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KSE Posts: 369

Right, well I have mentioned this on here recently, but since the issue has become particularly worse, I wonder if anyone else suffers the same?

My, almost 1 year old, P900 began it's life with exceptionally good battery life comapred to some others... and it continued to do so for wuite a while...

However, several Orange firmware updates later, and recent battery life had severely plummeted... Well thats a little incorrect, as it still stays on for a good while (around a week on fairly light usage), but if someone calls me, or I call someone, then the damn thing "restarts to improve performance" a few times cutting me off after sometimes a few minutes, others a few seconds - yet the indicator shows 60-70% of battery life before and after restarts - sometimes, the only way to get the thing back on properly is the remove the battery and reinsert a few seconds later...

This is getting mightily annoying now, and makes the phone particularly unreliable - I have sourced a batter replacement, but thats £30 I really do not want to waste, if it doesn't solve the problem adequately...

So, anyone suffer similar problems... know of it to be a fault, or battery related or whatever...

Let us know... Cheers!
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Posted: 2004-10-02 00:52:30
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BobaFett Posts: > 500

Batt performance depends on usage and charging method. If u 'trained' your batt for a certain way to be charged, it gets used to it. Actually after 1 year it should have an acceptable performance. U should drain the batt almost empty, but not discharge and put to the plug for all night long 2 or 3 times in off mode. Or charge til its full in on mode and disconnect if its ended. This message was posted from a T630
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Posted: 2004-10-02 02:01:31
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stixx Posts: 2

I've had exactly the same problem.

It seemed to start about the same time that I installed SMAN?

Have just got a replacement phone from orange after over a month of calling their tech support.

Do you think it could be related to SMAN in your case? I'm nervous about re-installing SMAN now!
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Posted: 2004-10-11 12:44:38
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dilipc Posts: 182

A full discharge followed by a full charge once every three or four weeks helps in improving the accuracy of the charge meter.
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Posted: 2004-10-11 14:21:22
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dekesh Posts: > 500

why not jus get a new battery.they cost about a few pennies (GBP) on ebay plus £3.99 postage and packing.I ordered one for 11p plus p&p so got a new battery (original) for £4.10.not bad

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Posted: 2004-10-11 15:29:10
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stixx Posts: 2

In my case the battery was fine, I've just got a replacement phone from orange (same battery) and it works perfectly now.
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Posted: 2004-10-12 10:52:43
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