Droid Bionic, Great Battery Life??

[Jasper]

So what we have are multiple screen shots sent in to Droid-Life: A Look at the DROID Bionic?s Battery Life - Droid Life: A Droid Community Blog
Showing what could be great battery life, my only problem is it appears they just left the phone turned on without using it, other than to check battery life and snap a picture. Thoughts????

What is typically the largest power consumption for your phone?
Mine is usually 60% display and 30+% Voice calls... So not sure what this battery life is telling us, if anything.

Update: Kellex is claiming that the Droid 3 always shows Cell Standby and Phone Idle in the top two categories, Anyone with a Droid 3 care to comment on this??

 

[p08757]

Lets hope its that good! We should find out in a little bit over 2 weeks from now.

 

[anon(387460)]

I see your point, Seems like it can idle for over a day. But honestly I don't think my OG Droid can idle for a day... or can't idle for a day with minimal use. So this may be good. Do we have any other tests to compare it too to see how other battery life is tested like this? Perhaps with a Droid 3?

 

[ChevyNovaLN]

I see your point, Seems like it can idle for over a day. But honestly I don't think my OG Droid can idle for a day... or can't idle for a day with minimal use. So this may be good. Do we have any other tests to compare it too to see how other battery life is tested like this? Perhaps with a Droid 3?

My OG Droid is at 80% battery life right now with Display being 26%, Phone Idle 22%, cell standby 17%, Voice Calls 17%, Bluetooth 6%.

9h 36m 44s on Battery.

EDIT: i'm running CyanogenMod 7.0.3 Stable. Minimal apps installed that run as services due to the CPU being so old/tired. Google+, Messaging, and a few others are always running in the backround. CPU is running at 550mhz per 'OverclockWidget'

 

[jroc]

We need breakdowns of how long the screen was on and whatnot. Cell Standby and Phone Idle is kinda high...makes me think it wasnt used that much either.

EDIT: Didnt see the Kellex update before...

Some phone have nice rated standby times, some phones have nice rated usage times. Moto phones usually have nice rated usage times. So if this is basically standby times, I dont really care. Show us how long the phone lasts after using 4G for about an hour...

And Display and phone use is my biggest battery drainers for me too.

EDIT: after reading the article at Droid -Life...if that holds true the Bionic will definitely be my next phone.

 

[bplewis24]

From what I've read, the pentile screen phones don't end up having the display as the highest power draw. So that part of it seems legit.

I think if it can idle for over 1 day that's not bad. That means it drops 10% every ~3 hours. I would take that.

Brandon

 

[Phil Nickinson]

Using a picture to judge battery life is probably one of the funnier things I've seen this week.

 

[ltfrazer]

From what I've read, the pentile screen phones don't end up having the display as the highest power draw. So that part of it seems legit.

I think if it can idle for over 1 day that's not bad. That means it drops 10% every ~3 hours. I would take that.

Brandon

I'd like to see what the battery is like after a day of emails and phone calls. This test had the battery idle most of the day. Hard to compare it against a working phone. My OG Droid will die after a dozen business phone calls and 40 emails.
Right now I'm at 60% after 9h 18m 41 sec on battery. It's pretty much sat on my desk all day syncing emails. Display is 38%, phone idle 12%, email 10%, cell standby 10%. android system 9%

I'll use my phone driving home making calls via bluetooth. It will be down to 30-40% by the time I'm home. It's a 20 minute drive.

I'm really looking forward to the Bionic. I hope it lives up to all our expectations!

 

[ChevyNovaLN]

I'd like to see what the battery is like after a day of emails and phone calls. This test had the battery idle most of the day. Hard to compare it against a working phone. My OG Droid will die after a dozen business phone calls and 40 emails.
Right now I'm at 60% after 9h 18m 41 sec on battery. It's pretty much sat on my desk all day syncing emails. Display is 38%, phone idle 12%, email 10%, cell standby 10%. android system 9%

I'll use my phone driving home making calls via bluetooth. It will be down to 30-40% by the time I'm home. It's a 20 minute drive.

I'm really looking forward to the Bionic. I hope it lives up to all our expectations!

Ouch. so you're saying from 60% using it for 20-ish minutes of bluetooth phonecalls it will drop 20%? I talked for 18 minutes on my way home using my bluetooth headset and mines now down to 70% (from 80% earlier when I sent the last message)

Maybe my battery is newer as I had my phone replaced last year due to walking into a pool with it.

 

[Manchild Prodigy]

I'd like to see if the Bionic could make it through a day at work with me. Between email, Twitter, Facebook and random web browsing I've been known to kill the battery on my Samsung Focus in 8 hours on a 3G connection.

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[kca2000]

According to the article the phone was running on 3g only for the first 16 hours. Not sure how i feel about that since the main draw to this phone is LTE. I also dont like that Standby and idle are the high points on the "usage" with nothing else shown. Makes me think this phone was just sitting around all day when these pics were taken. Not being used as the article describes.

But it also says thats now the new blur handles the battery usage.

I also dont see wifi or bluetooth being on at all. Something i keep on, on my current phone all day long.

 

[ChevyNovaLN]

I also dont see wifi or bluetooth being on at all. Something i keep on, on my current phone all day long.

Same here. My Wifi is always on (not alerting me of new networks, but its always on but not connected while i'm at work) and my bluetooth is always on as well in case i happen to turn on my headset. I bet it'd last even longer if i turned that stuff off lol, i just dont bother as I dont really have any battery concerns with my OG Droid.

EDIT: I should also mention that I have my Location information turned off so it doesn't use Wireless networks or GPS. Maybe that helps quite a bit, though not sure what the GPS does battery-wise.

 

[kca2000]

Heres a few examples of my usage on my OG Droid. Just for comparison. No Extended battery used on these screen shots. One the phone sat around most of the day, The other was heavier usage. EDIT. These batteries also are not new in any sense. The original will be 2 years in NOV. The extra in DEC.

 

[2defmouze]

Another one of my noob questions, lol (if anyone's getting tired of those SORRY! but it will might only get worse once I get this phone )...

Quickie tho: Since I have no android experience and am coming from bb tour which doesn't get wifi... When you are connected to a wifi network
A) Does it use less power consumption? I assumed Yes but want to check (should I say does it use significantly less power?)

B) Does the OS know to turn off the 4g antenna automatically when you are in range of one of your prefererred wifi networks, or do you manually have to do that?

 

[KillerG]

Using a picture to judge battery life is probably one of the funnier things I've seen this week.

I agree with you Phil lol. I like to see these pictures and such, but I won't REALLY know about the battery life until I hold the phone and use it. Also we don't know how they had their battery saving options set. And we can't truly know how they feel "moderate" usage is. I'd probably use it a lot more than this guy did. There are a lot of things you can do to squeeze more battery life out of it. And why did he even have it on 3G? No clue. I bet if I tried I could squeeze maybe a full 24 hours out of it, but I wouldn't expect a lot more.

 

[mjforte]

Here's my usage today on my Thunderbolt. I was on 4G all day except for about 30 minutes of being on wifi. I really hope the Bionic is better than this.

 

[corymcnutt]

Using a picture to judge battery life is probably one of the funnier things I've seen this week.

I don't see you giving us anything to droll over, so we take what we can get!

 

[ChevyNovaLN]

I don't see you giving us anything to droll over, so we take what we can get!

I don't "droll' over much, but the Bionic is getting me there. lol

 

[KillerG]

I don't "droll' over much, but the Bionic is getting me there. lol

We may seem some really nasty screens when this thing gets leaked...from all the drooling.

 

[ChevyNovaLN]

We may seem some really nasty screens when this thing gets leaked...from all the drooling.

I think you spelled that wrong. Its 'drolling' duh. I actually think there are many people with OG Droids, DX, Dinc, etc.... that will all NEED to replace their current phones because of them shorting out due to droll caused by thinking about the Bionic. (Yes folks, Droll is now the new word, use it everywhere, let it live!)

Brian