Blackjack II has great battery life

Those of you who have one of these phones would agree with me. By far, this is the phone with the longest battery life of all the new Windows Mobile 6 devices we've seen. I haven't stress tested it yet but my previous phone battery lasts around 8-9 hours before you need to charge it, with 3G and DirectPush enabled the whole day.

For the Blackjack II, I have three bars left come midnight with everything turned on and regularly reading and downloading RSS feeds.

Fabulous!

Go get one now : https://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/cell-phone-details/?device=BlackJack(TM)+II+by+Samsung&q_sku=sku1140027

Comments

• Anonymous
  November 28, 2007
  Question: How often do you rotate handsets and how to you reconfigure it back to the way you like it each time? Do you use an autorun and some CSP XML? or just make some manual changes? I swap every few weeks and have written a c# autorun which will install all cabs in a particular folder along with executing some CSP XML...

• Anonymous
  November 28, 2007
  that's nice!! I don't do that. I keep everything in the SD card and copy the shortcuts from windowsstart menu, so when i move to another phone, i just place the icons back.. works most of the time. :) can u share the autorun?

• Anonymous
  November 30, 2007
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• Anonymous
  December 02, 2007
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• Anonymous
  December 02, 2007
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• Anonymous
  January 02, 2008
  i have the gps on my black jack two but it was pretty hard to find.

• Anonymous
  January 03, 2008
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• Anonymous
  January 21, 2008
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• Anonymous
  February 18, 2008
  How do I turn off 3g and directpush.  I get like 6 hours or so of battery life, even if I am not checking my email, texting, going on the internet, or using the GPS.... please help?  I need a phone for the car ride home!!!

• Anonymous
  February 18, 2008
  The Lithium Batteries will degrade over time irregardless of whether you keep them charge all the time or not. to turn off Direct Push, go to activesync, Menu->schedule, change "As items arrive" to "Manually". can't turn off 3g unfortunately.

• Anonymous
  February 22, 2008
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• Anonymous
  February 23, 2008
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• Anonymous
  March 13, 2008
  TO TURN OFF 3G type #1546792# choose option3 Network & Call Settings choose option5 Network Mode then switch from "Auto" to "GSM" to switch back to 3G simply follow the same steps and switch back to auto phonedude

• Anonymous
  March 30, 2008
  Man, I was getting terrible battery life with my BlackJackII. 3G and Direct Push were definitely the culprits. I was getting maybe a day and a half of life with a brand new battery. Adjusting my ActiveSync settings to sync less frequently has quadrupled my battery life.

• Anonymous
  April 01, 2008
  Hey phonedude. Thanks for the info about switching from 3g to GSM. But today when I tried to switch back, the selector wouldn't stick on AUTO and kept going back to GSM. Any idea how to make it stay? Thanks!

• Anonymous
  April 04, 2008
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• Anonymous
  April 08, 2008
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• Anonymous
  April 17, 2008
  When I try the "#1546792#" approach mentioned above, I don't get the menu - but rather a simple notifcation that says "Failed". Any suggestions?

• Anonymous
  April 22, 2008
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• Anonymous
  April 27, 2008
  I'm getting almost 3 days  between charges with everything up & running: Bluetooth, 3G, DirectPush etc.  The only thing I did was turn off the irritating email & text msg notifications.

• Anonymous
  May 13, 2008
  Great phone. Battery life is not so good. I get 5 hours with moderate use. I used to have Pearl and that was golden in terms of battery life in comparison to this!

• Anonymous
  May 23, 2008
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• Anonymous
  June 15, 2008
  http://msmobiles.com/news.php/6089.html

• Anonymous
  June 23, 2008
  My BJII lasted half a day.  I took it back and they gave me a new battery.  It was worse than the original.  I went to a different ATT store and I have a cure.

1. Press and hold the home button
2.  press the menu button
3.  Select "stop all" Your programs will then be running only when you need them

• Anonymous
  July 21, 2008
  Do these fixes for turning off 3G not work or do thet work??? http://i607.org/wiki/doku.php?id=turn_off_3g_shortcut

• Anonymous
  July 22, 2008
  My BJII lasted half a day.  I took it back and they gave me a new battery.  It was worse than the original.  I went to a different ATT store and I have a cure.

1. Press and hold the home button
2.  press the menu button
3.  Select "stop all" Your programs will then be running only when you need them I followed these steps, but still want my email program to run. How do I reverse this?

• Anonymous
  November 21, 2008
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• Anonymous
  January 05, 2009
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