[briankeith513]

It seems every review praises the battery life of the X, however, it has been very poor for me so far. Anyone else with this problem? Any suggestions?

[SCMoney360]

well what are you doing? what are your settings? If you got this phone within the last week, like I imagine you did....I would be playing with that thing like crazy and kill the battery...wait till your not playing with it non stop....then judge the battery. - this will be my problem.

[GTvert90]

Have you "conditioned" the battery? Lets it run down untill it powers its self off leave it off and let it charge till its done. do it a few times. Seemed to help with my DINC

[SCMoney360]

Have you "conditioned" the battery? Lets it run down untill it powers its self off leave it off and let it charge till its done. do it a few times. Seemed to help with my DINC

I need some clarification on this....I thought that batteries nowadays don't need to be conditioned - or can't.

op- I would recommend reading the evo/incredible battery forum to see if there are some settings. I know there is a settings that your facebook/twitter updates constantly in the background. or you can set it to x amount of minutes.

[briankeith513]

Display on auto brightness, 30 sec time out. I have gmail, facebook, and beautiful widgets on auto sync. Yeah, it shut off on me yesterday, and I let it charge fully, and more poor battery life today. Took it off the charger around 7:30am, and it was dead at 2:30pm

[MolecularGraph]

I agree with GTvert90, however, seems like this could go in the batteries discussion, no?

[javroch]

12. Don't drain the battery
The old advice to completely drain your battery to ensure proper operation doesn't stand any more, thanks to modern lithium-ion batteries. They don't have the charge memory issues that affected previous generation cells, and in fact perform better if you regularly charge them and keep them topped up.


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[GTvert90]

12. Don't drain the battery
The old advice to completely drain your battery to ensure proper operation doesn't stand any more, thanks to modern lithium-ion batteries. They don't have the charge memory issues that affected previous generation cells, and in fact perform better if you regularly charge them and keep them topped up.


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It sure seemed like it helped me... It could all be in my head tho.. I think i did it 3 or 4 times... Who knows. We may never know for sure unless we get a battery expert in here.

[Matt Kline]

I agree with GTvert90, however, seems like this could go in the batteries discussion, no?

You must really want to be a moderator.

[Speedr117]

One word: ATK! I had an EVO for 29 days, and without it, it would die in 4 hours. With it, over a day. I'd expect the Droid X to be the same!

[Kupe]

It sure seemed like it helped me... It could all be in my head tho.. I think i did it 3 or 4 times... Who knows. We may never know for sure unless we get a battery expert in here.

. Multiple full discharges NOT recommended. You may be experiencing the placebo effect.

[SCMoney360]

One word: ATK! I had an EVO for 29 days, and without it, it would die in 4 hours. With it, over a day. I'd expect the Droid X to be the same!

one word. maybe! there are plenty of threads saying don't use an atk! and this is going to be a lot of peoples first android phone and will cause more problems than it will fix.

Not saying it doesn't work for you....but you might have actually took the time to read what you were doing....when a frustrated user searchs and see atk will fix all your problems, they aren't going to try and find out how to use the program properly,

secondly the x has a battery manager on the phone already and you can tell the phone how/when wifi/3g is being used.

IF YOU ARE NEW TO ANDROID PHONES PLEASE SEARCH ATKs before installing and know what you are doing.

[Cory Streater]

Do you have it in Performance Mode?

[Stang68]

Also, I believe an update was pushed out to Droid X's the other day. Maybe that had some minor battery improvements. Did you download that?

[MolecularGraph]

You must really want to be a moderator.

No, just trying to cut down the number of threads, they get kind of hectic to stay on top of for the mods.

[briankeith513]

Do you have it in Performance Mode?

I have it on the default's smart mode.

[briankeith513]

Also, I believe an update was pushed out to Droid X's the other day. Maybe that had some minor battery improvements. Did you download that?

I just have the .516 version. No update was pushed to mine.

[mh1]

How to prolong lithium-based batteries (BU34)

Battery research is focusing heavily on lithium chemistries, so much so that one could presume that all portable devices will be powered with lithium-ion batteries in the future. In many ways, lithium-ion is superior to nickel and lead-based chemistries and the applications for lithium-ion batteries are growing as a result.

Lithium-ion has not yet fully matured and is being improved continuously. New metal and chemical combinations are being tried every six months to increase energy density and prolong service life. The improvements in longevity after each change will not be known for a few years.

A lithium-ion battery provides 300-500 discharge/charge cycles. The battery prefers a partial rather than a full discharge. Frequent full discharges should be avoided when possible. Instead, charge the battery more often or use a larger battery. There is no concern of memory when applying unscheduled charges.

Although lithium-ion is memory-free in terms of performance deterioration, batteries with fuel gauges exhibit what engineers refer to as "digital memory". Here is the reason: Short discharges with subsequent recharges do not provide the periodic calibration needed to synchronize the fuel gauge with the battery's state-of-charge. A deliberate full discharge and recharge every 30 charges corrects this problem. Letting the battery run down to the cut-off point in the equipment will do this. If ignored, the fuel gauge will become increasingly less accurate.

[Stang68]

I just have the .516 version. No update was pushed to mine.

Yeah, that's not the newest one. Try pulling it from the Check for Updates option.

[Cory Streater]

Are your data arrows solid white a lot? If the phone is hammering the network constantly that could definitely do it. Also, you might go to settings, about phone, battery and examine the consumption percentages.

[Mark_Venture]

Mine has actually been kind of good out of the box... I went from 2 or 3pm to about 8:30am today, with lots of playing (installing apps, streaming music, setting it up, etc) last night before bed. It did not give me any battery warnings until this morning, in the car on the way home from dropping my son at day care. It said 5%, then within about 5 minutes it was dead and turned off.

It took about 2hrs or so to completely charge. Took it off the charger between 10 and 11am. Again, more playing (surfing, downloading, copying pix, etc) this evening and tonight... As I type this, the battery is at 50%. I'm going to bed now.. I'll leave it off the charger over night.

[Mark_Venture]

Yeah, that's not the newest one. Try pulling it from the Check for Updates option.

since activating... check for updates has told me that mine is "up to date" and no updates are found.

I have .516 also. I'd love to get .604.

[homeylarry]

bad battery perhaps? this stuff does happen

[MolecularGraph]

Might have a blown cell, take out the battery and if it seems like a row on the battery is bulging out, take it into Verizon and be all in their face about bad service and such, and you'll get a new one free! but if they give you one right off the bat, then no complaining about service.

[briankeith513]

Thanks guys, it may be a bad battery, but I've done a master reset, and going to give it a little more time. And yeah, the ones who have gotten their phones today have .516 too, and you can't force it to update.