Better Battery for the N95?

Question

Hello everyone
This is my first post on the support site and I'm disappointed to see that I'm not alone in experiencing problems with the N95 and specifically the shockingly poor battery life. My last Nokia was an N70 and I don't agree with other people who had said that poor battery life is a feature of the N series phones as I could go almost 3 weeks between charges. I find that even with only moderate use the battery in my N95 goes from a full charge to empty within 5 days (approximately only 70 hours) and I don't see the point in having a phone with all of these features if you have to charge it every few days. I'm not using the GPS function, WLAN scanning is switched off as is Bluetooth and I'm only sending a few text messages a day and making a couple of calls yet everytime that I look at the display the battery has gone down another notch. Looking in the Vodafone catalogue the standby time is quoted at up to 260 hours but I would love someone from Nokia to demonstrate how they managed to arrive at this figure.
I love the features of the phone (I've not had any other problems so far!)but I feel that Nokia have released the N95 with a very poor battery (like the old Ipods) and the poor consumer is left to try muddle along trying to save battery life.
Does anyone know if Nokia are planning to release an updated battery that might actually last a decent amount of time between charges?

Answer 1

30-Apr-200711:26 PM
waqarbashir wrote:
1) I charged the battery full early in the morning at 6. I recieved just one call at 9 and my battery was finished at 2:30. Just for 8 hours standby time?
Sounds like you had everything running: 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth, screen at max brightness etc. That would affect battery life.
Also, there are many people who believe that battery life can be optimised by conditioning the battery when you first get it: run the battery all the way down and charge over night for the first 3 or 4 cycles.
30-Apr-200711:26 PM
waqarbashir wrote:
2) I charged it fully, used GPS for 30 mins and battery was finsihed after 3 hours? What was that?
Running GPS is really going to take it out of the battery: the GPS receiver is working, the processor is working, the screen's on - basically the battery is getting hammered.
I get a similar affect running SatNav with my N80 and that uses an external GPS, ie: one that's not powered by the phone's battery.
30-Apr-200711:26 PM
waqarbashir wrote:
3) I fully charged the battery connected to WIFI and did chat on MSN for around 1 hour and battery was finished exactly after 3.5 hours.
Again, the phone was working pretty hard for an hour there - you should think of that as at least the equivalent of having made a 1 hour call.
30-Apr-200711:26 PM
waqarbashir wrote:
Nokia builtup so great device and with so much poor battery?
Size of the device: a higher capacity battery would be bigger so the phone would have to be bigger.
30-Apr-200711:26 PM
waqarbashir wrote:
We will be getting battery replacement? or nokia will be releasing some new battery in future for N95?
Almost certainly not: most of the previous N-series phones have had the same issues and none of their batteries have been upgraded.
30-Apr-200711:26 PM
waqarbashir wrote:
Anyone if having same problem with battery please post comments here or its just with my device?
There are plenty of threads about this, so I guess it's quite common - though I notice a lot of people reporting that battery life is actually better than they had with the N95's predecessor, the N80.