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Extended battery pack?

Yeah so I burn through my battery in 6 hours... people say that it can last 24 with heavy usage. But that's total BS. So is there an extended battery pack that I could get?
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I'm interested as well, I did buy a 2200mah battery on ebay but considering its coming from china i got a good 2-3 weeks before i see it.

I was looking at that and wondered if was true and not total bs. PM me when u get it plz
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If you burn through your battery in 6 hours youre doing something wrong. Try.draining your battery all the way and then charge it over night
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SwabZ said:
If you burn through your battery in 6 hours youre doing something wrong. Try.draining your battery all the way and then charge it over night
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My notifications are ALL off, i run a few chat apps for maybe 30 minutes tops, but all i really do is text. My total USAGE comes out to about 4 hours and 30 minutes with Nighttime Powersaver. And my screen time is usually about 14-16 hours depending and i'm not rooted or anything.

Im texting and using data constantly...
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Also I did the battery calibration so I shouldn't have to drain the battery and fully charge it....
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You should consider rooting it and running GreyBlur. I was running through the battery like crazy, actually got AT&T to swap for another Atrix and still had the same problems. GreyBlur really improved my battery life and I'm able to get through a day of medium usage and still have about ~40% when I plug it in at night.

So if im going through the battery fast that means it could be a problem with the battery?
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Had same problem rooted went to greyblur I'm at 20hrs and at 30% right now since my last unplug been using it hardcore for the last 4 hrs
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there is a 5000 milli amp battery for the atrix. i get 10 hours on 1930 so by simple math, this should get
24.8 hours
http://www.mugen-power-batteries.co...-for-motorola-atrix-4g-with-battery-door.html

I have two numbers on my battery uptime 23.5 hrs and since unplugged 13.5 hrs! What's the difference don't no but def best battery in a phone I've ever owned under heavy use considering all the stuff you can do with this thing amazing
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I have a celltronix universal portable power pack. (4000mAh)
Has two USB ports to charge stuff, comes with multi tips to charge stuff, but I just use the usb cord that came with my atrix. Outputs 5v, charges in about 4 hours.
I don't use it much on my atrix, but I have before, just plug it into the usb port and recharges my phone, can get almost 2 full recharges out of it for the atrix.
I like it cause I can also use it to charge other items also! Used it for my iphone 3gs before I got the atrix.
You can charge power pack from wall, car, or comp usb.(mini-usb plugin to charge it.
Just google "celltronix universal portable power pack" it will pop up on a number of sites. ( I bought mine in a truck stop)

You burn through it because you have a defective product.
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Yea, burning through it in 6 hours means you definitely have a bad battery. GreyBlur destroyed my battery life though, not exactly sure why it increased some peoples' but decreased others.

I had greyblur loaded once then went into recovery wiped everything then installed again first time battery barely made it to 4-5 pm when I went to for at 8 now 13+ hrs unplugged at 9am made it till 12:30am id say that's awesome. U probably got bad battery get couple new ones from what I hear they r cheap. Every phone is different t as far as battery and speed like my battery is awesome but when I run the graphic test I get 2300-2500 scores when I see others getting 2600-2800+
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Ok. So i'll go to the AT&T Store and what should I say so that theyll give me a new one? They are hardass's and I need to convince them, any help on that part?

Don't lie. Tell them you think the battery life has been unsatisfactory. And with a battery that big you should be able to get better than 6 hours.
I burn through my battery pretty quick too though. Today it was dead around 6 hours (11-5) charged and now near death again. But I don't have a screen timeout, notifications on, downloading podcasts on listen(listening to them on speaker), everything on 3G. I don't care what phone you have, that's killing the battery. Its hard to make a battery last on a lazy Sunday.
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I get 14 hours with constant usage... Facebook and twitter sync 1 hour gmail sync 30 minutes. Brightness around 30 percent no auto... Wifi scan 8 minutes. De bloat no freeze. No setcpu profiles... Autokiller set to optimum. I get around 28 hours on one charge with light usage and obviously lots of screen off time... Lol gotta sleep sometime.
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Make sure you GPS is off when you do not need it. It uses up alot of battery when on. I left it on once for two hours and killed 20% battery.
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Battery Rubbish?

hey there
basically, last night i:
1)wiped battery stats
2)discharged till phone shuts off
3)turned phone on again so it turns off again
4)went to sleep with it charging
5)woke up 9 hours later, on 100%
so if its fully charged, battery ETA is only giving it 7 hours and 44 minutes estimated time, WITHOUT WIFI, GPS OR MOBILE DATA, AND 25% BRIGHTNESS USING 'BRIGHTNESS PROFILES' APP. isnt this like.... rubbish? this is my setup
stock battery
cyanogenmod 7.0.3 w/ Eugene's Smartass overclock kernel V9
*******Setcpu profiles: default 245/1228 smartass
Screen Off 192/368 conservative (100 priority)
Temp >38.5C 245/806 ondemand (priority 80)
Charging 368/1459 ondemand (priority 78)
battery <10% 245/368 ondemand (priority 71)
battery 15% 245/768 ondemand (priority 60)*********
ADW launcher w/honeycomb theme
-no widgets!-
i dont want to buy one of those bulky batteries, as it wont fit in my school blazer. the question is, how do i extend my battery?
Thanks

Sounds like a duff battery. I get about 20 hours with everything on on stock rom.
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oh okay thanks, where could i buy a decent battery, adding no bulk but not too expensive?

I'm wondering the same thing... the Desire Z only comes with a 1300mAh battery... My previous phone had a more powerfull battery (2100mAh) and that was an older model WM6 smartphone (which was rubbish on power savings) and it would outlast the desire Z... Even after two years of extensive use, the old phone's battery is better then this phones brand new battery
I've been unable to find any official HTC batteries for the Desire Z which pack more juice...

At the OP. What is your signal strength like? Mine is rubbish at work as I work in a converted barn and that makes a big difference to the battery life.
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at home i ALWAYS have 3/4 bars out of 4
btw i am also using JuiceDefender, if that would make a difference :L...

since the OP, ive been on facebook for about 30-40 mins, already 82% battery.....

Have a look through the accessories section. Lots of threads about replacement batteries.
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I am in the process of 'breaking in' a new 1800 MuganPower battery. Fits perfectly with no mods needed.
It should take a few more charges etc to settle down, so things should theoretically improve.
I pulled the plug off charge 6.5 hours ago.
I have it set to use wifi when at home, and 3g for the phone connection (I have a 3G femtocell at home).
When I leave my home area, it switches off 3g and wifi and drops to 2g.
I have made a couple of 2 minute calls, checked my emails and twitter, and was out of the house for say 1.5 hours earlier.
I have had a couple of texts to which i replied.
I am on 95% charge now, and pretty pleased with that.

I've got the same mugen battery, and get through a full day easily no matter what I do. Screen full bright, wifi always on, some internet, games, gps.... etc. Only 7 hours of battery to me sounds terrible.

since my last post, i havent touched the phone at all, and its got 66% charge -__- i seriously need a better battery, may buy the mugen, would you say they are worth it?

xT4Z1N4TRx said:
since my last post, i havent touched the phone at all, and its got 66% charge -__- i seriously need a better battery, may buy the mugen, would you say they are worth it?
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Have you made sure there are no apps or services that are using to much?
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Are you using the Google News and Weather widget? I still don't know why, but it was murdering my battery. Soon as I removed the widget, battery life shot back up.
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nope, no widgets except the built in analogue clock.
the battery usage is used by mobile standby, wifi, display etc. no apps....

xT4Z1N4TRx said:
nope, no widgets except the built in analogue clock.
the battery usage is used by mobile standby, wifi, display etc. no apps....
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What percentage per section(standby, display) is being used?
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mobile standby 33%
wifi 28%
phone idle 28%
display 5%
im surprised its been 10h 15m and im still on 58%
the battery seems okay when not touching the phone, as i have only checked facebook for 2 minutes, and sent around 10 texts (been playing football)
looks like imma turn off wifi when not using it from now!

When I first got my Desire Z when it first came out I was pretty disappointed in the battery life. I tried programs like juice defender and minimized every possible battery sucking option I could find. I could maybe get 12 hours of use out of it so I bought a 1800mAh MuganPower battery which gave me maybe 15 hours instead. Pretty poor I thought but what more could I do?
A couple of months ago I finally did a factory reset after encountering a lot of frustrating little bugs, some of which had been around since the phone was new. Since then not only has my phone worked a lot better and faster, but battery life is MUCH improved. My phone now consistently lasts 24 - 30 hours with the same usage or more than I was using it before. So obviously buggy software can make a huge impact on battery life and it's not something you are going to be able to easily discern as to what program(s) are causing the problem.

Hmmm im not sure then..
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Okay, played a bit of speedx 3D, heavy texting and facebook/gochat, still on 31%. Battery seems ok, still going to invest in a better one though, as using the phone for games or internet heavily drains the battery, whereas standby seems to be quite good, but need to turn off wifi. I will see how it fairs tomorrow, and post a picture.
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28% for wifi seems really high. I always have wifi on and it only takes up 6%.

Battery getting old ?

My battery is getting on with age, about 12 months old now.
My Rom is good, Android and very good 250 to 300 mah on and 5 mah sleep drains .
Problem is only 1 hour of screen on and a couple of 10 minute calls equals 50% or more of my battery gone. I'm on the charger in my office by lunchtime.
I have done battery calibration twice in two weeks.
Brightness is manually set to 75% all day.
WiFi and Bluetooth off
Drain in sleep is 5mah and only hits 80mah spikes once or twice every few minutes for the sync stuff.
I need a new battery don't I ?
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Visentinel said:
My battery is getting on with age, about 12 months old now.
My Rom is good, Android and very good 250 to 300 mah on and 5 mah sleep drains .
Problem is only 1 hour of screen on and a couple of 10 minute calls equals 50% or more of my battery gone. I'm on the charger in my office by lunchtime.
I have done battery calibration twice in two weeks.
Brightness is manually set to 75% all day.
WiFi and Bluetooth off
Drain in sleep is 5mah and only hits 80mah spikes once or twice every few minutes for the sync stuff.
I need a new battery don't I ?
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i bought 1 off ebay around 3 months ago for £10.95,a 2400mah and not the extra thick 1 that would break your fingers when u pick the phone up lol,its the same size as the origional,WORKS GREAT

Ty5982 said:
i bought 1 off ebay around 3 months ago for £10.95,a 2400mah and not the extra thick 1 that would break your fingers when u pick the phone up lol,its the same size as the origional,WORKS GREAT
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Really! And does Android properly recognize it as extended battery ?(provided the kernel supports extended batteries)
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as far as im aware YES IT DOES,i check my battery info and it says 2400 as to 1300
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This looks interesting: how many hours your phone will last with that 2300mah battery?

it varies on use really but i no its a 50% roughly better battery when i leave my phone on over night,nowhere near as much battery drain
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Someone compiled for me a tytung r14 kernel with the battery id 4 set to 2400 mah and bingo I can use the cheap extended battery I got. Woohoo.
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Post those battery stats!

As the title says lets see those battery stats!
Shiesh1

There is mine. Really happy with Razr i battery.

Impressive battery. How long was the screen on?

Adamik25 said:
Impressive battery. How long was the screen on?
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6 hours and 15 minutes

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A lot better than my RAZR XT910
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Here is mine!:good:

bad piggies for life
games take up a lot of my battery, but beside that, i love the bat..

I just got mine, should I charge it before using it or I can use it now?
thanks

You'd better charge it to 100%, then try to use it 'till it has like 5% left, and then charge it fully again

Wow this battery life looks great compared to the XT912. I looked at the specs and it has a 2000mAh battery rating, which is not anywhere near what the Razr Maxx has, yet the battery life seems to be good. Maybe the Intel chip is better on power than I would have thought. I thought the x86 architecture would be horrible on battery.
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You'd better charge it to 100%, then try to use it 'till it has like 5% left, and then charge it fully again
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Not necessary with lithium-ion batteries. They don't have a memory like NiCD batteries do.

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That's really great
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Battery life is really awsome, never had a smartphone with this stats...
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I am very unhappy with my standby time.
With: GPS off, Wifi off, no data connection, only 2g standby, display off -> device in standy
I get only ~50h of standby time. That is ridiculous, even my old defy could get the double of that.
I wanted to add a cpu spy screenshot, but the phone froze while I tried to take it . . . now I have to wait to collect new data.
2GHz mode was a little high.
Of 10h, it was like 1h on 2GHz, ~7.5h in deepsleep, 1.5h in 600MHz and some few minutes distributet on 900MHz and 1.2GHz.
I had the display on for less than 15 minutes in that time. Does not make any sense to me at all.
Anyone as a hint what I can look for?

Really looking forward to get mine. I ordered it partly because of this thread. My Desire HD hesitates to get me through a day in college. Today i left at 7am and returned at 3pm with just 3% left. And this is not a rare occasion, happens almost every day. My razr i should arrive next monday or tuesday, hope i'm happy with it

That's only slightly more life than the RAZR xt,I expected more,or to stabilized the of?

This thing never dies!

Here's mine with really bad signal so its gonna search alot, and it's used as a demo phone to show customers all day too. Better than the 910 by miles.
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I don't really like my battery stats .. I own mine since Friday, have done approx. 3 full charge circles (was down to 30% once), so the battery should by calibrated by now?
The Display was switched on for only ~2 hrs. It's not that much better than my old Desire HD. Do you think that a single app could cause battery drain? Motorola Smartaction? Or the WiFi i have activated at home and in my university? The "Battery Widget? Reborn"- Widget, that analyzes the battery and will tell me the estimated time left?
I think it's too often on 2 GHz frequenzy ...

How many times per day do you charge the G2 from empty to full ?

I do it about 1.5 - 2 times per day.
A friend of mine do it about 3 times per day (he likes to play lots of games, even though he's an old guy, go figure...). I had a discussion with him about this, I told him that lithium batteries die after about 400 charges (from empty to full) which means he will kill the battery in about 3-4 months. He told me that polymer batteries like in the G2 last longer. Is this true ? this will be kind of sad to have a phone with a dead battery you can't replace...

Noam23 said:
I do it about 1.5 - 2 times per day.
A friend of mine do it about 3 times per day (he likes to play lots of games, even though he's an old guy, go figure...). I had a discussion with him about this, I told him that lithium batteries die after about 400 charges (from empty to full) which means he will kill the battery in about 3-4 months. He told me that polymer batteries like in the G2 last longer. Is this true ? this will be kind of sad to have a phone with a dead battery you can't replace...
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1x every 2-3 days

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1x every 2-3 days
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You meant 2-3 times every day ?

I charge my phone once a day somtimes once in 1.5 days
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I haven't charged my phone since Tuesday. At 19%
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I charge my phone once a day somtimes once in 1.5 days
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What he said. I usually put mine on charge when I go to bed, whether it needs it or not. It was at 60% last night with 4 hours of screen time. I don't play games other than solitaire and don't facebook it or anything. Emails, phone calls and play around with it like heck.

It's probably best to charge more often, before you dip below 50% if possible.
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Oaklands said:
What he said. I usually put mine on charge when I go to bed, whether it needs it or not. It was at 60% last night with 4 hours of screen time. I don't play games other than solitaire and don't facebook it or anything. Emails, phone calls and play around with it like heck.
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While I get relatively good battery life of about 4 hours screen time between charges, getting 4 hours and still having 60% left, means you simply rarely browse the internet.

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1x every 2-3 days
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Same here, once charge every 2-3 days.
usually 11+ hours of screen on time.

Once every other day. Not to worry though. The back cover pops off very easily making the battery simple to replace. ( excluding the Verizon model)
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While I get relatively good battery life of about 4 hours screen time between charges, getting 4 hours and still having 60% left, means you simply rarely browse the internet.
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I usually use tapatalk several times a day. Drudge report and news 360. Check 5 email accounts several times a day with kaiten email. A bit of texting. I guess this it's why this phone is so great for my type of use.
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Every 2 days i charge my phone once Erica

"day" = 24 hours?
"empty" = 1% charge (forced shutdown)?
"full" = 100% charge?
Using that criteria, my answer is currently .043 times per day.
:good:

Yes I charge my phone once a night on wireless charger. At 69% 12 hours into it. I use it to browse XDA and check email. Granted I worked most of the day vs screen time.
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I plug my phone in every evening. I'm usually at 60%. By the time I go to bed it's fully charged. I unplug it at that point. And I'm good to go until the next evening.
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