My new free cell phone from Verizon which replaces my LG for Unicel, the battery goes dead just sitting on the desk turned off. I leave it for a couple days and the battery is too dead to turn the phone on so I have to charge it up again. Never had one like that, is it normal?
Hi!
Every cell phone I have ever owned would slowly run its battery down while "turned off". I found that at least some of them would continue to pull power from the battery, most usually to keep a time and date clock running. (Today's phones wouldn't have to do that--most of them can get the current time and date from the network they are on.)
If you feel that the phone is pulling the battery down much more rapidly than it should be, I'd do these three things:
If the room where you're keeping the phone is unusually cold, that could be causing the battery to become discharged. Lithium-ion batteries seem to lose their charge rapidly when chilled.
William
ive been having the same problem it's happened 3 times now. i had left it on for 4 days straight and it only went down 1 bar, but when i turned it off and then back on the next day the battery was totally dead! id recommend getting different phone if your still in their 30 day 'switch' time frame, if not demand that they fix it. im going to try some of will's ideas but going from a full battery to dead overnight while off is just ridiculous, i want unicel back :(
I had the same problem with my LG VX8360. The batter dies with the phone turned off within a week or so. I sent it back. I have to get a new phone from a local Verizon store.
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