LG VX-8100
Battery Life - My experience
I have read several posts on here about the 8100's poor battery life. I have not felt I was having a problem, but decided to pay closer attention.
I started Wednesday morning with a full charge. I pulled my phone from the charger at around 7:30am. My time trial ended at 7:30pm Thursday. During that span, I put right at 140 minutes on the phone talking, sent 5 text messages, received 3, watched 4 Vcast videos, all around 2 minutes in length, and spent probably 15 minutes messing around with demonstrating ring-tones, photos, etc., to others.
When I put my phone back on the charger, I still had one bar, but was going out this evening and didn't want to take a chance on a dead phone so charged for about 45 minutes while I got ready.
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I started Wednesday morning with a full charge. I pulled my phone from the charger at around 7:30am. My time trial ended at 7:30pm Thursday. During that span, I put right at 140 minutes on the phone talking, sent 5 text messages, received 3, watched 4 Vcast videos, all around 2 minutes in length, and spent probably 15 minutes messing around with demonstrating ring-tones, photos, etc., to others.
When I put my phone back on the charger, I still had one bar, but was going out this evening and didn't want to take a chance on a dead phone so charged for about 45 minutes while I got ready.
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Have you ever left the phone on overnight without using it? What does it show in the morning? So far mine's been dead every morning since I got it no matter how many bars it had the night before.
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No problem with mine... I typically charge it once every 2 days and I have left it on all night.
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I went to bed last night with my phone at 2 bars.. and woke up in the morning still at 2 bars.
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I'm thinking it may be the bluetooth being on that's draining the battery. Any of you leaving the bluetooth on overnight?
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Yes, I am. I have not turned off the BT since I got the phone. During the two day period mentioned in my review, the phone was on the entire time, as was the BT.
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I should have put that in my review. My mobile phone is my only phone - outside of the office - so I leave it on all the time. During the two days mentioned previously, the phone was on the entire time, including all night.
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