Help Top killers of battery life

[mahers]

I saw your post and it made me think, what is good battery life to you?

On a scale of 1 - 10, 10 being heavy, how heavy a user do you consider yourself?

Thanks.

I'll blink first.

I consider myself maybe a 4, and I am lucky to get 12 hours out of it. No You Tube, No music (streaming or otherwise). Only web surfing, 3-4 texts, 10 minutes of calls, download an app or two. I had ATK, made a difference for 1 day, then back to crappy battery life. I just don't understand the folks saying they played games, You Tube, Pandora, etc for hours AND it lasts them over 20 hours. Something is wrong here.

 

[deekum1627]

my battery last longer with gps turned off if i leave gps on my phone never goes to sleep it runs 100% of the time if gps in on

 

[lexluthor]

It has been 29hours since last plugged in.
My status is showing 60% battery life left.

Usage is mainly phone calls (56%)
with display being the next largest (22%)
Standby and Idle closed out the list.

Wow, that's not much screen on time I bet. Do you do anything other than make a few phone calls?

 

[john0821]

I just had an issue with my battery last night. Something kept my phone awake and did a full drain. I wish I knew what caused it, but the last thing I did was use the Facebook app though it is set to manual refresh.

 

[Piiman]

I just had an issue with my battery last night. Something kept my phone awake and did a full drain. I wish I knew what caused it, but the last thing I did was use the Facebook app though it is set to manual refresh.

I don't know if they fixed it yet but that new FB apps has been verified to drain your battery. I heard there was a new update but haven't looked my self.

 

[Piiman]

my battery last longer with gps turned off if i leave gps on my phone never goes to sleep it runs 100% of the time if gps in on

You may have some app that isn't using it correctly. I never turn mine off and it only comes on when something uses it. DO you have the satellite icon on all the time also?

 

[Paycer]

Wasn't the Facebook app recently discovered to have a severe memory leak? I think it was updated because it was draining peoples' batteries like mad. That may have been your problem john. Try seeing if there's an update for your Facebook app.

EDIT: Derp. Piiman beat me to the punch.

 

[Piiman]

I took off a bunch of widgets that were news like last night. You know the can that have news updates or read forums and my battery is better than it has been , I've been unplugged for over 2 hours and its still at 100% Normally I get a 10% drop with in 10 minutes of unplugging it but not today.

 

[Thong]

Wow, that's not much screen on time I bet. Do you do anything other than make a few phone calls?

Text like crazy, surf a little, dload apps....

I am fairly anal about hitting the power button to turn off the display as soon as I am done with the phone whether it be a call or txting.

Current reading...
30% battery life
1d 11h 13m 48s since unplugged

Voice Calls = 64%
Display = 21%
Cell Standby = 12%
Phone Idle = 4%

 

[Paycer]

Wow, nice. Nearly two days on one charge. I don't have the phone yet, but I think it's safe to say that's pretty damn decent for a phone like the Droid X.

 

[sorka]

Phone calls! I find that each minute of a phone call drains approx. 1% of battery life. This means that you can get 100 minutes of phone calls max, if you use nothing else on the phone. A far cry from the 8 hrs of talk time promoted by Motorola.

I had a 4 hour phone call with the display off and was left with about 1/3 of my battery at the end. You're battery may be defective.

 

[Nightwind Hawk]

It has been 29hours since last plugged in.
My status is showing 60% battery life left.

Usage is mainly phone calls (56%)
with display being the next largest (22%)
Standby and Idle closed out the list.

I was getting avg of 24-26 hours and it needing to be recharged.

The other day I was in a locale when the power went out and I used my X to play youtube videos to keep my daughter occupied.

Needless to say I ran the battery down so far it was literally crying to be plugged in. Usually when it 1st asks to be plugged in I do so. This time I ran it way past that mark.

Charged it both in a vehicle charger and off the usb on my comp once I got home.

Now that charge has lasted since that epsiode as listed above.

OK, seriously, how is this done!? I haven't even DONE anything with mine today. Unplugged for 5 hours, it's already 50%. GRR!!

 

[Thong]

OK, seriously, how is this done!? I haven't even DONE anything with mine today. Unplugged for 5 hours, it's already 50%. GRR!!

You want me to make it worse? lol

I still havent plugged it in since the earlier posts and here is the current readings...

30% battery
1d 15h 40m 34s since unplugged

Voice Calls 65%
Display 20%
Standby 12%
Idle 4%

 

[Nightwind Hawk]

How much voice call time do you have?

Here is my current information: 40% remaining
6 hours since unplugged
57% display (40 min on)
25% voice calls (4 min 46 sec)
18% Cell Standby (2% without signal)
Phone idle 2%

So now wait a second... this would calculate to mean 15% of my battery is lost due to a call under 5 minutes. WHAT? Is this true?? My phone can't last for more than a 45 minute call? Something has to be wrong.....

 

[sparky07]

Ya, something is wrong. Not sure if it's your battery or something else draining it. I have talked a few hours on mine with plenty of battery power to spare. The live wallpapers seem to draw the most power on mine.

 

[tsanuri]

How much voice call time do you have?

Here is my current information: 40% remaining
6 hours since unplugged
57% display (40 min on)
25% voice calls (4 min 46 sec)
18% Cell Standby (2% without signal)
Phone idle 2%

So now wait a second... this would calculate to mean 15% of my battery is lost due to a call under 5 minutes. WHAT? Is this true?? My phone can't last for more than a 45 minute call? Something has to be wrong.....

I had a day like that and started tracking things and it seemed like handcent was not playing well with something. I changed to chomp and have not had the problem since.
So it is something that is running in the background while on the phone but is counting against voice call usage. I was very perplexed by it.

 

[john0821]

I had a day like that and started tracking things and it seemed like handcent was not playing well with something. I changed to chomp and have not had the problem since.
So it is something that is running in the background while on the phone but is counting against voice call usage. I was very perplexed by it.

Agreed. There's definitely a leak somewhere. You'll have see what apps are constantly running and check the settings for each one of them.

 

[dookie1]

your cell coverage also has a lot to do with it. if you spend a lot of time in poor coverage the phone transceiver ramps up to make the most of what is available. Wifi is *way* less battery intensive than 3g, and 3g way less than 1x.