Battery Life Razr Maxx sucks since ICS update.

[TisMyDroid]

I fdr-ed my phone about a week before the upgrade and my battery and other things have been great. I used to only be wifi or 3g only (because of the area I am in) but I have been caring for my ailing parents since I got ICS with no wifi and a weak 3g. I have not put it in 3g only mode yet, nor have I turned off data at all because I wanted to see how the battery would handle it. I have been playing with the phone non-stop (display is usually around 70% instead of the typical below 50%), no smart actions set and my battery still lasts as long as it did before.

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[eshef]

I've found that the phone will do either cdma/lte, not global, OR 3g only, which seems to default back to global! :icon_eek: The other problem I'm having with ICS is my email. I delete and delete and every time I power back on OR it does a background sync, they all pop back up! And this is stuff that's deleted on my PC, so where's it coming from!! :angry:

 

[T0M65]

Today, my battery life is much better. I never changed the screen brightness in Gingerbread and found that ICS had it running at 100%. I toned it down to 25% and it's much better. And to be fair, I forgot I had watched some YouTube vids last night. So it was more use than a call and a few texts. :blink:

 

[Wongway]

Well for me, the battery drain has slowed down considerably after turning off the global antennae.

 

[Caesars]

Try taking a look at lux dash it does a good job of controlling auto brightness and allows the user to set customer levels bases on the ambient light. I have noticed though that the range of brightness in ics is larger...meaning the dimmest setting is darker than gingerbread

Ty


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[brucefulton]

Hasn't changed much for me on the maxx. I turned off global and set brightness to auto, but other than that no changes. GPS on, wifi on at home. I'm currently at 50% after 30 hours of moderate use -- mostly email and sync, FB, a few calls and some internet browsing over 4g.

 

[davehudsn]

Screen turning on - check notifications

Ok, I too am disappointed by the tanking of my battery life.

Here is what I found:

1) Notifications - when it did the upgrade, it basically turned on notifications for everything - i.e. when it checks email now it notifies me when i have a new email - this causes the screen to come on. I check my corp email, so it means my screen is coming on every 5 mins or so even when i'm not using the phone. Certainly causing a drain - i turned off notifications so that should help.

2) Screen comes on for no reason- I have my phone laying by my keyboard, and i've noticed that the screen comes on by itself periodically - I haven't figured out what background process is causing this, but it seems to happen on a set interval. This is most certainly causing a battery drain as well.

So long story short, IMHO, the OS itself is inherently good for battery life, but there seem to be configs/settings that need to be tweaked or it will drain down your battery.

 

[BongBus]

I was experiencing the same issues with the battery when I installed ICS on my phone. Backed up all my contacts/files and did a Factory reset the other day. Phone works fine now just like it did with gb. Thanks for the tips!

 

[btf_firefighter]

Hasn't changed much for me on the maxx. I turned off global and set brightness to auto, but other than that no changes. GPS on, wifi on at home. I'm currently at 50% after 30 hours of moderate use -- mostly email and sync, FB, a few calls and some internet browsing over 4g.

I got some smart action settings on, screen brightness at 50%, 3g on, wifi when im at home, i do have email set up for every hour, check facebook every once in a while, few websites here and there, I do send a bunch of texts, maybe 1 phone call a day less than 5 minute average. GPS is on and i can only manage to get 12-13 hours. I did get 16 hours yesterday. I would say im a light to moderate user. Leaning more to the moderate. I dont know how you do it.

 

[tahoejunk]

I have also noticed heavy battery drain after the ICS update. In my case my Droid RAZR MAXX is waking up and the screen is activating causing the heavy battery drain.

This seems to be happening every 15 minutes or so. I also have noticed this is only happening when I am connected to Wi-Fi. I am also seeing the data connection continually cycling on and off. The data connection cycling seems to be the trigger activating the screen in my case. This also seems to be causing the phone to heat up significantly as well.

If I turn Wi-Fi off or if I am not connected to a wireless access point I am not seeing the screen waking up or the data connection cycling. And the battery levels seem to be at what they were before the ICS update or even better.

I thought it might be my wireless router but it seems to be any Wi-Fi connection that causes this data connection cycling and screen wake issue and in turn causing the battery drain.

I have not done a factory reset (trying to avoid that). I have tried to remove some apps that I thought might be causing the issue but haven't found the culprit yet.

Moto forums suggested a third party app might be causing the problem and I tested with safe mode and the problem will clear in safe mode, meaning I can run Wi-Fi and I no longer see the problem with the screen activating or data connection bouncing.

Not sure what all safe mode disables but if it is app or settings related haven't been able to figure out which one yet, but in my case it definitely revolves around Wi-Fi.

 

[btf_firefighter]

I have not noticed my screen coming on by itself with wifi. My wifi is on most of the day. My battery on gb was 12 hours and I'm getting the same on ics except one 14 and one 16 hour day

 

[TisMyDroid]

Ditto, I did do a fdr before ICS and no loss in battery and no problems on wifi or on lte/3g mode, no screen waking up randomly. I think doing an fdr helps solve allot of problems.

 

[lexones]

I been having the same issues. Verizon sent me out another Razr Maxx and it had gingerbread on it. I was so happy when i woke up this morning i found ICS down loading to my phone. I had to do a master wipe to stop the ICS installment. For the mean time i am happy with Gingerbread.

 

[blowabs]

Vz HAS to be scrambling... to stop this ICS from melting....:angry:

 

[Squeak87]

Moderate use today on my Maxx running ICS. Not bad I think.

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