My battery issues are getting ridiculous

[Bald Steve]

I took mine off the dock at 7:30 am this morning and as of 12:30 it was dead and shut off. There are days where I'll get to around 8:00 - 9:00 pm (and that's with car-charging while driving), but I still have days like this all the time. Is it the usage? Things I've done today:

1. Zero incoming or outgoing calls.
2. Played the Angy Birds Beta for about a half hour, messed with some SNES and NES ROMS for about 30 minutes more.
3. Fell behind on updates and had to dowload 18 (should I only do these when plugged in?).
4. Sent and received zero emails through gmail account. Received a few from hotmail.
5. Read a few news pieces online, maybe 20-30 on the web total.

Here are some things about my Droid X if anyone has any suggestions:

1. Rooted and running Titanium back up, SetCPU (I have it set so the CPU doesn't go over 300MHz when the screen is off, and AutoKiller paid version set to Agressive. Screen set to shut off after 30 seconds, battery profile set to Smart (maybe switch to the most conservative setting?). Juice Defender paid version also running (conflict?). Data set to shut off when screen is off.

2. Widgets are Launcher Pro clock, weather, Calendar and Bookmarks, Moto RSS feeds from three sites (al on same widget), ESPN Score Mobile (noticed huge drain last time I used this one and switched to Scoremobile Widget. Switched back recently after ESPN overhaul), Tweetcaster, Cubed, that cool volume control widget where everything is there in green yellow an red bars (forget the name), standard array of blu tooth, wifi, gps, plane, silent, one photo frame (not gallery), and that's it.

I love the phone and remain thrilled with it for the most part, but seriously: five hours of moderate use and dead? Any ideas?

 

[Toxa]

Get rid of autokiller!

 

[Bald Steve]

Get rid of autokiller!

I heard to dump ATK and get AutoKiller if rooted - not so much?

 

[Cory Streater]

Yes, dump the killers. They are bad. See sticky for more info.

 

[DaRkL3AD3R]

I'd say no app killer/memory freer is necessary. From the sounds of it you definitely should not be getting a dead phone in 5 hours under the usage you described. Assuming you were precise in your numbers.

Only way I could see killing a full charged battery that quickly is if you had the following conditions met as true:

1: Brightness set to maximum
2: All radios + GPS enabled
3: Stream music throughout the entire duration
4: Do the tasks you described above.

It'd be hard but the above scenario could probably do the trick of killing your battery that fast. I recommend you get this Widget called BatteryLife by Curvefish. Its free so no reason not to get this. Once you download it from the market and place it on your homescreen, tap it and go to Settings. Check mark the box for Extended Info.

Now when you charge your phone, make sure you KEEP it plugged in even if its at 100% until the battery voltage reads at least 4200mv. The most I get is 4241mv which is pretty much peak charge. Don't unplug it at 3800-4000mv, make sure its 4200+ before unplugging it.

Always go by the voltage instead of just the percentage. Hopefully this yields better results. Good luck

 

[rjdangerous]

i usually get awesome battery life, just took off 2.2 and went back to 2.1 and it died sitting in my car for 7 hours. Not happy. Im going to hope it was just a **** conection and thats what drained it

 

[moosc]

the autokiller is a keeper.... i like how it redoes the droids memory promramtors

 

[greydarrah]

I would keep autokiller. It lets the os decide what to close, as opposed to atk, which last lets the user decide. Any chase you spend time in a bad reception area? You might try removing some or all of your widgets for a day. It seems like some of them can drain a battery pretty quick. I also found k9 to be a battery hog on my phone. I'm getting a full 24 hours out of mine with a similar setup as yours.

 

[thirdeye7]

Yeah def keep autokiller. I think some of the others are thinking its a taskkiller because of its name. Not sure about your issue however.

 

[Aggie12]

I had the problems you were describing and I just couldn't figure out what was causing it. I turned my data push off in my email settings and set it to fetch my email every 30 min. This helped my battery life quite a bit since it is not having that constant connection to the server.

 

[Ace4]

I noticed the Angry Birds beta really sucked down the battery on my DX.