T637 and Jabra Bluetooth Headset

Hello,

I am a former owner of the Ericsson T616 which I used for a long time
with my Jabra bluetooth headset. I recently upgraded to the T637 and
my battery life is crap when I have my headset connected.

One thing that I've noticed is on my T616, when I am not talking on my
phone w/ jabra headset, the bluetooth connection icons doesn't seem to
indicated that it's connected to the jabra device. However, on my new
T637, the bluetooth status icon is always connected. I believe this is
what is killing my battery life,

Does anyone have any ideas, right now my best bet is to shut off the
headset when I am not using it, but there's got to be away to no have
it connected all the time, perhaps a standby mode on the ear piece
itself?

Best Regards,

Wes

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In <[email protected]> on 27 Dec 2004
07:25:22 -0800, [email protected] wrote:

>I am a former owner of the Ericsson T616 which I used for a long time
>with my Jabra bluetooth headset. I recently upgraded to the T637 and
>my battery life is crap when I have my headset connected.
>
>One thing that I've noticed is on my T616, when I am not talking on my
>phone w/ jabra headset, the bluetooth connection icons doesn't seem to
>indicated that it's connected to the jabra device. However, on my new
>T637, the bluetooth status icon is always connected. I believe this is
>what is killing my battery life,
>
>Does anyone have any ideas, right now my best bet is to shut off the
>headset when I am not using it, but there's got to be away to no have
>it connected all the time, perhaps a standby mode on the ear piece
>itself?

Check the Bluetooth settings in the T637 to see if there's an Auto mode
instead of an On mode.

Otherwise, you may have better luck with a Sony Ericsson Bluetooth headset.
I use an HBH-30 with my Z600 (much like a T63x in clamshell form), and battery
life is very good on both of them.

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Thanks for your reply John. I actually found the fix for the T637.
It's intuitively located in:

Menu > Connect > Bluetooth > Handsfree > Car Handsfree

There are two options, 1) Advacned (which, as far as I can tell, just
means that the device is ALWAYS connected which kills battery life on
both the phone and jabra headset) and 2) Power Save (which does not
maintain a persistent connection, only when a call is place or recieved
does the device connect)
The Z600 has always been more "settings friendly"