The Official Battery Life Thread

[prizeferret]

I prefer the heavier form. It feels more substantial, and I like the balance of more weight toward the bottom half of the phone, as well as more of an 'edge' to grip the phone with.

But here again, I carried an MDA (or as my friends called it... "The Brick") around from 2006 until 2 months ago, so I don't have the same standards for phone dimensions as most other people.

 

[mjforte]

I had gotten the extended battery but really didn't like the feel of the phone anymore with it on. I returned the extended battery and decided to do the desktop charger with the extra battery instead. I like the Bionic's feel way better with the standard battery and if I'm running low on battery, I can just swap it out.

 

[anon(392870)]

Do you like it with the standard form or the bigger heavier form?

I've been running with the extended battery for about a week now, and... I don't like it as much as the stock battery in terms of heft/feel. I've gotten used to it, but it still just doesn't feel as good in my hands.

I'll try to get some pictures with both batteries in so people can compare in the next day or 2.

I do enjoy the massive more battery life (and running extended battery + juice defender I really don't even think about battery life anymore).

 

[mjforte]

To anyone that uses Juice Defender, did you find the time it takes to reconnect for data a bit slow? I had tried Juice Defender for a day and that was the one thing that bothered me about it was the fact that I would unlock my phone and go in the browser and have to wait a little bit before data would connect.

 

[anon(392870)]

To anyone that uses Juice Defender, did you find the time it takes to reconnect for data a bit slow? I had tried Juice Defender for a day and that was the one thing that bothered me about it was the fact that I would unlock my phone and go in the browser and have to wait a little bit before data would connect.

Yes... this annoys me a lot actually. With the extended battery and no Juice Defender I could get from about 7 am - 11pm before my battery got low, so I've considered just turning it off. I figured I'd turn it back on for a few days and give it a try.

I tend to take my phone from a state of not being used for 40 minutes to using it for under 2 minutes quite often throughout the day. This makes it really annoying. Since I just have the standard Juice Defender I don't have this issue when Wifi is around, still contemplaying investing in the more expensive JD to get location aware WiFi, etc.

 

[mjforte]

Yes... this annoys me a lot actually. With the extended battery and no Juice Defender I could get from about 7 am - 11pm before my battery got low, so I've considered just turning it off. I figured I'd turn it back on for a few days and give it a try.

I tend to take my phone from a state of not being used for 40 minutes to using it for under 2 minutes quite often throughout the day. This makes it really annoying. Since I just have the standard Juice Defender I don't have this issue when Wifi is around, still contemplaying investing in the more expensive JD to get location aware WiFi, etc.

I find my use case to be very similar to yours. I'll go from not using my phone for maybe 30 minutes to an hour and then go on it for a couple minutes to check something that requires data. This is the type of use that mostly happens at work. Don't know if the battery savings are enough to warrant using JD and just deal with the slow data reconnect.

 

[anon(392870)]

I find my use case to be very similar to yours. I'll go from not using my phone for maybe 30 minutes to an hour and then go on it for a couple minutes to check something that requires data. This is the type of use that mostly happens at work. Don't know if the battery savings are enough to warrant using JD and just deal with the slow data reconnect.

Understandable.

Something I am experimenting with now to see if it solves the issue is this - I went to Status in Juice Defender and turned on "Advanced" controls. Then I went to the "Controls" tab and turned "data" on "Keep enabled". This notes that it will keep the radio/interface enabled even when the phone is idle (and notes that it will severly hamper JD's battery saving effort).

Currently I'm at x1.58 in terms of the last 48 hours. I'm going to try to maintain current usage patterns and I'll report back on the following 48 hours.

I'm wondering if most of my savings was from extended turning off of data and I will see the effectiveness of JD drop dramatically. Time will tell.

 

[916ninja]

I have been off charger for 11 hours with wifi/4g at all times and bluetooth for 6.5 hours. Talk time at 33%.

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[anon(392870)]

Currently I'm at x1.58 in terms of the last 48 hours. I'm going to try to maintain current usage patterns and I'll report back on the following 48 hours.

I'm wondering if most of my savings was from extended turning off of data and I will see the effectiveness of JD drop dramatically. Time will tell.

Since switching JD's ability to turn on/off data off yesterday my JD multiplier has dropped from x1.58 to x1.51. That's still positive, but that's over the last 48 hours. Such a significant drop in about 18 hours is not a good sign. I'm wondering how much gain I'm getting compared to battery usage.

I also recently installed widgetlocker, which I'm sure isn't helping.

 

[shadowsjc]

ok this is weird. i unplugged my phone last night around 11pm. it was fine overnight (for once), and as of around 12pm today, it was at around 70% with light usage - which is fine.

then around noon or so i took my phone out and unlocked it (the screen had been off). the phone froze and immediately restarted itself.

now when i checked the battery, it's down to 50%. the battery life drop coincided with the time when the phone froze. the battery graph went straight down by 20%!

not sure what's going on here, but it sucks to say the least

 

[mjforte]

Since switching JD's ability to turn on/off data off yesterday my JD multiplier has dropped from x1.58 to x1.51. That's still positive, but that's over the last 48 hours. Such a significant drop in about 18 hours is not a good sign. I'm wondering how much gain I'm getting compared to battery usage.

I also recently installed widgetlocker, which I'm sure isn't helping.

I'm wondering since you switched off JD's ability to turn on/off data, how does it save battery then? I thought that was the way JD worked was by turning off your data when the screen was off to save battery. Does it do other things as well to preserve battery?

 

[Melted_CPU]

Figured I would post what I am seeing on battery life. If I leave 4G on and GPS I get just over 8.5 hours till it shuts down. If I turn 4G off and the GPS off only turning them on when I need them (Navigation Weather ect) I get LONG life. Today my phone has been unplugged for 20hrs 30 min according to the battery &data manager. I am at 30%

I am on the phone alot during the day for business and text a good bit. I check etrade every now and then look stuff up so I am on it a fairly good bit. oh and I am a news junky. Love to check headlines and read tweets.

UPDATE 1 Day 0 min 15% Have not used phone much (maybe 30 of phone calls and putting events in calender).

 

[ddemlong]

Getting 10hrs on moderate use, I don't mean dead, but 15% when I would plug it in.

4G, GPS activated, only syncing Gmail

 

[uiil]

Just off the cuff info here but:

After 8 hours with minimal use - still at 90%
4G active in a 4G area - no google account set up, yet - no MyVerizon account set up, yet - GPS off

Gonna see what happens when I start turning things on.

PS. forgot to mention its still stock configuration.

 

[anon(392870)]

I'm wondering since you switched off JD's ability to turn on/off data, how does it save battery then? I thought that was the way JD worked was by turning off your data when the screen was off to save battery. Does it do other things as well to preserve battery?

I believe there's a few other things it does, but yes, that's the main one. Depending on how deep you get into customizations this can help.

But, honestly, the significant drop I noticed in the amount JD was saying it was saving me in battery life made me think it was doing barely anything (if anything at all, since it is running and draining battery itself).

I think for usage like we're looking for you either need to turn of JD altogether to get the instant data or just deal with the lag in re-connecting. I don't think there's a setting which will make JD work properly*.

*The caveat being that it might still be usefull for scheduling data on/off etc.

I'm suddenly running into some MAJOR battery issues, which I'm trying to get to the root of (pun intended). Running extended battery and barely any usage I've now hit 29% with 9 hours on battery. That's quite awful considering I was hitting 16 a few days ago.

A few things: I've noticed twitter and social location suddenly appeared (they NEVER were there before). I've had some tweaks I've been messing with in battery settings, and I've installed widgetlocker, so I am going to play with things for a trial-run at work tomorrow. I think I set something wrong in one of my settings which is leading to battery drain, just trying to figure out what.

 

[SSHGuru]

Honestly,

After owning an OG Droid for 2 years and reading these boards it's very evident that these task killers and battery managers are not only not needed but many times detrimental to your battery life. Android has a good system built in to manage whats in and out of memory - you don't need another program.

As far as what's draining your battery I've read WidgetLocker can do so and if you ran Social Location just once then that is definitely the cause because there is a bug that makes it run all the time. Check out what's eating your battery and it's Social Location you can stop it by adding it to the native android task stopper. I advise NO ONE ever run it.

 

[alphanu22]

Social Location is Garbage. I raged hard after it kicked in and drained 20% in 10mins it was running... grrrrrrrrr

 

[anon(392870)]

Honestly,

After owning an OG Droid for 2 years and reading these boards it's very evident that these task killers and battery managers are not only not needed but many times detrimental to your battery life. Android has a good system built in to manage whats in and out of memory - you don't need another program.

As far as what's draining your battery I've read WidgetLocker can do so and if you ran Social Location just once then that is definitely the cause because there is a bug that makes it run all the time. Check out what's eating your battery and it's Social Location you can stop it by adding it to the native android task stopper. I advise NO ONE ever run it.

Yeah, I'm an active participant in both those threads.

I've never ran Social Location, I have zero need for it. The only thing I could think of is that I accidently clicked it one day and backed out instaneously. The past 2 days (I've had it on my auto-kill since Day 1) I've noticed it on my list, which is not fun.

As far as WidgetLocker goes, yeah, I definitely think it's eating some up, I'm still wondering about that, and trying to fiddle around with a variety of settings to see what is happening.

I can say this - without WL or SL or JD running on my extended battery I was getting ~16 hours no problem, so it's obviously built around my customizations. In terms of my use of the phone JD ended up not being what I wanted, but others may find it helpful.

I love this phone, just trying to get all I can out of it.

 

[alphanu22]

Posted on both:
Verizon Wireless | Facebook
Motorola | Facebook
for them to take out the Social Location App on the next OTA-

hope it works-

 

[mjforte]

Yeah, I'm an active participant in both those threads.

I've never ran Social Location, I have zero need for it. The only thing I could think of is that I accidently clicked it one day and backed out instaneously. The past 2 days (I've had it on my auto-kill since Day 1) I've noticed it on my list, which is not fun.

As far as WidgetLocker goes, yeah, I definitely think it's eating some up, I'm still wondering about that, and trying to fiddle around with a variety of settings to see what is happening.

I can say this - without WL or SL or JD running on my extended battery I was getting ~16 hours no problem, so it's obviously built around my customizations. In terms of my use of the phone JD ended up not being what I wanted, but others may find it helpful.

I love this phone, just trying to get all I can out of it.

You aren't yet rooted are you? If you are, I suggest freezing the bloatware apps, especially Social Location.