Screw cell phones
 

My cell phone battery only lasts two days. I have to charge it every other day. Screw that I used to have it last like a week, on older cell phones years ago. I heard if you let it completely drain that it's better for the battery than premature charging. Hints and advice?

Can you charge a battery without the phone connected? If so, you could get a spare battery and swap it out when the one you're using is drained.

the instructions do say to recharge only when the battery is all the way down. That's kinda impractical, imo though

Oh yeah! Let me go buy another battery for say, half the price of the cell phone itself! Yay perpetual money spending cycle!

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well, it was just a suggestion

what kind of a phone is it? I had a v90 that was like that. fuckin hated it. i bought a new battery, was careful about charging it, and still....2 days max....demand a new phone, yours is defective.

I have two cell phones, and I notice that the newer one stays charged longer than the older one.

Certain tasks use up more juice, of course, like picture taking. Have you tried turning it off when not in use?

New technological fones probably will have shitty battery life because they can do so much, media, web browsing, GPS and stuff. Just like the iPhone has 20 minutes of battery life! Especially if you set videos to be backgrounds or enable sounds for scrolling, clicking or backlit your screen too long.

The price of the cell phone is monthly, an extra battery is once.

I was thinking the unit price, not the plan. Seems inefficient when both batteries could go by the way side.

Are you in a different location during the day than you were when you had your old phone? Beest and I have the same phones, same age, but his battery wears down faster even though he uses his phone less because he works deep in the middle of a concrete dungeon where reception fades in and out, so the phone is constantly searchinmg for a network, connecting etc....

I never thought of that....searching for the network drains the battery? My coverage isn't the best....I had no idea searching would do that. Thanks for the heads up.

yes, it's a huge drain on the battery. We demonstrated that very effectively in the Grand Canyon region this summer!

(it's actually less of a drain if there's no reception at all, as it should go into "power save mode", but if the reception is in and out, it never reaches that stage)

Continuous searching for a signal drains the battery almost as much as talking on the phone for the same amount of time would, if the signal was good.

Older ni-cad batteries had to be drained to charge properly, newer lithium ones can be charged without going to zero in between.

I like my phone, except that it takes forever to boot it, and it gets snarled up like any other computer device, so you have to do that occasionally.

I have no idea how long my battery would last if I pushed it, because I just charge it every night. I have to take it out of my pocket and put it on the nightstand anyway, so why not plug it in?