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Saturday, September 8, 2012

Cell Phone News and Reviews

Does cellphone battery require several recharge cycles?

Posted: 08 Sep 2012 07:45 AM PDT

[Support question posted in this forum because I truly believe my query is not specific to any mfgr or carrier]

I just bought a Samsung Galaxy Appeal i827 Android smartphone from AT&T. The specs say it should have a battery life on standby of about 12.5 days. I'm getting just one TENTH of that!! Mind you, I am not running any apps or widgets and I'm not even enabling the mobile network -- only WiFi, but the phone's own usage stats say that WiFi only contributes 10% to battery depletion. Without ever touching the sleeping/locked phone for 12 hours, it depletes from 100% charge to 70%. I realize there are many many factors which can contribute to the depletion.

Now I happened to be looking on a site mkwireless.com where they sell an aftermarket replacement battery for my phone, and they say "Maximum capacity is reached just after three full cycles". So does that mean that I should let my Samsung battery die (to 10%) and then recharge it fully and repeat this at least three successive times and then maybe it'll greatly improve battery endurance? It says nothing about such a procedure in my users manual.

If you're knowledgable, also answer me this: under the phone's battery usage stats that it maintains, it attributes my battery depletion 56% to "Cell standby" and 21% to "Phone idle" (the other two main drainers being Android OS 12% and WiFi 10%). MY question is what the heck is "Phone idle" and why would that add to my drainage. 'Sounds nutty to me.

My signal strength here is only about 2 bars (about 10 asu) and maybe that worsens the power drain problem?

Many thanks in advance!
Posted by IMers at 1:31 PM

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