OK I have to call you on this one, if your Bionic has better battery life than your DX, how are you accomplishing this? At present my DX is at 50% and was unplugged 8 hours 42 minutes ago display is 56% (display on two hours 9 min), Voice calls 25%, phone idle 9%,cell standby 8% etc. I went from a DX to the Bionic and back to the DX because of the battery only. Not a big fan of the extended battery I bought and used for one day. With 4G Lte on the Bionic I was getting about 5 hours and with it Lte off the best I could do was almost 10 hours. I am also on call and must have phone on at all times, receive push email at all times so I am not sure if Juice Defender would work for me. I also hear it causes lag when starting apps.
Back on topic, I am here because I am looking for a phone that is more powerful than my DX. If the Nexus can't manage the battery any better then the Bionic it wont be for me either. I realize that phones will consume more power as we add features but for my taste I can get by and make trade offs for the battery life I need. One example is the Bionic screen, it worked for me, I could see it outside and it required less power. Still waiting for Nexus specs but I do hope when they arrive that someone doesn't refer to 6 hours on a charge as phenomenal battery life.
I'm rooted and debloated, ditched Blur for Go Launcher. I run 4g at work and 3g else where. Comparing the two, battery life is about the same regardless of what network I'm on. (I think its odd too.)
So at idle with the phone in my pocket I'm looking at 1% drain every two hours. Under heavy use like Dungeon Defenders multiplayer, 20% an hour.
Moderate use, which would be phone calls, web browsing, email txt, and less intense gaming, 5%-10%.
With stock battery I can easily hit 15 hour with light use. 8hr for a good day at work with no time for gaming.
My DX running DarkSlide would be thirsty at 7hrs too with same usage.
I have to say the DX and Bionic both have very similar battery life. I think the Bionics efficient screen makes up for the radios. However when pushed hard, like GPS, gaming, 100% brightness, the DX's battery would get destroyed where the Bionic kinda just sips electrons.
I certainly dont think the Bionic isn't without fault. My beef isn't the battery life. Infact I'm still debating returning this thing because its really pissing me off. The ******* freaking way Moto decided to mount the internal storage as /sdcard is about the most dumb and absurd thing an intelligent entity could possibly do. It renders my 32gb sdcard useless as ANY music app I'm willing to use will not save to the SDCard. It saves to the internal storage. There are a small percentage of apps like Tibackup that can have save locations changed, but now I have to use my stupid ass iPod for music. ******ed...
Other thing is the ridiculous performance of the camera both stills and video.
Anyway... that's my opinion of the Bionic which I've owned since 9-11.
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