My battery woes... com.motorola.providers.contacts???

[640k]

sure it does. have you ever actually tested it? USB ports only have the ability to output 550Mah. your wall charger uses 1100Mah. which do you think charges faster?

As previously stated, I charge mine via USB at my office daily. I use the wall charger overnight.
It does not take long to charge it via USB. I also never let mine drop below 60%.

i'm not sure what you're arguing about at this point. it's not even on-topic. the numbers don't lie. USB = 550. Wall = 1100.

OP, do you have alot of contacts in your GMAIL account, or have you maybe added images to alot of contacts? is your phone syncing with your account throughout the day? maybe, just maybe, your contacts are getting hung up during a sync cycle. who knows why it's at the top of the list. you could try a factory reset. you won't lose much, just a few sound settings. all of your apps will come back on their own.

 

[belome]

Even the apps will come back? That was one of the reason I was considering the factory reset... because I'm wondering if an app I downloaded is eating the battery (obvoiusly Bloo was)

I do have a ton of contacts that FB brought over with pictures... but I don't think there is a way to stop that... is there?

 

[pool_shark]

sure it does. have you ever actually tested it? USB ports only have the ability to output 550Mah. your wall charger uses 1100Mah. which do you think charges faster?

As previously stated, I charge mine via USB at my office daily. I use the wall charger overnight.
It does not take long to charge it via USB. I also never let mine drop below 60%.

i'm not sure what you're arguing about at this point. it's not even on-topic. the numbers don't lie. USB = 550. Wall = 1100.

This is what you stated:
don't use the USB to charge your phone. it's not a raapid charger and serves no benefit to be hooked up to a computer.


I charge mine via USB on my laptop every single day. It charges, how is that not a benefit?

 

[640k]

This is what you stated:
don't use the USB to charge your phone. it's not a raapid charger and serves no benefit to be hooked up to a computer.

You said it serves no benefit.
I charge mine via USB on my laptop every single day.

If you're going to quote me, don't quote me out of context:

maybe you're not getting a full charge. don't use the USB to charge your phone. it's not a raapid charger and serves no benefit to be hooked up to a computer. use the wall plug instead.

I was merely working to troubleshoot OP's problem. his computer could be sleeping the USB port, he could have bad drivers, the PC may reboot, etc., etc. there are alot of variables that can be eliminated by using the rapid charger vs. the trickle.

there's no benefit to tethering your phone to a PC when you can use BT and Wifi to transfer files, etc.

 

[640k]

Even the apps will come back? That was one of the reason I was considering the factory reset... because I'm wondering if an app I downloaded is eating the battery (obvoiusly Bloo was)

I do have a ton of contacts that FB brought over with pictures... but I don't think there is a way to stop that... is there?

in the regular Android OS, you can tell FB not to sync your contacts. i think blur has got it confused, so you don't have the option. maybe if you delete FB from accounts, and only log in through the FB app?

as long as you're allowing google to backup your data, it will restore your apps if you do a factory reset (sometimes it takes a little bit of time to do so). sometimes it's the order some apps were installed and a FR might clear that up. but to ensure they don't come back, you have to uninstall all of them.

 

[pool_shark]

This is what you stated:
don't use the USB to charge your phone. it's not a raapid charger and serves no benefit to be hooked up to a computer.

You said it serves no benefit.
I charge mine via USB on my laptop every single day.

If you're going to quote me, don't quote me out of context:

maybe you're not getting a full charge. don't use the USB to charge your phone. it's not a raapid charger and serves no benefit to be hooked up to a computer. use the wall plug instead.

I was merely working to troubleshoot OP's problem. his computer could be sleeping the USB port, he could have bad drivers, the PC may reboot, etc., etc. there are alot of variables that can be eliminated by using the rapid charger vs. the trickle.

there's no benefit to tethering your phone to a PC when you can use BT and Wifi to transfer files, etc.

How did I quote you out of context? You said there is no benefit to hooking it up to the computer. You didn't say anything at that time about a defective PC/parts, you only stated there was no benefit.

If I charge mine every single day with the USB cable and it reaches 100% the benefit is just the same as plugging it into the wall, it gets charged.

I'm done here.

 

[640k]

How did I quote you out of context? You said there is no benefit to hooking it up to the computer. You didn't say anything at that time about a defective PC/parts, you only stated there was no benefit.

If I charge mine every single day with the USB cable and it reaches 100% the benefit is just the same as plugging it into the wall, it gets charged.

I'm done here.

there is no benefit to tethering an Android phone to a PC, short of a slow charge or running shell commands (root). if a power supply is not handy, USB is an alternative. but there is no reason to have your device tethered to a PC, so why waste your time?

use of the rapid charger is recommended by the manual and may be required, should your battery ever drop below a certain percentage (very low).

 

[belome]

Thanks guys... I'm going to give it a full charge tonight before I go to bed then unplug it and see what % I have left in the morning without Bloo, the weather app, and google calendar running. I sure hope its more than 8 hours!

 

[ohfire]

If you decide to try a task killer, be sure to get advanced task killer FROYO, it is new out and designed for 2.2.

 

[trook]

My battery was also horrible and what I found worked was to download "spare parts" from the market, open spare parts, select battery history, then other usage, a list will pop up, select partial wake usage and it will show you if there is an app that is killing your battery. On my D2 it happened to be TIKL Push to Talk, so I got rid of it and it lasts alot longer now which still isn't very long...... high capacity battery maybe?

 

[Dragoro]

My battery was also horrible and what I found worked was to download "spare parts" from the market, open spare parts, select battery history, then other usage, a list will pop up, select partial wake usage and it will show you if there is an app that is killing your battery. On my D2 it happened to be TIKL Push to Talk, so I got rid of it and it lasts alot longer now which still isn't very long...... high capacity battery maybe?

Extended battery works great for me.

 

[thxalot]

Juice Defender

Before you blow money on a big battery (like I did), go out to the market and install Juice Defender. It's free, the stock settings are like magic, and there's no stability issue.

I just checked my runtime and it's at 66 hours. Last restart was to pull the SD card out.

Juice Defender turned the phone from 6-8 hours of use before low-batt to 15+ hours of use. Huge difference!

No need for Ulitmate Juice or any fancy stuff.

 

[bburzycki]

Well i have the extended battery and will try anything at this point to be able to use this thing for even 6 hours...without recharging it..

com.motorola.providers.contacts - this is the largest user of time on my phone...

Anyone know how to knock that number down... last i checked it was online for 43 minutes of use for 6 hours of uptime and that is with no calls or usage of the device - except the screen to see it after the 6 hours had passed - that put me at 70% battery - I think used it for 5 minutes - downloaded one app and its now at 60%..

It seems like what is running and what usage needs to be should be able to be managed much better initially vs. us having to figure out how to make it a half a day without recharging...

 

[bburzycki]

So real world testing

Well this is quite amazing..

Yesterday dead by noon with the normal battery.

Today:

Extended battery
Motorola Applications all set to: Sync Over Wi-Fi only
Running this Juice Defender App (Download - Free)
And running in Maximum Battery Saver Mode (In the phone)

Totals for Today are as follows:

Unplugged at: 730am
Since Unplugged: 8 hours 19mins
Its total up time since the last reboot: about 19hours (not very important)

Voice Calls: 60%
com.motorola.providers.contacts - 14% / 23 Minutes
Display 7%
BT 3%
Cell Standby 5%

Battery now showing: 70%

I would consider the fact I turned all that crap off - I can still make calls, receive calls, receive txt messages, BT sync, VM will notify when i get them but not download until I open the Visual VM app...

I must be missing something that I am missing..

But that terrible battery usage yesterday without these things done is to me a major configuration issue on the part of Verizon and motorola, would you not ship it with all this crap off to have great uptime then allow people to add things knowing it will impact battery life horribly...

Heck thou what do I know...

There must be a reason to ship a phone with 4 hours of run time - I assume its to sell extended batteries and car chargers that together is actually more than the phone itself.

 

[DeniseSays]

I think it's ridiculous that this phone eats battery so fast. All of us SHOULD be able to have it pushing our emails instantly [or other notifications] and not have to worry about how much it's draining our battery. Droid really needs to figure something out and release some type of patch. I mean, it's one thing if you're constantly refreshing FB/twitter, downloading tons and eating up bandwith and data but for just 'normal' usage, it drains way too fast compared to other smart phones.

Oh, and factory resets do not help. At least in my short experience with the phone.