Posted by snow-munki
Hi,
have a T610,
was wondering if i leave the bluetooth on all the time would it drain the battery loads ?
what do you guys do, just that i just bought a new bluetooth headset...
Thanks
Posted by masseur
Bluetooth on will obviously drain the battery more than if it is not but I never found it a problem on my T68i and certainly no problem on my T610. I use my HBH-30 and also bluetooth to my ipaq many times a day.
Posted by snow-munki
so you just leave them both on 24/7 ?
and its ok ?
Posted by mixin
test it.
leave bluetooth on for a bit, and if it drains the battery to quickly, and goes dead within an hour... dont leave it switched on..
Posted by Krippe
On my t68i I could set bluetooth to "automatic" so it only turned on when it wae needed. I havent seen this on my t610.
Maybe its "automatic" automaticly.
Posted by MaThIbUs
That question was already answered, MixiN :-) But i don't think masseur leaves it on when he sleeps... So forget about 24/7 :-D
Posted by masseur
MaThIbUs, well fortunately I don't sleep with you so you can't comment on that!
but actually I do leave bluetooth on all the time however (and I am sure I have said this many times including just yesterday) I don't try to make my battery do the marathon... my phone sits on the charger every night. There does seem to be some fascination in making batteries last 3, 4 or 5 days but surely we do all go home every night?
So for Snow-Munki I wouldnt worry and just leave it on all the time!
Posted by snow-munki
ahhh,
but i thought its better for batteries to use it all up and then charge it.
Its bad to charge a half charged battery, if that makes sence.. or is that no longer the case?
Posted by masseur
no, not lithium ion batteries, there is no memory effect. that only applies to nicad and to some extent Nickel Metal Hydride batteries.
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Posted by lorenzo
Ok, let's see if I can help (first post here, I know I have no credit, but I do study Elec. Engineering at Imperial College...)
Bluetooth was developped with portable devices in mind. Infact, all of the 7 founders produce either mobile phones or handheld computers. BT works on a very high radio frequency, not used by any communication system and studied to not interfere with microwaves too. As it is meant to work only with another device, the application will run only when another BT device is in range, and will be totally off otherwise. Infact, if you spend a day at home with your BT on, the only thing to affect battery consumption with be the extra flashing LED. Things change slightly when going around. If, say, somebody is looking for BT devices and you're in their 10m (or 100m, depending on the device) connectivity bubble, then your BT will also go active, so if you go around somewhere where lots of people are using BT, your battery will resent it. Elsewise, nothing will change.
I hope this cleared some ideas up. If you have any questions about BT, I'll be happy to answer (I just made a study on it for Uni). You can email me at spliff@supereva.it
Posted by snow-munki
thanks, that's cleared it up for me...
well leave it on automatic now
Posted by masseur
but the T610 doesn't have the automatic setting that the T68i had?
Posted by DaFLoW
Bluetooth is either ON or OFF. No automatic setting.
I can use Bluetooth everyday and Bluetooth is always on. I always use GPRS for intenet over bluetooth and I can get 3 days out of the battery no problems.......thats also using the camera functions, chaging themes, (which I seem to change like underwear) and genreal stuff like playing games. Of course there is that part where its a telephone too. I make/receive several calls also.
Who gives a toss anyway, if you were going away to a remote place, lets say camping in the bush or something well then youd turn a lot of those functions off, use your phone sparingly and youd get 5 days easy. Besides youd have a car and have the car charger anyway.
How far away does one get from a power source these days????
Put it this way the t610's battery is good enough to have IR, bluetooth, loud rings, play some games, surf the net and take lots of pictures as much as you want provided you return from your prehistoric cave to civilization every 2 - 3 days.
Posted by Krubach
AFAIK leaving your phone in automatic (if there's that mode available), won't drain the battery for use with an headset.
Let me try to explain this. To use a headset firat you have to pair both the phone and the HS. After doing that your phone get's to know it's passkey and everything it needs to work with.
When receiving a call, your phone just makes a confirmation of the presence of the HS. If it's there it'll connect to it, if not just answer it normally.
So in fact it's not "always on", it's "always on standby".
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Posted by Orn8one
Is there an automatic setting for the p8? I used a bluetooth earpiece with automatic answer and voice dialing set on I watched the battery drain at an alarming rate. I wonder if it was the voice dialling that caused the drain as the fone was constantly searching for matches - any ideas or solutions please ?
Posted by pachy
I had to ditch my voice dialing & magic word because the phone would be constantly trying to match commands after being activated during normal conversation, even after several changes of the magic word.
Posted by jhermano
@Orn8one
The P800 does have an automatic setting. Unfortunately you have to set it to ON to use the voice dialing through the head so the phone will will always maintain a connection to the headset. When set to automatic, the phone will only search for the headset when you receive or make a call
Posted by Orn8one
Thank you. @ Pachy I have also kept changing my magic word but every time I open my mouth I think the phone searches so I will have give it up too - unless @ jhermano. Do you mean you have to click the switch on the headset and then use voice dial? So the phone and hreadset are in a standby situation ? Ty to you both
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