Registered: Aug 2000
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I have been noticing that my battery life has been decreasing. I used to get approximately 10 days out of the same type of batteries that are now giving me perhaps 3 days. I have "Beam Receive" turned "off" and not using it any more than I have in the past. I have the 8mb memory card in it always (but this is no different than in the past). The only thing I can think of is that I have a lot of programs installed on the main memory and memory card. Would that draw my battery life down (I have recently added several more). I also noticed the last 2 mornings that my Visor Delux was ON when I woke up (but I didn't see any indication that it was on for an alarm). Any advice or things that I'm overlooking? your help would be much appreciated.

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Originally posted by dlieuwen
I also noticed the last 2 mornings that my Visor Delux was ON when I woke up (but I didn't see any indication that it was on for an alarm).

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Drain, Top, Drain Top, Drain Top...Done

Drain it hard to the bottom with the biggest current sucking module you have. Charge it to MAX. Do this 2 or 3 times and life will be better. We tend to just top them off all of the time, and even though it's lithium ion which is more tolerant of this type of topping off, they are still affected. I have done this with my Prism and it works. The difference between full bright screen and 70% has a significant affect also. Crank that baby down at night.

P.S. Oh....have a backup first

P.S.S. Sorry..... I just saw that you have a visor deluxe, not Prism. Are you using the device more than you used to?

Registered: Aug 2000
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More battery questions

thanks for the replies. I do run Afterburner on several of my more-used applications and have a number of hacks installed: AppHack, 3Alarm Hack, Switch Hack, MultiClipHack, AfterBurner, MenuHack, HackDelete, DiddleBug, MiddleCaps, Silence. Again though, most of these have been around for quite a while beofre I started noticing th3 battery problem. And, I have no idea why the Visor Deluxe is on some mornings b/c it gives no indication as to why this is. what other reasons would there be with finding it on?

Registered: Feb 2001
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Have you ever tried just backing it up, doing a hard reset, and seeing how well the batteries do? It could be a program or something you have that's running in the memory all the time, even when the device is off, that could be draining the batteries.

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