How To Extend Motorola RAZR Battery Life
Posted on October 12, 2007
Filed Under Mobile Phone Tips, Motorola | 1 Comment
If you have owned a cell phone for over six months then you are certainly aware of how fast your battery can lose its charge after time. I am going to teach you one way to help extend Motorola RAZR battery life. If you live in a part of the country where your phone changes back and forth between EVDO and 1x then this trick will work for you. What it basically does is disabled the EVDO which is what allows your phone to connect to the mobile internet. Disabling it will allow your phone to keep its charge for a lot longer period of time. This is because when your phone switches back and forth it uses your battery to do so. If you are interested in using the EVDO service to download ringtones or play games, there is also a trick that will allow you to turn it on and off quickly. Here are the steps.
- The first step is to type #073887* on your phones keypad. If it doesn’t work the first time try typing it in faster.
- You will then see a screen that says Enter Security Code. Here you will type in 000000 and then press the right soft key.
- Next you will want to find the TEST MODE option and press select.
- You will want to enable this by pressing down and then again press the select key
- If the phone goes back to the main programming screen then you did everything correctly to this point and turned on the TEST MODE.
- You will now press the hang up button until you get back to the main phone screen.
- Now press the clear button and then the left soft key. If this does not work the first type you will want to type it quicker. Do this will activate the test mode.
- At this point press the right soft key 3 times. You should see a screen that states ServOpt: NoChg and AudioOpt: Auto.
- You will want to scroll down on the screen until you see HDR Pref: Auto — >HDR Pref: Auto.
- Now press the right soft key until the screen says CDMA –>HDR Pref: cdma.
- Push the left soft key one time. Doing so should cause the RAZR phone screen to flash white and then freeze.
- At this point your phone is resetting itself and can take up to ten minutes to finish the process.
- When the phone finishes this process press the clear button and then the left soft key. This will deactivate the test mode that you have had your phone in.
- You will not want to take your phone out of test mode. To do so you will type #073887* again.
- Enter security code 000000 and scroll up until you find the TEST MODE and press the select button.
- Highlight disabled and then press the right soft key and then your phone should be at the programming main menu.
- This means that your phone is now taken out of test mode and you just need to press the hang-up button until you get back to your cell phones main screen.
Now your phone is functioning in standard CDMA mode and will not switch back and forth between 1x and EVDO mode. This will help to reduce your phones drain on the battery and will give you more control over how much mobile phone juice you use. This is how to extend Motorola RAZR battery life.
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the tutorial is a little confusing, in step 14 there is a typo (not) should be (now), once you get started it is not that confusing once you get started an it works great.
thanx