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[Q] Droid X Battery Life

Is it normal for my battery to only last 1 day before it needs a charge? I have everything turned off practically and yet I still have it dying after 1 day. According to Battery usage, the only things draining it are the Display and Cell Standby. Any information on this would be greatly appreciated.
Ryphez

That's about the battery life I get. With light to moderate usage, it lasts about 15 hours before getting down to 20%

I'm in a fringe area and get most of a work day with moderate email, data, and constant music
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Same here...11-13 hours is a pretty good stretch for me.

Biggest culprits for battery drain are display and automatic data syncing.
So if you want to extend your battery life lower the brightness on your display.
So for syncing you can either disable it completely so that your applications only refresh for new data when you use them or change the frequency that they check.

I'm getting about the same. Actually I was pretty happy considering all this thing does. Keep an eye out for the extended battery. It's gonna make it thicker but might be a good tradeoff for some of us.
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My battery only lasted around 6 hours, so I'm getting a replacement.

I'm with you guys about the battery issue. I mean I know that Android is known to have bad battery life, but the X was heralded as supposedly having decent battery life.
Even with GPS and wifi turned OFF, and my display brightness turned all the way down to 0, I am still only getting about 10-12 hrs of usage. That's BS.
Overall I really like the phone, but the battery issue is getting on my nerves - as well as the damn wifi issue.
I doubt it's going to matter, but I can only hope that Froyo offers up better battery life (maybe more options to turn stuff off). I would love to be able to underclock the CPU or reduce the screen brightness even more.

I am coming from a blackberry that got two days on a charge. The phone sucked though. I get about 13-15 hours per charge on stock battery. I use tasker and y5 to set profiles that toggle wifi and gps so I'm never using extra battery but still able to use device to fullest. I also went on ebay and found two generic batteries with external charger for $13. Now when my stock battery dies, I just throw in a new one that freshly charged and charge up the stock one. Having three batteries to shuffle through means my phone is never plugged in, and never dead. Plus in not charging batteries as often so it should extend over all life of batteries.
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How does the battery life compare to the original Droid(stock of course)? Do you guys think the Droid 2 will have similar battery life, or will Froyo and the smaller screen improve it?

I only get around 7 hours when im forum browsing 7 hrs straight
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I've noticed the 50% bug on several x's including my own

If i don't use my phone a lot i get 10+ hours easy
But you gotta remember if you're using this phone all out and a lot then of course you're gonna use the battery up quicker.
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Seems to be a bug with the gps. That is causing the battery drains. Even after you shut down the program using gps system won't go into a complete Sleep mode seems to be a big study going on over droidforum.net tested mine today with gps off except when in use battery lated 20 hours versus 10 with it on.
Not real technical myself and don't wanna post link to another forum.
Good luck fyi motorola is aware of bug and suppose to be a fix in 2.2
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I use the widget "Extended Controls" and leave my WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, etc off unless I need them.
I had the SGS Captivate for three weeks and before that I had the G1 since it came out - the DroidX battery life is longer than both of them.
I'm really happy with the battery life so far.
Also, I read somewhere that it can take a few full drain/full charge cycles to get the most out of your battery. Both myself and my wife completely drained and then completely charged our batteries within the first two days.

I've had the DInc, eris, droid, and nexus one, i couldn't put into words how much better the battery is on my x. I mean its nothing like a dumbphone. But this thing packs as much punch as some older laptops so i don't expect a lot out of the battery. Check ur apps, sometimes u get ****ty" rogue" apps that screw it up, and if u use a task manager only kill intense apps like web or messages or gmail. The other processes are need to make the phone run correctly, i know i've seen better performance and battery life since i stopped using one.
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I leave everything on wifi, gps, auto brightness, blue tooth, and im getting the best battery life of any phone i have ever owned, even better than my nexus one . My sister has a Droid X, and all she does is complain about her battery life. Although she is coming from a blackberry, i think that most people expect more from the battery than it can physically give, if you wonder about how long it lasts just take a look at the screen, and realize it takes alot of juice to run this huge beast .
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xmunk said:
I've noticed the 50% bug on several x's including my own
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I had never heard of this before so I did some research and my X was doubling the time on in Cell Standby and showing 50% used. I was getting 12 - 13 hours of battery life. I did the airplane mode cycle trick and now I'm getting 24+ hours of battery life. And now Cell Standby displays normally. Amazing.
A big thanks to xmunk as that was the only thing that was driving me nuts about the X and I was thinking about getting a replacement. Now the battery life is great!
I would recommend anyone having poor battery life check to see what Cell Standby is reporting.

Oh wow.... Im showing since unplugging my phone 3hr 54m ago I've used the following for power:
51% Display
38% Cell Standby
12% Phone Idle
I just cycled Airplane mode and will checkout what happens next.
That a ton of power being used for standby. My Nexus one used 1-2% per hour while not in use and on standby. Battery left is estimating my battery is at 76% right now with a system % of 80% showing.
I hope this gets looked into.

gchglobal said:
I had never heard of this before so I did some research and my X was doubling the time on in Cell Standby and showing 50% used. I was getting 12 - 13 hours of battery life. I did the airplane mode cycle trick and now I'm getting 24+ hours of battery life. And now Cell Standby displays normally. Amazing.
A big thanks to xmunk as that was the only thing that was driving me nuts about the X and I was thinking about getting a replacement. Now the battery life is great!
I would recommend anyone having poor battery life check to see what Cell Standby is reporting.
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Well- since you guys have already done all the work -would you mind maybe sharing a few links?
-thanks if you can.

[TIP] Increase battery life on Desire HD (Not Confirmed)

I posted this tips in the Magic section, but since the battery performance of the Desire HD seems to be an issue (and quite frankly could be the deal-breaker for me), it would be interesting if it could be confirmed that this method would increase battery performance.
The original article was published in the EVO 4G forum and explaines how to increase battery life on that device. These instructions are supplied by HTC themselves, and are issued as a response to a customer complaining to HTC about poor battery performance on the EVO 4G device.
Original thread to be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=712990
The instructions are:
1) Turn your device ON and Charge the device for 8 hours or more
2) Unplug the device and Turn the phone OFF and charge for 1 hour
3) Unplug the device Turn ON wait 2 minutes and Turn OFF and charge for another hour. Your battery life should almost double, we have tested this on our devices and other agents have seen a major difference as well
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HTC claims that this is a one time procedure.
Anybody care to try, and report back?

Do not think it works, but I agree first charge should be at least 7-8 hours.
All we can do maybe wait for 3-5 full charges cycles so that the battery optimizes itself.

I have LaCrosse smart charger for AA + AAA batteries that can train batteries automatically. I'd wish I had one for smartphone battery :-(

I will give it a try tonight and report back

isn't this just tricking the battery monitor into thinking it has more power than it really has?

You should fully charge and discharge your battery a few times (let the phone switch off on its own - you can accelerate the discharge by disabling "screen auto switch off", enabling full brightness, Wifi and BT)

Perhaps you will find this thread interesting:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=519673

Black1982 said:
Perhaps you will find this thread interesting:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=519673
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That is interesting. It suggests lots of shallow recharges where you avoid hitting 100% is better for the battery than full discharge/charge cycles.
Hmmm.
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Just got mine today. Will give this a try straight out of the box. Has anyone tried this on the DHD yet and if so, what were the results?

Full battery before sleep - 15% in the morning!

It's important to stress, this is a NEW Desire HD with a brand new battery that I have been using for just one week.
I charge 100% and go to sleep.
In the morning when I wake up I get 15% !!!!
Nothing special on. Just 3G, Bluetooth and that's it.
I have had an HD2 which I believe is same battery capacity and same screen size and have been using my HD2 with 3G and Exchange mail and its battery would easily last a full 24 hours. More so, with the HD2 overnight I would lose just a few percentage of battery power even though Data is always on!
So I think there's something very wrong with the Desire HD which I can't figure out why. The Battery app shows the majority of the batter consumption being the Android system. The display etc... have a negligble influence on the battery life.
I don't know what's wrong, but I am beginning to hate this device because of that. It's frustrating to lose almost all battery during the night.
Hope someone could help. I did a search but did not find a satisfactory answer to this issue.
Thanks
mobiler

You must have something preventing the phone from sleeping, my Desire HD is only on its 2nd charge and it lasted easily over 24 hours.

first of all turn off bluetooth if your not using it, thats a big wastage, also aswell take into consideration that if you have lots of processes running in the backgorund IE ANDROID SYSTEM...
That can also have an effect, make sure you set your phone to lock screen say after 30 secs and then it should be fine.

something similar happened to me on my first night with my dhd basically the camera never shut down cause the barcode scanner was on all night lol forgot to close it.
but yeah id say you have something running, check usage statistics or do a reboot

Just to be sure. Did you read the /INIT thread in this forum? If not read it, follow up the fix and it's probably alright.
If you already set USB debugging on, try to download watchtower and have a look at your processes. Something is working there that suck energy and it isn't your screen.

Thanks. Yet I did mark the checkbox 'USB Debugging' so I assume that's all that's needed to avoid the /INIT issues.
I will try the Watchtower now to see what's going on.
Thanks for your help

The Desire HD sucks battery life like crazy when the screen is off and 3G is enabled. It's the worst phone I have ever experienced for this. I think my battery discharges less fast when I use the ****ing thing compared to switching it off.
I use BatteryFu (Market) to disable data when the screen is switched off. It's a life saver for me. It makes a huge improvement to battery reduction when the phone is idle.

"Full battery before sleep - 15% in the morning!"
Whoa mate! how long did you sleep for?!

panyan said:
"Full battery before sleep - 15% in the morning!"
Whoa mate! how long did you sleep for?!
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Hahahaha .. That one made me laugh
Anyway .. what i've done is that i have set Cpu to underclock the CPU to 2xx - 384mhz when the screen is off .. also it turns off 3G ..
it only takes around 5% at night when i sleep ..
So def try that out ..

Is there any Battery Replacement that are safe, not those China products.

Well I'd been cursing my DHD for 3 weeks until yesterday when I read the forum and turned on the usb debugging in the settings. Wola! It's been 16 hrs and I've only drained 60% - still have 40% to go. Yet the same phone was only lasting me around 4-5 hrs on full charge. Whatever the usb debugging does it surely has solved my problem.
And its not just standby tym on the phone, I have deliberately over used it yet I've got 16 hrs out of it.
With this problem solved, I can' tsee any other handset beating DHD at the moment.
Thank you all.
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Battery life

Ok my gf has gotten the surround for xmas. I wanted to see others battery usage. In essrnce how long does your battery last. Hers seems to die pretty fast and was curiuos if this is common for these phones. I would give an estimate of the time but cant atm bit will tm.
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linuxmotion said:
Ok my gf has gotten the surround for xmas. I wanted to see others battery usage. In essrnce how long does your battery last. Hers seems to die pretty fast and was curiuos if this is common for these phones. I would give an estimate of the time but cant atm bit will tm.
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Lots of complaints on the web about this. I've had mine a few days. In my experience, like all smartphones, doing a lot of stuff (like, the things you'd do with a new phone the first few days you have it) will drain it quickly. Once you settle into a normal usage pattern, you'll probably see an improvement.
The "bad battery life" complaint always seems to come from people the first few days they own a phone and are basically turning it on and fiddling with it every 30 seconds. When used like a smartphone is normally used, you shouldn't have a problem getting through a full day with it.

Oh i know bout battery life. I got the incredible. Only 12 hours charge(but i use alot).
Thanks for the response though. Just seeing if the fast battery drain is normal for this phone. She is deffinately not a heavy user besides txt. But it seems a fast battery drain is normal. So its cool
Do you use a battery charging technique called "bump charching"?
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Battery gets conditioned as you use it. Just keep using it and in about a week you should get normal battery life. The issue is that the os handles both charging and discharging so after a few uses the battery and the os reach its peak performance

I believe it is alteady beggining to condition. She's just not used to having such battery drain. Its seems more stable in its level of drain. I also had her "bump" charge. To get a full capacitu battery. I notices these phone only have a 1250mwh batterys.
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Battery gets conditioned as you use it. Just keep using it and in about a week you should get normal battery life. The issue is that the os handles both charging and discharging so after a few uses the battery and the os reach its peak performance
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Battery life is horrid compared to the Fuze. I get anywhere from 12-14 hours before needing a recharge and I have been several charge cycles. I suggest turning off data connections when possible and using wifi.

Better Battery life
My htc surround also consumes a lot of energy. So today I entered in SETTING > CELLULAR > and turned OFF data connection. I think this is change may save a lot of energy, at least I can use this strategy whenever I dont need the data connection.
Lets see what happens

1500mAH Batteries on eBay
The stock battery that comes with the HTC Surround is only 1230mAH (or something on that order). There are several sellers on eBay who sell an aftermarket battery like this one: cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130467721933, which is actually a package of three batteries and a charger for $12.99 with free shipping - perfect for me and my wife to use and always have a freshly charged spare.
These batteries should give a little better than 20% improvement in battery life over the stock one. Does anyone here have any experience with them?
Sorry for the cut and paste link - as a new user I am apparently guilty of spamming before I had even thought of it (like Minority Report).

As of now she gets between 2 to 3 days use with medium txting.
Can any body else report on their battery lifes.
Also has anyone bump charged and seen an increase in their battery charge.
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Good Battery Life
I use my data connection constantly, never shutting it off. Also, I spend about half of my day in the center of a building not getting any reception, consistently going from an area with service to one without, which has the phone searching endlessly for a signal. For the first week, the battery was drained within 12 hours, but now in the second week, I have about half of the battery left when i get home, play games, check email, do EVERYTHING, and probably have about 25% when i get into bed and only plug it in as I go to sleep. On previous phones, I would have been able to do this two days in a row.
I came from a Tilt 2 and ended up getting an extended battery (making the phone HUGE), though I see no problem plugging the phone in every night. Battery life is getting better and I'm not sure who NEEDS to go multiple days without a charge. Either you make your phone huge, or you plug it every night right next to you anyway.
I am very happy with the phone, and can't wait to do more with it.

[Q] Battery life?

I apologize if this was asked before (I did a search of the forums but nothing really came up), but I'm wondering what others' experience with the battery life of the S4 is? This is my first smart phone and coming from a non-smartphone, I'm not sure if my expectations on battery life are unrealistic.
I got the S4 on 4/29 and brought it through one full charge cycle and several part cycles. Battery life is pretty important to me so I put an all black background (since its AMOLED), keep the brightness to below 10%, turn off all the fancy sensor things, turned on power saver mode, turn off wifi and data unless I really need to use it, turn off all sync so it only happens manually, etc. Yesterday, I charged it to 100% to see how long it would last and the stats I got were:
At 6% battery left, I had a total screen on-time of 2 hours and 58 mins and 1 d 2 hr on battery. Then, when I charged it to 100% and took out the charger, after about 5 minutes of it sleeping/screen off, the battery percentage dropped down to 97% with no data, no wifi, no active apps running.
With my pretty battery-friendly settings on my phone (or at least I think so), is this battery stat normal to others with this phone? Or do you think something might be wrong with the battery?

That sound horrible. There must be some rogue apps running/some wakelocks - try using better battery stats and find out.

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I apologize if this was asked before (I did a search of the forums but nothing really came up), but I'm wondering what others' experience with the battery life of the S4 is? This is my first smart phone and coming from a non-smartphone, I'm not sure if my expectations on battery life are unrealistic.
I got the S4 on 4/29 and brought it through one full charge cycle and several part cycles. Battery life is pretty important to me so I put an all black background (since its AMOLED), keep the brightness to below 10%, turn off all the fancy sensor things, turned on power saver mode, turn off wifi and data unless I really need to use it, turn off all sync so it only happens manually, etc. Yesterday, I charged it to 100% to see how long it would last and the stats I got were:
At 6% battery left, I had a total screen on-time of 2 hours and 58 mins and 1 d 2 hr on battery. Then, when I charged it to 100% and took out the charger, after about 5 minutes of it sleeping/screen off, the battery percentage dropped down to 97% with no data, no wifi, no active apps running.
With my pretty battery-friendly settings on my phone (or at least I think so), is this battery stat normal to others with this phone? Or do you think something might be wrong with the battery?
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you gotta give samsung a little time to fix the firmware

Good for me 4g/3g om half day wifi Facebook browsing xda
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This is what's draining my battery can't turn it of for some reason Google services
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chriswongdo said:
I apologize if this was asked before (I did a search of the forums but nothing really came up), but I'm wondering what others' experience with the battery life of the S4 is? This is my first smart phone and coming from a non-smartphone, I'm not sure if my expectations on battery life are unrealistic.
I got the S4 on 4/29 and brought it through one full charge cycle and several part cycles. Battery life is pretty important to me so I put an all black background (since its AMOLED), keep the brightness to below 10%, turn off all the fancy sensor things, turned on power saver mode, turn off wifi and data unless I really need to use it, turn off all sync so it only happens manually, etc. Yesterday, I charged it to 100% to see how long it would last and the stats I got were:
At 6% battery left, I had a total screen on-time of 2 hours and 58 mins and 1 d 2 hr on battery. Then, when I charged it to 100% and took out the charger, after about 5 minutes of it sleeping/screen off, the battery percentage dropped down to 97% with no data, no wifi, no active apps running.
With my pretty battery-friendly settings on my phone (or at least I think so), is this battery stat normal to others with this phone? Or do you think something might be wrong with the battery?
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For a smartphone, an 'all-day' battery is fine, and given that the S4 has so many sensors, large screen and a powerful processor, I am happy with the battery lasting for 12-16 hours. I don't turn off any sensors, why get an S4 to run it on power saver mode and turn everything off? It defeats the purpose, in my opinion. I am trying to use as many features as possible on my S4. Of course, there are a few I don't, but just for personal preference. What you are doing is (no offence) in my opinion like getting a BMW M3 and running it on 4 pistons to save fuel.
Anyway, your battery life will improve after about 10-15 charge cycles, I noticed that with my past phones as well. If you need your battery to last longer, I would suggest getting a spare battery and keep it charged at all times for any emergencies. These are some of the reasons I love Samsung, removable batteries and microSD card slot.

thanks for the replies guys. I'll try the betterbatterystats app out. i'll probably take it back to sprint and see if they'll replace the battery for me. the screen accounts for about 50% of the battery usage in the stats and other apps take up the rest. the battery curve is pretty linear in a downward slope too (except when i don't use it at night, it becomes much flatter, albeit still downward).
haha its funny you say that, because i agree completely. the m3 is my dream car and if i could ever afford one, i would probably baby the crap out of it the reason why i got the s4 (and i also compared it to the htc one as a possible candidate) is because of the removable battery, sd card, nd most importantly: camera. that 13 megapixel shooter + hdr is really great for good photos on the go. speaking of which, i use the camera alot. is the physical use of the camera and the screen use a big power hog?

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Good for me 4g/3g om half day wifi Facebook browsing xda
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This is what I expect from S4

Google Services may be Google Now.....unless you use it, you can turn it off........

The phone only takes 1h 57 minutes to charge from flat. It's mad how fast thing thing charges from AC so battery life isn't really a problem. (yes I was sad enough to time it)
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