Palm Treo 680 battery instructions

[johnnie2130]

Originally Posted by Khris

The battery will get better over time. Mine took about 2 solid weeks of usage to finally hold a decent charge and give me good usage.

Was your battery charge dropping really fast at first? Like, as fast as what I described above?

[lmw]

yes - that sounds about right. My battery life is better now. I also disabled beaming and only turn on bluetooth when I need it. That's a huge battery drainer.

[johnnie2130]

How much is a new SIM card? Did somebody say that Palm sent them one when they called tech support with problems?

[cartogary]

I've got a new 680, so to "condition" the new battery using the technique described here, how can drain the battery quickly? I think remember some way to press some button combo to make that happen when I had my 270 or 600. Is there a similar technique to drain the battery rapidly on the 680?

[forgot]

Hmmm..haven't heard of anything like that.

[Tattoome]

I can't tell you how much this post has helped me. All the tips here worked well. I have Blue Tooth off, Beam Receive off, I disabled the automatic clock setting, did the battery reset as described and I can make it through an entire weekend without running out of charge. I also have Versamail set to receive items as the arrive with no problems. Thanks much.

[comiken205]

Originally Posted by johnnie2130

How much is a new SIM card? Did somebody say that Palm sent them one when they called tech support with problems?

You can check with your provider. They should be able to tell you how much a new sim card will cost.

[edbatista]

Originally Posted by clarkjw

The following steps should not hurt your 680, but are a culmination, step-by-step procedure from all of the preceding replies...[snip]

Step 1: Drain the battery for your Treo 680 until you are unable to turn it on at all.

Step 2: Remove battery.

Step 3: Remove SIM card.

Step 4: Wait one full minute minimum.

Step 5: Re-insert your battery.

Step 6: Connect charger to power.

NOTE: The next step involves finally connecting your Treo 680 to the power source. From the next step forward, until otherwise said, do not press a button, switch or the screen of your Treo 680. Doing so will use energy, and using energy may throw off the internal meter for your battery, making your painstakingly go through the entire process all over again.

Step 7: Connect charger to Treo 680.

Step 8: Let Treo 680 charge for 6 hours.

Step 9: Disconnect Treo 680 from charger.

Step 10: Insert SIM card.

Step 11: You may now press buttons, look at naughty videos (I know many of you do), and do whatever it was you intend to do with your Treo 680.

Step 12: If this didn't work, proceed to Step 13

Step 13: Drain the battery.

Step 14: Charge the battery.

Step 15: Repeat Steps 13 & 14 a maximum of 3 times.

Step 16: Let me know if this worked.

Clark

I got my 680 on Friday and saw by Saturday that the power was draining rapidly--it went from fully charged to ~20% in a day with fairly modest use, even with the screen dimmed and Bluetooth off.

I tried the "conditioning" process above on Sunday. After a 6-hour charge, the battery was up to 97%, and I left the 680 sitting overnight with the phone on, but with Bluetooth off. Nearly 9 hours later, it's only down to 91%, which seems like a huge improvement.

[echoch]

Hi,

I've had my 680 for almost 2 weeks. The battery life has been acceptable but it does run down faster than advertised. I've found this forum and topic, and I will follow the process described in the top post, but I don't want to do it before getting an answer to this simple question:

ATT has released a fix/Critical Software Update "that will improve battery life."

Should I do this update instead of the process described here? Should I do it in addition to the process described here? Before or after doing the update?

Thanks for the help.

Eric

[forgot]

The update has the battery patch included, but doing the battery reset will help improve battery life.