Battery status: - Motorola Droid 3

Cell standby 50%
Phone idle 42%
Display 5%
Android OS 3%
Android system 2%
Is this normal?
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A high cell standby percentage means you are in an area with little signal. If I spend all day playing Skyrim in my basement (like 14 hours) then I also will have an astronomically high percentage of cell standby. Basically, your phone is trying to connect to the network when there is an unreliable signal.
My suggestion: Turn airplane mode on when you plan on not using your phone. If this is while you sleep, you can configure the app Tasker to put your phone in airplane mode and reconnect every hour or so to collect text messages. The guide for this is here.

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When xt860/xt862 first came out cell standby was at the top of everyones battery usage list. Recent updatez have fixed that but ive noticed some roms still have it as being top of the list, however to me it hasn't seemed to affect my battery life. What phone model/rom are you running
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Endoroid said:
When xt860/xt862 first came out cell standby was at the top of everyones battery usage list. Recent updatez have fixed that but ive noticed some roms still have it as being top of the list, however to me it hasn't seemed to affect my battery life. What phone model/rom are you running
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Im deodexed on liberty with ics theme and v7 speed script
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Im deodexed on liberty with ics theme and v7 speed script
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Liberty also has an issue with displaying cell standby usage. I'm running Liberty 2.0, and I constantly get cell standby of 40+ percent, no mattery how much I use or where my phone is. If your battery life is fine, then dont worry about it. My extended battery can last up to 3 days..

slayer621 said:
A high cell standby percentage means you are in an area with little signal. If I spend all day playing Skyrim in my basement (like 14 hours) then I also will have an astronomically high percentage of cell standby. Basically, your phone is trying to connect to the network when there is an unreliable signal.
My suggestion: Turn airplane mode on when you plan on not using your phone. If this is while you sleep, you can configure the app Tasker to put your phone in airplane mode and reconnect every hour or so to collect text messages. The guide for this is here.
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I got 40% cell standby today while connected to wifi all day. I wasn't more than 50 feet from router all day and it was still high.
Not sure the signal strength is the sole (or main) factor.
Running liberty 2.0 with the speedy on my d3.
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nu2droid said:
I got 40% cell standby today while connected to wifi all day. I wasn't more than 50 feet from router all day and it was still high.
Not sure the signal strength is the sole (or main) factor.
Running liberty 2.0 with the speedy on my d3.
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Cell standby is not just for the 3G data connection - it's also for your connection to the voice network, which is not switched off when you are connected to WiFi. So, if you are in an area with a weak signal, unless you go into airplane mode and then turn on WiFi, you could see high cell standby.

doogald said:
Cell standby is not just for the 3G data connection - it's also for your connection to the voice network, which is not switched off when you are connected to WiFi. So, if you are in an area with a weak signal, unless you go into airplane mode and then turn on WiFi, you could see high cell standby.
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Yeah im literally next to my router with wifi on and cell standby= 47% but battery life isnt terrible for me. Ive been at moderate-medium usage today and its been 10 hours im at 57%
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I wonder if it's an issue in the reporting

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Increase Battery Life - App Assistance

One of the main powerdrains for the Streak 7 is the 4G Radio. It's constantly seeking a connection, which burns through juice rather quickly.
An app that helps with this is SwitchPro Widget...it gives you different toggle switches you can place on desktop to control aspects of your device.
I have a reboot button, battery indicator, wifi toggle and Data toggle on screen currently.
The Data toggle will turn off 4G/3G connection until you want to use it. I haven't had it running long enough to give feedback numbers as of yet, but will post some info later on.
https://market.android.com/details?id=alei.switchpro
Try it out.
Update: Also Airplane Mode toggle switch seems to work better at turning off cell standby, which shows 75% usage on battery.
2.5 Hours Unplugged now, and using Airplane mode has dropped my Cell standby to 51% usage vs 75% previously. I'm at 92% battery with decent usage during that time.
Bandage said:
One of the main powerdrains for the Streak 7 is the 4G Radio. It's constantly seeking a connection, which burns through juice rather quickly.
An app that helps with this is SwitchPro Widget...it gives you different toggle switches you can place on desktop to control aspects of your device.
I have a reboot button, battery indicator, wifi toggle and Data toggle on screen currently.
The Data toggle will turn off 4G/3G connection until you want to use it. I haven't had it running long enough to give feedback numbers as of yet, but will post some info later on.
https://market.android.com/details?id=alei.switchpro
Try it out.
Update: Also Airplane Mode toggle switch seems to work better at turning off cell standby, which shows 75% usage on battery.
2.5 Hours Unplugged now, and using Airplane mode has dropped my Cell standby to 51% usage vs 75% previously. I'm at 92% battery with decent usage during that time.
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Yes, turning off airplane mode work like crazy, just sometimes turning on/off this mode takes a little time to reaction, therefore slightly affected the user experience because you need to wait for the data connection back from airplane mode.
I am using SuperPower, which is pretty good, but so far, I have not yet found a battery app that is compatible with Tegra dual core CPU, therefore the CPU control mechanism is not used by any.
JuiceDefender always causing data problem for me, not sure if you have similar issue.
Thanks for sharing! I do need a soft restart button at least!
Ok...8 hours unplugged now. Mostly on standby, as I worked 6 hours today. Battery is at 89%...left Airplane Mode on.
Considering all the complaints about battery life, this is more than acceptable. Going to do some gaming and Media stuff for next few hours, see how long it takes to drain it.
im not complaining about it. I can see about 3 hours of very heavy use.
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One issue about the app linked. It may have issues with Gingerbread. Which you know we will prob have on Streak 7 soon and hopefully honeycomb sooner.
Superpower
I have been using Superpower also and it works for me. Has definitely increased battery life.
So do you just use ONE app (like super power) or you combinding them?

Does Wi-fi or Mobile Data use more power when idle?

I'm trying to figure out which idle setting is preferable.
xdadooder said:
I'm trying to figure out which idle setting is preferable.
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In my experience for my phone....Idle on wifi is always better....3G eats lots of battery...2G is still better...thats why some people toggle 2g/3g........
Agreed - wifi mostly good for power consumption purposes
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I'm trying to figure out which idle setting is preferable.
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I've found that the biggest (idling) drain on my battery comes when the phone is constantly searching for 3G signal. If you have wifi available, use it.
I plug my phone in while I listen to podcasts on my commute into work. So when I get out of the car, I'm at 100% battery. If I put wifi on when I get to my desk, after 9 hours in the building, my battery is somewhere in the 78% to 85% range. If I leave wifi off, I'll be at around 50% to 60% at the end of the day. 3G signal isn't that strong in my building.
I've also been places with little-to-no 3G signal and no wifi. I lose around 20% to 25% of my battery per hour.

Battery on lte question

Hi
I have a weird problem. My moto x drains 10% battery overnight on wifi and 4g turned off.
If i turn on 4g and turn off wifi during night it drained by 56%
is this normal? if not what should i do?
Thanks
If your 4g service isn't great that's normal as its doing more work searching for service.
sravanz said:
Hi
I have a weird problem. My moto x drains 10% battery overnight on wifi and 4g turned off.
If i turn on 4g and turn off wifi during night it drained by 56%
is this normal? if not what should i do?
Thanks
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get a signal booster is what you should do lol. Your coverage must be terrible at your house. Also, if you have a solid wifi connection at your house then your phone automatically disconnects from the data connection even though it may show the icon still at the top.
jayboyyyy said:
get a signal booster is what you should do lol. Your coverage must be terrible at your house. Also, if you have a solid wifi connection at your house then your phone automatically disconnects from the data connection even though it may show the icon still at the top.
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I get lte and i always have 4-5 bars signal at my home. Wonder whats the issue. How is the normal drop rate?
sravanz said:
I get lte and i always have 4-5 bars signal at my home. Wonder whats the issue. How is the normal drop rate?
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its not normal at all if you have good service. You should download a wakelock app like betterbatterystats or another one to see what is keeping your phone awake at night. once you download that. you should post the screen shots the next time you run a test and we can see what all is going on from those.
sravanz said:
Hi
I have a weird problem. My moto x drains 10% battery overnight on wifi and 4g turned off.
If i turn on 4g and turn off wifi during night it drained by 56%
is this normal? if not what should i do?
Thanks
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turning off wifi isnt going to help. all that means is it will get its updates over 4g. which uses more battery. 44% is way too much though. keep wifi on. just deal with the 10% loss. youll still get 24 hours.

15% drain overnight

Charged my phone and overnight night I got a 15% drain. I feel like that is a pretty high drain. 2% every hour at idle. Awake time shows about the same time i was sleeping. Any suggestions?
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I turned of Enhanced LTE (Voice over LTE) under network settings. From around 11pm to 7am I went from 100% to 97%. Give that a try. It was reported that Cell Stand-By was bugging and draining battery.
Will give it a try! Thanks!
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Seed 2.0 said:
I turned of Enhanced LTE (Voice over LTE) under network settings. From around 11pm to 7am I went from 100% to 97%. Give that a try. It was reported that Cell Stand-By was bugging and draining battery.
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Sweetness it worked!:thumbup:
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This did not work for me but I might be seeing a different issue. The one I'm experiencing and have read elsewhere is the Cell Standby drain. Enhanced LTE is disabled yet I'm still getting this constant drain. I've even done the other suggestions: clear cache from recovery, factory reset, calibrate the battery. This was all fairly random too; there were times when Cell Standby would not show up at all and my battery drain would be normal. Wasn't there an issue on Android 5.0.x with battery drain which is why they pushed out 5.1 so quickly?
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This did not work for me but I might be seeing a different issue. The one I'm experiencing and have read elsewhere is the Cell Standby drain. Enhanced LTE is disabled yet I'm still getting this constant drain. I've even done the other suggestions: clear cache from recovery, factory reset, calibrate the battery. This was all fairly random too; there were times when Cell Standby would not show up at all and my battery drain would be normal. Wasn't there an issue on Android 5.0.x with battery drain which is why they pushed out 5.1 so quickly?
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Yesterday, my cell standby was 1st on the battery usage listing. No issues with it today. Only thing I think I did was disable the enhanced LTE. Haven't even restarted.
The samsung push app update was suppose to improve battery consumption not sure if it will but fingers are crossed.
dligon said:
The samsung push app update was suppose to improve battery consumption not sure if it will but fingers are crossed.
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I was hoping the same thing but apparently, for me, it is not. What's odd is that I'm still averaging about 6h sot with normal use. I don't consider 6h sot bad at all so maybe this is just "normal" now?
My secret is to disable LTE and WiFi if I'm not using the phone,and only use WiFi if Im on lunch or break from work.it sucks but my battery life is now awesome.try it out
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Vicious LSD said:
Charged my phone and overnight night I got a 15% drain. I feel like that is a pretty high drain. 2% every hour at idle. Awake time shows about the same time i was sleeping. Any suggestions?
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Try to also delete the cache from the recovery boot menu (PWR+ VOLUME UP+ HOME BUTTON). That with the enhanced LTE turned off worked for me.
it's just the settings and the apps processed.

Cell standby on marshmallow

I've been running marshmallow since the stock images were posted and I always got very nice battery life with doze. As in, I wouldn't have to charge the phone until the next morning. Since last week, however, cell standby is using significantly more battery. Yesterday, I took the device off the charger at 0900, and by 2100 I was already at 25% battery. Screen on time was only 2 hours, and cell standby had more usage than the screen. No matter my signal quality, it seems cell standby is eating my battery. Phone isn't even showing as awake! I also am always connected to WiFi and using T-Mobile WiFi calling.
I know a few users have reported a similar issue since marshmallow, does anyone have an idea of why cell standby is killing battery even though time without signal is 0? Time active is also always under 20 min. Since I'm using WiFi calling, I'd think the phone wouldn't even be searching for a voice signal anyway.
My signal has been worse than abysmal since switching to Marshmallow. I uninstalled Fit, Pay, and Google+ and it got better strangely enough but i still have issues from time to time...
gakio12 said:
I've been running marshmallow since the stock images were posted and I always got very nice battery life with doze. As in, I wouldn't have to charge the phone until the next morning. Since last week, however, cell standby is using significantly more battery. Yesterday, I took the device off the charger at 0900, and by 2100 I was already at 25% battery. Screen on time was only 2 hours, and cell standby had more usage than the screen. No matter my signal quality, it seems cell standby is eating my battery. Phone isn't even showing as awake! I also am always connected to WiFi and using T-Mobile WiFi calling.
I know a few users have reported a similar issue since marshmallow, does anyone have an idea of why cell standby is killing battery even though time without signal is 0? Time active is also always under 20 min. Since I'm using WiFi calling, I'd think the phone wouldn't even be searching for a voice signal anyway.
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The same happened to me, at the begining with marshmallow (chroma and francokernel) always more than 5h SOT and easy deep sleep... but now, the last night at 1:00AM battery was at 100%, at 5:00AM was 84%... and no wakeloks... i'll take some screenshots
Same here. I swear the battery is draining faster but no wakelock issues.
Plus I believe there is an issue with the signal reporting. Where I know that I get full signal the phone can report zero bars. Switch to airplane mode and back, then suddenly the signal displays correctly!
+1 My signal is terrible anymore, and I certainly was much better on the preview images
At my desk at work, same spot I sit my phone everyday would be in the mid 80s and right now it sits at -103....hit airplane mode and it resets....for a few
gakio12 said:
I've been running marshmallow since the stock images were posted and I always got very nice battery life with doze. As in, I wouldn't have to charge the phone until the next morning. Since last week, however, cell standby is using significantly more battery. Yesterday, I took the device off the charger at 0900, and by 2100 I was already at 25% battery. Screen on time was only 2 hours, and cell standby had more usage than the screen. No matter my signal quality, it seems cell standby is eating my battery. Phone isn't even showing as awake! I also am always connected to WiFi and using T-Mobile WiFi calling.
I know a few users have reported a similar issue since marshmallow, does anyone have an idea of why cell standby is killing battery even though time without signal is 0? Time active is also always under 20 min. Since I'm using WiFi calling, I'd think the phone wouldn't even be searching for a voice signal anyway.
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I'm having the same issues. Overall, pretty solid battery life but cell standby drainage was high. Been searching forums with no such luck. Sounds like it might just be and Android issue I have to hope gets fixed in an update? I'm using T-Mobile wi-fi calling. I'm in areas with strong LTE signal, but compared to my old phone, the amount of "bars" I'm seeing seem lower and sometimes non existent, although I spent no time without signal.
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