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To Bostein:
Yes, my GSM-operator (EMT) as fine coverage here in Estonia. You can see it here:
http://www.gsmworld.com/cgi/i[....]pl5?cou=ee&net=em&frame=middle
I'm sure this is one reason for long battery life.
About sms-ing and battery draining - it would be really interesting to know what are people think. (Not only owners of T68i)
PS. Bostein, please treat your ageing T68i with care and love
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Posted: 2004-04-02 10:03:44
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In the last few days i had to recharge my t68i almost twice a day. I've been surfing whole morning,5-7 hours approx and i had to recharge my batt every day when i came from school. But when i'm not using gprs so much i manage to get two days of battery life. Anyone else had to recharge batt every day?
This message was posted from a T68i
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Posted: 2004-04-02 10:15:21
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@Aivar
What ur friend says is right, sms-ing does drain the battery. there are a few reasons for this
1. The backlight is always on when typing, so the battery drain is more. Yle u make r recieve calls, the backlight is on only for say 10 seconds or for how much long u had set it to be switched on.
2. If u have key sounds then that also takes some power to emit the sound, though this is negligible, this does drain the battery.
So ur friend is absolutely right bout sms-ing.
I use bluetooth always on and i send somewhere around 150 smses per day and the talk time is around half to one hour. the battery lasts till the night. I mean when i do a full charge early in the morning say around 7, it lasts me till 11 in the evening, the led doesnt flash red, but its dangerously low.
Thats my T68 and about my P900 its a different story altogether, i always use it as a gprs modem, and i charge it most of the time on the sync station itself. so will have to test it one day.
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Posted: 2004-04-02 10:24:54
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When i use my t68, not very often, i have to charge it every day. As written in the post before, the screen drains battery standby time in the first line.
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Posted: 2004-04-02 11:34:12
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I'm proud to wake up this old thread again. Today, on 31 May, three years ago I got my brand new T68i. I'm glad that it has served me well and it looks almost like new. During recent months the yes-key started to misbehave a bit, sometimes it needed to be pushed twice or three times to react. But now it works fine again.
Especially I'm happy about the phone's superb ability to use the battery very economically. Even after 3 years the average standby time is 8,5 days (over 200 hours). Recently, some weeks ago, the battery power lasted for a 10 days (240 hours).
And as I have said before, the standby record of my T68i is more than 11,5 days (over 278 hours).
During these 3 years I have almost always let the battery drain completly empty, before I have started to charge it. Only some few times I connected it to the charger when the phone was on. But even then the phone showed 0 minutes for a standby and talk-time.
Yes, I'm not a heavy user. Usually I have 15-30 minutes for talking, 0-5 minutes for gprs and 0-2 sms's during after charged period. But I carry my phone with me almost everywhere, it does not stay in one place only. By the way, once I talked nearly an hour and the phone still lasted ca 200 hours!
As I see no new good looking Sony Ericsson phone in the market nowadays, I hope that my T68i will continue serving me well. How many years, I don't know. Perhaps, if Sony Ericsson will make another good looking small phone with mighty battery and it handles
GSM 850/900/1800/1900 + WCDMA, I may consider to buy it. But how can I be able to leave my beloved T68i... It gonna be a hard heartbreaking choice...
Here is picture of my T68i, photographed today.
[ This Message was edited by: Aivar on 2005-05-31 11:56 ]
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Posted: 2005-05-31 12:47:48
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im selling 1 if ne1 is interested
pm me
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Posted: 2005-05-31 13:19:49
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This is just a little note to say that my T68i (with original battery) is exactly 4 years old now. But the battery is still mighty and works like a new. The average standby time is still 8,5 days like it has been during those years.
Superb cooperation between the phone and the battery
I know that lithium polymer/ion batteries should not have so called memory effect - but before I start charging my phone's battery I nearly always let it run so empty that the phone switches off. Seems that my battery likes to be used in this way
Perhaps I have a chance to wake up this post also after another year, on 31 May 2007
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Posted: 2006-05-31 11:48:14
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How do u manage 8.5 days standby? Not many calls and very good rec i think.
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Posted: 2006-05-31 12:51:45
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BobaFett, you are right.
During those 8,5 days I usually make/receive calls for 15-30 minutes, sometimes I also use GPRS for a few minutes and send one or two sms. But a couple of times I have experienced also the situation, when I make/receive calls for 45-60 minutes and the standby time is still more than 8 days!
And yes, the reception is usually very good here in Estonia (it's almost impossible to find "no network" area). When I am abroad, the standby time drops to 5-6 days.
But I remember my T18i - despite the fact that I talked not much, the power of battery turned bad after 1,5-2 years. It would be really interesting to know, when the battery of my T68i "gets old".
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Posted: 2006-05-31 14:15:08
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aslong the "gel" in the battery is ok, might be some more yeras long...
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Posted: 2006-05-31 14:18:59
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