Help Tweaks to increase batter life

[mattstud36]

I just got the X a couple days ago, and the battery life seems pretty good, but not spectacular. What kinds of things are people tweaking to increase the battery life? The only thing that I have done so far was to remove all the Motorola widgets, turn off wifi and gps, and installed advanced task killer.

I do have google talk on there... Maybe this is is really crushing the battery???

 

[NKT]

Be careful how you use ATK. It can actually make battery life worse...

 

[D13]

Be careful how you use ATK. It can actually make battery life worse...

Yeah definitely, personally I ditched after a week with my Droid. Felt much better and faster.
Also you could try juice defender

 

[deekum1627]

Be careful how you use ATK. It can actually make battery life worse...

how is that

 

[JWhitmer]

I have also ditched ATK after using it for the first few days and have noticed better battery life. I used it consistently with my Droid but with the DX it seems to function better without using ATK. Just my opinion.

 

[D13]

how is that

Here. Its made to do it, so with ATK always running its just not needed

 

[ZXMustang]

turn screen brightness to the minimum.
disable the GPS, WIFI and syncing in the power control widget.
DO use ATK, but dont mess with the settings. Just open all the stuff you want to say open like weather widgets, mail and so on. Hold your finger on them when in ATK, then pick ignore. It will ignore those running programs when you kill them. Also put your screen time out to the minimum. Thats all I can think of now.

 

[NKT]

how is that

Advanced Task Killer - Droid Forum - Verizon Droid & the Motorola Droid Forum

Most times, people are killing inactive apps just to have them respawn. This drains the battery more than just leaving the apps backgrounded.

 

[dabomb224]

If I turn off Syncing, will it keep me from getting new Gmail notifications, or from getting new Youmail (free Visual Voicemail) notifications?

 

[colchiro]

If you don't have it already, get the "power control" widget on your screen. It looks like this:

I've had sync off for days and still get all my email.

Turn brightness to dimmest and set battery policy (in settings, under battery manager) to "savings" setting.

If you have wifi available, use it. It's faster and should save your battery. Also others have recommended "Y5 - Battery Saver". I just installed it, but not sure how that works.

If you still have trouble, check your apps (weather, email, etc) to see if you can have them update less often.

 

[dabomb224]

The stupid stock Weather widget still seems to draw data even though I'm not using it. Is there a way to delete it?

 

[droidx_fan]

Easy solution. Turn everything off! The phone won't freeze up, stutter or lag. No battery life problems. Kind of like Nortons Antivirus, just keep the computer from hooking up to anything (internet, SD Card, etc.) and it won't get a virus.