How Do I tell If I need A New Battery?
I have a 1200MAH battery in my which I bought 17 months ago, until 3 days ago the battery was working great. Then quite suddenly (over 2 days) the battery life degraded, I charged it up to 98%, left it 12 hours & now it's at 43% with no use. Does this mean I need a new battery? I'm not annoyed about this, I accept they do fail after some time but I cannot find anywhere on the forums or on the Palm literature how long a battery is expected to last (yes I know it depends on use). I rarely use the phone, camera, E_Mail, internet, etc. and mainly use the PDA functions.
Can anyone help?
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Hi, and welcome to the Palm Community Forums.
For the battery to have crapped out that suddenly does seem a little weird, but I suppose it's possible. Any chance you might have been playing with something that was left running in the background, like PocketTunes? If you have background play turned on, and you don't actually stop the music from playing, it'll keep on going. But then, you would probably hear it from the speaker.
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