How's the battery life on the Moto X Pure Edition?

[Ry]

Wow - first full day with normal usage and its really bad. Like something must be wrong bad. Off charger at 7am and now its 4pm, and I'm at 30%. Would definitely need to charge to make it to this evening. Can't keep this phone if I can't get a full day of normal usage and today wasnt that heavy a usage.

Looks like Screen On Time is only 1 hour so far. So that is really bad. That is at 30% brightness.

I think the biggest drain I saw all day has something to do with the Driving Feature enabled. This AM on commute, I had that feature turn on, which let me answer texts etc using voice commands. Seemed like a nice idea - but on a 1 hour commute, with Bluetooth streaming while it was on, burned through 30% battery. Seemed like it was constantly searching for cloud Moto signal or something?

Google Services seems to be big hog as well as Android OS. Hoping that is a first day thing or something.

So I'm hoping its just a matter of turning off some features like that one. Maybe the motion sensors as well. But stinks to get a new phone with new features and be struggling to turn stuff off to make it through a day. Had been hoping to at least be able to leave bluetooth and GPS on all day, and hopefully the active notifications from Moto. Will try that AM tomorrow.

Might want to charge it while on your 1 hour commute.

 

[kj11]

Wow - first full day with normal usage and its really bad. Like something must be wrong bad. Off charger at 7am and now its 4pm, and I'm at 30%. Would definitely need to charge to make it to this evening. Can't keep this phone if I can't get a full day of normal usage and today wasnt that heavy a usage.

Looks like Screen On Time is only 1 hour so far. So that is really bad. That is at 30% brightness.

I think the biggest drain I saw all day has something to do with the Driving Feature enabled. This AM on commute, I had that feature turn on, which let me answer texts etc using voice commands. Seemed like a nice idea - but on a 1 hour commute, with Bluetooth streaming while it was on, burned through 30% battery. Seemed like it was constantly searching for cloud Moto signal or something?

Google Services seems to be big hog as well as Android OS. Hoping that is a first day thing or something.

So I'm hoping its just a matter of turning off some features like that one. Maybe the motion sensors as well. But stinks to get a new phone with new features and be struggling to turn stuff off to make it through a day. Had been hoping to at least be able to leave bluetooth and GPS on all day, and hopefully the active notifications from Moto. Will try that AM tomorrow.

That's pretty abysmal. You're right, crappy to have a new phone with all these new features if you have to kill them just to get through a day

 

[globster2000]

Wow - first full day with normal usage and its really bad. Like something must be wrong bad. Off charger at 7am and now its 4pm, and I'm at 30%. Would definitely need to charge to make it to this evening. Can't keep this phone if I can't get a full day of normal usage and today wasnt that heavy a usage.

Looks like Screen On Time is only 1 hour so far. So that is really bad. That is at 30% brightness.

I think the biggest drain I saw all day has something to do with the Driving Feature enabled. This AM on commute, I had that feature turn on, which let me answer texts etc using voice commands. Seemed like a nice idea - but on a 1 hour commute, with Bluetooth streaming while it was on, burned through 30% battery. Seemed like it was constantly searching for cloud Moto signal or something?

Google Services seems to be big hog as well as Android OS. Hoping that is a first day thing or something.

So I'm hoping its just a matter of turning off some features like that one. Maybe the motion sensors as well. But stinks to get a new phone with new features and be struggling to turn stuff off to make it through a day. Had been hoping to at least be able to leave bluetooth and GPS on all day, and hopefully the active notifications from Moto. Will try that AM tomorrow.

Thats odd... Im having excellent battery life with my pure edition 2015. In fact, i came home with 53% battery after streaming Iheartradio for 5+ hours on 4G LTE, 1 hour screen on, and 11 hours off the hook. Keep in mind that my work gots no wifi and that my moto 2013 would be dead by now.

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[Ry]

Thats odd... Im having excellent battery life with my pure edition 2015. In fact, i came home with 53% battery after streaming Iheartradio for 5+ hours on 4G LTE, 1 hour screen on, and 11 hours off the hook. Keep in mind that my work gots no wifi and that my moto 2013 would be dead by now.

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Streaming music usually leaves the screen off for most of it.

(which is why SOT isn't the end all/be all metric for me personally)

 

[rushmore]

Thats odd... Im having excellent battery life with my pure edition 2015. In fact, i came home with 53% battery after streaming Iheartradio for 5+ hours on 4G LTE, 1 hour screen on, and 11 hours off the hook. Keep in mind that my work gots no wifi and that my moto 2013 would be dead by now.

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That is to most people, very light use One hour SOT- of course battery life should be stupendously amazing. That though would probably only equate to 2.5 hours SOT, considering most of the weight of use is the display. So far for my normal use compared to the Note 4 and stock battery, I am not making it through a day. Battery life (so far) seems about 30% less than my Note 4- based on my own personal use with the Note 4 for the last year.

Still, I LIKE this device. Just like a girlfriend you like, but she has some glaring flaws. Girls can replace with "boyfriend and boy". Same thing

I am hoping my initial results are biased by new device usage syndrome. Plan on keeping this puppy

 

[VoltaicShock]

Might want to charge it while on your 1 hour commute.

That is exactly what I was thinking. Why not charge it while driving.

 

[globster2000]

Streaming music usually leaves the screen off for most of it.

(which is why SOT isn't the end all/be all metric for me personally)

im at 2hours and 25min SOT with 5 hours iheartradio on lte, and 14 hours off the plug so far.

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[thejesse]

That is exactly what I was thinking. Why not charge it while driving.

I've never had a smart phone I didn't charge whenever I'm driving.

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[turf]

The screenshots I see in this thread exhibit the Lollipop mobile radio active bug. A phone without the bug will typically have the screen as the #1 battery drain and it will be at least 5 times greater than the next item on the battery list. There are three things you can do:

1. You can go the to the Google lollipop MRA bug tracker website and star the issue to register your displeasure. It already has over 3400 stars so this won't mean much, but it is something.
2. Wait for marshmallow to be released since the bug will reportedly be fixed
3. Return the phone to Motorola and be sure to mention it is due to the horrible battery life due to the mobile radio active bug. Then perhaps they will lean on Google to more quickly address the issue.

 

[Charles Larrabee]

WiFi being used almost the whole time with no Bluetooth & screen at 50% I managed to get 10 hrs of use going from from 95%-2% and got 4.5 hrs of SOT

 

[bpe4]

That is to most people, very light use One hour SOT- of course battery life should be stupendously amazing. That though would probably only equate to 2.5 hours SOT, considering most of the weight of use is the display. So far for my normal use compared to the Note 4 and stock battery, I am not making it through a day. Battery life (so far) seems about 30% less than my Note 4- based on my own personal use with the Note 4 for the last year.

Still, I LIKE this device. Just like a girlfriend you like, but she has some glaring flaws. Girls can replace with "boyfriend and boy". Same thing

I am hoping my initial results are biased by new device usage syndrome. Plan on keeping this puppy

Rushmore,
You might want to look at your 14-day return expiration date and see where it stands with the Nexus 6 announcement and pre-order (9/29). The new Nexus 6 has some key features missing from the X, along with a forecasted 3500mah battery.

Just sayin......

 

[eak1570]

I watch one review and the guy who review the X mentioned that his X get most battery on Sprint network 6 hours SOT and not good on AT&T..

 

[cwise222]

I watch one review and the guy who review the X mentioned that his X get most battery on Sprint network 6 hours SOT and not good on AT&T..

As someone with AT&T I can definitely say that the Lollipop cell standby bug is eating into my battery life, usually about 10% to 15% per day. Not as bad as it was on my S6, but it is there. Turning off VoLTE/Enhanced LTE helped on my S6 but I don't have the option on the X. I'm still getting around 19 to 20 hours with 3 to 4 hours SoT though, provided I stay on WiFi.

 

[dcemureviews]

Wow - first full day with normal usage and its really bad. Like something must be wrong bad. Off charger at 7am and now its 4pm, and I'm at 30%. Would definitely need to charge to make it to this evening. Can't keep this phone if I can't get a full day of normal usage and today wasnt that heavy a usage.

Looks like Screen On Time is only 1 hour so far. So that is really bad. That is at 30% brightness.

I think the biggest drain I saw all day has something to do with the Driving Feature enabled. This AM on commute, I had that feature turn on, which let me answer texts etc using voice commands. Seemed like a nice idea - but on a 1 hour commute, with Bluetooth streaming while it was on, burned through 30% battery. Seemed like it was constantly searching for cloud Moto signal or something?

Google Services seems to be big hog as well as Android OS. Hoping that is a first day thing or something.

So I'm hoping its just a matter of turning off some features like that one. Maybe the motion sensors as well. But stinks to get a new phone with new features and be struggling to turn stuff off to make it through a day. Had been hoping to at least be able to leave bluetooth and GPS on all day, and hopefully the active notifications from Moto. Will try that AM tomorrow.

You're not going to get results based on 1 day of use. The battery needs to be conditioned and charged multiple times before you see any results. A full week of use and charging will tell you how the battery life is.

 

[Ry]

I watch one review and the guy who review the X mentioned that his X get most battery on Sprint network 6 hours SOT and not good on AT&T..

Network and network coverage will play a big role in battery life.

Another reason I don't only go by SOT.

 

[On2Vegas]

As someone with AT&T I can definitely say that the Lollipop cell standby bug is eating into my battery life, usually about 10% to 15% per day. Not as bad as it was on my S6, but it is there. Turning off VoLTE/Enhanced LTE helped on my S6 but I don't have the option on the X. I'm still getting around 19 to 20 hours with 3 to 4 hours SoT though, provided I stay on WiFi.

This is why I can't wait to get M on my 2014, Lollipop does not play well with it. :'( Can't come soon enough.

 

[anon(632186)]

I'm seeing some decent improvement after having the device for a week now. I tend to be able to get about 4 hours screen on time and it lasts me all day without issue. I'm curious if anyone else has seen marked improvement with time. When I first got it I could barely get over two hours sot. Seems it needs some conditioning.

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[cwise222]

I'm seeing some decent improvement after having the device for a week now. I tend to be able to get about 4 hours screen on time and it lasts me all day without issue. I'm curious if anyone else has seen marked improvement with time. When I first got it I could barely get over two hours sot. Seems it needs some conditioning.

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Mine has done the same. I think some of the Google stuff gets less aggressive with sending location data, etc, after a week of so of 'leanring'. All my phones have gotten better battery life after a few weeks use.

 

[Saturn1217]

I'm seeing some decent improvement after having the device for a week now. I tend to be able to get about 4 hours screen on time and it lasts me all day without issue. I'm curious if anyone else has seen marked improvement with time. When I first got it I could barely get over two hours sot. Seems it needs some conditioning.

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Yes. When I first got it I was concerned. 3.5hrs SOT was what I was getting. Now I'm feeling much better about this phone. I'm at ~3hrs SOT and I still have 45% remaining. That is a good mix of WiFi and LTE and lots of chrome browsing too. I got this yesterday, although to be fair a little over an hr was ereading on WiFi. But I didn't have to charge my phone the whole day starting from 6am and using it a lot on a 40min commute both ways.

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[Ry]

Yes. When I first got it I was concerned. 3.5hrs SOT was what I was getting. Now I'm feeling much better about this phone. I'm at ~3hrs SOT and I still have 45% remaining. That is a good mix of WiFi and LTE and lots of chrome browsing too. I got this yesterday, although to be fair a little over an hr was ereading on WiFi. But I didn't have to charge my phone the whole day starting from 6am and using it a lot on a 40min commute both ways.

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Nice!