two SIM at once Quadband phone! - Page 4

bbob · 10-08-2008, 17:26

battery life with the high cap battery.

Made a full charge overnight. Display shows 4 bars for full power. After 24 hours 2 bars are gone, 36 hours still 2 bars. In that time hardly any calls, max 20 minutes.
So I am wondering how long the battery will hold.

Bossman · 10-08-2008, 19:08

I still think the battery life is not too bad. Considering that it's doing double duty while in standby. Of course, I am assuming you have 2 sim cards in it and both sim cards are active.

I wonder what happens if one is talking on one sim, and another call comes in on the other sim. Probably just have to click on the other answer button, and that will probably hang up the other active call.

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Originally Posted by bbob

battery life with the high cap battery.

Made a full charge overnight. Display shows 4 bars for full power. After 24 hours 2 bars are gone, 36 hours still 2 bars. In that time hardly any calls, max 20 minutes.
So I am wondering how long the battery will hold.

schuster · 11-08-2008, 01:31

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Originally Posted by Bossman

I still think the battery life is not too bad. Considering that it's doing double duty while in standby. Of course, I am assuming you have 2 sim cards in it and both sim cards are active.

I wonder what happens if one is talking on one sim, and another call comes in on the other sim. Probably just have to click on the other answer button, and that will probably hang up the other active call.

If you're not using Bluetooth, turn it off.

bbob · 11-08-2008, 07:33

I will have to check what happens when a call comes in while talking on the other line.

As for battery life, for now it really sucks. Yesterday evening, which was around 40 hours after a full load the battery only showed 1 bar.

The battery said 4300 mAh which is a lot more than in a normal phone. Standby time of a normal phone without to much talking is around 6-8 days or more on some models.
So 3-4 days should be normal even on this phone.
I just put in the other battery so I will see what happens next.

VladS · 11-08-2008, 12:24

Can you set the network search speed? On most Motorola phones setting it to anything higher than SLOW drains the battery within 24 hours.

PhotoJim · 11-08-2008, 20:37

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Originally Posted by VladS

Can you set the network search speed? On most Motorola phones setting it to anything higher than SLOW drains the battery within 24 hours.

That should only matter if you're in really borderline coverage. My RAZR battery life is really good normally, despite being on "continuous" network search speed, but if I'm out of coverage, it will drain in only a few hours. It's great when you're only briefly out of coverage, though, because it reacquires the network very fast.

bbob · 11-08-2008, 19:16

no there is no such thing as network search speed. (in this phone)

Selection mode can be set manual / automatic.

The last days I was at home and both networks gave full signal, which means less battery consumption. So this should not be the problem. Bluetooth was turned off days ago.

i will check the next days, weeks as I will also be traveling the next 2 weeks.

schuster · 13-08-2008, 02:16

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Originally Posted by bbob

no there is no such thing as network search speed. (in this phone)

Selection mode can be set manual / automatic.

The last days I was at home and both networks gave full signal, which means less battery consumption. So this should not be the problem. Bluetooth was turned off days ago.

i will check the next days, weeks as I will also be traveling the next 2 weeks.

A strategy I use when travelling is to carry a fully charged extra battery as insurance when I will be away from power sources. Since the V90+ comes with two batteries, it's a natural move.

Since getting into more esoteric phones for which nobody has made a standalone battery-only charger, I've used those little universal wall chargers with spring-loaded adjustable contacts that can adapt to almost any phone or PDA battery. There are lots of them on eBay for about 5 USD.

bbob · 13-08-2008, 08:04

I think that's how they calculate the time, using 2 extra batteries will give you 4-5 days of standby time and using only 1 sim this will probably double so that's how they explain 8-10 days standy time.

I will be away the next 2 weeks so I will take the second battery and see how thing go.

I did notice now when chaning batteries that the call log, received, missed and so on was deleted when the battery was changed.

schuster · 13-08-2008, 12:57

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Originally Posted by bbob

I think that's how they calculate the time, using 2 extra batteries will give you 4-5 days of standby time and using only 1 sim this will probably double so that's how they explain 8-10 days standy time.

I will be away the next 2 weeks so I will take the second battery and see how thing go.

I did notice now when chaning batteries that the call log, received, missed and so on was deleted when the battery was changed.

Many of the specs for these phones are wildly inflated. This is not limited to Chinese phones.
My Nokia E50 could only achieve the rated standby time when running in airplane mode

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bbob (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Expert Posts: 499 Join Date: 20 Feb 2007 Country:	10-08-2008, 17:26 battery life with the high cap battery. Made a full charge overnight. Display shows 4 bars for full power. After 24 hours 2 bars are gone, 36 hours still 2 bars. In that time hardly any calls, max 20 minutes. So I am wondering how long the battery will hold.

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bbob (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Expert Posts: 499 Join Date: 20 Feb 2007 Country:	11-08-2008, 07:33 I will have to check what happens when a call comes in while talking on the other line. As for battery life, for now it really sucks. Yesterday evening, which was around 40 hours after a full load the battery only showed 1 bar. The battery said 4300 mAh which is a lot more than in a normal phone. Standby time of a normal phone without to much talking is around 6-8 days or more on some models. So 3-4 days should be normal even on this phone. I just put in the other battery so I will see what happens next.

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VladS (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Pioneer Posts: 590 Join Date: 22 Jun 2004 Country:	11-08-2008, 12:24 Can you set the network search speed? On most Motorola phones setting it to anything higher than SLOW drains the battery within 24 hours. VladS Mobile phones: iPhone 5, Blackberry 9900, Nexus S, Samsung S3322 duos Mobile data cards: Huawei E587u-5, Huawei E583c, Huawei E160 Postpaid SIMs: CA: Fido, Wind; INTL: Telna Prepaid SIMs: DE: Fonic, Lidl; AT: yesss!, bob; UK: O2; US: AT&T; RO: Orange, Vodafone; FR: b&you, Lycamobile; NL: Lycamobile; BE: Lycamobile, Jim Mobile; CL: Entel; MX: Telcel; INTL: eKit Blue, eKit Yellow Dead SIMs: too many to list

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bbob (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Expert Posts: 499 Join Date: 20 Feb 2007 Country:	11-08-2008, 19:16 no there is no such thing as network search speed. (in this phone) Selection mode can be set manual / automatic. The last days I was at home and both networks gave full signal, which means less battery consumption. So this should not be the problem. Bluetooth was turned off days ago. i will check the next days, weeks as I will also be traveling the next 2 weeks. Last edited by bbob; 11-08-2008 at 21:43..

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bbob (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Expert Posts: 499 Join Date: 20 Feb 2007 Country:	13-08-2008, 08:04 I think that's how they calculate the time, using 2 extra batteries will give you 4-5 days of standby time and using only 1 sim this will probably double so that's how they explain 8-10 days standy time. I will be away the next 2 weeks so I will take the second battery and see how thing go. I did notice now when chaning batteries that the call log, received, missed and so on was deleted when the battery was changed.