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RadioCtrlDWife

RadioCtrlDWife

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Battery Drain Advice

ItalianScallion said:
Another thing that contributes to SOME dropped calls is these worthless batteries. After 1 year they won't last nearly as long on one charge so the volume drops and sometimes the calls too. Every year they change the battery style so your present one is no longer offered. You'll have to buy a new phone if the battery quits on you because they make the battery more expensive than the entire phone! I would advise anyone to take the smallest contract time available to you. Don't take a 2 or more year contract on your phone. I usually take out the 1 year plan and just keep it. If your phone goes bad just buy another one without renewing and you'll avoid the early termination fee. My friend had Nextel and loved the walkie talkie feature for a while but the service was bad and most calls were long distance from home. He paid the $175 to get out of it! I stick with Verizon. Not perfect, but connected most of the time.
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The primary reason for accelerated battery depletion in a Nextel phone is the speaker amp in the older ones, the newer ones use a "class E" amplifier for the speaker [or they should].
What is not obvious is battery drain of any cell phone is directly related to the quality of signal it receives. Put another way battery life is somewhat proportional to signal strength, because the transmit power output is dynamically adjusted to track in proportion to the received signal.
So if you have one place in your house with good signal, say a particular window, leave your cell phone on that window sill [not in direct sunlight]and the battery will last much longer- especially overnight when you are not talking. Try this as an experiment overnight for a week and watch the effect!
Before we synthetically illuminated the interior of our house with a strong signal, my Razor was always needing a charge and now it tops off the battery and it stays topped off well, so long as I don"t babble on it like I do in forums.
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onebdzee

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RadioCtrlDWife said:
The primary reason for accelerated battery depletion in a Nextel phone is the speaker amp in the older ones, the newer ones use a "class E" amplifier for the speaker [or they should].
What is not obvious is battery drain of any cell phone is directly related to the quality of signal it receives. Put another way battery life is somewhat proportional to signal strength, because the transmit power output is dynamically adjusted to track in proportion to the received signal.
So if you have one place in your house with good signal, say a particular window, leave your cell phone on that window sill [not in direct sunlight]and the battery will last much longer- especially overnight when you are not talking. Try this as an experiment overnight for a week and watch the effect!
Before we synthetically illuminated the interior of our house with a strong signal, my Razor was always needing a charge and now it tops off the battery and it stays topped off well, so long as I don"t babble on it like I do in forums.
Bill Signal Bars R Us
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Girl has a Nextel phone that just deceides to cut off....sometimes it happens when she is texting, sometimes it's when she is trying to make a call, sometimes it happens just because the wind blew in the wrong direction

I've replaced the battery with a new one and it worked fine for about a week, then it started doing it again...


The guy I contract for has the same problem(different style phone) and he has had the phone replaced, as well as, the battery and he still continues to have the same problem
 
RadioCtrlDWife

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Discount Phone Plans

MMDad said:
Andy, you had Nextel more than two years ago: http://forums.somd.com/1004835-post3.html

You can't still be stuck in the same contract. Why don't you switch instead of whining all the time?
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We have nothing to do at all with selling phones or plans, but here is a link to Wireless Adviser Forum [you can see my unfettered techiegeek rants there as well].
This is the section of insider to insider plan offerings- DEALS & Offers from Advertisers - WirelessAdvisor.com Forums
Have a Five Bar Day!
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