Putting Nokia N82 Battery To Test Using The Music Player With The Latest Firmware Upgrade V30.0.19

I was on my way to Zamboanga City for a work related matter when an idea pops out of my head, to test the battery life of my newly firmware updated Nokia N82 using the Music Player application. The trip was an excrutiating 9hours long on a non-aircondition bus, so it was the perfect oppurtunity since traveling this long is synonymous to boring moments except if I will be seated next to a beautiful and sexy chick. c",

I have been using my Nokia N82 music player everytime I travel and lets say in a month, it will be like twice or 3x depending on the situation and most of this travels, I oftenly use the music player extensively so I pretty knew about its battery limitations with the old firmware V20.

But before anything else, I must mention the following factors that might have affected the test.

1. The phone is 124 days old.
2. Battery was charge the whole night before the test day. I took the charger off by 6:00am.
3. Downloaded Softwares: BBC iPlayer, Media Safe, DIVX, Nokia Audiobooks, Mobitubia,MobiReader, Mive.TV, WF Navigator, Goggle Maps, Location Tagger, 11 Games, Sports Tracker, Step Counter - I run this in the background, Wellness Diary, Taskman - run in the background. I cited all this because their might be softwares among them that might run in the background without me knowing.
4. I have 79 tracks on my playlist.
Fav Hits from David Cook, Coldplay, David Archuleta, Kid Rock.
New Hits from Flo-Rida, Coldplay, Second Hand Serenade, Daughtry, Chris Brown, Hotstylz
Old Hits - 12 Ballad songs, I dont know who sang them.
Pinoy Hits from Cueshe, Hale, Side A, Freestyle, MYMP.
I'm citing this because battery consumption might differ specialy on upbeat and low beat tracks. Upbeat tracks dominate more by 2/3 than low beat songs.
5. Theme - NTL by Flahorn, this is irrelevant but for the sake of transparency, I have to mention this.
6. Volume is in Full Blast with Equalizer set to Bass Booster.
7. Warning Tones were On.
8. Text tone use - gyilkolas-mobile.aac
9. I receive 47 Text Messages during the test and replied to all. My secretary usually text me a lot during this times.
10. I receive a call from my staff nurse, asking me for voucher, it last for a minute and 46 seconds.
11. Network Signal is not permanent since I'm traveling. So it means that the phone was continuesly searching for signal.

Music Playing was of course continues and uninterrupted and here is the Time Table:

8:00am - Started the music player, gunning all the songs on my playlist. Battery is full 7 bars.
9:30am - Battery is still unchange at 7 bars.
10:30am - I was shock to find out that its still 7 bars, I usually get 5 bars before after 2 hours of continues music.
11:30am - 6 bars registered on the screen.
1:30pm - 5 bars
2:30pm - 4 bars came up, this would usualy come up as 1 bar before after 4 hours of continuous play.
3:30pm - 2 bars
4:16pm - 1st Battery Low signal came up
4:21pm - 2nd warning
4:27pm - 3rd signal
4:31pm - 4th warning, thats a 4 minute interval from d last signal
4:34pm - 5th signal, 3 minutes interval
4:37pm - Battery Empty

A total of 8hours and 37minutes of music playtime. This result was really very impressive. I use to go empty before after 5hours of continious music play but with the latest firmware update, the battery life was extended for almost 4 hours.

This test should eliminate peoples doubts weither the v30.0.19 update improves battery life or not, it really does amazingly. Stay tuned for more upcoming test.

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