Alright someone PLEASE help! 125mA Battery Draw!

[paulmike3]

I'll give it over night. its been like this for 24 hours+ though already, I guess I'm going to verizon tomorrow again. for them to ship me another one... ffs

That blows, but probably your best bet. One last thing to try -- install 3G Watchdog and see if your data is going up when idle. I wonder if something is may be downloading when idle.

 

[MojaveHigh]

I can't find it now and don't remember the exact explanation, but isn't there something about clearing the battery data file and/or calibrating the battery? I'm probably not making sense, but just remember something like that from a few weeks ago.

I idle at 42mAh, that's with 4G and GPS on.

 

[FrankXS]

My mobile data is off.

Are you sure that turning mobile data off might not cause some programs to continually try to call out, thereby pulling even more juice? I don't believe that disabling data and auto-sync will stop all programs from at least trying to make a connection.

Why not try enabling Mobile Data and see how it goes?

-Frank

 

[OC Nut]

I am not sure that the Current Widget is very accurate. I just tried idling (a) with 4G, (b) with mobile data turned off, and (c) in airplane mode, and the log shows about 42/40/38mA use, respectively.

However, when 4G is on, my phone drains 1% every 5-6 minutes (suggesting usage of 140-168mA in idle), but when mobile data is off, the drain rate is in the 1-2%/hour range (suggesting usage of 20-30mA).

If the Settings/Battery, information, is to be believed, the display uses about 20 times as much energy as the idle phone (it right now shows 3.5 times the battery use compared with the phone/data idle use, even though the screen has been on only 1/7 of the total time it's been on), but that is not consistent with the 10%-12%/hour drain rate I am getting from LTE on with the display off (it would imply the phone would be dead with the screen on after half an hour!).

So I think the numbers are fishy, and are more like:
Base system: 20mA
Base system w/ phone radio: 40mA
Base system w/ phone radio and LTE data: 150mA
Display (at about 30%): around 300mA (incremental)

This implies screen on time of 1.5 hours + 4.5 hours of idle time, with the phone being off the charger at 9am and dying at around 3pm, which is about what I'm experiencing (stock phone and battery).

I'm another BB Bold turned TB user, and the BB was horrible for anything but push email and Outlook integration (didn't use BBM), but the battery would last easily from 9am to 12am. Of course, the browser was so slow as to be nearly unusable (apparently, "Requesting, Requesting, Requesting, Loading Script, Requesting, Requesting, Requesting, Images 11 (of 53), Requesting" doesn't take much battery!), and the screen had about 20% the number of pixels as the TB, so there's the trade-off.

 

[zachnelson]

I tried it with mobile data on this morning, same issue, drawing like 130mA idle.

I had it charged to 100% last night, and I left it on my bedside table, and when I woke up this morning (8 hours) it needed a charge. This definitely never happened with my other one.

Going to verizon in ~30 minutes we'll see what they say.

 

[Effenhimer]

Did you give the "new" phone 3-4 days before you decided to start figuring this out?? The battery wouldn't have a cache of info about its use in this phone about how the old phone used power would it??... I worded that funny but you know what I mean right?

 

[zachnelson]

Did you give the "new" phone 3-4 days before you decided to start figuring this out?? The battery wouldn't have a cache of info about its use in this phone about how the old phone used power would it??... I worded that funny but you know what I mean right?

I didn't give it any time, because I don't think the battery is the problem.

I went into Verizon today, the guy checked everything out, but they have to ship me a new device. They don't cary replacements in their stock anymore? So I wont get a new phone until Wednesday.

What a load of crap.

 

[wildman]

I can't find it now and don't remember the exact explanation, but isn't there something about clearing the battery data file and/or calibrating the battery? I'm probably not making sense, but just remember something like that from a few weeks ago.

I idle at 42mAh, that's with 4G and GPS on.

I think Settings / Applications / Manage Applications / Battery Manager and Data Manager.... Clear Data, also the Data Manager option also should do it...

 

[Effenhimer]

So you didn't get what I meant...

It takes a few charge cycles before you'll get good power usage, it's baked into the OS, not the battery... And I hope you're not using a task killer...

 

[tcapote]

what app are you guys using to measure the draw at idle??

 

[zachnelson]

So you didn't get what I meant...

It takes a few charge cycles before you'll get good power usage, it's baked into the OS, not the battery... And I hope you're not using a task killer...

I don't use a task killer.

And yes, a few charge cycles so the OS can optimize it's usage, but theres no reason it should be using 4 times the regular mA usage with GPS, wi-fi and 3g/4g off while idle.

My first thunderbolt didn't do this, and I installed the mA tracking app first thing on both phones.

 

[MojaveHigh]

what app are you guys using to measure the draw at idle??

I use Battery Monitor Widget, which I like better than Current Widget.

 

[zachnelson]

I use Battery Monitor Widget, which I like better than Current Widget.

I'm using BMW as well.