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Old 09-10-2011, 11:30 AM   #1
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So my 9900 has been getting good battery life all thing considered...

I use it mainly for web, text, and email... I have been getting a full day out of a charge which is pretty darn good in my opinion...

I hardly ever use BBM and in the 7 or so years of using Blackberry, I have maybe used it a total of 30-40 times...

So I decided to remove it from the device as a test on battery life since it is always running in the background...

Yesterday was my 1st full day with it removed and I used the device as normal.. By the end of the day (nite nite time) my battery was previously needing some juice but yesterday I still had 40% left..

Is BBM that much of a power hog? Does BBM have a bug causing it to drain the battery more than it should?

I am going to keep it deleted for a week then re add it for a week and see if it really is BBM taking a chunk out of battery life...

That is all....
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Old 09-10-2011, 01:05 PM   #2
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I wouldn't think it would be that much of a drain, but then, strange things happen when electronics are a factor. If it constanly checks for a connection or a message, then maybe ....
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Old 09-10-2011, 01:11 PM   #3
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I would not think its that much of a battery hog either but since I deleted it my battery life has greatly improved.. We shall see..

I am going to keep it deleted for a week then add it back for a week...
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Old 09-10-2011, 01:12 PM   #4
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Besides BBM I have Office Communicator, both of which are always on. Battery life stinks. It may be that BBM is a hog. 4 hours of average use - two phone calls, a few texts and BBM and OCS and at 50%. Temporary solution - a spare battery - will be here next week. But it is bad!
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Old 09-11-2011, 05:32 AM   #5
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4 hours of average use - two phone calls, a few texts and BBM and OCS and at 50%. Temporary solution - a spare battery - will be here next week. But it is bad!
If you just got it keep it mind it improves a bit over the first charge cycles. At least it has for every handset in the office. And there are quite a few of them in operation here. Had more than 120 minutes of calls and group BBM, video playback of a Pushcast feed i subscribe through BES, pushed news feeds, some browsing, someone on facebook getting overly excited and bombarding me with messages and Repligo that i forgot running in the background displaying a pdf. Didn't hit 50%.

It is bad, no question about it, but maybe not as bad as you may think. Try keeping it on the charger for extended periods during your first few charging cycles.
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Old 09-15-2011, 11:54 AM   #6
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To update my BBM'less battery test:

How I have used it.. I hardly ever use phone! I use the browser quite a bit, SMS, email, and always have Pocketday Sports running in the background..

I wake up about 7am and remove it from the charger. Its gets plugged back in at about 10pm.. Figure about 15 hours a day off the charger.

Without BBM installed I am easily getting through the day. When I plug it back in I have anywhere between 35% to 45% of battery life left..

I will add BBM back tomorrow am and see what effect that has on the battery..

Oh, I am running the stock T-Mobile .250 OS
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How did it go ?
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Old 10-18-2011, 09:16 PM   #8
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He never posted back after over a month - LOL

I can however see BBM chewing through battery; no different than social feeds IMO.
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Old 10-19-2011, 12:53 PM   #9
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Sorry I forgot about this thread.... Yes BBM was seriously eating battery and I noticed a HUGE difference when it was removed from the BB....
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Wish I could delete it from my phone, this OS what even let you take it off from DM.
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Old 10-20-2011, 08:07 PM   #11
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Wish I could delete it from my phone, this OS what even let you take it off from DM.
Update it via app store then it can be deleted from within the device.... That is what I had to do...
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Won't work for me, when I go to Appstore online with it hooked into computer Messenger isn't even listed. When I go to Appstore on my phone it is listed but no option to delete. Can't upgrade because it has the newest version on there already, in DM it is completely grayed out no options says "Required" on it.
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Old 10-20-2011, 10:54 PM   #13
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Old 10-20-2011, 11:25 PM   #14
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Well played sir we played, took awhile to get through all the new user agreements but it worked. BBM gone!
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Not disagreeing with Lunks observation of removing bbm to save battery, but it would be good to see if Sydman gets the same results.
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I will see if I get an improvment from taking it off, but I can make it two days easy on one charge as it is. So wanting more than that might be geting gready, will report back with what I find.
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Not disagreeing with Lunks observation of removing bbm to save battery, but it would be good to see if Sydman gets the same results.
I'd guesstimate removing BBM decreased battery usage by maybe 15-20%
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Unplugged yesterday at 3pm and did a Alt-Shift-Del to reset the phone, so 24 hours now. Battery level is at 75%, that is three emails, 36 text message, two phone calls totaling 12 minutes. My WIFI, GPS, Bluetooth was off the whole time, B Weather updating every 30 minutes for temp and 6 hours for advisories. Logged no internet time on the phone this go around so the rest was all standby.

Will see how the next 24 hours goes I will not charge it tonight and see where I am at tomorrow at 3pm.
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Going on 48 hours now, on top of usage yesterday I had 5 more emails, 53 more text message, 2 phone calls that were maybe 12 minutes, WIFI, GPS, Bluetooth remained off the whole time. B weather still updating every 30 minutes for temp and 6 hours for advisories, got onto FB a couple of times so total maybe 5 minutes of internet.

My battery level is at 50% so looks like I am using 25% a day, I will see if I can push it to three days and see where I am at at 3pm tomorrow. After this test is done I am going to turn WIFI back on because I normally have that on all the time, since I have it here at home and at school. I usually forget to turn it off in between so it is searching for a signal the whole time. Will see what kind of effect WIFI has on the battery.

As far as having BB messenger taken off improving battery life, I guess I won't know until next time with WIFI on. But this is an improvement from normal but not a vast one, as stated before I could make it two days no problem I would just have been at about 35-40% on battery.
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Ok I am going to have to cave in and plug my phone in now before bed, I have school tomorrow and don't want to risk it getting to low while I am there and harm the battery. I had another 33 texts message, 3 emails, and a quick 2 minute phone call. Also had quite a bit of internet usage here at the end, (was trying to find a music video for Foreigner "I want to know what love is" that isn't live.

Anyway, I had about 15 minutes of straight internet usage on WIFI and some videos playing, also took about 15 photos with the phones camera and went through my photo album a little bit.

My battery is at 25% and is being plugged in right now so that is 59 hours total on one battery charge. To me that is fantastic but as you can see I am not exactly on the phone all the time, and I am on the very low end probably of what others might do as far as usage. Still that being said I think there is a slight increase from having taken off the messenger but nothing so dramatic I would tell people to be without it if it is something they actually use.
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