Battery Life on P550

revel · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 21, 2004 Posts: 26

The battery on my Mio P550 when closed down lasts only 48 hours.
Is this the norm or does anybody else have battery life problems with this Pda.

Border_Collie · Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 10:32 pm Post subject:

4.5 hours shown on their site http://www.mio-tech.be/products/pda_navigation/P550/specifications.php
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morphus · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 17, 2006 Posts: 4

Yeah mine do this some times(not always) 2 p550 on trial it seems as if something is still running even when off ? power swicth is a bit dumb (easy to bump)
mio appear to be on holidays regarding any emails from me I'll have another look at their FAQ's

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lowie · Regular Visitor Joined: Feb 28, 2006 Posts: 68

Hi Lost_Property just wanted to check with you on how the Mio P350 runs with TomTom Navi. I have just sent back a P550 cos the signal was absolutely c**p and apparently Mio know about it. Hows the signal strength on the 350. Do you get solid bars on the GPS signal?

Thanks

Border_Collie · Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 8:40 pm Post subject:

doogy · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 22, 2006 Posts: 12

My battery seems to have discharged quickly on an odd couple of occassions for some unknown reason similar to mentioned by morphus. I've set the lock to on so that it switches off after 5 secs if `unlock` isn't hit but it has still discharged after 48 hours without much use...guess something may not have stopped running properly. I have ran it from fully charged with screen set to 1/4 brightness and running winfast nav on dev and signal screens meaning there is constant activity to keep the device running and it ran for 6 hours 20 minutes before dying which I was impressed with. Just got to do some more investigation on why the battery discharges very quickly on odd occassions. Any info or suggestions greatly appreciated. As a side note mine works fine with Mio Map, Memory Map and TTN5.21 (with a quick tweak from winfast) and picks up sats indoors no problem

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Craig

Gavwad · Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 2:24 pm Post subject:

Go to Start, Settings, System and then Memory - choose Stop All and that should close all running programs. This should then help with the battery...

Have to say really liked the P550 but got one of the dodgy units so sent it back... Hoping to get a refund or a P350 instead as it seems more reliable...

Still can't understand why the P550 doesn't work out of the box - why should we have to download loads of programs and tweak with software?!?! Shouldn't Mio have done this in the testing stage???

Sorry - rant over!
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doogy · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 22, 2006 Posts: 12

Cheers Gavwad.......I have always selected the stop all option after switching off but something still seems to be running. Am now keeping an eye on which GPS software I run each time as it may be a connection to the GPS port that is open and slowly draining the battery. As I say, it doesn't always happen.....which is all the more annoying!!

Tried numerous times to contact MIO support but they are absolutely cr@p as have had no reply and I refuse to call the 35p per minute help line as it's just a rip off.

Regards

Craig

Gavwad · Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 3:51 pm Post subject:

I'm sure you'll find out why the battery is draining. Have to say it lasts longer than my iPAQ does...

As for Mio Support - don't bother - you'll find out much more information searching via www.google.co.uk. I'm still waiting for a reply to my question, and that was over a week ago. I don't even have the P550 any more having sent it back!
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lfour · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 03, 2006 Posts: 3

Viper · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 30, 2004 Posts: 69

I have a p550 with MIOMAP V2 so far I am very pleased with it. I t seems to be very fast at picking up the satellites. I do enjoy the wi fi part of it.

I am though very disappointed at the battery life, and I am still in the process of testing it. It seems to be lasting longer using the lock feature and taking the memory card out when on standby. I still haven't managed to get it to last 48 hours between each charge. But I think it might have something to do with programs still running in the background when on standby. Also I have noticed active synch starts up itself when on standby, when I have checked it periodically, and looked at the running programs in settings, I've had to close it again.

Anyway I am going to try it once more without using it at all, with the card out, the lock on, and no programs running other than active synch. Then I will try testing it by switching it off via the slider switch, and seeing if the battery still drains then.

I would be very interested to know if anyone else has noticed active synch starting up itself when on standby?

Steve

Gavwad · Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 4:17 pm Post subject:

Have to say the best choice I made was sending the P550 back. I was very disappointed with the unit. It promised everything and was meant to be perfect for my needs. I've gone back to my trusty HP iPAQ until either Mio sort it out or something better comes along...
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Border_Collie · Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 4:24 pm Post subject:

Viper · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 30, 2004 Posts: 69

Gavwad,

I think it is a great PDA especially being able to have wifi and bluetooth. I am a lot happier now I think it is a manufacturing fault rather than a fault with my own.

I wonder if there is some way to turn active synch off altogether, lost property, I have looked without joy. It's interesting you get the same problem with the p350.

Steve

rronaldson · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 25, 2006 Posts: 102

I have an IPAQ PDA and I'm pretty certain that you can set Active Sync to manual. A Google search ought to find an article on this. I had the problem of quick battery run down when I first got it but I can't remember how I cured it.
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