[dba-Tech] Life expectancy of a cell phone battery

Gary Kjos garykjos at gmail.com
Mon Jan 19 17:51:12 CST 2015


How fun! At least 75% of people who see my phone say "I HAD ONE OF
THOSE AND I LOVED IT". Still works. Does everything I need/ Cheap
coverage plan.

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Mark Breen <marklbreen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Helllo Gary
>
> love the Razr, still miss mine.  "Hello Moto"
>
> On a side note, I worked with a guy named Razr years ago.  We had a
> customer which was Gillette UK (the people that make razor blades).  The IT
> manager was named Mr Pat Sharpe.
>
> The calls went liked this
>
> Razr: Ring Ring
> Reception: Good Morning Gillette UK
> Razr: May I speak to Mr Sharp
> Reception: May I ask who is speaking
> Razr: It is Razr
> Reception: Ring Ring
> Mr Sharp: Hello Gilette IT
> Reception: Mr Sharp, it is Razr on the Phone for you
>
> I always loved it.
>
>
>
>
> On 19 January 2015 at 12:10, Gary Kjos <garykjos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> My wife Marty and I both still use Motorola Razr 3 flip phones. State
>> of the art circa 2002 or so. They work fine for what we need. Making
>> calls. An occasional text on my part. Marty doesn't do texts on hers.
>> We have replaced the batteries in each at least twice I think. The
>> replacement batteries available seem to vary a LOT in price and in
>> quality based on online reviews anyway.  And we have times when each
>> of our phones charges doesn't last through a workday.  Then after a
>> few cycles of that just when we are thinking it's time for a new
>> battery or a new phone, they start working fine again and the charge
>> lasts for at least several days or maybe a week as Jon said.   I use
>> Bluetooth on mine to utilize the hands free calling in my truck and
>> that causes the battery to run down a bit faster as it's continually
>> looking for a Bluetooth connection to make. Originally I turned the
>> Bluetooth function off and on when I got into the truck but that got
>> kind of old fast and now I just leave it on and charge the phone more
>> often.  It's not supposed to matter anymore with modern batteries but
>> I am still superstitious about running the phone to completely dead
>> battery before charging it once in a while so that the battery doesn't
>> get a memory for being recharged when it's only half depleted.   Doing
>> that HAS seemed to get our batteries working again over the years.  If
>> you have been recharging when the indicator seems low, you may want to
>> try letting it go until the phone actually turns off and then recharge
>> it. Repeat that full discharge cycle a few times.
>>
>> Also I have a friend with an Iphone I think it is.  He thought his
>> battery was going bad and he needed a new phone.  It turned out though
>> that his CHARGER was bad.  He had been using an off brand charger and
>> it wasn't completely charging the phone.  Going to a different charger
>> solved his problem.
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> GK
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 4:39 AM, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > How long can one expect a battery to live? My phone is several years old
>> > now, and I feel no compelling reason to move into the modern smart-phone
>> > era. My phone has a browser and a camera and I almost never use them; it
>> > has some games, too, which I have never played. For me it's just a phone,
>> > and a calendar/clock. Hell, I don't even play music on it.
>> >
>> > I digress. I've noticed lately that it seems to require charging more
>> > frequently, and it's certainly not because it's constantly in active use.
>> > Is this an indication that it's getting to be time for a new battery?
>> >
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