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Bad Battery life all of the sudden

Only thing I did different was turned on google talk and my battery went from 100% down to 24% in 4.5 hours. Could google talk really take up that much battery? Prior usage I would get over 18 hours, thats with texting, emails and a couple of voice calls. Previously under the battery use the screen was always at the top but now the Android system is at the top.
Guess my main question is could google talk hit the battery that hard?

Did you recently root? Mine seems much worse since rooting.
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No root, just turned on google talk

velocd said:
No root, just turned on google talk
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There you go. Gtalk must be accessing the internet often which is causing the drain in battery.

I have noticed if I leave a page open on Google Buzz, the GPS radio can drain the battery quick.
Another reason why I want to have a development ROM with all those nice troubleshooting tools to catch these problems quicker. Like before the battery is dead.

I have similarly awful battery life on the Vibrant, and I've been running GTalk 24/7 since I purchased the phone. Going to run it with no GTalk today to see it affects life. I'll post my results here later.

coolguy949 said:
Did you recently root? Mine seems much worse since rooting.
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I'm rooted and I still have 23% battery after 29 hours unplugged. Any other apps you got running in the background killing your battery?

After I rooted I didn't add back the Facebook and other accounts that keep the contacts updated with their status and whatnot. I get a full 24 hours out of a charge now so I am really pleased with the battery life.

I am running mine rooted, gTalk on, google sync and one exchange push sync always on, "Twitter" twitter app updating @ 30min., LauncherPro, live wallpaper, gps on standby, and I have to say coming from G1, 3G Slide, HD2, this has the best battery life so far. Not playing any games on it, nor any media streaming aside from the occasional few minutes.
Now, it has only been two days running it that way, but one can hope it stays like this! Running it unplugged from 7am to 1:30am (next day) and still having 45% battery left after a day of medium heavy use is pure bliss!

mnotz said:
I am running mine rooted, gTalk on, google sync and one exchange push sync always on, "Twitter" twitter app updating @ 30min., LauncherPro, live wallpaper, gps on standby, and I have to say coming from G1, 3G Slide, HD2, this has the best battery life so far. Not playing any games on it, nor any media streaming aside from the occasional few minutes.
Now, it has only been two days running it that way, but one can hope it stays like this! Running it unplugged from 7am to 1:30am (next day) and still having 45% battery left after a day of medium heavy use is pure bliss!
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Was your phone in your pocket or out indoors on a counter all day?

mnotz said:
I am running mine rooted, gTalk on, google sync and one exchange push sync always on, "Twitter" twitter app updating @ 30min., LauncherPro, live wallpaper, gps on standby, and I have to say coming from G1, 3G Slide, HD2, this has the best battery life so far. Not playing any games on it, nor any media streaming aside from the occasional few minutes.
Now, it has only been two days running it that way, but one can hope it stays like this! Running it unplugged from 7am to 1:30am (next day) and still having 45% battery left after a day of medium heavy use is pure bliss!
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im sorry but i am every good with phones and adjusting the battery drain and this seems terribly inaccurate unless you pick up your phone once an hour and use it. There is no way you have almost 50 percent better left on this device while running all of that stuff. and you have it on 3g? or edge? is the screen bright?
overall the battery has been TERRIBLE. and it takes forever to charge. that's why i sent it back. I hate USB charger cords... seems they take loner to charge.
much love u must have an extended battery which isnt even out yet lol

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Was your phone in your pocket or out indoors on a counter all day?
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lmao lool same thing i asked loool

Well, it was google talk that was doing it. I work in a large building and get about 2-3 bars of service which isn't bad but leaving google talk on literally raped my battery.

Pneumatic said:
After I rooted I didn't add back the Facebook and other accounts that keep the contacts updated with their status and whatnot. I get a full 24 hours out of a charge now so I am really pleased with the battery life.
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Thats an awesome idea!!! Facebook sync is almost retarded to have on this phone since im not running TW or looking through my contacts to check on ppl... there is no reason why I should even have to keep the account synced. The service is still probably running in the background and dropping/retrying. Thanks!!!
velocd said:
Well, it was google talk that was doing it. I work in a large building and get about 2-3 bars of service which isn't bad but leaving google talk on literally raped my battery.
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AWESOME! Thank you OP for testing and bringing us back your findings. This is how it should be done!

I've had my Vibrant since roll-out day. The battery seemed to be working well and lasting a long time. Then it began to drain rapidly going from a full charge to under 25% in about 4.5 hours. This happens with or without use. I tried disabling sync, wi-fi, push, bt, etc and I didn't see any improvement to speak of. I also set it to use 2G networks only. That was all before rooting yesterday. Today it's no better at all so rooting doesn't seem to have had any effect.
As far as charging goes- it's horrible (mains, not computer); over 4 hours from completely dead (auto-shutdown) to 100%. Even if I begin charging at 35% it still takes over 3 hours to get to 100%.
What does all this mean? Beats me. I like the phone and I am hoping it's not a hardware issue. My rooted G1 with an extended life battery running Froyo lasted all day long with constant data use, go figure.
I'll be watching the forums over the next several days with the hope that something will break loose.

stepinmyworld said:
im sorry but i am every good with phones and adjusting the battery drain and this seems terribly inaccurate unless you pick up your phone once an hour and use it. There is no way you have almost 50 percent better left on this device while running all of that stuff. and you have it on 3g? or edge? is the screen bright?
overall the battery has been TERRIBLE. and it takes forever to charge. that's why i sent it back. I hate USB charger cords... seems they take loner to charge.
much love u must have an extended battery which isnt even out yet lol
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Nope, just a stock Vibrant battery. Phone lays next to me on my desk at the office all day, bounces between Edge and 3G here, currently, 2:16pm, the battery status in the phone settings shows a level of 76%, was unplugged this morning @ around 7:30. At my house I have full bars 3G. Battery use is 35% Voice Calls, 28% Display, 18% Cell standby, 13% Phone idle, 3% Android system and 2% Android OS.
I am not much into adjusting battery drain or anything like you, but those are the readings from the phone. How accurate they are or not, no idea, but this is definitely the best smartphone I ever owned concerning the battery life. And I owned a **** ton of them over the years. But I also don't complain too much, because getting through a full day is all I need.
Screen is set to auto-brightness with the application brightness thingy activated.
--Zax
Edit: Reading my original post, I guess it could be a bit confusing - I did not mean it has lasted for two days like this - I meant I own the phone only for two days, and it was unplugged yesterday from 7am to 1:30am next day (18.5h)

stepinmyworld said:
lmao lool same thing i asked loool
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It is a legit question. On my N1 and this phone I see HUGE differences in battery when the device is in heat/pocket and inside just sitting on a counter.

Dramatic Battery Improvement with latest update.

I have changed NOTHING - I'm all stock and have always done the DRM kill in services and toggle of airplane mode.
For the first time, today, my phone is 13 hours in and still at 50 % - I can't believe it.
I used it just as much as always, sending about 50 texts, reading and responding to emails.
I EVEN LEFT THE GPS ON ALL DAY by accident.
I don't get it, but I love it!
Finally the Epic is showing me what's up!!!

Great to hear!
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Can't say the same. My battery still sucks.

J3ff said:
I have changed NOTHING - I'm all stock and have always done the DRM kill in services and toggle of airplane mode.
For the first time, today, my phone is 13 hours in and still at 50 % - I can't believe it.
I used it just as much as always, sending about 50 texts, reading and responding to emails.
I EVEN LEFT THE GPS ON ALL DAY by accident.
I don't get it, but I love it!
Finally the Epic is showing me what's up!!!
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yea, sunday i went on a motorcycle ride and was jamming out to slacker the whole way (killed 4g since i knew i'd be outta 4g coverage on the ride) roughly 4hrs of straight slacker streaming and came home with 65% batt left and today on a normal usage day i am @ a flashing 0% batt after 10h 25m since unplugged.
wifi on during my work shift (8:30-5:30)in a low (2-3 bars) environment casual web/facebook on the pooper and smoke breaks moderate txting and about 16mins talking. FWIW i also keep mobile data and sync (facebook sync set to 3hrs) on and get quite a few emails throughout the day
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J3ff said:
I have changed NOTHING - I'm all stock and have always done the DRM kill in services and toggle of airplane mode.
For the first time, today, my phone is 13 hours in and still at 50 % - I can't believe it.
I used it just as much as always, sending about 50 texts, reading and responding to emails.
I EVEN LEFT THE GPS ON ALL DAY by accident.
I don't get it, but I love it!
Finally the Epic is showing me what's up!!!
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that's great man. So this is w/ the airplane toggle and DRM kill + update right? Or are you just running the update w/out doing those things and getting this battery life.

J3ff said:
I have changed NOTHING - I'm all stock and have always done the DRM kill in services and toggle of airplane mode.
For the first time, today, my phone is 13 hours in and still at 50 % - I can't believe it.
I used it just as much as always, sending about 50 texts, reading and responding to emails.
I EVEN LEFT THE GPS ON ALL DAY by accident.
I don't get it, but I love it!
Finally the Epic is showing me what's up!!!
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Mine is working well too...just over 14 hours so far today and I'm still at 64%. This is with pretty light use, 3G on all day with sync, about 15 minutes of calling and about 15-20 texts. I'm pretty happy with my battery life, couldn't expect anything more!

This remind me of the early Samsung Moment days! So how did you treat your battery? Do you let it drain all the way down? Or do you charge it about half way like some people?
J3ff said:
I have changed NOTHING - I'm all stock and have always done the DRM kill in services and toggle of airplane mode.
For the first time, today, my phone is 13 hours in and still at 50 % - I can't believe it.
I used it just as much as always, sending about 50 texts, reading and responding to emails.
I EVEN LEFT THE GPS ON ALL DAY by accident.
I don't get it, but I love it!
Finally the Epic is showing me what's up!!!
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I'm pretty sure my battery has been WORSE since the update. Today my battery drained from 100-20% in less than 3 hours.
Not sure if its because I go through many deadzones throughout the day, or if its because I was using my phone a bit more than average, but was rather disappointing.
Good other users are getting better battery life though!

Whoops cancel that.
We're back to normal ****ty battery life again.
Unplugged at 6am it's now 9 and i'm at 80%. Haven't even USED IT ONCE!!! Did NOT reboot last night at all.
At this rate it's going to be dead by 6pm. Pretty sad considering like I said I've done nothing with this phone at all.

I got about fourteen hours yesterday. around half left.
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Weird, I got the update last night and charged it to full around 11pm. Unplugged it and left it off the charger. Now 11 + hours later I'm still at 81%. This is with airplane toggle and drm kill
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Geekybiker said:
I got about fourteen hours yesterday. around half left.
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Same here..
I was at 89% when I went to sleep last night, woke up about ~7 hours later with 74%..sitting here 4 hours after waking up and i'm at 58%, time since unplugged at 10h 56m 38s

Well Now 2 hours later I'm still at the same exact battery level. Not sure what's going on here.....

J3ff said:
I have changed NOTHING - I'm all stock and have always done the DRM kill in services and toggle of airplane mode.
For the first time, today, my phone is 13 hours in and still at 50 % - I can't believe it.
I used it just as much as always, sending about 50 texts, reading and responding to emails.
I EVEN LEFT THE GPS ON ALL DAY by accident.
I don't get it, but I love it!
Finally the Epic is showing me what's up!!!
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Have to second that.
After update yesterday morning I charged it to 100% and 24 hours later still have 28% left (9,5 hrs of use left according to JuicePlotter).
I have full stock none-rooted. Screen brightness set to minimum (do not need it any brighter indoors), DRM and all useless to me services are shut down. I do not use JuiceDefender ( have it installed but disabled). I count myself as an average to heavy user.
Best time I got from the battery before last update was around 13 hours.

J3ff said:
Well Now 2 hours later I'm still at the same exact battery level. Not sure what's going on here.....
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Which app are you using to check your battery usage?

mattallica76 said:
Which app are you using to check your battery usage?
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for now just the stock one. didn't want to "run" anything else

J3ff said:
for now just the stock one. didn't want to "run" anything else
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The stock battery meter in the task bar is not very accurate. I recommend Battery Indicator. There is a free version on the Market. I doesn't consume any power to run.
When I was running DG27, I usually got about 14 hours of moderate use per battery. With the DI07 update that dropped to about 6 hours per battery because of Sleep issues caused by bugs in DI07. Now with DI18, I'm getting about 16 to 18 hours of moderate use per battery.

I can't give a before and after since I just got my epic last night. However, I can say on my first day of use I have been using it on and off all day and I unplugged at 5AM, it has been a little under 9 hours. It is at 70% or so. This is 100% better than my old touch pro that wouldnt last a full day most the time.

Well Sadly I have to come back here and tell you about how f****g horrible my battery life has been the past two days.
I unplugged at 7am this morning, double checked that DRM is closed, did airplane mode, no gps, wifi ON (which is strong at my desk) - no other apps running.
After LIGHT use, (only checked a few emails) NOTHING ELSE. Here I am at 1 pm, SIX HOURS LATER and it wants to be plugged in.
This is absolute b****t.

my battery life has definitely been better since the upgrade. it was also convenient that just a day or two after i upgraded i had two extra batteries arrive. now battery life isn't even a concern.

I'm having great battery life

Hey guys I got my EVO in the mail on Thursday, and do I love the thing! I have been reading about battery life and was a little concerned at first, but that was then. Last night I unplugged my phone at 7pm and it had a 95% charge. I played with it a bit and texted until around 12am. I did not charge it and started texting and using it for a while this morning around 10am. It is now 4pm and I have 49% battery. If this is what everyone is complaining about, im happy with it haha.

Basically, it's people leaving 4G / Wifi / Bluetooth / GPS all on at the same time that kills the battery life of the Evo. My launch-day Evo has routinely done 20+ hours of usage with no problems.
The only times I've ever seen a marked decrease in battery performance, I could find that some app was hung up in the background draining the juice.

Rooted or just stock non root?
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Jackk819 said:
Hey guys I got my EVO in the mail on Thursday, and do I love the thing! I have been reading about battery life and was a little concerned at first, but that was then. Last night I unplugged my phone at 7pm and it had a 95% charge. I played with it a bit and texted until around 12am. I did not charge it and started texting and using it for a while this morning around 10am. It is now 4pm and I have 49% battery. If this is what everyone is complaining about, im happy with it haha.
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Come back after you try using data for an extended time (texts don't need data connections most of the time), having your mail sync for even every 3 hours or so and facebook, news, weather or any other auto sync feature enabled. Watch your battery die as quick as a witch under water.

My email syncs every 10 minutes, and my weather syncs as soon as it can. (not sure how many minutes). My facebook updates pretty often. And I have news updating as well.
My phone is also NOT rooted.

I get fine battery life, with WiFi connected I get much better standby than when using mobile data. Turn mobile data off when I'm out and about and the battery basically doesn't move. But I still can get 20 hours of use if I'm not on my phone constantly. I only turn off mobile data if I think I need my phone to last more than a day. Like camping or something. I have gmail pushed and weather and all that good stuff synced every hour. Been playing with juice defender which does increase battery life pretty good but you can get the same effect by toggling your mobile data with the widget. Juice defender does turn on data every 15 mins for a minute to sync which is nice but it causes a little lag when you unlock your screen because it turns on data as soon as you unlock, a little annoying.
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Jackk819 said:
My email syncs every 10 minutes, and my weather syncs as soon as it can. (not sure how many minutes). My facebook updates pretty often. And I have news updating as well.
My phone is also NOT rooted.
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I highly doubt this is possible especially on the stock battey. I personally know there is no way to have all those apps syncing at those frequencies on the stock battery and still get MORE than 9 hours of use. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=783364
Unless you turned off your phone somewhere in that timeline and are not telling that bit of info. With the sync frequency you just gave, I seriously doubt your battery numbers are even the correct ones you're giving.

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I highly doubt this is possible especially on the stock battey. I personally know there is no way to have all those apps syncing at those frequencies on the stock battery and still get MORE than 9 hours of use. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=783364
Unless you turned off your phone somewhere in that timeline and are not telling that bit of info. With the sync frequency you just gave, I seriously doubt your battery numbers are even the correct ones you're giving.
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Well I am not goanna argue about it. It is what it is.

I'd like to see a screen shot of these 20 hours myself
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Still goin, im at 31%

Jackk819 said:
Still goin, im at 31%
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Still doubt especially with no screenshoots of awake/uptime and system load.

lovethyEVO said:
Still doubt especially with no screenshoots of awake/uptime and system load.
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It says up time
48:28
Awake time
15:54
Just found this!
23h 15m since unplug
standby 39%
idle 35%
Android system 11%
Display 7%
SMS 4%

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It says up time
48:28
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15:54
Not sure what they mean.
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According to that, it says your phone has been powered on for 48 minutes and used for 15 minutes. Go back and check the link I gave in my first response and look at the screenshot most people would want to see.
EDIT: Saw your edit and your phone has been in standby most of the time. I personally am not impressed by standby times. But if that's what floats your boat then so be it. I personally have gotten 10 hours of CONSTANT use on the stock battery with apps syncing every hour and get 1.5 days normal use on my extended batteries.

i was able to get 7 days battery life with minimal usage as a simple phone:
http://edsandroid.blogspot.com/2010/10/7-days-battery-potential.html

I got 9 hours out of myn and for 7 I played music, i 5 of the 7 was listening to music on my sd card. The other 2 was streaming pandora, I was proud of the evo. Lol
Sent from my netarchy_toast, froyo beast of a machine evo!

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i was able to get 7 days battery life with minimal usage as a simple phone:
http://edsandroid.blogspot.com/2010/10/7-days-battery-potential.html
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Where's the fun in that? Standby most of the time except for phone calls! You overpayed if all you wanted was a simple phone.

evohack99 said:
I got 9 hours out of myn and for 7 I played music, i 5 of the 7 was listening to music on my sd card. The other 2 was streaming pandora, I was proud of the evo. Lol
Sent from my netarchy_toast, froyo beast of a machine evo!
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Those are reasonable numbers and I have gotten that same use out of the stock battery. This phone is a joy to play with rather than letting it sleep all the time.

my lastest its not stock but ill take it before i recharged i was 10 mins short of 20 hours
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8708182&postcount=48

Yeah, I have gotten a whole 24 hours out of myn, but that was when it was new with little on it , and its first root and rom.
Sent from my netarchy_toast, froyo beast of a machine evo!

I know that people talk about losing the first 10% in like 10 minutes, but has anyone ever noticed how long it takes to lose the last 10% of the battery? That sht is frustrating, going from 90 to 70 for me takes only about an hour, but the last 10% for me can carry me another 3 hours or so. My battery is teasing me.

Suggested setup for amazing battery life

hi guys/girls,
i wasn't able to find any sort of thread pertaining to what setup everyone is running for the best/worst battery longevity so i figured i'd at least post up how i have my phone setup in order to pull off a full workday/night and about lunch/dinner time til i have to absolutely recharge my phone (30-35hrs max). maybe if it helps someone get the most out of there battery between charges then great. so here we go...
how i use phone:5-10 incoming emails daily (hotmail/aol)
200ish texts/day (incoming/outgoing combined)
1-2 hrs or so internet browsing/zooming in out
1 hour talktime daily
listen to 3-4 hrs of music on sd card at work
signal strength 3-6 bars at all times
what i have running/not running:
gps off
wifi off
network on
1 min backlight on
full animation on
auto brightness on
vibrate/sound on for calls and notifications on
volumes for sounds set to 3/4 or so
no task killer installed
facebook/friend stream off
weather sync on
google sync on
news sync off
stocks sync off
foursquare on
i personally charge off a usb off of my computer when phone hits about 5% or so. so maybe that is charging it slower and not wearing out the battery cell? i've read that the slower the charge on a battery the better, correct me if i'm wrong. my phone has had no adverse effects and has not bogged down once. i hope maybe this will help in some way to narrow down what may be causing some users phones to die faster.
maybe have others post their setups to see a trend would that help?

I pretty much have gps, wifi/4g always on if I'm at school or home, and auto sync and I get 10-14 hrs. Yesterday I went from 8am to 1am and battery was around 55 percent but I didn't use my phone like I usually do. Regular usage usually nets me about 10% an hour.
Each day I probably send around 200 texts, read forums, google reader, and pulse in total of about 3 hours and play about an hour or two of games.
I use to use juice defender app but I did some testing over a week and it doesn't help at all imo.

TOKiMONSTA said:
I pretty much have gps, wifi/4g always on if I'm at school or home, and auto sync and I get 10-14 hrs. Yesterday I went from 8am to 1am and battery was around 55 percent but I didn't use my phone like I usually do. Regular usage usually nets me about 10% an hour.
Each day I probably send around 200 texts, read forums, google reader, and pulse in total of about 3 hours and play about an hour or two of games.
I use to use juice defender app but I did some testing over a week and it doesn't help at all imo.
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most battery monitors or battery saving apps actually have the opposite effect, especially the battery monitors. They're using power to monitor the battery condition, so they tend to do more harm than good.

Yea o was using a battery widget for a week or so and it seemed like it used more battery than it was worth. I try to run my phones as lean as possible and only use what I need when I need it.
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Oh and an update....after 12ish hours I still have 75% of my battery left. So battery is holding strong.
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onefasttreopro said:
Oh and an update....after 12ish hours I still have 75% of my battery left. So battery is holding strong.
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Seriously?!
As far as I'm concerned thats borderline amazing. How in the h-e-double hockey sticks are you guys getting such great battery life? My phone doesnt hit that and all I really do is IM and browse the web maybe a combined total of 5 hours a day and thats pushing it.

01/27 update...another update if anyone is keeping track...pulled phone off charger at 8am now its 11:30p (16 hrs+/-)..45-50% battery left...also realized i left gps on with navigation running for 2 hrs from lunch earlier in the evening and prolly sent out 50 texts in last few hrs since last battery status update and looked at pics with a co-worker...so yea so far the setup above is bringing some good results for me.
01/28 update...its 2pm (30 hrs later), and phone just beeped at 15% battery left. finally ut it back on charger so i have a full battery for work. so there you have it folks. pretty nice battery life if you ask me...been texting and calling for the last 2-3 hrs today too which triggered the battery beep.

Quis89 said:
Seriously?!
As far as I'm concerned thats borderline amazing. How in the h-e-double hockey sticks are you guys getting such great battery life? My phone doesnt hit that and all I really do is IM and browse the web maybe a combined total of 5 hours a day and thats pushing it.
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try recalibrating the battery...basically let it die all the way to the point where it wont even turn on anymore...then I like to remove the battery for like 30 secs or so but im not sure if its actually necessary...then plug it back in and let it charge all the way til the led turns green...then take it off the charger and turn it on....did that and i noticed a big difference especially after a day or two

Holy ****!!

omg this new update made my battery life so much better! it just died now !
24 hours 38 mins 15s since unplugged
display 8 hours 15 mins 13 s
omfg wtf!! why is it so good?

does the ota work on bell?

Wow I was gonna say... anyone can get 24 hours, but over 8 hours of display time, now THAT is impressive. What was your brightness setting? Low or auto?
lesonal said:
omg this new update made my battery life so much better! it just died now !
24 hours 38 mins 15s since unplugged
display 8 hours 15 mins 13 s
omfg wtf!! why is it so good?
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i was able to get 28+ hours with medium use on my atrix on vacation with no charger.
i could never get this on a stupid epic 4g
and my brightness was about 30%

lesonal said:
omg this new update made my battery life so much better! it just died now !
24 hours 38 mins 15s since unplugged
display 8 hours 15 mins 13 s
omfg wtf!! why is it so good?
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What were you getting before? How is the phone setup?

dinan said:
Wow I was gonna say... anyone can get 24 hours, but over 8 hours of display time, now THAT is impressive. What was your brightness setting? Low or auto?
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brightness is on auto
I don't use any apps like juice defender or anything
gps is always on
wifi is on when i'm at home- about 4 hours
I sent 432 text messages during that time period
I have me one email account on
that's it really lol I'm putting it through the same test again starting now just to verify that those stats were not an anomaly .

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What were you getting before? How is the phone setup?
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before my battery would die at about 8
i'd have about 5-6 hours of display

I can't say that i've used my phone much today but it's been unplugged for 17 hours 34 minutes and it's reading 80%. Phone idle seems to be the highest thing on the list

lesonal said:
before my battery would die at about 8
i'd have about 5-6 hours of display
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This is what I'm experiencing now. Please let us know how day 2 goes!
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lesonal said:
omg this new update made my battery life so much better! it just died now !
24 hours 38 mins 15s since unplugged
display 8 hours 15 mins 13 s
omfg wtf!! why is it so good?
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I get 38 hours each charge auto brightness performance battery settings no battery saving apps debating on wether to get the update our not love the battery life of this phone and moderate usage
Swype rocks
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I'm amazed at how much people use their phones sometimes... over 400 texts in a day? At that rate, you'd use more texts in a few days than I do in a month lol.
Impressive battery life, especially considering the amount of usage. When I've had relatively heavy use, I've managed to get the phone below 10% with ~19 hours since last charge. Pretty sure I didn't have that much actual usage though.

I miss the chance i get no update although i was registered. The update sounds good. How about wifi reception?
EDIT: I got update without signing up.

I'm on a bell atrix and I'm experiencing the same results from freezing and de bluring. I previously had about 12 hours of usage. Now I'm around 17 hours and that still was at 20%. That means when the update eventually rolls out it'll be even better. Now thats what I'm talking about
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when doing the test, is your battery on performance mode or on battery saver?

BicolXpress said:
when doing the test, is your battery on performance mode or on battery saver?
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Maximum battery saver
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Anyone using UltimateJuice successfully?
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i too am amazed of the battery life after sbf'ing my phone and freezing allot of blur i did not use. i played with my phone all day yesterday, it was at 50% at 7pm. AMAZED..
love it..

Has it been confirmed when/if Bell Atrix users will be getting update? Thanks

I'm having the reverse problem. I probably get about 10 hours of use before my phone dies. I lose about 10% per hour with just playing music. Maybe my battery is screwed up.

I wish I could get the great battery life some of you report. I switched to battery saver and found the app "out of milk" was using between 56-71% cpu when completely off. Added that app to the auto end list in the factory task manager. Not sure what else I can do to improve battery life. Never gotten over 2 hours of display time and usually can't get that much.