Jeffrey, All,

For what it is worth, the quality of the carrier signal seems to be a
key in battery life for me. I spent last week in Manhattan Beach, half
the state away from my home in Northern California. At my office in a
small mountain town, the cell signal is steady. Not great, but steady.
In MB, a very urban area in the LA basin, my Verizon connection
fluctuated from on to off to on to off all day. I turned off the sound
after a short period because the phone was always announcing signal
gain and loss even if I just sat in one spot.

As the phone struggled to find Verizon, it chewed up the battery
charge with amazing rapidity. My extra capacity battery lasts days at
home, and would not make it from 9 am to 9 pm there.


SO, if AT&T had a coverage lapse, it might just make your battery look
insufficient. Of course, then it would be your carrier that is
insufficient, but somehow I doubt that you will get AT&T to accept
such a proposition.

I hope that this is your problem, because if it is AT&T may fix it
when they bring the network back to normal.

Thank you greatly!

Peter

"The future is not something we enter. The future is something we
create." -- Leonard I. Sweet


Posted by: "Jeffrey Kaplan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] gordoljk
Date: Tue Jul 31, 2007 1:13 pm ((PDT))

Hello, john.messeder.

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:39:19 -0400 you said:

> > Ditto here, on an unlocked 680 with the Seidio 2400 battery. I've no
> > idea what I may have done to cause it, since my software list and
usages
> > has, I think, been pretty stable.

It is the radio after all.  I just tried a test.  Fully charged,
cellular radio on.  Remove from charger and just let it sit.
Immediately the charge dropped to 97% and a couple hours later, it was
in the mid/high 80s.

Place it back on the charger and turn off the phone radio.  When it was
fully charged again, I removed it from the charger and let it sit.  It
again immediately dropped to 97%, but a couple hours later, it's still
at 97%.

For the record, IR is always off for me, and BT was also off.

So, next question:

Those of us with a battery issue, what cellular provider are you using,
and when did the problem start?  I'm with "The new AT&T", and this
started a bit over a week ago.

-- 
Jeffrey Kaplan www.gordol.org
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"There's a huge trust. I see it all the time when people come up to me
and say, 'I don't want you to let me down again.'" George W. Bush,
Boston, Massachusetts, October 3, 2000



--- In [email protected], Jeffrey Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello, john.messeder.
> 
> On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:39:19 -0400 you said:
> 
> > Ditto here, on an unlocked 680 with the Seidio 2400 battery. I've no 
> > idea what I may have done to cause it, since my software list and
usages 
> > has, I think, been pretty stable.
> 
> It is the radio after all.  I just tried a test.  Fully charged,
> cellular radio on.  Remove from charger and just let it sit.
> Immediately the charge dropped to 97% and a couple hours later, it was
> in the mid/high 80s.
> 
> Place it back on the charger and turn off the phone radio.  When it was
> fully charged again, I removed it from the charger and let it sit.  It
> again immediately dropped to 97%, but a couple hours later, it's still
> at 97%.
> 
> For the record, IR is always off for me, and BT was also off.
> 
> So, next question:
> 
> Those of us with a battery issue, what cellular provider are you using,
> and when did the problem start?  I'm with "The new AT&T", and this
> started a bit over a week ago.
> 
> -- 
> Jeffrey Kaplan                                         www.gordol.org
> The from userid is killfiled             Send personal mail to gordol
> 
> "There's a huge trust. I see it all the time when people come up to me
> and say, 'I don't want you to let me down again.'" George W. Bush,
> Boston, Massachusetts, October 3, 2000
>


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