Gary Kjos
garykjos at gmail.com
Mon Jan 19 06:10:26 CST 2015
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? > > -- > Arthur > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- Gary Kjos garykjos at gmail.com