So I woke up this morning to the sound of my radio… which is wrong, as I had set the alarm of my N95 about quarter of an hour earlier than my radio alarm.
When I looked at my phone, I saw nothing but a black screen.
As it appeared, the battery ran out of juice during the night. Sure, I know I should have charged it, but it still had 3 bars available when I went to sleep and I had no applications running… and the charger was in the other room and I was really tired. 
Anyhow, it’s an excuse to mock the battery-life of the Nokia N95 and I was actually quite happy with it so far. But if it wasn’t for my back-up alarm (Yes, you can question the fact that I do have a back-up alarm, but conditioned and sub-conscious hand movements in the morning have proven to be alarm-clock disabling…) I would probably be in my bed.
What was the worst time for your battery to die on you?
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3bars! How long we’re you asleep for!? 3bars on my N95 will last almost 24hrs with the odd text and phonecall!
Posted 08 May 2007 at 11:27 am ¶Indeed! That was why I was so surprised!
I even had a short night… slept from 23.45 till 5.50
But I did notice before that my N95 keeps its full bar signal for a very long time and then dropping rapidly towards zero…
Posted 08 May 2007 at 12:02 pm ¶I have heard other people report that there battery indicator dosen’t update quite as often as it should (When switching phone on / off it suddenly refreshing battery level to much lower). Are there any third party battery apps for the N95 ? I used to run Windows Mobile and there we’re a lot of apps to give you more accurate info about battery level.
Posted 08 May 2007 at 12:39 pm ¶Yep, the last 3 can go quickly, especially if the network is active. Why don’t you put your phones in offline mode overnight.
Having been using the N95 as my main device for a month now, I can say that the battery life keeps getting better and better. It easily lasts a day whatever I seem to throw at it.
Steve
Posted 08 May 2007 at 4:42 pm ¶Thanks Steve, that is a very good piece of advice… simple yet efficient!
Posted 08 May 2007 at 4:56 pm ¶My battery died after using sportstracker for 3 hours… which is a shame, ’cause now I registered only half of the full circuit… I charged the phone the day before (didn’t use it in the mean time)
Posted 08 May 2007 at 8:30 pm ¶The battery is killing me. Better than N80 (4 hours) but with tethering to my N800 on, it cannot go a day. The N73 had no issues.
I’ve got UMTS off, am not using WiFi or GPS. Some text and a bit of mobile Gmail. Not too mention a few calls here and there.
I don’t know how the battery will get better as Steve alludes, but am certainly willing to try given my interest in this device!
Posted 08 May 2007 at 8:45 pm ¶I found myself in much the same boat.. I would make a few calls, used the built-in mail client to pull mail from my imap server with auto-retrieval, little bluetooth, umts shut off, never used gps.
I was lucky to get slightly over a day. If I hit the device a bit harder, with some browsing, etc., I’d be dead before the end of the day. I returned the phone inside my 30-day return window to the Nokia flagship store in NY, and exchanged it for an E65. Much happier with the E65!
Posted 09 May 2007 at 12:46 am ¶Having always on push/auto email retrieval seems a bit of a common theme when talking about people with N95 battery problems. I’d have thought that anyone with a big email need would be much happier with an E61 or E61i etc.
The N95 is a consumer smartphone, with focus on multimedia and navigation etc. I only check email when I actually have time to read through it and have no problems with battery life.
Steve
Posted 09 May 2007 at 9:02 am ¶Have to agree with Steve on this.
Must say that if you really want to work your email on the N95, the combination with a full qwerty keyboard is the only option IMHO.
Which means I would sit down for it, and well, then I will hook it up to the charger too!
Maybe that is something for its successor: A Nokia that slides vertically in landscape mode with a full qwerty keyboard underneath… (where have I seen that before???
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Posted 09 May 2007 at 9:42 am ¶Hmm.. It’s not my work email I was pulling. That’s what the BB that work gave me is for.
Posted 09 May 2007 at 5:21 pm ¶