Motorola Atrix Battery Life

Roze said:

So rooted and froze all of the unwanted apps. 8 hours since unpluged (6am) and I have 60% battery life left and I was on normal to heavy usage today.

52% -Voice call - 1 hr
12% -Display - 1 hr
10% -Phone idle - 7hr
5% -Cell standby - 8hr
5% -Android sys - cpu 7min data 15mb
4% -browser - cpu 5 min data 1.2mb
4% -alarm clock -cpu 5min
3% -market - cup 4min
3% -watchdog - cpu 3min
2% -phandroid - cpu 2min
2% -android os - cpu 2min

Prior, same usage less phone call and after 8hr I'd have 30% left. So I think I'll last with normal usage that 16hours if I am out.

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How do you get those other apps like "android sys" "browser" "alarm clock" etc to show up in battery manager. The only thing that ever shows up in my battery manager is voice call, display, phone idle and cell standby, and i know i use other apps quite a bit especially the browser.

legion21 said:

How do you get those other apps like "android sys" "browser" "alarm clock" etc to show up in battery manager. The only thing that ever shows up in my battery manager is voice call, display, phone idle and cell standby, and i know i use other apps quite a bit especially the browser.

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It just seems that if the apps are taking up less than 0.5% of battery life, you will not see them display there, lol.

i kind of figured after 12 hours atleast android system and android os would show up lol

legion21 said:

i kind of figured after 12 hours atleast android system and android os would show up lol

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YOU'RE NOT USING YOUR PHONE!!

If you think you have been, you're actually not but instead you have been brainwashed by Google to think that you are!!!

legion21 said:

How do you get those other apps like "android sys" "browser" "alarm clock" etc to show up in battery manager. The only thing that ever shows up in my battery manager is voice call, display, phone idle and cell standby, and i know i use other apps quite a bit especially the browser.

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Have you upgraded to 4.157? The battery manager in 4.157 shows more info/app usage than in the original 4.126 ROM.

Not to sound redundant but I also have a problem with my Atrix battery life. I've done the whole "letting the battery drain and then re-charging" thing and it doesn't do anything. The only thing i've noticed is if I put it on 2G, the battery lasts much longer than if i put it on 3G.

Literally the difference is 5-7 hours extra battery life. I will try a factory reset however please enlighten me with any other suggestions, thanks.

I'd fit this in my sig if I could I've answered it so often:

it depends what kind of user you are. I'm a very light user. I only surf websites/email, only use the GPS in the Car Dock, very rarely use videos/camera/camcorder. I only stream about an hour of video total in a whole month. I don't stream radio. I use up to 250 texts and 250 minutes of voice per month, and I'm almost always well under that. I can normally get at least a full 24 cycle from one charge. Heavy all day use is lower but still respectable, but I haven't really measured that yet I don't do it often unless I happen to be spending a day changing all my customizations and goofing around with videos and games.

Having established that, I'm also a minimalist. My screen brightness is set all the way down to the lowest setting 24/7 and I only turn it up when I'm outdoors in daylight. The auto-display mode is a battery drainer. I don't use the "nightsaver" battery mode, I set my custom mode to be at the same settings as "Max Battery Saver" mode all day and all night. I have about 5 widgets total, only 2 on the home screen.

Automation: zero. no mail syncing, calender syncing, weather updates, news updates. all that shit is set to manual. I don't have very much sympathy for that "but it's a smartphone" crowd who are so lazy that can't click a couple of buttons a few times a day to check email or weather. Just go through all your menus in settings, find anything that uses data automatically and set it to manual. Do the same for any Apps you have that might do stuff in the background automatically.

One other thing I do is whenever I'm not using my phone for data (voice and texting only) I use a power app to manually turn off data. My WiFi is always turned off unless I'm using it. Same with my GPS, same with my autosync. I also use a lock disabler App to get rid of that annoying finger swipe every time I turn my screen back on. Haptic feeback is mostly disabled, as are phone animations.

This phone has a great battery, most of the people with problems that are NOT a bad battery are not using the settings I just told you about. Or they refuse to. feel free to raise/lower settings mentioned above to tailor for your own use.

tnedator said:

Have you upgraded to 4.157? The battery manager in 4.157 shows more info/app usage than in the original 4.126 ROM.

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no i actually havent updated yet, that could be why i guess.

Yeah I'm with omnius. I was getting poor battery life because I was always fiddling with the homescreen setup, had several Widgets and didn't use auto disabling apps for certain phone functions. I now use ZDbox, 1 widgetsoid switcher for all my phone functions, disabled lock screen, screen set to 0 brightness most of the time, CSDEVCTRL to kill wifi when my screen shuts off and usage timeline to check my stats every once in a while. So far 12+ hours batt life which is a huge step up with heavier use (flash, poweramp constantly, texting + snesdroid).

But tbqh I'm also leaning towards the Atrix itself just having poor internal battery management software. I really think the battery has a lot more life than what it says. Its just the software saying its dying so they battery shuts off. (I say this because I was using launcher pro and my battery was dropping 10% by the hour and when it dropped to 40% I factory reset the phone then it showed 80% on the motoblur home. Weird no?)

maybe you guys should try gingerblur rom? iono if it helps..but I get pretty good battery life

kkel19 said:

maybe you guys should try gingerblur rom? iono if it helps..but I get pretty good battery life

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Sadly, not if you have a Bell Atrix

Hey guys, maybe this is kinda off topic, if so, please let me know.

My battery's not doing quite as well, and I'm pretty sure there's a rogue app. Sometimes I would exit to the home screen and then press the power button to shut off the screen and put the phone in my pocket. But the phone would feel really hot for even 3-5min afterwards, and I can feel that through the insipio case.

So how do I find the rogue app? I looked at the battery stat and here's what it says:

Other usage:
Running (35.2%)
Screen on (2.5%)

Partial wake usage:
Android System
UID 1001
Maps

Sounds like your phone is not sleeping and an app is still active even when the phone is in sleep mode. What is UID 1001? >_>;;

OK seems like UID 1001 is some kind of sensor, this is the best thread I foudn on this issue: Froyo Sensor Usage UID 1001. Dial *#*#4636#*#* in the dialer, then battery history to get more usage info.

Googling around shows that some DX owners saw a spike in UID 1001 usage.

UID 10017 takes the most in Network Usage

The battery drains out in 3/4 hours if I use for Phone calls or Emails.

Any fixes?

Just took one call for 4 minutes 20 seconds and the battery dropped from 40% to 30%

rjain15 said:

Just took one call for 4 minutes 20 seconds and the battery dropped from 40% to 30%

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Remember that the battery indicator measures in 10 so that COULD be a drop from low 40s to high 90s and less than 10%.

1 day 5 hours 31min and 50 sec since last unplugged w/ 15% battery life left

thats how long mines lasted. i turned off motoblur and alot of the other apps that automatically run with the phone. i also turned the display all the way down. i left the wifi on the whole time, it connects automatically to wifi but im not sure what the at&t hot spot option is all about. voice calls burn the most battery next to the display since the screen is so huge. also i "preped" my battery, that is as soon as i put my phone together out of the box i used the phone w/out charging it until it died then took the battery out and put it back in. then i left the phone off and charged it completely (about 5-6 hours just to be safe) before i turned it back on again. i think this is a great phone no doubt and the BH6X battery that comes standard with it keeps this phone running longer than any other smart phone ive owned i.e. palm pre plus & motorola backflip. for me this phone and battery life is great i dont call people much but i do text alot and use the wifi. heres my usage....

voice calls-24% (only 54m 34s)
display-24% (4 hrs 9m 25s)
phone idle-18%
cell standby-8%
wifi-7% (17h 22m)
swype(text keyboard)-5%
android system-5%
android os-2%
alarm&timer-2%
text messaging-2%
browser-2% (internet usage w/out wifi)

in short PREP YOUR BATTERY & TURN OFF RUNNING APPS

Got my Motorola Atrix 4G 3 days ago and the battery life for the first 2 days was really bad. Fully charge and the battery went down to 15% in 4 hours. Just normal usage with 2 hours of MP3 playing. The battery life got much better after doing the following on the 3rd day.

1) Let the battery drain down to 15%. The phone has low battery warning at 15%. I plug the phone at the wall charge and let it charge back to 100%

2) After the phone is fully charged, I turned off and on the phone.

After doing this, the battery life of the phone becomes normal -> 1 hour of MP3 music playing at the gym with WIFI on the whole time, 1.5 hours of talking with bluetooth headset and the battery meter shows 80%.

Plug in for full charge last night. Unplug this morning at 7:30am and now at 11.00am, battery meter shows 90% left with normal usual (few texts, few phone calls etc).

For those having issues initially can give this a try.

I just purchased the Atrix yesterday. I've already had to do two charges. The battery seems to last less than 5 hours. I have no movie's.

Mike8414 said:

A lot of the posts in this thread talk about turning various things off, turning them down, etc. In other words, if you turn everything off, the battery lasts longer. I'm betting that everyone who has an Atrix bought it because it promised to out-perform anything else. So the idea of hobbling this beast just seems...wrong. I keep hoping that the battery will get with the plan and start hanging in there a little longer.

Until then, I'll just keep making light conversation with all my new friends in the AT&T customer service (now THAT is false advertizing!!) department.

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Perhaps you have a defective battery, charge mine around 2300hrs and unplug around 0700, run a live wallpaper, don't waste my time killing apps, have a few live weather programs I leave running, use the web, make frequent calls, text, play some hardcore games, etc, the list goes on, I use the phone massively during the day and it's ready for charge around 2300 as stated above. Have AT&T give you a new battery.

usimate said:

1 day 5 hours 31min and 50 sec since last unplugged w/ 15% battery life left

thats how long mines lasted. i turned off motoblur and alot of the other apps that automatically run with the phone. i also turned the display all the way down. i left the wifi on the whole time, it connects automatically to wifi but im not sure what the at&t hot spot option is all about. voice calls burn the most battery next to the display since the screen is so huge. also i "preped" my battery, that is as soon as i put my phone together out of the box i used the phone w/out charging it until it died then took the battery out and put it back in. then i left the phone off and charged it completely (about 5-6 hours just to be safe) before i turned it back on again. i think this is a great phone no doubt and the BH6X battery that comes standard with it keeps this phone running longer than any other smart phone ive owned i.e. palm pre plus & motorola backflip. for me this phone and battery life is great i dont call people much but i do text alot and use the wifi. heres my usage....

voice calls-24% (only 54m 34s)
display-24% (4 hrs 9m 25s)
phone idle-18%
cell standby-8%
wifi-7% (17h 22m)
swype(text keyboard)-5%
android system-5%
android os-2%
alarm&timer-2%
text messaging-2%
browser-2% (internet usage w/out wifi)

in short PREP YOUR BATTERY & TURN OFF RUNNING APPS

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How did you check all this

ayoo456 said:

How did you check all this

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Go to your dialer and type in *#*#4636#*#* and then go to battery history.

Also for me, the 1.57 update seems to have helped w/ battery life a bit.

And I have noticed that charging the phone longer than 4 hours help w/ battery life.

Sometimes, when I charge the phone for 2.5 hrs, it will say it's full, but the phone will die on me much quicker that day than if I charge it at 12am and unplug at 7am.

ebolamonkey3 said:

Go to your dialer and type in *#*#4636#*#* and then go to battery history.

Also for me, the 1.57 update seems to have helped w/ battery life a bit.

And I have noticed that charging the phone longer than 4 hours help w/ battery life.

Sometimes, when I charge the phone for 2.5 hrs, it will say it's full, but the phone will die on me much quicker that day than if I charge it at 12am and unplug at 7am.

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Thanks but I tried this. None of the settings I click on are as detailed as his

Took my phone off the charger at 12:50 (100%). Talked on the phone from 1:30 to 2. Play samarai game while listening to music from 2 to 2:30. Battery currently at 78%

Today:

Tether for 40 min (train ride), on the phone for 2.5 hrs. Been using mostly Phandroid app, listened to music for 20 minutes, sent/received total of 50 sms. Display is set between 1.5 hr with 0% brightness and 1hr with 30%. So phone was unlugged for 8.30hrs with 28% battery life left.

Display 42% 2h30min
Phone Idle 11% 6hr
Android Sys 11% CPU14.5min 25mb sent
Phandroid 11% CPU18min
Cell Standby 10% 8.5hr Time without signal 26% (hmm...so 2.21hrs without signal? )
Android OS 4% CPU5min 30mb received
Media 3% CPU3.8min

OK...I used the stock Bell tether app...why isn't it included in the stat??? I can't imagine it being less than 1% :/

Strange that I had no signal for over 2 hrs!!!!!!