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Battery life
- Thread starter Arsonman
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By "calibrate" are you referring to the root-required methods? If so, I'm a little weary about that right now but I'm guessing you guys still recommend going through the standard first-day methods mentioned earlier, right?
Also, thanks to you and NoBloatware for bringing this up again for the newer folk. And for people like myself who stopped reading up on devices when they got stuck with an unmodifiable Eris for 2 years :biggrin: Luckily work surprised me yesterday with the RAZR.
No rooting is required. These guys are talking about just a drain & recharge cycle.
As for NAZQAR, my T-bolt does the same when trying to tether by USB. That's with either the micro USB cable that came with the phone or an aftermarket cable. I use mobile hotspot, so I can plug my phone up while tethering.
I was thinking of doing the mobile hotspot thing I just did not want to pay extra for the service. I am using the standard moto micro-usb that shipped with my phone. I found that if I set USB to charge only mode and turn the screen off while tethered I will not lose any charge, I don't gain either but breaking even is better than losing i suppose. My X never lost power when i was plugge din to the laptop. if I brought it in to work with me almost fully dead and plugged it in to the laptop It would be fully charged by lunch. I may just end up having to go the mobile hotspot route..... I never really had a need to do any of the rooting or hacking or any of that with my OG Droid, X or my Wifes Eris or Revolution, can mobile hotspot feature be used without handing Verizon the rest of my paycheck? That is probably a question for a different thread. I will go search around now. Thanks for the input folks.
killboredom
New Member
Ok...almost through my first day of battery calibration. On my second rundown (first was 17 hours with typical use)...21 hours and 15% left! Granted, right before bed I allowed smart actions to add a low battery action...so I went to bed at 20% and woke up to the same 20%, just six hours later 
Overall,I am thoroughly impressed with this phone and the Smart Actions!
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Overall,I am thoroughly impressed with this phone and the Smart Actions!
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I do the same w my bionic... if I kill the data before bed after 9hrs I might lose 5%.... I can still get texts and calls but with airplane mode you can't... so if u use airplane mode your better off just going to sleep mode or completely shutting it off
I also do it at work in real bad reception areas and it makes my battery last a lot longer
data enabler is my widget of choice... im sure they all work the same but that's what i went with... 4g comes back on very quickly
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Smart Actions are key. I set one up to turn off cellular data when connected to my home or work wifi. Went to bed last night at 16.5 hours and still had 20%. Yes, I did leave my wifi throughout the day and used 4G. Granted, didn't do any streaming or tethering, just normal email, calls and web. I am happy with these results and doubt the Gnex will be better without an extended battery.
arabstar1982
Member
well I am not on 4g much at home since it isnt in my area yet, but I was in a 4g area for about an hour and a half today. The phone has been off charger for nearly 10 hours, with a good 6-7 of those hours with the display on almost constant since I was customizing the phone and heavily downloading apps from the market,creating folders, setting wallpaper, viewing pictures, etc. The display is taking up most of the battery and I am now at 30% battery after nearly 10 hours with most of that heavy usage. I am kind of impressed actually... I know battery life sucks the first week or so you have a new phone because you usually can't put it down, but this thing is providing decent battery life for the amount of usage I have put it through so far. Also played a couple games during this 10 hour stretch too.
Agreed. The setup I am experimenting with now looks like this:
1 WIFI CONNECTION
Trigger: WIFI Connection
Actions: Cellular Data (Disabled)
2 Battery Extender
Triggers: Display Off
Not Charging
No Movement
Actions: GPS Off
Background Sync disabled
Cellular Data disabled
On top of that I obviously have some nighttime Rules which more or less doesn't help because it is on a charger. They more or less just turn off ringer etc. etc.
I have had this phone since 11/10 and have consistently gotten upper double digits before having to re-charge. Up until today I have had 4G constantly on, Wifi on 80% of the time, background sync on, data on, Google location on, 2 business email accounts pushing to my phone, as well as two gmail accounts. Display on automatic. I have been consistenly playing with the device, getting emails pushed , and the occasional text and phone call (average to heavy use). Coming from the Droid Charge, I believe that the RAZR's battery is better with the right Smart Actions. The real test will come tomorrow when I have hundreds of emails pushed to my device and now having these smart actions implemented. Overall pleased, blown away, no, but very pleased.
Thank you all for posting such positive advice and being so detailed and patient about it! This is my first smartphone and I am just getting used to how things work. Never knew I should run the battery down so that it would work better. I started using the task manager, have app kill on the phone and just couldn't figure out why certain programs would seem to be up and running ad I would have to kill them all the time. It's a process to learn but his forum has been great so thank you!
I also have the other actions you described set up. Have you noticed if you still get push emails with the "Background Sync Disabled" is activated? I am concerned about not receiving critical emails and cant tell if it is just my email system being slow or my phone not getting them until I pick it up.
Under the below Configuaration, you will not get push email notifications with the screen off. I have my notification sounds off for all emails anyways so it doesnt really matter to me personally. When I wake the phone up, all pushed emails immediately come to my phone under this configuration.
2 Battery Extender
Triggers: Display Off
Not Charging
No Movement
Actions: GPS Off
Background Sync disabled
Cellular Data disabled
Under these "Rules", the phone has been unplugged for 4 and 1/2 hrs with 75% battery remaining. Voice calls 15 min, Android OS 22 min, Display 42 min, WiFi 3hr 47min