I guess i just cant stand waiting around hoping it will just work itself out. Down to 76% in 3 1/2 hours now. Thats incredibly bad on this phone. The fact that verizon has stopped or is about to stop shipping the 32 gb Maxx and only the 16gb is perhaps making me more anxious to get this sorted out so i dont wind up with a replacement 16gb in a week. Maybe its just time i throw caution to the wind and go back to my old Treo 600, great battery life and a dope stylus.
Droid Maxx Battery Time cut in half after May update! Anybody else?
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I can't believe that there is anything wrong with the actual phone. I'd try a factory reset, if all else fails, before getting a factory refurbished phone.
I do know that one of the points in the change log for the Moto X when it went from 4.4 to 4.4.2 was fixing a problem that caused battery drain in some phones, so it may be worth waiting through another month or two (hopefully) and see if an update fixes it.
I've realized that I'm hardly using Google Now anymore for anything useful, so I'm going to see if turning it off completely, and turning off location tracking and history, will cut back a bit on battery drain.
And, again, if you are using Hangouts for text messaging, you may want to switch temporarily back to Messaging while Google works out the battery drain issues with Hangouts 2.1 as an SMS client.
My awake time is 100%. How do I trace that to what is keeping it awake?
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My battery is approximately half of what it was before the update and my awake time is also 100%. I've made no other changes to phone. How do you do a factor reset?
I cleared my cache partition and now my battery life is back to approximately where it was. Not sure if that helped, or whether it was merely coincidental, but you may want to think about trying that.
I did a factory reset last night and spent about an hour getting all my apps back and set up properly and it appears it was a success! Battery time seems to be back where it was before the update 4 days ago and usage was totally normal again right after the factory reset. Obviously something in the kernel or some hidden process just didnt load correctly on the original update. Good to know there is a not too difficult solution, hard resets are so much easier now than the old days.
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Turn off your phone and hold power and volume up for a few seconds.
Sent from my Galaxy S4 running SlimKat 4.4.2
I thought it was volume down + power. Is power + vol up a shortcut?
Source; https://motorola-global-portal.cust..._detail/a_id/95478/p/30,6720,8882/action/auth
1. With the phone powered off, press the VOL DOWN KEY for 2-3 seconds then POWER key then release.
2. The device will display different BOOT OPTIONS
3. Use the VOL DOWN Key to SCROLL to Recovery and VOL UP Key to select
Tip: If the device reboots, you may have waited to long to make a selection, you will need to begin the process again.
4. The device will display the Motorola logo and then the Android in distress ( logo with Exclamation mark)
5. Press and hold the VOL UP key for 10-15 seconds. While still holding the VOL UP key tap and release the POWER key
Tip: You can try this step, holding the phone in landscape. If you are stuck on step 6, try a force reboot by pressing the Power key and Vol Down key, and start the process again.
6. The device will display additional menu options (Text will appear in BLUE)
7. Use the VOL DOWN Key to scroll to wipe cache partition and the POWER Key to select this option
8. The device will then perform the partition wipe
9. The device will reboot and start the normal power up sequence
Source; https://motorola-global-portal.cust..._detail/a_id/95478/p/30,6720,8882/action/auth
1. With the phone powered off, press the VOL DOWN KEY for 2-3 seconds then POWER key then release.
2. The device will display different BOOT OPTIONS
3. Use the VOL DOWN Key to SCROLL to Recovery and VOL UP Key to select
Tip: If the device reboots, you may have waited to long to make a selection, you will need to begin the process again.
4. The device will display the Motorola logo and then the Android in distress ( logo with Exclamation mark)
5. Press and hold the VOL UP key for 10-15 seconds. While still holding the VOL UP key tap and release the POWER key
Tip: You can try this step, holding the phone in landscape. If you are stuck on step 6, try a force reboot by pressing the Power key and Vol Down key, and start the process again.
6. The device will display additional menu options (Text will appear in BLUE)
7. Use the VOL DOWN Key to scroll to wipe cache partition and the POWER Key to select this option
8. The device will then perform the partition wipe
9. The device will reboot and start the normal power up sequence
Hmm, that's probably right. I don't have a Droid Maxx...and that's how I remember doing it on the Moto X
Sent from my Galaxy S4 running SlimKat 4.4.2
Powering the phone on and off solved the problem. Awake time is back to normal as is battery drain down.
I've tried just about everything to improve battery life. I've restarted the phone; battery life remains the same after the restart. I've wiped the cache partition in Recovery; no noticeable change in battery life. I've turned off using Hangout for SMS and switched back to Messaging, after reading that the latest version of Hangouts was causing problems when used as an SMS client; there was no noticeable change in battery life. I've turned off Google Now and turned off location tracking and location history; there was no noticeable change in battery life. I've even factory reset twice, and battery life always goes back to what it is now after a day or two, if not right away.
Things I haven't done? I haven't turned off data sync, because one of the reasons I wanted a smartphone in the first place was so that my Gmail (in particular), calendar and contacts would always be as up to date as possible. Even with older phones I've had, though, when I've used something like Tasker to automate switching data sync off for 15 minutes and then on for a couple, it never had any noticeable affect on battery life. I haven't rooted; I rooted older phones, because they needed root in order to work well, but I'd rather not have the phone rooted if the phone will perform well (and, of course, at this point it's not going to happen anyway on this phone.) I haven't turned off BT, either, because I am using a Pebble watch, both to get notifications without looking at the phone and to keep the phone unlocked with the trusted BT device. I'll stick with the battery life I get rather than not use the Pebble, at least right now (I may change my mind if it gets worse.)
If I take my phone off the charger when I wake up and plug it back in at night, most nights I end up with a phone with about 30-50% battery life left, depending on where I am during the day - how much I drive (drive assist seems to drain the battery more than I see if I just stay home); what the mobile signal quality is. This is with about 2 to 2.5 hours screen on time on the phone. It's good enough for me, but there are times when I would nearly drain the phone, such as when I am driving a lot, or listening to media a lot (most days I do so for about 1:15 to 2 hours a day, with the display off), or when I'm in a place with a really bad signal. So, I just plug in when I can (I have a Qi charger in one of my cars, which is great), and I get through a day just fine.
I'd really like to see battery life go back to where is was on 4.2.2, but hopefully at least it won't get worse than what it is now. I am glad that I bought the Maxx, though, and not the Moto X, because I know I'd be playing battery games with that phone to get through a day.
Things I haven't done? I haven't turned off data sync, because one of the reasons I wanted a smartphone in the first place was so that my Gmail (in particular), calendar and contacts would always be as up to date as possible. Even with older phones I've had, though, when I've used something like Tasker to automate switching data sync off for 15 minutes and then on for a couple, it never had any noticeable affect on battery life. I haven't rooted; I rooted older phones, because they needed root in order to work well, but I'd rather not have the phone rooted if the phone will perform well (and, of course, at this point it's not going to happen anyway on this phone.) I haven't turned off BT, either, because I am using a Pebble watch, both to get notifications without looking at the phone and to keep the phone unlocked with the trusted BT device. I'll stick with the battery life I get rather than not use the Pebble, at least right now (I may change my mind if it gets worse.)
If I take my phone off the charger when I wake up and plug it back in at night, most nights I end up with a phone with about 30-50% battery life left, depending on where I am during the day - how much I drive (drive assist seems to drain the battery more than I see if I just stay home); what the mobile signal quality is. This is with about 2 to 2.5 hours screen on time on the phone. It's good enough for me, but there are times when I would nearly drain the phone, such as when I am driving a lot, or listening to media a lot (most days I do so for about 1:15 to 2 hours a day, with the display off), or when I'm in a place with a really bad signal. So, I just plug in when I can (I have a Qi charger in one of my cars, which is great), and I get through a day just fine.
I'd really like to see battery life go back to where is was on 4.2.2, but hopefully at least it won't get worse than what it is now. I am glad that I bought the Maxx, though, and not the Moto X, because I know I'd be playing battery games with that phone to get through a day.
I had a moto x and got the kit kat update on day 5 of ownwership. My battery life plunged and I returned the phone on day 14. Bought a maxx instead. My battery life on the maxx got worse with kit kat but the brute force of the big battery hides it.
I followed the x forums for awhile and there seemed to be battery life improvement with 4.4.2 which is why I'm impatient for for the maxx.
I followed the x forums for awhile and there seemed to be battery life improvement with 4.4.2 which is why I'm impatient for for the maxx.
I have a droid maxx as well and my battery life blows now also, but I think one thing being over looked is the Motorola services that have been updated. I have never seen any of the moto services show up in my battery life area, and I also use Motorola Connect with chrome, which I think is the source of my issues. I think it is over polling home base or something. I believe it ends up showing up in google play services though. I dont have an incredibly high awake time. But it just went from 50% to 3% in 5 hours without me touching it. That should be impossible in any conditions.
For the record 2 my wife also has a Maxx and she has incremental decrease in her battery life, but she uses her phone more now, so its hard to tell how much some of these motorola services are to blame. She was getting 4 days a charge. Now its somewhere between 2 and 3. I feel like my battery just isn't holding up any more.
Here is what fixed my battery life. I went to settings/developer options/ changed run time to ART.
Takes a while to reboot. Once this was done im back to having battery for 2 days or more. I read that ART is in beta and some apps may not work with it. So far all my apps are fine and battery life is back to how it should be. Hope it works for you.
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Takes a while to reboot. Once this was done im back to having battery for 2 days or more. I read that ART is in beta and some apps may not work with it. So far all my apps are fine and battery life is back to how it should be. Hope it works for you.
Peace
Switching to ART probably clears the cache like others are reporting doing. The actual use of ART would in know way effect battery life in positive ways.
I believe my smoking gun has been Moto Connect as I do use it between 9 and 5. And on the weekends I dont use it, but I do get a lot of text messages. So I believe there something going on there. All I did was sign out of it today on my phone on a full charge so we will see how good it does.
There are 3 possible reasons my battery life isn't as good anymore.
1) Moto Connect Updates.
2) Moto Services Updates.
3) AWS Spectrum bands are live in my area and in use.
My biggest beef is that Moto Connect and Moto Services look like Android OS and Google play services in the battery area. If they were it would be brain dead easy to see if they were the culprits.
I believe my smoking gun has been Moto Connect as I do use it between 9 and 5. And on the weekends I dont use it, but I do get a lot of text messages. So I believe there something going on there. All I did was sign out of it today on my phone on a full charge so we will see how good it does.
There are 3 possible reasons my battery life isn't as good anymore.
1) Moto Connect Updates.
2) Moto Services Updates.
3) AWS Spectrum bands are live in my area and in use.
My biggest beef is that Moto Connect and Moto Services look like Android OS and Google play services in the battery area. If they were it would be brain dead easy to see if they were the culprits.
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No, I did cache clear and it didn't help. Once I switched to ART runtime it was all back to how it used to be concerning battery. Try it. Or don't but it worked perfect on my phone
ART article
For now, the potential gains in efficiency are difficult to gauge based on the version of ART currently shipping with KitKat, so it isn't representative of what will be possible once it has been extensively optimized. Thus far, estimates and some benchmarks suggest that the new runtime is already capable of cutting execution time in half for most applications. This means that long-running, processor-intensive tasks will be able to finish faster, allowing the system to idle more often and for longer. Regular applications will also benefit from smoother animations and more instantaneous responses to touch and other sensor data. Additionally, now that the typical device contains a quad-core (or greater) processor, many situations will call for activating fewer cores, and it may be possible to make even better use of the lower-powered cores in ARM's big.LITTLE architecture. How much this improves battery life and performance will vary quite a bit based on usage scenarios and hardware, but the results could be substantial.
ART article
For now, the potential gains in efficiency are difficult to gauge based on the version of ART currently shipping with KitKat, so it isn't representative of what will be possible once it has been extensively optimized. Thus far, estimates and some benchmarks suggest that the new runtime is already capable of cutting execution time in half for most applications. This means that long-running, processor-intensive tasks will be able to finish faster, allowing the system to idle more often and for longer. Regular applications will also benefit from smoother animations and more instantaneous responses to touch and other sensor data. Additionally, now that the typical device contains a quad-core (or greater) processor, many situations will call for activating fewer cores, and it may be possible to make even better use of the lower-powered cores in ARM's big.LITTLE architecture. How much this improves battery life and performance will vary quite a bit based on usage scenarios and hardware, but the results could be substantial.
Just disabling Moto Connect fixed my battery life issues. I think it has something to do with efficiency when not on wifi or on a poor cell signal.
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