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People have been reporting in another thread that the Zaggsparc doesn't work reliably with the N900... so beware

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Yeah I read about the issue.

I have a feeling it's a connector problem though.

Zagg decided not to ship sparq to Europe anyway, and I doubt it will be available anywhere in Europe soon :P

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I haven't read this whole thread, but wanted to chip in my experiences with my new N900 regarding battery.

In a nutshell, I am disappointed.
It's worse than my previous Nokia N95.

I have it full charged when I leave work. Then a 1:30 hour commute, using it a fair bit [what I bought it for:)] see's the battery down to about 25% charge if that.

I am finding I need to charge it 3 times a day just so it doesn't quit on me.

Maybe it will lesson when the excitement/novelty wears off. But I did buy it to use it for everything I am using it.

Does anyone know about a bigger, heavy duty battery for this?

Thanks

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Hi,

I had a strange issue regarding battery, I put my brand new N900 trough USB on my PC. When I was going to sleep the battery was 100% full, switched off the N900 and put the computer to sleep. The N900 was still connect trough the usb. Next morning the N900 would not turn on, putting it to AC power was not waking the device as well. It was completely dead, and I tried a lot of things to get it to work. Well today I went to the shop where we put in a different battery and the N900 worked well again :D

Is it possible the battery was drained so much that it broke?

Thanks

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Yeah man I totally understand where you are coming from. Similar thing with me, I had the original N95, did not like the battery life, ended up with an E71 which has poor camera but great battery life. Decided to take a chance on the N900 ah well, we can never get everything we want in life :p

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The E61i and E71 have incredible battery life, I know (but the N95-1 I had was decent after several firmware updates - nowhere near that level, naturally). But considering the hardware in the N900 I am not surprised that it drains so much faster. Lets see what happens after a few months of optimisations ( and hopefully a few bigger capacity batteries become available :D ).

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I am finding the battery lasting longer now. I watched a movie the entire train trip into work (1:20 hours) and still had about 80% battery. So much better than before.

So mahbe it just takes a few full charges on a wall power socket charger.

On a side note, I am noticing that using a car or computer USB charger doesn't ever fully charge like a power socket charger does. is it just me?

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Hi,

I got my N900 last week.
Its a GREAT PHONE but also with GREAT LACK in battery life :-(

I had it fully filled up at 7.00 AM and now its 1.13 PM and just 1 bar left.
I think it will not reach 8H of ’standby’ time…
<UPDATE: 2.00 PM when it ran out...>
<PS: my phone also got warm as hell, while doing nothing?>

I almost did not touch the phone…
It has WIFI and 3G enabled constantly with MSN/SKYPE/SIP logged in at all times, but only made 2 calls of 1 minute each and had no conversations….

I also disabled blue-tooth completely as I don’t use it.

>> happy with my phone, but want to trow out the battery out of the window :):confused::(

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What USB charging method does not allow(which power socket does) is to overcharge the battery.

So, by using the power socket the battery lasts longer but it is advised to charge from usb from time to time, also.

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I have seen several causes that can lead to a fast battery drain. A few days ago a copied file got corrupted and wasn't being able to delete it. what resulted in a constantly 100% CPU load causing the battery to emty in a few hours.

Second of all try removing the sd card (if you have one) mine caused the same problem using 100% load all the time due to faulty formating the sd card. Best format it in dos and out of the phone in a card reader. this solved the problem with me.

The n900 is like a small laptop. I dont know if you ever used one but mine is emty in only 2 hours! I think when fully using the phone you still have 6 hours of use.

And ofcourse the battery drains in 8 hours if you have an internet connection running all the time! my n96 is emty in less then 2 hours.

But i must agree that when the phone is in idle mode, it has to atleast make 48 hours before the battery runs out of juice! and thats far from the truth at the moment!

in 2012 a company will introduce a new kind of battery that charges in less then 6 seconds. it works with some sort of pipelines to guide the electricity to its place. at the moment its like spraying and waiting till it falls onto the right place with the current batteries. These new batteries will not only be charged 10.000 times faster but also have less weight and higher capacity. They are working on it at the moment. But i think its very expensive in the beginning so it will be more likely 2015 before we will see them in normal phones.

Here a few articles. there are a dozen on the net:

http://www.slashphone.com/69/1671.html

http://www.autoblog.com/2009/03/12/n...harging-still/