Is there a program - or someone clever enough to write one -- that would
log at some user-defined period the signal strength seen by the radio.
It could be instructive.
petereva2002 wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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