View Single Post
Old 08-12-2009, 06:34 PM   #1
bikedogrun
Thumbs Must Hurt
 
bikedogrun's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Central Oregon
Model: Tour
Carrier: Sprint
Posts: 174
Default Bluetooth On, Shutdown but battery still drains!

Please Login to Remove!

This one has me totally puzzled...

Here I am thinking I got one of the perfect Tours, no issues at all for the first 15 days. I really hadn't been using bluetooth much but turned it on last Sunday. My Tour was down to about 20-25% battery life when I did a shutdown (leaving bluetooth on) and went to bed. Woke up Monday morning to a totally drained Tour...

Ok - so I'm thinking maybe it was lower than 20% when I shutdown, but it still shouldn't have drained completely, should it? Anyway; didn't worry too much.

Then 2 days go by (no issues) and last night I checked and saw at least 75% battery left. I (purposely) left bluetooth still on and did a full shutdown.

So - as you can already surmise... I wake up this morning (late too - the Tour never came on and rang the alarm). I pick up my Tour and it is once again completely drained!!!

Anyone seeing anything like this?

When a Blackberry is shutdown/off, should the battery run down at all? ... much less to zero from 75%?

Is it simply a bad battery (which was perfectly fine for the first two weeks) ?

Could it be the Tour itself? ... I've got 10 more days before my 30 day trial is up.

Maybe a coincidence, but this started when I had bluetooth on while shutdown... guess I'll turn bluetooth off tonight "BEFORE" shutting down and see what happens.

/BD

Last edited by bikedogrun; 08-12-2009 at 06:36 PM..
Offline   Reply With Quote