So based on many of the posts I've seen here, my Atrix battery is severely lacking. Last night I went to bed with it at 30% and forgot to plug it in. This morning I woke up 8 hours later and it was down to 5%.
Typically I will uplug around 11am and will need to plug back in by about 1am, thats with mostly just texting and checking a few emails.
I'm sure there are more settings that need adjusting, just curious what those are coming from the people who are claiming 24+ hours of use per charge? Also trying to pinpoint if maybe my phone is a dud since after 2-3 weeks the battery life actually seemed to get a bit worse and the phone feels more laggy.
Norcalz71 said:
So based on many of the posts I've seen here, my Atrix battery is severely lacking. Last night I went to bed with it at 30% and forgot to plug it in. This morning I woke up 8 hours later and it was down to 5%.
Typically I will uplug around 11am and will need to plug back in by about 1am, thats with mostly just texting and checking a few emails.
I'm sure there are more settings that need adjusting, just curious what those are coming from the people who are claiming 24+ hours of use per charge? Also trying to pinpoint if maybe my phone is a dud since after 2-3 weeks the battery life actually seemed to get a bit worse and the phone feels more laggy.
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you have a defective device take it back and get a new one.
Try the hard reset, worked out well for me.
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I am also interested in this. My battery life is "ok" most days, but nothing I would call great. I did a factory reset sunday and I think its slightly better. Yesterday I had a rogue app though for half the day, and today I downloaded that update and installed it. My phone gets pretty hot sometimes when I'm doing normal stuff.
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Probably a bad device, mine has amazing battery life, so much so that I dropped auto brightness and leave it at 100%. I still go to bed with 30+% to spare... And the upcoming update is supposed to enhance battery life? Crazy stuff...
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I think this update has done something to help me. My phone is COLD right now. My phone has NEVER been cold. It must be burning less battery. Today should be a relatively normal day so we will see.
I have 1 hour 30 minutes of display time, and the phone has been off the charger for 9 hours 6 minutes. Still have 62% battery!
i'm amazed how quick people jump to the "you have a defective device" conclusion. battery life depends on a ton of things. how many widgets do you have? How often do those update? Does your weather update every 5minutes or 3 hours? how many email accounts do you have, how often do they sync? are you on data heavy apps like facebook or photo sites a lot? are you streaming a lot of media? how often do you use GPS, Wifi, or bluetooth? How many phone calls are you making.
If i'm streaming pandora all day, and using the phone a bunch i'll get 14 hours before im' below 20%. If i don't, i'll get over 24. Normal light use will put me over 30 hours.
battery is not some magical thing. it gets used in direct correlation of how much you ask your phone to do. If you're asking a lot, expect worse battery life.
So very true. Sorry for jumping to conclusions. That being said I'm a pretty heavy user and I can compare with my old Galaxy S. Atrix >>> Galaxy.
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My phone has all mail & apps auto update off. Also have battery saver set to maximum battery in setup. 100% at 11 pm sits till 6 am and still at 97 % that morning. Run all day heavy use and at 5 pm still at 50%. Battery went thru the roof with those steps above.
I don't charge all night just for an hour or two in the evening with an old iphone charger at my office desk.
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How do I do a hard reset? I only get about 15 hours on mine
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Hold down power and the down volume key I believe
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Battery improved a lot after update
Anyone else notice the battery lasting a lot longer after our update?
I unplugged my phone this morning at 7:30am this morning and it is now 9:30pm. Battery is down to 50%. That's 14 hours..not too bad. I'll explain my usage below.
My usage includes 20 minutes of internet radio in the morning through the tune in radio app. sent/received about 50 texts total through the day. Beautiful weather widget is set to refresh on every time i unlock. Gmail and work email is set to push with contacts/email/calendar sync. Wifi and GPS on the "on" setting. I do have a wifi connection at so...i'm connected for at least 6 hours today. I do have motoblur running the facebook feed. Also using the google news/weather widget. Also have smooth calendar widget running. Display is set to manual at about 20% brightness as well.
Before the update, i was usually down to 20-30% with similar usage.
Im at 50% right now, phone has been unplugged for 14hrs 49mins, with 1hr 49mins display time. And I haven't downloaded the update yet. My brightness is at about 30% and im using the maximum battery saver setting. I've been using it pretty regularly too. Beautiful widgets updates on unlock, engadget widget updates once an hr, facebook and twitter update when I open them, and my gmail and 2 yahoo accounts update every hr.
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Hold down power and the down volume key I believe
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That didn't work. Anybody? How do I hard reset?
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i am getting amazing battery life after the update (battery was already impressive even before the update). showing over 40% right now:
unplugged 21 hrs 11 min
voice calls 30 min
display 2 hrs 25 min
bluetooth was on for about an hr, gps is always on, display is set at automatic.
locked bootloader or not, this is pretty much the best smartphone i have ever owned.
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That didn't work. Anybody? How do I hard reset?
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Got this from motorola's site.
To perform an External Manual Reset of your handset to restore to factory settings, read instructions below and then perform.
1. Power off the phone, press and hold volume down button, press power button.
2. Screen will come up with "Fastboot", press Vol down key to cycle through choices until you get "Android Recovery", then press Vol up key
3. Wait for the "triangle ! / Android" screen then go on to step 4
4. Tap on bottom right corner of the screen (may take a few times). a menu will come up
5. Tap on "wipe data/factory reset", and tap OK. Another Confirmation screen will come. Tap Yes and OK
6. After userdata is cleared, the "reboot system now" option will be highlighted by Default. Tap OK.
7. Phone will reboot to initial setup MOTOBLUR screen.
I just don't understand.. I installed the new update and my battery life has been the same. Today I had 10 hours of use before it died. I'm a pretty heavy user and had about 3 hours of display time with a combination of GPS navigation, constant twitter updates, web browsing, gtalk, sms, no phone calls..
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Got this from motorola's site.
To perform an External Manual Reset of your handset to restore to factory settings, read instructions below and then perform.
1. Power off the phone, press and hold volume down button, press power button.
2. Screen will come up with "Fastboot", press Vol down key to cycle through choices until you get "Android Recovery", then press Vol up key
3. Wait for the "triangle ! / Android" screen then go on to step 4
4. Tap on bottom right corner of the screen (may take a few times). a menu will come up
5. Tap on "wipe data/factory reset", and tap OK. Another Confirmation screen will come. Tap Yes and OK
6. After userdata is cleared, the "reboot system now" option will be highlighted by Default. Tap OK.
7. Phone will reboot to initial setup MOTOBLUR screen.
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Thx. Will this delete the pics and vids on my phone?
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The last update seems to improve my batt life also. I would say about 15% more.
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Any one have there battery show 1% left after being off the charger for little over 2 hours, was watching some TV and heard my a500 make a little beep, hit the power button to see what it was and it showed 1% battery left, plugged it in and then removed the plug and it jumped back to 89%, leaving it unplugged to see what happens. Screen shot of battery stats attached.
Edit: will try to upload screen shot later, keep getting error. OK it finally let me upload the screen shot
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Lol. Nice graph. Your tablet probably just had a little brain fart.
I had a similar problem once and it went away after a reboot. I still don't know what caused it. You should check for rogue apps if it reoccurs but it could just be a one time occurrence.
Sorry if this is a stupid question I just need some clarification.
The battery usage screen shows how long you have been running on battery days, hours, minutes, seconds etc should this information be retained even after you power off, say you run it for 30 minutes on battery and power off when you turn it on again should it still show 30 minutes on battery and add on the new minutes or should it start from scratch again (0 seconds) ?
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Sorry if this is a stupid question I just need some clarification.
The battery usage screen shows how long you have been running on battery days, hours, minutes, seconds etc should this information be retained even after you power off, say you run it for 30 minutes on battery and power off when you turn it on again should it still show 30 minutes on battery and add on the new minutes or should it start from scratch again (0 seconds) ?
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mine has been really inconsistent on my nexus. sometimes it'll be ahead a few hours but almost never does it exactly match up with the actual time. plus, it never updates if I press the refresh button. the only way to get it to refresh it to completely close the settings app and open it again. But yeah' a reboot tends to reset the counter.
So if its working correctly power off should reset the time counter because I'm sure this wasn't happening to mine at first hence the confusion plus the guide doesn't exactly read that way ?
That seems good
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The battery usage stats carry on from where they left off from when the device was last powered down. They are only reset when it has been charged to 100% and unplugged.
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The battery usage stats carry on from where they left off from when the device was last powered down. They are only reset when it has been charged to 100% and unplugged.
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Well that's what I thought it should do so I guess I'm unlucky then
The first one I had behaved that way for two weeks then started resetting back to 0 seconds after power off so I sent it back for another which I got today this also worked correctly until I charged it for the first time now that's also resetting back to 0 seconds after power off.
Not done anything to this one except install two apps, I sent the other one back because even a factory reset didn't solve the problem that was also on stock not unlocked or rooted.
I am using Note 3 SM-N900, 4.4.2 KK stock rom but rooted.
My phone frequently hangs when I press Power button to off screen or when its screen automatically off according to screen timeout period. I have to pull out battery or long press Power button in order to reboot. How can I fix it?
I found that battery drained so quickly when system hanged. If I leave it for an hour, battery turns zero. I assume CPU is over-processing at that time. The whole phone body is hotter. How can I debug it?
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I am using Note 3 SM-N900, 4.4.2 KK stock rom but rooted.
My phone frequently hangs when I press Power button to off screen or when its screen automatically off according to screen timeout period. I have to pull out battery or long press Power button in order to reboot. How can I fix it?
I found that battery drained so quickly when system hanged. If I leave it for an hour, battery turns zero. I assume CPU is over-processing at that time. The whole phone body is hotter. How can I debug it?
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1. Factory reset the device should fix the problem.
2. Install this APP and add some screenshots too (IMEI not necessary).
3. It will be a hardware problem if the step 1 or 2 don't work.
I clean-installed ROM many times but problem still exists.
8 months ago, I played internet games with mobile data for 8 hrs a day. At that time, my phone was always plugged in with power. After a few day, I realized that problem. After I plugged out and turned off screen, my phone didn't respond anymore. But backgound jobs were still working. I found downloads conitued although it lacked of response.
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Hi there, I currently have a Samsung Note 4 running CM12.1 and in the past two days the phone has randomly "crashed" late afternoon/night (5.30pm today and 8.40pm last night). My phone performs fine throughout the day and then I'll notice that the screen doesn't wake up if I press the home button like normal. If I then power the phone on it boots up and instantly powers off after booting since it has "0%" battery. Both times the phone had plenty of charge in it, around 30-50%. Has anyone else encountered this before?
I have some screenshots but I am unable to post the Imgur links in my post because of my post count. Any other way I can post them?
Specs:
SM-N910F
CM 12.1-20151022-NIGHTLY-trltexx
Android 5.1.1
I can provide more specs if you wish.
Buy another battery, if another battery is OK then your old battery is broken
I had a similar issue where it would, after a clean software reset, shut down unexpectedly at 20% or so - then subsequently at 40%, 60%, and further 20 percent increments when I'd let it shut down of it's own accord. RMA'd it under warranty, pretty pleased with the service I got. No software fix for it.
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Hi there, I currently have a Samsung Note 4 running CM12.1 and in the past two days the phone has randomly "crashed" late afternoon/night (5.30pm today and 8.40pm last night). My phone performs fine throughout the day and then I'll notice that the screen doesn't wake up if I press the home button like normal. If I then power the phone on it boots up and instantly powers off after booting since it has "0%" battery. Both times the phone had plenty of charge in it, around 30-50%. Has anyone else encountered this before?
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Recalibrate your battery. I had this issue, too, after flashing another ROM. My Note 4 would shut down and die at ~50%.
1. Download Battery Calibration from Google Play
2. Fully charge your phone. By "fully" I mean not only to 100% (which, in your case, will be something like 50% effective charge), but until your LED has turned green. For good measure, just turn your phone off and let it charge overnight.
3. Run Battery Calibration, and tap the big button that says "Battery Calibration"
4. That's it.
You should do this every time you flash a new ROM, because there's always a chance your battery gets miscalibrated during the process.
Thank you very much for your help everyone, I'll try the Battery Calibration and let you know if it fixes it!