6500 slide False Battery Level Reading.

Hi,
Just wondering if anyone has had their battery level showing as full when it is actually very low.
This started happening after I updated my phone to firmware v 8.30, but probably more relevant after discharging the battery fully (as recommended)to improve battery life.
Thanks.

I have a 6500 classic and the battery started doing the weird levels.
Showed that the battery didn't need charging as said was full but when took it off the charger it said battery low.
Would not charge even after being on the charger all night.
Sometimes works in the car charger (needed one as battery doesn't even last 1 day at work since bought the phone) but after showing 3/4 full, get 1 call and then beeps at me to show about to go flat.
Phone is only 1 year old.
Ordered a new battery so will see how it goes when it comes in on Monday....

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13-Oct-2008 03:23 AM
peaches wrote:
how do u get camera off standby please
Hi peaches
You could try turning the phone off, take the back cover off, remove the battery and the sim card. Wait approximately 20 seconds then put the SIM card and battery back in, replace cover and turn the phone back on.
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Hi guys,
I need some help please.
I bought Nokia 6500 slide today and on the box says that it contains:
Nokia 6500 slide
Nokia Battery BP-5M
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Nokia Wired Stereo Headset HS-47
Nokia 256 MB Micro SD Memory Card MU-27
Nokia Mirco USB Cable CA-101
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Message Edited by laurra on 23-Dec-2008 09:19 PM

Hi,
Remove the back cover and you will notice next to the camera lens a silver plate. The memory card should be in there. By holding the phone so that the camera lens is at the top and the battery is facing downwards, you can put ur fingernail carefully at the top of the silver plate where there is an indentation and slide the cover down without removing the battery. You can then remove the memory card once you manage to get the silver plate to pop upright..
Hope this helps.
To insert ur sim card, you need to remover the battery. The sim card compartment is just below the memory card slot. When you need to get the sim card out, use the little metal slider beside the memory card slot to push the sim card out of the slot.
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Got a new 6500 slide on thurs, charged it overnight as was told by shop, and by friday night after checking out the phones features, sending around 15 txt, and receiving 1 phone call, i get the battery low sign...
Looking at the specs on the website, its supposed to have 13.25 (i think) days standby time, so with minimal usage, around 6 days? I cant even get one, what should i do?

Hi,
I had my 6500 slide in Steel delivered just over a month ago and had read many worrying reviews about the battery life. I'd also read many reviews that said the opposite though.
After carefully charging the Li-Poly battery for a good 16 hours on the first charge, the phone managed a paltry 24 hours just like yours. I continued for 6 days completely discharging the phone and then recharging it fully to no avail. I turned off all the power hunger features (3G, Bluetooth, Screensaver etc ) and turned on the power saving mode. Still nothing.
I called my operator who claimed they'd never heard of this sort of problem. I demanded a replacement battery immediately, which duly arrived two days later. Transit seemed to have scuffed the edges of this battery as it had simply been thrown in a paper envelope (no bubble wrap) but I noticed it was a Li-Ion battery unlike the Li-Poly that Nokia issued in the box.
This has TRANSFORMED the battery life. It will run for up to 6 days with normal use eg. Permanent standby, a few calls, lots of music on the commute, some texting and the odd Photo (I'm impressed with the camera).
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6500 Slide No Low Battery Warning Tone

Hi,
Does anybody know if the 6500 slide has a low battery warning tone function? If so how can I turn it on?
Thanks,
Cazzi74

06-Sep-2008 11:50 PM
cazzi74 wrote:
Thanks for the advice.
So it won't harm the battery to regularly charge it up when the battery level isn't at a low charge?
Yes. Ironically, modern batteries liked to be always charged - at least partially.
06-Sep-2008 11:50 PM
cazzi74 wrote:
I always thought it was best to charge it fully only when it's nearly empty?
That is applicable and advisable for old batteries - early Nokia batteries - and especially NiMH and NiCd's. But not for modern batteries at the present.
Also, can it do harm to charge for say 30 minutes and not until it's full?
No. It won't pose any harm. As I've said, modern batteries like to be charged partially.
Hope this helps
Cheers
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sondang

Take the back of the phone off.
The window in the back, which has the cover for the lens, has a rim around it. Part of this rim is raised up - this is the contact to enable the phone to see the memory card.
What happens over time is that the case on the phone may become compressed and the contact gets flattened down.
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I hope to create a single thread to list and discuss all issues users are having with their 6500 slide.
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V 0.380
10-09-07
RM-240
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1. sometimes the buttons (numbers or options) becomes unrepsonsive; give it a wait and it works again.
2. Ringtone and Message Alert tone goes back to default; or display some weird alphabet+numbers after a while. And i had to manually set back my favourite ringtone for both calls and message. This happens to the default 'General' and renaming MyStyle1.
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The screen/buttons hang, and I have to wait or press the end button repeatedly to get back to the main screen and start all over again. A few times I had to repeatedly push the unlock + * buttons to unlock the phone. I also have problems viewing my contact info in the PC Suite...
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6500 slide freezes when receiving SMS

hi,
I own a brand new 6500 slider, its only a few weeks old and it has a very upsetting bug.
when the music player is on and the keys lock automatically (set for 1 minute), and i receive an SMS, the phone simply freezes.
The keys are useless, the light wont even turn on when i open the slide, the screen still turns of in its fashionable manner... the only thing i can really do about it is removing and returning the battery to its socket.
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It always defaults to upper case when texting.
Will debranding get rid of the chinese?

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Ds3425 wrote:
It always defaults to upper case when texting.
Will debranding get rid of the chinese?
If you want to get rid of this uppercase stuff (because of Chinese), you have to change the set of languages. The set of languages are determined by the firmware variant. And the firmware variant is determined by the 7-letter (product) code which is printed on the label underneath the battery.
If you change the model code (RM-xxx) you break your phone because those firmwares do not fit to the hardware (frequency bands, …).
Okay, changing the product code, officially only Nokia Care Points do that, officially. It won’t fix your Nokia Software Updater issue but that uppercase stuff.

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25-Oct-200709:13 AM
slider_6500 wrote:
Just got my shiny new 6500 slide which keeps switching itself off. The only way of switching it back on when this happens it to take the battery out, put it back in and then press the power button. It happens about once or twice a day and it seems to be when the phone is charging.
Anyone else experiencing this? Is there a way of resetting the phone to prevent this happening?
I'd really like to fix it without the hassle of going back to the shop and trying to demonstrate a very unpredictable fault.
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