"Official"? Bionic battery life thread

[bens42608]

Power

The battery situation of the Bionic is the reason I don't want to switch to gnex or the razrs. I got the perfect situation going on and I wouldn't change it. The Bionic runs awesome with .902 and my extended battery keeps me juiced up as long as i need b4 i get a chance to charge it again and just in case it does die because I used foxfi all day or something all I have to do is switch it out for one of my stock batteries that stay charged on my standalone battery charger. The naxx is awesome but even with that big battery, I'd drain it before the day is over and be SOL and the gnex is kinda cool but it looks awful with its extended battery which doesn't even hold enough juice. So right now, no phone has come out yet that can compete with my Bionic. One thing I do not understand is why the Razr gets ICS before us when the 2 phones are brothers and are basically the same.... But it's cool. I don't see the big deal about ICS except maybe the hardware acceleration and it might look cooler and I don't see how it could function any better than .902:lifting:

 

[wooddale]

You got a point about the batteryt life on the extended battery. Also the soak test for 904 is gonna start probably this week I got notice from Moto today.

 

[sweeeeet]

my extended battery failed and Verizon sent me a new one... it's different from the original one I got at release

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[sweeeeet]

cover fits 100x better.. more solid feel.. zero creeks.. guess my battery fail was a win lol

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[jntdroid]

looks like maybe just the paper wrapping around it is different? Though I know what you mean on the covers... I've replaced them before and it's weird how some fit so much better than others... and I guess just over time they wear down and become more loose

 

[CurGeorge8]

This isn't that uncommong of a thing to happen for any phone, not just a Motorola. It seems like each "batch" of batteries can have several variences of the same model. Experienced the same thing with LG and RIM.

 

[Zregnier]

50% remaining on regular battery!

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[alboboy10]

50% remaining on regular battery!

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Maxx?

 

[Zregnier]

Maxx?

No Bionic using Juice Defender Ultimate on extreme setting. Moderate usage with no video-watching.

 

[seove]

When it's fully charged gives you a message saying to unplug it. I think this is to be environmentally conscious and responsible.

 

[shadowsjc]

Not sure what's going on with my Bionic. Stock, no root, standard battery. If on 4G, I used to be able to make it through most of a regular work day with 1 charge (~9 hours). Nowadays, the phone gets really warm even if I'm not using it, and it'll die in 4-5 hrs.

I really don't want to factory reset and lose my texts / other stuff, so I've been uninstalling apps one by one to see if it was an app related problem. I finally uninstalled Facebook, which I think may be the culprit. Hopefully this fixes the issue

 

[wooddale]

Not sure what's going on with my Bionic. Stock, no root, standard battery. If on 4G, I used to be able to make it through most of a regular work day with 1 charge (~9 hours). Nowadays, the phone gets really warm even if I'm not using it, and it'll die in 4-5 hrs.

I really don't want to factory reset and lose my texts / other stuff, so I've been uninstalling apps one by one to see if it was an app related problem. I finally uninstalled Facebook, which I think may be the culprit. Hopefully this fixes the issue

Its for sure something running in the background. Your doing the wright thing if you dont want to do a reset

 

[Zregnier]

Not sure what's going on with my Bionic. Stock, no root, standard battery. If on 4G, I used to be able to make it through most of a regular work day with 1 charge (~9 hours). Nowadays, the phone gets really warm even if I'm not using it, and it'll die in 4-5 hrs.

I really don't want to factory reset and lose my texts / other stuff, so I've been uninstalling apps one by one to see if it was an app related problem. I finally uninstalled Facebook, which I think may be the culprit. Hopefully this fixes the issue

Use the stock task manager app to auto kill apps you don't want running. Also I highly suggest buying Juice Defender Ultimate and putting it on extreme setting. I'm getting killer battery life with stock battery.

 

[wooddale]

Use the stock task manager app to auto kill apps you don't want running. Also I highly suggest buying Juice Defender Ultimate and putting it on extreme setting. I'm getting killer battery life with stock battery.

You must be stock if you were on a rom you wouldnt need Juice

 

[brianjr1]

I just got my bionic like... 3 weeks ago. A little late to the party I know. But I've been having tremendously good battery life over that of my LG Revolution. Essentially the same amount of use and I'm getting about triple. LG Revo gave me about 8 hours, I'm getting roughly 20 hours on my bionic. Medium use - email, 300-400 texts a day, an hour of Facebook/Twitter and about 30 minutes of games.

Overall, very pleased with the Bionic's battery - I could see how you'd want a longer one if you were a heavy user, but it really does the job for me.