Battery life on Nokia 6230i & 6233

dohouch

My 6230i has been very good for me, with one exception, battery life. I get about 2 days. Is this what other are getting? Is this considered good? My last phone, Siemens S55, would do around 5 days. Have learned to live with it, but when I saw a review today that said these phones had great battery life, started to wonder if something was wrong with my phone/battery.

Am thinking of changing to 6233 and was wondering what I can expect. Will be turning of 3G as on Meteor.

Also I presume 6233 has direct access to memory card over USB, like 6230i. I always like this, not having to instal software on a PC in order to access files.

drdre

my 6230i lasts me over 3 days with ALOT of usage. do you use it alot.Also how often do you charge it as if its consistanly charged it wrecks the battery.

ciarsd

I also get 2 days use from my 6230i's battery. No more no less since the day I bought it.

drdre

ciarsd wrote:

I also get 2 days use from my 6230i's battery. No more no less since the day I bought it.

i charged mine a full day ago. and its full now this indicates its going to give me min 3 days.

dohouch

Interesting, drdre:"my 6230i lasts me over 3 days with ALOT of usage" I should have put my OS3.03, Manufacture:July05 maybe the battery life increased with software revisions. Always been strict about not charging untill phone was on its last bar. The Siemens S55 had huge faults, it picked up wind noise in a breeze, keypad was buggy, but a 5 day battery got me expecting that from my next phone. 6230i has very bright display that can't be dimmed. On the S55 it was possible to dim it.

optiplexgx270

Mine:

2 days on my 6230i
7 days + on moto V3 (moto getting used more too)
5~ days on blackberry.

dohouch

Because of microphone failure on my battery hungry 6230i,had it in the service centre of xmas. Got software update to 3.88 and it does seem less battery hungry. My usage has changed, so this is just impression, can't really back it up with hard facts.

vibe666

general opinion is that the newer fw's give better battery life.

i have been using 2 (one for me, one for the g/f) for the last year and mine lasts 2 days with light use and hers 3 which a newer firmware and about50% more usage, inc. mp3's and radio for about an hour a day.

there's a crowd (or probably more) doing a 'high capacity' battery on but they're a shower of robbing so and so's. 50% higher nimh raiting and after 5 charges it was dying within 24 hours, including going from full bars to dead with no warning beeps. steer clear anyway.

i've seen that the BL-6C battery fits the 6230i with the cover slightly bulged out, but it does fit. not sure how much more power is in one tho.

i'm now using the g/f's 6230i as i got her an N80 for xmas and that has wifi on it, and with the default settings and the latest firmware it was lasting less than 24 hours. i've disabled 3g, bluetooth and wifi (well, changed from 100mw tx to 4mw, which looks like all you can do) and it's doing much better now, but it wasn't easy to do. there really ought to be an easy way.

other forums suggest 4-5 days with the settings i have now, which is good.

dohouch

vibe666 wrote:

i've seen that the BL-6C battery fits the 6230i with the cover slightly bulged out, but it does fit. not sure how much more power is in one tho.

Been looking at upgrading and reading review of Nokia E70 which has blc6 reviewer mention that blc5 fits, I think blc6 has 1100mAH.



Just Googled

Amazon.com: Nokia BL-6C Li-Ion Battery (1070 mAh) for Nokia 6255i, 6019i, 6016i, 6015i: Cell Phones & Service.

jrey1981

My 6230i lasts 3-4 days with fairly light use. I make a point of always having a spare fully charged battery with me that's in my spare Nokia 1101 as I tend to run it down until there's just 1 bar in the battery indicator.

vibe666

the bl-6c is just a tiny bit thicker than the bl-5c so the back cover bulges out a bit, but it does fit.

don't be tempted by ebay tho, i'd be surprised if any of the batteries there are genuine these days.

i was looking at a desktop charger for the g/f's N80 on ebay and all the HK suppliers were offering them for a couple of euro with a 'free' second battery. total cost was under 10€ inc. delivery, so I can only imagine how bad they are compared to a genuine nokia battery.