I do have all the power settings and switch off set to 1 minute and
low light.

I am wondering if its due to the GPRS `G` icon being on and light
flashing away that might be the cause.

But as far as my network options are set, i dont actually have any set
to connect to GPRS because i cannot access the service on my o2
account - only WAP.
If i do connect to the internet i use the 91500 dialup service. The G
icon turns into 2 arrows.

I dont really know what the G icon means.
Is it just GPRS is available on the phone etc? - i know its definately
not accessable as have tried it.
How can i turn it off ???

Many Thanks

MPW

Jim!

2007-12-20, 12:33 pm

On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:11:18 -0800 (PST), hunkylad99@yahoo.com wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>I have an XDA Orbit which appears to be quite hungry on the battery
>power, even though I dont really use the phone much.
>
>I do have all the power settings and switch off set to 1 minute and
>low light.
>
>I am wondering if its due to the GPRS `G` icon being on and light
>flashing away that might be the cause.
>
>But as far as my network options are set, i dont actually have any set
>to connect to GPRS because i cannot access the service on my o2
>account - only WAP.
>If i do connect to the internet i use the 91500 dialup service. The G
>icon turns into 2 arrows.
>
>I dont really know what the G icon means.
>Is it just GPRS is available on the phone etc? - i know its definately
>not accessable as have tried it.
>How can i turn it off ???
>
>Many Thanks
>
>MPW

Something wrong there then ... my XDA Orbit will happily last 4 or 5
days on a single charge (and that's including phone calls, some
sat-nav usage and push emails) ...

I suggest you take a look at http://www.xda-developers.com/

Cheers

Jim!

Steven

2007-12-20, 10:33 pm

<hunkylad99@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi All,
>
> I have an XDA Orbit which appears to be quite hungry on the battery
> power, even though I dont really use the phone much.
>
Have you got everything turned off? Like Bluetooth, Wifi, etc?

My one does really well on the battery. I would say its good for a week or
more on standby (24 hours) with the odd call.... Obviously if I use it
more, then that figure goes down.

Steve

MPW

2007-12-21, 12:33 pm

"Steven" < 43622t56568067@priva
cy.net> wrote in message
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>
> <hunkylad99@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:582eb4e1-6767-43d1-b6d5- e615c97783e4@s8g2000
prg.googlegroups.com...
> Have you got everything turned off? Like Bluetooth, Wifi, etc?
>
> My one does really well on the battery. I would say its good for a week
> or
> more on standby (24 hours) with the odd call.... Obviously if I use it
> more, then that figure goes down.
>
> Steve
>
>

Hi Steven,

I so wonder, can the GPRS icon be switched off, i assume this would save
more power?

Thanks

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