Quick battery loss

intermintant loss of power to headlights clock air conditioning 2001 toyota avalon ! solution....new alternator and new battery fitted.

Are you sure that you hooked up the alternator correctly? It sounds like the battery is draining and not being recharged. Of course, it could be a voltage regulator that is going bad. Here's a tip to test the alternator- get a boost to start the car. Disconnect the battery and see if the car dies. The car should run from the alternator. The battery is only needed to start the car. So, if the car continues to run with only the alternator, then there is a problem with the battery.

unlikely, if it starts the battery is good because it just started the car and the alternator is good because it charged the battery the prior time it was running. i would put some thought into a fuel supply problem, such as the pressure falling off rapidly after a start; or something getting hot in the ignition systrem and failing causing a loss of spark.

Remotes are generally not repairable due to the way they are made (using tiny parts, double-sided boards, and a few are glue-sealed in some cases) - but if you don't want warranty repair - INSIST on a replacement - in case the one you have is defective. Best way to test this theory is with a second set of batteries and see if it kills those as quickly. While not completely uncommon, I find it difficult to credit that a brand new remote would drain fresh batteries or fail so rapidly on the very first day of use.

When the charger light is changing from red to green that is a indication that it is charging the battery. When the charge is complete the light will stay green until the battery is removed or the charger is unplugged.

The two main causes of battery life loss that no one thinks of are:

backlight settings (if you don't really need the backlight to stay on for 60 seconds after the last button press, lower it. this is a huge waste of battery life and it is easily changed in the settings menu of nearly every phone i have seen)

poor signal areas (when you have low signal, you phone wastes its battery life searching for acquirable signal. if it is unable to locate the signal, it will continue to search. this search uses up your battery life quite rapidly)

I am not sure what every use means: duration, programs running etc. But that drainage is properly excessive. TI estimates that with 2 hours a day of usage, the batteries should last a school semester.

Possible causes of rapid drainage.
The most common causes of rapid battery drain are mismatched batteries

1. Batteries of different brands
   
2. Batteries of different types (alkaline (1.5V + rechargeable NiMH 1.2V)
   
3. Batteries of different charge levels (new batteries with old ones)
4. Negative charge build up
   

Another cause of rapid battery drain is the use of third-party programs: Certain of them keep large amounts of data in memory. Some of them are tweaked to bypass the TI power management scheme and disable the TI APD (automatic Power Down ) after 5 minutes of inactivity.

Possible remedies

1. Remove all batteries (main batteries and backup battery)
2. Leave them out of calculator for about 15 minutes. (Beware that this will clear the contents of the memory and that data will be lost along with all applications installed). However Applications cam always be reinstalled once calculator returns to its normal state.
3. The possible benefit of the removal of all batteries is to make the negative charge build up disappear.

If that fails
If the foregoing steps fail to restore the calculator to its normal behavior, you may have to contact TI Customer Assistance by filling out and submitting a customer assistance form.

JUNK IT ITS A PIECE OF ****

I would fit a new battery as it is more than 5 years old.

take the phone and have it either reflash or the main-board replaced.