ICS Battery life

[usmcamgrimm]

1 FDR, meter training done, 6 hours 23 minutes with the screen on. And yes, i do play Scramble quite a bit.

 

[CaptainSS]

Posting screen shots to reinforce how these phones can perform so anyone not getting satisfactory performance can have some reinforcing proof. Still on same charge, phone calls, texting, internet, etc.
4G on, lots of time in the basement of my house. IMO the biggest difference between this phone and my first Maxx which could not make it through the day IS - I did not let the store turn this phone on until it charged for 8+ hours.

Almost 50 hours on.

 

[dreadfomonk]

Is the training everyone referring to the process of letting your phone get to 10%, then charging off to 100%? I also wiped my partition cache but hadn't trained it recently on .215 but I did a couple weeks ago on .211.

 

[JohnnytheK]

OK looks like I'm the heretic in the punch bowl. I don't believe all this "training" does anything. That being said I still do it every few months or so, certainly won't hurt and it might help. Digital volt meters aren't calibrated that way, they are calibrated during manufacture, and at least the devices I made were not adjustable by software. (in all fairness, I didn't make smartphones but industrial robots and medical equipment.)

I've done this "training" on the last three of my phones and have never seen any improvement. (the night I installed ICS I ran the phone down to 15% and charged to 100% while off.)


I still get 15 hours of hard use, but instead of having 50-60% when i get home I've got 30-40%. I can live with that and I have an external battery so I can charge on my pocket.

The only things that had helped:

Lowering screen brightness
Turn off Facebook notifications
1 hour update for emails
Only keeping 2 out 4 news feeds
Turning off BT, WiFi, GPS, when not needed.
I haven't tried locking the phone down to 3G, but that helped a lot with GB.
I was on global, but if it was a problem it was slight.

I think I see another FDR in my future,,,


Sent by my Droid RAZR maxx

 

[94lt1]

When you do the fdr.. try doing another one right behind it.. this will ensure a clean wipe. It helped me..

DROID RAZR MAXXIMIZED!!!! PREPARE TO BE VANQUISHED!!!

 

[altjx]

Battery is gorgeous on. 215 leak. No training necessary and it has tripled its life.

Sent from my DROID RAZR MAXX using Tapatalk 2.

 

[boynblu]

2 FDR cache clear and training....still on .211....wonder how much better it will be on .215

 

[Squeak87]

Can anyone point me towards a good battery monitor that shows 1% increments? I have tried GSam Battery Monitor but it shows 3-4% more battery life than I actually have. Thanks in advance!

<--{Droid Razr Maxx °Celcius}-->

 

[Caesars]

Posting screen shots to reinforce how these phones can perform so anyone not getting satisfactory performance can have some reinforcing proof. Still on same charge, phone calls, texting, internet, etc.
4G on, lots of time in the basement of my house. IMO the biggest difference between this phone and my first Maxx which could not make it through the day IS - I did not let the store turn this phone on until it charged for 8+ hours.

Almost 50 hours on.

Honestly i think this has more to do with it then anything. When i ordered my 3300seidio for a previous phone, i threw it on an external charger for ten hours before i even used it. That sucker could not be killed in a day, flash games, YouTube, browsing, hundreds of texts. If i used maxx half as much as that phone it would die in ten hours. My maxx doesn't have poor battery, its just not reflecting what the hardware suggests it can do.

In fact I'm calling Verizon tomorrow.....of course calling them doesn't mean they will provide good customer care.


Googorola MAXX

 

[rosariorose9]

I'll have to agree with those who have said that doing a factory reset helps. I finally 'gave in' and did it last night, and my battery life is back to what it was before the ICS update killed it.

 

[Squeak87]

Honestly i think this has more to do with it then anything. When i ordered my 3300seidio for a previous phone, i threw it on an external charger for ten hours before i even used it. That sucker could not be killed in a day, flash games, YouTube, browsing, hundreds of texts. If i used maxx half as much as that phone it would die in ten hours. My maxx doesn't have poor battery, its just not reflecting what the hardware suggests it can do.

In fact I'm calling Verizon tomorrow.....of course calling them doesn't mean they will provide good customer care.

Googorola MAXX

I agree, the Maxx does have good battery life compared to some other phones, but it surely isn't all the hype Verizon makes it out to be. Although do you really believe everything you hear?

<--{Droid Razr Maxx °Celcius}-->

 

[Caesars]

OK looks like I'm the heretic in the punch bowl. I don't believe all this "training" does anything. That being said I still do it every few months or so, certainly won't hurt and it might help. Digital volt meters aren't calibrated that way, they are calibrated during manufacture, and at least the devices I made were not adjustable by software. (in all fairness, I didn't make smartphones but industrial robots and medical equipment.)

I've done this "training" on the last three of my phones and have never seen any improvement. (the night I installed ICS I ran the phone down to 15% and charged to 100% while off.)


I still get 15 hours of hard use, but instead of having 50-60% when i get home I've got 30-40%. I can live with that and I have an external battery so I can charge on my pocket.

The only things that had helped:

Lowering screen brightness
Turn off Facebook notifications
1 hour update for emails
Only keeping 2 out 4 news feeds
Turning off BT, WiFi, GPS, when not needed.
I haven't tried locking the phone down to 3G, but that helped a lot with GB.
I was on global, but if it was a problem it was slight.

I think I see another FDR in my future,,,


Sent by my Droid RAZR maxx

You may not even have to train it, the idea is to help those that have a clear problem of inaccurate battery meters .

 

[Caesars]

I agree, the Maxx does have good battery life compared to some other phones, but it surely isn't all the hype Verizon makes it out to be. Although do you really believe everything you hear?

<--{Droid Razr Maxx °Celcius}-->

The only thing that gives me hope is that Seidio battery I had was AMAZING, literally mind blowing, I just gotta get my maxx to do that lol.

 

[CaptainSS]

Honestly i think this has more to do with it then anything. When i ordered my 3300seidio for a previous phone, i threw it on an external charger for ten hours before i even used it. That sucker could not be killed in a day, flash games, YouTube, browsing, hundreds of texts. If i used maxx half as much as that phone it would die in ten hours. My maxx doesn't have poor battery, its just not reflecting what the hardware suggests it can do.

In fact I'm calling Verizon tomorrow.....of course calling them doesn't mean they will provide good customer care.


Googorola MAXX

Last night I finally gave up and put it on the charger, 57 hours 53 minutes and I was still at 20%. Was trying to get it down to 10% but had to go to bed. This morning I've been using it for 4hrs 13mins and I'm still at 100%

 

[danh63]

I did the fdr and forgot to uncheck the boxs all the apps restored,. Is this still bad and should I redo the fdr???