LG VX-8500 Chocolate
Battery Life issues?
I am wondering if anyone else is having battery life issues with this bad boy. I have now fully charged the battery 2x on the home charger to get best charge and had the phone be totally dead within 12 hours each time. I thought maybe it was just from all the playing around with settings, toying with the music player, etc. on the first day (new toy syndrome I'm sure we all have). Yesterday I charged the phone up and took it off the charger at 6PM and it woke me up this morning at 3AM as it was making it's little chime before powering down. I made 2 10 minute phone calls and did NOTHING else with it other than to check that the music files I loaded onto the 1gig card played ok. That was playing about 10 seconds of about 4 songs to check out t...
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get it swapped, mine is much better than that. I use about 100-200 minutes a day and have battery to spare when i get home.
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It just went 3 for 3 last night on less than 9 hours per charge....and no phone calls last night. I'm putting it on a brand new extended life and seeing what happens. If it kills the extended life as well it gets sent back to the warehouse as defective tomorrow.
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Extended life battery went 14 hours w/o usage (standby). I sent the phone back to Verizon warehouse as defective and pulled out another 8500. The second phone has now gone 5+ days on the STANDARD battery with calling and occasional MP3 usage (to show off to friends and "non-Verizon" customers 😉 ). Second phone is making me a believer!
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