Short A-650 Battery Life

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I got a Samsung A-650 last week as a new Verizon customer from Sprint. The
rated standby time on the Verizon site is 190 hours standby time but after
two discharge to auto-shutoff I only get 72 hours, much less than half of
what was claimed. The last 72 hours was with less than 20 minutes of phone
time (combined talk/receive), power save on, keyboard and display time out
set to 5 seconds. Can I walk into my local Verizon store and ask for a
replacement battery after explaining this to them or do I have to call/email
Verizon?

--
"Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence-three times is enemy action."

 

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Standby time is just that. If you open the phone up and look at anything on
the screen or do anything with the phone that uses power consider that time
as talk time. Given that bit of information I would say that 20 min of talk
time and about 79min of total play time is just about what you would get in
total usage time of 72 hours. If you want to squeeze more time out of the
phone cut your key tones off, do not use high or long settings on the screen
backlight and do not use vibrator silent mode and keep your ring tones short
and just loud enough to hear. Get out of the habit of opening the phone to
look at the new play pretty. You will be surprised at how long the phone
will stay in standby mode. Also stay away from analog mode with the tri-mode
phone as this eats batteries up at 3X+ the digital mode rate. Hope this
helps RICHARD



"Oliver Cromwell" <rosewar12@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I got a Samsung A-650 last week as a new Verizon customer from Sprint. The
>rated standby time on the Verizon site is 190 hours standby time but after
>two discharge to auto-shutoff I only get 72 hours, much less than half of
>what was claimed. The last 72 hours was with less than 20 minutes of phone
>time (combined talk/receive), power save on, keyboard and display time out
>set to 5 seconds. Can I walk into my local Verizon store and ask for a
>replacement battery after explaining this to them or do I have to
>call/email Verizon?
>
> --
> "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence-three times is enemy action."
>

 

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When I picked up my A650s last week, the Radio Shack employee (who also
happens to be a cell junkie) told me he flipped a setting that greatly
improved the idle battery life on these phones.

I picked up two of these a week ago. I've talked mine to death (took
about 4x longer than my old V120E tho, WOOHOO!) once already, but my
parents handset hasn't been charged since sunday morning + ~15 minutes
of usage, and still showing 3/3 battery. We're about 3.5 miles from the
only

I'd ask your retailer, if they can't help I'll ask my salesman about the
tweak...

JS

Oliver Cromwell wrote:
> I got a Samsung A-650 last week as a new Verizon customer from Sprint. The
> rated standby time on the Verizon site is 190 hours standby time but after
> two discharge to auto-shutoff I only get 72 hours, much less than half of
> what was claimed. The last 72 hours was with less than 20 minutes of phone
> time (combined talk/receive), power save on, keyboard and display time out
> set to 5 seconds. Can I walk into my local Verizon store and ask for a
> replacement battery after explaining this to them or do I have to call/email
> Verizon?
>
> --
> "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence-three times is enemy action."
>
>

 

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I'd love to know what that setting was.

"Jacob Suter" <j4k3@ezho.org> wrote in message
news:FCfnd.14584$bs4.10943@fe05.usenetserver.com...
> When I picked up my A650s last week, the Radio Shack employee (who also
> happens to be a cell junkie) told me he flipped a setting that greatly
> improved the idle battery life on these phones.
>
> I picked up two of these a week ago. I've talked mine to death (took
> about 4x longer than my old V120E tho, WOOHOO!) once already, but my
> parents handset hasn't been charged since sunday morning + ~15 minutes of
> usage, and still showing 3/3 battery. We're about 3.5 miles from the only
>
> I'd ask your retailer, if they can't help I'll ask my salesman about the
> tweak...
>
> JS
>
> Oliver Cromwell wrote:
>> I got a Samsung A-650 last week as a new Verizon customer from Sprint.
>> The rated standby time on the Verizon site is 190 hours standby time but
>> after two discharge to auto-shutoff I only get 72 hours, much less than
>> half of what was claimed. The last 72 hours was with less than 20
>> minutes of phone time (combined talk/receive), power save on, keyboard
>> and display time out set to 5 seconds. Can I walk into my local Verizon
>> store and ask for a replacement battery after explaining this to them or
>> do I have to call/email Verizon?
>>
>> --
>> "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence-three times is enemy action."
>

 

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Avoiding any analog useage is done by selecting "home network only" from the
network settings?

"NoneHere" <NoneHere@noplace.com> wrote in message
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> Standby time is just that. If you open the phone up and look at anything
> on the screen or do anything with the phone that uses power consider that
> time as talk time. Given that bit of information I would say that 20 min
> of talk time and about 79min of total play time is just about what you
> would get in total usage time of 72 hours. If you want to squeeze more
> time out of the phone cut your key tones off, do not use high or long
> settings on the screen backlight and do not use vibrator silent mode and
> keep your ring tones short and just loud enough to hear. Get out of the
> habit of opening the phone to look at the new play pretty. You will be
> surprised at how long the phone will stay in standby mode. Also stay away
> from analog mode with the tri-mode phone as this eats batteries up at 3X+
> the digital mode rate. Hope this helps RICHARD
>
>
>
> "Oliver Cromwell" <rosewar12@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:10ppe38g56ge928@corp.supernews.com...
>>I got a Samsung A-650 last week as a new Verizon customer from Sprint.
>>The rated standby time on the Verizon site is 190 hours standby time but
>>after two discharge to auto-shutoff I only get 72 hours, much less than
>>half of what was claimed. The last 72 hours was with less than 20 minutes
>>of phone time (combined talk/receive), power save on, keyboard and display
>>time out set to 5 seconds. Can I walk into my local Verizon store and ask
>>for a replacement battery after explaining this to them or do I have to
>>call/email Verizon?
>>
>> --
>> "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence-three times is enemy action."
>>
>
>

 

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In article <10ps06gddaeba35@corp.supernews.com>,
Oliver Cromwell <rosewar12@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Avoiding any analog useage is done by selecting "home network only" from the
>network settings?

"Home" limits you to your home system, and, depending on your phone's
software, may also include other Verizon systems or, (more likely)
not. It has nothing to do with analog vs. digital. Some phones have
"Digital Only" options.

"Digital = home" and "analog = roaming" is a false association promoted by
SprintPCS who, until recently disabled digital roaming on their phones,
so that you were either on their own (all-digital) system, or you were
roaming on analog. On Verizon, there is no connection between roaming
and analog.