Battery Drain

[Gazoo22]

I picked up 2 Touch phones From Bell Canada and I have a question on the power consumption of the phones.

My wifes Phone has 80% battery left at the end of the day and mine has 30%. She has her phone almost stock with only 1 or 2 programs loaded and I loaded like 20 so far on mine.

She uses hers a little and I use mine well a little more then her, 20 minutes browsing plus 30 minutes of text entry, no phone calls on either.

I swapped batteries and the power consumption is the same on each phone.

Also when I played a golf game on mine the other day the phone heated up pretty good.( I might of had a few programs running in the background at the same time)

I am thinking that there might be a fault with my phone and I am hope other people can post there info:

Programs loaded/running Phone /Browsing usage Power consumed in a day

[fowen]

Have you tried hard resetting it and running it without your 20 programs to see if it makes a difference?

[Gazoo22]

no not yet, I guess I could dump most of them and just leave the few I need, good idea, worth a try.

[rvnteck]

I have the same problem with my Bell Touch

The cause of the battery drain is the constant searching of phone signal reception.
So if you're in an area that you know has a poor Bell Reception, it better to turn off the phone function to save battery.

I live in a basement apartment and i found out that Bell has no reception in my place. one night i charge my Bell Touch at full battery before i sleep but i forgot to turn off my phone function, the next day when i checked it from 100% it went down to just 10%. i used to be with Telus before, and it the same thing very poor reception. but with Rogers in my HTC x7500 im still getting a good 2 bars of phone signal.

[Gazoo22]

ok so today I spent most of the day outside, last night I dump many programs and turned the display down below halfway and I came home with 60%, so there was a differance, I think the biggest differance was the display being dimmer, still I got a 2200 milliamp battery and cover coming from ebay, should be here in a couple of weeks, I think it will be a must if you are active using the phone as a pda. ($15 delivered).

[retrobits]

...I got a 2200 milliamp battery and cover...

how much thicker does this make the device? how do you like the battery life now -- is it really 2X?