ICS Battery life

[WestOkid]

I get it but I don't need percentages just real life experience. my phone doesn't last as long in my pocket at work. On the night stand at home. On train during my commute; nothing! The only reason I think people are talking about the screen and android system percentages is because we want to believe we have a bead on it.

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[FoxKat]

Well, I'm sure you're all gonna like this report. Yesterday I noticed that Motocast was sitting in my status bar and wouldn't shut down. In the status menu it reported "syncing computers'. I had killed the process a couple times, but it kept popping back up. I thought nothing of it and last night, I drained my battery to 10% to confirm what some were reporting - the "Low battery" pop-up now doesn't happen at 15%, but instead at 10%. There is a notification on the lock screen to "Plug your phone in now" at 15%, but not the standard pop-up until 10%. I am wondering if they pushed the low battery warning to 10% to squeeze a little more uptime out of the battery for those who pay attention to that warning.

So I charged overnight last night with power off to 100%, and pulled the phone off charge at about 11:00am and went to work not thinking anything of it. I made one call this morning, took two calls this afternoon, did some Tapatalk on here, and other than that, the phone sat on my desk completely unattended. I took the phone off the desk this evening to head home and noticed it was hot. I powered the screen on and discovered it was nearly depleted of battery power...yes, that's right...from full to 15% in less than 11 hours. I noticed the Motocast was still flashing, so I checked battery stats and it showed that Zumo was the largest consumer of power at 28%, followed immediately by Motocast at 26%. After that, it was the screen at 15%, phone calls at 8% and then from there it dropped off for the rest of the various battery using services.

I called Verizon on the way home tonight, and went through some minor troubleshooting, but the Level 2 technician basically was convinced that my only option is to do a FDR. While on the phone with him tonight, he told me to power down the phone with the "battery pull" technique. At that moment, the phone was reporting 5% remaining, but Battery Monitor Wizard was showing 2%. I did the forced power-down and it never booted back up again. Multiple attempts to power up were also unsuccessful. I plugged the phone into power and it booted into Charge Only mode, showing 0%. Right now it shows 10%.

SO, I'll be doing the FDR tonight and will report my success.

 

[neoterixx64]

I did a FDR tonight. Phone was getting super hot and pretty sluggish.

My battery was decent.

I will report after i play a few days.

Although for certain everything has speed up.

 

[MaxxHeadroom]

Do you have Motocast actually turned off in Motocast itself? It will run it you don't turn it off. I noticed mine wouldn't turn off and kept syncing and showing in my status bar until I turned it off.

My gallery > Motocast > Hit the drop down box for the syncing circle with the arrow in the top right of the screen > If it's checked where it shows your computer name then it's searching for your computer. Just uncheck it to make it turn off and quit searching.

 

[FoxKat]

Do you have Motocast actually turned off in Motocast itself? It will run it you don't turn it off. I noticed mine wouldn't turn off and kept syncing and showing in my status bar until I turned it off.

My gallery > Motocast > Hit the drop down box for the syncing circle with the arrow in the top right of the screen > If it's checked where it shows your computer name then it's searching for your computer. Just uncheck it to make it turn off and quit searching.

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Well, no I hadn't done that and since it's now integrated I didn't even know where to find it. Still, if I turn it off, then it won't sync anything so that's not good either. Thanks for the suggestion and I will certainly give it a try if the FDR doesn't solve the problem, but considering it had been on for a couple weeks prior with no problem, then suddenly goes haywire leads me to believe there's a problem that hopefully FDR will cure. Only time will tell.

Thanks again! :biggrin:

 

[MaxxHeadroom]

Well unfortunately my fdr did not cure it. It's now a toggle off and on situation with ICS. I guess it depends on how much you sync daily. I only need it a few times a week for simple photo transfers so I don't need it on all the time. If it's a feature you need on constantly then it's going to be frustrating to get around for now. It was a battery hog for me running like it did after the ICS update, toggling it manually as needed has been the only cure I've found, even after the fdr.

 

[lowfatdog]

Before the upgrade, I would normally go at least 2 days without having to charge. I do not use my phone very much. I have not added any apps and besides yesterday simply turning my screen brightness up all the way on purpose to get down to the 15% mark quicker (to try to reset the battery) nothing has changed. I normally have my screen brightness set as low as possible. I have to charge daily now or my phone will die within 24 hours. I may have to try the factory reset thing. I don't really have any games or programs so I think it will not be a big deal to try it.

About the battery thing, When I plug mine after it has been shut off, the screen shows a battery and it gets to 100% long before the 5.5 hour mark recommended to charge it. Is this the way it should work even though we are trying to get it to reset the battery?

 

[FoxKat]

Before the upgrade, I would normally go at least 2 days without having to charge. I do not use my phone very much. I have not added any apps and besides yesterday simply turning my screen brightness up all the way on purpose to get down to the 15% mark quicker (to try to reset the battery) nothing has changed. I normally have my screen brightness set as low as possible. I have to charge daily now or my phone will die within 24 hours. I may have to try the factory reset thing. I don't really have any games or programs so I think it will not be a big deal to try it.

About the battery thing, When I plug mine after it has been shut off, the screen shows a battery and it gets to 100% long before the 5.5 hour mark recommended to charge it. Is this the way it should work even though we are trying to get it to reset the battery?

Yes, 5.5 hours is the Maximum time to charge from 0% to 100%. If there is already for instance 30% charge, you can approximate that it will take only about 3.85 hours. It will likely take slightly more since the last portion of the charge (from 90% to 100%), Stage 2 Saturation takes considerably longer than the previous 10%. A safe estimate is perhaps 4 hours from 30%.

 

[aggiesrul8]

I did a FDR yesterday afternoon, and turned off and powered back to 100% once I set everything back up (accounts and such). My battery is back to kickin' butt and takin' names!

 

[FoxKat]

I did a FDR yesterday afternoon, and turned off and powered back to 100% once I set everything back up (accounts and such). My battery is back to kickin' butt and takin' names!

I believe that the flags for max charge and low battery are reset to defaults after an FDR, and I am almost positive they are wiped with an OTA upgrade. Therefore I suggest that since you've already done the first 100% charge, that you discharge to 10% then charge to 100% with power off again.'

Since now ICS's warning "Low battery pop-up happens at 10%, not 15% as in Gingerbread (although it does alert to "Plug into charger" on the lock screen at 15%), I am now recommending that with the training charge cycle that we discharge to 10%. It may not be necessary but won't hurt.

Good luck! :biggrin:

 

[clintro]

Well I look at it like this... my 6 hours of screen on time was almost straight through. Nothing held back, nothing pulled or prevented from running... all out. I threw everything at this phone, and 6 hours of on screen time with every app I opened left running.

Show me another device right now that can do that. Also factor in the crappy service are I'm in...

To you guys showing a day... good for you. But I bet side by side, your device isn't anymore battery efficient than any of mine.. I know this for a fact I have 4 maxx's in my household, two of which I personally use. and all four are very very close.

Your battery is all about your screen on time and the signal that you get.

And when the HD drops, provided it had the same battery as the maxx, which it probably will, it will probably have a little worse battery life.. I'm thinking that the HD screen will suck juice a bit faster...


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

Who needs two phones?!?!? You must be REALLY important. LOL jk

You are 100% correct, it is all about screen and service, any rouge apps would show up really quickly if someone was having an issue.

 

[clintro]

This is after a reset and the 2nd time draining to 10%. I will definitely take 44hrs on a single charge without question!

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I wish I had this kind of results...LOL

On a side note, I believe the screen is brighter now since ICS (just noticed it at night) even with the "Display power saver" set in the Setting - Display - Brightness menu.

 

[SCREWd2V]

How the eff. Is this under moderate usage? Think I'm going to reset when I get back home from vaca

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[94lt1]

Who needs two phones?!?!? You must be REALLY important. LOL jk

You are 100% correct, it is all about screen and service, any rouge apps would show up really quickly if someone was having an issue.

Lol.. they're setup differently is all.

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

 

[cleave]

How do your know if anything/apps are running? I have had my phone on for 26 hours and I'm at 40% battery with minimal usage. Don't know if that's good or bad?