Question re: battery life on Samsung M500

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Butters - 23 Feb 2007 14:56 GMT

I recently had my Samsung A920 replaced due to a battery issue. I'd charge
the phone overnight and within six hours of no talk time, the battery would
be dead. They went though five different batteries before deciding that the
issue was with the phone. They replaced it with a Samsung M500 and after
just one night, it's crapping out after about ten hours. What gives?

I'm wondering if the issue could be my travel charger (they wouldn't
exchange it, citing that if it's charging, it's working) Very weird. I could
understand one battery being bad, maybe two. But this is two phones and six
batteries. Any ideas?

Thanks!

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Joel - 23 Feb 2007 20:15 GMT

> I recently had my Samsung A920 replaced due to a battery issue. I'd charge
> the phone overnight and within six hours of no talk time, the battery would
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> Thanks!

    I don't have A920 to know what idea I may have to give you <bg> But I
have A900 and it too can have battery life for luch, and I read the info
from other A900 owners and I *did* pass the information HERE few times
(couple months ago) how to make the bettery life longer.

- Disabling the "GPS locator" gives the battery life up to around 2-3 days
instead of 5-10 hrs or sometime it last for 24 hrs standby.

    Also, most newer phones (the ones I have and I have 5 phones) have option
to check and upgrade software (firmware) online, so you may want to select
"software update" see if there is any newer firmware.

    Good luck! and sure you may want to get a cheap ($5-6 a pop) car charger.

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knightrhythms@gmail.com - 24 Feb 2007 15:18 GMT

I am a proud owner of an m500 myself, if you are not using it for
calling, it just being 'on' and sitting ready to take a call, the
battery life of it is pretty decent for such a slim battery. This
would decrease quickly however if you are surfing the web on it or
playing games, music etc. but still should be lasting longer than
your experience has been. If you are using the same charger as you
were for the other phone and batteries, I would say it is the
charger. At very least at this point thats what I would try. You
should be able to get an exchange for this through Samsung themselves
if nothing else as it is covered by the 1 year warranty that comes
with the phone.

> I recently had my Samsung A920 replaced due to a battery issue. I'd charge
> the phone overnight and within six hours of no talk time, the battery would
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> Thanks!

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Butters - 24 Feb 2007 16:08 GMT

>I am a proud owner of an m500 myself, if you are not using it for
> calling, it just being 'on' and sitting ready to take a call, the
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> if nothing else as it is covered by the 1 year warranty that comes
> with the phone.

Thanks for the reply.

I picked up a cheap charger after my post and tried it yesterday afternoon.
Took about two hours to charge and now, twenty hours later, it still has a
full charge. I talked on it last night for about thirty minutes as well.
Looks like the issue was with the charger. I'm going to take in the old
charger today and see if they'll replace it. Guess I'll have a charger for
home and for work.

Thanks again.

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