Bluetooth and battery life

Will leaving bluetooth turned on on my Razr have an appreciable affect on battery life, or am I being paranoid?

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I have heard and assume that it would drain the battery life. I turn mine off on my v551 when i'm not using it.

It definitely affects our 710 and 815... but with both a car and a house charger its no biggie, just plug in every other night even if its on all day... leaving my phone turned on in a "no service" area sucks battery even quicker

Yes I garuntee that it will suck your battery life in about a 1/3 of the time more so if your making calls with your headset, I use mine quite a bit and half way through the next day it's dead.

You should turn it off unless you need it. Create a shortcut to turn it on and off so you can do it easily. You can even do it with a voice command even though assigning it a number is quicker.

if you want maximum battery you should also do away with the screensaver, key pad tones, and set your network search speed to slow.

Originally Posted by troyboy30

You should turn it off unless you need it. Create a shortcut to turn it on and off so you can do it easily. You can even do it with a voice command even though assigning it a number is quicker.

if you want maximum battery you should also do away with the screensaver, key pad tones, and set your network search speed to slow.

I've assinged a direction key to take me into bluetooth - I still need to select "setup", and then "power" and change it. Is there a quicker way to get right into the power screen?

create the shortcut at the power screen. Mine goes directly to the on and off choices.

Hmmm - not seeing that as an option. Guess I'll have to play with it some more.

not seeing that as an option? You can create a shortcut to any screen you want. Go the screen you want and hold down the middle menu key. It will ask if you want to create a shortcut, thats it.