[evertonbloke]

Hi Everyone,

I have got a problem with my N95's bettery life. I understand that these type of nokias are prone to a short battery life but I think mine has a real problem.

I finally figured out how to use the sat nav the other day and the problem as been about since then so it could be connected but I have no idea how!

Anyway, my battery life is now so short that I charged it up fully last night, went to bed, and less than 8 hours later the battery was completely dead. I know the times are correct as I set the alarm and the phone was to dead to even sound it!

Any ideas what is causing this?

Or who do I go to to get it sorted? Nokia? Vodafone? Or Phones 4 u?

Any help would be greatly apreciated.

Cheers

[Ben]

Hello, welcome to Talk3G!

It sounds like something's happening on the handset to drain the battery like that... with the phone on the home screen, do you notice anything different about the signal icon top-left? It should have a picture of an antenna (GSM) or say 3G and have two broken arrows beneath it.

Also, push and hold the menu key and then scroll through the running applications and let us know what's on there.

[Hands0n]

I finally figured out how to use the sat nav the other day and the problem as been about since then so it could be connected but I have no idea how!


My money's on the Sat Nav that you've been playing with. It will eat up your battery in no time at all. The thing is a huge battery drain and I only ever used it when attached to a car charger adapter (cheap enough, but useless if you're on foot :D).

Its likely to be a setting in the GPS Data applet (Menu, Tools, Connectivity) or maybe your Map application (Google Maps ?? you don't mention) which could be set to keep your GPS on. Start there and make sure you turn off anything to do with GPS that you don't need to use - or that is causing it to keep running.

Finally - "getting it sorted" ... work through the above, if not that ask here again. But whatever you do ...... stay away from Phones 4U - or at least don't let them take the handset out of your sight and into a back room!

[evertonbloke]

Thanks for the advice, and I am sorted now.

I think your going to love this!!!!

I somehow managed to jam the volume button on the side into the casing!! This must have kept the processor trying to increase the volume without affecting anything else!

Problem was solved by simply prising the button out :)

Back to my normal 2 days battery life!!

Cheers

[Ben]

Lmao, love it. Look at us trying to overcomplicate things! :D

[Hands0n]

I'd never have got to that conclusion in a million years :D