Service LED on cell phone?

Frangible

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My new cell phone has an option to enable the "service LED" which is a small multicolor LED that flashes green every 5 seconds if enabled.

How much does this decrease battery life?
 

Lurker

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If you are currently getting several days of standby time, expect to get one or two seconds less standby time with the service light enabled.
 

idleprocess

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Uh, yeah. The power it takes to flash a low-power indicator LED for 250ms per 5000 is peanuts relative to the power than the micoprocessor and transceiver consume. It just amounts to whether or not you want that LED to blink whenever you're on your home turf, roaming, out of range, etc.

I imagine you'll get greater runtime variation from the charger topping off the bettery by +/- 0.1% every charge.
 

IsaacHayes

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mine has simalar thing. It's an LG. When I have a voicemail it turns red and stays on. I noticed that if it's like this overnight it will drop 1 bar in battery life. If it's not on then it usualy doesn't drop the bar. But the bar might drop later on after a few calls after that...
 
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