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Battery is AWFUL

57 replies · 8,235 views · Started 19 August 2007

As a previous N80 owner the N95 battery is waaaay better. But i am all for improvements. The N80 was better than the 6630 before it. Which used to be lucky to last into the next day.

If you have hardly any usage and battery is bad check to see if battery isnt a dud. It happens.

dez_borders wrote:My usage is significantly more than yours but without the music app use, and I get 2 to 3 days use. I suggest it's the Music Player that's draining the battery so fast in your case?

£500? You are in for a BIG disappointment on eBay the average price for a brand new unlocked N95 is £275 - £290.

not really mate i got my one for free on upgrade not 500 quid!!!!

but iam still peed off with the battery
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my point was that nokia sell this phone for 500 pounds ie the rrp is 500 pounds and with a battery this poor that is very very bad

hope you understand this time

have you changed the settings to stop permanantly scanning for 3g signals. once i did this my batt life wen to around 4 days

dez_borders wrote:My usage is significantly more than yours but without the music app use, and I get 2 to 3 days use. I suggest it's the Music Player that's draining the battery so fast in your case?

�500? You are in for a BIG disappointment on eBay the average price for a brand new unlocked N95 is �275 - �290.

if it was the music player that would be terrible mp3 players go for hours ie 8 hours minimum with smaller batterys

i doubt its the music player

n73 can play music all day and have lots of juice left

2--3 days use

what on 1 charge???????

do you use it much mate???

if so what for???

cant be much can it???

i am an estate agent so i am on the phone all the time. i play the odd track here and ther but not much mainly text and calls

got a 1400mah battery yday

makes phone a bit bigger but looks and feels ok and i get the juice i require for the day 😊

abused it yday

1 hour video
music for about 4-5 hours
wap browsing
lots of txts
pics
little gps
half hour phone calls

went for 8 hours and was down to 4 bars 😊

much better

nice1

where did you get that from. and are you sure it aint gonna cause a meltdown in your fone?
bit warey about them batteries. i got one from ebay and the thing never tell you when it is charged. keeps going on and on and on for about 4 hours before i get fed up and turn it off. back using the oe one now

by the way have you seen the pic of the "n97" floating around. do you think it is real. wonder if they gonna sort battery issues out on the next models

craig law wrote:where did you get that from. and are you sure it aint gonna cause a meltdown in your fone?
bit warey about them batteries. i got one from ebay and the thing never tell you when it is charged. keeps going on and on and on for about 4 hours before i get fed up and turn it off. back using the oe one now

ebay

no iam not sure it will blow up but ive used other batterys in the years and they were fine as have my friends and family

got it from ebay

type into search bar

n95 1350mah

youll find it

that use was off 1st charge so itll probs get beter as well

as i say due to it being 1350mah its a bit bigger then other 950mah battery but it looks ok as they provide a new plum case to cover it

in my opinion its better then carrying a spare

i was quite impressed with it

nice1

what version of maps are you using. i thing this new version uses more battery juice than the original one!

i have think its a fake but hope not there are pics of the n81 which is n80 upgrade looks cool

and n82 which is n73 upgade with wifi and 5mp with xenon flash which looks even better

niiiiiiiicccccccccccceeeeeeeeee

hope it has the same sort of great battery life as n73 😊

buxz777 wrote:ebay

no iam not sure it will blow up but ive used other batterys in the years and they were fine as have my friends and family

got it from ebay

type into search bar

n95 1350mah

youll find it

that use was off 1st charge so itll probs get beter as well

as i say due to it being 1350mah its a bit bigger then other 950mah battery but it looks ok as they provide a new plum case to cover it

in my opinion its better then carrying a spare

i was quite impressed with it

nice1

I'm up for trying this battery
Do you have any pictures of how much bigger it is and how much it sticks out compared with original

I know it could melt the phone, but it's a risk i'm willing to take.
Has anyones phone actually melted?

superswede wrote:How good/bad is your 3G coverage?
If dual mode is enabled and you have som bad 3G coverage this can significantly decrease battery life.

Absolutely. I left my office with almost a full charge at 17.30 yesterday for my parents village with no reception and got the first "battery low" bleep around 10pm.

m.r.davies wrote:I'm up for trying this battery
Do you have any pictures of how much bigger it is and how much it sticks out compared with original

I know it could melt the phone, but it's a risk i'm willing to take.
Has anyones phone actually melted?

type into ask jeeves

nokia n95 1400mah

youll find a link from nokia blog right near the top of the page 😊

hope that helps

today i left home with full charge at 9.00am ive been listening to my mp3 player non stop at full volume sent sum mms txtx ,had half hours of calls, 5 mins wap, few 3gp funny clips ,few normal txtx ,no wifi or gps but took a few pics

its now roughly 2.40 and i still have 4 bars left and still listening to the mp3s 😊

so thats roughly 5-6 hours non stop music with some other good use and still going 😊

my normal n95 battery would have been dead at least 1-2 hours ago so was worth the 14 quid in my eyes 😊 infact i might by another backup 1 😊 well impressed

hope that helps mate

it actually has a big advantage though

you see that angled side in the pic well the phone now stands up at an angle on its side which is perfect for watching films etc 😊 phone wouldnt stand on any side before which was annoying 😊 can now just balance it on my dsk at wrk and watch the simpsons while i work sweeeeeet 😊

also it looks big in this pic but it feels nice in your hand still 😊 iam happy anyways lol my n95 makes it through the day yey 😊

it would have to be quite big to get 1400mah in there

nokia just redesigned the back of the us n95 as they couldnt even get a 1200mah in the back of the normal nokia n95 so guess if you want a bigger battery youll have to do with the bulk

i actually bought a 1200mah battery from ebay the same size as original n95 battery but it wasnt great makes me think its just hard very hard maybe impossible to make a bigger battery to fit the n95s whole unless you have an extended one that pokes out like this

its really no different from lugging a spare around

nice1

i believe from my tests that the 1200mah one i bought from ebay is actually a 900mah--1000mah one in disguise

ie good labelling 😊

either that or rubbish cells

this 1400mah one is working good 😊

still got 4 bars and just done another half hours music 😊

lol

bartmanekul wrote:
Has anyone seen an E90 battery (1200) in comparision to an N95 battery (900 I beleive)?

Online at least, they look roughly the same size, but I dont know about 'in the flesh' as it were.

E90 battery = 6.5 x 4.4 x 0.5 cm; N95 battery = 4.5 x 3.9 x 0.5

So E90 battery = 14.3 cubic cm; N95's = 8.8 cubic cm.

E90 battery (BP-5L) = 104 mAh per cubic cm
N95 battery (BL-5F) = 108 mAh per cubic cm

Sorry for the delay in replying, I couldn't find my ruler.

...and Yoobao's product:

4.6 x 4 x 1 = 18.4 cubic cm, 76 mAh per cubic cm (assuming it's labelled correctly)

I know where I'm spending my money.

so youre saying that the original has more mah per cm but the extended one has a more cm so it obvously has more punch then the normal one

if they were the same size yes the nokia one would win as it has more ,prob better cells in the same space but this batery is bigger then the n95s so it will contain more juice

anyways buy which one you want keep changing your battery every 4-5 hours if you want

me personally i actually like using the features of this phone without having to worry if iam going to be near a charger if ive got my spare battery etc

in you results are you trying to say that the n95 batterys is the best???

how can that be???

we have all used them and 90 percent of people agree

there useless

i wish people would stop denying it it really cracks me up when people say it aint that bad etc it really is that bad

hence why ive spent money and time trying to improove my battery this is easily the best soloution ive found

without carrying poxy batterys and chargers about with me

iam not having a pop just wrks thats all does it matter what brand it is??

as long as it works thats fine for me

peace out everyone

heres hoping nokia release a new genuine battery course it would be better but i really cant see it happending after the us version had a re design to acomadate the better battery still we can keep wishing but untill that day iam happy with this extended tingy mabob