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Old Jan 28, 13, 1:11 am   #1
 
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Embraers damaging phone batteries?
Bit of a strange sounding question:

My Blackberry batteries lately have a life expectancy of 4-6 weeks. I have received to usual lecture from our IT support guys about how to treat batteries, the BB device itself replaced, and in a last ditch attempt had the last dead battery checked out. It came back as having water/humidity damage.

This got me thinking that "death" usually occurs in the 12 hours after being on one of those Embraers in the overhead compartments. Some of you also may have noticed the small ice crystalls coming out of the overhead ventilation.

Connection or paranoia? Has anybody made a similar experience?
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Old Jan 28, 13, 1:30 am   #2
 
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On your next flight how about keeping your Blackberry either a) in the seat pocket or in your own pocket, and/or b) sealing it in a ziplok bag.

You could even wrap it in tinfoil. Works as a hat, too, or so I've heard ..
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Old Jan 28, 13, 2:48 am   #3
 
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On your next flight how about keeping your Blackberry either a) in the seat pocket
At the moment I need one battery per 20 flights. If I were to start using seat pockets I would go up to one BB per 5 flights. Up in the overhead compartments it must go!
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Put it in your own pocket?

Anyway, when I did weekly returns from AMS-LCY throughout 2011 on the E190 and E170's, I didn't experience this problem regardless of where my phone was
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At the moment I need one battery per 20 flights. If I were to start using seat pockets I would go up to one BB per 5 flights. Up in the overhead compartments it must go!
Well, on the plus side, if you were to lose one BB per 5 flights you'd probably never notice battery problems

Like darthlemsip said - trouser pocket?
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Old Jan 28, 13, 3:08 am   #6
 
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Put it in your own pocket?

Anyway, when I did weekly returns from AMS-LCY throughout 2011 on the E190 and E170's, I didn't experience this problem regardless of where my phone was
Did they offer you any POUGs?
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Did they offer you any POUGs?
Someone asked that before - as I recall I saw it maybe 3 times out of 92 sectors. So not exactly prolific!
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Well, on the plus side, if you were to lose one BB per 5 flights you'd probably never notice battery problems

Like darthlemsip said - trouser pocket?
Trouser pocket is reserved for iphone - a lot harder to replace the battery.

I take it I'm the only one then... The search for the battery eating monster continues elsewhere...
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my guess is that the phone or the charger is the culprit and is damaging multiple batteries due to a a fault.
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Old Jan 28, 13, 5:54 am   #10
 
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my guess is that the phone or the charger is the culprit and is damaging multiple batteries due to a a fault.
My third Blackberry now, all with new cables/chargers. This thing drives me crazy...
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Maybe you're playing with it too much?
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It's definitely not the Embraer, it's only Boeings that destroy batteries.
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It's definitely not the Embraer, it's only Boeings that destroy batteries.
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Old Jan 28, 13, 9:19 am   #14
 
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Maybe you're playing with it too much?
I don't fit in the overhead compartment and I'm fairly sure I'm a pound or two over the maximum weight limit for these things...
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It's definitely not the Embraer, it's only Boeings that destroy batteries.
Other way round...
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