Droid X Battery Life

[throwscoach]

Wow! That's a lot. Does that work for the DX? And is that really necessary?

Does the phone stop pushing a charge through to the battery if it thinks its charged? If not, then why not just do a few overnight full charges?

 

[th3drow]

After using mine for 16 hours today i came home with 10% battery life showing.

I used it pretty heavily, did tons of texts, made like 10+ phone calls, used the internet a bit (checked things with email and facebook throughout the day), used a little bit of gps, generally messed around with it a bit.

 

[reef9]

Once again, tons of misinformation is being spread in this thread.

Do not use app killers to auto-kill all apps after a preset time. You should only use them to force an application to close when it malfunctions, which is rare. Auto-killing all apps causes the OS to recache applications, which hurts battery life.

Lithium Ion batteries to not benefit from full cycling, whatsoever.

Also, I'd like to add that reducing screen brightness and eliminating unnecessary widgets that constantly sync seemed to help my battery life out quite a bit. I run in Performance Mode and can easily get a full day, 5 am to 10pm, out of it.

Im new here, so please bare with me.

Could you explain a little more in detail how you get your batter to last from 5am - 10pm on Perfromance Mode???? I barely seem to get past 1pm. I am somewhat heavy user and charge it turned off during the night!

Please some help!!

Thanks

 

[reef9]

After using mine for 16 hours today i came home with 10% battery life showing.

I used it pretty heavily, did tons of texts, made like 10+ phone calls, used the internet a bit (checked things with email and facebook throughout the day), used a little bit of gps, generally messed around with it a bit.

Could you explain what your doing different here? 16 hours??? Thats great, but how?

Thanks,

 

[Sydman]

Here is what I do, I am 1d 10h 14m since unplug and I am down to 60 %. I have the extended battery and I have no widgets that update except the Beautiful widget set to update weather every hour. I have two gmail accounts that are set to straight sync no polling. I used to use a task killer but have since tried to stay away from it, I always back out of my browser instead of hitting the home button. Gps and bluetooth are always off, wifi always on when I am home or at work. Try to not play robo defense cause that drains the battery pretty good.

 

[reef9]

Here is what I do, I am 1d 10h 14m since unplug and I am down to 60 %. I have the extended battery and I have no widgets that update except the Beautiful widget set to update weather every hour. I have two gmail accounts that are set to straight sync no polling. I used to use a task killer but have since tried to stay away from it, I always back out of my browser instead of hitting the home button. Gps and bluetooth are always off, wifi always on when I am home or at work. Try to not play robo defense cause that drains the battery pretty good.

Hey thanks so much for the fast reply. I am blown away at your battery status. That's amazing. Im at 4 hrs 3min and at 50%. I never have played robodefense. I have 2 gmail and 1 yahoo acount. I have the standard battery and was hoping for 16 hrs out if it. Widget wise i dont have much really, weather, few toggles, calendar, and that's pretty much it. I do have lots of apps on my screens.

I will try the wifi on at home only. I also don't have gps on at all. How do you charge your phone? And how do you set your widgets to not pull so much?

Thanks again for the help.

 

[Sydman]

I just plug mine in to the charger when I go to sleep and unplug when I wake up. As far as your widget goes just clicking on it and going into the settings should find the update interval.

 

[bgillyjcu]

NEVER leave it plugged in overnight.

The X takes 2-3 hours at the MOST to fully go from DEAD to 100%.

 

[Ralffers]

NEVER leave it plugged in overnight.

The X takes 2-3 hours at the MOST to fully go from DEAD to 100%.

Charging overnight doesn't do it any harm; when the battery is 100% charged, it no longer accepts a charge & just holds. This goes for all phones.



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[bgillyjcu]

I found with my last phone that when I left it on the charger all night the next day my battery life sucked compared to what I will explain next.

I charge my phone to 100% before bed (I'm usually around 30-40% when I put it on to charge.) Then at night it goes down a little, but I put it on the charger when I wake up and when I leave for work 40mins later I'm at 100%.

I do this with my X with great success so far.

I do this with my X

 

[reef9]

I charge my phone to 100% before bed (I'm usually around 30-40% when I put it on to charge.) Then at night it goes down a little, but I put it on the charger when I wake up and when I leave for work 40mins later I'm at 100%....

How much do you use your phone throughout the day? Are you a pretty heavy user? You say you get home with a 40% charge after a days work.. thats good!!

 

[Sydman]

I charge over night all the time and have gone two full days before needing to charge again. I guess I can try it the other way just don't see the point if it is already that good.

 

[reef9]

Hey Sydman.. see thats is just nutts man! You get 2 full days???? My gosh do I wish i had that!!!! I know you have the extended but i should at least get 16-2o hours on the standard battery?

Also.. do you have lots of apps on your screens? Not the widgets but apps? And do you have lots of apps installed in general?

Thanks

 

[Technoman]

Hey Sydman.. see thats is just nutts man! You get 2 full days???? My gosh do I wish i had that!!!! I know you have the extended but i should at least get 16-2o hours on the standard battery?

Also.. do you have lots of apps on your screens? Not the widgets but apps? And do you have lots of apps installed in general?

Thanks

The number of APP's on the phone has no relevance unless they do some type of Auto-updating of data.

Widgets are not the only thing that does data auto-updating. There are APP's that do background updating also.

 

[reef9]

Yea.. thanks for clarifying that to me.. I was wondering if it did pull battery juice.. Thats a relief it doesnt!

Thanks