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Any ideas how to improve battery performance? (Satio) |
Jim_1979
Joined: Dec 01, 2009
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My phone seems to easily die within a day with it being used.
I've since turned off wifi scanning, turned off bluetooth. Turned the brightness from 50% to about 30%. I've also swtched off 3G/UMTS.
Screen timeout is set for 30seconds.
Is there anything I'm missing that would improve battery life?
I have seen a 1500mah battery that I'm going to order for the phone (aftermarket)
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etaab
Joined: Jan 23, 2004
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For a smartphone with such a large screen charging the phone once per day seems normal to me. Smartphones like the Satio kill their battery quickly depending on usage. Theres not much you can do really. Turning Bluetooth off will save you a fraction of standby time - you wont notice it. You're already doing what helps to save power. I wouldnt buy a third party battery though. My suggestions are:
- Make sure battery is charged fully before use
- turn off wifi
- turn off Bluetooth
- turn off 3G/HSDPA if you dont use it
- turn screen brightness down to minimum
- turn off the light sensor
- close apps rather than pressing menu to get out of them and do not leave them running in the background
- install a task manager to close any processes running which are unecessary
- turn off vibration or screen tap noises
- turn off the accelerometer
- turn off GPS (by default mine was on, therefore was attempting to get my location constantly)
- install themes to phone memory
- reboot the phone daily
- if you do not wish to use the phone feature, turn on flight mode
- set screen timeout to 15 seconds or less
- enable auto keylock
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jmcomms
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The firmware update is the biggest improvement you can do - as there were things going on before that could kill the battery in 5-6 hours when doing ABSOLUTELY nothing (usually when I was asleep!).
The screen brightness matters only if you're always using it for things like messaging, web, videos etc - for calling it's blank anyway thanks to the proximity sensor and in standby it's off too.
Turning off 3G probably doesn't make that much difference these days, especially for standby. It also means losing out on anything like web browsing or email downloading - and is more hassle than it's worth really. There's no quick way to toggle 2G/3G, so if anything I'd want to lock it to 3G now to save it switching bands.
Wi-Fi off - yes, Bluetooth probably uses very little power at all when not in use. Leave it on unless you have absolutely no need for it at all.
GPS doesn't seem to be the battery killer it once was, but quitting Google Maps or the like instead of leaving it run in the background is still advisable. Very easy to forget, on account of the multitasking nature!
To be honest, if you want maximum power on a high-end phone, you won't get it. If you turn everything off, you may as well have a basic phone without these features at all... a basic phone with a monochrome screen will last 10-20 days and still work just fine for voice and text!
Or leave the phone in the box. 
My advice; do the firmware update and then get used to charging each day. If there's a need for more power, buy a portable battery powered charger or a spare battery that you can keep in a wallet or bag. Be wary of third party ones claiming huge capacities - there's only limited space and I'd want to see someone testing these first. Since the 1990s, third party batteries have often turned out to be way below the performance of a standard battery, let alone some amazing thing that has 50-100% more power.
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Bonovox
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I recently had similar problems on my brand new c902. Left on standby in its first week on 3G the battery lost alot of charge without doing anything. After a few discharges and full charges its a great battery now. But Symbian Smartphones are prone to poor battery life even if using a higher capacity battery.
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etaab
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All smartphones have poor battery life compared to none-smartphones. This is something most people who move from one to the other do not realise. Ive gotten into the habit of charging my smartphones every night before bed. If i forget i pay for it the next day.
Which is why i keep a spare charger in my desk drawer at work ! 
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Sator1973
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 My previous three SE phones have BST-33 batteries and I bought one extra, so using only one phone at the time I have four spare batteries. That should do it for a day of heavy use.
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titus1
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But honestly speaking..the 1000 mAh battery is really to low for power hungry phone such as Satio. So there's nothing you can really do about that
The 1320 mAh battery of 5800 is quite adequate. |
NoroBiik
Joined: Dec 30, 2008
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On 2009-12-09 06:59:13, titus1 wrote:
But honestly speaking..the 1000 mAh battery is really to low for power hungry phone such as Satio. So there's nothing you can really do about that
The 1320 mAh battery of 5800 is quite adequate.
Agree 1300-1500 mAh should be the minimum capacity for a smartphone. Continuous YouTube download/playback can drain my W995 battery in just a few hours - a Nokia E52 with its 1500mAh batt lasts 6-7 hours (and that's with a faster but more power hungry CPU).
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Bonovox
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Its handy for me in the hotel i work in. Guests leave so many chargers in lost property we have a wide varied choice of them to use every day 
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etaab
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Having discussed this, i noticed my previous phone (N95 8gb) had a 1200mAh battery compared to the lesser Satio battery. Yet i notice no difference in standby time. In fact, i'd say the Satio lasts longer.
Possibly the Satio has better power consumption efficiency and the capacity of the battery is only part of the determining reason for being so hungry.
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altemyr
Joined: Jan 21, 2002
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Turn off the phone when you don't use it. That's probably what SonyEricsson did when they managed to squeeze out 360 hours standby time for the Satio, which is what's specified in the product specification on sonyericsson.com 
It's like when I was listening to Spotiy (streamed music) on my laptop, I disconnected it from the charger and brought it out to the terrace outside my apartment. Then Windows told me, that using the current power profile, the battery will only last for 1.5 hours, and do I wish to switch to a more power-saving profile? I answered yes, and guess what happened? It turned off the WiFi.
To some extent you should not have to turn off everything in the phone to get close to a reasonable battery capacity. It should be possible to use the functions in the phone, otherwise there is no need for them, and we could all revert to use a Nokia 3320 instead. That battery lasted at least a week btw.
One thing to do to improve battery time is to reinstall the firmware, strange but true, and when you do, make sure to remove and re-insert the battery first. The phone is not really OFF just because you turned it off using the On/Off button. |
jj03
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lol. I feel quite lucky that i can get a full two days out of my omnia hd with fairly heavy usage...video's etc. When i get down to the last bar, it lasts four hours.lol . Weird. |
etaab
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I dont own one of those but a friend does. His battery barely lasts him a full day. Often during the week you cannot reach him after late afternoon because his phone is out of power.
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SilveR.
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Mine last 1 day max..
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Ericman
Joined: Oct 09, 2003
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Hi to all. Try this... Go to settings \\ connectivity \\ admin settings \\ packet data and change from "when available" to " when required" . That helps me to got few more hours from my battery.
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Posted: 2009-12-08 22:35
