Help me either choose or avoid moto x?

[ETPhoneHomeT]

I manually adjust brightness as auto supposedly uses more battery. For location, I switched to device only a couple of months ago and saw pretty significant battery savings.

 

[kalo88]

Were these results achieved with high accuracy or battery saving gps setting enabled?

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Battery saving

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[Jack33]

I do think you have high percentage of screen on time. What kalo88 posted about his battery usage seems about right.

On any given day, I use less than 1 hour of screen time. I have a dark background and I immediately shut the screen when I press the on button. I do, however, have my screen on full brightness. Do you have your display setting to shut down after like after one minute?

What about network setting? Go to setting, press "More..." below Wireless & Network, press Mobile networks, and look at Preferred network type. Is it set to your carrier network? I'm in the States and its set to LTE/CDMA because I have Verizon Wireless. If I let it set to something else, like Global, the phone will constantly search for that network which will drain battery.

I have to admit, however, that I usually recharge once during the day to keep me going through the night. This is something I didn't have to do with Moto Razr Maxx, which I gave up because it was lagging too much.

There are other forums that specifically talk about battery. They might provide more help.

 

[Paul Ellis1]

Really considering sending it back over the battery issues. Hate to say it but can't get anywhere near what I was hoping for

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[Mark_Venture]

My battery took about a week to settle in. During that time I fully discharged and fully charged once or twice. Then I started getting 18-24hrs without charging.

I've had a few apps update over the past week... and I'm noticing battery life isn't as good as it was, so I'm starting to wonder if an app update is hurting me, and which app it might be. BUT I don't see anything obvious.

 

[ETPhoneHomeT]

Really considering sending it back over the battery issues. Hate to say it but can't get anywhere near what I was hoping for

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Here's links to a couple of old articles that may or may not help you improve your battery life:
Moto X In Review: 7 Battery Life Tips And Tricks For The Motorola Flagship
Moto X In Review: 7 More Ways To Increase Battery Life On Motorola's Android Flagship

Also, I do suggest you try using the "Device Only" location setting, if you haven't already tried that. That is what I use and I got more battery life after switching to that setting and I still get enough location based information for my needs (ie. Moto Assist driving mode still works but I don't get as many location based cards in Google Now, which I don't care about anyway).

As I said before though, your screen on time is pretty significant in the screenshots you provided. One set of graphs shows your screen was on 3 hours and 20 minutes while on battery for 6 hours 29 minutes (around 51% of the time). The second set of graphs shows your screen was on 3 hours and 45 minutes while on battery for 7 hours 56 minutes (around 47% of the time). And both sets of graphs show pretty high times (lots of blue bars/dashes) for the phone being Awake (so you could have a wakelock issue) and Screen On. I charge my phone overnight every night but can easily make it through one day (17 hours or so) and still have 30 to 40% battery remaining when I connect it to the charger. But my screen on time will only be about 3 hours for the entire 17 hour period (around 18% of the time). If you're hoping or expecting to make it through a 17 hour day on a single charge and get 8.5 hours of screen on time (screen on around 50% of the time), it won't happen with the Moto X and I'm not aware of any other phone that is capable of this either.

 

[Paul Ellis1]

Hi, thanks for your help. I don't really understand a lot about those graphs. Is there a way I can find out what's causing the wake locks without rooting? (Something I'm nowhere near comfortable trying yet)

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[ETPhoneHomeT]

Hi, thanks for your help. I don't really understand a lot about those graphs. Is there a way I can find out what's causing the wake locks without rooting? (Something I'm nowhere near comfortable trying yet)

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You used to be able to get pretty good information on wakelocks prior to Android 4.4 KitKat using apps like GSAM Battery Monitor or Wakelock Detector but I think much of that capability has been eliminated with the onset of KitKat for whatever reason, unless you have root access.

See this: https://plus.google.com/+SvenKnispel/posts/ReLvz6KJwG5

It's never been a concern for me though since my Awake times coincide pretty closely with my Screen On times (blue bars/hashmarks under each item in the battery graph align pretty closely with one another). Yours appear to line up relatively close as well so I still think your issue is mainly that you have a high amount of screen on time.

 

[Paul Ellis1]

Fao anyone following this, I haven't done a factory reset at all but over the last couple of days my battery life has drastically improved. I admit, I was dubious when people said to give it time to settle in but they were right.

Thank you all for your help

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[isdaako]

^^^^ good to hear!