Comments on: Cingular Blackjack Battery Life Upgrade

By: Jan Bottorff

Jan Bottorff — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:32:51 +0000

Some users will find a real problem with the extended life battery. It makes the phone just thick enough that when in the ATT slide on leather case, buttons constantly are held down. It turns out, even with the keypad locked, this consumes power. For me, with light usage, the difference in battery life is 2 days (in the case) vs. 14 days (not in the case), both with the extended battery. My battery life with the standard battery, in the case, is around 10 days.

It’s hard to say if the root problem is with the extended battery, the keypad controller in the BJ (or perhaps the keypad device driver), or the leather case. It’s the interaction of all three that seriously degrades battery life.

By: Alex Limberis

Alex Limberis — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:17:45 +0000

Another idea:
Once you create a shortcut you can also create a speed dial to the application: I made speed dial to the 9 key.
After you have the shortcut in the start menu
Select
Start
Scroll to the adminsettings shortcut (or whatever you have renamed it to)
select the menu button.->add speed dial
select 9 or what ever speed dial you want to add
and now you have a one click access to turnning 3G on and off.

By: Alex Limberis

Alex Limberis — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:12:02 +0000

Even better follow:
1. Connect to your BlackJack via Active Sync/WMDC
2. Explore your mobile device (click Explore in Active Sync or WMDC from PC)
3. Browse to Windows directory
4. Select the file â€œadminsettings.exeâ€
5. Right click and choose Create Shortcut.
6. Got to bottom of file list, and Cut the new â€œShortcut to adminsettings.exeâ€ file.
7. Next Paste it into the Windows\StartMenu directory where ever youâ€™d like it and rename it if you want.
8 Select Option 3 Netowrk & Call Settings
9: Select option 5 Network Mode
Select GSM

This will allow you to turn 3G off and default to edge with out the need to decide on the 850 or 1900 GSM band
And there ya go a quick toggle between 3G and GPRS.

By: Steven Hughes

Steven Hughes — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:37:32 +0000

You can also conserve considerable battery life by turning off the 3G and going to GPRS only. If still need voice and data simultaneously 3G is still needed – say streaming video and waiting for a phone call on GPRS it goes to voicemail.

Best way is to set up a shortcut to toggle between the two with the quicklaunch button.

1. Connect to your BlackJack via Active Sync/WMDC
2. Explore your mobile device (click Explore in Active Sync or WMDC from PC)
3. Browse to Windows directory
4. Select the file “BandSel.exe”
5. Right click and choose Create Shortcut.
6. Got to bottom of file list, and Cut the new “Shortcut to BandSel.exe” file.
7. Next Paste it into the Windows\StartMenu directory where ever you’d like it and rename it if you want.

And there ya go a quick toggle between 3G and GPRS.

By: aaron

aaron — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:01:18 +0000

they would only give me 1 extended life but they took both the regular batteries AND THE BATTERY DOOR

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