Battery Life?

[The_Rick_14]

I posted this in another thread but it seems relevant here as well. Might not help anyone out, but maybe it will.

https://motorola-global-portal.cust...sion/L3RpbWUvMTMxMTk2ODE0MS9zaWQvb1dtQWNkQWs=

Things I found interesting:

"During initial set up of your Google and social networking account, your phone's battery may drain faster than usual due to the amount of data transferred. After the initial sync, and a few charging cycles, your battery will reach its maximum capacity."

"We strongly recommend to keep the phone attached to the charger during the initial sync."

"Use the AC adapter to charge your phone whenever possible."

 

[Fr33dom]

Day three is ending and I am at 70%! What is extra special about this is that I left WIFI on all day. I also unwittingly left my adhoc wireless connection on at work most half of the day so the WIFI settings only affected part of the day.

Now I'm not saying WIFI gave me longer battery live. I said on the last post that I would test removing the Social Networking configuration. But when I looked for a way to do that, I came up empty. The app has nothing to do this with and under Manage Applications there was not much to do but force closing things. I'll detail this more in the morning if I have time, but suffice it to say that I thought that was basically a failed test. When I got to work I noticed I had left my WIFI on and decided to leave it that way.

So tomorrow I will leave WIFI off and make sure the social networking and social location apps get placed in the autokill bucket. I'll have a cleaner test to report tomorrow, but in the mean time I think we have enough proof that these two applications are a source of battery woes. If most of you were like me, you at least tried the app Social Networking, and perhaps Social Location--parts of the bloat that Moto or Verizon rudely failed to clean off our phones before sending them to us. Well if like me you discovered the remarkably useless work flow that these apps forced you through--describable only by invoking the name Edsel, and then marched off immediately to the market and downloaded the Facebook app and so on, you may well be paying for your natural curiosity with lower battery life. I'll confirm this supposition tomorrow and let you know.

70% again today. I am suspicious of that number so I am restarting my phone tonight and will see what I get with no changes or tasks killed tomorrow.

Part of the problem is that I killed some tasks and some of them--the bloatware--started back up. If what I did was achieve 10% by killing Facebook--and I did kill Facebook--then I am not doing what I set out to do. I already know I can save battery by removing Facebook and killing data and not using my d3 in the same way I used my d1. I could also save battery by buying a less useful phone.

50% tonight. When I restarted the phone I got a notice that it detected the SIM card and changed the settings back to global. So this must be confirmation that the settings in the menu are indeed the same as pulling out the card. I know you might think that obvious, but I wanted to be sure. So for me switching to CDMA only is worth 10% on the day.

80% tonight. I take this as proof that the problem is the low signal I get at work. I did switch back to CDMA only. I think I'll try tomorrow with global just to see.

 

[Fr33dom]

70% again today. I am suspicious of that number so I am restarting my phone tonight and will see what I get with no changes or tasks killed tomorrow.

Part of the problem is that I killed some tasks and some of them--the bloatware--started back up. If what I did was achieve 10% by killing Facebook--and I did kill Facebook--then I am not doing what I set out to do. I already know I can save battery by removing Facebook and killing data and not using my d3 in the same way I used my d1. I could also save battery by buying a less useful phone.

50% tonight. When I restarted the phone I got a notice that it detected the SIM card and changed the settings back to global. So this must be confirmation that the settings in the menu are indeed the same as pulling out the card. I know you might think that obvious, but I wanted to be sure. So for me switching to CDMA only is worth 10% on the day.

80% tonight. I take this as proof that the problem is the low signal I get at work. I did switch back to CDMA only. I think I'll try tomorrow with global just to see.

90% tonight with one phone call and one short video (stored locally). So the Global setting is not chewing through my battery when I have good signal either. Tomorrow back to testing other settings. Back to CDMA for now.

 

[Fr33dom]

Over the weekend someone on the Moto support forum mentioned that removing the "moto calendar widget" would help lots. Someone else reported that if you don't remove all the widgets from Blur before using another launcher, they will still be running in the background.

I put quotes around moto calendar because I don't think there is any such thing. I believe they are talking about the stock Android calendar widget which I think Blur changes the look of.

Does anyone have any real knowledge if any of these things are true? Specifically the widgets running on a launcher you are no longer using?

So for todays test, I'll remove Go launcher and see if there is any change. I expect to get 60% again.

 

[Ragnell]

Over the weekend someone on the Moto support forum mentioned that removing the "moto calendar widget" would help lots. Someone else reported that if you don't remove all the widgets from Blur before using another launcher, they will still be running in the background.

I put quotes around moto calendar because I don't think there is any such thing. I believe they are talking about the stock Android calendar widget which I think Blur changes the look of.

Does anyone have any real knowledge if any of these things are true? Specifically the widgets running on a launcher you are no longer using?

So for todays test, I'll remove Go launcher and see if there is any change. I expect to get 60% again.

Thats pretty insane if they are running in the background all this time

 

[darkmatter]

I do seem to be getting better life these last few days I've gone back to stock launcher.

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[BJPalmer85]

my battery life was ok the first 2-3 days. not since ive been having problems. i think im going to invest in an extended battery anyway

B

 

[howzball]

Mine just started having an issue where the Wifi turns off and back on in an endless loop. The phone is also really hot and battery life is terrible because of this.
So far, rebooting the phone hasn't done anything and I can't seem to manually turn the wifi off. It has a mind of it's own.

I can put the phone into Airplane mode for a minute, then turn that back off and Wifi will behave but, I'm not able to connect to Wifi right now at all.

 

[bbrain]

My battery life is iffy at best. I can't ever tell how it's going to act.

 

[howzball]

My cell standby is at 42% which seems way too high to me. I've not made one call on my D3 today, not opened a single application and it's been off the charger for 10 hours and it's warning me to plug it in already at 15% charge.

My girlfriends Droid 1 is nearly 2 years old and it's getting exactly twice the life between charges and, she makes several calls a day on hers.

I'm turning this thing to Maximum battery life and if that doesn't help this P.O.S. is going back.

 

[spacecasespiff]

Tell me if this is good battery life.

This is what I did yesterday I opened up my droid forum app about 20 times and replied about 4 times

Checked facebook about 10 times

Checked twitter about 8 times

Watched about 30 min of you tube vids

Checked for app upadates and downloaded one app

Opened up my zedge app and my backgrounds app and spent about 5 min on each one.

And took about 5 pics

At 12+ hours I had 40% battery left. So for me thats a light day of phone use for me. On moderate days I have about 40% left at 10 hours.


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[dracos]

Average day I can go 18 hours with moderate use including Google Listen and the occasional text. That still gets me down to 30% which isnt so bad.

My wife though who this is her first smartphone uses hers less often then me and today i had to charge her phone cause it was down to 5% and had been up for 2 days and 7 hours.

 

[NoBloatware]

Someone else reported that if you don't remove all the widgets from Blur before using another launcher, they will still be running in the background.

That seems wrong to me. If you use a replacement launcher, the stock launcher doesn't run anymore. I don't see how it would ever call and keep widgets running, but I could be wrong.

 

[hef1969]

JuiceDefender

My buddy told me of app called "JuiceDefender". It's in the Droid Market. It seems to work pretty good. The battery in my phone is HORRIBLE. I was debating whether to return my phone.
Try it out and see how it works.

 

[militant]

My cell standby is at 42% which seems way too high to me. I've not made one call on my D3 today, not opened a single application and it's been off the charger for 10 hours and it's warning me to plug it in already at 15% charge.

My girlfriends Droid 1 is nearly 2 years old and it's getting exactly twice the life between charges and, she makes several calls a day on hers.

I'm turning this thing to Maximum battery life and if that doesn't help this P.O.S. is going back.

This is why I posted the pic of my phone at 40% with over 1d off the charger, I had even made a few calls. Something fishy is going on with these batteries.