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  1. #1
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    How often do your charge your phone?

    Pretty self-explanatory -- how often do you charge your cell phone? I got one of those prepaid cell phones recently (don't laugh.. service is extremely unreliable here, and I don't get service at home so I didn't think it was worth getting anything better). I don't talk on it much, but it's on all the time and I have to recharge it every other day. Is this normal?

    EDIT: If this should be in Technical Issues or the Lounge please move it there. I figured that cell phones were partially business issues, but I could see where it could be somewhere else.
    Last edited by CArmstrong; 05-26-2005 at 06:55 PM.

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    Thread moved to the Lounge. You should get a lot more feedback here.

    My phone needs charging every other 3 days, but it's a rather old Alcatel. My girldfriend's new Nokia phone on a LiIon battery needs to be recharged only once a week.

    Charging it every other day is pretty much unacceptable. Something must be wrong there.

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    Every 3-5 days. or when I remember.

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    I have a Cellone cell phone. It is a LG phone and I charge it about 2 1/2 days each time.

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    Never.


    I don't have a cell phone

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    About once a week.

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    I leave my phone on the charger over night, but if I dont have my charger it usually last about a week and a half

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    mikeylove.. same here.. i dont have cellphone.. I will just lost it if i have one.
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    once every two days about

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    I use Virgin Mobile prepaid and a kyocera phone. Charge it once a week. It's always on , but i seldom use it to make a call.

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    E1000 - Every day, sometimes twice a day.
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    I have a Motorola T720 and I have to charge it about once a week.
    This is mostly because I only talk on it about once a month, I don't like telephones.
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    I have Virginmobile using the Audiovox 8610 phone. I get maybe two days of standby using the 1000mAh battery, which Virginmobile claims should be good for 7 days. The optional, bulky, 1700 mAh battery gives me three days.

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    I have two batteries for my phone and due to my job, spend large amounts of time on my phone each day. I recharge nightly.

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    Originally posted by Lumix
    I use Virgin Mobile prepaid and a kyocera phone. Charge it once a week. It's always on , but i seldom use it to make a call.
    Actually this is my exact situation. Something definitely must be wrong then. Another question: I read somewhere that the first time you use the phone you're supposed to let the battery completely die before you fully recharge it, so that the battery life meter is calibrated. I don't think I did this, so I guess it's possible it always is showing a dead battery?

    Thanks for the replies everyone, appreciate it.

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    I charge every day... but then, I talk too much.
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    Do NOT let a LiON battery fully discharge before recharging. You can damage the battery. WHile this is a common practice with NiCAD and to a lesser degree NiMH which have a "charge memory", taking a LiON battery to 0 charge capacity prior to recharge can severly shorten it's life. This includes PDA's and laptop batteries.

    Most older phones, especially analog are NiMH or NiCAD while most newer digital phiones use LiON batteries.
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    Thanks for the input NyteOwl, I need to look up some documentation on this. The phone is extremely low-end -- again, service is spotty at best and I didn't want to invest a lot in the beginning. I'm now seriously considering other plans that service my area, but nobody I know gets service at this end of town (we're in a sort of valley).

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    I charge my battery when the phone shows one 'bar'. This is usually around every 6 days.

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    3-4 times a week; it depends if i have a long talk on it, i'll need to charge within the next day; but if i dont i can just every other 3 days or so but i like to have a full bar so 3-4 times a week anyway
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    About once a week, or whenever it gives me the "battery low" alert.

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    I charge about once a week. Sometimes I forget and run out of power. That's when my car adapter comes in handy!

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    I charge mine nightly, and I usually have 3/4 of a battery when i plug it in. Its habit because I like to be reliable. I dont charge the phone on the weekend, because I dont use it as much. I consider that my maintenance for the battery.
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    yea my phone battery holds up alot i can go a couple of days without recharging it , its a samsung phone

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    Im getting the new V3 So I wonder how long that battery will last :0 Test time

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