Battery issues
I have a LG vx-8000, lately I have noticed the battery is not holding up as well as did originally, down by 1/4 or 1/2 by the end of the day with only 10-20 minutes of talk time. A new battery didn't make any difference. The phone is almost two years old, could RF misalignment cause higher battery consumption? I have also noticed that the signal level sometimes drops to no bars but when a call is initiated it will jump back up to the normal two bars after 10 seconds or so and then the call goes through.
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sounds like it may be time for a new phone. but I have never seen a phone do that before. especially with wearing a new battery down like that. that is strange.
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If the phone is truly having difficulty finding signal when it shows no bars (which it may not be) then you are draining the battery more quickly. Phones use more battery strength in areas of low service because it is constantly seraching for the network. For instance, bring a perfectly fine phone and battery into someone's basement with poor or no service and stay there for a few hours, you will see the battery has decreased quickly.
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If the phone is truly having difficulty finding signal when it shows no bars (which it may not be) then you are draining the battery more quickly. Phones use more battery strength in areas of low service because it is constantly seraching for the network. For instance, bring a perfectly fine phone and battery into someone's basement with poor or no service and stay there for a few hours, you will see the battery has decreased quickly.
This is what I would have expected, however I set at the same place everyday, day after day, so signal level should be constant. That is why I am wondering if there is a rf alignment issue. Does anyone know if most cell phones can have their receiver front end r...
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Actually just being in the exact same place won't guarantee a signal to stay the same. CDMA has an inherent benefit over TDAM/GSM (as I was told by a friend who worked on the design of CDMA) in as much as it can benefit from multipathing, which is where the signal bounces off of just about anything. If you were in an area where there were no obstacles the signal may stay the same, but what about people, cars, trucks, trees and blowing trees and greenery? It all makes some difference.
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