Does anyone sell an extended battery yet?

[medicTHREE]

Also widgets like twitter, facebook, and others that refresh in the background use a lot of juice. Go to settings, about, battery use to see the big users.

If you use GPS and WiFi and bluetooth, but not constantly, install widgets (power control) that allow you to toggle them easily from one of your home screens. This way they aren't eating your battery life.

Turn you screen time out down to a shorter time, this way if you just put it in your pocket, it isn't eating battery life and possibly registering screen taps through your pocket(i can do it in some pants).

The other thing is look at notifications. Vibration is a killer. If every msg/sms/email is vibrating it will eat a lot. ALl in all, it seems the display is the biggest battery hog.

 

[medicTHREE]

Just drove an hour to work. Left my house at full, now I'm at 80. Didn't have wifi, bluetooth, or gps on. 1 hour of moderate use is 20%? Man...

My guess is at some point signal was poor. A poor signal will eat a battery in a hurry.

 

[delaen]

When I view batterry usage it's 75% screen. I have screen brightness set to the lowest setting. Pretty confused.

 

[medicTHREE]

When I view batterry usage it's 75% screen. I have screen brightness set to the lowest setting. Pretty confused.

Not sure what is confusing. The screen is the major power user on any device. This screen with this resolution doesn't come easily. I'm willing to bet setting it dimmer won't do much for power. If you use the phone at all, the screen is going to be your big power hog.

 

[delaen]

My point was that it wasn't a connection issue like you suggested two posts ago. Every Droid has a screen, but not everyone is reporting 20% battery usage per hour with moderate usage and no background services running. That's what is confusing.

 

[delaen]

Just did a quick test:

Wifi/bluetooth/gps off. Killed all backgrounds apps except gtalk and gmail. Set screen brightness to the lowest setting. 35 minutes until it hit 80%. Is this normal or should I try to get a new one?

 

[delaen]

Whoops, forgot to say I browsed the internet for those 35 minutes.

 

[eap369]

leave the dock at 530 am until 630 i have the regular service connection on, no bluetooth or wifi or gps, from 630 until 3 pm i have the phone in airplane mode since i dont get service in my building so i dont want it to eat up the battery searching for service. but when i leave at 3 pm and put my service back on im at 70 percent without turning on the screen just a simple break for 10mins here and there, my storm use to stay at 90 percent with this same senarion, are bb just better with battery? or am i just over exaggerating? would like ur opinion form other droid users :greendroid:

 

[iraparks]

Most of the time it's stated to prolong the life of these types of batteries you should run them down all the way and then charge them, above it's stated to charge them as much as possible, is this true? then i'm happy cuz I charge my Droid as often as possible.. thanks

 

[saxmaster45]

Just a guess

I'm just guessing here, but maybe since we're all playing with new phones, the batteries haven't settled in yet... maybe they have to go through a few charge cycles before they give accurate readings.

GPS seems to be a huge draw on mine. I leave it off most of the time.

 

[denlem]

As stated earlier, go into "settings" "about" "Battery Use".

Look at the top of the screen, you will see it say...

While last unplugged for #h #m #s

Right now mine says: While last unplugged for 7h 43m 36s, so that is how long the device has been running since I removed it from the charger.

Once you plug in and unplug your device, these numbers reset and start measuring usage from zero again.

During that time, my battery usage was broken down like this:
(clicking each item on your device will display the times)

Display - 46%
Time on - 1h 43m 22s

Voice Calls - 16%
Time on - 12m 40s

Phone Idle - 6%
Time on - 6h 0m 14s

Cell Standby - 6%
Time on - 7h 43m 36s
Time without a signal - 6%

Android System - 6%
CPU Total - 12m 4s
CPU Foreground - 42s

Wi-Fi - 5%
Time on -2h 4m 17s

Mediaserver - 5%
CPU Total - 9m 37s
Android OS - 3%
CPU Total 6m 24s

Media - 2%
CPU Total - 2m 7s
CPU Foreground - 1m 50s
GPS - 32s

Slacker - 2%
CPU Total - 3m 4s
CPU Foreground - 28s

Android Core Apps - 2%
CPU Total - 2m 43s
CPU Foreground - 1m 38s


My battery was about 60% used when I put it on the charger. As you can see, out of those 7 hours+ , my screen was lit up for 1 hour and 43 minutes. That used 46% of the 60% the battery used. Aside from the 12 minute phone call, most of the screen lit time I was on wi-fi and playing with email, web, and android market.

You can do the math and figure out times, but wi-fi don't seem too bad if after 2 hours it used 5% of the 60% power that was used. Still, being on when you don't need it could use around 10% of your power every 4 hours.

It can also clearly be seen that the screen does use most of power.

 

[Jason]

My point was that it wasn't a connection issue like you suggested two posts ago. Every Droid has a screen, but not everyone is reporting 20% battery usage per hour with moderate usage and no background services running. That's what is confusing.

I played Robo defense for 2 hours and it was at 80% My Battery is pretty good

 

[searayman]

so back to the title of this post.... are there larger batteries you can buy?

 

[ThePhoneGuy]

No extra batteries either, i had to order one from verizon, their stores don't carry any yet, and they didn't know when they would get them in.

 

[searayman]

not interested in an extra battery, I am interested in a bigger capacity battery.