My battery went from 70% to 40 % in 1 1/2 hours?? All i did was browse for about 20 minutes straight and send a couple of text messages...should i go to verizon to replace my battery?
I've found that any browsing--especially with flash--sucks the life out of these batteries. Neither my OG Droid, nor this Droid 3, could handle much surfing without external power connections.
My phone is fully charged when I go to sleep like at 2am and at 7 was in the 80% it was locked and in sleep mode
I can definitely say that the case fits with the extended battery as I won them both. Just trying to say that it will fit
Purpose of this story - I'm wondering if the phone isn't always reading the charge correctly. Maybe when the phone says the battery is almost dead, some of us should start pulling and reseating the battery and see if it reports the same charge still on the reboot.
Juice Defender in the standard (default) setting hasn't done much for me. I haven't really noticed any benefits from it. I noticed it has an "aggressive" mode, so I'll probably give that a shot eventually, but haven't yet. But battery performance is still pretty poor, since like Day 1 from 2.5 weeks ago. This morning, for example, on a fully charged battery, I was down to 90% in just a half hour. I was at 30% in the late afternoon and put it back on the charger.I've had my phone for about a week, and I'm less than thrilled with the battery life. There are things I can try, and I will. But it's not lasting as long as it did on my D1, with the same usage. As it stands now it's livable, but I'll normally have to charge during the day unless I can get some improvement. I rarely needed that with my D1.
I've been leaving my GPS radio on. I did on my D1 and it seemed to be okay. Maybe that's a problem. I'll start turning it off.
I'll try Juice Defender, which was recommended up above.
-boster
Sounds like a bad app somewhere. Even on the stock battery I didn't hit 90Juice Defender in the standard (default) setting hasn't done much for me. I haven't really noticed any benefits from it. I noticed it has an "aggressive" mode, so I'll probably give that a shot eventually, but haven't yet. But battery performance is still pretty poor, since like Day 1 from 2.5 weeks ago. This morning, for example, on a fully charged battery, I was down to 90% in just a half hour. I was at 30% in the late afternoon and put it back on the charger.
Edit: At least 1 thing about this phone/battery is that is that the battery is in increments of 10% (until the end, when it does 5% increments) and it doesn't randomly go up and down. My previous phone, for example (LG enV Touch) had the battery reading from 1 to 4. When it dropped from 4 to 3, from that point on, it would randomly go from 1 to 3 bars left, depending on if I had sent picture messages or taken a call. It was annoying to say the least, but the phone almost always lasted me a full day.
I doubt it b/c "Cell standby" and "Phone idle" are the 2 worst consumers of my battery.Sounds like a bad app somewhere. Even on the stock battery I didn't hit 90
% until at least 2 hrs off the charger. That was with spotify in offline mode, and some texting.
At least 1 thing about this phone/battery is that is that the battery is in increments of 10% (until the end, when it does 5% increments) and it doesn't randomly go up and down.
I wonder why they don't since laptop batteries have 1% granularity. But in any case, 10% increment is better than the 25% increment of my previous phone (which had the 4 bars, 3 bars, etc. I mentioned).This might help some of us assess our batteries a little more accurately (or drive us even more crazy as we watch it painfully!): Circle Battery Widget will show the battery level in 1% increments.
It might save on some battery not having it poll the remaining % all the time
I can definitely say that the case fits with the extended battery as I won them both. Just trying to say that it will fit
I dropped my DX and scuffed up the edges. I might have OCD or something, but it drove me nuts. So I just opted for the case form the start this time around.The VZW hard case does "just" fit with the extended battery, but seems to make the the D3 too bulky to hold and use with it on, IMO. The extra wait also was noticed. D3 handling IMO is much better without it, but comes with the obvious risk (without a case).
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