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Sadness: New Razr Maxx/s and dissappointed w/battery life.
- Thread starter JWX
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JWX said:
As for the Calibration, actually you can do it every 3-4 months for the maxx, 2-3 months for the RAZR.
But its thought that there are parasitic effects on your battery when charging while powered on. You may show 100% battery and infact you may have 70-80%.
I understand the on call issue. My advice would be to charge overnight powered off when you can.
Some people notice a difference from this, I myself do. While others say it makes no difference to them.
Running CDMA only will increase your battery as well.
DROID RAZR MAXXIMIZED!!!!
You may see a difference after doing a full charge with power off, use til 15% then another full charge with power off and also to get the 4g toggle to turn off 4g unless you really need it (the phone really does suck a lot of battery switching back & forth between 3g & 4g especially when it is a weak 4g signal) but in addition, if you felt you wanted the extra security of extending your battery there is some sort of battery booster thing that you plug your phone into. I'm not exactly sure what it is called or exactly how it works but I know FoxKat uses one and swears by it. (I bet he will chime in any time to explain exactly what it is). Anyway, that may be a better option for you than getting a bionic with a couple extended batteries.
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70% left and 12.5 hours running...CPU 51 minutes & 54 seconds, display 1 hour & 54 minutes on, 4G, WIFI, Bluetooth, GPS all on constantly, 4 email accounts, including Yahoo, Gmail, and 2 POP3 accounts, 3D Flip clock widget, Tapatalk, phone calls, Bada$$ battery monitor, Craigslist browser, Dropbox, Box, Facebook, Pandora, Textfree, Volume Locker, Motocast, Picasa, Verizon Backup Assistant, Verizon WIFI Auto-on, Smart Actions, Swype, and a few other apps I've used throughout the day.
I love my MAXX!Sent from my DROID RAZR MAXX using Xparent ICS Tapatalk 2 using Google voice to text translation. Please excuse any minor spelling, punctuation, capitalization or grammatical errors.
weatherlover1
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So both you and your friend live in the same area? Are you close to a tower? Have you done any testing like turning 4G off all day and see how the battery does just on 3G? Honestly I don't think its the phone sounds like its either an app you just are not seeing and or your tower strength is crap. Bad Ass battery will show you your tower strength which is helpful.
weatherlover1
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70% left and 12.5 hours running...CPU 51 minutes & 54 seconds, display 1 hour & 54 minutes on, 4G, WIFI, Bluetooth, GPS all on constantly, 4 email accounts, including Yahoo, Gmail, and 2 POP3 accounts, 3D Flip clock widget, Tapatalk, phone calls, Bada$$ battery monitor, Craigslist browser, Dropbox, Box, Facebook, Pandora, Textfree, Volume Locker, Motocast, Picasa, Verizon Backup Assistant, Verizon WIFI Auto-on, Smart Actions, Swype, and a few other apps I've used throughout the day.
Sent from my DROID RAZR MAXX using Xparent ICS Tapatalk 2 using Google voice to text translation. Please excuse any minor spelling, punctuation, capitalization or grammatical errors.
You have a MAXX now? Sweet!
I know you bought the phone to use it with 4G, BUT if it is sitting in your pocket most of the day just polling emails and stuff 3G would be much better. If you have a weak 4G signal and are inside all day your phone is probably going crazy trying to hold that signal.
I would switch to CDMA only for a day and see how you do, honestly for general browsing and stuff 3G is more than sufficient for most. I don't use 4G, but I have noticed the days where I do at the end of them I am at 60% battery where before on 3G it would be 80%.
Those are full days use as well from 6:30am to about 10pm, I have two Gmail accounts, plus a exchange server for Touchdown, usually some work Skyping, plus normal everyday stuff. We can get you good battery life out of this phone, just need to pinpoint the problem.
I would switch to CDMA only for a day and see how you do, honestly for general browsing and stuff 3G is more than sufficient for most. I don't use 4G, but I have noticed the days where I do at the end of them I am at 60% battery where before on 3G it would be 80%.
Those are full days use as well from 6:30am to about 10pm, I have two Gmail accounts, plus a exchange server for Touchdown, usually some work Skyping, plus normal everyday stuff. We can get you good battery life out of this phone, just need to pinpoint the problem.
Yup! You noticed...:redface: I did love the RAZR, but I am a power-user and really had to curtail my usage patterns to get through a day with the RAZR and also had to keep 4G off. Now that I'm on the MAXX, 4G is 24/7 and I'm a PDA toting fool!! :icon_ lala:
We are usually about 10-15 miles away, with her being farther from the city, so maybe less 4G strength. Myself, even having left 4G on, today is a somewhat better day as I'm off work and not deep in a building that I believe limits connectivity. So, maybe an issue there. Sad that my old Droid X did about the same.
Her, well, it seems she is getting about 6 hrs. I am going to have to comb through her phone and check polling on K9 etc. She really doesn't use hers much other than mostly twitter, and some voice calls, SMS, some small facebook usage. Something is really up with her. I definitely use mine more.
I've (again) read through all the links (which I did do before I wrote my thread here). I think with judicious use, some toggling of 4G and a couple charges with the unit off, I've been getting mine a bit longer. Roughly from 6-7 to about 10 hrs. But with 9 hrs work, I am charging it when I get home. Without a swappable battery, that sorta limits appropriate use. We'll see tho.
Right now, after 1.5 hrs off a charge, and combing through K9 for settings, BadA$$ Monitor says 86% Battery. 10:44 left w/3 hrs of talk time available. Having made no calls, screen and apps have drawn most, (screen turned as low as can be btw), Apps are next with "Kernel" making the big draw.
I have charged it a few times now turned off and that seems to have helped. BadA$$ "just now" with the last charge went from saying an AVG of 10 hrs to 14 hrs. Maybe it's learning the usage more, maybe the internal meter is getting conditioned. Dunno. We''ll see how it "actually" lasts.
Thanks again for the great comments and input. I really hope to keep this unit. Albeit I long for a swappable battery. I guess I'm paranoid or have a phobia. Hopefully technology changes and they offer something outstanding like this unit in a replaceable battery form.
More input is always welcome. I'm finding this Razr MAxx to be quite a different animal than my old Androids I've had the last 4yrs. Lots of quirks.
Looks good to me, but there is certainly more power available than what you are seeing right now. My MAXX with BadA$$ shows 60% remaining and last unplugged 17 hours ago. It says Time left 8h 32m. Android system's "Battery usage" shows 17H 6M 55S on battery, WIFI on the entire time, Android OS 1h 19m 9s, Voice calls 25m 18s, Display 1h 18m 42s, Phone idle 15h 47m 13s, Cell standby time on 16h 6m 55s - time without a signal 0%, Bluetooth on the entire time.
I wish I could actually have people's phones for a short time to see what is making them perform poorly. But you are doing good troubleshooting and I have confidence you'll narrow it down.
Well Fox, if you have 60% remaining after 17 hrs unplugged I'm seriously intrigued. My OCD is kicking in on this and I'm on a mission, lol...
If you ever come to CLE for some R&R (Casino, Rock Hall, Microbreweries, Museums etc) etc), I'd welcome you looking at mine, lol... Minimally, I owe you and a few others a beer or six for calming me down (somewhat) and possibly allowing me to keep this model.
I still feel the intricacies of this unit are far beyond the grasp (interest level) of a casual user, and it seems lkely that Moto may be seeing a huge amount of returns on this issue alone. As thin as this phone is, I'd be down with a 5k mA battery, lol. Or well simply, at least a replaceable one, haha...
If you ever come to CLE for some R&R (Casino, Rock Hall, Microbreweries, Museums etc) etc), I'd welcome you looking at mine, lol... Minimally, I owe you and a few others a beer or six for calming me down (somewhat) and possibly allowing me to keep this model.
I still feel the intricacies of this unit are far beyond the grasp (interest level) of a casual user, and it seems lkely that Moto may be seeing a huge amount of returns on this issue alone. As thin as this phone is, I'd be down with a 5k mA battery, lol. Or well simply, at least a replaceable one, haha...