2011-07-22 10:31 - edited 2011-07-22 10:34
I can see it fine. Currently sitting in my living room with the light on and going through the tedious process of sending contacts one by one via bluetooth from my HTC Legend to my E6 which I purchased yesterday through Crazy Johns and I can make out the notification light fine. Battery life has also proved very strong, dropping only 1 bar in about 20 hours.
I wonder if you can make some photos of the 'fine notifications light' for us... ![]()
2011-07-22 10:37
agprabhakar wrote:
50percent wrote:the E6 is a very nice handset, Camera is amazing, Battery 3 days usage, the new Anna interface is good, but something essential as a Notification Light coupled with the service from Nokia - overall a bad bad experience.
@50percent: You are the first one to say that you had Battery for 3 days usage. Most of us in this forum had the battery less than a day, even when the phone is used very minimal...
Could u confirm how did you manage to have ur E6 phone lasting for 3 days of battery life? Were u simply looking the phone keepit in powered off?
Easiest fix to improve battery lift is change the Network to GSM from the Dual setting. Unless you really need data because your streaming a radio, video, music service the lowest data setting is sufficient for email and even using services such as FourSquare and Wap Pages. You will see instant improvement.
Turn off any Live WallPaper - You can put a Shortcut to the Social App on your homepage and go straight into Facebook or Twitter for quick look at what's going on. Live Wallpaper updates hammer data and battery with constant updates. Also, delete any home screens that you don't need to use. I was happy enough with 2 and didn't need the default 4.
Consider the time-out of your screen. If you've extended it then you likely leaving the screen on longer than you need to.
Turn off the vibrate response on your screen - if you have the capacative response that the phone gives a slight vibrate when your touching the screen that will eat battery.
Wifi - also another battery killer. The E6 has a bug that means even if Wifi Scanning is switched off it will still connect to a Wifi that it knows. So in the home if you've connected it once to Wifi, everytime you go online or the phone gets an email it defaults to Wifi. The only way I found to get round this was to disconnect from the Wifi, quickly go into the connection settings and remove the Wifi from the connections.
Switch off the Bluetooth if you don't need to use it. You can easily put a Bluetooth shortcut on your Homepage to quickly access the Bluetooth menu to enable/disable.
The first few days I had the phone and was using it alot for HD Video record & playback, the Photo / Video Edit tool, setting everything up, playing with the Apps, doing things on Wifi - Yes I got just over a day charge out of it. But after the excitement of a new handset and I settled down to normal usage and did the things I've said above, still using it for emails, texts, calls, few photo's, FourSquare checkins etc - I'm able to get 3 days charge out of the handset.
2011-07-22 18:41
Don't think about buying this phone. Apart from the notification light its battery also doesn't last a single day. You will regret the purchase. See the discussion on E6 you will know.
2011-07-22 19:18
Guess he keeps his phone switched off when not using!
E6 claimed battery life is nothing but a hoax.
2011-07-25 7:37
Battery life is excellent on this phone. It only chews it if you're permanently connected to wifi. I switched wifi off and have 4 bars of battery remaining after 2 days of normal use.
2011-07-25 9:09
Earshot wrote:Battery life is excellent on this phone. It only chews it if you're permanently connected to wifi. I switched wifi off and have 4 bars of battery remaining after 2 days of normal use.
...and if you turn off GSM, 3G, Bluetooth etc., then it will last even longer.
This phone WAS MADE for all these things, for professional usage.
The dissatisfaction of almost everybody here comes from a.) Nokia's marketing claim of 1 month battery lifetime and b.) compairing it to predecessors like the E72, which had a twice or three times longer battery lifetime, at a comparable usage profile.
2011-07-25 16:49
Is Nokia reading this thread? Any feedback on the notification light????
2011-07-26 0:30 - edited 2011-07-26 0:52
Earshot wrote:
Battery life is excellent on this phone. It only chews it if you're permanently connected to wifi. I switched wifi off and have 4 bars of battery remaining after 2 days of normal use.
...and if you turn off GSM, 3G, Bluetooth etc., then it will last even longer.
This phone WAS MADE for all these things, for professional usage.
The dissatisfaction of almost everybody here comes from a.) Nokia's marketing claim of 1 month battery lifetime and b.) compairing it to predecessors like the E72, which had a twice or three times longer battery lifetime, at a comparable usage profile.
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i agree (with gnirkatto) .... and anyway, what's your idea of 2 days of normal use? zero calls, zero sms, zero emails and generally not looking at the screen for 2 days??
i just really feel for people that spend a lot of money on devices like this, trusting nokia (because in the past they have been a very steady, trustworthy producer of solid consumer goods) only to be effectively lied to these days. it doesn't worry me so much because i can afford to buy phones as a hobby and ifr i make a mistake i just buy something else.. but for the people that generally only buy 1 phone every 1 or 2 years, because these things are expensive to them, it must really bite. big time.
on a positive note about this phone (credit where credit is due): twice i have dropped my e6 from chest high standing bar type tables (2 different occasions - different bars
), once onto a concrete floor and once onto a tiled floor and literally (and i mean literally) not a scratch, no dust in between the screen and the display (a common problem with many nokia phones when you drop them), nothing broken and nothing bent. try doing that with an iphone... you couldn't even drop it half that distance without shattering it.
i have to say this is the great thing about nokias.. they are tough. i dropped my e52 down a full flight of steel steps, i dropped it into the toilet and my kid dropped it from our balcony to the balcony below and it still works. admittedly, after the toilet incident i took it apart and put it in a warm oven for a couple of hours... works perfectly, albeit battered and bruised
2011-07-26 7:04 - edited 2011-07-26 7:11
Are you the one who have sent your E6 to Nokia care to check? Glad you did, I'm starting to think there's something wrong with either the battery or the particular device you have.
I have 3G on all the time, vibrate on all the time, screen at full brightness, touchscreen vibrate at highest level, phone on 17 to 18 hours a day. At the end of the 2nd day, it's at 50%. Not bad as I'm used to charging my hp every 2 days.
After reading all the complaints from E72 owners, boy, I'm glad I didnt have one,lol. My 5 year old Nokia RIP at the time E6 came out, falling into deep drain incident. Before that it survived lots of tropical rain (I work outdoors).
2011-07-26 8:59
eaglehelang wrote:Are you the one who have sent your E6 to Nokia care to check? Glad you did, I'm starting to think there's something wrong with either the battery or the particular device you have.
I have 3G on all the time, vibrate on all the time, screen at full brightness, touchscreen vibrate at highest level, phone on 17 to 18 hours a day. At the end of the 2nd day, it's at 50%. Not bad as I'm used to charging my hp every 2 days.
After reading all the complaints from E72 owners, boy, I'm glad I didnt have one,lol. My 5 year old Nokia RIP at the time E6 came out, falling into deep drain incident. Before that it survived lots of tropical rain (I work outdoors).
I am the one who sent it to check....despite of not being convinced that mine is a dud - as so many others here report of the same problems.
I do believe that it might be Wifi, mine seems to drain much faster when I spend a day or so near a wifi hotspot. However, I want to use wifi, because its cheap & convenient, turning it on and off is not easily possible (or not at all? See my other thread), and I had my E72's wifi also on all the time and it lasted much longer.
2011-07-26 12:53
Yeah, gnirkatto it was directed for you, I forgot that quick reply doesnt quote the post together with it. Read my reply in the WLAN off thread on how I got it to work. It doesnt auto refresh at hotspots anymore. I've been to the usual places with free WIFI, now it's manual.
2011-07-28 20:19
I think it is so annoying of Nokia to be nothing but silent about this problem that THEY created and shows their defiance for faithful customers, so I'm going to update this thread from now on, on a daily basis, to make it show up on page one of this forum, and to warn as many others as possible about buying this phone, until Nokia is telling us what they are going to do about this issue.
2011-07-28 22:50
2011-07-29 0:27
@ gnirkatto
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so I'm going to update this thread from now on, on a daily basis, to make it show up on page one of this forum, and to warn as many others as possible about buying this phone, until Nokia is telling us what they are going to do about this issue.
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interesting thought.....
2011-07-29 19:54 - edited 2011-07-29 20:04
I feel the same, it's like nobody cares. How long do you want to Keep us waiting? We bought your product, no give us the full benefits.
I’m not willing to wait 10 months for a stupid light to work or the vibrations or the soft.
I’m sick of such phones!!! I bought the E6 because it has the same HW like a phone launched one year ago, and I made this compromise thinking it would be bug free!
It's like nobody is interested or promises us a fix!!!! They don’t even tell if it’s a HW problem because then they would have to take back all the phones!!!!!!
2011-07-30 18:10
the light on the left side of the device is lit when the device is charging. could nokia use this as the E6's notification light instead? it is really bright and can be seen well in average-lit environments.
2011-07-30 18:38
Personally I think flashing the entire call/end key panel along with the existing notification light would be a good solution to the current inadequate set up. Such a large area would be highly obvious, it's where we are generally used to looking anyway and could be seen from all angles on a face up phone.
We'll just have to wait and see what Nokia think
2011-07-30 18:41
I hope they are attending this problem.
2011-07-30 20:47 - edited 2011-07-30 20:49
twozero3's suggestion would work as well.. I'm so desperate to have this fixed. Went from awesome customized notification lights on the N900 to almost nothing on the E6. Can't keep pressing the middle key to see if I have missed calls/msges if I am in a meeting.
Veryyyyyy frustrated ![]()
2011-07-31 12:45
If i have helped at all a click on the white star below would be nice thanks.