Battery Life?

[snoop5]

try the new kids rom he's 13 and his rom has the best battery life for me anyway on a cm7 rom. big ups to MOE

 

[Ragnell]

try the new kids rom he's 13 and his rom has the best battery life for me anyway on a cm7 rom. big ups to MOE

Wrong forum buddy

Anyways

After a full day of useage here's my stats once again

12h 15m 30s
Cell Standby 31% - 10h 50m
Phone idle - 29% - 10h 26m 55s
Android system 16% - 13m 5s
Display 7% - 1h 48m 34s
Mediaserver 4% - 38m 38s
Voice calls 4% - 7m 17s
Foursquare 4% - GPS 6m 9s CPU total 2m 21s
Android OS 3% - 24m
Maps 2% - Keep awake 10m 42s CPU total 5m 33s
Mixzing 2% - Keep awake 1h 57m 46s CPU total 15m
Scrobble Droid 2% -Keep awake 1h 53m 29s CPU total 13m 41s

Woke up, checked in about 4 times on foursquare, played music on the train (2hrs) checked twitter and posted a few times, checked facebook, Played music from 1pm to about 4pm, until 4:20pm I haven't really touched the phone, Currently sitting on 20%

Not sure if this is an improvement from before since my phone has now become my main music player, which probably kills the battery quicker for me, but it seems to be an improvement? Right?

 

[Cubanito]

Well I did the factory reset and did not sync google apps. Battery does seem a bit better but I will be able to tell for sure tomorrow after a full nights charge. I am crossing my fingers that this does the trick if not looks like I will be buying the extended battery and its something I was planning on doing anyway seeing as from the pics I have seen the extended battery and cover does not drastically change the look of the phone.

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[militant]

try the new kids rom he's 13 and his rom has the best battery life for me anyway on a cm7 rom. big ups to MOE

Wrong forum buddy

Anyways

After a full day of useage here's my stats once again

12h 15m 30s
Cell Standby 31% - 10h 50m
Phone idle - 29% - 10h 26m 55s
Android system 16% - 13m 5s
Display 7% - 1h 48m 34s
Mediaserver 4% - 38m 38s
Voice calls 4% - 7m 17s
Foursquare 4% - GPS 6m 9s CPU total 2m 21s
Android OS 3% - 24m
Maps 2% - Keep awake 10m 42s CPU total 5m 33s
Mixzing 2% - Keep awake 1h 57m 46s CPU total 15m
Scrobble Droid 2% -Keep awake 1h 53m 29s CPU total 13m 41s

Woke up, checked in about 4 times on foursquare, played music on the train (2hrs) checked twitter and posted a few times, checked facebook, Played music from 1pm to about 4pm, until 4:20pm I haven't really touched the phone, Currently sitting on 20%

Not sure if this is an improvement from before since my phone has now become my main music player, which probably kills the battery quicker for me, but it seems to be an improvement? Right?

I'd say 2 hours of music playback is pretty solid with all those other stats. How are you playing the music? Is it stored locally or are you streaming through say a pandora or something like Google Music?

 

[militant]

Well I did the factory reset and did not sync google apps. Battery does seem a bit better but I will be able to tell for sure tomorrow after a full nights charge. I am crossing my fingers that this does the trick if not looks like I will be buying the extended battery and its something I was planning on doing anyway seeing as from the pics I have seen the extended battery and cover does not drastically change the look of the phone.

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Let us know for sure, I'm very interested in your results. If it proves to work with you and a few more others, I'll create a topic and try and get it stickied, to make this a known issue for anyone that comes here.

To the person who asked a few posts about about syncing. I wasn't referring to apps auto updating. What I meant was during the initial set-up of your phone, to NOT sync in your apps using google's back up. Yeah, it saves the hassle of re-downloading every app, but doing that seems to bork something in the phone and cause it to use tons of battery.

 

[Rocky]

My D3 sometimes seems to play with me feelings. Sometimes the battery charge hardly goes down and other times it drains real fast. This seemingly without me doing anything significantly differently.

Anyway, it's been good to me lately. Hopefully your D3's are strong and stable with the rest of y'all.



Regards

 

[Cubanito]

Well I did the factory reset and did not sync google apps. Battery does seem a bit better but I will be able to tell for sure tomorrow after a full nights charge. I am crossing my fingers that this does the trick if not looks like I will be buying the extended battery and its something I was planning on doing anyway seeing as from the pics I have seen the extended battery and cover does not drastically change the look of the phone.

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Let us know for sure, I'm very interested in your results. If it proves to work with you and a few more others, I'll create a topic and try and get it stickied, to make this a known issue for anyone that comes here.

To the person who asked a few posts about about syncing. I wasn't referring to apps auto updating. What I meant was during the initial set-up of your phone, to NOT sync in your apps using google's back up. Yeah, it saves the hassle of re-downloading every app, but doing that seems to bork something in the phone and cause it to use tons of battery.

I will definitely post some stats tomorrow. The ones that have me scratching my head are cell standby and phone idle. Every time I checked battery stats those two are very high percentage wise. One thing I am truly loving is the keyboard. I don't think I can ever go back to a phone without a physical keyboard again.

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[Ragnell]

try the new kids rom he's 13 and his rom has the best battery life for me anyway on a cm7 rom. big ups to MOE

Wrong forum buddy

Anyways

After a full day of useage here's my stats once again

12h 15m 30s
Cell Standby 31% - 10h 50m
Phone idle - 29% - 10h 26m 55s
Android system 16% - 13m 5s
Display 7% - 1h 48m 34s
Mediaserver 4% - 38m 38s
Voice calls 4% - 7m 17s
Foursquare 4% - GPS 6m 9s CPU total 2m 21s
Android OS 3% - 24m
Maps 2% - Keep awake 10m 42s CPU total 5m 33s
Mixzing 2% - Keep awake 1h 57m 46s CPU total 15m
Scrobble Droid 2% -Keep awake 1h 53m 29s CPU total 13m 41s

Woke up, checked in about 4 times on foursquare, played music on the train (2hrs) checked twitter and posted a few times, checked facebook, Played music from 1pm to about 4pm, until 4:20pm I haven't really touched the phone, Currently sitting on 20%

Not sure if this is an improvement from before since my phone has now become my main music player, which probably kills the battery quicker for me, but it seems to be an improvement? Right?

I'd say 2 hours of music playback is pretty solid with all those other stats. How are you playing the music? Is it stored locally or are you streaming through say a pandora or something like Google Music?

Locally off my SDcard, it's such a pain to stream music because I use the subway alot

 

[imnotmikal]

I can normally get about 12 hours out of a charge.

But today is different for some reason.
I'm only at 50% after 14 hours.

I've send about 20 seconds an hour, had 2 10 minutes phone calls, and listened to some music while I was doing some things around the house (about an hour) as well as light browsing here and there.

Only thing I didn't do today that I normally do is use Google Maps for about 10 minutes. Surely 10 minutes of Maps wouldn't cause my battery to drain that much fast, would it?

 

[darkmatter]

I can normally get about 12 hours out of a charge.

But today is different for some reason.
I'm only at 50% after 14 hours.

I've send about 20 seconds an hour, had 2 10 minutes phone calls, and listened to some music while I was doing some things around the house (about an hour) as well as light browsing here and there.

Only thing I didn't do today that I normally do is use Google Maps for about 10 minutes. Surely 10 minutes of Maps wouldn't cause my battery to drain that much fast, would it?

I dunno. I've noticed that when I open maps or something that uses gps like that, within that short time it will be the #1 battery user for the day.

 

[Cubanito]

OK stats time. I have noticed that after the factory reset battery life has most definitely improved I was at work so i had a very light usage day but before the reset I would have needed a charge after 5-6 hours with same usage. I will still be buying the extended battery so my only gripe with phone has for now gone away.

40% battery left
11 hrs 14 min 14 sec
Cell standby 45%
Phone idle 40%
Display 6%
Android OS 3%
Android system 3%
Words with friends 2%
Voice calls 2%





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[rongotti]

Yes! Nice bro, glad it worked for you too!

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[pastorgadget]

A couple of comments:
1) Motorola still defaults to a 10% increment when displaying overall battery life, and they don't seem to understand rounding very well. So 91% is 90%, and 89% is 80%. Keep that in mind when viewing your overall battery stats from Motorola. The battery IS sending the detailed info to the system, it's just that Moto chooses to display it in 10% increments.
2) That being said, I find it more useful to use a widget like Circle Battery Widget or MinimalisticText to display battery stats, because they display in 1% increments. MUCH more accurate. It's nice to see my battery use just drop 2% when I cruise the internet for a few minutes, rather than getting the shock of a 10% drop.

I work for a store where we sell 30+ different Android phones, and when people come back to me with battery issues, I always find two major culprits: Facebook and widget updates. These use your cell radio to update, hence the drain on that part of the power bar. With the customers' permission, I disable automatic updates from Facebook, and I encourage customers to eliminate all self-updating social and news widgets on home screens. You can gain an extra 10% or more by this simple fix. (I can see the complaints now: "But my old phone made it 4 days on one charge!" Yes, and your old phone wasn't polling Facebook and CNN 24 times a day, Twitter every 10 minutes, and Flickr, Tumblr, or WordPress now and then! Seriously, if you are so hooked on other people's lives, then you deserve the dismal battery life you are getting.)

I used to have a D2 Global with the 1450mAh extended battery, and I consistently found that I made it to bedtime with 50% or more battery life still available. (At which point I would use that up playing games. :happy Then I rooted and froze some self-loading Motoblur junk, and got to bed with 60% or more battery life. Now I have the D3 with the stock battery, and I am still making it to gametime--I mean bedtime--with 60% or more. In other words, I haven't noticed a big change from one to the other of my phones, and my D3 is running stock Android on a stock battery. Honestly, I am not displeased with the battery life. Sure, it isn't what my old BlackBerry used to get, but then again, my old BB Curve never did what this beast can.

I do wish I could disable some interface settings--such as the little "glow wave" as I flick from one home screen to the next--since I know they drain power. But until I switch to ADW or something, I suppose I'll just have to live with it.

 

[xaelith]

I don't know if it's already been said (the previous poster came pretty close), and i'm sorry for not having the patience to read through 500+ posts, but I found that checking the "allow automatic updates" box is VERY BAD on battery life. I have a list of probably about 50-60 apps I download/restore, and had most, if not all, on automatic update. It wasn't until I rooted and rommed my D1 and still had miserable battery life that I understood what the real problem was. The more programs one has, and the more of them that are allowed to update automatically, the more the phone connects to the network/wi-fi, the faster the battery dies. So yeah, if it can be helped, avoid letting apps update on their own.

 

[Natey2]

It's the data usage and screen brightness that kills battery life.
See http://www.droidforums.net/forum/dr...gingerbread-battery-drain-13.html#post1634667

That thread discusses battery life issues encountered by the DroidX moving from Froyo to Gingerbread, and some possible solutions.

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