Strange Bionic happenings

[KillerG]

I really have not changed any other settings besides what Juice Defender is doing. I do have the brightness on my display set all the way down and just toggle it up when I am outside. I do have the paid version of Juice Defender that has a lot of options to set. For example I can set schedules so that during the week it pings every 15min for email, updates, ect. but on weekends I can set it to 30 mins. It also completely disables the cellular data radios when I am on Wi-Fi. I am on 4G and have a pretty strong signal in the places I spend most of my time.

I might look into the paid version...I usually just toggle off my data radios manually when I turn on wifi. I keep auto brightness on most of the time, or just toggle it down. I have poor signal at school, and when it turns off my radios while I have the screen locked is invaluable. I think one thing I forgot to turn off the past couple days is auto sync. Where can I set though how often it syncs? I can probably keep that on as long is doesn't sync too often.

 

[lament]

I'm in the same boat, but your phone isn't defective.

Look at Kellex from Droid Life's tweet:

"5+ hours on the Bionic extended battery and 66% left. At least it's better than the standard...too bad I can't lift it without a crane."

That would put him at 10-11 hours on the extended battery.. Without using Navigation, I get about 7-8 hours. You can try to turn off everything and try to squeak out as much as you can with the battery, but I think if you got a new one you'd have the same issue.

After cell standby and phone idle, wi-fi uses most of my battery. But I don't get decent 4G in my house (it constantly switches between 4G/3G in my house.. which is probably also killing my battery).

 

[monger]

If I must turn off every advanced feature of this phone just to make it last almost one day than maybe I should return it.

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You probably should.

 

[GoBigRed79]

One thing I did not notice until I started using Juce Defender is that when you are on Wi-Fi, the cellular data connection is not disabled. This could be causing the increased battery drain on Wi-Fi. When you are on Wi-Fi, you will notice the 3G/4G icon remains on the taskbar in white. When you disable this, that icon will dissapear. So for those of you that are seeing a lot of battery drain during Wi-Fi use, you might want to toggle your cellular data off.

 

[willlayb]

So I'm super happy with my phone, but I keep having small problems and I'm not sure if it's defective or not. One thing that bugs me a lot is sometimes I'll be using it and the screen starts thinking I'm pressing it in several places. An example would be on my keyboard I will try to use Swype and when I'm swiping to the next key, the path will fly all over the screen and type like KVKMSMOM nd fjfjf and then I go to erase it, and when I hit the backspace it will keep typing a key like vvvvvvv over and over again. It's getting really annoying and it only does if part of the time. And then I'll wait and turn it back on and it'll work again!

mine does this only when plugged in. i would really love to find a fix for that. it also does the same thing when im scrolling on any type of page. like it doesnt really know where my finger is. and this all only goes away if i unplug it

 

[KillerG]

mine does this only when plugged in. i would really love to find a fix for that. it also does the same thing when im scrolling on any type of page. like it doesnt really know where my finger is. and this all only goes away if i unplug it

I hadn't thought it was part of it charging...and I am using the Motorola charger, but with a USB extension on it because the cord is very short. But that shouldn't make a difference, but I'll take it off tonight and see how it does.

One thing I did not notice until I started using Juce Defender is that when you are on Wi-Fi, the cellular data connection is not disabled. This could be causing the increased battery drain on Wi-Fi. When you are on Wi-Fi, you will notice the 3G/4G icon remains on the taskbar in white. When you disable this, that icon will dissapear. So for those of you that are seeing a lot of battery drain during Wi-Fi use, you might want to toggle your cellular data off.

Juice Defender has a widget that I keep on my main homepage to turn on and off the data radios. I keep that on and often just toggle off the data radios when I'm using the phone for anything but using the data radios. No point in having something on that I'm not using that drains battery. So when I get home and put it back onto wifi, I always switch it off until I leave, then switch wifi off. I wish I could have a toggle that would just switch wifi on and data off, and visa versa, but it's not too big of a pain to just swipe over and turn off the wifi.

 

[willlayb]

I hadn't thought it was part of it charging...and I am using the Motorola charger, but with a USB extension on it because the cord is very short. But that shouldn't make a difference, but I'll take it off tonight and see how it does.

im using an extender also...that could be the issue...will test soon

 

[KillerG]

im using an extender also...that could be the issue...will test soon

I don't understand how that could be an issue though...the electrical degrating over a long span of a wire doesn't apply to a small USB extension, and why is that causing the screen to freak out? It doesn't make any sense, and is probably a weird software bug.