topic Re: battery life in Other Devices

battery life

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 16:10:21 GMT

battery on blackberry curve 8250 is lasting 5 hours tops! dont use lots of internet, is an old device. will the battery boost app be a good option?

Re: battery life

MI5 — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 16:22:00 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

will the battery boost app be a good option?

Rarely any good tbh... a new battery might be more useful

Re: battery life

Bambino — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 16:25:20 GMT

If your battery is already not holding a charge for long it's doubtful that an app will improve things. If it's a free app you may as well try it, but if you have to pay for it, you'd probably be better off investing in the cost of a new battery.

Re: battery life

Anonymous — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 16:26:58 GMT

I agree.

Look on the internet for battery saving tips which do help a little.

If your on fringe network coverage the phone has to work more to keep signal which is a power drain.
Lots of other variables which can be found in this forum and by a google search.

Typically I achieve a days usage which is pretty much normal for a smartphone nowadays.

Obviously each users pattern is different.

Re: battery life

aldaweb — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 17:20:54 GMT

Have to agree with the others here. I wouldn't bther with the app. I assume you mean the curve 8520 which doesn't have 3G so isn't constantly hunting for a better signal and is now quite an old device. A new battery is your best option IMO, unless you want a newer handset.

Some third party batteries are very good but there are some cheap ones that aren't worth bothering with.