Cell phone battery life & memory cards

Veteran Member From : Florida OS : Mac OS X Leopard

so when i got my new phone the battery life was awesome (like 3 days) with a 62 MB memory card, but then i upgraded to a 1 GB card and it had become lik 1 day. does the momory card have anything to do w/ this or is it some setting on my phone?

Veteran Member From : Florida OS : Mac OS X Leopard

anybody know? if not can i get some feedback at least?

Subject: Re: Cell phone battery life & memory cards June 14th 2008, 12:46 am

How long have you owned the phone?
The battery gets sinificantly shorter after a while

If its new I'm guessing it's the 1GB card

Veteran Member From : Florida OS : Mac OS X Leopard

i got the phone at the very end of may. and now the battery is lasting again after i turned it off for lik 2 hrs b/c ppl wudnt stop calling me at the movies. so now wtf im really confused

Senior Member From : Washington OS : Mac OS X Leopard

Its the card. Since the card has more storage the Phone takes more battery processing the information on the card, see it constantly scans it all the time so if your sending a pix or flix message its going to read the card and see what you have got on it, even i your taking a picture or start the camera or whatever on the phone.

Veteran Member From : Florida OS : Mac OS X Leopard

ya ok thats what i thought. o well guess i wont b getting the 2 GB if i want the battery 2 last a day then. thanx

Member From : NC, USA OS : OS X Leopard 10.5.4

back it up a bit. I would actually take a closer look @ what you are doing with the card. If you have a pocket PC / smart phone, and are using the mem card to store videos, music, etc...it is well known that playing media will burn up your battery faster.

I don't see any knowledgeable programmer making a phone constantly scan through 1GB of data (assuming the card is full) every time you take or send a picture. That would be VERY inefficient. I would hope, that if you stick the card in a card reader of sorts on a PC, that you would see directory layout set by the phone separating pictures, videos, etc.

In short, I don't think it's having more memory that's burning up your battery faster, but what you're doing with that extra memory.

Veteran Member From : Florida OS : Mac OS X Leopard

i use it str8 for music, and it is full 2