Droid X battery problems discovered!!!!!!!

[aminaked]

I think he was wrong about the back button doing something different from the home button.

 

[Amagine]

I think he was wrong about the back button doing something different from the home button.

nope.. he's right and I haven't had ANY of the power problems as described here. but I also make sure that the SCREEN is OFF when I'm not using the phone.
That is over 90% of my power use during the day right there on light use and it won't charge on USB with the screen ON.
Also. Invest in a decent AC charger it makes a world of difference when your charging at 12V verses 5.5. These batteries tend to get a deeper and more stable charge with a 12v source verses a usb.

There might be some, some bad batteries out there. It happens but really this entire thread just sounds like one guy whining that he's right.

 

[pilot25]

It happens but really this entire thread just sounds like one guy whining that he's right.

Dude, for the 8000th time. This has been a problem identified by Moto on the Moto website by the Moto forum manager. Currently being tested by Moto engineers.

No one is whining.

 

[aminaked]

Haha! Whatever Amagine. And the home button usually does do the same thing as backing out of an app, unless the app catches the back button action and performs a shut down procedure.

Call me a whiner, but I don't care. I'm just trying to help people. If I'm wrong so be it.

Again, go tell all the people in this thread about your "bad battery" theory: Battery Drain due to Software Bug w/GPS? - Android Forumshttp://androidforums.com/support-tr...428-battery-drain-due-software-bug-w-gps.html

 

[Sydman]

Yeah I am going on 1 Day 5 Hours and 47 Min Display is 45% Cell Standby is 25% Voice Calls 23% and Phone Idle is 8%. Wifi has been on the whole time and Gps off the whole time. Done a good number of texts, many emails, and played Nesnoid with the Wii controller hooked up over bluetooth for around 20 or 30 min. I am still at 30% battery, so I am pretty sure leaving Gps is better for it cause I never got that good before when I had Gps on.

Also having Wifi connected seems better at home like I have said before cause I am in a crappy reception area inside apartment and searching for 3G signal uses it up pretty good. Ordered the extended battery and it will be here Monday, excited to see how that will do, and if it will fit in the leather case I have. The one from Verizon with the kickstand.

 

[jroc]

Yea....even with the screen off, this bug will leave the phone Running, and Partial Wake is high. Thats why the guy brought up this issue in that thread aminaked posted. Also like aminaked posted, this doesnt happen on the orig Droid. I fired up Google Maps on my Droid, that I had since April of this year, to see if I could get a good GPS lock using it as a stand alone GPS. After I exit Google Maps, Running start to go down. I'm running Froyo tho. If he/she says it doesnt happen on the Droid w/ 2.1, I will have to take his/her word.

Thats not happening on the X for alot of ppl....

Partial Wake is high too, even with the screen off. If u try the GPS bug test, if it effects you u will see what happens: Running & Partial Wake will be high, after doing the fix it starts to go down.

For me, toggling GPS off and on a few times worked for me. When I do that, I can leave GPS on and Running & Partial Wake is low, almost non-exsistent. Some ppl noticed it happened with other apps too so I had a theory it could just be a memory leak. Its easy to test it with GPS or any app: get Spare Parts, Battery Left or use the PROGRAM menu to see Battery History. Try the GPS bug test in that thread, or try using any app and closing it and see if the phone stays Running. And see where Partial Wake is at.

 

[dianeaneal]

Bottom line, Veizon or Motorola needs to come out with a larger capacity battery. Killing apps, display performance, etc... defeats the purpose of why I purchased and Android. With the exception of battery drian love my X

 

[aminaked]

You can already get an extended battery from Motorola. I think it's $50 including overnight shipping.

I think that the bottom line is that this insomnia bug needs to get fixed asap. The battery isn't the problem.

 

[dianeaneal]

sot the extened battery won't help my problem?

 

[aminaked]

SPARE PARTS NOT NEEDED TO CHECK BATTERY USAGE ON X
I learned from another droidforums member that you don't even need to install software to monitor your battery as it may be built into the droid...at least it works on droid 1. Haven't tried it on Droid X yet. Here's info: http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-hacks/10377-droid-testing-screen.html Just dial *#*#4636#*#*
Update: works on X

IF I KNOW CORPORATIONS
And I think I do. This might just be a little scam to sell extended batteries. Call me crazy.
The bug is so obvious that there's no way it could have passed quality assurance like this.
If this bug is real--and most everyone says it is--then I call shenanigans on Motorola. And Verizon? And Google?
The Droid 2 may have this problem too.

EASY WAY TO TURN STUFF OFF WHEN DONE
Longpress home screen to add a built-in widget called power control so you can toggle settings easily. Let's you change wifi, gps, bluetooth, sync, and brightness. Again, normally you SHOULD be able to leave this stuff on, but you can't now because of this bug we're talking about. If you want to shell out a little money, you can buy Tasker and set it up to toggle stuff automatically. However, all of this toggling won't solve the need to unplug and boot and reboot after charging.

Killing apps, display performance, etc... defeats the purpose of why I purchased and Android.

What apps are you killing? Don't run a task killer!

sot the extened battery won't help my problem?

Oh, it will definitely improve your battery life, but have you read through this thread? You might not need that battery because of some ridiculous bugs with the droid x software. For now there seem to be some pretty easy workarounds but we're all waiting for the software update when we'll be dancedroid

 

[Gebo]

EXACTLY...how do you turn off your GPS. DO you go to "Location/settings" and uncheck "Use GPS Satellites" and "Enable Assisted GPS"?

DO I need to check "Use wireless network"?

 

[Lightninrod]

Haven't tried it on Droid X yet. Here's info: Droid Testing Screen Just dial *#*#4636#*#*

Works on my X. Very cool!

 

[datainmotion]

Invest in a decent AC charger it makes a world of difference when your charging at 12V verses 5.5. These batteries tend to get a deeper and more stable charge with a 12v source verses a usb.

Really - which charger would that be??? The charger that ships with the Droid X puts out 5.1 VDC / 850mA. Come to think of it, just about all phones that can be charged via USB cable come with AC adapters with nearly the same spec of 5VDC out (+ or - .5V).

Maybe what you meant to say is that the AC charger will charge the battery faster? If so, that may be true as most O/S will "regulate" their USB to no more than 500 mA (although I use the term "regulate" loosely here as some USB devices have been known to draw in excess of 1A from a USB port).

 

[sh6ne]

i had horrendous battery life... with moderate use. barely browsing or watching videos... mostly texting... i was about to take this phone back seeing as how we've all been complaining for like a month with no solution.

well out of nowhere it seems like my phone has way better battery life... and keep in mind i bought this phone on launch day... part of me thinks we got a phantom update which fixed the issue, but what also could've helped it is...

on privacy in settings i un-checked use my location... my battery standby use went from killing like 50% of my phones battery to less than 20%.. and although i don't use the social networking widgets i turned off social networking sync and maybe that helped it as well.

edit** also uninstalled my task killer and that may have something to do with better battery life too.

 

[movadoevo8]

I don't know about you guys, but my battery lasts as long as my Motorola Droid did. I have my battery profile set to performance and have 3 GMAIL accounts and 1 Corporate Exchange account using Touchdown email app. Are you guys using Facebook, twitter apps and have the refresh intervals very short?

Perhaps other apps with refresh intervals. I recommend checking every single app. Even Agenda widget that i use had it so it would check every 15 mins and I had to change it to check once a day 24/hrs. That's all i need. I think it's mostly user error and apps you use IMO unless you have a bad battery or a lemon of a phone.