Motorola v551

My husband and I both just purchased a V551 and the battery lasts about 3 days on both. Mine goes a bit further since my husband uses his for work. Of course, I am sure taking lots of pic's, video, games,etc. would drain a battery pretty fast but we are really satisfied with ours! No problems at all.

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"treaders via CellPhoneKB.com" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> I get about 30-35 hours of standby time with my Motorola V551.
>
> It does not seem to matter how much I use the phone for talking, with
> Bluetooth or web access (or all 3!). The phone consistently stops working
> after about 30-35 hours. I also completed the full 12-24 hour initial
> charge, then discharge, followed by the two 12-hour charges and discharges
> in between that Motorola recommends.
>
> The battery seems like a dud to me.
>
> But I am hopeful that a new battery will fix the problem as it appears
> that this has helped other V551 users.

I have the same problem. In fact we had three Motorola V551 phone. All
three were discharging the batteries within one or two days. We
replaced battery on one and replaced the other two phones. The result
is very discouraging. None of the phones lasts longer than 72 hours.
Usually, the battery suddenly dies within 2 days. I put all batteries
through the 24 hour charging cycles. Helps a little bit but it does
not make the phone work as it says in the specification.

Agreed. I recently purchased 2 new batteries for my Motorola V551 and I now
obtain around 72 hours battery life.

However, the specification at http://commerce.motorola.com/cgi-
bin/ncommerce3/ExecMacro/phone_features.d2w/report?
prrfnbr=262367&prmenbr=126&phone_cgrfnbr=1 says "Provides up to 179 to 235
hours of standby time" (subject to the usual statement, "All talk and
standby times are quoted in Digital Mode, and are approximate. Battery
performance depends on network configuration, signal strength, operating
temperature, features selected, and voice, data and other application usage
patterns.")

72 hours is less than half of the lower number (179 hours) stated by
Motorola! It is very misleading.

I am using my V551 in Houston, Texas and the signal strength is very good.
I only use my V551 for a few minutes of talking each day and very little
else.

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I just did a test over the last month. I get about 7 days of standby
time on my v551 with Bluetooth shut off and about 5 days of standby
time with Bluetooth always on. This is with my cell phone left on
24/7.

CD

On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 18:23:55 GMT, Cranky Dude
<[email protected]> wrote:

>I just did a test over the last month. I get about 7 days of standby
>time on my v551 with Bluetooth shut off and about 5 days of standby
>time with Bluetooth always on. This is with my cell phone left on
>24/7.
>
>CD

I charge mine about once a week overnight. Not much talking but
standby and bluetooth 24/7 too.

On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 15:06:35 -0600, Spectrum <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 18:23:55 GMT, Cranky Dude
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>I just did a test over the last month. I get about 7 days of standby
>>time on my v551 with Bluetooth shut off and about 5 days of standby
>>time with Bluetooth always on. This is with my cell phone left on
>>24/7.
>>
>>CD
>
>I charge mine about once a week overnight. Not much talking but
>standby and bluetooth 24/7 too.
>

Yeah, I always charge mine overnight, never for just a few hours. I
think it charges better that way.

CD