Choose your cart
Choose your cart
Receive up to $500 promo credit ($180 w/Welcome Unlimited, $360 w/ 5G Start, or $500 w/5G Do More, 5G Play More, 5G Get More or One Unlimited for iPhone plan (Welcome Unlimited and One Unlimited for iPhone plans can't be mixed w/other Unlimited plans; all lines on the account req'd on respective plans)) when you add a new smartphone line with your own 4G/5G smartphone on an eligible postpaid plan between 12/23/22 and 2/16/23. Promo credit applied over 36 months; promo credits end if eligibility requirements are no longer met. Excludes Verizon Prepaid plans.
I have a Nokia Lumina 929 with the latest Denim software update. When I use any GPS navigation app - Waze, gMaps, Nokia Here - the battery drain is so excessive that the phone gets very warm at the rear near the bottom of the phone. In fact, on a recent trip to Colorado, when using the Nokia Here application - the battery drain was so excessive that even when plugged in to a 2.1A power supply the battery died after 250 miles of driving and the phone was almost too hot to touch at the rear bottom.
Solved! Go to Correct Answer
I might be indicative of the Lumia line, both my Lumia 822 and Lumia Icon do run hot when I use GPS.
GPS will chew through the battery and heat up the phone being GPS is enabled but not to the point of draining it while plugged it; at least it hasn't in my travels.
Did you download the maps to Colorado? If not than the phone was doing dual duties of GPS and getting map data.
Yes, had downloaded the US Map for the Nokia Here application so there was no data traffic, at least for the navigation. I have the Waze and gMaps applications on my iPhone and Android device and have never seen battery drain like this or to the point of the device being too hot to touch.
I might be indicative of the Lumia line, both my Lumia 822 and Lumia Icon do run hot when I use GPS.
Yep, I agree with Primortalprimortal, both my Lumia 928 and 822 gets hots and drains battery when used. You definitely will have use external power for long period of use.