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P1i Battery Problem |
DeadParrot
Joined: Aug 01, 2007
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Hi All
During the last couple of days my P1i seems to be draining the battery very very fast. It also seems to be getting quite warm to the touch.
Does anybody have any ideas of what could be wrong?
TIA
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pnf1973
Joined: Oct 04, 2007
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Sounds like an app is running in the background, try turning it off, pulling the battery out for 30 secs and then booting it back up |
DeadParrot
Joined: Aug 01, 2007
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Thanks
I have tried that but it still seems to be going down really fast.
I think it may be a problem with a connection somewhere as I charged the phone fully last thing last night and then left it in flight mode overnight and only seemed to drop a couple of percentage points on the battery meter by this morning.
I then returned it to phone mode and listened to the radio for about 1 hour, by mid afternoon it was telling me that the battery was low!! |
pnf1973
Joined: Oct 04, 2007
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if its still getting warm to the touch then something is eating cpu cycles. Installed anything recently? |
DeadParrot
Joined: Aug 01, 2007
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I had set up an e-mail account on the phone for GMail with IMAP. I deleted the account on the phone last night and so far today it seems to have 'calmed down'
Thanks again for the help
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Joined: Nov 26, 2002
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It's not the e-mail. Even if it checks your e-mail every minute, the battery can't drain so fast! I have mine checking 2 email accounts every half an hour (enough for me) and it still lasts a day and a half with 3 hours of talking every day, constant browsing.
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pnf1973
Joined: Oct 04, 2007
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Yeah, I agree. I had mine setup for push email (imap idle) and it would only just eat 50% of its battery during the day. It certainly didn't get warm while it was on. |
DeadParrot
Joined: Aug 01, 2007
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It must be something intermittent then as the only thing changed is deleting the GMail account.
Battery Status as of now: 80%
Battery Status as of same time yesterday: Beeping and telling me battery low
I'll just need to keep on monitoring it and see |
ansic
Joined: Mar 09, 2007
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I have same problem - but in certain situations.
after rebooting is ok, but whenewer i turn the WIFI on, battery is going down so fast! But the real problem is, that i.e i use wifi for 10 minutes, and after DISABLE IT and disconnect, close all aplication using internet connection... complettly everything but it's still warm in the back and battery going low. Its normal when you using wifi for long period of time, but should'nt be when you turn it off...
And also the same situation with connections trought 3G.
only solution is to restart phone.
And one additional question - i use gmail application, and whenever i started it, there was question about connection, so i always click ALLOW.
But one by mistake i clicked NEVER or something like that, and now when i start application id just simply say i need to enable connection for it. But i checked control panel from left to right and seems to be allright, to ask etc. but still does't work :| |
ares
Joined: Dec 11, 2003
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so, uninstall gmail, and install it again after
SE w880 + Iphone 4 16gb |
ansic
Joined: Mar 09, 2007
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Of course, but that is not propper solution for high spec device :|
It not like windows 98 - uninstall and instal again - will work ;] |
jplacson
Joined: Apr 21, 2002
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Ok, mobile tech 101...
All current mobile wireless devices draw power dynamically. Bluetooth interferes with Wifi... if you have both on, your phone will eat more power than needed to compensate for dropped packets. Not a phone defect, it's inherent in the conflict between WiFi and Bluetooth. Wifi is more prone to signal dropouts when BT devices are present or on.
The weaker your GSM/3G, Wifi, BT signal is... the more power your device will consume.
Multiple hotspots in one area cause interference as well. If you are in a crowded hotspot zone, your device will be requesting repeat packets more often.
LCD screen backlight drains more power than an actual call or transmitter power per minute of use. Lower screen brightness by 10% can improve standby time significantly. I'm running my P1i at 30% brightness and I'm fine with the visibility of the display. I get 3 full days of standby time (I charge my phone around 10pm of the 3rd night and I have about 11% battery left) with about 20 min of WiFi use everyday, 150 SMS, and maybe 20min of calls.
I've drained a fully charged batt in 3 hours of WiFi surfing... and had 3 full days (I probably could've gone to 3.5 days but I didn't wanna push it) of standby time. My P910i gave me 2 days, the P1i gives me and extra day...under heavier use.
For all that it offers... I'm very happy with the over-all performance of the P1i. It may have it's shortcomings (I intend to use the phone for one more week before giving my full brutal review) but I can live with the shortcomings of the P1i more that the other hybrids out there.
And so far, I feel that more than the features of a hybrid... most people should see if they can live with the limitations of the device. 
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ansic
Joined: Mar 09, 2007
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Of course any data connections will quickly drain your battery, especcialy wifi. Its obvious for me, but my problem is that wifi once used, it seems to be still ON, even when i swith it back off (disable) and close web application, but it getting warm in the back as wit the wifi running... i just installed new firmware. Maybe that will help. |
Nipsen
Joined: Jul 31, 2007
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..sounds serious. But.. since the wifi isn't always on, it's at least possible to rule out hardware- fault (with the electronic switches). And since some of the settings for the wifi- implementation (and the connection manager, I think) was put in the resource folder, and not in a protected area - my guess would be that some setting installed with a 3rd party app on a previous firmware is causing problems by lying around somewhere on the mem- stick. (...probably, the safest method is to backup everything - that's not installed, anyway - on the mem- stick, and then reformat it).
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babis3g
Joined: Nov 12, 2007
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From: London
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hi
i got a supposed p1 new
it got allready about 6-7 charges
i got gprs off.wifi off,bluetoth off, 3g off & 30% backlight on auto
sony saying 8 hrs talk time but of course are lot of factors to get that & if
i charged the battery full (100% on indicator)
i had a day stand-by(inluding 4 quick texts & one & half minute talk,not hour)
battery droped down to 85%
no other use
second day baterry 85%, i talked an hour & half(with singal low 1-2 bars if that matters)
battery droped to 50% half
is this normal?
please report as i may ask the company for replacement battery?
my battery not last more than 3 days with average 10 texts & no more than 1 and half hours only talk time
maybe play music or looking the menus no more than 1 hour,in this 3 days
no wifi,no gprs,no 3g browsing atol,all disconect for now
please some one report as if is normal not need complain to the provider
if i ask for replacement are usally send brand new?coz i know they say is new but is not really)
please advise
respectfully babis3g
thank you
[ This Message was edited by: babis3g on 2007-12-10 02:21 ] |
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