Is battery life on 3G really THAT good? - Motorola Droid Bionic

I have been readin on twitter that the bionic is one of the best 3G phones as far as battery life, especially after debloating...is this correct information? I'm debating selling my d3 and inc2 to get it..I won't have 4g till early next year but I love the screen and how light it is....let me know your thoughts on the battery life on 3G....

I live in a 3g only area and average at least 15 hours with moderate to heavy use, my best was over 17 hours and I still had 30% left, that was an average day of calls texts emails browsing youtube, etc.
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I'm very happy with battery life in general, but have noticed marked improvement if I set it to 3G only. Over 18 hours yesterday and still had 20% left when I put it on the charger. Stock, unrooted.

I've been turning off 4g when I'm not using it and my battery life has at least doubled. after several hours it had only used 15%.
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This is with wifi and 4g on continuously. This is my normal usage of a few phone calls, a few texts and various goofing around but with no streaming, GPS or games. I would characterize this as light usage.
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dvigue said:
I have been readin on twitter that the bionic is one of the best 3G phones as far as battery life, especially after debloating...is this correct information? I'm debating selling my d3 and inc2 to get it..I won't have 4g till early next year but I love the screen and how light it is....let me know your thoughts on the battery life on 3G....
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I am in a 3G only area, and without turning off LTE I get much better battery life than I did on the Droid X2

I shut off 4g when I don't need it...amazing difference. I went a 17 hour day with no 4g on, battery was at 60% or something when I went to bed.

dvigue said:
I have been readin on twitter that the bionic is one of the best 3G phones as far as battery life, especially after debloating...is this correct information? I'm debating selling my d3 and inc2 to get it..I won't have 4g till early next year but I love the screen and how light it is....let me know your thoughts on the battery life on 3G....
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I've had my bionic unplugged since 7:30 am; I've been streaming Google music all day long while working on my house and have made a few call and a ton of text messages. Battery is at 30% as of 12:30 am. With 4G on I was only getting about 4 hours of device usage. I also have my WIFI set to sleep when the screen turns off. Really impressed with the battery life on this bad boy!

No screenshot to prove it but 34+ hours on heavy usage with less than 10% left before I charged. Facebook, college football, netflix, youtube, music, voice, text, etc consistently. 4g on 98% of the time. With extended batt. Blew my mind. Should've worn a helmet, now there's a mess everywhere.

Where I'm at for college there is great 4G coverage, but I'm on the "main campus" , opposed to the downtown one where I live, alot. It is 15miles away, with no 4G coverage, so I use 3G, and I do notice a significant increase in battery life. My battery seems to die rather quick sometimes, but I guess angry birds does that?

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How's your battery life

Just doing a poll on your battery life how you use it what from etc.. I'll start Im 4.03 ice by dhacker.
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bfitzpatrickd2d said:
Just doing a poll on your battery life how you use it what from etc.. I'll start Im 4.03 ice by dhacker.
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what are you showing us, that after five hours you plug in??
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Haha. Yea, he's showing that his battery meter is not accurate. Lol.
I lasted 3 days and 9 hours with my $10 extended battery. It was at 1% for a good 36 hours of it.
On my standard battery after 16 hours of "normal to light" use, I'm usually around 60%. As long as I don't have to charge it during the day, I'm happy. Plug it in every night when you go to bed and unplug it in the morning, you will last all day.
lmao wasn't the planning on that ill give a more accuarate battery in a few hours i actually went from full at 12 pm to about 5 brinking me to 10 percent in 5 hours
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Haha. Yea, he's showing that his battery meter is not accurate. Lol.
I lasted 3 days and 9 hours with my $10 extended battery. It was at 1% for a good 36 hours of it.
On my standard battery after 16 hours of "normal to light" use, I'm usually around 60%. As long as I don't have to charge it during the day, I'm happy. Plug it in every night when you go to bed and unplug it in the morning, you will last all day.
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Other than the incorrect meter LucasMN, how much better is the extended battery in terms of single full charge. I am debating on getting an extended battery because I use my droid heavily throughout the day for work. I charge with the same habits as you. With my current standard battery I get to about 50% by 2pm (my day starts at 8:30a)
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I cannot compare it to the standard battery as I've never let the standard get lower than 30%.
3 days and 9 hours on the extended battery included 2 full work days. I work in IT and will quickly check e-mails throughout the day on my phone. Out of the office I use it quite a bit for facebook and streaming music. 95% of use was over Wifi though.
I bought the battery + cover off ebay for $10. It's about 3x as thick as the original battery.
So I was a bit concerned about battery now seems to be pretty good strange how some days I get 5 hours to 20 percent now going on 7 at only 50 percent
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Can't post screen shot since phone is stuck at motor screen atm, but...with a dim screen, cal'd battery and debloated rom , I can burn through a full charge OEM extended battery in half an hour or less. I use a ton of SMS...
a half hour for a extended battery are you freaking kidding me and i thought this was bad i sms a lot too facebook and xda mostly through the day that is just crazy i am still at 50 percent and now at 7 in a half hours looks like i might make it to almost 12 on this one
when I get to a PC and unfutz my bionic ill screen shot it for you. To be honest I have always been a battery abuser though. BB curve to storm to og Droid to d2 and now bionic...all had to have extended batteries.
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Most recent update pics charged for about thirty minutes at fourth percent pretty impressive I think
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psigti said:
Can't post screen shot since phone is stuck at motor screen atm, but...with a dim screen, cal'd battery and debloated rom , I can burn through a full charge OEM extended battery in half an hour or less. I use a ton of SMS...
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I would love to see this. With my extended battery, I stayed at 1% for over a day though. Unless yours is powering off, I bet that would be the case. 30 min for an extended battery, even an OEM standard battery sounds like BS to be honest, unless it is physically damaged.
I don't know what happened to mess up everyone's battery life, but when I flashed the 904 update mine all went away!

[Q] What is normal battery drain?

What is your normal battery drain when your phone is idle? I have an hour and 15 minute drive to work each day and my phone sits idle the entire time when I get to work I notice that my battery has drained about 3%. Is this normal or is this high?
I'm running teamhacksung build 16 with glitch beta 3, of course this has been the case for every ROM I have installed. Btw I keep wifi and gps off at all times and I'm syncing only gmail.
The reason I ask is that I was given an iphone for work and I couldn't believe the battery life, of course I could never leave android for apple...I just can't customize it...
Thanks in advance.
3 % a hour, that's high, im on kk4 based rom & kernel and my cappy drained average 1% per hour
Austin Ag06 said:
What is your normal battery drain when your phone is idle? I have an hour and 15 minute drive to work each day and my phone sits idle the entire time when I get to work I notice that my battery has drained about 3%. Is this normal or is this high?
I'm running teamhacksung build 16 with glitch beta 3, of course this has been the case for every ROM I have installed. Btw I keep wifi and gps off at all times and I'm syncing only gmail.
The reason I ask is that I was given an iphone for work and I couldn't believe the battery life, of course I could never leave android for apple...I just can't customize it...
Thanks in advance.
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Perhaps during your drive you are going through some areas of weak signal where the phone needs to work harder to stay connected.
You can look at Settings to see what has been using your battery during that hour and a half.
That's similar to the battery life I'm getting. I think I can get better drain if I don't overclock
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^same. Its also the same if I'm running cm7. On THS ICS, at most I can get 2 and a half hours of screen time o.o
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Austin Ag06 said:
What is your normal battery drain when your phone is idle?
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I have seen my phone idle between .5% to 3% based on strength and stability of signal, no other factors involved. Since traveling at vehicle speeds = less stability. It's probably the reason for your loss, you can try different modems to see if one talks to the towers better so hand-offs go smoother.
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Here are a couple screen shots I took after my phone was sitting on the counter idle for a little over an hour.
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Yeah I'd say that 3% in 15 minutes is high - I probably drop 1% to 2% per hour or so when idle (but I keep wifi and mobile data disabled when not in use).
Even when I'm work though where my cell signal is weaker I don't think I've ever seen my battery drop 3% in 15 minutes.

[Q] Lt25i Xperia V - battery drain issue

Hi all,
I am new to this forum...just quickly asking if there is any Lt25i user on this forum having the same issue with the battery. I've been using it for about 8 months with a stock rom (4.1.2, all updated). It is good device in generally apart from the battery which drain itself in about 8 hours or 9 hours of normal office worker use (you know, reply 20 or 30ish msgs or a couple calls total 30 mins tops, play around during lunch time, on a HSPA+ network, not LTE, about 20 apps installed on the device and no games at all).. and sometimes you can see the battery percentage drops down by one or two percent when you have been whatsapping continuously for about 10 mins..That's so much quicker than the other phone that I have (Galaxy S4). any one experiencing the same issue? what would you recommend? I am planning to flash the rom but not entirely sure which to choose. Your response is appreciated.
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Youre not alone buddy. Although to many causes frustrations, if I'm just texting (whatsapp) I just leave it on Edge, or disable mobile data when im not using the phone. It's when I'm surfing the net that I'll leave it on HSPA+.
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A lil battery optimization even on this 'tiny' battery by 2014 standards could have gone a long way.
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To be quite honest, 5.5 hours of screen on is pretty darn awesome for any Android phone except behemoths like RAZR MAXX or Galaxy Note models.
Spotja said:
Youre not alone buddy. Although to many causes frustrations, if I'm just texting (whatsapp) I just leave it on Edge, or disable mobile data when im not using the phone. It's when I'm surfing the net that I'll leave it on HSPA+.
A lil battery optimization even on this 'tiny' battery by 2014 standards could have gone a long way.
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However, with HSPA+ always on I can only get around 3.5-4 hours SOT at 15 plus hours on battery. The OP should install BBS and check what eats his battery on the background. 8 hours is pathetic.
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WTF??? What am I doing that I have never gotten more than 3 hours of screen time with this phone? And I'm using greenify...
Eason85 said:
WTF??? What am I doing that I have never gotten more than 3 hours of screen time with this phone? And I'm using greenify...
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Turn off internet + lowest brightness + auto brightness and wole ~5h for sure
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WTF??? What am I doing that I have never gotten more than 3 hours of screen time with this phone? And I'm using greenify...
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Turn off internet + lowest brightness + auto brightness and wole ~5h for sure
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And surf the net and/or text with mobile data off at lowest brightness in broad daylight
I have the same issue but couldn't find the reason why
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Standby drain

When you sleep, does your phone sleep, or does it stay up all night and crunch 1s and 0s? Rate this thread to express how you deem the speed at which the LG V20's battery drains under standby conditions. A higher rating indicates that when the phone is not in use, the battery drains minimally.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
Compared to the Note 7 there is next to zero residual battery drain. I forgot to plug it in one night and saw a 2% drop.
Doesnt really drain on sleep mode. Not bad.
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This is great to hear. My V10 can drop 30% overnight. I can't wait to upgrade.
I'm losing upwards of 15% at night. Not good.
This has been one of my BEST PERFORMED sleep time phone so far! Must be something w NOUGAT also? Love it!
I noticed sometime when we insert a new sd card the phone needs to create an internal list and this process can suck alot of battery. It might or might not be this issue thats causing some users to experience overnight battery loss.
I got my V20 yesterday and had it sit overnight, and the drain was practically zero. Very impressed so far.
Standby drain is beyond great. If the phone is off, then 0 to 1% is lost, depending on the stand by time.
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The standby drain is unbelievable. I've noticed between 1-2% drain per hour. That's with bluetooth, wifi, and location on, as well as android wear and google fit constantly running in the background.
It's WAY better than my GS7 Edge.
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The standby drain is unbelievable. I've noticed between 1-2% drain per hour. That's with bluetooth, wifi, and location on, as well as android wear and google fit constantly running in the background.
It's WAY better than my GS7 Edge.
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So over an 8hr night you would lose 16%? That's not gifs at all.
I just got the phone last night. First of all... damn this is a sexy beautiful phone. Sleek slim as hell and the best phone I've owned thus far.
What is not okay is the battery drain in standby. I put it on the nightstand at 100% at 11:30pm, woke up at 6:30pm (7hours total) and it was down to 40%!!!!
Not okay LG. I moved over from the LG G5 and the standby on that was excellent, would still be in the 90%s , I hope an update is issued to fix this problem
Over 6 hours of stand by time with 0% lost. I have 4 email accounts running, a few game notifications, etc... No facebook.
This was taken after I cleared most of my notifications.
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So what do you think I'm doing wrong here?
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So what do you think I'm doing wrong here?
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Give it a day or two, the battery will and should improve.
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I too have noticed that this phone has significantly less standby drain than the S7 i was using between the Note7 return and the V20. All in all just better with the battery in my opinion. I usually listen to Pandora all day long at work (wired) and then use my BT headphones at the gym for a couple hours each night too. With the S7 I had to recharge the phone near the end of the work day or i would be cutting it close by the end of my workout. Not the case at all with the V20, after my workout im around 45% still. I do have 2 email accounts / FB / bunch of other stuff running at all times too pretty much. Get a lot of calls / texts throughout the day of course too. So far it has been amazing
I Have the V20 for 2 days and last nite lost about 30%, will check today what was running... not good but could be the battery ....
Sleep mode is awesome I bearly notice a drian.
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I Have the V20 for 2 days and last nite lost about 30%, will check today what was running... not good but could be the battery ....
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7 hours I slept last night with v20 unplugged after fully charging. Burned 1%.
Your issue seems to either be low signal strength or apps waking the phone.
I am havei very little sleep drain. This phone has really surprised me. I have been loyal too thenote series since the n2.... And when the n7 issue started and we had to return it I decided to give the v20 a shot. So far it has really surprised me!
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Intentionally trickle charge?

It seems that I can't get Battery Care to trigger consistently at night even though I always go to bed somewhere between 11-1 and get up at 7 on weekdays or 9ish on weekends.
I realized though that I happen to have a pretty slow 500 mA USB port charger from back in the day. If I go to bed with the phone at 20% it would take over 4 hours to charge, meaning the phone spends less than half the night at 100%. Maybe this is the next best thing?
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It seems that I can't get Battery Care to trigger consistently at night even though I always go to bed somewhere between 11-1 and get up at 7 on weekdays or 9ish on weekends.
I realized though that I happen to have a pretty slow 500 mA USB port charger from back in the day. If I go to bed with the phone at 20% it would take over 4 hours to charge, meaning the phone spends less than half the night at 100%. Maybe this is the next best thing?
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I'm using charger UC 12 it gets charge at super speed but yet it never triggered Battery care (using x compact for the last one week)
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I'm using charger UC 12 it gets charge at super speed but yet it never triggered Battery care (using x compact for the last one week)
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How fast does it charge? I have not seen any evidence of anyone being able to charge the X Compact any faster than about 1%/minute which is not super speed by any measure.
@cmstlist I'll try to check it out next time I charge. Feels pretty fast, but then again my previous phone was Z1c...
I usually get battery care where night time is the the first major charge of the day (sadly that's not always the case since I'm getting pretty disappointing battery life my Xc came with stock 7.0...).
I'm using the UCH-12 (supplied), have similar hours to you. When it turns on it reports a plan to be @100% 2hr~ before I wake up.
I was actually wondering is this feature any good (theoretically at least) or just voodoo?
Mine came with UCH 20 rather than 12. So far I'm never needing to charge it all day if I started at 100. Sometimes it's above 60 by bedtime so I don't start to charge it until morning.
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For what it's worth, here's a graph of how the UCH 20 charges it with Battery Care. Normal speed until 90%, flat until almost wake time, then up to 100.
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32% -> 88% in 64min 1%/1.14min WITH screen-OFF usage (Music stream w/ WIFI+BT headset + WhatsApp web).
It started faster @ 1%/0.9min then I guess I used it more/slowed down on its own.
NO battery care triggered.
That's pretty good for me, being able to use the phone and still charge fast.
Yeah so it seems like the fastest it'll charge under any circumstances is slightly above 1%/min.
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So the battery care only works with certain Sony chargers?
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For what it's worth, Battery Care will trigger with any kind of charger, even a slow trickle. So even if in only charging at 1%/3mins, it'll still plateau at 90% for a while.
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