Can you all please do a battery 'check' for me tonight?

[gticlay]

Originally Posted by ylang48

Can you please tell me what a battery reset is and how to do this? Thanks

Sure, you just open the back cover, pull the battery out and replace it. The phone will reboot in about half a minute. I've been doing that after camera use and it upped my life to 2.5 days vs. 1 day. I can't believe it but I think there's some sort of software/hardware problem that keeps the camera 'on' even after shutting down the camera program.

[Wanderer]

Palm's detailed instructions for a battery reset (which include not only removing the battery for one minute while having the power cable attached, but also taking out the SIM card) are in a separate sticky thread, "Palm battery intsuctions".

[Jackskid]

This post caused me to do my own battery test. After reading the posts here and elsewhere it seems that there is a bettery drain issue concerning the camera app or possibly the system sounds. Over four days I have tried to document battery drain overnight. You will see that there is in my opinion a problem with the camera app running after it has been turned off. All settings for each day are noted. I spent almost two years with a 650 and an extended battery before upgrading to the 680. I expected battery life to be less with the 680, but have never been able to make it through a day without a charge. After a bettery reset and no camera use it looks like I might actually make it almost 2 days without a charge. Looks like a firmware update is in the near future.

Cingular 680 Battery stats over four day period.

Installed apps.

Kb lights off
minitones
mobileclock
card reader
file z
dataviz tech
volume care
easter egg enabled

Day one
Normal usage during day, on and off charger cradle all day, e mail every 30, bt headset until 6p, web, txt
57% at 12:11p
time update off
radio off
bt off
beam off
7:41a 40%

Day two
Normal usage until 2:00p. Battery reset at 20%, full charge, normal usage until bedtime no additional charge since full charge to 99%, e mail every 30min till 11p, system sound set to off, and no camera usage since bat reset:

38% at 11:20p
time update off
radio off
bt off
beam off
system sound off
top switch set to sound off
8:26a 37%

Day three
Full charge to 99%
Light phone usage, e mail every 30 min, some web

76% at 1:15a
no camera usage since bat reset
time update off
radio off
bt off
beam off
system sound off
top switch set to sound on
8:26a 75%

Day four
Full charge to 97%
Light phone usage, e mail every 30 min, some web

76% at 11:41p
no camera usage since bat reset
time update off
radio on
bt off
beam off
system sound on
top switch set to sound off
7:35a 75%

Bottom line: After battery reset and no camera use only 1% drop in battery.

[mslade]

I have done some testing on this - the discussion is over at http://discussion.treocentral.com/sh...d.php?t=133214 .

Please chime in here or there if you have data to add. BatteryGraph is a free plugin that I have used.

I have done the battery charge recalibration (without removing the SIM card) prior to get my initial charge value up to 4200 mv from 3690 mv before the overnight (12 hour testing).

Real data to Palm tech support would be useful in convincing them that there is a real consumption problem.