Ball-Hop does as well. It's a shame because it's an awesome game but boy does it nerf the battery.
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Battery Life?
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Ball-Hop does as well. It's a shame because it's an awesome game but boy does it nerf the battery.
How have you managed this? I plugged mine in last night at 20% after 13h with less usage than my OD which would have been around 70-80%.
It's been said already, but can you folks please list your display time with your battery life.
"Light use" "heavy use" etc is way too subjective.
I can add 8 hours with 10% use by changing before I go to sleep and letting my OGD sit idle.
Isn't display time the best indicator of use?
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"Light use" "heavy use" etc is way too subjective.
I can add 8 hours with 10% use by changing before I go to sleep and letting my OGD sit idle.
Isn't display time the best indicator of use?
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My Display time is only at 7% currently so that maybe gives you some idea. I've checked some voicemails, made a couple of phone calls and sent some texts. Played a couple of games (Stardunk, Angry Birds) for a few minutes but mostly left it in my pocket. Now granted, you probably have more extensive usage than I do but the reason I'm posting this is because when I started the thread my phone was burning through the battery without me even touching it. Here's a list of some of the things I've done that seem to have helped me out.
1) The phone is set to global mode by default. Change that to CDMA in Mobile Network Settings.
2)If you haven't already done so, let your battery drain completely and then recharge it. If you have, skip to 3.
3) Unlike OG Droid you can charge Droid 3 while it's off.. That seems to have helped quite a bit as well.
4)Live Wallpapers seem to kill this phone's battery for some reason so either avoid them or experiment and try to find one that doesn't kill battery.
5) Use auto brightness for the display and select 30 seconds (or less) for how long the screen will stay on without you touching it.
5) Use task manager to exit out of apps when you're done using them. Basic, I know but every little bit helps.
6) I've found that the back of the phone will actually get hot when you're starting to burn battery(this happened just a few minutes ago when I downloaded and tried a power sucking live wallpaper. If this happens go to the task manager and refresh it to see if there is something or multiple things using a lot of power.
That's all I can really think of for now, I hope it helps a bit.
Droidrage729
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I have been of the chrger since 7 . I've been on tapatalk and texting since and im at 90 percent. However im in doors so my screen brightness is on 0. Try turning it down when its not necessary to have the brightness up. I have a widget for it makes it easy.
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I think this may be an antiquated D1 notion. My battery was showing that 4% of my usage was display when I had it turned down (habit learned from the D1). So I cranked it up to about 60% (more than bright enough) and since then my display has bounced between 5 and 7 %.... compared to the 30 - 40% cell standby and phone idle are using its a drop in the bucket.
My recomendation for D3 users is put the display at whatever brightness / timeout is comfortable / convenient for you, my usage (and other stats I've seen posted are backing this up) is showing it has VERY little to do with battery life. Based on the numbers above if you get 15 hours on a charge, keeping the brightness cranked down is going to save you less than 15 minutes of battery...
These are just my observations, and could be totally wrong hehe.
The best thing I've found to help save my battery life if turning off background data when youre not really using the phone to much if you can go with it off, other then that mines getting better the more i let it die completely before recharging it.
EDIT I've been at work today so there has been quite a bit a playing and using the phone. I unpluged it at 830am est
7h 3m 10s on battery battery is sitting at 50% as im typing this
cell standby 31% (with 0% time without signal)
phone idle 25% (time on 5h 39m 12s)
goodle maps 15%
wi-fi 13% ( wifi running 2h 59m 23s)
Display 8% (time on 1h 23m 57s) ( I use the lowest sitting unless I'm outside and have to have it brighter)
android os 3%
android system 3%
voice calls 2%
Stumbleupon 2%
EDIT I've been at work today so there has been quite a bit a playing and using the phone. I unpluged it at 830am est
7h 3m 10s on battery battery is sitting at 50% as im typing this
cell standby 31% (with 0% time without signal)
phone idle 25% (time on 5h 39m 12s)
goodle maps 15%
wi-fi 13% ( wifi running 2h 59m 23s)
Display 8% (time on 1h 23m 57s) ( I use the lowest sitting unless I'm outside and have to have it brighter)
android os 3%
android system 3%
voice calls 2%
Stumbleupon 2%
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Thank you!
So it looks like display is only using less than 3% of battery per hour, WOW! OD ran about 15%per hour for me. So the high % shown for cell standby is relatively low about 2% per hour which is about the same as OD.
I think that kind of efficiency makes any pixelation on the display well worth the trade.
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MelissAnnH
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Indeed, THIS IS NOT A BATTERY ISSUE, this is a radio issue. I dont know much, but i DO know that Display should always be the #1 battery eater, and if its not, something aint right!
I do know my battery isnt lasting more then a few hours and my phone is HOT.
I am not so rigid that I expect technology to be perfect, I know to wait for the push upgrade - if us commoners know about it, Im sure the headprogrammers do too.
In the meantime I switched off of my Global setting and did a *228/2 update.
I just wanna know one thing...... where did that one guy stick the thermoeter to get the temp! :icon_eek:
Indeed, THIS IS NOT A BATTERY ISSUE, this is a radio issue. I dont know much, but i DO know that Display should always be the #1 battery eater, and if its not, something aint right!
I do know my battery isnt lasting more then a few hours and my phone is HOT.
I am not so rigid that I expect technology to be perfect, I know to wait for the push upgrade - if us commoners know about it, Im sure the headprogrammers do too.
In the meantime I switched off of my Global setting and did a *228/2 update.
I just wanna know one thing...... where did that one guy stick the thermoeter to get the temp! :icon_eek:
There are apps and Widgets in the market that you can view your temperature
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He said an IR Thermometer so he just pointed it at the surface. Higher frequency also =more heat as well as the extra radio. Think microwave.
Any way you look at it the display is using way less power if those stats are correct.
And the power used by the radio is in line with OD.
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Any way you look at it the display is using way less power if those stats are correct.
And the power used by the radio is in line with OD.
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I was getting great battery but my android os was taking up a lot...after like three days it stopped after rebooting. I thought reboot would fix so now whenever I reboot my phone now my android os goes high! Idk why it's taking up more than 25% it's supposed to stay at under ten.
Rooted thunderbolt.
Rooted thunderbolt.