Anyone else having trouble with V400 battery life?

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Dave Phillips - 24 Feb 2004 15:24 GMT

I purchased a Motorola V400 phone in mid-January...had serious battery life
problems..would last only 10-12 hours in standby mode.

Exchanged the phone in Early February for another V400....but the battery
life still stinks. I charged it overnight Sunday ...made 2 3-minutes phone
calls with it Monday, but now just 24 hours after taking it off charger,
it's beeping low battery already.

I have the SUG3625BA model...the second run of the phone....

Is it that this V400 model is a lemon or have I gotten 2 bad phones and need
to go for No. 3????

Dave

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Jeff Smith - 24 Feb 2004 17:25 GMT

I also thought I was having battery troubles on my v400, but it turns out
that I really have to make sure I'm charging the battery when I plug it in
to the charger (wait for it to say "charging"). Sometimes it makes a
connection and powers the phone, but doesn't charge the battery. For a
while I was getting only a few minutes on the battery before the phone said
"low battery" and thought for sure it was a defective phone or battery. Now
that I'm making sure the charging is working I'm consistently getting about
36 hours standby.

On 2/24/04 10:24 AM, in article
o0K_b.17466$1F3.5269@newssvr31.news.prodigy.com, "Dave Phillips"
<d.phillips@snet.net> wrote:

> I purchased a Motorola V400 phone in mid-January...had serious battery life
> problems..would last only 10-12 hours in standby mode.
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> Dave

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Dave Phillips - 24 Feb 2004 17:53 GMT

Jeff:

But the problem is this...according to the specs on the phone, 36 hours is
ridiculously low. It says 175 hours!!!!

So what is the problem?

I don't want a phone that dies after a day and a half of being on and then
just 6 minutes of phone calls, when I should get 5-6 days standby.

Dave

> I also thought I was having battery troubles on my v400, but it turns out
> that I really have to make sure I'm charging the battery when I plug it in
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> > Dave

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Jeff Smith - 24 Feb 2004 20:54 GMT

Dave-
Now that I've re-read my post I should have said anywhere from 72-96 hours
since I usually go for about 3-4 days continuously without charging (and
there are 24 hours, not 12 in a day!) but that's still a long way from the
spec 175.

On 2/24/04 12:53 PM, in article
0cM_b.27476$t55.3533@newssvr16.news.prodigy.com, "Dave Phillips"
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> Jeff:
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>>> Dave

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