Motorola Atrix Battery Life

morooji said:

My battery is also very BAD !!!
I have to charge it 2-3 times a day ! I am really confused !

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Do a factory reset. Mine was the same way draining about 20% an hour. After factory reset I went 30 hours and was still at 50%.

I'm pretty dissapointed with my battery life at this point. After a factory reset, and about 6 full charging cycles, i'm at 50% by 10 A.M.

I've got Battery mode set to "maximum battery saver", I've enabled juice defender, I've disabled my live wallpaper and enabled a dark background (it seems the display is the culprit using 80% of the juice). I've also gone as far as turning off all unused radios, dimming the display completely, and lowering the volume to barely audible levels ( why not? ).

It doesn't seem like i'd be working with a defective battery, but i would think battery life should be better.

I am down to 60% battery today with virtually no use other than text, email and less than 2 minutes of calls, no internet or games whatsoever. Granted this is my first full day with the phone, but my Inspire could get me this far on this use. Batteryminder says 33% of my usage is idle. What are some settings that I can change to fix this. I know it will take a few days to get optimal, but the biggest reason I swithched to this phone was because I was tired of babying my inspire. I am at about 8 hours off charge, but like I said, very little use whatsoever. Screen is set to autobrightness if that helps.

nowise said:

Do a factory reset. Mine was the same way draining about 20% an hour. After factory reset I went 30 hours and was still at 50%.

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Seems like everyone is having good luck with the factory reset option... any explaination as to why a factory reset on a brand new phone would help increase the battery life? I'm considering it if it will help, but I'd rather avoid it because of the hassle. I'm new to Android and I'm not sure how much of a pain it will be to backup my contacts, apps, and settings.

My battery was BAD right out of the box. Maybe 6-8 hours on a full charge with moderate usage. After exactly 1 full week of usage I'm seeing much better battery life (plus I tweaked some settings to help battery life). I ran it down to nothing on the first full charge cycle and then charged it up overnight. Each day the battery seems to last a little bit longer than the previous. Now I can pull a full day from 6am to about 10pm and still have about 10-20% left with moderate to heavy use.

Should I still give it a fresh factory reset after a week of use? I've installed maybe 10 apps over the week and and just finished setting up the Launcher Pro UI. Took me a while to get it all customized to the way I wanted it and I'd rather avoid doing it all again. Will the reset still help me? Is it worth it and why?

nowise said:

Do a factory reset. Mine was the same way draining about 20% an hour. After factory reset I went 30 hours and was still at 50%.

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I'm new to Android, Atrix, and the forum... Mine has been getting far less than a day, sometimes going down 40% in a couple of hours. Charging seems to take a very long time, relative to other phones I have had (including those with extended batteries larger than this one). My phone is essentially factory with a few downloads from the marketplace (Mr. Number, Facebook, K-9 Mail, Vlingo's updated app--among others, most of which don't run in the background or don't draw alot of data). I have done the battery conditioning suggested elsewhere.

I initially tried stopping all non-essential running apps (settings>applications>running apps, or somesuch) and found that within a few minutes they were all running again. What seemed to do the trick for me was to uninstall Google Books, as suggested here, and delete all of the several widgets that come stock from AT&T. The data overhead of keeping the social widget, the email widget, and whichever other widgets were running seemed to keep the phone constantly sending and receiving data. The screen seems to be a particularly large draw, but I don't intend to stop using it, lol. Of course, I turn off GPS unless I am using it. Now the battery has only lost 10% over several hours that included alot of talking and some texting/checking of email. Also, I noticed that the phone is more snappy for the remaining functions.

Anyway, having owned several blackberries I am primed to believe that every seemingly identical phone is different (mainly because of what is loaded on them, varying battery capacity, etc), so this may not work for everyone, but it made a dramatic improvement in my case.

I have to say the battery has gone above and beyond what I expected. After draining the battery to the point of exhaustion I charged it overnight. I unplugged it on Sunday morning around 7:30am and it is still running. The battery was no slouch before I decided to completely drain it, running at about 18 hours. I am a moderate user receiving about 10 emails and texting throughout the day. I only place or receive about 10 calls a day. I previously had a Droid X and the same use only gave me about 15 before having to put it on the charger.

My battery life since launch day has been quite mediocre..

I'm quite tired of it, but I have faith in both moto and the atrix, so I'm going to give the factory reset option a try, since it appears to have worked for many people here.

I've really customized my atrix in these past few days though, so I'm assuming running the "Backup all user apps + system data" batch in Titanium Backup and copying the entire phone's storage to my computer should back up the phone completely?

I'm looking to factory reset my device, and then go a day or two without installing ANYTHING, and testing the battery.

Then, I'll restore everything and compare my battery results.

So, is my plan ok for backing everything up?

I'm pretty impressed with battery life. I have 6 email accounts. 2 gmails and an exchange, all with push. Then, I have three POP accounts pulling every hour. Since I don't have sound/vibrate alerts for new email I turn on the screen every 10-15 minutes (sometimes more often) to check email. Respond to some emails/texts and some emails. A few short phone calls a day. I have also been playing around with some repeating reminder type apps and goofing in the market place. Sometimes spend some time in Tweet deck.

Anyway, I pull it off the charger around 8:00am and when I get home at 5:30 or so, I have usually had 60-70% battery remaining.

Coming from the ATT Tilt 2 and before that the Blackjack II and Blackjack, I think this battery life is great.

I can go 12 hours of normal use that I described above, along with another hour plus of playing Angry Birds, web browsing or doing something else that keeps the screen on.

I haven't tried the factory reset yet but might go ahead and do that sometime soon but imo running down the battery until the phone dies then charging it overnight does help...I work in a place where my phone gets bad reception and really kills my battery when it keeps searching for the network too

qcom said:

My battery life since launch day has been quite mediocre..

I'm quite tired of it, but I have faith in both moto and the atrix, so I'm going to give the factory reset option a try, since it appears to have worked for many people here.

I've really customized my atrix in these past few days though, so I'm assuming running the "Backup all user apps + system data" batch in Titanium Backup and copying the entire phone's storage to my computer should back up the phone completely?

I'm looking to factory reset my device, and then go a day or two without installing ANYTHING, and testing the battery.

Then, I'll restore everything and compare my battery results.

So, is my plan ok for backing everything up?

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Your strategy seems sound, it's something I'd do to test out the battery life. So I guess you're rooted if you're using Titanium backup.

I have also had luck with the factory reset. I now have the same apps installed with the same settings... upon initial observations, the battery life seems much better post-reset.

Can someone tell me if this is about right. I have been off charger for just over four hours today. I have received 4 texts, 7 emails and placed one phone call. No internet or any other activity and wi-fi is turned off. I am now at 80% battery. Seems like it should be better than this. Just to let everyone know. I have run the battery down and turned the phone off and charged it all night long.

techandroid5 said:

Can someone tell me if this is about right. I have been off charger for just over four hours today. I have received 4 texts, 7 emails and placed one phone call. No internet or any other activity and wi-fi is turned off. I am now at 80% battery. Seems like it should be better than this. Just to let everyone know. I have run the battery down and turned the phone off and charged it all night long.

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Doesn't sound right. I've been playing mp3s for 4 hours, 3 phone calls and about the same text and emails and I just changed to 80% after 4 hrs 10 mins

Well it is killing me, just now picked it up to begin a little usage and as soon as I did battery dropped to 70%. Basically all I did was update my ESPN App to show my favorite teams, checked a couple of emails and played NFS for less than 1 race just to see what would happen. Very disappointing thus far in the battery.

That sounds like what was happening to me pre-factory reset. I am telling you it is like night and day.

Before:
Unplug phone... don't even turn screen on until work to save battery. Once at work, I check email and send one... BAHMMM.. 90%. Wait two hours with screen off check another email... Bahmmm... 80%. All with the screen at the darkest possible.

After:

I unplugged today at 7:30... it is 12:24. I am at 80%. I have sent multiple emails recieved multiple emails. I also had wireless turned on... no connection. The screen is now turned up. I also downloaded multiple apps (4 or 5). I also took a test run on the NFS thing. Still at 80%.


I also noticed that it actually charges like I would expect. I am really interested in hearing why the factory reset would have such a HUGE effect on the battery life. Strange.

what do I have to do to do the reset. I dont want to lose any data.

I have been having a similar problem. So I read this thread and let my phone die completely. I plugged it in while it was off. Only thing showing was a battery meter. I let it charge overnight which was over 8 hours. When I looked at it before I pulled it off the charger it stated 60% charge. Now it has been off the charger for about 5 hours and it is the same. I downloaded the Circle Battery widget and it acually went up in charge to 62%. I have done a factory reset after about a day of having the phone but hadnt charged it before then. When the battery discharges it stays at the 60% then doesnt drop until I use it and it is down to 20%. Then again when almost dead at 5%. Please help. Do I have a dud? I love it other then that issue.

After removing all my apps and adding them one at a time over the past 24 hours, I have found that my 2 biggest battery hogs are Google Latitude and Autosync.

I have Tasker set up to disable autosync when I get to work (since I am in front of my computer anyway). As far as google Latitude, I am undecided whether I wanted to keep it enabled and take the battery hit, or turn it off.

To determine what was using my battery, I was using Spare Parts. I removed all my apps. Added 3 or 4 of them back, then rebooted the phone. Once it was boot back up, I didn't touch it for 20 minutes. Looked at Spare Parts to see what the "Running Percentage" time was. After all the apps were installed I started readding the widgets doing the same thing.

Before, my "percentage running" was about 23%-27%. Now it is about 15%-20%. If I turn google latitude on, it will shoot up to about 24%.

I am getting a standard charging dock for my desk at work, so my phone will be on the charger most of the day, so I may just keep Latitude on and go from there.

Roze said:

Your strategy seems sound, it's something I'd do to test out the battery life. So I guess you're rooted if you're using Titanium backup.

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Yeah, I'm rooted.

I'm going to try a factory reset right now. Here's to a new battery life!

At the beginning my battery s..ks. I made a Reset, delete or turn off: Latitude & Flash.

In the TaskManager, select your most used Apps and add them to Auto-End list. 2 days without charge. 100% improvement!!

Ok, today was a pretty light usage day. Battery manager shows only 52 minutes of the screen on, checking emails and texts. Only 11 minutes worth of phone calls (four calls I think).

I had five texts. About 60 MS Exchange emails pushed down. Plus, I have two Gmail accounts being pushed. About 20 pushed emails combined with the two Gmails. Another 25 emails from from three POP accounts polled every hour.

Exchange also synced a half dozen or more new calendar items, and I had 5 reminders popup with Nudnik.

The emails/texts are about normal, but I called it light, because I didn't have many calls and only spent about an hour with the screen on.

I had Wifi turned on the entire time.

I took it off charger at 6:30, I am typing this just shy of 8:30 and am at 60% charge.

Wait, so for those who drained their battery to 0% and had the atrix turn off automatically, and then charged it until the little battery icon showed 100%, how long did you leave it at 100% connected to the AC Adapter?

Mine's now at 100% and has been there for probably about 30 minutes or so. Should I take it out now and begin testing? Or should I give it the night to rest?

I too started having battery issues. the thing with me is for the first two days it worked great and then it started draining faster. It goes from 100% to 80 really quick. I am trying to think of what happened after the second day and I just realized that on about the second day I connected a 16MB SD card. Could that have something to do with it? Secondly, the question keeps coming up but no one is answering it. Is there a quick way to backup all the data so that I can retrieve it easily after the reset. Is there a built in backup, an app. I want to try the reset but need to back up first.

qcom said:

Wait, so for those who drained their battery to 0% and had the atrix turn off automatically, and then charged it until the little battery icon showed 100%, how long did you leave it at 100% connected to the AC Adapter?

Mine's now at 100% and has been there for probably about 30 minutes or so. Should I take it out now and begin testing? Or should I give it the night to rest?

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I know some have talked about taking it off as soon as it hits 100%, saying it will start draining after it hits 100% even when on charger (not sure this is true).

Myself, I did three power downs to shut off, and then let it charge overnight. It takes well less than overnight to charge, but I always charge my smartphones every night, all night. No difference with the Atrix.

Mine is getting better and better after doing a few full charges and using until it powered down. I fully charged last night and removed from the charger around midnight and am at around 20% now after a full day of heavy use.