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How do you guys save battery on your lg revolution? I have LTE switch to turn on only 3g to save battery but what are your guys tips for saving battery?
I use JuiceDefender.
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My battery lasts 8-12 hours depending on how bad I beat on it.
My active days, I listen to music, play suduko, check xda, play in the market. Listen to tune in radio.
That said. I don't know if that is short. I think it's pretty long, and am happy with it. I have the decrapified rom, love it. I have App Killer by Rechild set on a widget. So I go in set what I want it to regularly kill, and tap the widget through out the day. It's mostly my android process that hogs the battery according to widgetsoid.
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does juicedefender help a lot?
12 hours seems like a long day and good amount of hours. i hear task killers are bad for your phone though
I was averaging 9-12 hours with decrapified 1.1 depending on use. JuiceDefender extended that another 1-2 hours but added 4-6 seconds before I get 4G back when the device "wakes up". It turns the radio off and I have it set to ping instead of constantly syncing. 3G comes on 1st, then 4G...
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Sounds ridiculous but i turn airplane mode on when i'm not using the phone. Turn it off every couple hrs to see if i got any emails or texts or something. Huge battery savings. I have the accurate battery mod posted in the dev forum so if i wake it up after sitting for an hr it's down 5% if i leave airplane mode off, but if i turn it on, it's down like 1%... maybe.
Once cm7 is available, we will see huge battery improvements, i have no doubt. Gingerbread is much better w/ the battery than Froyo. I saw huge improvements between cm6 and cm7 nightlies on my droid, to the tune of 200% standby improvements. Still heavy use i wouldn't expect more than 15 hrs, but imo 10 hrs is ridiculous. There's not really a huge difference between heavy and light use in battery time either.
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Sounds ridiculous but i turn airplane mode on when i'm not using the phone. Turn it off every couple hrs to see if i got any emails or texts or something. Huge battery savings. I have the accurate battery mod posted in the dev forum so if i wake it up after sitting for an hr it's down 5% if i leave airplane mode off, but if i turn it on, it's down like 1%... maybe.
Once cm7 is available, we will see huge battery improvements, i have no doubt. Gingerbread is much better w/ the battery than Froyo. I saw huge improvements between cm6 and cm7 nightlies on my droid, to the tune of 200% standby improvements. Still heavy use i wouldn't expect more than 15 hrs, but imo 10 hrs is ridiculous. There's not really a huge difference between heavy and light use in battery time either.
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good to know! thanks. when is cm7 available for the revo?
Thecubed is currently working on it.
Buy an extra battery and wall charger off eBay... Throw the battery in your back pocket, and you're set all day. I swap the battery out after about 8 hours (when I get to about 20% battery) and I'm good the rest of the day. I've had to do this with EVERY Android phone I've purchased. The OG Droid would only get me about 10 hours right when I got it, but Undervoltage Kernels, and decent Rom's brought it up to around 16 hours on the standard battery. The Samsung Fascinate was horrible - Roughly 6-7 hours out of the box. Rom's got it up to around 12. The Droid Pro - 8 hours at most on the standard battery, never saw any improvements with my usage. Droid 2 - 10 hours out of the box, but when CM7 came out on it, I was averaging around 16 hours before I got the Revo. The 8 hour battery life didn't surprise me. I kinda expected it, and had already placed my battery/charger order before I went and got the phone. I'm not a fan of extended batteries just because of the extra bulk, plus finding a case w/an extended battery is a PITA. And the 3 minute downtime from a battery swap really isn't that bad (especially if you've ever had a Blackberry).
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Buy an extra battery and wall charger off eBay... Throw the battery in your back pocket, and you're set all day. I swap the battery out after about 8 hours (when I get to about 20% battery) and I'm good the rest of the day. I've had to do this with EVERY Android phone I've purchased. The OG Droid would only get me about 10 hours right when I got it, but Undervoltage Kernels, and decent Rom's brought it up to around 16 hours on the standard battery. The Samsung Fascinate was horrible - Roughly 6-7 hours out of the box. Rom's got it up to around 12. The Droid Pro - 8 hours at most on the standard battery, never saw any improvements with my usage. Droid 2 - 10 hours out of the box, but when CM7 came out on it, I was averaging around 16 hours before I got the Revo. The 8 hour battery life didn't surprise me. I kinda expected it, and had already placed my battery/charger order before I went and got the phone. I'm not a fan of extended batteries just because of the extra bulk, plus finding a case w/an extended battery is a PITA. And the 3 minute downtime from a battery swap really isn't that bad (especially if you've ever had a Blackberry).
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good information. but i don't feel safe buying one off of ebay because i don't think the volts will match and it will have bad results on the phone. i can't find a cheap yet any case for the extended battery. i'm sure CM7 on the revo will help the battery a lot. we just have to wait now...
*on the edge of my seat for cm7*
Cubed cubed, and he's our dev, if he can't do it.... Well, I guess we're screwed... Lol
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it's coming along it looks like it's sort of almost ready lol
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good information. but i don't feel safe buying one off of ebay because i don't think the volts will match and it will have bad results on the phone. i can't find a cheap yet any case for the extended battery. i'm sure CM7 on the revo will help the battery a lot. we just have to wait now...
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Agreed, I don't buy from overseas with the battery but the charger really doesn't matter. I got a genuine LG battery for $19 and then just a generic charger for it for $8. Knock on wood I haven't had any problems with the chargers I've gotten, but I don't trust generic batteries either.
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thermal_tim said:
*on the edge of my seat for cm7*
Cubed cubed, and he's our dev, if he can't do it.... Well, I guess we're screwed... Lol
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Your reading my mind.
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I bought my extended battery off eBay and it came in an authentic Verizon box with back for 36 bucks shipped so its genuine not fake.
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I bought my extended battery off eBay and it came in an authentic Verizon box with back for 36 bucks shipped so its genuine not fake.
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Good to know. I want to buy me one.
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So with my Droid x I could look at my battery usage and routinely see that powering the screen took between 80%-92% daily of my battery life. Big screen...made sense. 30% larger extended battery would last me 10 hours with moderate use
With the bionic, according to my battery usage. Cell standby takes 40% of my battery and phones idle takes 37%. Display only uses 6%. What the hell? So that's why my 2880mAh battery only lasts me 5 hours, with little to no usage for 4 of them. If i turn on wifi, the 3g icon stays (turned off 4g altogether since I only use data at work and it out of 4g range). And I will see it actively syncing many times even when I am doing nothing. Going into airplane more and back live again just makes it pause, starts syncing again immediately. Reboot and its fine for 3 hours then starts again.
What the hell? Do I have a dud? Should I do a wipe of the device a few times and hope it is a software glitch? Cause this is pissing me off that a brick extended battery won't even last me six hours. And I'm barely using it for 4 to 5 of them. Should I return it and exchange for another? Or return it and just get an incredible HD when they launch? Though that will probably have equally bad battery life. I am rooted and everything is backed up so a wipe won't take long to restore.
Also has been doing this since I got it 4 days ago. Have fully drained and fully charged the battery numerous time with no real change.
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Well first of all the display on the Bionic is RGBW pentile which uses much less power than traditional RGB LCD's. So it makes sense that as the percentage of power consumed by the battery decreases the other things like cell standby and phone idle would increase. It has to total 100%.
That said if you only get 5 hours on an extended battery with light use then your phone is defective or possibly a third-party app you installed is misbehaving.
I am at nearly 15 hours with 40% left on a standard battery with 4G on and 1.5 hours of screen on. All I did was root and de-bloat (around 30 apps).
I have the extended battery and get about 12 hours of heavy video and streaming audio, web browsing, maps, E-Mail, texts & calls. This is split about 50/50 4G & WiFi. I have no idea how you're only getting 5 hours. That almost seams impossible to me. Like the above post says, maybe you have an app that isn't shutting down? I am not sure but something is DEFINITELY not normal
But if it was an app behaving badly shouldn't it show up on the battery usage log thing? I'm gonna wipe when my shift ends at 8 am and see how it lasts today with only Go SMS installed. If it is dead in a few hours again I know for sure its the phone or battery. If it lasts then I get to start the painful proccess of adding apps back one at a time until I find the culprit.
Thanks for the advice. 5 hours seems impossible to me too, but that is all it lasts. Freaking me out that it is eating so much. Maybe ill try the stock battery later. Maybe its just the battery that is FUBAR'd
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So with my Droid x I could look at my battery usage and routinely see that powering the screen took between 80%-92% daily of my battery life. Big screen...made sense. 30% larger extended battery would last me 10 hours with moderate use
With the bionic, according to my battery usage. Cell standby takes 40% of my battery and phones idle takes 37%. Display only uses 6%. What the hell? So that's why my 2880mAh battery only lasts me 5 hours, with little to no usage for 4 of them. If i turn on wifi, the 3g icon stays (turned off 4g altogether since I only use data at work and it out of 4g range). And I will see it actively syncing many times even when I am doing nothing. Going into airplane more and back live again just makes it pause, starts syncing again immediately. Reboot and its fine for 3 hours then starts again.
What the hell? Do I have a dud? Should I do a wipe of the device a few times and hope it is a software glitch? Cause this is pissing me off that a brick extended battery won't even last me six hours. And I'm barely using it for 4 to 5 of them. Should I return it and exchange for another? Or return it and just get an incredible HD when they launch? Though that will probably have equally bad battery life. I am rooted and everything is backed up so a wipe won't take long to restore.
Also has been doing this since I got it 4 days ago. Have fully drained and fully charged the battery numerous time with no real change.
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You ran the Blockbuster app, didn't you?
I've read an article or two speculating about the possibility of a batch of Bionics with bad radios that chew up battery. Everyone I've read about that returned their Bionic for this reason has experienced a reversal in their battery experience. Sounds like you should do this as well.
Like the others, mine is like the energizer bunny until I start messing with games and streaming video.
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Never. LoL I don't run bloatware.
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Those with "bad" radios will obviously have a bad radio if their battery life is crap correct? My Bionic seems to do ok with battery life, but I still can't manage to get what all these other users are getting with the stock battery.
Maybe I'm a heavy user that's in denial of being a "light" user...
My battery life with the extended battery is amazing.
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I've read an article or two speculating about the possibility of a batch of Bionics with bad radios that chew up battery. Everyone I've read about that returned their Bionic for this reason has experienced a reversal in their battery experience. Sounds like you should do this as well.
Like the others, mine is like the energizer bunny until I start messing with games and streaming video.
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I am having the same problem. I am going to give them a call on Monday.
Fixed it. Ran the bootstrap app to get into clockwork. Did a factory reset a few times over to make sure it was all clear. Loaded only the bare apps I needed onto phone and battery went from 7am Sunday morning til 10pm and only lost 50%. XD so it was definitely an app playing badly.
I put almost all my 180 some odd apps back on with titanium. But any that do any kind of syncing I downloaded freshly and didn't transfer any data, started brand new there too. So far today unplugged phone at 2am at work, its almost ten now and its only fallen to 50%. Granted I have far more stuff installed now and wwas using it a bit at work. Not too bad. Want to see how much longer it will go
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How long should the standard battery last with average use?
I unplugged at 6AM with full charge. Ran only 3G until 10:30am and was at 50%. My usage was nominal- few texts, no phone, few emails, about 10 minutes of internet, 30 minutes of Sirius.
At 10:30am I switched to 4G just to test the battery life. The phone mostly sat idle, but the remaining 50% drained in about 1.5 hours.
Does 4G really use that much power... even when the device is sitting idle? If so, then what's the point of making such great 4G devices if the batteries can't keep up?
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How long should the standard battery last with average use?
I unplugged at 6AM with full charge. Ran only 3G until 10:30am and was at 50%. My usage was nominal- few texts, no phone, few emails, about 10 minutes of internet, 30 minutes of Sirius.
At 10:30am I switched to 4G just to test the battery life. The phone mostly sat idle, but the remaining 50% drained in about 1.5 hours.
Does 4G really use that much power... even when the device is sitting idle? If so, then what's the point of making such great 4G devices if the batteries can't keep up?
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damn, that's fast
with a regular battery, and going in, and out of 4g coverage mine will run from 8am to 11pm and still be over 50 percent, of course that's with light to moderate use
What is the definition of "light to moderate" use?
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damn, that's fast
with a regular battery, and going in, and out of 4g coverage mine will run from 8am to 11pm and still be over 50 percent, of course that's with light to moderate use
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Were you getting that battery life from day 1? Today is day 4 with my Bionic. People say it can take up to a week for your phone/battery to calibrate, but I've never had to calibrate the battery on other phones.
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What is the definition of "light to moderate" use?
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roughly 20 texts, 5-10 calls, maybe an hour of Facebook throughout the day, a couple hours of web surfing, and maybe an hour of gaming
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Were you getting that battery life from day 1? Today is day 4 with my Bionic. People say it can take up to a week for your phone/battery to calibrate, but I've never had to calibrate the battery on other phones.
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can't say for sure but I know my battery was lasting a hell of a lot longer than 5-6 hours from day 1
I have the extended battery. I get great battery life when playing games, streaming video, listening to pandora, web surfing and phone calls. I am in a 3g area only. But when it comes to just idle time it seems like its using almost twice the amount of battery life as my droid x did. My droid x with the extended battery would drop 10 to 20% while idle from 11:30 pm to 7:30am. My bionic last night, I went to bed at 11:30pm and had 80% with extended battery, I woke up at 7:30am and was at 40%???
Does that sound right?? Also when using wifi the battery drops faster, should it use more battery on wifi or 3g? I have never used any bloatware and have the same apps installed as my droid x.
I'm having the same problem with my phone. 5.5 hours of battery with little to no use. i have to keep my phone on a charger throughout the day.... a power charger. the phone will die if just connected via usb.
Have you guys calibrated the new battery? There is also a neat little calibration trick in the x2 forums, works like a charm.
Google "juhde battery" and it should show up. Can't recommend it enough...
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Well first of all the display on the Bionic is RGBW pentile which uses much less power than traditional RGB LCD's. So it makes sense that as the percentage of power consumed by the battery decreases the other things like cell standby and phone idle would increase. It has to total 100%.
That said if you only get 5 hours on an extended battery with light use then your phone is defective or possibly a third-party app you installed is misbehaving.
I am at nearly 15 hours with 40% left on a standard battery with 4G on and 1.5 hours of screen on. All I did was root and de-bloat (around 30 apps).
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Can you please post your battery usage statistics for Voice calls and Cell standby?
I'm interested to see where I stand also..
Thanks,
Something I've heard is bothering. Are lgs produced fast and crappily? Because I've heard everybody stating that these phones are dropping in price and will be outdated soon because LG throws their phone/s out into the market so fast. Is any of this true?
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Anybody know?
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I wouldn't say that they were going to become obsolete any quicker than any other device. Now a days, the day the phone launches, there is a bigger and better on the horizon. I think all devices after 6 months really could be said to be obsolete.
If we can get CM7 on this thing, I wouldn't be too concerned with LG and their support. As for the hardware, it is a solid device and should still compete for a while.
If I were to have the option to take it back for an Atrox, Infuse, or an Inspire, should I? Would you?
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If I were to have the option to take it back for an Atrox, Infuse, or an Inspire, should I? Would you?
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I had an Atrix (gave it to my wife), I would not trade back. The Atrix was a nice phone, and was quite fast, but overall, I like the Thrill better. As for an Inspire, battery life has been reported to be as bad or worse than the Thrill. Pretty common for HTC phones. Infuse, maybe, but it only has a single core and IMO, the SGS2 would be more tempting.
I'm sticking with the Thrill because I have another upgrade available this month, but will keep this and hope that the Prime will find it's way to AT&T soon for me to pick up in addition.
I'm pretty happy with the Thrill overall, and hope that Gingerbread sneaks out soon to make it even better. Get some CM7 lovin' and I'm all good.
Does the thrill have enough ram?
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I was a little worried about that too when I was getting ready to buy it, but here is an interesting (and informative) read about RAM and Android OS
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/andr...hat-it-how-its-used-and-why-you-shouldnt-care
Being that we have dual channel RAM in it, I really don't see us not having enough.
Great news to me, so besides the new GS2, this phone is one of the top five fastest out at the moment. Sounds great xD.
Now... where's mah CM7 or MIUI? Hehehe,
Some people claim this omap CPU out performs the GSII. Coming from the inspire this phone is amazing.
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Woohoo good Drummer, glad you came from the Inspire just like I did. I love this phone, we just need the GB update and cm7 or MIUI. I am personally hoping for MIUI. And this phone is only mileseconds slower than other phones such as the S2. YouTube it xD. And the only let down so far is this ****ty loaded 2.2.2 Froyo rom. And I hear that ram doesn't even matter that much. Just Google that as well. Go Optimus/Thrill!
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Battery life on the Thrill is undoubtedly a lot worse than the Inspire. I lose 10% or more per hour with the phone just sitting with no interaction. My Inspire only lost about 2% per hour. And the Thrill takes 8+ hours to charge from 20% to 100%. I am only a light user - maybe 200 texts a day if that, no internet, no games, maybe a few short calls and I have to charge it twice a day.
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Battery life on the Thrill is undoubtedly a lot worse than the Inspire. I lose 10% or more per hour with the phone just sitting with no interaction. My Inspire only lost about 2% per hour. And the Thrill takes 8+ hours to charge from 20% to 100%. I am only a light user - maybe 200 texts a day if that, no internet, no games, maybe a few short calls and I have to charge it twice a day.
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I think something is wrong with your Thrill. I don't get great battery life either, but my Thrill charges quicker than any phone I've owned. I can probably charge from 20% to 100% in 1 hour. Are you using the charger that came with the phone?
I actually came from the inspire and traded for this phone. I have to say I cant complain about either. Was running LeeDroid's sense 3.0 rom and experienced great battery life on my inspire, don't really know why everyone was complaining about it. Lol. I've had the Thrill since the first week of it's release, and I definitely notice the speed difference. At first I was very disappointed with it's battery life but after having it this long the battery has gotten better, but maybe it's from running Thriller idk. Only thing disappointing now is the lack of development, but I am sure that will come in due time.
I too have noticed pronounced battery life after a week or two. But, I am also on the Thriller ROM. I don't know the battery needs to be calibrated like people said the captivate needed. At first I saw 30% drop on the drive to work, using the phone to listen to audiobook over Bluetooth, now I see about 6-10% for the same. I also see almost no drop when the phone is locked, when I used to.
Again, I don't know if this is due to the Thriller ROM, or just because I have been through enough charge cycles.
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Battery life on the Thrill is undoubtedly a lot worse than the Inspire. I lose 10% or more per hour with the phone just sitting with no interaction. My Inspire only lost about 2% per hour. And the Thrill takes 8+ hours to charge from 20% to 100%. I am only a light user - maybe 200 texts a day if that, no internet, no games, maybe a few short calls and I have to charge it twice a day.
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From the amount of use you have, I think the inspire would be a better choice for you. But i was experiencing the same battery problems as you are, just make sure you stop your apps running in the background, maybe download some battery saving apps(i.e. Juice defender/setcpu), they have helped my battery life. The battery life gets better the more cycles you get through it. My phone sat still at work for 6 hours and only lost 7% of battery. But we should see better battery once GB comes for this phone, especially because that will open up some GB roms.
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I think something is wrong with your Thrill. I don't get great battery life either, but my Thrill charges quicker than any phone I've owned. I can probably charge from 20% to 100% in 1 hour. Are you using the charger that came with the phone?
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Yeah I am using the cable and the wall plug adapter that came with the phone. Makes no difference in charging speed whether I'm connected to a PC with the cable or to that adapter. I am using Advanced Task Killer, and I kill off everything except for email (set to sync every 1/2 hr) and circle battery meter widget. I would jump all over the extended battery that requires the back to be swapped, but there are no cases that fit it like that yet.
The fact that it is draining so quickly, and taking so long to charge, suggests to me that a rogue app is killing your battery. This is one of the annoying "features" of Android.
This is far from typical battery consumption for this device. You should try to determine what app is causing the problem and/or do a factory reset on your device.
I definitely wouldn't live with this situation.
That was one of the things I did already on day 3 of having the phone. I did a factory reset, installed absolutely nothing. Plugged it in to charge and it was no better. Still losing 10-15% per hour idling. I did notice that using app manager, even on a fresh factory reset, it says RAM 283 used, 158 free and the cpu bounces from 90% to 10% almost constantly.
Has anyone with the XT860 on Rogers noticed a high Cell Standby? With 2G enabled on my phone the problem persists, same with 3G.
I can barely get 12 hours from my battery and I have the extended battery directly from the Verizon store.
Any thoughts?
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Has anyone with the XT860 on Rogers noticed a high Cell Standby? With 2G enabled on my phone the problem persists, same with 3G.
I can barely get 12 hours from my battery and I have the extended battery directly from the Verizon store.
Any thoughts?
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Yup, same here...
Do you have any applications running? Trillian was killing my battery before (I think) and stopped using it, although my battery isn't all tha much better. I think we need an update...
I'm also on rogers though, is any XT860 users on Bell also noticing the same thing? Btw I uninstalled JuiceDefender as it was slowing my phone down a lot.
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Yup, same here...
Do you have any applications running? Trillian was killing my battery before (I think) and stopped using it, although my battery isn't all tha much better. I think we need an update...
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I use Trillian, but I also used Trillian on my old phone (HTC Desire Z) and received a magnitude better battery life (one and a half days.) Even with Trillian not enabled on my device, I am seeing the same drain occurring.
I'm on Telus and Cell standby is using 30% of my battery.
data always off..
Mathieu2k4 said:
I'm on Telus and Cell standby is using 30% of my battery.
data always off..
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How long do you have to go between charges of your device?
15h average
10h now with 30% remaining
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15h average
10h now with 30% remaining
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That's absolutely disgustingly terrible :| .. and to think I bought this phone for better battery life.
It has to have something to do with Bell Mobility. Mine has no battery problem; lasts up to 30-37 hours on one full charge. It never connects to Bell's networks (only AT&T), so I'm thinking, what if there is some Bell bloatware or low-level network reporting/feedback software that is constantly communicating to some server on Bell's networks, and since my phone has no access to Bell's networks then the software is prevented from working its evil battery-draining magic..?
I don't know. Just a suggestion; why would the exact same phone model not eat battery on AT&T's networks when it does on Bell's?
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That's absolutely disgustingly terrible :| .. and to think I bought this phone for better battery life.
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"Mototola" and "better battery life" in the same sentence ?
I'm on the Telus network with my 860. Presently I'm at 14hours with 40% battery left, with moderate to heavy usage. Seems pretty normal to me, like my original Milestone.
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I'm on the Telus network with my 860. Presently I'm at 14hours with 40% battery left, with moderate to heavy usage. Seems pretty normal to me, like my original Milestone.
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Motorola phones are too dependent on the network.
When I got my milestone, with the first firmware, I barely reached the 2pm, with the vodafone sim, with the same FW it lasted almost a whole day with a three.it SIM.
Looks like the situation is almost unchanged
I read in other threads that the Verizon Droid 3 had the same problem when it was released, but after the update, this problem was fixed. I'm on TELUS with my XT860.
I unplug it at 7h30 in the morning and plug it at 23h00 at night with 30% left.
Also, I read the whole CM7 ROM thread and talk about how Motorola seems to have purposefully decided to attenuate cell phone reception (in system files, fixable) to make it seem like the US Droid 3 has a better radio reception.... that last part could be speculation about how Motorola decided to program the device, but this reminds me of how Apple "fixed" the iPhone 4 deathgrip issue by only reprogramming how the device displays and understands the radio signal strenght level.
I'm using an XT860 on AT&T's network. Only had it for a few days but the battery life isn't too terrible - about on par with my Desire Z.
Right now I have been unplugged for 17 hours and am down to 17% battery life remaining. While its nothing to shout about its not too terrible either, considering it is still completely stock. Here's my usage for the day (pretty typical day for me):
Gmail and Work Email 'Pushing' to device constantly
Send/Receive approx 150 texts
Playing Wordfeud throughout the day - +/- 30 moves
30 minutes of calling - all using bluetooth connection to headset
Wifi on when at home - approx 7 hours
Display brightness at 50%
About 30 minutes of web browsing and digging around in market
According to the battery stats, cell standby is still the biggest culprit at 36% followed by phone idle at 33% and wifi at 16%. Everything else is below 10% (although not sure how much I trust the accuracy of these numbers)
We will see how it does over the next week or so. I still may decide to go with the larger 1930 mah battery for days where I use the phone more heavily but as long as I can make it from the time I rise from bed to the time I go to sleep on one charge, I'm happy.
Wow that is good battery life. My battery seems weaker.
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This is a known issue. The Droid 3 had the same problem until the 5.6.980 update was released. I read in a thread somewhere an experiment someone had done. Short story is he found the phone acted like it was constantly searching for signal, despite having strong signal. I emailed Motorola asking if and when we could see an update to fix this and some other known issues on the xt860 and they were pretty useless. I think every xt860 owner should email them, maybe we can get some support here.
My battery lasts maybe 10 hours if I'm lucky, less if I actually use it. I have to plug it in every chance I get. There are so many things I love about this phone, but battery life and lack of ROM dev are 2 things I hate. I'm thinking about getting a D3 and unlocking it.
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Endoroid said:
This is a known issue. The Droid 3 had the same problem until the 5.6.980 update was released. I read in a thread somewhere an experiment someone had done. Short story is he found the phone acted like it was constantly searching for signal, despite having strong signal. I emailed Motorola asking if and when we could see an update to fix this and some other known issues on the xt860 and they were pretty useless. I think every xt860 owner should email them, maybe we can get some support here.
My battery lasts maybe 10 hours if I'm lucky, less if I actually use it. I have to plug it in every chance I get. There are so many things I love about this phone, but battery life and lack of ROM dev are 2 things I hate. I'm thinking about getting a D3 and unlocking it.
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Is it the 50% w/o signal bug? Does airplane mode every boot fix it? I had that problem witness my Droid Eris and that fixed it.
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MrObvious said:
Is it the 50% w/o signal bug? Does airplane mode every boot fix it? I had that problem witness my Droid Eris and that fixed it.
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I had to Google that. No I don't believe so. Keeping in mind this is not info I've gotten from moto/bell/Verizon but rather because I spend too much time reading these forums. The speculation was that the radio searches for a signal, like it was in a low/no signal area, even if it had full strength. To elaborate on my previous post, someone who owned an OG droid and a D3 brought them around with him all day, in his office he never had any cell reception and at home he had great reception. At the office both phones lost battery at about the same rate and had similar battery usage stats, as they both spent all their time searching for signal. At home the droid3 continued to lose battery at the same rate, like it was still searching for signal, even though it had full, while the OG battery loss slowed way down.
I'd find the thread except it was awhile ago and I'm way too lazy to look for it. I also know that when Verizon released the 5.6.890 update, this issue seemed to be fixed.
Also I sometimes have to toggle airplane mode as my data seems to stop working and it never fixes this problem. I think these are 2 very separate bugs
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I can report same here. Mine is primarily on Rogers, but does same on Telus too.
Another bug I noticed is car dock triggers very high battery drain. Just insert and remove the phone from the car dock and battery starts draining about 3-4 times faster, device gets warm too. Nothing fixes it but reboot. I had 2 XT860 (first one got replaced due to faulty memory) both show same issues. Media dock also has a bug - disables the auto backlight, but at least has no battery drain issue. Not to mention the crappy smurf camera...
Motorola, where is our "890" update???
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I can report same here. Mine is primarily on Rogers, but does same on Telus too.
Another bug I noticed is car dock triggers very high battery drain. Just insert and remove the phone from the car dock and battery starts draining about 3-4 times faster, device gets warm too. Nothing fixes it but reboot. I had 2 XT860 (first one got replaced due to faulty memory) both show same issues. Media dock also has a bug - disables the auto backlight, but at least has no battery drain issue. Not to mention the crappy smurf camera...
Motorola, where is our "890" update???
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I emailed Motorola about it and was told they could not give a timeframe onwhen an update would be made available
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Has anyone else looked at the logs for the radio on the XT860 with the Bell firmware? It's absolutely being spammed!
If you have the Android SDK installed, you can see the radio messages by executing the following command:
Code:
adb logcat -b radio
I suspect this part of the issue, and would like to see what the results are like on the XT862 (from Verizon.)
I just picked up a like new D4 to play with along side my RAZR MAXX and i gotta say im getting the same battery life on the D4 as my RAZR MAXX.
Im like WHOA no way 17 Hrs of medium use on the D4 and 17.5hrs of medium use on the RAZR MAXX.
I guess its the screen on the D4 that does not draw that much power? I am very happy with the phone and i put the MAXX up on ebay!
How are your battery results?
17 hours moderate use sounds about right... but your RAZR battery life sounds way too short.
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17 hours moderate use sounds about right... but your RAZR battery life sounds way too short.
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There is something eating your RAZR battery life prematurely. 17.5 on D4 is great. On RAZR MAXX that is somewhat poor.
My Wife's D4 can go most of a day without a charge. My RAZR MAXX can go two days without a charge.
I must be doing something wrong then cuz I'm lucky to get through the day without plugging my D4 in. :-(
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When I installed the Swiftkey 3 beta, my battery life went WAY down. Even though it never showed up in the battery stats (not sure why). Uninstalled, problem gone...
I was very impressed with the D4's battery life, as I thought it would suck after reading reviews. I've been impressed with consistently getting >14hrs on my normal usage, and I used it as hard as I possibly could the other day (wifi tether, games, lots of browsing, all while on 4G) and got 11hrs. My OG Droid barely got 10 hrs with light use.
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I was very impressed with the D4's battery life, as I thought it would suck after reading reviews. I've been impressed with consistently getting >14hrs on my normal usage, and I used it as hard as I possibly could the other day (wifi tether, games, lots of browsing, all while on 4G) and got 11hrs. My OG Droid barely got 10 hrs with light use.
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Yea, the OG Droid had terrible battery life. The thing that saved the OG Droid was that the battery was removable, and you could get OEM batteries for ~ $3 online. I had three
A lot of this depends on what you consider use. For example, I have read an eBook on my D4 for 3 hours and lost less than 10% of the battery. I can tether for about 2 hours, but that's pretty battery intensive. The D4 tends to do better than the MAXX when it comes to a lot of screen time, because the pentile display is more energy efficient.