Battery Life

[forjox]

I Have A Zire 72 That Usually Works Great For My Needs. My Son Tried To Bluetooth Some Pictures To His Cell Phone And The Next Day The Palms Battery Was Dead, No Power Up Unless Hooked To The Charger. I Found The Blue Tooth Still On And Figured That May Have Drained The Battery. Now Drains Every Day About 6 Hours After Taking Off Charger. Any Ideas?

[maceyr]

Turn of bluetooth when you're not using and after use as it does drain the battery very quickly. Also, turn off infrared beaming too. They are located in the Prefs application in the launcher.

Check out the first of my postings on battery optimization (http://palmdiscovery.netfirms.com/nfblog/2005/11/20/putting-it-all-together-pt-8-optimizing-battery-life-i/) tips for more info. And there's also an [b]in cradle/charger[/url] reset that you can perform to reset the battery in hopes that you can get it to retain a better charge. Check out this posting (http://palmdiscovery.netfirms.com/nfblog/2006/08/23/how-to-series-peform-soft-warm-hard-zero-out-and-in-cradle-reset/) for more info on the in-cradle/charger reset.