Return policy on Thunderbolt

[Kmasum]

Been using my Thunderbolt for couple days, it's draining my battery 30 percent every hour, if I return it back to Verizon would there be a restocking fees?

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[Edwill86]

yes

$35.00
and you have 14 days to return it before you have to pay the ETF on top of the restocking fee.

 

[neller2000]

I'm experiencing roughly the same with brightness at lowest setting and a lot of settings off, updates set to 1 hour. I got mine at noon, charged it full, drained by 9pm. Charged again, 4 hours later dead. Charged overnight, grabbed at 11am. Dead at 4pm. Charged to full, again, dead at 10pm.

You can blame conditioning the battery all you want for this but at best with the battery condition it's not going to last 3 times as long as it does now. What gives? Even my OG Droid wasn't even remotely close to being this bad.

 

[d1ez3]

did you try bump charging? I think it doubled mine

 

[Kmasum]

I had original droid, droid x and now Thunderbolt but battery wasn't a issue at all... I love this phone but can't swallow the 30 percent battery drain per hour.. I will deal with 35 bucks, going back to my droid x

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[turtle113]

You need to bump charge the battery several times to get the full charge! I bump charged it three times before I finally pulled it from the charger. I took it off the charger at 8am and it has been 8hours now and I still have 70%!

 

[Kmasum]

I am gonna try your bump charge method and what kind of results I get before heading back to Verizon store.. thanks

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[Kmasum]

Btw were you using 4G or wifi

You need to bump charge the battery several times to get the full charge! I bump charged it three times before I finally pulled it from the charger. I took it off the charger at 8am and it has been 8hours now and I still have 70%!

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[dhendriksen]

So this "bump charge", is that where you turn it off and charge it?

 

[Mapex]

Bump charged the night I got it and I was good to go since then. On 3G, my ThunderBolt drains slower than my Droid OC'd to 1.1GHz on CM7 but slightly faster than the Droid OC'd to 700MHz on PE4.2 did.

Procedure:
-Everytime you set it to charge, leave it alone until it gets a green light.
-Turn on T-Bolt then charge until you get a green light (> 6 hours).
-Unplug T-Bolt, turn it off, then charge until you get a green light (< 1 hour).
-Unplug T-Bolt, turn it on for two minutes (to drain some battery), turn it off, then charge until you get a green light (< 1 hour).

After this your battery will have been calibrated properly and you should easily last a whole day (8+ hours of light to moderate usage) on 3G. This is no different than other 3G devices. I also don't think you'll have to do this again for a long time (but it will be VERY handy when installing custom ROMs as any Droid veteran can tell you).

Of course, if you have chargers laying around, charge whenever you possibly can (this is a general rule for Li-Ion batteries anyway), but never ignore your battery (don't run off power instead of your fully charged battery as capacity gets lessened over time).

 

[italianotampa]

If you had a deposit, will you get it back?

 

[Kmasum]

I[don't see why not, you haven't received the phone yet.. QUOTE=tampaflusa;742563]If you had a deposit, will you get it back?[/QUOTE]



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