my battery life after exactly 24 hours of pretty active use - frak'n awesome!
So How About That Battery Life on the BlackBerry Bold 9700? I've been a broken record the past couple of days - everytime I run into a person with the new BlackBerry Bold 9700 (which happens frequently at BlackBerry Developer Conference) that's the question that comes from my mouth. I don't know exactly what RIM did to the BlackBery Bold 9700, but the battery life is freak'n amazing. Maybe they did some hocus pocus and waved their magic wands over it in the dev labs. Or maybe they stuck some moon isotopes under the battery cover. Or maybe they re-wrote and optimized the radio stack for the device (ding ding ding), but whatever they did, it worked. One of RIM's priorities has always been long battery life, but over the past couple of years as RIM has crammed more features into the device, it has taken its toll slightly on the lonnnnnng battery life old school BlackBerry users were used to (keep in mind poor battery life for a BlackBerry typically is still way better than the competition). The Bold 9700 changes that though - it reminds me of my old 7290. An easy 2 days baby!
Seriously. The screen capture above shows my Rogers BlackBerry Bold 9700 after exactly 24 hours of pretty steady use (roaming on AT&T). As you can see, this morning when I rolled out of bed I still had over half the juice left in the tank. With my original BlackBerry Bold 9000, I would have been down to yellow bars by 3pm yesterday and swapping in a spare battery by 4:30pm. Bla1ze has also been experiencing the same sort of awe-insipiring battery life on his Rogers Bold 9700. Speaking to other 9700 owners I've bumped into, I'm not sure that the T-Mobile 9700's life (running on T-Mo network) is quite as good as the AT&T/Rogers versions (still reallly solid though), but even our pal Ronen at BerryReview is getting the same sort of life out of his T-Mo 9700 that he used to get from his Bold 9000 that was tied to a Case-Mate Fuel Case. It's impressive.
I think my non-stop talking about my 9700's battery life is driving everybody in the press room here at the BlackBerry Developer Conference a bit nuts, so hopefully now that this post is up and out there for all to read I'll finally STFU. But good job RIM. WICKED device. :)
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Any time frame on the BB9700 to ATT?
Tired of the trackball, it seems like it's about to get real bad on my Bold 9000 right now. I won't be replacing it. Definitely want this.
lol @ kevin heheh re: article battery life
yea I am really liking this device its quality hardware :)
its a keeper
I'm in love with the battery life on the 9700.
I need to get over my excessive charging OCD, which I developed when I had the 9000 hahah.
Now if RIM can do some hocus pocus on the S2 that would be great.
Dont get me wrong, the batt life on the s2 is great, but 2 days w/o charging just like my curve..that would be Stupendous!!
haha i said stupendous.
Wow you have 308 unread messages?! That's insane! I get all OCD if I have ONE unread message or unheard voicemail for longer then three minutes.
Another thing to make me want to cry over the fact that Verizon does not carry this device.
Is there *any*thing wrong with the Bold 9700??
agreed, with my rogers 9700 battery life is better then my 8900 with seidio 2600 mAh extended battery....
Anyone have feedback on battery life with Telus Bolds? Wondering if the network situation has anything to do with it? But I believe the Bold runs only on Telus new network, correct? Should be similar then to Rogers?
Battery life is just as good on Telus. The Bold 9700 is a smaller device with a smaller screen but has the same big battery as the 9000. No wonder the battery lasts so much longer.
i went from the 8900 to this and i am blow away how much better it is
I would hate to think we are looking at another delayed launch like we saw with the 9000 last year.
The battery life is something that may sway my decision to get this device. I'm definitely going to try it for a while and see if I can handle the smaller keyboard or not.
Pull the battery and see what it shoes.
My 8900 will show a full battery but when I puull it it comes back up almost dead.
Could be not tracking or displaying it properly.
My 9630 has been a battery hog. I have closed as may apps as I can to save processing, but does not seem to last a long time. I have heard that from former Pearl users who have gone to the Verizon Tour.
Is sounds like the 9700 has some kind of super powers!
Share them please! : )
My T-Mobile Uk branded but used on O2 Bold 9700 has an amazing battery, its been going for three days and its been charged once and it is at 15%, my iPhone 3GS on the other hand, well it has been charged from dead to full three times in that time. Amazing
This battery is sweet!
@Kevin Which os is your 9700 running?
I am soooo impatiently waiting and waiting and waiting for the 9700 to make its way to ATT!!!!!!!!! Thanks for the updates! I am not sick of hearing about anything about the new Bold! Great news about the battery. Thanks!
I concur. Bring on the ALL 9700 news. Waiting for this to drop on ATT as well
Just a quick question for the folks here raving about the battery life? how long are u guys charging it for? I have yet to go a full day without charging it. My 9700 is on the bell network and just normal usage, i wouldnt say excessivee and all my apps are closed. what gives here???
My Bold's battery doesn't last me any more than a day on 3G with average use. Though, since the release of OS 5.0, I consistently use EDGE (2G) on my phone and it will last me 2 good days with heavy use.
I am loooving the battery life on my 9700. Using .344 OS, it's such a step up from my old Bold 9000 and iPhone 2.5G
My storm barely lasts 8 hours on .328 GG.
I MUST have a LEMON because my battery barely makes it from 8am to 10pm daily...I don't even use it very much, mostly texting and BB messenger, very little talk time...
well it may be unrelated im not so sure but i had just had to have a replacement storm 1 sent to me and it came stock with the 5.0 os and compared to the one i had before i have had my phone running for 15 hours with fairly heavy use including OTA theme downloading texting 3 phone calls of about 10 minutes a piece and i am sitting pretty at 60% left maybe they did the same magic on all BBs out there yet to be sent out
How many apps are you guys running typically on the phone? How many are constantly running in the background? I hope you at some point can give some bench numbers on stuff like this. Seems like a nice phone, even though I still think its dumb that they made a BOLD look like a CURVE. Sine they did it though and I have small hands, i might let go of my curve for one.
Will the radio stack be made available on older models like the 9000? From my knowledge on windows mobile devices, this was possible.
Well, after getting my BB 9700 last friday from the Vodafone store, I charged it Saturday night, and not since. Today (Tuesday) at 7pm i have exactly HALF of my battery left. Amazing! I'm no light user, i also have used quite a bit of 3G browsing/ fb etc.
So glad i got it.
I just got my Bold 9700 two days ago from T-Mobile.. I can't believe how awesome this phone is, the battery life is outstanding. Blows my iPhone 3G out of the water in so many ways! :)
After six years as a user, the Bold 9700 is my absolute favorite BlackBerry. For the first three weeks I was amazed at the incredible battery life, then over the past week it has dropped like a rock. The unit will go from a full charge to loss of radio use message in less than seven hours. My usage has not changed in any way.
What could the explanation be? With minimal exploration it seems as though many other users have the same issue.
Any advice?
I've had similar experience as runtopher. The first 2 weeks with the 9700 were utopian whereby I consistently got 3-4 days of battery life even including always on wifi and 3G. Then poof...the battery life suddenly dropped off to just over a day. I postulated that it was due to some of the apps I added including Facebook, Weatherbug, Google Maps, and Voxofon. Facebook seemed like the most likely gas hog due to its frequent updating so I deactivated it. Great theory but wrong...that had no impact. I've no plans to remove the other apps since I use 'em all the time. Anybody have any other theories/thoughts/suggestions?
WHY???? My Bold 9700 battery life is really bad (half a day!). Reading all this, i'm sure something is draining it. i'm a new bberry user and i've only had the 9700 for a week,so im not sure. i have brightness on 10% TEN!. i'm trying to close all running apps in the background, some just wont go away like smrtguard. Maybe it's just a damaged battery??? HELP MEEEEE!!! Oh and the click sound on the tracker went off and i cant get back on (even though i turn it on in the options menu). So there.