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rocketdog
Posts: 5
Phone Model:
v180
Service Provider:
cingular |
 
Fri Aug 26, 2005 3:01 am |
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Hello everybody, I have a new motorola v180 and 12 hours standby time is about all I can get out of it. My old v60 would go 5 days. The rep at cingular said it is normal but I know it is not. I have tried three different batteries, All new. I charged them the correct way and still about 12 hours is it.Is there any setting on the phone that I could have set wrong. It was like this from day one. I have data cable, is there maybe a firmware update or something that may help? Thanks in advance, Rocketdog
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veilfore89
Posts: 1396
Phone Model:
Motorola Q9h(GSM), V551(GSM), T720i(GSM), T720g(GSM)(DEAD
), T730(CDMA), Samsung x427m(GSM), Siemens A56i(GSM), E-815(CDMA)
Service Provider:
AT&T Wireless |
Fri Aug 26, 2005 3:05 am |
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I don't know if the V180 has a battery saver option in initial setup but you could look. Otherwise thats something in your phone running and burning up the battery. Thats very unnatural if you ask me. Maybe another V180 user could clarify if theirs does this?
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Arej00dazed
Posts: 25
Phone Model:
Motorola v180
Service Provider:
T-mobile |
Fri Aug 26, 2005 7:38 am |
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do you have the screen saver or similar on? if so, turn it off, guess that eats batteries. I can get a few days out of mine before it needs recharged.
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rocketdog
Posts: 5
Phone Model:
v180
Service Provider:
cingular |
Fri Aug 26, 2005 10:30 am |
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I checked and it doent have a battery save option that I can find. I tried turning the screen saver off when a friend of mine told me his would go most of the week without a charge. What is really bad is is that I only talk on it about 15 minutes a day. I have also left it in one spot with full signal to make sure it was not trying to search all the time. Still no luck.
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veilfore89
Posts: 1396
Phone Model:
Motorola Q9h(GSM), V551(GSM), T720i(GSM), T720g(GSM)(DEAD
), T730(CDMA), Samsung x427m(GSM), Siemens A56i(GSM), E-815(CDMA)
Service Provider:
AT&T Wireless |
Fri Aug 26, 2005 2:30 pm |
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Thats funny because that phone doesn't have heavy loading software to eat the battery. My V551 has longer standby time than that...and it has a lot of software to load up. I don't know what moto did to that model but that still doesn't sound to healthy.
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Samsung
Posts: 3141
Phone Model:
Motorola RAZR2 V8 |
Fri Aug 26, 2005 7:14 pm |
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Sounds like a defect, I would call cingular and arrange a replacement because the battery life, doesnt even come close to what the specs say for that model.
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Deadlock
Posts: 18
Phone Model:
Motroal v180
Service Provider:
T-Mobile |
Fri Aug 26, 2005 7:27 pm |
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Mine can last about 4-5 days on stand by so I say take it back cause it sounds like a defect.
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rocketdog
Posts: 5
Phone Model:
v180
Service Provider:
cingular |
Fri Aug 26, 2005 9:12 pm |
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I think I will take it back. I was just trying to avoid the hassle. I'v had it off charge today for 8 hours and it's about half dead. Thanks very much for the help.
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Samsung
Posts: 3141
Phone Model:
Motorola RAZR2 V8 |
Fri Aug 26, 2005 9:27 pm |
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what you can try is changing the backlight to time out after like 10 seconds, no screensaver., go to sounds and make sure that keypad tone is set to 0 and make sure you have no java running in the background, also make sure when you are not using the phoen that you have the flip closed
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rocketdog
Posts: 5
Phone Model:
v180
Service Provider:
cingular |
Fri Aug 26, 2005 10:28 pm |
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How do you tell if there is java running in the back ground? I did the backlight and screensaver settings. I also made sure the switch was working that turns the screen off when you close the lid.
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