Regular RAZR XT912 with the puny, pitiful battery
rooted
on stock verizon OTA JB 4.1.2 - have never flashed a custom ROM once (not even really familiar with it)
Have titanium (TiBu), supersu, root checker, motomizer, widgetsoid, and a few other unused root apps (mainly battery related).
I do have 6 full pages of apps in the drawer - yes its a lot I could get rid of. But this battery change came out of the blue, not like I changed any settings or installed a new app or anything. I never, ever keep GPS on and do not let the phone track pretty much anything I'm doing, I froze a bunch of apps a looong time ago (some Moto bloatware and the gawdy NFL Mobile, etc)
I have had battery issues on/off for quite a while, but now it's just HORRIBLE. It is pretty much unusable. Maybe lasts 4 hours, when 98% of the time it's doing nothing sitting on a desk (smartactions keeping nearly everything off except data and sync). If I try to make a 60 minute phone call it will chew up the entire battery, more than 80% in an hour with no other usage ! Additionally, I have had a lot of "stuck on 3G" problems over the past 8-10 months. It has been especially bad since the Moto/VZW update where they apparently fixed some Canadian radio issues (I shouldn't have even let it install, but I used voodoo rootkeeper and kept root and things seemed OK - but the battery got worse and the radio seems worse too!)
Sometimes using TiBu to clear App cache would make it better for a few days or weeks, but now it's not helping. I used TiBu to Wipe Data (read: not a FDR, did not delete apps but boy did it wipe out a lot of stuff) yesterday, battery seems the same. After that I did a clear cache from the recovery screen too, and now I have more problems:
- Home button doesn't work at all
- Power button only gives me "power off" selection, no ringer/volume/vibrate choices anymore
- I don't get any notifications at all, no gmail, no text, no yahoo mail, no widgetsoid toolbar, nothing. just the basic notificatin pullbar with date/time etc.
With several battery apps (Battery Doctor, Battery Saver Stats, etc) I was seeing that Google+ and Maps, other google crap, were taking up a lot of memory and CPU/wake time. I have now gone so far as to use TiBu to forcible remove Google+ (!!!) but the battery still sucks eggs.
Ideas? Insights?
I'm guess I'm thinking FDR, and start from scratch completely.
If that doesn't work, use mattlgroff's Utility and hit option #1... and really nuke it? I don't even care about root anymore really (although I would like it) because I'm so frustrated that I think I may just end up getting a new phone anyways (and may ditch VZW too).....
If none of the above works or some other things make no difference in the battery, I guess it gets deactivated and becomes a toy for a 2 year old.
rooted
on stock verizon OTA JB 4.1.2 - have never flashed a custom ROM once (not even really familiar with it)
Have titanium (TiBu), supersu, root checker, motomizer, widgetsoid, and a few other unused root apps (mainly battery related).
I do have 6 full pages of apps in the drawer - yes its a lot I could get rid of. But this battery change came out of the blue, not like I changed any settings or installed a new app or anything. I never, ever keep GPS on and do not let the phone track pretty much anything I'm doing, I froze a bunch of apps a looong time ago (some Moto bloatware and the gawdy NFL Mobile, etc)
I have had battery issues on/off for quite a while, but now it's just HORRIBLE. It is pretty much unusable. Maybe lasts 4 hours, when 98% of the time it's doing nothing sitting on a desk (smartactions keeping nearly everything off except data and sync). If I try to make a 60 minute phone call it will chew up the entire battery, more than 80% in an hour with no other usage ! Additionally, I have had a lot of "stuck on 3G" problems over the past 8-10 months. It has been especially bad since the Moto/VZW update where they apparently fixed some Canadian radio issues (I shouldn't have even let it install, but I used voodoo rootkeeper and kept root and things seemed OK - but the battery got worse and the radio seems worse too!)
Sometimes using TiBu to clear App cache would make it better for a few days or weeks, but now it's not helping. I used TiBu to Wipe Data (read: not a FDR, did not delete apps but boy did it wipe out a lot of stuff) yesterday, battery seems the same. After that I did a clear cache from the recovery screen too, and now I have more problems:
- Home button doesn't work at all
- Power button only gives me "power off" selection, no ringer/volume/vibrate choices anymore
- I don't get any notifications at all, no gmail, no text, no yahoo mail, no widgetsoid toolbar, nothing. just the basic notificatin pullbar with date/time etc.
With several battery apps (Battery Doctor, Battery Saver Stats, etc) I was seeing that Google+ and Maps, other google crap, were taking up a lot of memory and CPU/wake time. I have now gone so far as to use TiBu to forcible remove Google+ (!!!) but the battery still sucks eggs.
Ideas? Insights?
I'm guess I'm thinking FDR, and start from scratch completely.
If that doesn't work, use mattlgroff's Utility and hit option #1... and really nuke it? I don't even care about root anymore really (although I would like it) because I'm so frustrated that I think I may just end up getting a new phone anyways (and may ditch VZW too).....
If none of the above works or some other things make no difference in the battery, I guess it gets deactivated and becomes a toy for a 2 year old.